[Footnote 43: According to the Census of 1910 there were 544,000
Italians in New York City]

[Footnote 44: The Census of 1910 gives the following distribution of
the American white population by percentages:

------------------------+--------+-----------------+---------
| | Native born |
| Native | of Foreign or | Foreign
Location | stock | mixed parentage | born
------------------------+--------+-----------------+---------
Rural districts | 64.1 | 13.3 | 7.5
| | |
Cities 2,500- 10,000 | 57.5 | 20.6 | 13.9
" 10,000- 25,000 | 50.4 | 24.6 | 17.4
" 25,000-100,000 | 45.9 | 26.5 | 20.2
" 100,000-500,000 | 38.9 | 31.3 | 22.1
" 200,000 and over | 25.6 | 37.2 | 33.6
------------------------+--------+-----------------+---------

The native white element predominates in the country but is only a
fraction of the population in the larger cities.]




CHAPTER IX

THE ORIENTAL