Arizona republican., 1912-04-01
Vast Numbers of People From All Countries
 Find Residence in
 Metropolis
OTHER GOSSIP
 IS DISCUSSED
Art, Sugar, Postoffice Af- fairs, and Other Mat ters Receive Due
 Attention
Especial COyrcSbOndencel

Especial COrrcSbOndeHce]
 NEW YORK. March s1.-That New
 York in addition to being the largest city in the country and the second largest in the world is now the sec ond largest Italian city the largest Yiddish speaking city and that less than one-fifth of it's population is ac- counted for by persons born of Ameri- can parents are some of the interest ing facts made public by the comple- tiOn of d census of races and lan- guages. The figures give the city ar Italian population of 532 064. an in crease of 3O2. .7I7 in the last ten years thus making it larger than Rome or Genoa. and second only to Naples The largest single group is that from the Russian empire with a total of 124112. an increase of 416.429 in the ! last decade These figures make New York the third largest Russian city in ! the country with a population larger ! than that of Odessa, and equal tO about half that of St. Petersburg 1 Yiddish was given as the mother ! tongue by 1.265,O00 persons and less than twenty per cent of the total
 population is made up of native : whites of native parents. Ireland i> represented by 502.S0S persons, a de- ! crease of 165000 in the laSr decade 1 The figures th-n-s .ut sre.r 9 marked falling off n inn gTa--- rom tho cot ntries ot northves, aru .our arr much greater f-~rea-s Rom south | eastern Europe ic tlra- ot rercent- age New Torks population fa 1910 was l5.73 per cent British: 1519 per ce1t Russian birth or pareutagp 12-t per cent Germ lil6 per cent Italian. s.55 per cent Austro- Hun garian; I.97 per cent Scandinavian;
 i349 per cent of mixed foreign or mixed native percentage 19.31 per cen native whites of native pareutage; 1.9. per cent negro and 12 per cent col ored. Altogether Sew York may vel lay claim to ou ranking all other cities so far as e polygl0t population is concerned
 An interestir sideHght brought our in connect lon ith the sugar trust
 case is the revt 5tiOn that one of the ambitious plans of Henrv O. Have illtN CT III A..r tc VI ilNtA ne OplAlAlAdlt1
 the great corporation was to secure control cf .le beet sugar industry O.
 the country Hsvemeyer probably was one of the first men in the country. aside from Dr. Harvey ". Wiley who conducted the 1vernment's early ex- perimerts in be,t culture. to realize that the United States was capable of producing from own soil all the sugar consumed in the country Syith his customary foresight Ne set about acquir ng au interes In the struggling beet sugar plants then in existence and secured the owr ership of as much as fifty per cent ot the stock of few companies. The Industry grew SC rapidly. however. and was financed so largely by local capital that he was unable to maintain his hold upon il With HaVemeyer's death the policy 1 the trust was changed and it pro ceeded to dispose of it's stock hold ings in beet sugar plants as rapidly as possible. At the present time the trust and the beet industry. the lat tered scattered among independent holders. are arrayed in sharp antag- onism to each other on opposite sides of the tariff issue raised by the free sugar bill While the beet growers 1 and manufacturers are fighting the bill. believing that it would wipe their industry, the trust is advocating it for the very same re- son, holding that the destruction of tn domestic industry would give them uifdisputed control of the American market, peculiar feature of the present align ment is that Horace Havemeyer. sor of the founder of the refining trust. IS bitterly opposing the latter organiZa- l ton and has cast in his lot with the sugar beet industry
 oil paintings. statues and all other pOrtrayals of the country's great mer must now be kept up to date in then style of clothing. according to de
 cision of the Municipal Art commits
 sion which has set all New York laughing, and at the same time open ed the way to a movement which may | bring the price of old masters within ! the reach of the emptiest purse ! This surprising situation has been brought about by the action of the commission in ordering that the DOT l trait of former Mayor Low be brought up to date sartOrially. Since 1SS' the likeness of the one time official | has smiled down from the wall O. the Borough Hall in Brooklyn ar rayed in the costume of a quarter oI a century ago the chief feature which was frock coat noticeably
 short when judged by the presens tr,ohs0re Az a reopit of the order