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bARON SCHLIPPENBACH.
He is soon to be Russia's Consul Genera! In this
city.
(Copyright. 190 S. by Stebberu-. Chicago.)
When the government at St. Petersburg decided
recently to hand over on« of the big keys to Rus
sia's trade to a new consul general In New York
City the honor fell to Baron Schlippenbach. for
fourteen years Russia's consul in Chicago. To this
newly promoted agent of the Czar the metropollis
is no stranger, for years ago he held here the
office of vice-consul. But although New Yorkers
knew him then, there are few who -will not need an
introduction to him now. Times change; so do
Russian diplomatists.
Looking at Karon Schlippenbach, no one would
suspect that the quiet, unassuming nobleman, well
sxoomed and apparently a prosperous business
man. who is sent back to reign supreme where he
waX once a. subordinate, is a man who likes to play
with dolls. Xo one would guess that he has more
fads in his list than any other official, perhaps, who
ever aspired to link two gTeat nations more firmly
together.
In Caesar's day the envoys of the provinces to
Rome ](]«•<; to the softening influences of the
Southern capital and became changed men. Tn«
Bune might be said, thought not to the same de
gree, of the representative of modern Russia. Once
his hands -were hard and rough; now they are as
soft as a woman's. Once it -was his joy to heave a
line in competition with the most expert of his
compatriots in the Czar's navy, or to test his
nerves by standing at the cannon's mouth while a
battleship belohfd forth the ■ idly contents of its
magazines. Now he prefers to swing a golf club,
and the orchestra's music hi a charity ball is
sweeter to him thai; the roar of guns. Neverthe
less, he stands ready to battle for his country at
any minute.
in truth it might be written down that there are
in reality two Barons :>L'hlippenbaeh. One is the
cautious, guarded official, representative of a sov
ereign whom be trios to serve without making a
single misstep. The other -is the frank, open
handed, jovial exponent of the umitled democracy
■i! which his official life is being passed.
DOLLS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
While he is a loyal Russian, he is half an Ameri
can. He <"..:• ><-'s a tremendous mutual advantage
in a closer communication between his own people
and the citizens at the United State*. It is the
height of his ambition to strengthen the friendship
between the two populations.
Collecting dolls is one "' Baron Schlippen bach's
fads. He lias gathered, from all points of the
compass and from nearly ail countries of th.
globe. S.i mrny lx-frilled and bcfurbelowed doll
creations that his apartments would not bold them
nil and he had !•• put the overflow into a storage
bouse.
International marriages is anal of his pet
fancies. lie would tike to see more Russian-
Antericsii marriages. The baron himself is a
I'achelor. wealthy, bearded and attractive in ap
pearance, lie j.« a great admirer of American
women. If any one asks him why ho remains a
bachelor, he laughs heartily, strokes his brown
l>eaid, and replies:
"Oh. that if* an easy conundrum. For the young
ladies, I am too old; ami for the. older ones I am
too young. I have always been willing to marry."
The I'iimn's v.me cellar holds almost as high a
I<!ace in his affections us his collection of dolls.
1; is taxed more frequently. This is not. because
the baron In a tinnier; far ft«>m It. The spigot of
his Brine «-.i«k is drawn r.fr«-ner than his dolls are
pal on dross parade for the reason that Baron
Sctdlppenbacb Ml known as "'a good fellow" and is
bounteous in his hospitality toward those whose
friendship he values.
Officially the baron must receive all who visit
him. To all lie is cordial and frank, but while he
listens to learn the mission of a stranger lie studies
the face and bearing of his caller. Long experi
ence has marie ) in expert In tins, and there arc few
who leave his office that do not also leave a pretty
miMj analysis of their characters in the mind of
the censed.
While his official hospitality' is thus dispensed.
with prejudice toward none, the baron is extremely
exclusive in choosing those "who may enjoy the con
tents of his wine casks or his $5 a pound tea,
brought overland from China to St. Petersburg and
transshipped to Chicago. Some of the knottiest
problems of the consulate are said to have been
•worked oat satisfactorily over a teacup scarcely
larger than a -woman's thimble. It's a fad of the
baron to sip as he thinks.
