Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
NEW YORK PoLYeLoT PAPERS
DRiIies and weekIies in twenty
Eight Languages Published in
Metropolis.

Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Finnish,
Hungarian, Croatlan, Lithuanian, Ruthen-
ian, Slovenic, Slovak. Polish, Bohemian,
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Hoilandish,
Roumanisn, Bulgarian, Servian, Greek,
Arabic, Syrian, Armen an, Chinese and Yid-
dish, besides an Austrian and Swiss
newspaper published in German.
The membership Of the American Asso-
citation OF Foreign Language Newspapers
which includes nearly every important pub
location under that classification in the
United States, comprises representatives Of
465 papers-63 dailies, tri-weeklies, "a
semi-weeklies. S24 weeklies, 10 semi-month-
lies and IS monthlies.
These have a sworn circulation Of $500 900
an issue and a combined capital OF S27, 900, -
CO., These publications go into the hands
Of 100000 residents of the United States
who do not read English. The general
policy, particularly in national affairs, Of
| the 1855 foreign language newspapers IL con-
| troled by board OF trustees Of the as
ISOLATION.
There are a million Jews IN New York,
more than there ever were in Jerusalem
and nearly 900 Italians. more than there
are in Naples; in Chicago there are 800 600
Bohemians, more than there are in Prague,
and 100000 Polanders moe than there are
in Cracow-with the result that there IL a
bigger circulation Of newspapers in Yiddish
and Italian in New York and in Bohemian
and Polish in Chicago than in any other
! cities in the world.
Russian Jews are omnivorous readers. as
is indicated by the fact that their four
leading newspapers in New York reach a
total circulation Of more than 100000 In
New York, besides the four great Yiddish
dailies, there are perhaps a dozen weeklies
and semi-weeklies in the same tongue, be-
sides three comic papers
! Next In Importance to the Yiddish news
papers among those published in foreign
/ languages in New York are those printed
| in Italian, of which the six most important
dailies have a combined circulation of more
than 100000, spread over q greater area
than that occupied by the Jews. OF the
100000 Italians in the five boroughs there
are about $4,000 in Brooklyn, 30 900 in Rich
mond, 5000 in Queens and $1,000 in Tho
Bronx, the great majority living in the
two big colonies in Manhattan, however.
The Italians have almost IL not quite. as
many weeklles as their more numerous
congeners, the Jews.
There is further a weekly journal re-
Gently established, published in Italian.
that deserves special mention as having a
high specific aim, which is to Americanize
the great body of the people speaking that
language in the United States, only DER
cent OF whom are at present naturalized
This Journal Is the Cittadino (Citizen),
edited by Alberto Pecorini, who has re-
nounced promising literary career to de-
vote himself, without remuneration, to the
| uplift OF his countrymen here, as director
! OF the 1talian-American Civic league which
he was mainly instrumental In organizing
1t is long drop from the Jews and the
! ltalians in New York to the next greatest
of the foreign populations. which is the
Hungarian. The Hungarians number about
2O0oO0, including the Croatians, the Ru-
thenians and the Slovaks, all three Of
which people have newspapers In their own
languages.
! Next in number after the Hungarians
among the foreign born population OF New
York come the Germans. After them come
| the Austrians, with a poplation of 100000
who read the German newspapers, as well
as one Of their own published In the same
language. Next after the Austrians are
70,0oO Bohemians. who support two dailies
with a combined circulation Of II, 900. Fifty
thousand Greeks in New York support two
dailies and a monthly magazine of high
| literary quality which has a circulation OF
1900,
The French, the Belgians and the French
speaking Swiss in New York, who together
number about 10000, support one daily
which publishes a Sunday and a weekly
edition. There are only fourteen French
periodicals of so much as 5000 circulation
published in the United States and these
are confined to New York, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Connecticut and I,ouisI-
ana
! or the other eighteen languages and dia-
leets' not counting German, the Arabic peo
newspapers in New York, the Arabic peo-
pies. who number about 1000, are no only
ones to have a daily journal of their own.
The Poles, numbering $1,000, have only two
Weeklies in this city, and the Standards
and Spanish-spealing people from South
America numbering 6O,OO0 only one. Rus
SLAMS OF the Orthodox Greek church. per-
maps 5000 In number, have one weekly.
The Lithuanians who are Russians Of
the Roman Catholic faith, numbering a5.-
CO., have one weekly. The Scandinavia
Nerwesians, swedes and Danes, numbering
10000 have three weekly and one month";
newspaper The Firms, numbering 1000
nave two weeklies. The 5000 Hollanders
the 5000 German Swiss, the 5000 Sioyenes
the Few thousand each of Servians. Rom
manians and Bulgarlans. the 10000 Armer.
ians the 10000 Syrians and the 10 600
chinese have one weekly each.
The German newspapers published in
New York Illustrate condition that all the
foreign language newspapers In the United
states must eventually reach; that Is. their
leirculauon Is falling because German imuai-
grafton has dropped off and the new gen
Grafton from the original Immigrant stock
read the news In English. Twenty-Five
years or SO ago German publications In
New York had an average daily ciroula tior
OF perhaps 10000 which has ,Igindled 70
something like 10000. these readers ine,,Jd-
Ing the Gsrman-speaking people from Ans
tria Hungary and Russia, as we'll AZ m.
Germans themselves.
! II should not be understood that thar.
mas been reduction Of $4,000 In the cir
cuiation of the existing German newsna.
pers, however. The great falling off ~
total circulation is due to the fact the,
scores and perhaps hundreds of German
publications, dailiss, weeklles and month
hes humorous, illustrated and literary
nave gone out OF existence by reason ~
Iaek OF patronage, the children born beyo
OF German parents growing up to read the
language Of the country. while their fam
ers have died off and imn,igra,to, -