The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

Jews. But the wealthy American Jew Ss to he commended for. his manifold charities toward his recently immigra- tad co-religionist. The hospitals. or nhan- n-asylums, sanitariums Tor con suuntIves. homes for the aged, etc. erected by wealthy New York Jews TOT the poor of their race surpass any S'nine else in the history of charity.
 few years ago there was only one 1aIvtsh quarter in New York. Now thera are several. The original ghetto' bounded by the East River, Catnarlhe St inc Bowery and Houston St. ana erobracinR less than one square mlie' ts tbs largest Jewish settlement in the world. containing 350,OOO lnnapltahts'
 -over three times the numoer III Aoh don's ghetto, and 60,0oO more than .ne ..,haio number of Jews in the pritisb Empire. This square mile Is also the most congested in the world A large part of it contains 1859 inhaol- tants to the acre. In this limited area there are 360 synagogues and oniS twenty-two churches. -
 The Jewish settlement second m lIh- portance is in Harlem, extenoihs rom rom tooth to 120th St.. between Ina AHen1e and I,enox Avenue, and containing ou'- 000 Jews. In Yorkville, the district " = ing between Central Park and the Eas. River. and extending from 72nd to 9zno St the population is already halt Jew
 ish. and the proportion is steadily m creasing. These two quarters are among the pleasantest in the city TOT residence, and the Jews who i've there are far superior in every way to those of the down town ghetto. They are y1ade up of the downtown Jews who have prospered and then sought a more congenial part of the city in Wnlcn to live. . os .ha future. which takes most or the over flow from the original ghetto, and IS destined in a few years to surpass It Tn nonuiation. is Brownsville. the eastern nortion of the borough of Brooklyn. It was founded in 1886 by some Jewish real estate speculators. and although i+ only really began to grow about two vaars ago. 1t already has population of about 5000, with fourteen syha- eogues. Here there is plenty or room to snread out. New streets are being eoo,1o.5 continually. blocks of houses are heinz rapidly constructed and yet so great is the influx of Jews rom the crowded ghetto on Manhattan Island that inc builders cannot keep pace with inc demand. Every day and all day for the past twelve months, beginning with the opening of the new Williams burg Bridge, which forms olrect FOllte from the Old EhNbhC hS there has been an almost continuous procession of moving vans across the bridge. New York has never seen such mushroom-like growth as IS no" being witnessed in Brownsville.
 The inhabitants of the old are mi- grating to the new in a steady stream nevertheless the population or the olo . is still increasing, and the city mas been building in the old ghetto the 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 accross the bridge are taken by the 54,0O0 foreign Jews who have Just ar rived. To seek to diminish the con- gestion in the Manhattan ghetto the Jewish Society for the Assistance of Immigrants" is yearly finding employ ment for thousands of its inhabitants in the country and the smaller cities
 But besides these four communities the Jews are abundant in every part of the city. Everywhere in the resi- dence sections one comes upon signs painted in Hebrew characters. Lex ington Ave, Manhattan, one of New York's finest residence streets. might almost be called a Jewish avenue. Ever on 6th Avenue, and in the exclusive West End section, Jews form a large portion of the inhabitants The Ameri' can Jews do not settle in communities like their foreign born co-religionists but are scattered all over the city.
 A recent advertisement In a New York paper for men to solicit for 2 newspaper stated that Hebrews and Catholics were preferred. The reason was that in the heart of New York Protestant Christians are coming tc form the third class in numbers. ant in importance to the, subscription de paPtment of a partisan paper
 The uptown movement of the Jey has become a proverb. Families Wh
 once lived in the downtown ghetto, part o6 the ''slums." are fairlx flooainl