Persona! pleasure is a thing of secondary con
naaaasaae in both the official and private life of
Baron SchUppenbach. The Interest of Russia comes
first. No one who is not a friend of Russia or a.
likely candidate to become one could expect to find
a way into the "sanctum" of the baron> almost
palatial quarters at No. S7 Rush Street. Chicago,
surrounded by the homes of wealthy ptsaeeta and
society people at the town But If a person is a
fri«3»4 of Russ«ia and. besides, is enrolled nmnns
the baron's "Four Hundred." as it were, the latch
string to his "den" always hangs out.
An oak door, almost as wide and thick and heavy
as In the days when the moat and drawbridge were
the vogue, swings off the hall and admits the guest
to the baron's reception room. This room is fitted
up with Oriental rugs, oil paintings— all the gifts
of ertlst friends — and bric-a-brac from nearly every
comer of th« earth.
HIS CHICAGO -DEN"
There is nothing austere about this room or the
connecting one in front, into which the light of
the street shines through a big French plate win
dow Off the front apartment, through a fringe
<srape<J doorway, ie the -den" of Schl!pp*nl,*rh the
man. not Baron Bchlippenbach the consul. Al
though he 1«? a bachelor, the rooms which the pub
lic enters are homelike and suggest domesticity.
There are comfortable lounging chairs, more bnr
*-brac and paintings and mementos. There: are
little tables, too; wme of teak, carved with all the
ingenuity of the East Indian. The baron taps a
quaint gong that rings a silvery note, and in strides
noiselessly a tall, straight-as-an-arrow man, with
jet black hair and curled and waxed mustache.
"What shall it be?" asks the host. Before you
can reply he suggests: "A little vermouth?" at the
same time nodding to the sphinx, who looks as big
a.» a giant, that awaits nls master's bidding.
Whether the baron has a "nod code" if a mystery.
tout seemingly he has. for whether it is crCme de
saenthe or vermouth or sparkling champagne, he
mr-rely bows and it is brought.
"To the health of America* smart and beautiful
women," toaeta the guest, who may be a grand
slake making a tour of the world incognito or a .
Chicago business man who would like to sell a few
more harvestere or a few pounds more of bacon in j
the Czar's domain. A guest -who sat at one of the j
baron's tables the other day looked as if lie might '>
tie the original of a portrait of Emperor Nicholas
JI. Anotlur. with broad shouldem and military
COMING RUSSIAN CONSUL WHOSE FAD IS POLLS
police of St. Petersburg, but his Identity and hl«
mission were secrets of himself and the baron.
"May Russia know them better, and America's
men. too," responds Baron Schllppenbach to the
toast.
If you happen to be the guest and do not relish
th» vermouth or the creme de menthe or the cham
pagne, or any hind of liquor which the baron's
lavish hoi>pii«liiy affords, It is because your taste
is not educated up to the finest product of Euro
pean manufacture.
"Speaking of international marriages." says the
baron, "did it ever occur to you that those con
tracted between Russians and Americans have in
variably proved happy ones?"
ADVICE TO EXPORTERS.
But the baron makes no pretence of promoting
Russian-American matches, much as he would lik-;
to see more of them. Tie has long been a lion in
Chicago society. He is as much at home nt a pink
tea as at a charity ball or a "living picture" en
tertainment. In fact, at all society entertainments
in behalf of charity he is a prominent figure. It
is on such occasions that the public catches a
glimpse of his galaxy of dolls.
If It had not been for the Russo-Japanese war
the public might never have known of this fad
of the Czar's trusted official. During that war.
however, the Red Cross needed funds to enable It
to succor the wounded on both sides. Chicago so
ciety people got up a big entertainment to help
raise the money. Baron Schlippenbach was asked
what he could do. Then he said he could sell
dolls.
It was given out that the i-onsul had tho grent
est private collection of dolls In the world; that
lie would exhibit them In a booth, and sell all he
oouM for charity*" sake. Before the day arrived
for the entertainment to open the baron had one
hundred times as many dolls as his original col
lection bad contained. Originally there were, dolls
RARE BOOKS IN THE HARVARD LIBRARY
DOWNAME'S "CHRISTIAN WARFARE."
Only remaining book known to have been in
John Harvard's library.
