The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-20

He was unobtrusive and polite, and he
apologized whenever he caused any
trouble by coming in late. He was
model boarder and an industrious work
! man, sober in his habits. He paid his
beard bill punctually at certain hour
each week and slipped in and out of the
house without making any acquaintance.
ION the day of the shooting of Presi-
dent Mckinley he surprised me by invit-
ing me into his room and, producing a
bottle of whisky, said:
81 am an anarchist and opposed to
all government. am glad President Nc
Kinley was shot, and 1 am going to take
the first drink of whisky L have taken
in ten years to celebrate the event.
81 was SO shocked and surprised that
I could not speak at first. His appear
ance was changed and his eyes looked
fierce and his whole manner altered. l
don't remember what 1 said to him, but
he hasn't spoken to me SINCE
Many people on the East side know that
about twelve years ago, when the sweat
ing system prevailed, that part of the
city swarmed with anarchists, though the
police were not aware of the fact. The
police knew that there were anarchists
in the city and looked upon John Most
as their leader. Of the East side an
archists they knew little. In the first big
strike of the cloakmakers one of the lead
ers, who has since ceased to be an an
archist told the strikers in Yiddish at
mass meetings that they should take guns
with them and loot the stores to get the
necessaries they wanted. He then spoke
IN English for the benefit of the reporters
and counseled the strikers to be orderly
and law-abiding, and to keep away from
the stores and shops.
Large numbers of East side workers
were avowed anarchists, and talked in
1iddfsh about dynamite and bombs Of
these all but a small percentage are now
loyal American citizens The way in
which the change came about was told to
reporter for the New York Sun by one
OF them, now lawyer, who gave up an
archy when he became prosperous
About twenty-five years ago. he said,
when the tide of immigration of Polish
and Russian Hebrews to this country set
in, a great many of them began to settle
on the East side in this city The first
corners were crafty men, though they did
not know word of English, and soon
learned that there was a demand for
hands to sew garments at the machines.
The garments being cut out for them, the
work was mechanical and could be learn
ed in week or two. They soon mastered
the trade and began to GUST English
speaking American girls from the fac
tories by working for lover wages.
Then they sent for their families and
made an arrangement with the manufac-
turers to take the cut garments, which
were to be sewed, home with them They
worked on the piece-work system and
every member of a family who could sit
at machine worked. the machines be-
ing rented
Among the Polish and Russian He
orews the degrees of kinship are thought
very important. After one of these i'm
migrants who turned tailor was at work
ina l1n I1xr i,,f1
OF his numerous kinsmen in the town.
where he was born, it might be his sixth
or seventh cousin, that he had learned a
as rule. before the kinsman wrote to
him that he was coming here too The
tailor met him at Castle Garden took