New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-15
Many Go Home to Stay.

Celebrating on this, lie points out that
one-third Of all the immigrants now COM
ing TO this country return to their native
lands, and OF this number two-thirds re-
main there.
After reviewing the cosmopolitansm and
heterogeneity OF New York's population,
Mr.. Bennett says:
In many quarters the belief is held that
the gates OF immigration have been opened
too widely, and that the enormous influx
of people with different ideas OF law and
liberty and justice may lead TO serious
trouble in the future. Whether the mass or
new immigrants VIII be absorbed In me
old, and eventually turned into valuable
American citizens or whether the original
cthnic elements pressed upon on the one
side by the cOlored population, which Is IN
creasing rapidly In numbers ana Is TO-DAY
estimated at over 100000, and on tho
other side by the mass OF new immigrants,
much of which Is not Christian In BELIEF,
will be modified. sub-divided or drowned In
the food OF foreigners, and thus rendered
impotent 20 exercise It's proper influence,
, ara questions which occasion present anXl-
ETY., but which can only be answered In the
unknown future.
Continuing, Mr.. Bennett dwells on labor
conditions generally. and observes:
II Is also perhaps desirable to point out
that labor conditions in the states are APP
preaching conditions found In Europe more
rapidly than Is generally thought the
labor market Is oyerstocked; unemploy-
mont, especially among the unskilled labor
ers. Is very prevalent. while competition
for a vacant berth is as keen in New York
as It Is in London.
Tells Of Skyscraper Problem.
The skyscraper problem Mr. Bennett de-
scribes. In parti
1t appears to be the wish Of everybody
TO have their Offices or places OF business
as near to Wall Street or the docks as pos
sIbe This wish naturally sent up the
rents the land became more valuable ana
at the same time the landlords wished 10
make as much profit as possible from their
landed property. The space available for
building being limited, and only sufflcient
to accommodate hundreds, 1t was round
necessary to devise scheme for making
IL suitable for thousands, In London a
somewhat similar difficulty was expert
enced, and the tendency was met py ouIius
ing story after story peneatn the lJNtl 2 !
the street. In New York the architects
built upward story upon story up TO ntty,,
two stories in the newest buildings ana
the age of the skyscraper arrived Lana
therefore which, under norman circa nm
room TO, say, two hundred or three nun,
dred now gives room for ten Thousand
or even fourteen thousand. The extra cost
in building Is more "a tna nd G oStained tue
To-day, forming as they. do sor! OF
vacuum into which hundreds OF thousands
of human beings are being projected every
day al about the same hour. ana from
witch they are elected every evening, also
in crowds, the skyscraper has paraiyzed al
efforts to relieve traffic congestion IN new
New roads, ferries. railways. subways ana
elevated tracks have been made, put as
fast as they are completed the srowns
traffic overtakes their carving powers, ali =,
The congestion remains as bad as ever IL
did. -. .o,,a and he
The day apparently must come ana st ne
scrapers have brought the city 70 an I'M
Sasse, when millions will be WORKING where
thousands were intended to work wnere
rents have risen to such inquire 'ha' 'he'