El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTH YEAR, No. 215, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 8, 1888 Page: 7 of 8
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£1 Paso Times. Saturday, September 8. 188$.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
About Jewish H«»ler Mi*et
and It* Neighborhood.
[Special Correspondence. |
Nkw York, Sept. 8. --There are queer lo-
M (»litics in New York city which many of
the oldest residents have never seen, but the
visitor from the country is apt to find them.
He wants to see the "flash" resorts, the dark
quarters, the crowded alleys where queer
people from far away countries live—the
Poles and the Italians, the Slavic Jews and
the Hungarians, tiie Chinese, the Russians
ami the Bohemians. And he can find colo-
nies of all these and many more nationali-
ties—little cities in the heart of the big city,
t ut completely isolated socially, where the
pure English language is unheard and where
a ruddy and farmer like visitor is as much of
u curiosity as a Turk or a Lascar would be
man interior village.
The city is more moral, superficially at
least, than it was. There is no longer a "Cre-
iuorne"or a "Harry Hill;1' concert saloons
and dancing halls are things of the past, and
the cellar lodging house is very rare. But
the localization of certain races is more
thorough than ever, and one such district as
Hester street is unique. Let t he visitor go
out Park row eastward to Canal street, out
(Jamil to Forsyth, and along Forsyth worth-
ward to Hester, and ho is suddenly introduced
to the center of the "Jews quarter"—as com-
pletely such as any "Ghetto" iu an Italian
city of the last century. There is no law to
compel these Oriental Hebrews to live to-
gether, as there was in Italy, Serviit, Turkey ,
etc., whence they came, but the habit has be-
come a second nature, and by choice they
crowd as closely as they can live and breathe.
Scatter them over a rural township not more
than .'>00 to the square mile and they would
die of loneliness,
Tho observing visitor ou the route toward
Forsyth and Hester streets will note a con-
tinuous decline in the local "tone." Perhaps
the restaurants give tho best index of it. On
Park row bet will see no bill of faro outside
for the first, three blocks; it is assumed that
thei»atron is able to pay well for good ser-
vice. On the nest block he will see long lists
placarded by the door: "Broiled chicken, !i0
cents; beefsteak, 20; coffee, with milk, 10."
A little further is one of the "Jim Fisk" res-
taurants, with "Beefsteak 15 cents"—all
other articles 5 and 10 cents. On the next
Uoek the signs tell us of "Lodgings 15 cents,"
"Beefsteak (5 cents," and thereafter twenty
dishes for 5 cents each, with "corned beef
iuwb" ut Ute head of the list Last of aJi, a
very few plaices offor lodging for 10 cents
and three dishes for the same sum. The
hash at such places is indeed a mystery—
scarcely to lie contemplated without a shud-
der.
Once on Hester street and the restaurant
proper disappears, but on the street stalls
ure great piles of black bread, (Kid looking
sausages-- "three for ten cents''- -ancient
oranges, badly specked apples, boiled eggs,
not to lie questioned as to age, tomatoes that
havo served their term in more pretentious
place# and occasionally peaches, suspiciously
spotted and like the planet Mars in that they
ure "supposed to be inhabited." But this
sausages are not of pork, there is nothing on
any list that means "ham and eggs," the
heef has been "drained," the animnl has been
slaughtered according to rabbinical rules and
«ll the signs are repeated in Hebrew.
Hers wo are in a new world. For twenty-
live blocks it is solid "Jewry." Not tho in-
telligent and progressive Israelites from
(•Vance or Germany, but from every corner
of far eastern Europe and the adjacent sec-
tions of Asia. In all the district one will
not see ail English name on any sign, but in
Oreek, Russian, Roumanian and other char-
acters are such names as Eredzoff. Lech-
amski, (Jennatzen, Borulawski, Papadopolis,
Krcitsiandorff, Artemi, Pudagoras, Mosz-
ehiski and Kraneiovich, Frequently the
name and business are briefly repeated In
English, but always the nature of the goods
sold is set forth in Hebrew.
