The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-30
ROUND ABOUT GOTHAM.
VARIOUS DIALECTS SPOKEN IN
THE METROPOLIS.
D.cidedIy Polygiot City--ovsr Oss
Hundred Languages spoken aud Read.
,.,,,Hish Art Neutrality-suspicious. From
,s,.,s and Green Room.
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RICHMOND DAILY TTMHs,
November ~. 1890.
rh.number Of different dialects spoken In
New York number over one hundred. Ii
ICONS impossible to realize that number Of
o,,,niea. each little city in itself, com
p,.ea oi foreigners VINO are not acquainted
with The English language. OF the city''
,,-oign.born population the Russians and
Poles are the most interesting. Within ter
wear, the Russians have increased from
1s)) 10 5000. The greatest number o.
,bem are nihilistic refugees. they mil
,er, little with other nations. Most Of them
dwell on east Broadway, OF IN the neigh
l,orboOd The saloons furnish the herJ
vodka. and every restaurant has its saInosar
Tne Russians are mostly jews, but the
Pole. are Catholics. Many OF them speak
English, but the majority are content wiz
tno,r own language. the Russian Jews are
very orthodox, and keep uP most OF the ira
difions of their race, and the colony Is pretty
svrnl, divided between anarchists and 80
cielisis The Hungarian colony ten years
,o numbered only 1000, now there are
1An lO Of them in the city. IneY are mostly
Jews. though there are many OF the pure
Nayyar stoch among them. The better class
s,eak three OF four languages, but the laoOi
..r- neither speak nor read anything except
.t1e,r native tongue. The Huugarians 1--we Ia
no -teeial district. The BOhemisns, though,
...n, fogbfher. and cling also 10 their IAN
.,,.,.0e and religion. There are over A,OOV
~ tb.m now. Within the last decade tue
,,..,,,,-rbas inst been trebled. The last
80 io the ncighborh0od oil christie ana
F.dridre streets. is their section. Inc larg-
o. foreign element that does not spear
Fo.li.h is the German. lhey represent
neatly A quarter OF a mllloh VI .ie ons'i
D,nuiation. Vast numbers OF mem sleaA
td,fisb lint whenever 10 10 possible they
lnS 49,. ,r.f.ronce 10 their naive tongue.
M nsfiyc. N Holland are 1000. Ihey, 100,
- colony. but the wealthy ones are
...ttorsd all over the city. The french
''o-',,Isfion has decreased considerably
.irca fhe last census Many OF them
nav returned to France since the general
smmo.tv was granted % those who took
Darfi I'M Inc commune OF 1871. Those who re-
NAMED are French in language, Gus.
toms and traditions, though many OF
them speak English quite nuently. The
Portuguese can hardly be called colony az
they do not number hundred.
The spanish settlement, though. 10 quite
large. Between Castilians and Cubans there
are about 5000. The poor Cubans are most
ly cigarette makers. and those only who own
ever try 10 learn English. The
colony that has developed most since the
al census l. the Italian colony. There
/. 70 ONLY 1900 OF them there; now
,h.ro are between $1,000 and 10000. The
.h,a.bla.ks and the ffuit sellers learn lit
fle English. but the rest never attempt 10
b.eome Americanized. The Danes, Nerve
yians. and Suedes are about 5000 In num-
her. the Chinese $500, the Turks 800. the
Greeks 200. and the Japanese l50. There
are also several natives OF Iindo0stan. LIS
csrs. aud other Orientals, ard a very small
colony Of Greenianders, Maltese, and Pa
,idr islanders. fifty % whom came from the
sandwich Islands.
PAPERS IN FORKIGS TONGUES.
oar foreign.bOrn citizens, as a rule, pre-
Ter % think and read In their mother tongue,
and each colony supports paper printed
In A tongue strange % most OF US. Besides
Tho papers printed in English, there are is
,u.i every morning ID, 90 comics in other
One hundred and ten thousand
M these are in German. 1900 in French,
1000 ia Italian, 800 10 Spanish, and 1000
I'M Bohemian The Russian and Chinese
colonies bO,h started a daily paper, but the
.ap-rs did not have very long life. The
II lpgari2n, scandinavian, Polish and He
brew colonies do not support daily journal
either. Ihs French have only one paper.
