Telegram-herald., 1888-09-09

NEw YoEx sses reece aEs oleer -
eaEasz u Hes ars cty sllea alDY 4
tie eiasf r--i 1anfs have nsFsF s-ea out t4s
slsiEoF f-als tee cossntsF IS as 80 t'sl tseoa
hs saslls g. sse tes -rasaF rs~oFss, 90 d3Fx
glgrfeTs tee efe1tel 4iieys ~1ere qaaer
peors frcsn Ia as1F casastrses hse-sts
Fees ald tsr Ia xns. gae Save Jews an4
~ Hanssr ans. - Calaese fhs kassizfs
49, tas boneulzss And 30 can I'D eois
Isas ~ al taese AID Hlans nssre nasionsii-
tzs-htfie flfes "a tne aeert ~ sae biz cltF.
1lG cela0lets lsliatsd -1-iai.Y ~hsrv ~
pare Eagilh language = ua3e@rd ana ~heFs
4. Ii,ai AID farazsr Ike visitor h. So inncl -
= curiosity as q Issrk or q ASA ~oala -
"a a. satsrlar vilSEs
Tha cry Is acre rsorsi, specifically a.
least taan Sc ~as There Is no longer Gre
marn4 ~ Harry HIM" c3ncsr1 saloons
and dancing halls az thA,gs 81 tas past, and
ths cellar iouzing house Is very rare. bgs
the ioeali zafion 20 cerlain raoes - nlrs
taeroagh than ever and oue such district A.
H-steF street Is unique. let the visitor 60
oUt PARK ros eastward 20 Canal street, olst
Canal a. FoSyth. and along Forsyth noFth-
ward % hestcg and b. Is sud,lealy introduced
q the center 81 the Jews qusr.sT@-ss cctli-
f3-teiy sacA e. any .Ghstton la al Italian
clty ~ he last century. There l. no law %
eompel thrse Oriental Hebrews q live to
gerher. as there was IN Italy Servia, Turkey,
stc., whence they came, bat the habit has b.
come secona nature, and By choice they
cEo~d a. closely a. they can live sad bEeaihe.
Scatter them over a rural township not more
than 40 - the square mile aud they would
die OF loneliuess
The deserving visitor on the route toward
Forsyth aud Hester strests will note con-
tlEuous decline in the local tone" Perhaps
the restaurants give the best index Of t. On
Park row he viii So no bill Of fare outside
for the first three blocks; IL Is assumed that
the patron Is able 70 pay well foe good ser
vice On the next block be viii see long lists
placardsd bv the door. "firoiied chicken, 80
cents; b,s.fs,eak, 20, coffee. with milk 10"
4 Nsile further is one q the "Jim Fisk res
tauranfs, with "Beefsteak Is cents'-sll
other articles aud 10 cents. On the next
block ths signs tell us II Lodgings Is cents"
"Beefstsak cents and thereafter twenty
dishes for CENTS each, with ''corned beef
hash" n, The bead 81 the list. Last Of all.
very few places offer lodging for 10 cents
and three dishes for the same sum. The
hash at srch places i indeed a mystery
scarcely 10 Do contemplated without a shut-
der
Once on Hester street and the restaurant
proper disappears, but on the street stalls
ara grsst piles II black bread, odd looking
s<ssF>a Ses--''thrce for ten cents'-ancient
oranges, badly specked apples, boiled eggs,
not 70 b questioned as 20 age, tomatoes that
have served their term in more pretsntious
places and occasionally peaches. suspiciously
spotted and Ike tho planet Mars in that they
arc supposed n be inhabited" But the
sauraSes ara net OF pork. there is nothing
any list that means ham and eggs" the
hesf hes BEEN drained" the animal has beSn
slaughtered according TO r-bbinical rules and
all the signs are repeated ia Hebrew.
Here we are in a new world For twenty
FIVE blocks il is solid "Jcwry.' Not the IN
telligcnt and progressive Israehtcs from
France or Germany, but from every corner
OF far eastern Europe and the sd jscent sec
tious of Asia In al the district one wall
not SEQ ga English name on any sign, but in
Greek, Russian, Roumanian aud other char
actsIs are such names "a EzedzoG. Lech-
rinski, Gennatrs7, Borulawski. Papa4iopolis,
KreitsandorI, Arton1i, Psdsgoras, Mos
ohish end Krsneiovich. Frequently the
name and business are briefly repeated in
English, bet always the nature OF the goods
sod is set forth in Hebrew.
/. And al these svarming. crovdinS, svnrthy
Thousands are educated, in a way Book
stalls abound. covered with Hebrew books Of
all kinds and copies Of The Jewish VolkS
Zeitung and other Hebrew Journals The
ordinary resident there may understand
nono Of tho Eastern tongues but his own; but
ell understand Hebrew, and that Is tnsir com
mon vehicle Ol conversatioa-and very queer
Hebrew IL IS The language OF Palestine in
TIA time ~ David and Solomon, fnodernizcd
TO suis tho society and traffic OF New YORK,
and with words for all the things invented n
S,e9o ysars, made M haphazard from modern
tongues and then Eeoraized Such is tho 80
called vernac1lAr Hebrew OF Hester street.
Yet they have some pretty ballads in this
tongue. and a. their theatre, The Oriental"
soma very interesting plays are given Sim
iiariy many Of tho Rounanians and some IL
tlo HungsTiaIs speak Latin as they cali
it. but no college professor could tell it from
PottA~ ttousia. Il Is at least seven TINES as
far removed from Cice-os Latin e. the
"Dago7 ard "Kajian" of Louisiana Is from
Partisan Preach.
Hester street should certainly have one
word IN caauion for DIRT. for they havs the
tang IL Common. Il IS no exngzc-n,fon %
ssv that n dirt Trey live, IN dirs they niovs
and in dirt they have their beiug Dirty
babies, clad Ia a single garment, crawl over
tie Tavpmeuts. dirty children play IN the
dirty street aa1 dirty men walk INTO houses
with very dirty SHOES All ths peccis are
smok7 booking. 81 the housss griny. Ell the
cellars "suu14yT ana nearly al tie people
look as If tscy had not changed thsir clotAss
Tor months Even TIA best dressed amoag
tasm COX smoky and "snuGyln 20 AN
American II - = mystery That peopls can be
c9uSsatsd ia Sgca dirt Sc ehey are
Cleanliness . no necessity % tdsln &c %
Americans and "a toe People 81 western
Earups II al the thouzands that crowd
Hester street q uIld evening. You viz not
So twenty IN eir7n clothing They % uos
feel zoe need q L.
Tbs Is al ths arors noticeahis because ths
israeites generally are neat people IN their
persons and closAsug snd scrupaloasly clean
IS - taeir food Il e nee 5scsuss tbase pco-
pc 80 ix-aai 80 thas ~ are 60 iudiFersut
g. Dirt e "a he-a1ss thsV are 81 lie Oppressed
cissseS = eastern EuroT>--thss g, tAey ars
Ike tiie roorHst peasensrT - Turkey. Ser
ga. Rassis aad Fc1aad A ssnerasiea II
freeiogn ald AEaricao crpcreun8tv so %
Eander1 Ter thsua Tha stfFi,ioa 81 IRE
co,fatry WI hrin. -rt - good clements "a
tAe keh-sv chsraceer 7 II BEs1LE