One more resort of great interest u> those who
make rammer pilgrimages to Cambridge is now
open. In a room of the Harvard University library
especially constructed for the purpose there *!■•
being shown, <.ue or two •sfternoona a week, the
rare books acquired by gift and purchase for the
Charles Eliot Norton collection, the book? left to
the university, upon hi* death by Charles Sumner
and the very interesting Carlyle iihrarv. bequeathed
"to New I'n^land" bj the will of the sac of <'!iel
sea. Also bere is the one book. Downline a "Chris
tian Warfare." that aurvtved the college fire o f
}764. from the library left the i r,]ie K e by th<% Re\
John Harvard two nnd three-quarters centuries
ago.
In writing of these books, as in examining; them.
it is hard to know wh«»re to begin, Yet there are.
perhaps few to whom the Bible used by John Bun
yan will not give a. thrill. This book is In the
Sumner collection, and it has the. distinction of
being: the only autographed Kunyan book.— except
Fox's "Book of Martyrs,"— which has ever been
offered for sale. It is a well-thumbed brass cor
nered Bible, and it bears on the title, page of the
New Testament the autograph of the Bedford
tinker. It contrasts oddly enough in appearance
with the pretty blue morocco copy of the Greek
Testament which stands next It on the book
shelves and bears In two different places the. auto
graph of the French tragedian, Racine, who once
owned it.
The most eating autograph volume In the Sum
ner collection is an autograph album which formerly
belonged to Camillus Oardoyn, a Neapolitan noble
man, who resided in Geneva from MM to lt>W, and
who was able, from his residence In that city, to
get in touch with nearly all the men of the period
who happened to be travelling to Italy. The album
contains several hundred autographs of people of
different nations, but its star entry Is from the
hand of Milton, and Is dated June 10, 1639. The
English verses quoted are the last lines of I'ornns:
"If \>rtu« tteblm were
Heaven It aelfe wouMe Etoope to her."
Coupled with this is the sentiment, "Co»lani non
antmum muto dum trans mare eurro," an adapta
tion, of course, of the famous Horace lines which
proclaim the truth that those, who travel beyond
the tea change merely the sky and not their own
mental state. William Kllrr^ Cbanning, who knew
of Sumner's ownership of this autograph, believed
that Milton, by altering the Latin from the third
to the first person and linking the lines with the
Comus one, meant to asserl a principle of his life.
Afiuiiie; thing vi suifriri&y. l^tiaiuic |n|g«as|
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY. Jfr*g T. M*
For Years His Private Secretary Was a Woman, but
He Thought Her a Man.
from Jnp.ir. Russia nnd other countries; Pome
dr<-s=ed by princesses 3nd duchesses, who knew
his fad.
The additions to the collection were nin^le, by
Chicago misses ami matrons. They arrived at the
consulate by bicycle and [i my express and in auto
mobiles, not by ones and twos and dozens, but by
hundreds, almost daily- rag dolls, rubber dolls with
dainty lace gowns, wax dolls nnd chins dolls of
every conceivable size, it reminded a Chicago club
man or tti-. "Pied Piper of Hamelln." with bis
army of "fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, fami
lies by tens :md dozens." and his other nnny of
"all the little boys and girls, with rosy cheeks and
finxo-i curia and sparkling eyea and teeth like
pearls."
The doll market was good, but in all the. throng
of thousands who attended the Red Cross enter
tainment there were not enough buyers of dolls to
Pxhausi the baron's supply. After the fair he re
nored to hie apartnn nts as many aa they could hold
for his own amusement ai odd times, and the rer-t
be pui in .1 storage house, where they still remain.
Occasionally when the society women want a
unique booth at some charity affair they borrow
Baron Schllppenbach's collection, merely for show
purposes, for the baron thinks so much of his
that he refuses to sell more, unless the Red
Cross or Russia gets Into straits and needs the
money.
Baron Schlippenbach mn talk business with just
as much force as be used to expend while an
officer In the Czar's navy. He will tell you that
the door to Russia Is or«er: that Russia wants to
trade vi it h the (Jnited States, whether it lw by way
of Vladivostok or St. Petersburg. Asked how New
York merchants might obiain a greater volume Of
trade with Russians, this was his reply:
"It is a broad question. Generally speaking, they
GROUP OF SARON SCHLIPPENBACH'S DOLLS.
among the S>mmcr books is a first edition of
James Thomson's '*Spriiig'' uhe famous "Seasons"
wer<- first published separately), presented by the
author to his beloved Miss 1 ouriE. nnd containing
in his own hand on the fly-leaf and inside cover a
love letter ar:<l a dedicatory poem. Here is the
poem:
TO MIPS YOUNG.
