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

IN the freedom they enjoy. They play
around the shop doors, crowd the wag-
ons, examine the merchandise, and
rarely are they driven away with an
ger or unkind words.
Thirty-fOur Niles of Shops.
Most arKaple-wonderful this
City is the amazing array of shops.
With hardly single exception there
is no house without one.
BY actual measurement there ara
thirty-four unbroken miles of shops IN
the section. A man walking steadily
at the rate of four miles an hour could
walk for more than eight hours past
one continuous row of stores. And on
his other hand there will be an almost
equally continuous row of street mer-
chants. Even the crossings are Dor
dered by them wherever they dare.
One can stand on the high ground
of Grand street, and, looking north and
south along any of the twenty cross
| streets, see that unbroken line of stores,
crowded as closely side to side as
builders could pack them, fianked and
| fronted and surrounded with street
stands and push-carts and peddlers
wagons. One can stand on any of
those cross streets and look up or down
any of the eight long streets stretch
ing from the Bowery to the East river
| ways to all the tenements, dark clefts
that lead into the darker mysteries of
! black corridors, are hidden by piles
| OF baked stuffS, meats, groceries, chick
ems. wearing apparel and any other
kind of merchandise that the mind of
| bartering man could conceiVably desire
| ever to barter
! Probably the Ghetto of New York
| never will have to sustain a siege. as
the Ghetto of Frankfort had to do more
than once. But for such a siege the
new Ghetto is provisioned better even
| than the old was. If it were shut in
! suddenly from all the world, it has
within 1t all the needs of a metropolis
| Everything from a string of garlic or
| peppers to gilded parlor furniture can
| be obtained there. 1t has factories of
all articles from shoes to collins. 1t
produces its own clothing, it's own
cigars, its own newspapers, it's own
| food supply in every variety except
that of raw material. The very ice
| and delivery wagons in it are driven
| by Jews. The trucks are driven by
Jews. Jews do the blacksmithing and
the painting and the roofing and the
| building. Jews own the barrooms and
| the banks.
| The number of shops on famous
Broadway is almost Insignificant COM
| pared with those in this remarkable
| territory. And there is brisk trade al
ways along all the miles of them.
IN no other part OF the city, possibly
| in no other American city. do the ven
doris display such utter confidence in
the respect Of the population for the
rights of property. In front of every
| shop lie mounds OF merchandise and
I food stuffs. Pressing around them are
the crowds. The owners 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 50 much as an apple or
a plum from the piles placed so tempt
| ingly within reach.
The sidewalk merchants OF the
| Ghetto are far removed from the low
| commercial level ~ their colleagues Of
/ The outer city. They have their reg
I uiaF trade, Their customers sit On
I boxes and baskets and shop AZ their
STANDS ane pash-carts as n they were
under roof They have goods for sale
I that are noi dreamed 81 ~ che side
walk ped9inr ~ the resf ~ town on
Their stands they have nof only fruits
900 vegetables ana fsh. bpt lssrewars.