Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-27
HEBREW iMMlGRArroS.
Tho dreat Influx TO this Country tho Causes
and How the Needy ars cared Psr.
Ioulsylllo Courlcr. JournN


Louisville Courier. Journal
NEW Y0RG, Dee. 20 Tho Telegram.
In an editorial this evening, gives the FOL.
lowing Interesting Information concern.
iug the great Hebrew Immigration TO New
York. II says Loss than ten years ago
the Hebrew population Of this city, &C.
corGing TO staustCs, was less than
nity thousand, Everybody knows by
the frequency Of Hebrews In pub.
lie view that now Il largely tx
oeeds that number But few have any
ldoa OF the great rapidlty aud proportions
OF the increase From the annual report
of the board OF relief OF the United lig
brew charitles, which has iust been pub
lishtd, IL appears that the number
OF Hebrew Immigrants landed at
Castle Garden during the year
which ended ON October was
21,ais, which is moro than one,t nth OF
the whole Immigration received thore.
In 1888 the number WAS 1885 II also
appears that only Gl8b wtrs bound Tor
other points than New York. Thus the
accession TO the local Hebrew population
la single year, apart from natural
increase, was by foreign immigration
AZ this single landing place 9i,2i9,
NAhNH VI tHtNl NhNlt lfnNl Eushlu
AMI Austria, religious aud race porsocn.
ton stimulating them To the adventure.
No less than 7,706 were Russian subjects
and 1856 Austrian. There never was so
great an accession TO the population OF
the New World Ia single year, from
those impuiees--nut even In the
lime Of the Puritan colonization. OF
the remainder 1901 werc Rouman.
lans, also driven forth by per-
seoutlon, aud S57 were Germans Then
the schedule suddenly sinks 10 English
subjects, 6aI French, = Dutch, q, Turk.
Ism and Danish, each D, and Swedish,
There were Coo children aud s2,08G
adults, and were distributed between
tbs sexes In the proportion OF l8,72B
men To GGb8 women. BueideN these
poor Hebrews who entered New York
through Castle Garden, there were hun.
dreds, pobityely urc lmparitlyely wealth.,
who came IL through other avenues The
report OF The Unlted Hebrew Charities, to
which We have referred, IA marvellous
record OF the eklll, this patience, the |
mnniicenco and tho intelligence with
which the elder Hebrew popula |
tlon of the city dealt with the thousands
Ia this vast influx OF poor people OF |
their race and faith, who besought aid In |
some form The difficulties were i'm. |
mcDse-- unacqnaintance with the Bnglith |
Language, ignorance Of other trades and |
arts than peddling by which 90 galn
livelihood, aimlessness OF purpose, men.
tai stuntedness, physical fqnallor. stu, !
however, positive AZ these ugly factors
were, II deserves TO be said Of the |
Hebrew immigrants that relatively 10 |
Others received at Castle Garden they
were well up to the standard, There I,
some pubic apprehension on this |
point, But The fact that the emigration |
commissioners Of tho state returned to |
Europe during the whole year only TWEEN
tY-Beven paupers IL conclusive on that
point. The United Hebrew Charities,
however, were the M ans OF wisely |
sending back 7l4 as uoadapted by |
any possibility tokhriye IN this country, |
and u these they Crowded free transpor. |
tatlon on "cattle aseamerep for Gs2 men, |
"who applied 30 bo returned owing TO |
their inability 10 lind employment here, or |
their unwllllngness to do manual labor,
they having no trade or profession
For many thousands they found employ
mont. They have an Industrial school
for girls, and have opened a technical
institute for education IN mechanical arts.
They provide medical attendants and
nurses for the needy, lying-in relief for
poor members, aud burial for the poor
dead. Aud In all this there n no over
Practical business sense
all The Hebrew philan-
throplc enterprise. The board predicts
an even greater Hebrew immigration
for the year that VIII end next
and beeeeches helpers 20 deal
with IT, 1--WE have no fear" says its ex.
ecutlye committee "of the pecunlary aid
Of the public. II is the energetic pres.
ence and cooperation Of ladies and gen
tlemen Who will warmly intarCHt them
selves In our work that we need aud
earnestly solicit"