Accept. ln»-'d Young, thin Tribute, due
To tender friendship, Uove and you;
But will, it take ivhHt breath 'd the whole-
O, take, to thine the Poet's snui.
If Fancy here her Power displays.
Anil if an Heart exalts these Lays,
Thou fainesi li that Fancy shine.
And all that Heart is fondly thine.
Thi= St. Valentine doggerel is. however, dignified
by th<* unmistakable sincerity of the letter which
precedes it and by the fact that for eight years,
that Is, from the time he met her until she married
another, Thomson loved with deep devotion this
sister-in-law of his friend. James Robertson. From
the blow of her marriage to another he never re
covered, and his death soon followed. This particu
lar love letter is dated Hagley, August "'<. 174.1.
and says in part :
"I would rather live in the most humble corner
of London with you than in tin' fin. st country re
tirement — and that, too, enlivened by the best of
society -without you. Think with friendship and
tenderness of him who is, with Friendship and ten
derness hvxpressihle, ,-ili yours, James Thomson."
Amnns i lie Norton books there are several pres
entation volumes from Ruskin and William Morris,
which are of particular lnt< n st because of the well
known friendship which > xisted between Professor
Norton and these distinguished men. The following
letter accompanied Morris's nift of hia translation
from the Iceland!' of Grettir the Strong:
May ir>. 1869
My liear Norton: The strong man herewith:
I hope you i II ■ lim: then is.no rtoubt, a
preai de;ii thai will strike .'. "ii as coarse and rude
in it and a life very different from the ide.il one
of the future thai you were lalkins of yesterday:
nevertheless, I rant doubl tl at ou'll be inter
ested in what Is real: and to my mind, also, there
underlies ;iii the rudeness ;< sentiment and a
moral sense thai ■-■ mehow made t!;.-- hopeless
looking lit'- 1 of our Ik ro endurable: at any rate,
he did endure it in a Kind of way that is a
lesson. 1 think, to us effete folk r>r the Old
World J needn't ask you to ex<;ise my own
shortcoming In the translation, as I know yon
will he only ton ready to do bo. Your mo?* affec
tionate WILLIAM MORRIS.
CARLYIE TELLS OF GIFT.
On the title page of :-«• r,--- essays of his on eco
- Kuskin lias written:
"To Charles Eliot Norton, with the uneconomical
love of J. Ruskin."
N'e.ir this book on the shelves stand the two vol
umes of Major Herbert B. Edwards, "A Year On
tbe Punjab Frontier, 1 hooks which were used by
RtisUin. Mr. Norton tolls us, In compiling "A
Knight's Faith." The mirks and marginal notes
are Ruskin's, and they Interestingly show hi.s
method of work. When the text speaks of a cer
tain Kind of "long-barrelled and light-stocked
ci.hs" us.c.l by the natives, Ruskin queries, "Wneie
made?' "Native pun fri'-tories?" "Whore?"
The personal equation in such a collection as this
often connects two totally dissimilar volumes.
For Instance, a first edition of Mrs. Bnowning'a
"Aurora Leigh" rubs elbows with a copy of Car
dinal Manning's "Temporal Miaaion of th« Holy
Ghost"— why, one learns only upon openlnK th>>
hooks. There Professor Norton explains that he
bought thla "Aurora Leigh" when it van lirst
issued and just aa he was leaving London In U3t
for Rome; that in tbe latter city ho lont the book
to :i friend, who in turn lent It to <'urdlnal (then
l>r» Manning. Thai prelate accidentally spilled
upon the book ink which can still be seen, and he
was profuse In bia apologies for his carelessness.
Fourteen jreara later, when Norton wan d^ain in
Home, the English Cardinal showed him many at
tentlons, and one day Mem over thla book of bis.
afkiiiK th< Cambridge professor to accept it "aa
a poor repai itlon for the Injuriea done 'Aurora
Leigh ' "
Through Proft >i Norton, Carlyle gave to the
Harvard Übrarj all the book* which he used n
could accomplish much more by effecting a etoMT
communication with the Russian people. Spe
clflcallv they could do more by sending repre
tattvM to Russia to study the people, learn
thel- wants and what they have to offer In return.
and suit their business to. what they discover.
