Show illiteracy increasing AMONG report 0 hureau 0 immigration ay 0 illiteracy foreigner came tn our shone th year the annual report of thomas fitch commissioner of immigration at new york has been received at the treas ury department rhe report hows that the number ot aliens who arrived during the fiscal year ended june 30 1901 there was also ui citizens of the united states who arrived from abroad from a combar ison of the steerage imm gralton for tl e last two years it la shown that nearly 30 of the increase of last year over the year before was in rom southern italy alone the num I 1 ber of returning alien residents stands at 10 6 per cent of the total tion in the amount of money brought per capita there appears to be an appreciable increase over last year but the report says the conclusion unfortunately is unavoidable that our am ni gration is constantly increasing in illiteracy not only are we drawing more and more from the countries evl ere is agh but also the immigrants themselves aie showing higher of illiteracy nearly one half of our steerage imm grants now present an illiteracy of fro n 40 to over 50 per cent |