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Show FEWER IMMOITS mine here Number of Foreigners Returning; Return-ing; lo Europe Exxeeds Number of Arrivals. N'TCW YOIUC. Dec 2. One of tho great eat slumpn In Immigration over recorded re-corded at thn port of Xcw York is bolng written Into the records at Kills Island during the cloalng days of the year. Already Al-ready the records show that nearly 'tOO.OOO Immigrants fewer havo landed there up to the present time than for the corresponding corre-sponding period nl 1M0. :ind indications arc. Commissioner Willi.! m- states, thai there will ibe a. reduction of I!!) tier cint or more from 1010 figure? for this year. The Inpourlng tldo of humanity is lower now than at any time alnce 100S. With the tldo al It ebb every -hlp lcalng for Europe Is crowded as never before. On vessel rolling a couple of dayw ago left 500 steerage passengers on the wharf because of inability to find accommodation- aboard for thorn. During Dur-ing the tlrst ten days of December. 10U). 1",,70R third class passengers called for F.urope: this year 2S.215. Outbound vessel1 ves-sel1 carried 5f' per cent morn third class passengeiH thin year than last. Here arc the figures that tell the story: Year. Arrivals-, Departures. 1011 TSI.O'IS 1SG.794 1010 1.102.M9 lO.uTi 1003 1,088.122 2R0.62S 100S fiSO.TSS tiSt.SSS inn? 1,170,-jn:. rir7.oii 1000 l,"20.3S"i Soo.nU"' The figures for 101 1 arc incomplete, having hav-ing been computed only until December 1, and all llguros refer to third class paa-sengers paa-sengers only. "The decrease may mean one of several sev-eral things." .said William Williams, com-mlpsionor com-mlpsionor of Immigration. "It may mean that Industrial conditoiiK here are much disturbed. It may mean that third class passengers are more prosperous and aro going lo and fro more than usual, or that the long looked for ebb in Iho tide has come. Positively, I don't know what It means." |