Excerpt from Handbook for Immigrants to the United States
This work is meant to contain, in a concise form, such information as one proposing emigration requires in order to decide, first, whether he had better leave his old home, and if so, second, how to settle himself in a new one. It aims not only at guiding immigrants across the ocean and into the interior of the United States, but also at fitting them to become contented and useful citizens in the land of their adoption.
It is intended for distribution by Emigration Agencies in Europe, steamship lines. Boards of Immigration and State charities, and railroad and land corporations in the United States.
Its preparation has been aided by valuable contributions from Messrs. Edward Atkinson, D. C. Gilman, Hamilton A. Hill, N. S. Shaler and William F. Wharton, General F. A. Walker, Superintendent of the National Census, and the Statistical Bureau of the Treasury Department.
This first edition is experimental. It is designed to reach, in the first place, those who can help the compilers in improving the scope and accuracy of the work. A compilation involving the acquisition and use of varied and confused material, especially when brought within the compass of little more than one hundred pages, cannot be perfected without the assistance of readers as well as writers. We ask the members of the Association in particular - but we by no means confine the request to them, we ask all readers - to make any corrections, and to suggest any omissions or inadequate statements, which may strike them in examining this volume. If we succeed in exciting that amount of interest in the publication which will induce others to take part in perfecting it, the second edition will be much better than the first.
This edition is also put forth that its effect may be tried upon the immigrants into whose hands it may come.
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