The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1884-01-08
JEWS OF NEW YORK
Hosts of Israel Who are Victorious
in Business
Hebrew Wealth, Energy. Influence
and suceess---EounR Men and
Maidens---The Causes of
Success.

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One of the first impressions that a stranger
on a visit to this city gets is that it is a veri-
table New Jerusalsn-a city full 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 the
names Of either nationalities. Turn down
one block to Church street, this main thor
oughfare Of the great dry goods district,
with its towering piles of marble, iron, and
brownstone, holding such treasure that a
fire scarcely ever destroys e building there
without its being reckoned a m~illion-dollar
c~onfagraticn. There are $500, 100000 Of in
surance risks on that little district.
THE HOSTS OF ISRAEL.
Why, you say to yourself, nearly every
facs In the stores is a Jews face-nearly
every firms sign is made up of Jews names.
See the great palaces of tho clothiers, the
biggest and showiest stores in the metropolis
seven in ten are owned by Jews. What a
raft Of Jews there is on Wall street, with the
great house of Seligman at their head. What
a hold the Jews havo on the amusement
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 a noted jew pugilist;
there are several Jew burglars; the biggest
receiver of stolen goods in the United States
is Mother Handelbaum, a Jewess, and Ru-
dolph, the billiard expert, is a jew. Two
daily morning newspapers belong to Jews
and every daily paper number Jews among
its editors and reporters. Everybody who
buys a pack Of playing cards anywhere in
the United States pays tribute to a Jew, a
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 a street of Jews.
A CITY PREJUDICE.
Lexington avenue, one of the choicest resi-
dence streets of the city, lined with fine
houses, is a Jews street, and the adjacent
blocks of the side streets are almost given up
to Jews. What sort of a firm went bankrupt
the other day and gave about 81. OO0, 900
preference to creditors-the largest sum of
| pItleITeu cTeullA over nxeu upOnt A jew
cloth house, Who married the fat womani
A 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.
1 don't care where you go or what you do in
New York, whether it be to walk or ride, to
shop or visit, buy or sell, to be amused or
fed, you will lie sure to meet Jews at your
elbows, by your side, ehind the 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
100, 900 Jews. 1t is less than one-tenth of tho
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 us, es-
tablish industries, build homes, found chart
ties, mingle with Christians and identify
themselves with Gotham as 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 as 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 thoy 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
Gentiles, 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
erty" or not; nobody cares whether
Central park is being neglected or
beautified; 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 devilr' is the motto OF
the New Yorker. Everybody says that of us
and we have little doubt that 1t is true.
INFLUENTIAL JEWS.
Well, SEQ how that works in the case Of a
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
is confined to the poor and ignorant, to whom
he sells the lowest grades of goods at the low
est line OF prices. There is no Christian door
open to him, no Christian hand extended
tOWdIus INN, ana at the same time there is
no Jewish community with it, Hebrew
tongue and synagogue to mako him feel that
he belongs to a body of influence with a COM
mon interest to bind it together. Let him
come to New York. Nobody will boot at
him or stone mis- windows. That Is the fate of
the latest and most odd and weakest conner
the Chinaman. A Jew does not at
tract attention. A hundred Of them
with bags on their backs and
boards to their waists, all walking
together up Broadway, would not
excite remark. Our Jew son sees that and
walks more proudly and goes about his
work with more confidence. Next he finds
his fellow-Jews honored in every commer-
cial calling. He finds them lavish and they
take him into splendid homes, let him share
pews with them in palatial synagogues
ON Murray Hill. He reads the names Of
Jewr among the guests at public dinners.
He subscribes to Jews newspapers, gets
Jews meat with ease wherever hs
may live, runs across Jews everywhere
and actually finds that they are treated
so well In New York that the Younger
men do not understand how IL Ia
that Jews arc murdered and stoned and
bounded by the people in certain parts Of
Europe. Better still, whatever he undertakes
or wherever he goes, he meets ten Christians
TO one jew and he observes that they buy
and sell with him, invite him to lunch with