RUSSIA AND FINLAN 



AUSTRIA-'HUHQAHV 



The diagram on this page 

 shows the principal sources 

 of our new countrymen at 

 each of the last seven cen- 

 suses. Italy, Austria-Hun- 

 gary, and Russia, which 20 

 years ago sent us practi- 

 cally no immigrants, of re- 

 cent years have been pour- 

 ing over hundreds of thou- 

 sands, with the result that 

 the newcomers from these 

 three countries are rapidly 

 approaching the total from 

 Germany. 



The illustrations on pages 

 268 and 269 show the 

 States where the immi- 

 grants have settled. It is 

 an unfortunate fact that 

 nearly three-fourths of the 

 immigrants, 72.1 per cent, 

 have remained in our large 

 cities. ' New York alone has 

 nearly 2,000,000 foreign- 

 born, of whom 484,000 are 

 natives of Russia, 341,000 

 of Italy, 278,000 of Ger- 

 many, 253,000 of Ireland, 

 and 190,000 of Austria. 

 Chicago contains three- 

 quarters of a million of 

 foreign-born, 182,000 being 

 from Germany, 132,000 

 from Austria, 122,000 from 

 Russia, 66,000 from Ire- 

 land, and 63,000 from 

 Sweden. 



While the total foreign- 

 born population of the 

 United States in I 9 i o 

 amounted to i3,345»545' it 

 is interesting to note that 

 the people born in this coun- 

 try, but one or both of 

 whose parents were of foreign birth, 

 reached a total of 18,897,837. Thus 32,- 

 000,000, or more than one-third of the 



This illustration shows the number of foreign-born in 

 United States at each census, beginning with 1850 



the 



people in the United States, are foreign- 

 born, or have one or two parents who 

 were foreign-born. 



267 



