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SUNDAY MORNING. ■ Strange Sights Seen in New York’s Ghetto Attention has lately been attracted to the Hebrews of New York by the publication of a statement that there are 600,000 persons of that race on the island of Manhattan. This means that one of every four persons In what was formerly the metropolis is a descendant of Abraham. People "ere surprised when they read it, but it is the truth. The Hebrews of New York are sufficient in number to com pose a mighty city in itself, and were they set apart in a distinct municipal ity, only three cities in the United States would surpass them in popula tion. As it is, they occupy a city within a city. The “Ghetto” is so t^gatrrTTiviM■iln i mrm i. i juj i,.. Type cf the Ghetto Resident. [A "melamed,” or teacher of the Russian Jews.] located geographically as to insure seclusion, for not a single great thor oughfare traverses it and to most New Yorkers it is a region as strange as though it were a part of Siberia. And a wonderful territory it is in many respects. You may pass through forty miles of streets and see none but Jewish faces—Hebrew types from ail over the world—except for police men, street sweepers, a few other city employes and visitors. , The lat ter are generally non-residelts of the metropolis. The Ghetto of New York is a city truly and no mere quarter. It is per meated with Orientalism. From the coloring of the fronts to the crowds in the streets, everywhere is the •ouch of the lands that border the eastern ends of the Mediterranean. In the ceaseless flowing to aud fro of people there come and go figures of the magical East. Bent old men with white ringlets and majestic beards, noble models for pictures of Cadis and Talmudists, sit behind greasy show windows waiting for customers to buy their unleavened breads or groceries or kosher meats. Tail, thin, Gorman Hebrews, modern in every aspect, with the deep, angry eyes of men who talk o’ nights of social tyr annies, press through the crowds, Tearing unfinished trousers and waist coats .to the sweatshops. Behind a tumbled, junk-like mass of shoe strings, tin spoons at the price of two for one cent, and two-ccnt whisk brooms, there looks a man who bears on his brown neck a perfect Assyrian head. Swaying from the hips, a girl who is as a picture of a Biblical water carrier, passes along. With her is dne as modern as the bright day. In all the streets hardly a woman, except the Poles, who are true to their coweled shawl headdresses, wears a head covering, unless the wigs on every other woman beyond middle age may be railed that. Everywhere throughout the terri- ,4 X —* Docking a Meal in the Front of a Store. tory curb lines are obliterated. Side walks exist only as places of refuge from trucks and fire engines. The throng floods the street indiscrimin ately from house line to house line. Every detail of housekeeping is car ried on frankly in the open. - Even the washing of clothes is done in some of the hallways. Here and there someone is cooking a meal on an oil stove in front of a store. The women wash their children on the street. They visit with their friends on the street. Many of them eat midday meals on the street. Children in hordes dare death every minute and escape. They hurl themselves in shouting festoons across a thorough fare just as a team of truck horses comes thundering along. They are under the feet of pedestrians. They hang to dizzy eminences and cackle with easy minds. There are thous ands of them. Vet one can walk through the City o* the Jew for hours and not see as many juvenile fights as he may see in other tenement house districts in a few short blocks. One may see for hours, too, and hear and see all the domestic life going oil openly around him. and yet not hear or see a sin gle dispute between man and wife. This city may not be an Ideal one of Love, but assuredly it is not one of Anger. The district is an amazing array of shops. There are thirty-four un broken miles of stores and a man walking steadily at the rate, of lour miles an hour could walk for eight hours past one continuous row of stores. The doorways tp all the tene ments are hidden by piles cf bake stuffs, meats, groceries, chickens and wearing apparel. Everything from a string of garlic or peppers to gilded parlor furniture can be obtained here. It has factories of all articles from shoes to coffins. It produces its own clothing, its own cigars, its own newspapers, its own food supply In every variety, except that of raw material. The very ice and delivery wagons in it are driven by Hebrews. The trucks are driven by Hebrews. Hebrews do the blacksmithing and the painting and the roofing and the building. Hebrews own the barrooms and the banks. At about 2 o’clock every afternoon