[40] J. D. Whelpley, _The Problem of the Immigrant_, 13. [41] _Annual Report for_ 1903, p. 60. [42] _Annual Report for_ 1905, p. 58. [43] Idem, opposite p. 34. [44] This bureau shall collect and furnish to all incoming aliens, data as to the resources, products, and manufactures of each state, territory and district of the United States; the prices of land and character of soils; routes of travel and fares; opportunities of employment in the skilled and unskilled occupations, rates of wages, cost of living, and all other information that in the judgment of the Commissioner-General might tend to enlighten the aliens as to the inducements to settlement in the various sections. [45] Bernheimer, _The Russian Jew in the United States_, 370. [46] Prescott F. Hall, _Immigration_, 303. [47] Eliot Lord, in _The Italian in America_, 177 ff. [48] "The Problem of Immigration," Presbyterian Board of Publication. [49] For a condensed characterization of the north of Europe immigrants read the chapter on Racial Conditions in _Immigration_ (chap. III.) The leading traits of the various immigrant peoples are set forth with fairness and discrimination, although probably none of those described would see themselves exactly as Mr. Hall sees them. [50] _The Italian in America._ [51] John Foster Carr in _Outlook_. [52] See page 146. [53] Dr. S. H. Lee in _Baptist Home Mission Monthly_, for May, 1905. [54] Location of various public institutions of New York City. [55] Industrial Commission Report to Congress, Dec. 5, 1901. [56] _The Italian in America_, 215, 216. [57] G. Tuoti, in _The Italian in America_, 78. [58] A remarkable showing of what the Italians have accomplished through these farming colonies in various parts of the country is given in the chapter "On Farm and Plantation", in _The Italian in America_. [59] Rev. E. P. Farnham, D.D., in New York _Examiner_, June 22, 1906. [60] _University Settlement Studies_, December, 1905. [61] While the Magyars (or Hungarians) are not Slavs, they have lived in close contact with them, and for convenience may be classed in the Slavic division; and the same thing is true of the Roumanian and Russian Jews. All these peoples come from Russia, Austria-Hungary, or the Balkan States, and represent similar customs and ideas, although they differ materially in character, as we shall see. [62] Samuel McLanahan, _Our People of Foreign Speech_, 34 ff. [63] F. J. Warne, _The Slav Invasion_, chap. VI. [64] Miss Kate H. Claghorn, in _Charities_, for December, 1904. [65] _Charities_, for December, 1904. [66] Samuel McLanahan, _Our People of Foreign Speech_, 45. [67] Louis H. Pick, in _Charities_, for December, 1904. [68] Miss Emily Balch, "The Slavs at Home," in _Charities and Commons_. [69] Lee Frankel, in _The Russian Jew in the United States_, 63. [70] Julius H. Greenstone, in _The Russian Jew in the United States_, 158. [71] Commissioner-General's Report for 1905, p. 58.