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Show RECORD BREAKING FIGURES. Rush of Aliens to the United States Continues Unabated. Albany, N. Y. During tho last threo months of 1005 thoro wcro 1G4,-540 1G4,-540 alien arrivals at tho port of Now York, according to tho quarterly bulletin bul-letin of tho stato department of labor mndo public Saturday. This Is an Increase In-crease of 9,000 over tho record-breaking figures of a year ago, tho Influx from Italy alone being lorgor by 20,-000 20,-000 than In tho last quarter of 1904. "Now York becomes tho home of 03,413 of tho nowcomors," snya tho bulletin, "ond tho fact that 35,728, or ono-fourth of tho 140,000 immigrants over 14 yoars old can nolthor read nor write Is not nltogothor reassuring." |