Despite his ability to rend character, however, a
woman, young and handsome, was his private sec
retary for thirteen years, and all that time the
baron thought she WSJ a man. Not until death
disclosed her s« in a far away town did Baron
Scfallppenbaoh discover that she was a woman.
-WOMAN" WAS A MAN.
This extraordinary woman was "Nieolai De Ray
lan - She wore a man's clothing when she applied
for' and obtained a place as th« consul's private
secretary She wore the same kind. of garb during
her long ' term of employment In this time she
married ■ Chicago woman, was divorced, and later
married another Chicago woman. After about thir
teen years of service in the consulate the woman
who had a masculine first name, became 111. and
went to Arizona for her health. She died then
suddenly, and the autopsy revealed her sex. She
was buried there, but Baron Schlipppnbach would
not believe th* report that she was a woman. Not
until a commission of doctors from Chicago had
exhumed the body was the consul convinced of the
"De Raylan's" second wife then admitted the
truth Subsequent events showed that the young
woman's right name was Anna Terlessky. and
that her mother lived in Odessa, but had always
written to the girl as "my dear son." The girl's
estate of $9.nnn went to the mother, but the secret
Of Anna's reason for living in the disguise of a
man has not been revealed. Some said she was a
spy of the Russian revolutionary party.
Great." The correspondence by which this trans
fer was accomplished is very interesting, for the
story is told chiefly in a fourteen-page letter writ
ten to President Eliot by Emerson In his own hand
an.l dated Concord. May 14. 1830. Here it is ex
plained that Carlyle had wished to give the books
and that his friends Norton and Emerson had sug
gested that he leave tliem to the library in his will.
This was what was finally done, and when Car
lyle. died the hooks came over t here, in accordance
with the following Individually stated provision:
"Having With good reason, ever since my first
appearance, in literature, a variety of kind feelings,
obligations and regards toward New England, and.
Indeed, long before that, a hearty good will, real
and steady, which still continues, to America, at
large, and recognizing with gratitudo how much of
friendliness, of actually credible human love, I have
had from that great country, and what immensities
of worth and capability 1 believe and partly know
to be lodged especially in the silent classes there. I
have now. after due consultation as to tho feasibili
ties, the excussMlitlea of it. decided to fulfil a fond
notion that has been hovering in my mind these
many years; and l do therefore bequeath the books
(whatever of then I could not borrow, but had to
buy and gather, that is. in general whatever of
them are. still hero) which 1 used in writing on
Cromwell and Friedrich, and which shall be accu
rately searched for and parted from my other
books, to the president and fellows of Harvard Col
lego ... us a poor testimony of my respect for
that alma mater of so many of my transatlantic
friends and a token of the feelings above indicated
toward the great country of which Harvard Is tho
chief school. . . ."
Of intrinsic value, a* a collection of old books,
the Carlyle library has little. But it doea have as
soelatSoa and symbolic value In a high degree, and
this worth and interest an; greatly enhanced by the
death musk of Cromwell which Carlyle. before his
death, gavo to Norton and which the professor.
Btnoa Carlyle'a death, has given to the library,
"that it may bo with thoso books relating to Crom
well which Mr Carlyla bequeathed with such mem
orable and affecting words." Whan Curlylo sent
the death mask to Mr. Norton, packed by Ills own
luuu lv &n fi i{i clitic iw* t in; tiuat iOsa tUt*a smds;
NICOLAI DE RAYLAN.
thought she was a man.
Baron Schlippenbach began his diplomatic SOT**.
in ME For a lon* time he was attached to the
RuSn Embassy in Tokio. From there hs was
transferred to New York City, where he was vice
con'u Afterward he was B ent to Chicago He was
j^dpe advocate in the Russian navy before be
coming a diplomatic agent. He has travelled all
over the world and speaks excellent English.
The baron was unofficially Informed from St.
Petersburg sarly in May that he would be tran*-
ZZ to New York, the transfer to date from May
I Russian calendar, which would be May 1 «hi
the Julian calendar. He experts the official notice
to come by a long mall route, to reach him before
the middle of June.
