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Show JLL1TERACY INCREASING AMONG .MIGRANTS. Report of Bureau of Immigration Bays increase of Illiteracy Is very Not I cable 453,496 Foreigner Came to oar Shorses During: the Year. The annual report of Thomas Fitch, commissioner of - immigration at New York, has been received at the treasury treas-ury department The report shows that the number of aliens who arrived during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, was 453,406. There was also 113,-056 113,-056 citizens of the United States who arrived from abroad. From a comparison compar-ison of the steerage immigration for the last two years, it is shown that nearly 30,000 of the increase of last year over the year before was in immigration from southern Italy alone. The number num-ber of returning alien residents stands at 10.6 per cent, of the total immigration. immigra-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 immigration is constantly increasing in illiteracy. Not only are we drawing more and more from the countries where illiteracy illiter-acy is high, but also the immigrants themselves are showing higher percentages percen-tages of illiteracy. Nearly one-half of our steerage immigrants now present an illiteracy of from 40 to over 50 per cent." |