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Show Many Irish Land. The Celtic brought 1.986 steerage passengers, pas-sengers, of whom 1.040 were Irish, who boarded the hip at Queenstown. This ! is the largest number of Irish that has j come to this country on one vessel in : the last five years.. The officials of the White Star line say this is but the be- i ginning of an unusual exodus of Irish to America. The outlook, based upon i the bookings for the next three months, shows that the record for steerage from Ireland will be more than double during the coming -season. ' The immigration officials at Ellis isl- i and are surprised at the number of i Irish who passed through the local station. sta-tion. For over a year the number of Irish immigrants 'has been small. In I marked-contrast. tojolher races, not one! of the Irish on the Celtic was exclud- J ed or even held for special inquirv. i When the Ellis Island docked each trip at the barge office a great crowd y of Irish-Americans wha on hand to meet their cousins, brothers and sweethearts. |