ETIQUETTE OF THE BEER HALL.
Berlin is organized for eating and drinking, and so
are the Berllners organized for it. Scattered . 11
over the city are enormous places where food la
served-wine halls, where only wines are served
and beer halls, which deal In beer alone. «.me of
them most respectable, and some not so Impeccable.
It is the rule that it Is perfectly proper to take
your mother or your wife or your sister to a beer
hall or wine hall that is frequented by the officers
of the army. They go only to the proper ones—
publicly. The etiquette of these places ■ most for
mal. If the hall is crowded and tables are scarce,
before you sit down you draw your heels together
and make a miUtary bow to everybody sitting at
the table, you select. Then. also, you raise your
glass or Ftein to those at the table when your
refreshment is served. On leaving you bow all
around again. Or the other people at the table bow
if they leave before you do. The American way or
asking the others at the table for permission to
sit down is not ceremonious enough for th" Ger
mans who are the most formally polite people in
the world.— Samuel G. Blythe. in Everybody's.
FEATS OF RAPID COMPOSITION.
M. Bompard. a French musician, who, for a
wager, has composed the anisic to a sons In tea
minutes, Is a formidable rival to H. Trotere. of
whose feats of rapid composition some remarkable
stories are told. His beautiful song. "Asthore." was
it is said, both written and composed within forty
minutes in Blanchard's restaurant; the famous
melody of "In Old Madrid* was jotted down in
a few minutes on a biscuit bag in a little public
house in Rochester Row. into which the composer
rurhed on his way from the Aquarium, lest the
air should escape him before he could reach home;
"Go to Sea" was composed under similar conditions
in a West End music shop; amJ-crowning feat of
all— it is actually said thai Mr. Trotere composed
"The Brow- of the Hhl'." wrote a letter, and ran
four hundred yards to catch the post, all inside
eight minute?. After this one learns without sur
prise that Sir Arthur Sullivan completed the over
ture to "lolanthf" between 9 p. m. and 1 o'clock
the next morning. and that to "The To* men of the
Guard" witiiin twelve hours.— Dundee Advertiser.
"You'll not be sorry to have this, and there are
pome, maybe, in your country who would like
to see how that man's dead face looked, just one
of the strongest and tenderest of human faces and
a great expression of gentleness in it."
ORIGINAL THACKERAY MSS.
A untqu« iiusmwlon of th« library and on» whfch
visitors will examine with much interest is the
original manuscript of Thackeray's "Roundabout
Papers." This was presented to Harvard through
Professor Norton by Sir I>eslie Stephen, whose first
wife was Thackeray's younger daughter, after he
had been over her' in IS3O and »a? mad» an honorary
Doctor of Laws at a Harvard commencement. The
essays which make up the volume appear to have
been written wherever the author happened to be
when the mood of composition siezed him. Some
THE HARVARD LIBRARY.
Where the rare tomes are kept.
Of the sheets—all of which are written In a fin*,
clear hand-bear the wheat sheaf an.i crossed
Pickles of "Tho Cornhlll Magazine." whose, editor
Thackeray then was. and others are on the paper
of the Athfnxum or the fail I 111 club. Th.. manu
script is disfigured here an.l there by the thumbing
of compositors, whose names are roughly scrawled
In pencil upon it. but these marks are. of course,
only additional evidence of the thing's authenticity.
"Some professed originals of the 'Roundabout
Papers,' " Sir LesUa haa declared, "were bought
by a collector of my acquaintance, who was an old
friend of Thackeray's. Ha told Mrs. llitchle
(Thackeray's oldest daughter) of this, and she had
to explain to him that he had been cheated."
K(.r 'inK Thackeray manuecript bud. In fact, come
to be a regular business In London by the date
of thta manuscript's presentation. For. though
Thackeray wrote two entirely different hands, on©
upright, m In this case, mmi one sloping, neither
hand would be hard to Imitate. Decidedly dltllcult.
however, would It be richly to vary an expression
as Thackeray so frequently does In this manu
script, or, on tho other hand, la invent lines so
nnamhwj as tome he here entirely suppresses. In
th« essay "N-u M.si Bunum" we tlnd In the manu
script, after an allusion to Irving'* untold love
•tory. this sentence, which has never hasn printed:
"One fit ncies the kindly simple anattnaj boy advanc-
UjjS aaa iaxlß* * fiow, er or. iwo 9U » srao £j£ 'j
EAST SIDE IS 50 "
LONGER THE SLCX3
CHANGES WROUGHT jj
FIFTY YEARS.
