[1] J. D. Whelpley, The Problem of the Immigrant, 2.
[2] Entrance Port for Immigrants at New York.
[3] The total immigration into the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, was 1,100,735.
[4] For table showing immigration for each year from 1820 to 1905, see Appendix A.
[5] Now known as the Battery. See footnote 1, p. 54.
[6] City Mission Monthly, April, 1902.
[7] Those who are interested in this feature can trace—by examining the table in the Appendix which gives the immigration by years since 1820—the relation between prosperity and immigration. The effect of the panics of 1837, 1843, 1873, 1893, and the depression caused by the Civil War, will be seen clearly in the immigration totals. This subject is treated in Immigration, 17 ff.
[8] Published in Baptist Home Mission Monthly for July, 1906.
[9] Hamilton Holt, Undistinguished Americans.
[10] The Swedish krone (kro-ne) has a value of about 27 cents.