conies a rush of newsboys, shouting out their news in the harsh jangle of English, Hebrew, German and a dozen other tongues, that is known as Yiddish. The papers that they carry all have fat black headlines in Hebra ic characters, as .if they might be decrees of the patriarchs. They teil each day of the thousand loves and griefs and 'intrigues and joys of the great city of the Jew'. The tailor-made gown is a surpris ing feature of East Side commerce Where did these immigrants from Poland aud Lithuania and Tartar Russia learn to give a woman’s gar inent the indescribable touch of style that stamps the tailor-made gown': They surely possess the knowledge Nobody can do it better than do the unkempt tenement house dwellers Many of New York’s fashionable wo %Lu I Ii U it- * tt’ **% h: rff/ik'} '•/ / • MfHr Youthful Political Leader. men brave all the vague terrors of the East Side to have their dresses fitted by an uncouth tailor who can hardly speak English. Statue of Cecil Rhodes. John Tweed, the sculptor, has fin ished his statue of Cecil Rhodes, which is to be erected in Kimberley. It is on exhibition in London. The statue ris more than life size. It repre sents Mr. Rhodes In the act of mak ing a speech, his right foot advanced and firmly planted, ills hands clasped behind his back and his fine, uncov ered head thrown somewhat on one side in a characteristic pose. He stands, too, in a tweed suit and close ly buttoned jacket he always affected, and, "though baggy trouser knees and bulging coat pockets do not lend themselves to artistic presentation, it is a virile and striking statue of Mr. Rhodes," says a London critic. ■ Adding to the Height. The average man, neither noticeably short nor noticeably tall, is not great ly concerned about bis height, but when he has to come up to fixed physi cal requirements for some position, however, it becomes of importance. The anguish of a would-be fireman or policeman a fraction of an inch under the minimum requirement, has never been adequately set forth. In a week ly paper devoted to firemen’s interests, there has appeared for the last few is sues this startling advertisement: “Be ’Suspended a t So-and-So's gymnasium for ten minutes and grow a lvalf-inch taller.” —New York Post. Irony of Fate. "There goes a poor fellow who has hard work to make ends meet,” says my friend, indicating a portly person across the street. "So?” I inquired. " . “Yes, He is an artists’ model, and before he got so fat he made good money posing as heroes and demi gods, but now he is so obese that the only occupation he can find is an oc casional pose as a purse-proud pluto crat for some cartoonist.” Imitate Morgan's Manners. Heads of business downtown are beginning to show the influence of much pre-occupation with him whom Wall street knows as "J. P.” They are copying the Morgan manner, just as all young Park row' at one time was said to be barbering and tailoring itself to look like Harding Davis. Splutter, gruffness, frowning-down, arm-waving and a general intimidating tone and carriage are the voguc3.— New York Letter. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. He boasts no tawdry garter, no coat of arms, nor crest: No ribbon * fa royal guild is daunting from his breast: He cannot point to pedigrees grown gray with age and dim— To be a son of Adam is quite good enough for him! No titled prig, no dude is he, for since Ids ract* began lie is what God meant him to be—he's every inch a man! A man with proud, unfettered soul of aspirations high. And chainlesH as the eagle bird whose palace is the sky: strong and undaunted as the rock that breasts the angry foam. Equality his citadel and liberty bis home. Ills birthright is his charter he bows before no throne. He serves no earthly master—he kneels to God alone! Tet what a scepter ho doth wield! He VETERAN LABOR LEADER. Martin Fox. the veteran labor leader and president of the great iron Mold- Mariin Fox. (President of tile Iron Molders’ Union of North America. From McClure's Maga zine.) ers’ Union of North America, met with many difficulties when organizing his UNIONS ARE STRONG. It is estimated that there are 800,- 000 working people in the city of Chi cago, and the 525 different trades unions claim about 40 per cent of that number as members. About 85 per cent of all the various crafts in that city are organized, and during the past, two years, the most prosperous period Chicago has ever seen, the labor or ganizations havg reached their great est power and influence. The increase in the number pf unions has been 200 per cent and the membership 400 per cent. In no other city has labor been so thoroughly organized, and in none Organized labor does not claim to have reached perfection in its meth ods, but It is doing the best it can under adverse