The Newark journal., 1904-04-15
TYPES OF THE GHETTO.

less than formerly. On arrival in this
land, they have been wont TO settle in
the port where liberated, TO endeayOr
without loss of time and money spent
in travel farther westward, to begin
the mending of their races fallen for
tunes. And as consequence our me-
tropOlis now has the largest Jewish
population of any city in the world. One
writer declares that New York is the
largest Jewish city in all history A
new dispersion Of the Jew" has become
a necessity, and when the Jew now
lands in New York, or other eastern
port. he is invited 70 move on
Not only the erowding of the Jews
in several of our cities has become a
problem, but their overcrowding Of GER
tain trades. Helpful in solving these
questions has been the action of the
trustees Of the Baron Gle Hirsch fund, a
fund that has done very considerable
for the Russian Israelite. During the
10 years the trustees have been engaged
in this work, they have satisfactorily
distributed numerous Russian Jew i'm
migrants by means of employment bu
reaus in touch with factories scat
tered all over the United States; and,
in the belief that Israel should return to
the soil have also established an agri-
cultural colony. situated in New Jersey
This agricultural colony has been a
costly experiment, but successful. Dairy
farming and truck farming are engag-
ing the energies Of the downtrodden
exile, and he at last is leading free,
wholesome, Independent life. He re-
pays the borrowed capital in easy pay
ments. on a low rate of interest. and this
wise method of aiding him aid himself
is one of the best of the many good
features characteriZing the Baron de
Hirsch scheme of benevolence II is
believed that the influence of the New
Jersey Jewish agricultural colony will
be wide-reaehing, and that those receiv-
ing training there will go out to form
other such colonies, that the Ghetto evil
in our midst will thereby be much less
ened.
Chicago now is receiving. since the
recent recurrence Of persecution of the
Jews, thousands and thousands of Rus
sian Jews to add to her already close
packed Ghetto. The Chicago Ghetto.
unlike that of New York and the Ghetto
of Europe, is very near the heart of the
city; one has to take but step from
splendor and beauty to find oneself in
a district as foreign, as squalid, as the
notorious Jewish Pales" across the
sea. Yet in these districts every mo-
ment come reminders that it is not
one of those old, hopeless Ghettos, one
gets a glimpse of Americas own man
ner of life, her own way of working upon
the queer peoples thrust upon her; here
comes a small boy with school books un-
der his arm, little Jewish girls speaking
broken English almost as volubly as,
they GO the mother tongue. And these
children of junk dealer, secondhand
clothes man. of the man with a pack,
possess the busy brains of their race,
and they are bound TO forge ahead BY
and by they will leave the Ghetto, with
its lack of showroom, its dirt and
odors, its queer dress and bowed-down
folk, to dwell in comfort and mayhap
magnificence-anyway, they will have
reached that for which their parents left
Russia or Poland: better conditions, a
higher standard OF living
KATHERINE POPE.