The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
Motoring Through New
England

method of indexing and giving the pub
lie access to the list of books is sim
pie and complete One large room is
given to drawers of card indexes, each
card fastened into the case by rod
Selecting the drawer containing the
subject desired you pull it and seat
yourself at a table and selecting the
books wanted, listed fully on the cards,
and return the drawer to it's place. A
pledge to return each of the books
is made out, signed and given to an
attendant; shortly the books are at
your disposal in the large reading
room, where visitors are not allowed.
Not only is Boston over run with an
alien population as | said before, being
nearly 40 per cent of its entire popula
tion, but we found the same condition
in most of the towns through which
we passed in Massachusetts, doubt
less this is due to the fact that nearly
every town and village has factories
requiring operatives. American sons
and daughters, when employed, do not
work in great numbers in the cotton
and woolen mills, or in the shoe fac
tories or ordinary manufacturing es-
Establishments in the east. You will
find them more numerous in the ma
chine shops, the watch factories, the
| jewelry factories and other industries
requiring high degree of skilled labor
The majority of factory hands are
French Canadians, Italians, Poles, Hun
garians and Bohemians. At New Bed
ford, Provincetown, and other places
along the Atlantic, there are many
Portuguese, and there are also in al
the places many Greeks selling fruits,
confectionary, keeping soda water or
boot blacking stands. We drove
Through the quarter where these peo-
| pie live. 1t resembles the east side
lsanitary, rather filthy, the children
lplay-almost live-in the cutters, run
after you shouting a jargon of mixed
words and jeers. We passed the little
Ishop kept by Solomon Levy" of the
famous old Jew minstrel song A
least of his face is fastened over the
door. There was also shown to us a
lschool, in the district where children
speaking eighteen different languages
Iwere taught at one time. And as evi-
ldence of what may come from the
squalid and uninviting neighborhood
THAT surrounds it we were shown two
loriginal compositions from one of the
younger classes, worth copying,
think.
One was entitled "The Monkey and
read as follows:
There are many kinds of monkeys
Ibesides those that live on hand organs;
some are found in Asia and some in
Africa. Once a man was in the woods
and he threw a little stone at the
monkeys and they threw back large
Iripe cocoanuts, and this teaches us g
great moral lesson. We should behave
like the monkey l saw a monkey al
a circus and it pulled a lady's bonnet
off, and tore it all to rags and tied the
strings around it's neck and grinned.
Another composition written by one
who is not so accomplished a spellel
, Ireads as follows: "Bares are of man!
!, sighses and all big. The chief kinds
: is the grizzly bare which is black; thu
sinnermon bare which is good ant
gentle; the white bare which bleeche'
it's skin to hide in the snow and makes
rug, and the black bare which il
common and is careful of its cubs
: Bares fight bees for honey which j
= mean because the bees are little. One
a bare found some currant jelly sitting
a on a garden bench to dry, and he at
| it, and the lady hadn't any more, whici
:, was greedy"