The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-24
A CHARITABLE RACE.
A GREAT HEBREW CITY ON GEN
TILE SOIL.

The Original st. Tammany - Some
Curious Facts in Tammany's His
tory The Large Number of Foreign
ers in Tammany's Society.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2i-No religions body
has increased so rapidly in our Gotham
during the last decade as the Hebrews, and
no city in the world outside Of Paris and
Vienna has so large a Jewish population as
New York. The Jewish inhabitants of this
city are estimated at 10000. as against
6O.000 in 1880. Then they had twenty syn
agogues, valued at 81, Gil. 900, while now
the congregations number fifty. and two
OF the new temples are worth more
than the twenty synagogues of
ten years ago. These two are the
Temple Emanuel and the Shearith- Israel,
which, with ten other places of worship
between Fifty-fifth and Eighty-fifth streets.
and in the vicinity of Fifth and Madison
avenues on the East side, represent the
solid, wealthy Jewish community, and the
old American, English. Spanish and Portu-
guese jews. The new temple BETHEL, now
IN course of construction at Fifth avenue
and Eighty-sixth street, will be the finest
Hebrew house of worship in America.
Recent emigration of Israelites to this
country has been from Germany and
Russia and from the poorer classes in those
countries. The religious persecution which
ragged against them in Germany few years
ago, and which has been growing hotter
and yet hotter in Russia, has created a
boom in emigration, with a prospect of its
continuance. In 1856 no less than $4,000
Russian Jews landed at this port, and the
greater part of them remained in this city
and were Hospitality received, cared for and
assisted by their more prosperous CO.
rellglonlsts who were already settled here
MISSION WORK AMONG THE JEWS.
To the credit of our Jewish population it
may be stated that they take all the care OF
their sick, their poor and their dead that
the Old Testament enJoins upon them.
Among the $1,000 insane, paupers and sick
under the care of the Commissions of
Charities and Correction Jews are ex-
tremely rare, and they never suffer one of
their number to be inferred in the Potter's
field. Three-fourths Of these helpless wards
of the city are foreigners. and between one
half and two-thirdS are Catholics, and Yet
one can hardly find a trace of the Jew in
hospital or alnshouse. Moreover, Mount
Sinai Hospital in this city reports helping
more non Hebrew and free patients
than any other in this city. SO
much for the physical health. The
Young Mems Hebrew Association started
the PROJECT of the Hebrew educational fair
of 1889, which Melted about $l20,000 for an
institute for religious and Industrial train
ing, and free lectures and amusements for
immigrants. This institute is almost com
pleted, Is situated in the heart of the tene-
nent district aud. following the lines al
ready laid down by the Hebrew Technical
School, will equip the ignorant immigrant
for other duties than peddler or sweat
shop victim. Finally. there are not less than
100 rabbinical schools, whose religious
instruction is impaired IN the evenings.
Surely this is showing that might shame
some inert christians into activity.
THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN TAMMANY.
1t was never intended by its founders that
Tammany should be a partisan organiza-
ton, much less a secret political society
with all the dark-lantern methods of the
old Know Nothing party, as it is now. A
few days after President Washington's
Inauguration in this city, in May. 1889, the
Tammany Society, or Columbia Order, was
founded by patriotic citizens of the new
republic. with the design. as ex-
pressed in its first constitution,
of friendship American brethren of
known attachment to the political rights of
human nature and the liberties of the coun-
try" 1t also incorporated a benevolent
feature in its organization, and to carry out
fully the American features of its founders
~ duOptco oOOIlSlIsil lOTtuS anu CeTeluOulos,
having its officers designated as Sachem,
Sycamore and Wiskinskie, aud dividing
the seasons into moons. The benevo-
lent feature disappeared long ago,
and its American feature disappeared
when Tweed came into power. Now
three-fourths of its members are of for
eign birth. and political Offices are allotted
to different nationalIties in accordance with
their power. The American, as such, has
long since ceased to have any consideration
there. Some American democrats, whose
fathers voted for jefferson and jackson,
aud whose ancestors fought in the wars of
'76 and 1912, have ventured mildly to pro-
test, from time to time, but all the answer
they ever got was toe famous reply of
Tweed: well, what are you going TO do
about it-eh?"
ST. TAMMANY A PENNSYLVANIA.
The original Tammany or Tamenem,
chief of the Delawares, was a Pennsylva-
| Man, and was buried near a spring about
three and half miles west of Doylestown.
| When in 1716 his triCe was visited by Col.
Morgan of Princeton by order of congress
the American officer brought back such
| glowing accounts of the virtues of the great
| red chief that among the soldiers he was
| dubbed st. Tamene. aud his name was
| placed on some calendars. Thus the poll
| ticians took him up and desired to make him
| the patron saint of America. Tammany
| societies were organized in every lead
| ing city in the land, aud TammanY
halls dedicated, ard on May Cthe festival
| of the saint meetings of the societiess were
held. "On that day. says Hecke welder,
| the Moravian historian, numerous societies.
of his votaries walked together in procession
through the streets of Philadelphia, their
| hats decorated with bucks tails and pro-
| ceeded to some handsome rural place out
of town, which they called the wigwam,
where, after long talk or Indian speech
had been delivered, and the calumet of
peace and friendship had been smoked, they
| Snnnr The lau In innnnancn and mi nth "