CONTENTS

Preface[9]
Introduction, by Josiah Strong[13]
I.The Alien Advance[15]
II.Alien Admission and Restriction[51]
III.Problems of Legislation and Distribution[87]
IV.The New Immigration[121]
V.The Eastern Invasion[157]
VI.The Foreign Peril of the City[193]
VII.Immigration and the National Character[231]
VIII.The Home Mission Opportunity[267]
APPENDIXES
A.Tables of Immigrants Admitted and Debarred[305]
B.The Immigration Laws[309]
C.Work of Leading Denominations for the Foreign Population[314]
D.Bibliography[321]
INDEX[326]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Coming Americans[Frontispiece]
The Inflowing Tide[18]
Ellis Island Immigration Station[34]
Receiving Room at Ellis Island[59]
Detained for Special Examination[74]
An Appeal from the Special Inquiry Board to Commissioner Watchorn[94]
The Landing at the Battery in New York[102]
A German Family[128]
Italian and Swiss Girls[144]
A Group of Twelve Different Nationalities[166]
Three Types of Immigrants[180]
A Group of Immigrants Just Arrived at Ellis Island[198]
An Italian Family Crowded in a New York Tenement[210]
Four Nationalities[236]
Portuguese and Spanish Children[256]
An Italian Sunday School in New England[283]
Sketch Maps and Charts
Immigration at the Port of New York for 1906[32]
Immigrant Distribution by States for 1905[106]
Immigrant Distribution by Races:
Scandinavian[108]
Canadian and British[109]
Irish[114]
Germanic[115]
French and Iberic[146]
Slavic[171]
Changes in Sources of Immigration Causing Increase of Illiteracy[125]
Countries from which the Slavs Come[161]
Distribution of Slavs in the United States[163]
Wave of Immigration for Eighty-seven Years[308]
Colored Chart of Races of Immigrants for 1905[End]

PREFACE