circumstances, looking forward to the time when the “crook ed places shall be made straight and the rough places plain.” We know that restriction of immigration anil shortening the hours of labor would solve the apprentice question, for there would then be work enough for ■all. We have by persistent effort ac complished something in these two dt STRIKES IN ENGLAND. The annual report of the Board of Trade of London, England, on the strikes and lockouts in the United Kingdom for the year 1901 has been issued. It is valuable as an indication showing the relative positions of or ganized labor aud the employers; it is a detailed account of the year’s warfare between capita! and labor, the number and character of strikes and lockouts, v;ith the results in the shape TO SPY ON UNIONS. Another concern to spy on the mem bers of labor unions has keen organ ized in Cleveland, 0., making the third one in that city alone. The newest candidate for favors from the employ ers is styled the Corporations’ Auxil iary /Company, and has for its motto, "It is better to spend $1 in preventing than $5 to cure an evil.”- It proposes to-' keep all employer* thoroughly in formed on the affairs of the unions * AN OBJECT LESSON. The official iabor statistics of Indi ana have just been issued and they show the average daily wage paid by corporations to skilled labor to be $2.43; unskilled, $1.33; boys, 71 cents; girls and women, 93 cents. The in dividual or partnership industries paj girls And women an average of 87 cents. The minimum wage must be left to the imagination. And yet the vnst majority of these women doubt CARPENTERS DOING WELL. Under the management of President Huber and Secretary-Treasurer Duffy, during the past summer the Brother hood of Carpenters has grown remark ably both in numbers and in financial resources. The total membership is now considerably in excess of 100,000, vbich malms the Brotherhood one of THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. holds within his hand A staff of gold that makes him king and sovereign of the land. He hews the pines, he plows the fields, he fructifies the soil. And builds a gran'ry for the grain that grovveth from his toil; And with the wealth thus treasured up from busy day to day. Kroct of gait and resolute, he goes his missioned way. Progress and peace his destined goal and work his sacred creed. Tie lifts the world to higher heights by thought and word and deed! “Old Glory" floating o'er his head, its flagstaff strong as death, Held lirmly in his brawny hand—more valued than his breath. He marches on with rapid stop, forever •in the van— This peerless knight of human kind—tho true American! - Kug one Davis in New York News. craft. He always insisted on living strictly up to all agreements with the employers. When ills men hesitated, he forced them to submit by a threat of revoking the charter. Time and again trouble arose over union men working with non-unionists, but Mr. Fox lias fought it ought in the union till his organization lias reached the highest water mark in every respect. If a shop had more than 50 per cent union men, then union rules and regu lations were to govern! the non-union men were not to be disturbed; all vacancies, however, were to be filled by unionists. Strikes are very rare now in the iron industry. Mr. Fox is a member of the National Civic Fed eration. When a sensible man gets the worst of it he makes the best cf it. The old grist mill at Port Jefferson L. 1.. which was built before the Rev olution by Richard Mott, and is said to be the oldest structure on the island, is being torn down because it is un safe. The building was erected in 1771. is there so much enthusiasm. During the last two months the retail clerks and other mercantile employes, the freight handlers, teamsters, rubber workers and street car men have formed new unions, and have shown great gains. The printing trades dur ing the past year have succeeded in organizing every establishment in Chi cago. including five shops during the last three weeks that have been non union for years. Many a man thinks he needs a wife until after he gets married. AIMS OF LABOR. reet.'ons. and we shall yet accomplish mere. But when we think of what complete success in this would mean tor the toiling millions our progress seems all too slow. It is a great work worthy of the best thought and effort of the statesman and the economist, and I believe the time is coming when this truth will be generally realized and when all classes of society will give it their support.