Boston is the headquarters for the District No. 2, including Portland, Maine, Providence, R. I., New Bedford and Fall River. The immigrant station in Boston is not at all adequate to the needs.

The Commissioner General of Immigration in his report of 1912 quotes from the report of the Commissioner of Immigration at Boston for 1912 as follows: "We are continuing to make the best of the very limited quarters which are occupied as an immigration station in Boston. An effort is made, however, to counterbalance the inadequate conditions by insistence upon the highest standard of care and cleanliness. The conditions at Portland and New Bedford are probably as good as can be expected under the existing circumstances. There is almost a total lack of proper inspection facilities at the growing port of Providence."

In some respects the ports of Boston and Ellis Island are quite closely related. The Massachusetts Immigration Commission found that the conditions at the boats from Boston to New York were very bad indeed. These have been remedied to some extent. This, however, is a very important matter and should have further consideration.

During the past ten years the yearly average number of immigrants arriving in Massachusetts has been 73,383.

Seventeen missionary societies and other organizations have eighteen to twenty workers at this port.

An Immigrant Girls' Home is maintained in East Boston by the Methodist Episcopal Church. This building is well equipped and adequately furnished for its purpose. There are accommodations for lodging about forty-five women and thirty to forty men and a few rooms are provided for families. The Home is located near the wharf of the Cunard Line.

Mrs. A. C. Clark, the superintendent, has been engaged in this work at the Boston port for twenty-seven years. She and Miss Bridgman of the Y. W. C. A., and Miss Brown of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society, have been working several years at this port and are highly commended by the authorities for their excellent service.

The Y. M. C. A. has been doing in Boston work corresponding to that of the Travelers' Aid Society. Representatives of the Y. M. C. A. under the direction of Dr. Tupper are also working at this port.

Excellent work is being done here also by the representatives of other societies. Here as elsewhere the work, however, is almost wholly unrelated to the conditions that obtain in New England, and indeed in the immediate vicinity of the entry stations. The workers are now considering a plan for organizing their work similar to that adopted by the missionaries at Ellis Island. It seems now to be a very opportune time to effect a good organization for the port work in New England.

The entire field of this district presents some problems that can, without doubt, be finally solved and the proper solution of which would result in very large gain in the work among the immigrants in the entire New England region.

Missionaries and Workers at the Boston
Immigration Station

Methodist Episcopal Immigrants' Home, Marginal Street, East Boston. In charge of Mrs. A. C. Clark.

Baptist Home Missionary Society, by Miss Mathilda Brown.

Congregational Missionary Society, Rev. Oscar Lindergren.

Swedish Home, Sailors' Boarding House, 111 Webster Street, East Boston.

Swedish Lutheran Society, Rev. A. F. Seastrand. Home, Boarding House for Sailors, Henry Street, East Boston.

Norwegian-Danish Home, 46 Cedar Street, Roxbury.

Rev. C. F. Wurl, a German and Scandinavian worker in connection with his church in East Boston.

Young Men's Christian Association, Mr. M. G. Tupper.

Young Women's Christian Association, Miss Bridgman.

Travelers' Aid, Miss Ogilvie.

Salvation Army, 8 East Brookline Street, Boston.

North American Civic League, two to four workers.

Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. Sternberg.

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Abram Alpert.

St. Vincent de Paul Society, office, Chardon Street, Boston. Miss Hayes among English speaking peoples and Mrs. Haberstroh among German speaking aliens. (Grey Nuns.)

Polish National Alliance Immigration Aid Society. By John Romaszkiewicz.

Boston Italian Immigrant Society, Boston. Under direction of Miss Eleanor Colleton and Miss Cardolino.