NJ q Iurier de- Flats Unis, and il is made
ln After tue style Of the Paris Figaro. Its
poltics are INDEPENDENT. but il has strong
etuiuy 10 Democracy because the leaders
If the colony have always been Of that way
of thinking. The Courier has been IN eX-
istsnce since 1873 LAVenir, which 10 isued
W .clIy. has q very poor circulation, but the
monthly periodicals. Of which there are
three. arr very successful Le fraucal~
il purely literary. with circulation OF
SOM 1000. i.e Franco American e Les Pc
tits Ali lies has 4UjOfeaders, ana the great
fa-hl 20 organ. fart de De la Mode, has 22.-
on subscribers The Italians support two
daily papers. Tue Eco a. Italia was founded
in 1919. I've Thousand copies OF this Journal
are sold daily. The other paper, ii Pro-
gres,9 lti.O-Amcr.e.n Il only ten years
OH. but itisa great fiN0rite with the ltal-
ians. They have only one weekly paper,
and that has for It's title Christof0rO Column
b.. Toe Spauiarls have eight papers. The
daily Las N0vtdldcs was started fourteen
yearsng3, AMI has q circulation OF twenty
i've thousand copies. The weekly journal
Is the Il Yist1 Popular, and the spanish
have Journal which 10 issued
Every two WOeks, and it's editor claims
,ir,ulAt on OF two thousand live hundred.
the other journals printed in Spanish are
mDuihnes. aud are all commercial. The
purpose Of them 10 10 push trade IN
Central and South America. The Bone
man daily paper, the New lorske Listy,
IA. "A circulation Of 900. and its readers
sfs Al "a "A
weekly ard a monthly Journal, and the lat
.er has $50 readers. The principal paper
printed i'm the Magyar or Hungarian Ian
guagc 10 the Amerikai Nem1etor. 1t is L.
sued weekly. aud 800 copies Of il are sold.
Ine Hungdria il another Magyar weekly,
but il has only 700 readers. The Swiss
have "A paper printed in kind OF Swiss
Teutonic patr0S called the Amerikanische
Z1tung, and 100 copies OF this
are issued. The Poles have = weekly
paper called the Oyuisko, and the
ian colony has three papers print
,d ia Swedish. The N0rdstyerman is the
Journal. II is issued weekly and
las 1909 readers. The Ualumny lie He
brew paper. entirely literary IN character
Ih. lrish-Alnerican,t the Oldest organ Of that
nationality in the country, hSs Tor over
thirty years printed seferal columns every
week OF the old Gallic In the origi-
nal Gallic type, for which font
u characters d - been specially cast. The
l. errnaus have i've daily papers. The
stats Zetung has circulation OF over
10000. twas founded in 1884. and is the old
est foreign paper printed in New York. The
sociaisuc organ, the Few Yorker NOlks
Leituug, has circulation OF nearly $1,000.
They also support thirty weeklies. seven
semi.m0nthlies and I'VE mOnthlies. These
Journals are devoted 10 a variety Of sub
iects. and have circulation ranging from
1OO 70 2',OoO.
ART, FASHION, AND DRAMA.
The fall exhibition at the Academy OF
Design has already aroused great deal OF
lnfayorable comment. There are not %
nan, pictures by nearly hundred ss there
were last season, and the quality OF the
work 10 an even grade Of medlOcrity. There
10 plenty Of room On the walls ~ hang more
but none could be had up even 20
'ns remarkably loS standard Of the com
mittee. Tue opinion 10 freely expressed
hat tue public has Of late been edu-
Gated up 10 point where IL de-
mands sensatiOnalism in painting and
sculpture IS in everything else. The
plan OF "circusiDg" a painting, which was
with such extraordinary sue
sess with Christ Before Plate" and
which reached its limit in the spectacular
exploitation OF the "Angelus," has taught
The public u demand something spicy and
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