The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-04-27
Italians I'M New York.

During the year 1879 seven thousan
two hundred italian emigrants wer
landed at this port, one-third of whic
number remained in the city, and ther
are now over twenty thousand italian
scattered among the population of Ne,
York. The more recently arrived her
together in colonies, such as those i
Baxter and Mott streets, in Elevent
street, in Yorkville, and in Hoboke1
Many of the most important industrie
of the city are in the hands of italian
as employers and employed, such as tn
manufacture of macarol i, of object
of art, confectionery, artificial flowers
and italian workmen may b
found everywhere mingled wit
those of other nationalities. It is n
uncommon thing to see at noon som
swarthy italian, engaged on building
in process of erection, resting and din
ing from his tin kettle, while his bEQyn
skinned wife sits by his side, brJ
her gold earrings and beads, Will was
flower in her hair, all of which, at affail
were kept for feast days. But s
America increased wages mako
day feast day in the matter of fd 1t IS
raiment; and why, indeed, shoul>eop
the architectural principle of beaS .
supplementing necessity be applied e1o
to the daily round of hod-ep
rying? y That the Italians Ico
an idle and thriftless people is a sui
stition which time will remove from !"
American mind. A little kindlyto e1
ance and teaching can mold theH ,o h
almost any form. But capital is
first necessity of the individual. ISers'
be wondered at, therefore, that THEM d
untried souls that wander from ,Lo
village or mountain homes, with 'N"'
vice but that of the parish priesyesls
knowledge of the country to which NO ,
are going but the vague though dazzl
remembrance that somebody's UNI
or brother once went to Buenos AyEss
and returned with fortune, no peno
mary resource but that which re(
from the sale of their little farm pl c'
the wife's heritage of gold beadstest.
no intellectual capital but the primA, -;
methods of farming handed dd P
their ancestors, should drift ir the
less and hopeless poverty? The Den
grafton is frequently in the ha H.
shrewd compatriots, who manage sio'
them on our shores in a robbedrapi
pl1ndered condition. \res
On the other hand, the thrifty bol,
geois who brings with him the knowwii.
edge of trade, and some little capital
to aid him in getting o. footing, very
soon begins to prosper, and lay by
money with which to return and dazzle
the eyes of his poor neighbors, demor
alizing his native town by filing its in.
habitants with yearnings toward the EI
Dorado of "Nuova York" Such man
confecti0Ger, hairdresser or grocer
purchases a villa, sets up his carriage, and
to all appearance purposes spending his
life in elegant leisure, but the greed o.
money getting which he has brought
back from the new world surges rest
lessly within him, and he breaks up his
establishment and returns to New York
to live behind his shop in some damp
unwholesome den, that he may add q
few more dollars to his store, and toe
often his avarice is rewarded by the
contraction of disease which presently
gives his hard-earned American dollars
into the hands of his relatives in Italy
-Hnper'S magazine.