^ And all these swarming, crowding, swarthy
thousands are educated, in a way. Book
stalls abound, covered with Hebrew books of
all kinds, and copies of Tho Jewish Volks
Zeitung and other Hebrew journals. The
ordinary resident there may understand
uone of tho Eastern tongues but his own; but
nil understand Hebrew, and that is their com-
mon vehicle of conversation—and very queer
Hebrew it is. The language of' Palcstiue iu
tho time of David and Solomon, modernized
(0 suit the society and traffic of New York,
ami with words for all the things invented in
r (mo made no haolmard from modern
uougaes and men Hebraized, nucn is me ssu
called vernacular Hebrew of Hester street.
Yet they bave tome pretty liallads m this
tongue, and at their theatre, "The Oriental,"
some very interesting plays are gi* en. Sim-
ilarly many of tbe Roumanians and M>me of
the Hungarians speak "Latin," as t hey call
it; but no college professor could tell it from
Potlawattomte. It is at least seven t ime- us
far removed from Cicero'# Latin as t!;i»
"Dago" and "Kajian" of Louisiana is from
Parisian French.
Hester street" should certainly have one
word in common for dirt, fur they have i tie
thing in common. It is no exaggeration to
say that in dirt they live, in dirt they move
and iu dirt they have their being. Dirty
babieh, clad in a single garment, crawl uv< r
the pavements, dirty children play in the
dirty street and dirty men walk into houses
with very dirty Bhoes. All the people ure
smoky look nig, all the houses grimy, all the
cellars "gummy" and nearly all the people
look as if they had not changed their clothes
for mouths. Even the best dressed amot;g
them look smoky and "snuffy," To mi
American it is a mystery that people can lie
contented in such dirt. Yet they are.
Cleanliness is no necessity to them a,-, to
Americans and to the people of western
Europe. In all the thousands that crowd
Hester street of a mild evening, you will not
see twenty iu clean clothing. They do not
feel the need of it.
This is all the more noticeable because the.
Israelites generally are a neat people in their
persons aud clothing and scrupulously clean
as to their food. It it not because these peo-
ple'are Israelites that they are so indifferent
to (lirt; it is because they are of the oppressed
classes of eastern Europe—that is, they are
like tho poorest peasantry of Turkey, 8er-
via, Russia and Poland. A generation of.
freedom and American opportunity will do
wonders tor them. The attrition of a free
cotijivry will bring out the good eleraei,; in
rhe Hebrew character. J. 11. Beai.j.k.
I'resident 1 nmwur n am* na* ut*m pmceu
!»:•»na!<•»!•> ditKmiu He whs taught tbe
haij«;ici;;i: «: ,'i c: rot liter in bis youth. Mid
tiie m"ii;in, <•: "h i.'ters of Pari* ha v written
111.im .'ii' ipiaifctii"; thai be lias not atteinhd
their mi t j'ngs u»r subscribec to their fijhd.
The mikttuo of .Japan has almost finished
his jii.w palace, « hich has taken sis years for
i a .a;..*.)-. There are 4<Hi rooms in the
huJdi'hg, atu! the dining hob will seat, 127
guests The furniture of tl.e siute deport-
ment eunii' from Germany. .Not the least in-
teres ii.g objf e.t in the p&lce isim American
piano.
Henry R. Smith, of Han Fianeiwo, c«l„
died some year* tifco and left a mo,: peculiar
will. lie bequeutheil his property to his
widow, stipulat ing that she slwuKl educate
the!)' mi!) a« a lawyer and - have him taught
the('liim-*e lungimge. Mr Smith has faith-
fully earriei mit these provisions, and her
son, w ho is now of age, can talk American
I'lW to a I Viestial without .effort
THE TIMES
PAPER & STATIONERY DEPARTMENT
Offers speciklJicducOBieiits to Printers and the Trade
The Hair as an l.vajioiatoc.
