The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
MANY FOREIGNERS
 INNEW YORK CITY Jews Outnumber \ Native American Population PIE AT SODA STAND Lunch Stands Complain of Encroach- ment of Drug Stores on Their
 Business-Likes Town
 of Six Persons

Business--Likes Town
 of Six Persons
 New York, March S0-(Special)-Tha New York is largely composed of people of foreign extraction has long been reco- gnized by the fact that both 20 percent of the population Is American in the sense that both parents were native will cause 1 surprise.
 | As matter of fact there are consid- erably. more Jews in New York than there are native Americans the figures stand ing 1,265 600 Jews, s21 yDeo native white Amer ioans. There are 7240O0 New Workers of Russian parentage. GO100o of German. 562,000 of Irish 5s2.oO0 of Italian and 99S- 900 of Austro-H Hungarian. The total num- Der of foreign born or children of foreign born New Workers Is a199,115 out of total population of 4,76s.ss3. There are 91, 709 negroes in the city It Is worth nothing that the number of Russian, l Italian, Austro-Hungarian Romanian and Turkish New Workers has increased with in the past ten years while the number of Irish Germans and British have de- creased.
 The population of New York city in 1 l910. according to the population research bureau of the New York Federation of churches. is shown to have the following percentages: British including Irish 1572 Russian birth or percentage 151e. German 12.74, Italan 1L16. Austro- Hungarian sS5, scandinavansl,s ,s1, mixed foreign or mixed native pareentage 1883, negro 192 and colored Ia
 The introdhction of pie at soda roun- tain in Nassua street. for noon lnpcheon. has brought an angry protest from the quick lunch places in the nighborhood. 1 The encroachment of the drug store on the domain of the restaurant has been gradual, but lnsidious Departing from | a strictly soda menu, the one-time apo. | thecary first served checkers with angle food sundae, and coffee, hot in cups
 Now comes the progressive druggist whose business In prescriptions is noth- 1 ing, and whose shop Is full of novelties and mixed drinks He offers hot bouillon and oyster patty. beef tongue and sand wiches. cheese and crackers. and cake and today pie.
 The price are attravtlve to office work l A l light luncheon Is all they want--and food and drink can be had at the drug store for ten cents.
 1 Without this ability the young phar- maeist must depend upon the old fash toned apotheeary for a place.
 1 They come here said clerk in one 1 downtown drug lunch" from the office buildings on Broadway for a distance of ten blocks. It is the time save1 that at | tracts many. and then there are no tbs at a soda fountain lunch. Some people are on a diet and take only huttar-milk I There are business men who. rush in hera at noon, eat several ssndwlches and soda water making a ehesk Of 50 scents or
 II Is hard to conceive that any person would rather live Tn a town of six per- sons than in Washington. vet that is what James Carson, of Irwin. Neb de- clared MT Carson is one of the largest owners of cattle In Nebraska. My postoffce-the place where I get off and on the train, has a population, think, of six persons" said MT Carson.
 "A box ear on siding serves as q depot; there are two section houses and a postoffice which has store in it, And 1t is in the largest county in Nebraska. Of oourse my home is on my ranch. few miles aw6y; l would rather spend week out there than a year in any big | city of the east There one has real independence, and is monarch of all he surveys. l came east-2500 miles-to tran sact some business, and have spent week here in Washington. Today I have five minutes with the man I came to see. Out where I live business Is done on the spot and one doesn't have to spend | lot of valuable time waiting on others
 Alaska isn't growing any that's sure thing" says Albert Fink, a lawyer of Nome.
 "The trouble with Alaska principally | Is that 1t suffers from too much repre- sentation in congress" added Mr. Fink. There has been no increase in the pop ulaton for more than a year II is about at a standstlll. There are not many go- ing out and few going in You see, there have not been any recent additional dis coveries of gold. and consequently no booms I have no doubt that there is plenty of gold lying undiscovered in | Alaska, put there is always more gold and silver thAa1 there are miners. That has been tho history of every country. When some new gold field is found there will be rush to Aeska."
 Folks who sigh for the good old days are hereby cautioned not to seek support for their regrets In the reports of the New York police department. Take, for example, that of the first year of the metropolitan district.
 The metropolitan dstrict-patterened after the metropolitan district of London, and including New York. Kings, West chester end Richmond counties Was or ganized in 1857 The population of the district was s2o,o0o and the policemen numbered 1,380. one to each -575 of the population. For the year ending Oct. 3l ls5S this force made 76,s7S arrests. an average of 53 per man
 Last year the 7257 patroimen of New York one to each 4se of the population made i68 76s arrests, outright or by sum, rnoBees. Tine average was 21 per man, and the contrast Is still more striking when 1t k considered that the number of arrests in New York in 1911 was 1s,els less than in 1910
 Every day fin New York 1ss sick or in- jured are aided by patrolmen. Last year tho number of sick attendsd was 3s. .2s7 and the number of injured 33. .37l Every day the police are asked to find ten lost children. Last year the number they did