Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-01-03
JEWS OF NEW YORK.
Hosts Of Israel Who ere Victorious
In Business
Hebrow Wealth, Energy. lnhu0nco
and Nuccess... Young Mon and
Maldens. Tho Causes Of
Suceess.

II. E. Ralph In San Francisco Chronicte.l
One Of the first impressions that stranger
On visit to this city gets is that 1t Is vor.-
table New Jerlsalen-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
sipns bear foreign names, and that while
some arc Irish, some Polish, some French or
Italian, the great ma jority are German. Look
again and you gee that nine-tenths OF the
Germans are German Jews. You can toll
that by the faces in the doorways, and there
are Jows, too. under the signs bearing the
names of either nationalities. Turn down
one block to Church street, tho main thor
oughfare OF the great dry goods district,
with its towering piles of marble, iron, and
brovnstone, holding such treasure that a
fire scarcely ever destroys building there
without its being reckoned million dollar
confag,ation. There are $500, ,o00, 900 OF in
surancc risks on that little district
THE HOSTS OF ISRAEL.
Why, you say to yourself, nearly every
face In the stores Is q jews face-neariy
every firms sign is made up of Jews names.
See the great palaces Of the clothiers, the
biggest and showiest stores In the metropolis
seven in ten are ownei by Jews What
raft OF Jows there is on Wall street, with the
great house of Selignlan at their head. What
a hold the Jews have on the amusement
trade from Rudolf Aronson, the musical
caterer, and Theodore Moss, treasurer OF
Wailack's theatre, down to the firm OF Morris
& Hickman of the principal Dowery museum.
What scores of rich Jew lawyers thSge 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
Ia Mother Mandolbaum, Jewess, and Ru-
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 cf playing cards anywhere in
the United States pays tribute to Jcw,
Mr. Cohen. The great markets arc full Of
Jews and the big east-side slaughter-hoHse
district is wholly composed Of Jews Tho
most singular street in New York, Division
street, which presents long line of millinery
stores side by side, without any other sorts Vt
stores to interrupt the singular array, Is ex-
clusively a street Of Jews
CITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
Lex.neton avenue one OF the choicest RESI-
houses, is a Jews street, and tho adjacent
blocks of the dde streets are almost given up
to Jews. What sort of firm went bankrupt
the other day and gave about sl.ND,O Ooo
preference 10 creditors-the largest sum OF
preferred credits ever fixed uponi 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
10 ol,n ,,e,,
than the Jewish hospital, the Mount Sinai.
No Class spends more to support tho opera
or to make art flourish here than the jews.
don't care where you 60 or what you do in
Now York, whether it be TO walk or ride to
shop CT visit, buy or sell, t. be amused or
fed, you will 9 sure to meet Jews at your
elbows, by your side, behiad the counters,
the desk, tLe box Offices, in police uniforms,
elubs-you had better quit New York il you
have got any silly prejudice against the
chosen people of God
WHY THEY SUCCEED.
Yet all this effect is produced by about
l00GO0 Jews. 1t Is )sss than one tenth Of the
population that has managed to assert itself
60 as to stamp Now York as tho jews para
disc. 1t las happened that there arc dozen
reasons why Jews should remain with us, es-
tabllsh industries, build homes, found chair
ties minele with Christians and Identify
themselves with Gotham as they have not
dono with any other city in tho 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
tLis is the principal city in q froe coun-
try, without any established church of
It's 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
Gentiies, 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 Icing neglected or
beautifisd; nobody cares whether our bar
Dor is being gradually filed 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 1t Is true.
INFLUENTIAL JEWS.
Well, sec how that works In the case Of a
lew. If he settles down in an inland country
town the children hoot him in the streets and
peg stones at his store windows. His custom
is confined to the poor and ignorant, to whom
Ie sails the lowest grades Of goods at the low
est line OF prices There 10 no Christian door
open to bin, NO Christian hand extended
towards him, and at the same time there Is
10 Jewish community with its Hebrew
tongue and synagogue to make him feel that
he belongs to body of influence with COM
mon interest to bind it together. Let him
come to New York. Nobody will hoot at
him or stone luis windowa 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 bugs on their backs and
boards to their waists, all walking
together up Broadway, would not
excite remark. Our Jew son secs that and
walks more proudly and goes about his
work with more confidence. Next he finds
his feilew-Jews honored in every CONNER.
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
Jews among the guests at public dinnera
He subscrfbes 10 Jews newspapers, gets
Jews meat with ease wherever he
may live, runs across Jews everywhere
and actually finds that they are treated
30 well In New York that the younger
men do not understand how 1t 10
that Jews are murdered and stoned and
bounded by tie people In certain parts OF
Europe. Better still, whatever he undertakes
or wherever he goes, be meets ten Christians
to one Jew and be observes that they buy
and sell with him, invite him to lunch With