The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28
THE JEWISH CON-
 QUEST OF NEW YORK
over 100000 Jews in the Greater City
 -54,O0o Added Each Year.

tcopyright, 1905. by J. L. Bahret)
 New York. a Jewish city! That at present appears to be its destiny. Those living outside the metropolis cannot realize the great Jewish invasion ana peaceful conquest of the city which IS now taking place. Even the citizens or other great centers of population m our country. like Chicago and Phiiadei- phia, do not know what the Jewish problem means. New York contains much more than half the Jews In the whole country. The census takes no notice of the religious faith of the citi- gems. and therefore the number of Jews in different communities has 10 pc es- timated by competent authorities. In 1926. according to the Jewlsh EncySio- pedia, there were only $50 Jews in New York City, In 1s4l. 10000. In lSSo' e0.OOO. According to the figures Of the .Jjntted Hebrew Charities" of the Jew ish immigrants arriving at the port. or New York between 1884 and 1904, 6o4,- 900 settled permanently in the eity. In addition to these newcomers, many thousand arrived from Europe by way of Canada, of whom no record was kent Taking into account the increase by birth. the race being very proli1ic, statisticians place number or Jew ish inhabitants of the metropons Tn the present year at over 100000. Com pare these figures with the number In Chicago, so,0oo: and in Philadelphia, 76000 More than one In six of New Yorks inhabitants is Jew IT the old and most important part of the city is taken into consideration, Manhattan Island. the proportion is still greater enc in four.
 Rut it is not so much the number Of Jews now in the city as those who are coming here Last year SO,O00 Jewish immigrants arrived at New fork, or whom 54 900 remained in the city. The number of such immigrants has been steadily increasing of late years as a result of the unrest caused among the Jews of eastern Europe by the kishl- neff massacre and the prosecutions in Roumania, and 1t is likely to continue to increase. Even hegira Of Russia. Galician, and Roumanian Jews to New York Is to be looked for.
 The increase of New York's popula- tion between 1S40 and 1880 was 400 per cent The Jewish population during the same period increased 500 per cent The increase of the population Of Greater New York between 1880 and 1905 has been 126 per cent. The in crease of the Jewish population during this period has been HOO per cent Last year the general population in- creased ST per cent, while the Jewish population increased per cent. At this rate, it will not be many decades 
 the majority.
 New York today is the greatest Jew lsh settlement in the world. It con tains far more Jews than all Germany, two-and-a-half times as many as the British Empire, seven times as many as London, eight times the number in all France, and twenty eight times the number in Canada The only countries In the world which contain more Jews than New York City are Galicia, with 500, 900, and Russia, with over 5,00o,- OOO half the Jews in the world. Ac- cording to the Jewish Year Book. the number in the world is 10,932, 900. For merly the Jews, in leaving Europe, felt that they had left Jewry behind But now New York is the recognized center . of Jewry for the world.
 The number of Jews in the whole limited States in 1904 was 1.253,000. The remarkable increase is shown by the following figures, taken from the year Book" ISIS, 5000; 1S40, 15,00o; 1880, 23o ,000; 1888, 100000; 1897. 9S7.- GOO. Between. 1881 and 1904. according 10 the figures of the Jewish Immi- rrants Protective Association" S27.- GOO foreign Jews were admitted to the Tinted states through the three ports of New York. Philadelphia and Balti- more alone.
 London grew scared at the threaten cd hegira of poor and ignorant Jews erom eastern Europe, and sought to have parliament exclude them. Lon don was frightened at an influx of D. 800 Jews a year. but New York has thought itself able to digest 54,OOO a year. In each two years there are now added to New York's Jewish population more than the whole Jewish population of London.
 The Jew has always been noted for his migratory nature. The Wander ing Jew" is a name that of right be- longs to him. His home is the world He thinks nothing of a journey thous- ands of miles long if he can better his condition in life. Individual Jews are now in New York, now In South Africa now in Australia, wherever there Is promise of openings for business.
 Where do the New York Jews come Rromr Chiefly from Russia, Poland Galicia, Roumania. Hungary and Ger many Some also from Asia As might he expected from their widely scattered nationality, they are not homoge- neous people. Each nationality has its own syagogues, its own societies ano often It's own newspapers, printed In Hebrew characters. The non-Ameri- nanized Jews publish in the city six Haflies besides several weeklies. Eacf nationality speaks a jargon made up oi a mixture of Hebrew terms with the language of the country from whicf they have emigrated. The foreign horn Jews are very narrow minded and divided up into many different re- Iigious sects. Jewry has it's sects, a: hstter as ever were those of Christiani- " The native-born American Jew does not mingle in any way with these nn-Anertcanized Jews, and this lower ciass of Jews often show no love fol inc educated and cultured American lew. The writer has known those oi SS 1ouer class to side with gentiles ir . controversy with the. best class oi