known that an official investigation has been undertaken or that any illegal activity is indicated by this fact, but it has been semi-officially stated at Ellis Island that the increase in the number of Montenegrins may be expected to fall off soon as a result of a considerable number of deportations on the ground of liability to become public charges. About a year ago a sudden increase in the number of Bulgarian immigrants was suddenly checked when it was found in the villages of Bulgaria that a good many of the travelers accepted by the steamboat lines could not pass through Ellis Island.
Contributors to the Slav Number.
Such a number as this is a co-operative undertaking and Charities has many to thank for voluntary contributions and editorial work. The personality of the contributors is of no little interest:
Emily Greene Balch (B. A., Bryn Mawr), associate professor of economics and sociology at Wellesley College, is devoting a two years' leave of absence to a study of the Slavs who come to America. Part of this time will be spent in the European homes of the immigrants, the rest of it in the principal colonies in this country. Miss Balch has studied under Levasseur in Paris and in the seminars of Schmoller and Wagner in Berlin, and has taken an active part in various forms of social work in Boston.
Kate Holladay Claghorn (Ph. D., Yale), at present acting registrar of the Tenement-house Department of New York city, is probably best known by her sympathetic studies of the social problems arising from immigration into the United States. Miss Claghorn made special reseaches into this subject for the Industrial Commission in 1900 and 1901, and did editorial work for the United States Census Bureau in 1902.
John R. Commons, professor of political economy in the University of Wisconsin, had charge of the special investigation of immigration carried on by the United States Industrial Commission of 1900. Professor Commons has been closely identified with the National Civic Federation, and is now associated with Professor Ely in the preparation of a history of industry in the United States. He is author of a series of articles, "Race Composition of the American People," Chautauquan, September, 1903 to May, 1904.
Joseph Elkinton, author of the entertaining book on the Doukhobors, is a minister of the Society of Friends, in Philadelphia, and has inherited from his father a sympathetic interest in all oppressed peoples. Mr. Elkinton is identified with movements for the diffusion of education, and for the promotion of international arbitration, and was a delegate to the Boston Peace Congress.
Laura B. Garrett, is a district agent of the Charity Organization Society of Baltimore whose work has familiarized her with the life and industry of the Polish quarter of that city.
Father A. Kaupas came to America from Lithuania in 1892, in consequence of having lost favor with the government. He studied theology in Detroit and has been a priest in the Seranton diocese since 1896. Father Kaupas, as priest and writer, is a leader among the Lithuanians and is especially identified with the Lithuanian Catholic Educational Society "Motinëlë," which has as its object the training of young American Lithuanians.
Owen R. Lovejoy, assistant secretary of the National Child-labor Committee, made a special study of conditions in the district affected by the anthracite coal strike two years ago, and has just completed a preliminary investigation there from the child-labor point of view. Mr. Lovejoy has been, until recently, pastor of the First Congregational Church in Mt. Vernon, and is general secretary of the New York State Conference of Religion.
Alice G. Masaryk (Ph. D., University of Prague), is the daughter of Professor Masaryk of the University of Prague, the leader of the Realistic party in Bohemia, who lectured recently at the University of Chicago. Her mother is an American. She has studied also in Berlin and Leipzig and is now making a special study of the conditions of Bohemians in America, among whom she is working as a resident of the Chicago University Settlement.
Mary E. McDowell has been for ten years head-resident of the University of Chicago Settlement in the stockyards district. Miss McDowell is a member of the faculty of the department of sociology of Chicago University, and is a leader in the Woman's Trade Union League movement. She organized the first women's labor union of the packing trades, and was a recognized influ-