The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-05

same iB true or Ike dlstrtcts ID boston and other cities. yet in the popular mind the thoughts of sluns and sulm. ming have taken such decided hold and have been pictured 50 wildly by snapshot photographers connected with our papers that 1t is hard for them to realize that Dickens descriptions of the Blums of New York are not true to- day. says D stagg whiten. in the New York Tribune.
 New York Is not static: 1t is ever growing and changing. There IS double movement---one of absorption or outlying districts and the shifting or industrial localities. Its peoples are divided among many races. each having a distinct center. and some Of these are divided again into native village communities There are also districts. like the Bowery and the Tenderloin. where vice reigns, vice which IS as much the result of misused wealth as of poverty. These districts are the real siums of New York. and the sen- sationai writers wac apply the term "slum" to the foreign districts of the city simply show how out of touch they are with the real lives of the people who dwell h them.
 The district which lies east Of the Bowery and below Fourteenth street used to be the habitation of the Irish in their less prosperous days, when they were the immigrant class To- day they have gone uptown to better lthings." For Q long while they left behind them their dregs, which are known from the popular accounts oE the poving East Side gangs, well typi- ned by Monk Eastman" and tne rest '.AIonk" and his kind are upstate = their gangs are no more.
 The Jew has come In and displaced the Irtshmaa in practically all the East Side. I say the Jew as If he were an Individual type. but he Is not. he is made up of q dozen races, speaking a dozen dialects and with different customs and traditions; some even are pure Russians. having absolutely no Palestine blood in their veins. Eanh year eo,0uo immigrants come Into the district; each year so.eoo so-called Americans go out and scatter them selves over the outlying djstricts of Rrownsville and Harlem, where new type ia being formed. As Mir. Wat chorn, commissioner of immigration for New York. will surely bear testl- mony. these immigrants are not ertmi- nal nor wiei0us nor diseased nor the scum Of Russia, but fugitives from a land of terrorism, where they have received a good education and learned the art Of thrift to a degree the Anglo saxon gnight well initiate. Even in the ideals, crude as their religious conceptions and notions are. they have a ruggadness which, stands aEhast at the 'htgh-type civilization Anto wnacn they c0fnel
 These refugees are crowded together on the East Side. not because they could not so elsewhere, but because they do not want to so elsewhere. Ehey coma 10 toin their friends in communi ties which are grouped around synagogua which has been transplant- cd directly from their Russian or Poliah homes. and they refuse te so ont into the strange heathen land. &s they fesi a Christian country 70 pc.
 Az vou walk down Hester street and look at the vendors of socks and suspenders, with their long beards snaa a pecaliar clothes. you little guess tnat they have received Talmud tr&lnlnk z equal, according to pr. susssan' formerly Of the EducAticnal Alll1nce' to two years Of our law sch ools courses Sonne have been to the Russian una-
 Often these people arc very poor; .hsv have arrived with little more thsn thair eiO In their pocket. and can and work only in those lines in wnieh their friends and relatives cen neIp them--that is. in most cases. noflnh. @ which is conducted sometimes ln sas HAlL0IIH& 08AEAAAAAA@F~~-~~~f
 tIvoaa In a loft under the synagogues somatinaes .sweateA' work in their very homes. The Jew Is . true puslnes1 man. and if he can save a few pennies sach fav. even by the use of most or his family in this work, he soon dies his way out to an independence, wnicl Is well shown by the recoros oL us as Hebrew charitieg. He is not @'ons Ih his struggles. either. . .A.
 Goupa of men connected wien the svnagogue or charitable soctetes are syer trying to relieve his wants Ane ~,,t hin, or1 a hasIs of independence, and tha Industriai Removal Society will place him in a job in the West as soon soon as he can overcome prejudice aS.lnss the great unknown Chrlstaen lAnn which lies behind New York. Thrift Ia tiae word, and as long as he retains Hebrew rights and religious eonscsous- uass no money Is wasted on wine or tobacco, nothing in the frivolity or the theatre or dance hall
 The danger to the country from the East gide is not that which comes from a nest of crime and vice. The danger Ia d foo rapid AnericanIzation of these naonie. I mean Asnsricanization of the wrong type. Go to a great play center in a public school and you will see that every boy and glrl who has been In the country one year would die Tor tn c dag. and all are extremely fond of playing that they are doing so. But the tendency of contact with he wrong type of American is to produce type of Jew which is extremely boorish and admittedly vulgar. It IS this type which has broken too rapidly from the riKor of the old faith and the strict confinement of the Russian pale" that reacts Into the radical anarchist and soclalist-whtcheveF way their. radi- calism leads themI 4...t
 The congestion of the East Side is an acknowledged fact. several of the districts being the most denssly popu- lated in the world. Yet this fact Is more easily explained when we know the history of the lewis ghettps which have formed part of the history Of every great city of Europe and have become a tradition among these people. No matter what the wealth of the first generation of Russian Jews in this country, 1t Is weli-nigh impossible to get them to break with their friends and traditions and to leave the con- Eested districts to go elsewhere,
 The advertising of the needs of the South and West in regard to immi- grants will do much to defect the eur- rent of immigrant which Is yearly Hzsuzra