Too much Imir in summer is uncomfort-
able; but, accoruing to Sanitary Era, so in
too little; aud our young men with close
clipped skulls make a, great mistake in dis-
figuring themselves to the guise of monkeys
to keep their beads cool. The moisture that
flows out from the skin through the hair,
drawn actively outward-by the active evapo-
ration due to its extreme diffusion, carries
off heat from t he head much faster than the
air can take It, from a bald pate, or from the
equivalent of a bald pate that we so Often
see through the short hair, headed with
perspirat ion. The bald head is mopped con-
tinually, where tbe head properly endued
with hair is (if not confined) by far the most
comfortable part of the person.
Not an Agreeable Topic.
A Chinaman dislikes to say that his
friend is dead, but will tell you that
"his name has been added to the muster
roll of ghosts," or that "he has becomo one
of the ancients." "Lie has returned to the
shades," "he has taken farewell of the
world," "he has gone a long journey,"
are expressions all very frequently used
The matter
Experience of a Lady Mission»y
Ullf ttnallM 0, Ufa.
ilomrj lit BtptUt Church, Trtf,
S. Y„ •»!»—I am only too glad to
idd my tMtlmcnj of tha gnat
vain* of Dr. Dirtd Kennedys ft.
voritoBtmtdy of Bondout, N. T.
It pemutmtly cured me of Oe-
Urrh of the Bladder tnd jjj
Kidney Trouble.*^
Alio of ConMipttlon. I would
■tate that I alway ■ saed the ft*
yortte Remedy with the full eon-
- — »». aent of my phyalclan. ^
A SOVEREIGN CURE. ^
' Eondoat,
ieee,Rh«n-
aUthetlla
Print Papers,
Poster Papers
•'iat Papers,
,'ard Boards,
Cut Cards,
Straw Board,
trapping Papers,
Printing,Inks,
Roller Composition,
Envelopes,
Bill Heads,
Letter Heads,
Statements,
Wedding Invitations,
Wedding Cards,
Ball Programmes,
Visiting Cards,
Bills of Fare.
Or. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Roi
ZiY, la a sovereign remedy for KervonaneM,
" Kidney and IJverComplaintandaUt
1 to women. It driven the poiaon from the
, md reatorea tbe patient to the hloom of
hMlth. Yon will never regret trying it. ,
MRJOHN ROACH'S 8HIPYARD
El Paso's unrivaled position as a railroad center enables us to till orders.m
his territory from two datc to two weeks earlieii than other markets, Address
•ill orders and inquiries- TIMES PUBLISHING CO.. El Paso, Texas
all the
ivuwivn, •VI.VUJ|'«HJ«WW n»M
ul aymjjfemia of the dl»ea*e,_ Of course
I tried home physlcWi 'out without relief, I wae
Induced to try Dr. David Kennedy'j Favorite Rem-
edy, of Rondout, N. Y„ The reeult la certainty •
" leeeing to me, and you are at liberty to say that I
ave been cured by Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
I Give Honor to Whom it is Oue.
Dr. David Kennedy'* Favorite Remedy, of Bon-
me. X have recommended it to sooroe of people witn
like success, and know It will cure all who try It,—
Or.O.Kennetfj'sTavorite Remedy
Prepared at Boodout, N, 7. Price H for IS.
THE-
Rio Grande Pharmacy
Is now located in the
IM raw oi in siiu uiu
Opposite Grand central Hotel.
GLOBE HOTFL
is not always treated with reverence,how -
ever, for they will sometimes say: "He
when speaking of the dead.
ay:
th
lias swallowed his breath," or "slipped
his skin." "The mountain has col-
lapsed" refers to a dead emperor, and
''the dream is over" means that a prince
is dead.—Boston Budget.
Advance of Civilization.
