The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20


 other city. By present census figures It has within It's borders fifteen times as many Hebrews as there are in Je- rusalem, and ten times as many as there are in all Palestine There are only two nations. which as nations. have as large a Hebrew population as this single city. Ii is so far as population Is concerned ' There are more Germans in New York than in any city in Germany. except Berlin and possibly Hamburg. and if the present rate of increase keeps up. the greatest city in America within two oecades Will be also the greatest Ger man city in the world.
 In addition to all this. New York is the second largest Greek city in the world. on the basis of population, and mas larger Italian population than any city In Italy. except Naples. Milan ana Rome. The great majority of these foreign races live in tenements the residents of these buildings being more than the combined population of four of the six New England States. This enormous foreign element may be accounted for by the fact that during the past year the increase in population has been greater than in all States west of the Mississippi.
 About $500 factories in this city efn-
 
 of whom are foreign. Sixty-six lan- guages are spoken in this modern Ba- bel. Among these English ranks only seventh. More than 55 per cent. of the voting population is foreign by birth.
 Altogether, while New York may claim to be the largest cosmopolitan center in the world and to contain the largest single aggregations of several nationalities. 1t can no longer claim to be the largest American city if na- tive-born or English speaking persons alone are considered.
 Although there are over a thousand publications regularly issued in New York. ranging from dailies of many edi- tions to scientific quarterlies. and print ed in every language from baseball to Chinese. the enterprfsing man is still able to find new fields for specialized organs.
 This Is proved by the establishment of a new periodical called The Jani- tor" the first number of which has just appeared. As its name indicates, the new magazine Is devoted to the interests of Janitors of whom the edi- tor asserts that there are 100000 in the Greater City.
 If this figure Is correct. 1t will be seen that there are opportunities to build up a tremendous circulation among the lords of the furnace and the garbage-can who rule over the destt- nies of a majority of New York's pop- uiation. Special departments in the new publication probably will be de- voted to telling how to extract tips from reluctant householders and how to quell rebeilious tenants.
 One of the announced objects is to form the janitors into a union. a re- suit that would be viewed with more or less apprehension as such an or- ganization would have the residents of the city at It's mercy and could bring them to terms in short order by turn ing of the heat and refusing to let the useful dumb waiter to travel up and down with It's load of groceries and other supplies.
 Aside from these possibilities of ty- rannous power the new. periodical is an interesting illustration of the extent to which specialized Journalism is be- ing developed. i
 Pat Sheedy the veteran gambler, Is credited with paraphrasfng the saying that sucker Is born every minute by the assertion that In Manhattan a new scheme for catching suckers is matched every day. It is safe to say, however, that the latest bunco game, which ba. just coraA to light here. Is one that has seldom been equalIed in originality and ingenuity.
 That 1t Justifes its discoverer's de- scription as a smooth scheme' Is