—Denis A. Hayes, president Glass Bottle Blowers’ asso ciation of America. of victory or defeat for one or the other party. In fittil the wage-workers of Great Britain had 109.221 disputes, resulting in strikes and lockouts; of these, 37,- 675 were won by the employers, 30,591 by the unions, while 40,955 were com promised. Another significant feature of tiie report is that last year a more than usually large number of strike:; were agairst reductions in wages. with which their employes are affili ated. The claim is made that this concern has facilities for getting in side information regarding the strength, membership, action at meet ings and all other desirable knowl edge for employers anticipati jg trou ble with labor unions. Any man who really knows women doesn't pretend to understand them. less are as respectable as those robed in purple and fine iinen. There must be an awful accounting some day of lfio.se who reward virtue with rag3, hunger and cold. Let him or her who is tempted to cast a stone at a fallen woman think of that average wage of 93 cents a day.—New York Sun. It is folly to offer a wise man a pen ny for his thoughts. the strongest trade unions in the world. The money In its treasury has been more than doubled since the be ginning of the year. In Philadelphia, alone, where the carpenters are better organized than in any other place, there are over 8,000 members in the various locals. Famous Old Prison Is Torn Down Famous Newgate prison, where so ranch of London's criminal history has been enacted, is being torn down. Al lhough the present structure was erected in the eighteenth century, the gloomy building belonged more to mediaeval times, and its "Graveyard” and cells were veritable vaults, in which the unfortunate occupants may truly be said to have been buried alive. The destruction of Newgate has been contemplated for a long time, but the actual work was not begun until the present time because of nu merous obstacles. On the site will be erected a business building, and in stead of gloomy cells filled with idle I.SS Sctfe The Old Prison Now Disused. men awaiting death there will be elec trically lighted offices, open and airy, and tenanted by industrious workers. The contrast could hardly be more complete. The structure that is now being de molished is by no means the original Newgate. Several prisons have occu pied this part of London, the first be ing one of the towers -of the old city, which was at the new gate of the town wall, and which thus gave its name to the prison. It was first mentioned in 1205. The building now falling before the wreckers’ hammers was begun in 1770, but the Gordon rioters in 17S0 partially destroyed the unfinished structure. Newgate was then rebuilt, and here were imprisoned the chief criminals of the metropolis, while those convict ed of murder were publicly executed before its doors. When public execu tions came to be considered demoral izing and evil In their efforts upon the multitude who witnessed them, the murderers were ■ executed within the prison and buried beneath the paving stones of the hall leading through to the Old Bailey. This hall was com monly known as the "Graveyard.” Those who paid the penalty of death within these grim precincts were ob literated by means of quicklime placed In their coffins, but a token of their ex istence was left in the shape of an iron letter, representing the initial of their surnames and fastened in the wall over their graves. Of late years Newgate had only been used fqr prisoners awaiting trial at the Central Criminal Court building and for those there condemned to death. At Newgate, moreover, only murderers whose crimes had been committed in the metropolitan district were executed. Transpontine murder ers are hanged at Wandsworth gaol, unless otherwise ordered by the au thorities. It was in 185S that the in terior of Newgate was rebuilt on the single cell system. In crowded times the prison held nearly two hundred convicts. it was out of old Newgate that the notorious "Jack” Sheppard Woke, and the story of his escape, although it is OTsa \\ ! 111 H $!?$& Mmmikiiim m The Burial Ground. now nearly two hundred years old, is being retold by Londoners at the pres ent time. "Jack” Sheppard, like many another criminal, owed his downfall to the company of bad women. His father was a carpenter, and a man of sterling honesty. The boy was also apprenticed to a carpenter, Owen Wood; but he fell into the society of bad companions near by, at the Black Lion, in Drury Lane. Here he met "Bess” Lyon and "Poll” Maggott, who began to incite him to theft. After many robberies of increasing boldness, “Jack” Sheppard was cap tured, tried and sentenced to death in Old Bailey. But he had been supplied with a file by “Poll” Maggott and "Bess” Lyon, and he adroitly man aged to escape. His liberty was of short duration, and ten days later he was recaptured and placed in the strongest cell of Newgate, known as the Castle. Here he was “chained with two ponderous staples to the floor.” Nearly all London