The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-14

shoes, bolts of cloth, "delicatessen"
and wearing apparel-even tailor made
gowns.
The TaiIOr-Made Dress.
The tailor-made gown is a surpris-
ing feature of East Side commerce.
Where did these immigrants from Pol
and and Lithuania and Tartar Russia
learn to give a womans garment the
indescribable touch of 'style" that
stamps the tailor-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 women brave
all the vague terrors of the East Side
to have their gowns fitted by an I'M
couth tailor who can hardly speak
English.
Strolling, or rather working his way
through the crowds, the visitor finds
himself wondering before long if the
jewellers of the Ghetto ever cease eat
ing-not because he sees them eat, but
because every other store and street
stand is devoted to foodstaffs.
Fruits lead. They are sold every
where. The air is full of their odor.
Beautiful grapes were on sale through
out the Ghetto this year long before
they were to be seen anywhere else in
New York except in the most expen-
SlVe ITulC 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 OTTER 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
nl-s 10 Eel
as If they were the CHASTITY evidences
of a sudden outbreak of the Red Ter
ror.
Prominent in the bakeries are pallid
flask-shaped loaves of unleavened
bread, that give a fantastic foreign
appearance to the shop windows.
The Conquest of the jew.
At about 2 o'clock every afternoon
comes a rush of shrieking newsboys.
shouting out their news in the harsh
jangle of English, Hebrew, German and
a dozen other dialects that is known
as Yiddish. The papers that they car
ry all have fat black headlines in He
braic characters, as if they might be
DEGREES of the Patriarch. They tell
each day of the thousand loves and
griefs and intrigues and joys. of the
great city of the Jew that the Jew has
Won
Passively, peacefully, never assum-
ing the offensive, he has filled 1t to
its furthest confines as the waters
from mountain fill valley and turn
it into a lake.
Swelling slowly, irresistibly. ever
quietly, eastward, his tribes have in
undated and obliterated the famous
river colonies of the sturdy Irish, who
held to those Businesses along the riv-
er fronts from Catherine street to
Houston street until ten years ago,
with all the grim fervor with which
they love to confront the Saxon across
the sea.
Those brave. ever belligerent des-
perately hostile borderers maintained
themselves for a long while. always
ready TO raise the standard of war on
sign OF intrusion. The jew camped
around that plucky last stand in his
armies. His multitudes lay front to
front with that border ground. But
within the Irish fastness none OF him
ventured save on compuision. What
Hebrews were seen there rarely were
seen moving "a a lesser pace than
run. Their experience IN the Irish quar-
ters Was a modern repetition OF the
Frankfort days. when the Jew who
Cd for batting and hunting.
To-day the river fronts belong %
him The Irish have vanished before
him. and from river % fsoweFy, from
river 20 Chatham square, The land be-
longs to fhe Tribes They have made
anoiher conquest hks these q the