Germany 250,630 38.7 26,304 4.2 37,564 3.7
Netherlands 9,517 1.1 2,284 .4 4,946 .5
Norway 29,101 4.5 17,404 2.8 21,730 2.1
Sweden 64,607 10.0 30,894 5.0 23,310 2.3
Switzerland 10,884 1.7 2,344 .4 3,846 .4

Total Western Europe 563,174 87.0 136,620 22.0 215,863 21.7
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Italy 32,159 5.0 178,375 28.6 273,120 26.7
Portugal 42 [41] 5,307 .9 8,517 .8
Spain 378 [41] 975 .1 1,921 .1
Austria-Hungary 29,150 4.5 171,989 27.6 265,138 25.9
Russia 21,590 3.3 107,347 17.2 215,665 21.0
Greece [40]73 [41] 8,104 1.3 19,489 1.9
Roumania [40]77 [41] 7,196 1.2 4,476 .5
Servia, Bulgaria,
and Montenegro [41] 851 [41] 4,666 .5
Turkey in Europe [40]86 [41] 187 [41] 9,510 .9
Turkey in Asia 82 [41] 6,223 1.0 6,354 .6

Total Southern and
Eastern Europe and
Asiatic Turkey 83,637 13.0 486,367 78.0 808,856 78.9
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=Italians.=--It was at this period that Italian immigration first became
noticeable. Prior to 1880 this stream had been but the merest trickle,
which now has become the greatest of all the foreign tributaries to our
population. In 1873 the Italians for the first time reached 8000 in
number, but they fell to 3000 in 1876 and so continued in moderate
proportions, but suddenly in 1880 jumped to 12,000, and in 1882 to
32,000. Falling off again with the industrial depression to 13,000 in
1885, they reached 76,000 in 1891, and then with another depression to
35,000 in 1895 they have now gone forward by leaps to the high mark of
287,000.[42] The Italians seem destined to rival the Germans and Irish
as the leading contributors to our social amalgam. Of course only a
small part are as yet women and children, but this is because the
immigration is in its early and pioneer stages. The women and children
follow rapidly when the men ha