Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-11
AMERICA TRULY
The Melting POT
Foreigners in New York
Discuss War Animatedly
But Without Violence.
(By Observation-Disclosures

10Y DoShCi.J
New York, Aug. 1 demonstrating
New York's vast foreign population
| think it is most remarkable that
the metropolis has not appeared
more deeply concerned in the re-
markable series of events taking
place in Europe. To my mind it is
doubtful if it would be possible to
walk up to any man or woman on d
crowded New York street without
hiding someone who either has
relatives in Europe or who has deep
interest in affairs in that continent.
Here are hundreds of thousands OF
russian Jews, thousands of Hungari-
ans, French, Slavs and Italians. Yet
New York has remained perfectly
aim in the face of a threatened
general European conflict, despite
he fact that more than half of our
population is either foreign born or
If foreign parentage
To be sure some interest has been
displayed in the war. Extras have
oeen eagerly purchased on the
streets, but undoubtedly this was
done in other cities where the fore
ign population is not so great. There
has been an absence of excitement
even in the portions of the city oc-
cuHied exclusively by foreigners. On
the East side the Russian Jews gath
er III the coffee houses and meeting
rooms and fight the war but they
fight it in quit discussion over tables
At the Hungarian restaurants there
IS much discussion. The Germans
scattered all over the city are i'm
bued with patriotism for their native
land, but there is 10 evidence of
violnt patriotic feeling. Crowds
gather before the bulletin boards
at newspaper offices, but they
are not as large crowds as gathered
before these same bulletins when
States and Mexico.
The only really exciting demon
stration | have yet seen, were those
that took place before the offices of
the Austrian consulate at No. "a
State street AID the office of the
Staatz Zeitung, daily newspaper
published in German. At the Aus
TRAN consulate several hundred Aus
trlan resrvists appeared in the hope
OF being sent to fight for the father
land.
When it was found that the sever
al hundred could not gain admission
to the consul at once, the crowd stood
before tie building and sang war and
folk songs and later were kept in
order by the police. A party of Ger
mans congregated before the Staa z
Zeitung building and cheered the
German army. the kaiser, the Aus
TRAN army, the Hapsburgs and sang
the Yacht am Rhein.
All one hears, however is war talk.
| recently dropped into a cafe where
the dispenser of refreshments is q
stout Teutoni and the attendant at
the lunch counter a fierce mustached
eX-subJect of the car. A lively dis
cussion was in progress, each strong
ly defending the course. of his coun-
try. On inquiry l discovered that
neither was eligible to return to
fight, both being American citizens
and what was more neither had any
desire to return and be shot,
l know of no section of the city 80
easily excited as Wall street. Moth
ing is SO dear to Wall street as ex-
citement. Wall street has buzzed
ever since it became fairly certain
that there was to be general
clash in Europe. Thousands gather
ed before the subtreasury and with
bullying eyes watcher millions of dol
lars in gold being carelesly thrown
into, wagon, and other thousands
stood before the big banking houses
and hungrily observed little kegs
being rolled over the sidewalk as
the stout German kicks along the
kegs of beer when unloading his
brewery truck at a saloon.