The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-15

| But the great Jewish quarter Of the
future, which takes most of the over
destined in few years to surpass it in
population, is Brownsville, the eastern
portion of the boro Of Brooklyn. 1t
was founded in 1885 by some Jewish
real estate spectators, and altho it
only really began to grow about two
Of $4,000, with fourteen synagogues.
Here there is plenty of room to spread
out. New streets are being opened con-
tinually, blocks Of houses are being
rapidly. constructed, and yet so great
is the influx of Jews from the crowded
ghetto on Manhattan island that the
builders cannot keep pace with the de-
mand. Every day and all day during
the opening of the new Williamsburg
bridge, which forms direct route from
the old ghetto to the new, there has
been an almost continuous procession
Of moving vans across the bridge. New
York has never seen such mushroom
like growth as is now being witnessed
in Brownsville.
The inhabitants of the old are mi
grating to the new in steady stream;
nevertheless the population Of the old
Is hse stl ana od the city mas mas
largest and finest public school struc-
lures in the world to accommodate the
growing number of school children. The
places of those who have moved across
the bridge are taken by. the $4,000
foreign Jews who. have just arrived.
To seek to diminish the congestion in
the Manhattan ghetto, the Jewish So
, ciety for the Assistance of Immigrants
, is yearly finding employment for thous-
ands of it's inhabitants in the country
and the smaller cities.
But, besides these four communities,
\ | 10 oh, o,,4 ri
Of the city. Everywhere in the resi-
dence sections one comes upon signs
{ written in Hebrew characters. Lex
ington avenue, Manhattan, one of New
York s finest residence streets, might
r almost be called a Jewish avenue. Even
West End section, Jews form a large
! proportion Of the inhabitants: The
American Jews do not settle in COM
3 munities like their foreign born core
ligionists, but are scattered all over the
3 York paper for men to solicit for a
: newspaper stated that Hebrews and
g Catholics would be given the prefer
ence. The reason was that protestant
8 Christians are coming to form the third
: class in New York in numbers, and in
t Importance to the subscription depart
v ment OF a partisan paper.
\ The uptown movement Of the Jew
a has become proverbial. Families who
B once lived in, the downtown ghetto, a
q part of the Hslums,'' are fairly flood
r ing uptown fashionable apartment
. hotels. Not hotels of the class Of the
y Waldorf Astoria, Of course, altho not a
+ few wealthy Jews are numbered among
q the guests of the houses of this charac-
a ter. But in the second-class hotels,
which are of the same grade as the
q frst-class of smaller cities. Some Of the
! hotels seek to bar Jewish families, since
: many gentle families object to their
= presence. But many luxurious apart,
:: ment hotels are occupied almost ex
> clusively by Jewish families.
e Wonderful Rise in the World.
0 The rise of the Jews in wealth ano
q power is, indeed, wonderful. The same
e steerage during youth has been known
in it's old age to make it's annual tout
e to Europe in "chambre de luxe' or
t one of our fastest liners. Most of the
t immense department stores are ownec
It by Jews, and a large proportion Of the
O wholesale houses. It is safe to say thai
8 half the stores on Broadway, New
s York g chief business street, are kept
q by Jews. They are already powerful II
journalism, and the leaders in the the
II atrical business. They also seem to bt
r. on the way to monopolizing the lega
J. and the medical profession. The two
l. great universities Of New York, one un
/ der Episcopalian management, the othe7
is under Presbyterian, have number OF
n Jews on their faculties, and Columbia
W especially, has an enormous number Of
10 Jews among the student-body. To SEE
at the close Of the afternoon session
the students pouring out of the city
college, supported at public expense, one
IA would think none but Jews attended
~, r
~ party. They are not anarchistic. Thei1
- influence is on the side of morality ant
- good government. They are one of thu
10 city, bulwarks against any possible up
~ rising or lawlessness on the part of thu
n unfortunately submerged tenth.
W Nothing more repulsive- looking cal
d be imagined than the vast majority O.
Is They are dirty and unkempt, and clat
e. in tatters.; But it is to be considered
le under what oppression they have livet
IL for centuries in Europe. In Galicia, tn
re 100000 Jewish inhabitants are continu
lp ally on the point of starvation, am
IS. those Of Russia and Rumanla are bu
er little better off. But just one genera
e. ton in this country works a miracle
lie The young men begotten by these long
I'd bearded. repulsive-looking foreigners ar
IN finely formed, we'll educated in the pub
IL ! lie schools, completely. Americanizec
as generally moral and upright, and val
de liable addition to the population.
he The wealthy Jews are very democrati
~ in their views, not at all clannish; II
or tensely patriotic and broad-minded. Til
e. fact that they build no great unive1
he stiles of their own, but prefer to sen
MS their sons to Christian universities.
ID, sufficient evidence of this fact: The
rk entrust their sons freely to Christia
&c tutors They extend the hospitality {
of their homes to gentiles the same as.
their own race. They take a leadln
part in civic and moral reforms.
In New York and vicinity there exist
ne strong prejudice against the Jew. In
wv chief cause is that so many Jewish fan
to, lies have risen 50 rapidly from ,po'
ne erty to affuence that there has not bee
ct, time to acquire the culture necessar
ire for association with people of rein
mt ment. These moneyed Jews, witho1
lb- culture have been largely guilty
Der bringing opprobrium upon their rae
IRE But the innocent should not be mac
he to suffer with the guilty.
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