The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-06
LANDING OF JEWS
 ID BE ECELEBRATED
Appropriate Ceremonies Will be Held in Birmingham
IN AMERICA 25O YEARS
Prominent Members of Race Write or Growth of Influence and Jewish Wealth In Two Cen
 turies.

The landing of the Jews in America 25o years ago, which will be the occasion of appropriate celebration over the entire United States, will be duly observed a' Temple Emanuel and Knesseth Israel in Birmingham Saturday and Sunday, No- vember 25 and 26.
 Rabbi Morris Newfield of Temple Eman- uel said yesterday that the purpose of the services would be to impress upon the Jews the importance of the event to them, and also what it has meant to the world.
 Jacob H. Schiff of New York is chair man of the committee which has the matter in charge. Dr. Cyrus Adler, member of that committee, in state- ment recently sent out to the Jewish synagogues in the United States, gives resume of the growth of Jewish influence in America from the time of the grant of privileges to them from the Dutch West India company in 1865. It is briefly as follows:
 Growth of Influence.
 Tor more than 15O years their number remained small indeed. In ISIS Noah esti- mated the Jewish population of the uniteo States at 5000 In 1926 1t was estimated at 6Ooo. In 1s46 this had increased to l5,Ooo, and in 1S4S to 5O.0Oo.
 The first systematic attempt to obtain statistical information was undertaken by the board of delegates of American Israelites, through a committee of which Simon Wolf was a member. They esti- mated the Jewish population In lSSo at 2sO, ,257. In 1888 Isaac Markens estimated It at 100000. In the reports on the statistlcs of churches in the census Of lSso IL was shown that there were 5S3 congregations with 139 ,2S4 communicants. In lSsl DaVlu Sulzberger estimated the total Jewish pop ulation at 937,SO0 and this year 1t was estimated at 1,25S, ,213. To bring all of these people closer together through common ideals is the aim and the purpose or the committee.
 Of Jewish wealth in the United States Dr. Adler says:
 Jewish Wealth.
 "The Jewish immigrants who arrived in America during the nineteenth century were in the main poor people, who com menced trading in a small way, usually peddling. which, before the existence oi railroads, was favorite method of car rying merchandise into the country dis- tricts. By industry and frugality they laid the foundations of considerable number of moderate fortunes. The Jews in New York became an integral part of that great trading community.
 "In the early colonial period, more es- pecially in Pennsylvania and in New fork' many of the Jews traded with the ln- dians.
 "The organization under which the stock exchange of New York was formed, origl- mated in an agreement in 1792 to buy or sell only on definite commission, and to this document were attached the sigma lures of four Jews. Since then Jews have been very active in the stock exchange and in banking circles both In New York and elsewhere. They have also taken a leading part in controlling the cotton trade. Jews are likewise very prominent in the manufacture of cloaks and shirts in the clothing trade, and more recently in cigars and jewelry.
 Tn 1888 Markens estimated that the wholesale trade in the hands of Jews in the city of New York amounted to s24S,- 000,000, and the holdings of real estate to S150, 900, 0oO."