0uO immigrants arrived. A great wave of ImmIgratIOn and is now being replaced with some one of the above-named the� swept across the Atlantic. varieties of stone blocks. At the outset America was regarded as a refuge for oppressed "In Boston the experience is more favorable to this kind of labor. The immigrants were accustomed to the simplest forws roadway, the system there pursued being nearly the same as of labor and were ready to build canals, and subsequently that adopted on King street in

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... his city, only that the plank railroad�. The development of manufactures in. New Engfoundation is dispensed with, and gravel or sand 6 inches land changed the aspect of immigration, and ,foreigners came deep, alone used. On this the blocks are laid, and the whole to regard the United States as a market for sk1l1ed labor. The thoroughly saturated with water for the purpose of settling cheap lands offered under the homestead bill attracted an imand consolidating the foundation. In some cases the sand is mense number of industrious farmers. During twelve years first saturated with carbolic oil, which, being absorbed by the an area greater than that of New Englan� was � upied and road, adds to its durability. Some of these pavements in Boston tilh�d by 275,000 faroilies under the operatIOn of thIS � ct . . Inare in good order after a wear of six years. i;erstate migration hILS been from the first a popular l llStlllct. " The cost of this description of pavement in pine or spruce There was a constant movement from the halt-settled states to is about $2.25 per square yard. With us, the material being the unsettled territorv, and those who were left behind manso much cheaper, it can be laid down for not more than $2.