The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-06
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around them are the crowd. The own CTS of the shops are inside arguing with customers.
 The goods outside lie within the reach of all. Yet the visitor can walk through the Ghetto and never see man or child take so much as an apple or ap lum from the piles placed so tempt;ngly within reach.
 The sidewalk merchants of the Ghetto" are far removed from the low commercial level of their colleagues of the outer city. They have their regular trade. Their customers sit on boxes and baskets and shop at their stands and pushcarts as if they were under roof. They have goods for sale that are not dreamed of by the sidewalk pedler of the rest of the town. On their stands they have not only fruit. but hardware. shoes, bolts of cloth. delicatessen and wearing apparel-even tailor-made gowns.
 The tailor-made gown is surprising feature of East Side commerce. Where did these immigrants from Poland and Lithuania and Tatar Russia learn to give a womans garment the indescrib- able touch of style that stamps the taiior-made gown? They surely possess the knowledge.
 Nobody can do it better than do the unkempt tenement house dwellers. | Many of New York's fashionable wo- men brave all the vague terrors of the East Side to have their dresses fitted by an uncouth tailor who can hardly speak English.
 Strolling, or rather working his way through the crowds, the visitor finds himself wondering before long if the 1 dwellers of the Ghetto" ever cease | eating-not because he sees them eat, but because every other store and street stand is devoted to food stnffs.
 Fruit leads. They are sold every- where. The air is full of their odor Beautiful grapes were on sale there this year long before they were to be seen l anywhere else in New York except in the most expensive fruit stores. The grocery stores all carry big stocks of melons, pears and plums Next in importance in them are onions | and greens. Cabbages are scarce. | Following in number after the gro- ceries come the meat shops and the bakeries. The butchers windows look like execution grounds, for in most of them lie the decapitated heads of fowls with the feathers grotesquely left on. Prominent in the bakeries are pallid | fask-shaped loaves of unleavened bread, that give fantastic foreign ap- pearanee to the shop windows.
 At about 2 o'clock every afternoon comes rush of newsboys, shouting out their news in the harsh jangle of Eng fish, Hebrew, German and a dozen other tongues, that is known as Yid- dish. The papers that they carry all have fat black headlines in Hebraic characters, as if they might be decrees of the patriarchs. They tell each day of the thousand loves and griefs and in- trigues and joyes of the great city of the Jew.
 Slowly irresistibly, ever quietly, east ward. the Hebrews have inundated and
 obliterated the famous river colonies of the Irish, who held to those fastnesses along the riverfront from Catherine street to Houston street until ten years ago. To-day the river fronts belong to the Hebrew. The Irish have vanished
 before him, and from river to Bowery, from river to Chatham Square, the land belongs to the Tribes
 They have made another conquest like those of the days of the Old Testa- ment, but without force of arms. By overwhelming numbers, by patience, by
 tenacity, they have acquired the land,
 and it is theirs.
 So surely is it theirs that the nomad aliens of New York no longer venture on forays within it, as once was their
 delight when the "Ghetto" was in its
 youth It would be a daring band that
 ventured now.
 Before it had penetrated many blocks
 into the city of the Jew 1t would be
 swallowed in the sea of life that roars
 and swells forever in those strange
 streets-swallowe and lost as were cer-
 tain Egyptians once in another sea that
 could not engulf multitude any more | surely