The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-30
A GOOD STRAIN.
Mingling Of Many
Races In Our Bust
ness Life.
SWEDES MUCH IN EVIDENCE.
Plea of the Armenians-
What Our School Re-
ports Show.
SWEDES MUCH IN EVIDENCE.

Worcester is fast assuming a cosmo-
politan aspect, nearly every nation or
race of the old world having its rep
resentation within the confines of the
heart of the commonwealth.
Many immigrants come to Worcester
direct on landing from the ships that
have brought them to the new country
which has become the abiding place of
SO many of their fellow-c ountrymen
| worcester has its Jewish, Italian, Ar
menian, Syrian, Polish and Scandina-
Wan quarters, in addition to a scat
terlng or other races, making altogether
a slzeable percentage of the population
| OF Worcester.
| 1t is only natural that people of these
nationalities should group themselves
together. When an immigrant arrives
| in this country knowing only his own
| language and the ways of his own peo-
| pie, he really has nowhere to go, ex-
cept to that quqarter of the city or sec
| ton OF the country in which those of
his own blood and religion have grad
ually congregated Living thus, the
newcomer takes up the vocations gen.
orally followed by his people, irrespec-
| tive of what his vocation may have
been in the mother country.
Exception should be made perhaps
| with natives Of the principal European
countries where a higher degree of civ
| ilization and more business and man
| ufacturing obtain, than in the Asiatic
| countries
The Swedes are more in evidence in
| Worcester at the present time than any
other class of immigrants in recent
n q oil Of hn
population. The total number is placed
by some as high as $1,000. A great ma
| jority of these people find employment
In the wire mills, although it is hard to
find a branch of municipal life in which
| they are not represented. AS a class
they are thrifty and industrious. A ma
| jority of them own their homes, and as
| a whole they are reckoned among the
| best citizens.
The Jewish population of Worcester
| Is placed in the neighborhood of 2500
They keep more by themselves perhaps
| than any other class. Seldom if ever is
| a Jew found in the employ of other
than one of his countrymen. They have
| become to large extent the clothing
operatives of the country. Several
| sizeable manufacturing plants and
large stores are conducted by repre-
| sentatives Of this race, while the num-
/
hand clothing is legion. AS class,
| they keep together and almost invari-
| ably make. a success of life from
| financial standpoint
The German iremigrant almost in
| variably recruits the skilled profess
sions, and in the business life Of Wor-
cester have a good representation.
| The Armenians have developed a siz-
able colony here during the past few
years. The present population is
placed between 900 and 700. At home
most of these people are engaged in
| agriculture. A few are carpenters,
masons or tradesmen, but manufacture
ing, banking and the business pursuits
of more advanced countries are rarely
known in the oriental country. Most
Armenian immigrants become labor
ers. A few go into the wire mills and
loom works and shoe factories A few
have gone into business for themselves
| and conduct small grocery and confec-
tionery stores.
DR.. A. K. Yoosuf, who is of Assyrian
and Roumanian extraction, has come
into considerable prominence here as
champion not only for his own peo-
pie, but the Armenians as well. He
says the fact that his ppeole live as
they do, in colonies, is not due SO
much to their own wishes in many
cases as to the fact that property own
ers of Worcester seem to have placed
his countrymen under a ban On mn