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Show I LACK GF SHIPS I ONLY CHECK ON I IllGHATl I Were It Not for Shipping j Shortage All Records Would Be Broken I i; .1 '.Mi s HEN! Stafl Correspondent. eggg NEW YORK, Sept 4. "The onl thing fluit kcSps the United States from having million persons added to Us population dally l the luck of ships " The speaker was Frederick A. Wal-hs. Wal-hs. commissioner of Immigration here i n nils day he hud wen nearly sooo men women and children of alien lurth pass through EfillW island, the i sUon'S mot't Important Immigration The flow of emigration thai negan gegggfr with the war has been checked," Wal- iis eontinue.l. Now the current has 1 turned the other way mote strongly H "jf war restrictions were lifted and B if shipping ouii he supplied, the en- B in, population 01 Gernmnj would de-H de-H and come to these shore. If there were enough shipping every liv- B lug soul in Poland would come here- 1 The a me is true of other BufOpeS H "Only recently the heads ' IT im- portant steamship companies came to They said that immigration 1 was going to bo simply stupendous and that they thought I ought to be warn-gggggga warn-gggggga til of this in time. SEEDS ttORl ' 1 1 1 P H My own Information tallies v,t" H ii;. us. The numbers constantly arc H Increasing, though our ivciagc Is not H yet the uoo that has been reported H i am making preparation for H even greater number, i have just H received permission to take on 95 new m "Every ship that comes to port has H every available inch occupied. nc H company tells me that on the voyage H i-t one of Its ships it could hav sold H the capacity of the steamer for the H ten years." H in reply to a question. Wdllls told H me that he had no Idea that large COr- H poraUona were violating the lair bj H hiring labor in Europe, !o said that Hf the flood of Immigration could be 0X- Hj plained on other grounds food scarc- H ily. high taxes, unsettled conditions COUNTRIES. H We are getting immigration from H almost all the countries ol Europe and even from South America." Wall's H 91, Id Italy, Poland, Greece, Scandi- B nuvla and Ireland are some of them H Has Irish immigration ended'.' M H dear sir, to see them come in hero H vou wouldn't think It had begun H "We arc getting a von high class H of Immigration now; I should Bay that H the new arrivals an- the best Class B that has ever come here since the K founders of the republic landed." B Wall Is has been appointed to tils rest only recently H. :: . noum ! H a policy of humanizing" tin- admlnl- H Stration of Bills Island and has dlS- B charged some employes plainly unflt- fl ted. nccause of lack of sympathy and B understanding, for their work. |