Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-09-23
A COSMOPOLITAN CITY.


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COSMOPOLITAN CITY.
Condensed from the San Francisco Chronicle. |
San Francisco is one of the few cities
which present in miniature picture of
the world, where, as in a kaltiioscope,
may be viewed its varied inhabitants
where new habits and manners OF
thought are encountered every day, and
IN whose churches and market places the
murmur of hundred tongues is heard.
That California is entitled to be called n
cosmopolitan land is proved undeniably
by an analysis of her population. Out
of 227.2 males, over twenty-one years
of age. as shown by the census of 1870,
133, ,929 were born in foreign lands, vet
the largest foreign element was only one
third Of the whole. The census of 1870
still affords a basis for calculation. aud
from comparison of statistics made M
from all sources. the civic population Of
this young capital of the West may be set
down at $4,000. And when we know
that of this numter 127 900 were born Of
mothers who first saw the light in lands
beyond the sea. and that very large
proportion OF the remainder w+re oul,
Americans of the second generation,
1t Is manifest that it is only a waste
OF time to look back to Plymouth
lsock and Pocahontas, and that the
Boosting on Fourth of July days, of what
our fathers did at Bunker Hill and Lex.
ington, can be only regarded as SO many
harml' So figures OF speech. The whole
numb-r horn of American parents is
about 6O,OJO, or about one-third of the
whole, while the American born of for
eign parentage must be 10000 strong.
Thus, about one-half our whole pop.
ulation are foreigners and about
one-half American. The real num-
Der of those claiming foreign lin,.
age is nearly $1,000. en6ugh to p-o.
pie large and wealthy city BY themselves,
and .qualing the whole OF our population
little over decade ago. Twenty
Thousand, or nearly one. fourth, of these
are Chinese. OF the white element the
principal components are the American,
the Irish and the German, in the order
IN which they are severaly mentioned.
Excluding the Chinese, the two latter
form two thirds OF our foreign-born pop
nlation. the remaining third being made
up OF odds and ends of all nations on the
lace OF the earth. The principal compo-
nents Of this Heterogeneous asseinblap,, nre
the French, English, Scotch. Italians.
Swiss, Mexicans, Chilenos Portug uesp
and Scandinavians. Then comes natives
OF the British American Provinces. Spau.
iards, Australians and Sandwich Island.
.ers. Every nation has repr sentative
among the remainder, from the swarthy
Japanese and Hindoo to the frozen Es.
v,, ~,
there are nearly. if not quite, 5000 voters,
and the Irish population, or rather the
ilsh.born, is upwards Of 81. 200 strong:
but when we reckon in those born OF
IRISH parents we have total of As, 600
nearly one-third Of all the white nhabi-
tanis OF the city. The Teutonic element, |
which, reckoning in the children of Ger
man parents. number %, 500 The real
number OF German born is somewhere in
the neighborhood of 10000. OF the |
Germans in our city about one-third
were born in Prussia, about one
seventh each III Bavaria, Hanover and
Hesse; the remainder being made up of
Immigrants from tho many other Sec
tlons into which Germany is divided A
wanderer from the tower of Babel would
TO astoni b Vi at the languages heard |
within the precincts of this city. Eng
lsh, German, Irish, Welch, French,
Spanish, Italian, Danish, Russian, Chi
nese, etc., would at once overwhelm md
cpnfound him. 1t may be safely said
that one can hear as many languages
spoken from telegraph Hill to Mission
bay as from st. Petersburg to New York |
aud San Francisco. Nearly all those
who speak foreign languages also speak |
ttnd many read) English more or less
perfectly, with the exception of those
whose native tongue is French or Span.
ish. We OF course except the Chinese,
very few of whom learn or understand
any language save their own. Over
twenty separate and individual Ian.
guases, oesides three times as many dia-
Let's, are all spoken, living tongues in |
tins ty of San Francisco. Outside OF
th- regular cosmopolitan Journals, which |
reckon amongst their readers citiz- ms of
all origins, there are few inn po tant Sec
tons that have not each its representa-. |
tives in the press. The intellectual wants
OF Irish-boin citizens of San Francisco
are represented by three, we should rather
sly four, weekly newspapers; the Ger
mans have boosted of two dailieS, the
French two. the Italians as msny, the |
Spanish three. The few Russians here
may read news items in that language in
the columns OF the Anska Hrrnll. |
The religious faith OF the majority
OF those of pure American lineage
is. Of course, Protestant - that is,
when they profess any religion at all.
That of the majority OF Irish birth and
prentage is, Of course, Catholic, the
'mb r OF Irish Protestants probably
about balancing the number of American
Ctholics. In the vast m ,iority of in.
s;snces the Germans OF this city. who are
o1e-third Catholic and two-thirds Pro.
te'tant, attend no church at all, but one
Q .tholic and seven Protestant churches
minister to their wants when they do,
Their minist rs say that the great troub
with them is the belonging to secret SO.
cleties, to which some of said reverend
gentlemen ara not at all favorable. The
French have pretty little church, but
they do not attend 1t as we'll as might te
expected, though, considering their num-
Der, they probably make as good show
ing as other sections OF the population.
The Church OF st. Francis is intended
for the Spanish and Italian-speaking
population that surround it, but the
former have already subscribed consider.
able money towards having a church Of
their own. The Scandinvians, too, have
the same thing in contemplation, but up
to the preseuA they have ,loue nothing
The numerous aud flourishing societies
maintained by our foreign citizens are
amongst the most noteworthy features Of
our city. Most Of these, such as The
Ancient Order Of Hibernans. the irish
Americans, the Sons of the Emerald Tsla
and the Laborers' Protective society on
the part Of the Irish, and the French,
German and Italian aud Swiss societies,
with their splendid hospitals. on the part
Of these other nationaltes, are OF
benevolent nature; but there are many
patriotic, many political, and many
others OF purely personal and local M.
ture. Vocal music HIS its votaries, and
tho Italians, Swiss and French have done
q little that why. In general the tendency