flocked to see the prisoner, who, despite all the care that was taken, had secreted a small file in his Bible, and a complete set of tools in the rushes Qf his chair. The guards inspected his chains on September 16, 1724, and left him at 2 o’clock in the afternoon for the re mainder of the day. Sheppard then made, his last and most wonderful escape. After freeing himself of his manacles and snapping the chains which held him tt> the floor, he re moved a stout iron bar from the chim ney and climbed up the flue. After forcing several heavy bolted doors by an almost incredible exertion of strength and ingenuity, he found him self upon the upper leads. But, just when his escape was all but accomplished, the convict was compelled to retrace his steps to his cell to get his blanket, by which he might let himself down to an adjoin ing roof twenty feet below. The re turn trip was made in safety, and, dropping to the roof, ha entered a gar ret window, and thence slipped unob served into the purlieus of Smithficld. Passing down Gray’s Inn lane to the fields, he spent two or three days in an old house by Tottenham Court. Five days after his escape he went to a cellar by Charing Cross, where all were talking about ‘’Jack” Sheppard. He then broke into a pawnbroker’s shop, decked himself out in smart clothes hnd drove past Newgate in a closed carriage. The next day he treated his mother to three quarterns of brandy, and then drank himself silly at Sheer's tavern. Maypole alley. In this state he was captured and taken back to Newgate. The turnkeys, despite their disgrace, turned the occa sion to one of gain, and charged the multitude of curious visitors 3s. 6d. a held to see Iheir capture. He was watched nigh# and day until Novem ber 16, when his execution was wit nessed by over 200,000 persons, at Ty burn. A riot, which broke out over the disposal of the corpse, had finally A Cell. to be quelled by the military with fixed bayonets. Such was the end of the career of the most notorious pris oner of Newgate. ■ Accepted in Cipher. A young man in Elmira, N. Y., re cently proposed to the gill of his choice, making his declaration by mail, because he thought that in that way he could do himself better jus tice. He was in his office a ;lay or two later when a messenger boy ar rived with this enigmatical telegram:- “Isie of View.-—E were.” He was con vinced that the message had some thing to do with his’ proposal, but he could not decipher it. He went to consult his mother. She read the telegram over once or twice, shook her head and then read it aloud. But what she said sounded like: “I love you—jours.” The son snatched the message out of his mother’s hand and read it once more. Then he shouted; “It’s all right, mother,” and dashed for the telegraph office, where he sent a return telegram. The Simple American Fashion. Royalty is given to a useless ex penditure of words, as of everything else. In drinking to the health of the czar the shah of Persia said: "I take this God-given opportunity to thank your majesty for the kind sentiments and kind, sympathetic and pleasant weicome which I have received in your empire. In the hope that the ties uniting the two countries, already so firm, will be drawn still closer than they have been in the past, 1 drink to the health of your majesty, their ma jesties the empress and your augu3t family, to the happiness, glory and long duration of your reign and to the prosperity of your states.” An Ameri can citizen would have said, “Here's hoping,” with quite as satisfactory re sults. .) After Twenty Years. Rip Van Winkle came down the hill after his twenty years’ sleep. "But. my friends and relatives,” he inquired, “where are they?” "Dead and buried,” replied the strangers as they led him away weep ing. “And the coal strike,” he faltered. "They are thinking of arbitration.” Shrieking with joy, he realized that one link yet bound him to the past, ana his life was later made happier by knowing that the original coal strike jokes were still dinned into the public ear. Testimonial to Henrik Abel. Bjornson was the author of the text of' the cantata which was sung at Christiania the other day by way of celebrating the hundredth birthday of Norway's famous mathematician, Hen- j rik Abel. About 300 guests from for eign countries were invited and Prof. F. Nansen presided at the banquet, j Although Abel lived only tweuty-sev en years, be was repeatedly invited to \ a professorship in Berlin, but his pa- ■ triotism caused him to decline the in- ■ vitaticn. notwithstanding his poverty. | DECEMBER 7 ON THZ MARKET. For A lot in Betty's heart, But recently vacated; (’J in- former owner having been By Dun too poorly rate*.) Locution line; adjoining lots •All jwned by persons wealthy; Exposure northern; not too cold For incomes