The Pittsburg Dispatch, Pennsylvania Dec. 26, 1890 Where They Settle An Interesting Analysis Of Our Immigration From Europe Those Coming To The Keystone, Are mainly of Welsch, Hungarians and Belgians Immigrants colonize and are clannish, even in America. An analysis of their tendencies in this direction is interesting. The most industrious of those who do not seek the farms of the great Northwest drift into Pennsylvania. It is interesting to observe how the different nationalities that make up the stream of immigrants which lands on our shores have a certain tendency to cluster in colonies. This is partly due to a desire to associate with friends or at least with people of the same language and the same interests, partly also to the fact that certain places are better fitted for men of a certain class. Of course individuals of almost every nationality are scattered almost all over the United States, but still, with the exception of the English, Irish and Germans, who are about equally divided among the different states, the different nationalities prefer some certain localities. The Welsh immigrants, most of whom are miners, go chiefly to Pennsylvania, where their headquarters seem to be around Scranton. At this place, during the winter, Welsh performances are given at a theater. The Scandinavians generally go to the Northwestn states. The Dakotas, perhaps, get the largest share of them, although Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota also get a part. Few of them are skilled laborers or artisans, so most engage in farming. The Danes of late have largely gone to Nebraska, and the Finlanders seem to find in the forests of Michigan and Northern Ohio occupations and a climate which suit them exactly. Three Classes Of Italians The Italians may be divided in three classes. Those who are merely common laborers, and who come chiefly from around Naples to work on railroads, as street cleaners, etc., for a large part stop in New York or its vicinity; from here they are then sent by their bosses, or padrones, all over the country, wherever railroads are being built. From northern Italy comes a large number of miners, who chiefly go to the coal mines in Illinois or Michigan, or the mines of Arizona, Colorado and Montana. This class of people is of much higher intelligence than the first-class. Then a great many farmers and winegrowers from Northern Italy go to California. To that state also go many French farmers from the departments of Gascogne and Basses Pyrenees, as well as a few Swiss farmers. Otherwise the Frenchmen, if they do not settle in New York, mostly go to New Orleans or French Canada, while the Swiss, among whom there are many dairymen and silkweavers, chiefly settle in this vicinity. The Hebrews, from Russia, Poland, Austria or Roumania, for the largest part settle in New York. More than half of them are tailors, about one third peddlers and the rest are divided among the different trades. Russians, Hungarians And Belgians Of genuine Russians only a few emigrate to this country. During the later years a great many German Russians, whose forefathers about a hundred years ago emigrated from Wurtemburg to Russia have come to this country. They still keep up their German language, traditions and customs, and are all farmers. Most of them go to Dakota. They are large and powerfully built men, and when they come in their sheepskin overcoats, with a row of children following them, all clad in the same way, they form a picturesque sight. >From the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy come the Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, most of whom go to Pennsylvania, where they work in the coal mines or coal yards; the Bohemians, who go to the vicinity of Buffalo and Pittsburg; the Tyroles, the Dalmatians, the Kroatians and Moravians, who generally settle in Pennsylvania, around Pittsburg. The Hollanders go to Patterson, New Jersey, or to Wisconsin, where their headquarters is Green Bay, or to Iowa or Michigan. The Belgians are either of Flemish or French origin. The former are chiefly farmers and go to the same places where the Hollanders go, while the French speaking Belgians are almost all either glassworkers or miners. The former go to the coal mines of Illinois or Pennsylvania, the latter chiefly to Tarentum or Pittsburg. Icelanders, Armenians And Greeks Most of the Icelanders go to Manitoba; there is also a colony of them in Sayreville, N. J., where they work in the brickyards. The Armenians of whom a good many have arrived lately, are like the Arabs, peddlers or tradesmen, in which case they stay in New York, or they are silk-weavers, and stay in New York or the neighboring New Jersey towns, or they are common laborers. The last named almost without exception go to Worcester, Mass., where a large number of them are employed in wire factories. The Greeks have during late years begun to crowd the Italians out of the fruit and flower selling trade in New York; some of them also go West and South, where they compete with the Italians in the work of the railroads. It may be safely asserted that those who maintain that the class of immigrants has deteriorated during the last decade or two have not given the immigrant question a close study. If there has been any change in late years it has been for the better and not for the worse.