The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-23
CASE OF A LITTLE JEWELLER.
ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW A RUSSIAN
REFUGEES FORTUNES.
what Becomes Of the Refugees After Ar
irving Here7-AppareDtIy Plenty Of
People Are Ready 10 Help Them and
They Manage % Get Along Fairly Well.

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They Manage % Get Along Fairly Well.
Early in tho spring the little jeweller came
over in the Storage from Odessa A Rus
sian refugee he was. For four days pre-
viously TO boarding the boat at Odessa he
had lived in a cellar, a hunted creature,
and yet you would never have thought il,
he was SO dapper in his fur overcoat and
his tall silk cap.
They had robbed him of every little scarf
pin Of his jewelry. They had burned his
shop. They had shot at him. They had
endeavored TO run him through with a
sword or two, but he smiled in a pink and
satisfied way as he sat in the immigrant
boat on his way to New York from Ellis
Island, in spite of the fact that the only
clothes he had in the world were the clothes
on his back and not a cent had he in his
pocket. Sat there and smiled and smiled
In his pink way, glad enough to be out Of
sound Of shot and shell and far from the
terror Of swords.
This was the question: What had become
Of him? What becomes Of all the Russian
refugees fleeing hither2
Alexander Harkavy, chief Of the Hebrew
Immigrant. Aid Society of Ellis Island,
paused for a brief interval to offer one sug-
gestion, it being his busy day.
" can't keep up with them all, said
be. Our business Is to Ian them safely
In New York. That ends our jurisdiction
over them. Yes / remember the little
~jswefler you speak of. l don't know what
became of him. Probably selling neckties
on the Bowery. Idont know. Do this. Go
TO the Removal ONCE on Second avenue.
They will know
A long way this. but finally reached.
The chief OF the Removal ONCE had to do
only with Russian refugees who were sent
away from New York. He spoke in this
vice, briefly, 1t being his busy day.
New York is no place. said he, -for
the Russian refugee. 1t Is too crowded.
We send on an average 5000 out Of the
city during the year. The industrial adj
vsntages are better In the South and West .
than they are in New York. We send them
to the mills in the South, to the farms In
The West.
Many Of them 20 to New Orleans, some
a. far as California They do 80 wen as a
rule that they send back money for their
friends to come to them. They are not
happy without friends and family.
s0ut Of the 30, 1000 who come over here
during the year 90 or 20 per cent. are sent
away from the city. We pay their expenses
when they haven't enough, but mostly they
Ihaya.
7 h jeweIler you speak OIL don't
know what became of him. On the street,
perhaps, selling suspenders. III tell you
who can find him better than anybody.
Co 10 the Hebrew Charities Building further
up on Second avenue. Tell them l sent
you
IL was their busy day at the Hebrew
Charities Building. The doctor ordinarily
In charge had gone away somewhere,
wouldn't be back till Monday, but a fair,
blue eyed young woman. up to her ears
In work, received the reporter in his stead.
'They oughtn't to have sent you here"
she said. We don't help them until a year
after their landing. They are supposed to
land with enough money to last them a year,
or with enough friends to take care Of them
for that length of time.
mo, | don't know anything about the
story Of the loaves of bread being put out
on the doorsteps on the East Side for them,
but shouldn't be surprised. The destitu-
ton in that n~eighborhood is terrible-des-
titution and disease.
we can't see to the refugees at all. No,
never heard of the ~jeweller you speak
Of. He may be peddling trousers for all l
know.
If you want to get news OF him and the
others go to I4s Rivington street. There
is a little girl down there who will tell you
all about them"
The way was long and tedious down to
l4s Rivington street and through narrow
lanes OF pushcarts packed to suffocation--
pushcarts covered with neckties,. carpet
slippers, trousers, large pink and white
slices Of watermelon and green peppers
that Peter Piper may have picked-who
knows2
Though the owner Of zach pushcart was
carefully scanned, no pink faced jeweller
showed up among them. The faces were
yellow in color and too thickly bearded,
seemed.
No. lao had thin iron steps, a narrow
hSl, small narrow steps, then a front room,
where a pretty black eyed girl sat drinking
mix out OF a little green glass.
am only temporarily in charge herO,'
,ne smiled, but I oan tell o a thing:
~ we know a petitioner Is q Russian refugee
w get rid Of him as quickly as possible.
must mS nf Ssip SO pe0 %aey w Sf G SavJP fSS SsS S Ss1s f %s
years and who are In great destttution:
why, look here" taking an envelope
down from the top Of the desk. Here is
toe case Of o woman who has been sleeping
OSuNu- Will HtE JuIcO CuADuICu AOE 4
don't know how long. She is boarding with
another woman.
Imagine what board this woman charges
toL herself and her three children. Three
Scuars q MONTH What do you suppose
500 oan give them TO eat for that2 Wouldn't
you think they would all starve'
- told her I wouldn't help her at all
tnIees abe got a room for herself. ] offered
x pay her ~ Q month TO rent the room.
tnen l would give Der q little more TO live
"a until b could get started at some
~ is very hard for our people to get
Nork among the New York houses on
aOoount Of their Sabbath. OF course you
nov the Jewish Sabbath comes on Satur-
Vvsy; Saturday Il the busiest day in New
FORK Fancy then a man who refuses TO
EorA on that day-who will work on Sum
Jay but not on Saturday-either a man
you can see how quickly a New York
business man would refuse TO employ him
W nsr' Our people, who have become set