strong and healthy. For Sale;— \ lot in Betty’s heart; * • Most jarefully restricted; (1 be former owner tried to build From plans that much conflicted!) . : A bargain most unusual; All millionaires or other - ' , Prospective purchasers apply To Betty or her mother. —Richard Stillman Powell, in Puck, HUMOROU& He—l love you more than words O&u tell. She (shyly)—Well, there are Dthcr ways. He—Am 1 good enough for you, darl-' ing? She—No, George; but you are oo good for any other girl. Wigg—Bjonee has a remarkable memory. Wagg—Yes; one of those hat are handy to forget with. "He offered her his hand and for tune.” "Bid she accept?” "No; the | first was too large and the second-was j too snialk” "Mamma,” said little four-year-old Harry as his mother was giving him ris bath, "be sure and wipe me dry, so I won’t got rusty.” Mr. Inlaw (to wife, reading letter from sister) —Was her wedding a sue j :e;-;s? Mrs. Inlaw —Oh, yes! She recetv ; :d seventy-eignt, presents! >t last,” said the fat lady, "I have found the key to the ‘living skeleton's’ heart.” "It must be a skeleton key,” grinned the sword swallower, j Hook—l told her I loved her from the bottom of my heart. Nye—What did she say to that? Hook—She want ed to know if there wasn’t any room at the top. Mrs. Waggles—There’s a fire sale ! around at the grocery store. I wonder If lie's selling his milk any cheaper. Wag ! gles—l guess not. That’s only dam aged by water. I "Here is a spicy bear story,” said the writer who had just returned from the west. “I don’t see anything spicy in it,” remarked the. busy editor. ‘Oh, yes; it is about, a cinnamon bear.” "If you marry that girl, Sir, I’ll cut. you off without a cent.” “My dear dad, the mere fact that the girl is willing to marry me under those circumstances is proof that she’s worth it.” Benliam —You needn’t be particular about your dress; where we are going people won't notice what you have on. Mrs. Benaam —Then we won’t go; I won’t associate with such people. "How pleasant it is to see husband and wife of one mind! It is, indeed. There's the Rouinsons, for example. She thinks there's nobody in the world like Rouinson, and lie thinks so, too.” “You can always tell a man that ; holds an office," said the man in the j pearl hat. "You can’t tell him any thing," spoke up the man in lavender trousers; “he thinks he knows it all.” "Cook, my husband complains that, the coffee was cold, the meat overdone, the biscuits burned, and the oatmeal soggy.” "Yeg hev me sympathy, mum. II must be awful to live with such a mam” “Here's a letter front Mlrandy at college. She says she's in love with ping-pong.” "She is, hey? Well, she's better give him up; we ain’t gein' ter stand no Chinaman marryin’ into this family.” Mr. Meek, who had gone to the front door to answer the postman’s ’ knock, put' his head inside ftte door of the room where his wife was sit ing. “It’s a letter for me, dear,” he said, "Email I open it?” I-hw <*f Si*llin*r IVivci*. Justice Summerville at Odin, 111., lias handed down a decision that if a man sells his wife he must “deliver the goods," or he is guilty'of obtain ing money under false pretences. As to the constitutional right of a man to sell his wife the justice did not pass upon. The case resulted from a deal made by Mr. Hamilton, of Noble, who ills wife to Mr. Davenport for $2 cash. Mrs. Hamilton heard of the bar gain and went with Davenport, but left him before night. Davenport had Hamilton-arrested and the entire com munity went to hear the case. Attorney Olinger. for the defendant argued tnat, a man had a right to sell his wife any time he pleased without a pedler’s 1 Icons'!. The state contended that if a man sold his wife he must insure delivery. Justice Summerville took the latter view and decided that Hamilton must send back his wife or money, pay the costs and leave town, or he would send him to Jail. —St. Paul Globe. Iteitr* and Wolves in Town. William Burton, a desert miner, brings news from Randsburg of an ex citing encounter in the streets there between a black bear and two desert wolves. The tight was witnessed by Mrs. Quigley. Miss Alice Short and two other women from the veranda of the Quigley residence. The bear was evi dently trying to escape from its-tor mentors. In front of the house the three came to a sudden stop, and for nearly fifteen minutes the wolves held the bear at bay. One of the women left by the rear door to summon a neigh bor, but by the time he arrived the brutes had gone, and, though tracked some distance toward the mountains, they could not again be fourfil. Sev eral hunting parties* turned out, but were unable to.locate either the bear or wolves. As the animals came from the desert, it i3 ■ presumed that the wolves had been in chase of the bear for many hours. —San Franef&o Chron icle.