Don Alphonso, brother of Don Carlos
of Spain, traveling as '"Don Juan de
Hnelva, Count de Bourbon," is in Turke-
stan aud is astonished at tho progress
made there along the Transeaspian rail-
way. At Merv, which five years ago was
a crowd of felt tents and mud huts, he
found brick houses and macadamized and
paved streets, and at the railway station
at Bokhara waa a luxuriously fitted up
buffet with a young and pretty Russian
barmaid speaking French and German as
fluently as her native language. Twenty
years ago no Christian would have been
safe iu Bokhara.--New York Sun.
B. SCHUSTER * CO.
Examine iur Sample Rooms of
Cor. Santa Fe and Overland Sts. %A|| ■ I I
board $i per day. Wholesale Dry Goods.
| vated" and'no'^pains wi 11°bfcJarcd °to i ^The lareeet and ffi06t 'ariedstock in th3 southwest at Bed Rock Prices.
j tnnke it a first class house. | i " 1111 * '"J.
I iihs('Tsra,jKir' 'W.J. Lemp's and Anheueer-Buech
|| Manager.
0Z.4NXE & CO..
UAJLV
I' -i MAIL AND STAiiE LINE
From Carthage to White Oaks, Nopal,
Fort Stanton ami Lincoln. New Mexico.
Good Teams. Fine Hitrs. careful and so
her drivers, *
The Skeeua Indiana.
The Skeena Indians are described r»s of
low stature and degraded morals. They
are all heathens aud sturdily refuse to
embrace Christianity. They are wild aud
lawless, with no more notion of fairness
j than a wolf, whose character they exactly
parallel, inasmuch as when they come to
the store alone they are almost vexa-
tiouslymeek and lowly, but when 1 Lev-
collect in numbers they"are loud mouthed
and menacing. Their faces consist
mainly of mouth and cheek bones, with
small, flat noses.—Chicago Herald.
Theory of Mind Reading.
The English Society for Psychical Re
search does not hesitate to accept the
theory called telepathy as an approved
and demonstrated fact It is unanimously
accepted as the simplest method of ex-
plaining a great many psychological
phenomena. Brushing away a vast
amount of fraud, those men of science do
uot hesitate to say that it is demonstra
bio that mind can act directly on mind,
apart, from such organic communication
as is furnished by the body.—Globe-
ltoimwnf
THi: TIMES OFFICE HAS
Tin1 Only Book Bindery in the City
Killing Machine
Perforating Machine
Folding Machine
Complete Job Office
T'aperStock
Steam Printing Outfit ••
.Paging Machine
Numbering Machine "
MankBook Manufsr'y
St. Louis Lager Beer,
And Wm. J. Lemp's Export Bottle Beer.
HOUCK & DIETER,
r AND CHIHUAHUA STREETS EL PASO, THiv
INKS
A LI; GRADES,
U, !/<;<> M>KS,
MUNDY BROTHERS.
;EL PASO, TEXAS.
Landa in Mexico and tbe Southwest aiid Lm-Stock
Commission Merchants
Have tnequaled facilities for the purchase and sale of lands in Mexico and U-,
supplying any class of stock jn quantities to suit purchasers Grazing landsT™
cialty, Correspondence solicited. a spe-
W, G. WALZ, Opera House Building El Paso, Texas,
Wholesale & Retail Dealer in
i;
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wl
t
IN STOCK
«KND ORDEKS TO
Uhickering. Decker
Fischer and
New England
PIANOS.
Mason & Hamlin,
Story &dark&Nieke!
Plate
ORGANS
Domestic, White and
Singer Sewing Ma-
chines.
Children's Carriages.
Base Ball and
SPORTING
GOODS.
Croquet,
Velocipedes, Boys'
Wagons, Dolls,
Toys, etc.
Goods sold or small
Monthly
Payments.
The following catalogues sent on application : Children's Carriages, Veloci-
pedes. Bicycles, Sporting Goods. Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines, 8mall Musical
Merchandise, Sheet Music, etc. Pianos and Organs tuned and Sewing Machines
repaired by competent workmen. r —,
V- J
LOTS OF LOTS
Campbell
leal Estate
Lots everywhere, in all parts of Ihe city, at prices to snit the times.
Newman & Russell, Agents
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