Notes on New York City and Vicinity, Describing Engineering Works and Places of General Interest: Compiled for the Annual Convention of the New ... September 13 to 16, 1905 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Notes on New York City and Vicinity, Describing Engineering Works and Places of General Interest: Compiled for the Annual Convention of the New England Water Works Association, to Be Held in New York City, September 13 to 16, 1905

Ellis Island, to the north of Liberty Island, is a government station for immigrants._ All the immigrants which reach New York from foreign ports are landed here and cared for in large buildings until they can be forwarded to their proper destinations, or called for by relatives. The drinking water used here is piped from New Jersey. The total number of alien immigrants from foreign countries who arrived at the port of New York in 1903 was Of this number over came from Italy; from Austria - Hungary, and from the Russian Empire and Finland.

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