The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-04-16
INA JEWISH sLUM.
Julian Rasph's Graphic Descriptions Of
Pest spot In New York.

Pest spot IN New York.
an interesting article contrib
uted to Harper's Weekly Julian Ralph
discusses the slums Of New York.
Across the BOwery IN Orchard Es-
sex aud Ludlow streets, he says, is
the sluin Of the Polish Jew That Is
the foulest region on Manhatten
Island. Ur ia America. One knows
before going there that ''IeWtOWn"
and ''the Pig Market" cannot be
worse than common No one can
darken a full-blOoded Guinea negro
OF brighten a bird Of paradise, or cor
rupt a bad egg Ii is strange what
an education 10 the higher grades Of
Summing the peoples Of Europe are
giving us In New York It was not
50 long ago that we went to Green
wich street and Cherry street and the
Sixth Ward to see the poor Irish, and
thought we were gett ng glimpses OF
sQualor Then the Chinaman came
aud we looked Mott street over, and
thought that f0ll and dirty-Mott
street, which is now an anterOOm OF
Eden compared with What came after
I il Then the Italians came. begin
ning in Crosby street, and gradually
building N.Y. great colony In Mul-
berry and 0lher streets, All, then,
we were certain that We were seeing
European lualor, the debris Of one
OF the enete monarchies OF Europe.
There could not be anything worse,
We Thought
Well, the refugee Jews have come
and We know more than we did The
s'Pig Market in Ludlow street fur
nishes their food II the latter Is as
bad as it looks it is awful IL looks
TO be largely rotten refuse. They say
down there-the neighbOrs d0-that
when eggs are too far gone to sell
anywhere else they are broken up.
poured into tin cans and sold IN a
LIQUID state m this market They
say. also, that spoiled chickens are
taken there, split lcngthwise and
sidewise with cleayer, and sold al
8 cents section, entrails aud all
These are not pre0ty truths, but thel
need TO be known. The meat, th'
fruit, the vegetables, all look blOwI
and sDeckled and bad, whatever thel
may really be. Only two articles o
diet seem TO be in good condition
Those are the geese and the l0aves o
bread. Nobody not even a baker
would believe there was in all to-
world 50 much bread as is to be seel
both ia the Jew and In the Italian
quarters 1t Is stacked up on Out-0i
door shelves and counters a. coal
heaped Ia other parts Of town. AnC
as for the geese, they are legion
They keen coming into Jewtown Il
crates by the wagonload they STAN
about 10 crates on the payements
they sQuawK ia the cellars, and the
q squirnl in front Of you as the me-
and women lug them into the dwell
a ings
p paugh what a filthy place is thl
Polish Jew district Here again th
z homes are so crowded that the peOpl
a rem nd YOU OF a fallen brick wa
a whose pieces spread all over th
a ground. and can only be kept With
!, bounds when they are fitted togeths
s and piled on nigh Such is the ca.
t in all these slums Think Of thel
l. being more than 500 600 people livin
d on a square mile, as they do 10 II
e Tenth Ward They can get into tf
Il houses only when they lie down ;
b night. 10 the daytime they slueei
s one another out into streets The
e it appears that since the streets al
L full the houses must be empty; bI
e IL is not so: both are iammed. II
/. payements are wet with an oOzin
70 Shiny substance, aud in the roadway
r you must pick your way or 90 up
o your shoetopi in oily, black, fet
}. tlth.