The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-03-27
JEWS OF NEW YORK.
Hosts of Israel Who are Victorious
in Business.
Hebrew Wealth. Energy. Influence
ma Success Young Men and
Maidens.--T The Causes OF
Success.

on visit to this city gets IL tnat IL Is Il Nelr
table New Jerusalen--a city fuu OF jews
You seem to meet Jews or be reminded OF
them wherever you turn Take Broadway,
for instance You notice that nearly all the
signs bear foreign Names and that while
some are Irish, some Polish, some French or
Italian, the great majority are German. LOOK
again and you see that nine-tenths OF the
Germans are German Jews. You can tell
that by the faces in the doorways, and there
are Jews. too, under the signs bearing tina
names of either nationalities. Turn down
one block to Church street, the main thor
oughfare Of the great dry goods DISTRICT
with its towering piles of marble iron, and
brownstone, holding such treasure that
fire scarcely ever destroys building there
without its being reckoned a million-dollar
conflagration. There are 500, 0O0, 900 Of in
surance risks on that little district
THE HOSTS OF ISRAEL.
Why, YOU say to yourself, nearly every
face in the stores is a Jews face--nearly
every firms sign is made up of Jews names
See the great palaces of the clorhlers, the
biggest and showieSt stores in the metropolis
seven in ten are owned by Jews. hat
raft Of Jews there is on Wall street, with the
great house of Ssligman at their head. What
/ nOli tnt Jews nave Oh tit diiluSTlhche
trade. from Rudolf Aronson, the musical
caterer and Theodore Moss, treasurer of
Wallack's theatre, down to the firm of Morris
& Hickman of the principal Bowery museum.
What scores of rich jew lawyers there are.
What a place the Jews hold in the brewing
trade Why, there is noted Jew pugilist;
there are several jew burglars; the biggest
receiver of stolen goods in the United States
&c low
dolph, the billiard expert, Is jew Two
daily morning newspapers belong to Jews
and every daily paper numbers Jews among
its editors and reporters Everybody who
buys pack of playing cards anywhere in
the United States pays tribute to Jew,
Mr. Cohen. The great markets are full Of
Jews and the big east-side slaughter HOUSE
district is wholly composed of Jews. The
most singular street in New York, Division
street, which presents a long line of millinery
stores side by side, without any other sorts Of
stores to interrupt the singular array is ex-
clUsively street of Jews.
A CITY WITHOUT PEEJUDICE.
Lexington avenue, one of the choicest resi-
dence streets of the city, lined with fine
houses, is Jews street, and the adjacent
blocks of the side streets are almost given up
the other day and gave about sl.OtO,0O0
preference TO creditors-the largest sum Of
preferred credits ever fixed upon. A Jew
cloth house. VINO married the fat womani
4 jew boy Jews have built churches here
hardly surpassed in cost or beauty. There is
no more liberal, extensive or noble charity
than the Jewish hospital, the Mount Sinai.
No class spends more to support the opera
or to make art flourish here than the Jews
don't care where you 60 or what you do in
New York whether il be to walk or ride, to
shop or visit, buy or SELL t. be amused or
fed, You will e sure to meet Jews at your
elbows, by your side, behind tn counters
the desk, the box offices, in police uniforms
clubs-you had better quit New York if you
have got any silly prejudice against the
chosen people of God.
WHY THEY SUCCEED.
Yet all this effect is produced by about
l00, 900 Jews. Ii is less than one-tenth Of the
population that has managed to assert itself
so as to stamp New York as the Jews para
disc. 1t has happened that there are a dozen
reasons why Jews should remain with lis, es-
tablish industries, build homes, found chart
ties, mingle with Christians and identify
themselves with Gotham they have not
done with any other city in the world except
London. They have come to New York
because it is the business centre and affords
the most opportunities for turning over and
making money. They have put themselves
forward they have not done else
where, even in London, not only because
this is the principal city in a free coun-
try, without any established church of
its own, but because they have found that
whatever prejudices may exist against them
in the minds of individuals there is no gen
eral or popular expression of that feeling
We New Workers, whether we be Jews or
Gentles, are very fond of saying that there is
no public spirit here. Nobody cares what
blockheads or scoundrels are elected TO form
our city government; nobody cares whether
We have the Bartholdi statue Of Lib
ertyn or not; nobody cares whether
Central park is being neglected or
beautifed; nobody cares whether our har-
Dor is being gradually filled up with the
garbage our servants are too lazy or corrupt
to carry out TO sea; nobody in New York
cares for anybody but himself. "Hurrah for
me, and you go to the devill" is the motto Of
the New Yorker. Everybody says that of us
and We have little doubt that it is true.
INFLUENTIAL JEWS.
Well, see how that works in the case OF q
Jew. II he settles down in an inland country
town the children boot him in the streets and
peg stones at his store windows His custom
rs confined to the poor and ignorant, to whom
ne soils the lowest grades Of goods at the low
est line of prices. There is no Christian door
open 20 him, no Christian hand extended
towards him, and at the same time there is
no Jewish community with its Hebrew
tongue and synagogue to make him feel that
be belongs to body Of influence with a com