CHAPTER XII

AMERICAN BLOOD AND IMMIGRANT BLOOD 282

Submergence of the pioneering breed--Growing heterogeneity-- Primitive types among the foreign-born--How immigration will affect good looks in this country--Effect of crossing on personal beauty--Stature and physique of the newer immigrants-- Do they revitalize the American people--Race morals of the South European stocks--Are the immigrants good samples of their own people--Appraisal of the different ethnic strains in the American people--Rating of present immigrant streams--How immigration has affected the fecundity of Americans--Evading a degrading competition by race suicide--The triumph of the low-standard elements over the high-standard elements.

APPENDIX 307

INDEX 321

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Towards the New World _Frontispiece_

Immigrant Women in Line for Inspection at Ellis Island 6

Slovaks, Ellis Island 15

Distribution of Irish and Natives of Irish Parentage--1910 38

Distribution of Germans and Natives of German Parentage--1910 55

Distribution of Scandinavians and Natives of Scandinavian Parentage--1910 78

Typical Norwegian Boy 87

Typical Swedish Girl 87

Distribution of Italians and natives of Italian Parentage--1910 94

Italian Gypsy Mother and Child 100

Italian Woman of Greek or Albanian Ancestry 100

Group of Italian Immigrants Lunching in Old Railroad Waiting Room, Ellis Island 109

Board of Special Inquiry, Ellis Island 115

Utter Weariness--Bohemian Woman on East Side, New York, after the Day's Work 115

Slav Sisters 122

Slovak Girl 122

Slav Woman and Italian Husband 131

Slovak Girls 131

Russian Jews, Ellis Island 142

Hindoo Immigrants 142

Slovak Woman and Jewish Man, Ellis Island 151

Jewish Girl in Chicago Sweat-Shop 151

Jewish Runner Soliciting Immigrants for the Steamship Company 162

Magyar 171

Croatian 171

Roumanian 171

Croatians Celebrating Their Going Home to the "Old Country" 178

Roumanian Couple in Gala Attire, Youngstown, Ohio 178

Magyar Peasant Woman 186

Molokan from Russia 186

A Finnish Woman by Her Cabin of Hewn Logs in Northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior 191

Some of Syracuse's Newer Citizens--A Greek and Two Turks 191

Sunday Group of Roumanian Steel Workers, Youngstown, Ohio 199

Sunday Roumanians, Youngstown, Ohio 199

The Unemployed--Middle of the Morning, Chicago 206

"Shack" of a Polish Iron Miner, Hibbing, Minn. 211

Cabin of an Austrian Iron Miner, Virginia, Minn. 211

Immigrant Girls Coming to Work in the Early Morning at the Union Stockyards 217

Polish Girls Washing Dishes Under the Sidewalk in a Chicago Restaurant 217

Roumanian Shepherds in Native Costume, Ellis Island 224

Distribution of Foreign-born Whites in the United States--1910 241

Dependent Italian Family, Cleveland 248

Dependent Slovak Family, Cleveland 248

Italian Men's Civic Club, Rochester, N. Y. 257

A Civic Banquet to "New Citizens," July 4th 268

Y. M. C. A. Class of Slovenes in English Visiting a Session of the City Council of Cleveland 277

Class of Foreign-born Women (Carinthians) at the Cleveland Hardware Co., Cleveland, O., Meeting for Instruction in English in the Factory, Twice a Week from 5 to 6.30 277

Distribution of Foreign Stock in the United States--1910 284

Distribution of Native White Stock in the United States--1910 301

THE OLD WORLD IN THE NEW

THE OLD WORLD IN THE NEW