Mayor Theodore Lyman Jr. warns of the threat posed by continued Irish immigration.

In his inaugural address, Lyman declares, “If these persons should actually come in great numbers, they will of course cluster in the cities, forming separate communities or colonies, detached and alienated from the general habits and associations of the people . . . we shall have among us a race that will never be infused into our own, but on the contrary will always remain distinct and hostile. Their children will be brought up in ignorance and idleness; disregarding themselves every comfort and neglecting every decency of life, they will be found living in filth and wretchedness, crowded of either age or sex, into foul and confined apartments. This course of life is the fatal and teeming source of epidemic or malignant diseases.”