The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

uptown fashionable apartment hotels
 Not hotels of the class of the Waldorf Astoria of course, although not 1eW
 wealthy Jews are numbered among the
 guests of houses of this character. But
 in the second class hotels, which are of the same grade as the 1st class Of
 smaller cities Some of the hotels seek to bar Jewish families, since many gentle families object to their pres ence. But many luxuriant apartment hotels are occupied almost exclusively by Jewish families.
 It is indeed wonderful to witness the
 rise of the Jews In wealth and power. The same generation that came to America in the steerage has been
 known in it's old age to make it's an-
 nual tour to Europe in a "chambre de
 luxe" on one of our finest liners. Most
 of the immense department stores are
 owned by Jews. and a large proportion
 of the wholesale houses. It is safe to
 say that half the business houses on
 Broadway, New Yorks main street, are
 owned by Jews. They are already
 powerful in journalism. and the lead
 CTS in the theatrical business. They
 also seem to be on the way to monopo-
 lizing the legal and the medical pro-
 fessions. The two great universities of
 New York, one under Episcopalian
 management. the other under Presoy- IeEldnt nave d nuIiDcE Ol JtNS Oh LiiCAA faculties, and Columbia especially has
 an enormous number among the stu dent-body. To see at the close of the afternoon session, the students pouring
 out of the City College, supported at public expense. one would think there were none but Jews who attended there.
 What is the secret of the Jews phenomenal success? To begin with,
 1t is a wonderfully well endowed race intellectually. One third of the pro- fessors in German universities are Jews, though this race counts but lit- tie more than one per cent of the popu- lation. In our country also they fill more than their share of professor
 ships. Though forming only a small part of each nation, yet in every na- l tion some of them are among the small number of immortals of that nation d'Israeli and Zangwill of England Heine and Mendelsohn in Germany
 Zola in France, SpinoZa in Holland | and Rubenstein in Russia. Though an American Jew has not yet risen to
 the heights of immortality. yet they have demonstrated their high average of intellectual ability.
 A second cause of their advancement
 is their morality and industriousness In all countries the percentage of the criminal class of Jewish birth has been much below that of any other race. A third cause is their frugality The native-born gentle American Is prone to spend all his income In order to keep up style. Not so the Jew One thing the Jew does Is to live with in his income, even if 1t necessitates | making his home in a garret or a eel
 lar. His ambition is to get something ahead. No matter at what he has tc begin his career,-if 1t be merely to take a gunny-bag under his arm and
 go through the city crying. Rags | bottles" he will manage to lay by a few cents a day. and keep at 1t until
 he can extend his business. or with his | small capital. adopt some new and more lucrative employment.
 The fourth reason the foreign Jew thrives is that he does not count any
 employment beneath him. The most distasteful occupations in New York
 such as rag-picking and junk dealing l are generally in the hands of recently | immigrated Jews. But the same indi- | viduals are not going to stay there