Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-09
ITALIANS TREK
To NORTHNARD
MOVING IN NUMBERS TO STHUR.
BAN TOWNS OF NEW
YORK CITY. ~
Sss Sy.asssSsf
CENSUS FIGURES
These Give an Idea of Influx OF
Aliens and Their Resi-
dence Place.


from over the s,as the Italian ha.
been tie only one to show a decided
iondness Tor suburban life as a glance
at some OF the nearest suburbs t(
The big city will quickly reveal Ii
many Of them Italians now form prac.
ticaiiy all Of the foreign population
According to persons iHtel ested in
watching the development OF the sub
urban territory this natural fondness
OF the Italian for suburban life, for q
breathing space just outside the city
but within easy reach of it, has in
creased very much Of late, So mach sc
that is is es. mated that at the pres
ent time the Italian emigration from
New York 10 the nearer suburbs is
just about five times what it was a
few years ago. This also is the testi-
mony OF social workers. AS might be
expected, such an exodus as this is
rapidly changing some of the nearby
towns and is becoming marked feat
ure OF their growth.
The larger part of the Italian i'm
migration from New York has been
northward, il would seem, although the
New Jersey towns have been feeling it
extensively. Long Island has not
been getting as many as these places.
The suburban towns TO the north OF
the city within the ten cent fare rad
JUS in the last few years have been
filling up with the sons of Italy SO
.ast as TO make their growth almost
hewilderlng. In Mount Vernon, New
Rochelle and Yonkers good portion
OF the population is now made up of
italians. Where some years ago there
was only al occasional Italian barber
shop or fruit stand to be seen in these
places there are now Italian grocery
stores. candy stores, dry goods stores.
Ice dealers, milk dealers, drug stores
and shops of all varieties,
In these suburban cities the man
who takes out your ashes is an Itai-
IAN and SO is the man who cuts your
lawn and the man who does your re-
pairing. Most of the contractors are
italians and SO are the painters and
carpenters There are whole schools
in Mount Vernon and New Rochelle
where italian children outnumber the
Others three to one
That this wholesale exodus of the
Italians from their colonies in this
city TO these suburbs accounts for a
large part of their wonderful growth
as shown in the census figures Just
published there can be no doubt New
Rochelle's growth was more than So
per cent in the ten years from 1900 to
1910, a record exceeded by only one
other place. In the last ten years
there has grown up in West New Ro-
chelle an Italian settlement covering
more than a square mile and thicl1iy
populated, a city in itself and city
in which little but italian is spoken.
Only a part of the increase in the
population Of New Rochelle is repre-
scented by commuters; Italians have
SO too with Mount Nernon and Yonk-
ers.
The innate desire of the people of
Italy for outdoor air and sunshine
and garden is a cause of this move
ment to the suburbs now in full
swing. Unlike the case of some Of
the other foreigners with him the
love Of sunshine and a garden tran
sends the love of money, and so he
moves to the country while the 9TH
er races remain in the tenements.
To see the Italians huddled in those
hives on Mulberry and Mott streets,
crowded into dark and stuffy rooms,
one would hardly put them down as
fresh air lovers. 1t is to these tene-
ments to be sure that Angelo and
Maria come to get their first footing
in the New. World and look around.
And after they have looked around
and become perhaps disillusioned
they elect to live in a cabin in the
country oftentimes and get along on
less.
Everywhere the Italian goes to be-
come suburbanite he tries to have
garden. 1t is sometimes only a few
yards square, but he can raise more
in it than can the average commuter
in big back yard. He is a great in
tensive gardener is the Italian. He
may have to bend over a shovel ten
hours in the day for some contrac-
tor, but nevertheless he will dig
again for himself in his own garden
in the evening. The Italian colon
les in the suburbs are filled with
these gardens, generally with vine
covered arbors in them, where the
owner sits and rests.
In the suburbs the Italian is gen
orally good citizen, fer the rough
er element remains here. He is
helping to build up the suburban cit
les and has been made we.~omc. His
coming has increased the value of
tenement property and rents Of
stores have gone up. Far from exer.
cising a depressing effect on values
in the fine residential sections this
movement has stimulated them to
some extent by helping along more
rapidly the general growth Of the
community.