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bermen in Michigan and stave-cutters along the Mississippi. 

 Around Agram (Zagrab, the Croatian capital) the grape dis- 

 ease caused large destruction of vineyards and the consequent 

 emigration of thousands. Later on emigration began from 

 Varasdin and from Slavonia also, and now immigrants arrive 

 from every county in Croatia-Slavonia. In 1899 the figures 

 for Croatia-Slavonia were 2,923, and by 1907 the annual im- 

 migration had risen to 22,828, the largest number coming from 

 Agram and Varasdin counties. Since then it has fallen ofif, 

 and at the present time (1911) it is not quite 20,000. Un- 

 fortunately the governmental statistics do not separate the 

 Slovenians from the Croatians in giving the arrivals of Austro- 

 Hungarian immigrants, but the Hungarian figures of depart- 

 ures serve as checks. 



The number of Croatians in the United States at present, 

 including the native-born, is about 280,000, divided according 

 to their origin as follows: from Croatia-Slavonia, 160,000; 

 Dalmatia, 80,000; Bosnia, 20,000; Herzegovina, 15,000; and 

 the remainder from various parts of Hungary and Servia. 

 The largest group of them is in Pennsylvania, chiefly in the 

 neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and they number probably from 

 80,000 to 100,000. Illinois has about 45,000, chiefly in Chicago. 

 Ohio has about 35,000, principally in Cleveland and the vicin- 

 ity. Other considerable colonies are in New York, San Fran- 

 cisco, St. Louis, Kansas City and New Orleans. They are also 

 in Montana, Colorado and Michigan. The Dalmatians are 

 chiefly engaged in business and grape culture ; the other Croa- 

 tians are mostly laborers employed in mining, railroad work, 

 steel mills, stockyards and stone quarries. Nearly all of these 

 are Catholics, and they now have one Greek Catholic and six- 

 teen Roman Catholic churches in the United States. The Greek 

 Catholics are almost wholly from the Diocese of Krizevac 

 (Crisium), and are chiefly settled at Chicago and Cleveland. 

 They have some 250 societies devoted to church and patriotic 

 purposes, and in some cases to Socialism, but as yet they have 

 no very large central organization, the National Croatian Union 

 with 29,247 members being the largest. They publish ten 

 newspapers, among them two dailies, of which "Zajednicar," 

 the organ of Narodne Hrvatske Zajednice (National Croatian 

 Union), is the best known. 



