East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-04-14
NEW YORK IS A REAL
COSMOPOLITAN CITY
FEDERAL CENSUS OFFICIALS
SHOW CLASS PEOPLE IN
POPULATION.

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United Press.)
NEW YORK, April 14.-Gotham' S
claim to being a real cosmopolitan
city was proven and the verdict hand
ed down the other day by the federal
census officials The verdict was stag
geringly conclusive of the charge of
cosmopolitanism against New York.
Out of a population of something
like five and one half millions of peo-
pie who reside in Greater New York,
nearly one million-or to be exact,
972 ,96S-are of English, Irish, Scotch,
Welsh and Celtic descent These fig
ures include those born in the coun-
tries mentioned, or born here of par
cnts of those nationalities. Besides
these there are among New York's
population 1,732,970 persons who were
born in foreign lands or. who were
born here of foreign parents. They
are divided as follows:
Yiddish and Hebrew s61,9S0: Ger
man S41,SS9; Italian 549.444; Polish
116 101; Magyar 64,141: Swedish 61.-
141; French 47.23O; Norwegians 35.-
693; Danish 14,731; Spanish 11,262;
Greek IL, 623; Roumanian 10,7Ss; Bo-
hemian and Moravian 40,9SS; Russi-
an 2S.S70; Lithuanian and Lottish
11.217: Slovak 10,504; other Slavs 10 :
0I5; Dutch and French 1861; Fin
nish S.21l; Armenian 2,676, and Sy-
rian and Arabic 3,9S1.
Trust them to do things here in an
entirely different and in the most lu-
dicrous fashion. Now that Mayor
Mitchell has shown the city that he
means what he says when he says it,
the restaurants are religiously obey
ing the new rules for stopping the sale
of all liquor in their establishments
or the hour of a m. 1t is then
that they turn food and drink en-
poriums into dansant places by shov.
ing the tables to one side and giving
the floor over to the tangomaniacs.
One proprietor of a well known down
town cafe where they sometimes dance
after the "guzzling' has ceased. em-
ploys the prize method of swabbing
the floor of crumbs and other debris
from the tables when it comes time
to chase Basshants in favor of Ter
psichore.
The tables pushed back, the head
waiter precedes waiter with mop
or broom. The H. w. Carries-a self
zer bottle or two which he uses as a
sort of hose for loosening the sticky
morsels from the floor a la hydraulic
power style after which the waiter
with the mop comes along and dries
up the floor. The restaurateur says
if he used water it would not dry
quickly enough and the floor there
fore would be too sticky for dancing.
The charged water (Which, by the
way is about the only thing charged
about a Broadway restaurant, il is
claimed. dries in no time, without
making the floor heavy" There are
those who do say. though that the
waiter uses the seltzer because it's
handy, and he's too lazy to get buck
ct of water for the job.
1t remains to be seen whether the
city really intends to treat the strang
er within its gates, not to mention its
own children, with some degree of
decency. The board of aldermen have
passed an ordinance designed to do
away with ticket specializing of any
kind, be it in threaten tickets, circus
tickets worlds series baseball tick
cts. or in tickets to opera or football
games.
From time immortal no New York
er and no infrequent visitor to New
York has ever hoped to get a 81
ticket for 50. If he insisted on go-
ing to any amusement place where
admission was by ticket, he knew he
had to fork over from fifty cents TO
50 more than the face value of said
ticket. unless he had drag" or
could steal the tickets. This specu
lation in tickets has long been the
scandal of the city. Mayor Mitchell
was expected to sign the ordinance
which, II he did. goes into effect thir-
ty days after his signature. Only two
aldermen voted against it Yes. they
were the two aldermen who were el
ected from the two districts which in
clude the big theatrical section. Some
say the ordinance cannot be enforc-
ed. II there is no joker in 1t and
Mavor Mitchell doesn't disappoint