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waited upon me the other day with regard to obtaining a number of 

 immigrants, as men were very scarce. I informed them that I would com- 

 municate with the Brigadier of the Salvation Army at Toronto and ask him 

 to send one of his officers down here during the Convention, so that any- 

 person might have an opportunity of discussing the question with him. 

 Adjutant Jennings has been sent down, and is with us, and perhaps he 

 might now give us some information as to the class of people they bring and 

 how many they will likely bring to this Province this year. 



Adjutant Jennings of the Salvation Army Immigration Department 

 was then called upon and addressed the Convention as follows : 



ADJUTANT JENNINGS 



It gives me much pleasure to be here this afternoon on behalf of the- 

 Salvation Army Immigration Department, and I shall be pleased to give all 

 the information in my power. The men we bring from the old country 

 would not be accustomed to the lumbering business at all, and could only be 

 employed in that business as unskilled labor. 



During the last two years our immigration department has brought to 

 this country something over 20,000 people ; and they have been selected, 

 not, as many people seem to think, from the waistrels or the unemployed of 

 the Old Country, but from the honest, able - bodied, industrious working 

 class. As an example of this I might say that last year, when the first 

 chartered ship of the Salvation Army Immigration Department landed at 

 Halifax the authorities there in charge of the exchange of money said they 

 exchanged more money from that boat than they had from any other boat 

 of immigrants that ever came to the country. This goes to show that the 

 class of people we bring is a little above the average run of immigrants. We 

 do our best in the selection of these immigrants, and so successful have we 

 been in that selection, that people on the other side are complaining that we 

 are bringing the cream of the working class, the bone and muscle of the 

 nation. 



, We expect during the summer season of this year to bring to this country 

 some twenty-five or thirty thousand people, according to the demand. We 

 have chartered eight steamships to bring these people over. The first chart- 

 ered ship will leave Liverpool the 28th of this month, and will land in Hali- 



