100,253 Albany 267,799 Jersey City, N.J.
124,096 Omaha 347,469 Newark, N.J.
137,249 Syracuse 224,326 Providence
687,029 St. Louis 102,054 Bridgeport
1,549,008 Philadelphia 465,766 Detroit
150,174 Oakland 104,839 Cambridge
112,571 Grand Rapids 560,603 Cleveland
218,149 Rochester 670,585 Boston
533,905 Pittsburgh 125,600 Paterson, N.J.
301,408 Minneapolis 373,857 Milwaukee
129,867 Scranton 2,185,283 Chicago
214,744 St. Paul 106,294 Lowell
145,986 Worcester 4,766,883 New York
133,605 New Haven 119,295 Fall River


This tabulation suggests all that these dominant cities represent
of congestion of industrial and social pressure, and their powerful
effects upon new Americans in their most impressionable period.

"The significant feature of the situation of which the foregoing
illustrations are typical," say such authorities as Prof. Jeremiah
W. Jenks and W. Jett Lanck, "is the almost complete ignorance and
indifference of the native American population to the recent immigrant
colonies and their condition. This attitude extends even to the native
churches. Comparatively few agencies have been established for the
Americanization and assimilation of Southern and Eastern European
wage-earners.

"Not only is a great field open for social and religious work, but