The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-30
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They show the peca1iaritiss In the Mako
Up Of New York's Population.

Up Of New York's Popuixtioa.
From the New York u =.
The national census OF 1890 returned X7
Spanish-born residents in the city OF New
York and sss In Brooklyn. and they have
not increased since then. Fourteenth
street. between Sixth and Seventh ave-
nue.. and the nighborhood about Irving
Place and Fifteenth street are the chief
rendezvous Of the Spaniards. There II one
pretty sure test of a Spanish crowd as
distinguished from a crowd of other Lat
in-Americans or newcomers from Mediter-
ranean countries. As a rule. the English
man or the German who has passed mid
die life is either bald or has gray hair:
the Frenchman or the Italian OF Xix
years has white hair. but the Spaniard
has hair of a color peculiarly his own
grizzly. bushy. 'pepper-an-sait hair.
This p-epper-and-salt hair. more especially
IL its possessors are OF a saliow COM
plexion and are smoking hand-rolled ci-
garettes. may be accepted confidently as
an indication that the group is made up
of Spaniards.
Since the retail flower business. or curb
stone and street corner branch OF The re-
tail flower business of New York. passed
into the hands of the Greeks. as 1t has
lone almost altogether. the inferior flow
ers of the larger dealers. instea1 Of being
thrown away. as was too often he case
previously, are sold to the itinerans
tfd0er at a DIX Te0uCtlpH III VTltt. ~
case where the old commercial rule NJ
quick sales and small profits Is subject TO
the variation, quick sales or no prohts.
and hence the Greeks buy the culled hoc-
ers cheap and sell them soon. very soon
even IL to effect a sale a nominal proht
only il secured. Their commercial activity
has probably promoted the business OF
the large flower dealers. especially at
Easter time. instead Of encroaching upoi
IL. Moreover, the Greek peddlers put cut
flowers within the reach Of many frugal
purchasers. women and children espef-
ally. to whom. before. they were denied
wholly. Outside of lilies and roses. the
most popular flowers this spring appear
to be ~azaleas and violets.
The consolidation of New York made no
radical difference In the ratio naturatised
voters bear to the native born. Relatively.
II Is true. there are fewer neturahsr"
voters I'm Kings county than in New York.
and fewer I'm county than in
hat part of Queens which includes Long
Island City. and which was consolidated
with New York on the LIST of January. but
the differences are not great. A clear ma
jority OF the male Inhabitants OF voting
! age of New York are foreign-born, as the
last national census showed: New York.
native white male. 1887: foreign white
male. 2ss. 747: Kings, native white male.
I15, 1ee: foreign white male, III. 476: Rich
mond. native white male. S.275; foreign
white male. 6.so2; Queens whole county,.
native white male. ISIS: foreign white
male, 16. 500. One curious result of the con-
solicitation of the three cities Ii that the
present city administration IL. more large
ly perhaps than any OF its predecessors I'm
recent years, under the direction OF ma
tive-born citizens, while the representa-
tives Of cosmopolitan New York are
few and far between. Mayor Van Wyck
is a New York boy. born and raised In
| ,bgp cify and dating hack his local an
cestry to 1880. Comptroller Colsr is n ma
tive of Champaign. III. Borough President
| Peters. the district attorney OF New York
county: Colonel Gardiner. Borough Presi-
dent Brout of Brooklyn. and the execu-
tive heads of departments generally are
native-boTn officials.
For many years German shoemakers
had a practical monopoly of the cobbling
trade of the town. some of the more In
ventive and progressive adding TO their
revenues considerably by the making of
shoes to order. a business now very nearly
extinct. but of recent years Italian cob
bIers have superseded them. Only In plays
and operas does a cobbler regale his
neighbors with songs and stories, distrib-
uting money among them, and having n
shop which il the rendezvous OF noble
lords and high-born ladies. Hereabouts
the cobbler of actual life Is a hard-work-
ing man, who mends boots and shoes In a
cellar and draws his patronage from
those to whom sharp economy Is a neces-
sity. The Italian cobblers have driven out
the Germans because they work cheaper
and prefer TO work by themselves away
from the tyranny of a union whereas
the m are attracted by the shops
and factories. at which much of the re-
pairing, especially OF fine shoes. Is now
done. The Italian BARRIERS, also. owe much
of their success to the same prediction
their individual efforts not being ham
pered by BARRIERS unions"
The local tradition in New York that the
scandinavian inhabitants OF the city are
10 be found generally "along the water
'front.' /. not supported by the facts. The
truth of the matter Is that the total tran
silent river and river front population OF
New York-sailors. canal boat men,
steamship stokers. ship cooks and man-o'-
wars men-does not amount collectively
to more thar 5000 or ZOO persons all told
In the month Of February. 1895. an accu-
rate census was made of these residents
i'm what are now the boroughs OF Manhat-
tan and the Bronx. and they were shown
to amount collectively at that time to
442S, I'm "a total population of very nearly
2, 900, 900. The water front population al
the borough of Brooklyn. never large, ha'
not increased since consolidation, and tbs
present total in all the boroughs is prob
ably not far from $500. But there are In
the whole Of New York more than 35.0W
Scandinavians. and in the New York Dor
oueh the Scandinavians are chiefly TO b
found in the district of the town betweer
Twenty-third and T~hirty-fourth streets
on the east side. There arc two Swedish
churches in this neiehborhood. a Swedish
branch of the Salvation Army and five
intelligence Offices. making a speciality o
supplying to employers Scandinavian do
nestle servants or gardeners or coach
men. The scandinavian inhabitants o
New York are unobtrusive and two-third
of their number are 10 be found on tn