The Pensacola Journal Pensacola, Florida Feb. 22, 1905 Hungary Has Lost Millions While the history of Hungarian emigration reaches back into the fifteenth century, it has never attained such dimensions as in the last few decades. In the early days it was directed principally towards the neighboring lands of Austria, Roumania and Bukovina, in the last of which there are still five Magyar villages. Magyars migrating to Roumania, on the other hand, are always absorbed in a short time into the life of the country. In the two decades from 1881 to 1900 the migration from Hungary has amounted to 280,000 souls, or 2-3 per cent of the total population. Down to the present day the current of emigration in the eastern counties has been directed to Roumania; in the southern counties to Bosnia and Servia; in the western counties to Austria, and only from the northern counties has it found its way mostly to this country. To specify the hightest relative and the greatest absolute drainage of population in the different administrative districts the county of Saros has in the course of these 20 years lost by emigration 26+per cent, or 43,000 of its inhabitants, while the county of Bacs-Bodrog (in the south) has lost 75,000 or 15 per cent. In 1857 there were only 53,000 Hungarians dwelling in Austria, whereas in the year 1900 there were more than 270,000; 100,000 of them in Vienna alone. The emigration to America has set in only since the eighteenth century, and in 1841 the Hungarians founded in the state of Wisconsin, the colony of Harasztyfaulu, which now, as Sauk City, has long lost all trace of Magyar character. Not till 1877 did the emigration assume large proportions. It was directed specially to Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and that in consequence of strikes among American workers. The volume of emigration attained its first maximum from 1886 to 1892 and its second in the years subsequent to 1899, since which date Hunagarians, by their cheap, unskilled labor, have ousted other workers in various departments of industry, as example, in the coalfields of Pennsylvania. The Hungarian ranks, therefore, among the less liked of American immigrants, and the prohibitive measures put in force against objectionable immigration are aimed in part directly at Hungarians.