St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-04

In an alcove on a couch are many doz-
ems of pants ready for the finisher, and
a bare-legged baby with pinched face
IS asleep. A fence of piled up cloth
ing keeps him from rolling off onto the
iIcor Inc faces, hands and arms, to
the elbows, of every one in the room
are Dlack with color of the cloth on
Wnlcn they are working" And yet the
streets IN the evenings are full of
Jews gossiping and lounging. Are
they fa1r subjects for religious con-
version? 1t is upon these that the in
fuence of the Cathedral mission is to
be turned? There are several Chris
tan missions besides the Cathedral
mission in this district, and not unus-
Qaliy are the services attended by the
Jews. Went into one, and was sur
pr1sed to see the humber of Jewish
faces. The preacher, or eXhorter, was
really eloquent and was listened to
with apparent interest, so long as he
talked of the virtue of being good and
industrious, but when the claims of the
son OF God We're urged upon them,
there was very visible decline OF
sympathy and many got up and went
out, muttering as they went They are
as 'sot IN their ways as they have al
Ways been. | can bear witness that
nave nave NIUE respect for the theory of
personal cleanliness. There is hope of
Improvement, however, as the Young
Jew children are actually sent to the
PHOAAC S(tlOOlS, ana IN one OF these
schools the principal is said to make
the children recite in unison the follow
ing, IN reply to the question, What
must [ do to be healthy?'
l must keep my skin clean,
Wear clean clothes,
breathe pure air.
And live in the sunlight -
Mhen recall the tenement houses
which visited and the streets through
CHASTITY
1o And they are quarrelsome, these
stanton street is the Essex market po-
lice court, and the records of the court
contain fair list of Enthusiastically
Jewish names, while the Ludlow street
jail, just north of the court, has known
d dlah IA q Heor {,, occupant 1t seems
airy work in this district
So, suppose we go just north of
S Stanton }n, street, where the Bohemians
is there here? Some one has said of
them: They are Roman Catholics by
birth, inf1dels by necessity and Pro-
testants by history and inclination"
Yet l believe in the conversion of the
Bohemian into useful and ornamen-
tai American, more than [ do in the
Jew, the Italian or the Chinese At
present he slaves for existence, but
his fellow men more unselfishly than
the others, and furnishes less trouble
to the police and the health department
than they. They are nearly all cigar
makers, men, women and children,
and not very saving, but are amen
able to reason and ambitious to learn
and Clearly in their habits, generous,
companionable and spirited. 1t may
be that upon this class rays of light
from the Cathedral mission may fall
with success. Upon the other two ma
tionalft.es embraced in this particular
district of the east side, the Germans
and the Irish alone are left The Ger
mans are well taken care of by pas
tors of their own churches, and are
a law-abiding, thrifty and energetic
most troublesome to the police, and
not thrifty, and occupy more space
on the sergeant's blotter at the sta
ton house than all the rest put to-
gether, and are not particularly friend
ly to any outholding of Protestant
1 believe it is through the public
schools and the missions of the Ro-
man Catholic church. which are numer-
Gus in the district. They are the most
unregenerate of all the inhabitants,
except the Chinese, for they do-not con-
fine their feuds and fights to them
selves, as do the Italians and Ger
mans, but are really like the Irishman
at Donnybrook fair, where they see
a head they like to hit it, and gen.
orally do.
1 do not yet know what the bishops
plans are, but I believe fully that if
they lie beyond three things-frst,
Improvement of the tenement house;
second, a more widely spread educa-
ton, and third, a development of the
belief in the minds of the poor, the
vicious and abandoned, that actual
contact and fellowship will be given
and not charity or reliGhSn, they wils
fail FEATAfERSTONE.