Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-25

seem to bc all clothing houses. Outside, along the fronts for two or three blocks, hang rows of coats and trousers in such continuous lines that tho lower stories of buildings seem lined with them.
 All day long men employed by the store keepers pace up and down in front of these shops, their business being to but tonholc their passing fellow men and hang to them like lccchcs.
 Tho propriCtuIs of these stores arc chiefly Russian or Polish and German Jews. Names such as Goldstcin. Eavcsky, Patof- sky and Slofsly arc over the doors Look also ut the men themselves Short and thicksct most of them arc, and, when not in their shirt sleeves. clothed in long skirt cd black coats, which mach to their knees; their sallow, wrinklci faces. lighted by gItIuli>h black eyes, half hidden by hushy eyebrows; their nosCs huge, and the low cr parts of heir faces concealed by grIwIh of grassy black hair.
 The Grocery shops.
 Tho clothing house district passed, the grocery rcgiOn begins. Long punches of garlic fcStOon the windows. The window shelves arc filled with an array of decay ing lemons, ycllowish Cabllagcs and boxcs of macaroni. Tho whole storc looks as If the goods had brCn shot into 1t from an immense cannon and everything staid whcrc It h1IiiNnCtl tO stFlkC.
 Jews and Italians.
 Ono rcaSou for the IsrCat number of groceries and meat markets Is that Jews and Italians each have their own stores. The Jews rcliGiun Cumprls them to buy their food uf sturCkCCpcrs of their own ma tionality; otherwise they might uncun- Ciously cut unClCan fuOd. For instance, thcre ap, many animals of whose flesh 1t l Is considered unlawful to eat, and all flesh I Is to them unlawful unless of u beast kill | cd according to certain Jewish laws. Then | at certain seasons they must eat unlCavcn- ed bread, which their bakeries nt such | times furnish. AS to Italians, they will not patrunizc Jews, partly because of their hatrCd of the lace, partly ECCIusc the Jews will not patrunizc them.
 | On every hand thCrc arC enormous quan- | titles of fish in baskets. harrows and carts. On warm days the vendors need not call | their wares. Tho odor prOclaims all that need bc known about them. The streets arc narrow that drays, carts and bar | rows often get into n hopeless tanElc. Sometimes n box of blucberriCs rolls Otf Vinchcnsiu RcSicSarin's cart, or two or thrce green apples fall from chunky Leo narto Pulio's barrow. But no sooner is the tanglc straightcncd out than there is m instant rush of childrvn, who cat up the | fragments in n triCC.
 | Hit of Diplomacy.
 On n curbstonc, with their feet in the gutter, sit two little black haired girls in rufIlcd dresses which once wCrc pink. One is eating an apple. Tho other watches it | with desiring eyes. At last shc speaks. Her voice is solemn. Jennie May Brown, she says, there's n worm in that apple " X pause. If you eat it, you bc all sick; you be all dead; you be all buried up; you go up to heaven" Hcrc Jennie, much | impressed, throws the apple away. and in n flow moments the sucCCssful preacher has, unseen l.y her companion, seized il and hidden It in her husun.
 | On very warm days oDc must bC careful not tu st"p on Chilircn sleeping on tht sidewalk. sometimes l. in; dirCjly in one: path. %u wonG"r they a:C tir, l. Every night they arr up in t-I" si.catS playing till l0 or II o'clock, w.I,'" their mother sit on tho cUrhstnuC-, w;,h tn'i ir feet in th' gutter, and their fathers loun.,' n'r,ut Il, duorsICpS su.ni,inC.
 Having s,,'u hundreds-nny. thousli d, of strung yauuy for ,uvrs sitting about in this way, ono wonder that they do nu break away from th,.r chvrrless surround ings and G4I place whCrc they can d' something. tc something. Have these pco pie no ambitions. and, il they have, wha are they! Ii you wish this question an swercd, watch for few summer evening from tho windows of the North Bonnet Strcc: Industrial school Some night you hear tho usual street sounds incrcasc an' | unitc in ;G roar; tho street suddenly flare I with mhcnux and reSl lights; n procession | Is advancing, young men in front throw i'm: up rpckCIs, then long limo of mel | with white bands across their breasts; mex in o:,lCr, carriages and barycs filled witt
 panplo. Thc siaro of the red lights illu minnics tho Cll, time stained houses, tn , | rockV,s light swaFthy faces, and showers 0
 sparks fall among the shouting boys, tn } | hand plays lively airs, a:Id tho triumpha procCssion passy-s up the street. ''Who aT
 thcsc happy murt;ls!" usk you. Tho Portu sursc or Italian people returning from picnic. Tonight all Is music, light, joy
 for them; touIOrrow they will sulsilc int
 soddcn, joylcss, half starved creatures ' makers of pants, pcdSilcrs, ragpickcrs , toiling carly and late. To what cnd2 Tn
 they may save money for another picni So when they arc old, and their last picu has taken their last cent, and they can cal
 no moro, they uIust stay with their so and daughters, who tolerate them, I \ they, too, wish 10 go to picnics, and q old folks are useful tn look after the babiS , The Italians are tho most quarrclsur of foreigners, the Portuguese the clcanC ' and most immoral, and the Jews the dir I cst.
 It seems strange that tho Jews look
 dirty when their religion compcls them wash their bodies mt least one" n week.
 Its Departed Glory.
 Looking upon tho scenes now cnHctii
 in tho north end. 1t seems strango
 think that nt one time our sober Purit'
 forcfathers dwclt in thcsc streets Sor
 of their very houses hrc still standin
 Princo street, which crOSscs Salem, ru
 ming from North squarc to Commorci
 street, Is said to bo moro as it was e
 tury ago than any other street of Its lcng
 in Boston. One very old brick house
 I30 Prince Is pointed out ns the ono whi 2 | sheltered Major Pitcairn when mortal
 wounded in tho battle of Bunker HI 2 Tho lower story has become n baker
 while the upper part Is inhabited by tri
 of noisy Italians.
 A portion of a very old building st
 stands at the corncr of Prince and Marp
 ret streets, recalling the fact that in i7
 it was tho house of John Tilcston, VI