Danger Is from Too Rapid i^|
canization of Foreign Typ^ i
The Congestirm Problem, "'-
my T. Mam Wafta*.
Fifty years have wrought : - -■ chac^,, „ *
York, and Five Points, the centre wftasjLf.S?
district." Is no more. A beautiful paA
baths and playgrounds, occupies tie „/'
makes many happy. The same :» true o' 4**
trlcts in Boston an<l other cities, yet^'tv* **!,
la' mind the thoughts of slums asi «v'jf?*
have taken such a d<^<:.i hold and ha-^*""'
pictured so vividly by snapshot phetc^ra-w .
nected with our papers that it Is hart •»
to realize that IMckens's descriptions i* 3
of New York are not true to-day. "•• *^
New York In not static— lt is * v:>r gfOSB»
changing. Ther* la a * : > riiovenuaJL**
absorption of outlyinsr districts: and tha j^«m_ !
industrial localities. Its people are <£vi&P* ?
many races, each havin? a distinct caiU^
some of those an divided again into nath»»iw
communities. There are also distrtci^
Bowery and the Tenderloin, where rtea r«s»
vice which Is as much the result of mls-jed *«-**
as of poverty. These districts are th« nal bm!
of New York, and the sensational writers
ply the t"rm "slum" to the foreign «stnsj«»
the city simply ■ M how out of touch tS»r «■
with the real lives of the people who4a* ta
them.
Th« district which lies east of the Bct»—jJ
below 14th street used to be the habosdai «f^
Irish in their less r'osperoua days, ll^ m jw
were the immigrant c'ass. To-day th«y antssi
uptown •■ "better things." For a long who, tw
left behind them their <ire? 3, which m asat
from the popular accounts of th» rovia?Eas2£i
gangs, well typifle.: by "Monk Eastsaa" aair!»
rest. "Monk" and bis kind are '"ujntaW-ta*
gangs are no more.
JEWS DISPLACE THE BIS
The J«>w has com** In and d!?p!aeetj the fci|«B
ir* practically all the East SMe— I say the >«« j
if he were an individual type, but he Is not E;j I
mad» up of a dozen races, speakis? a <lacn dbas 1
and with different customs and "raSnons; sa .
even are pure Russians, having absolutely no p^
tine blood hi their TCins. Each year sixty
sand Immiarrants come into th* <l'strtct-»ac!l i
---.;:■ thousand so-called Americans go "st si I
scatter themselves over ti." outlyln? >9afetrtian
Brownsville and Harlem, where a new trpt Is *.
ing formed. As Mr. Watehorn. CotarnissMstr t!
Immigration for New York, win sureiy bear
mony, these immigrants are not criminal
cious nor diseased, nor the scum of Bcau-iKt
fugitives from a lan-i of terrorism. vtatA*
have received a good education and leans!
art of thrift la ■ degree thi* An?!o-aaxea aSp:
well imitate. Even In their idea!?, crsaiaitiw
religious conceptions and rotions are, thy I»»
a ruKS« di>.-- which stands ashast at Ii» "SisS
type civilization" into which they cos.
These refusr^es are crowded ■2Pth«rait«»aat
Side, not because they could not iro txrssx, tet
because they do not want to so #!»**!!«. li»T
come to join their friends in ninraanJai »ici
are grouped around a syassogae wfcici to ila»
transplanted directly from their Russian ft fnn)
homes, and they refu?e to so out intoti»«rc?>
heathen land, ss they feel a Chrtsto «sof
tO be. ■
As you walk down f raster street ■ i' I ** ll *
venders of sock? ami suspenders, with th * B *
beards and peculiar cloth*>?. you little. gas' tat
they have receive.! a Talmud training «pa!. »
cording to Dr. Blansteto, formerly of th» E^
tlonal Alliance, to two years cf otir la* xs»
cssvass. Some ha^e even ■•■ Bu * li
University.
Often the*e p-opl^ are v*ry poor: "''■ : -»"
rived with little more than theft £!> In tMr j«%
and can find work only in tUos»BB«» «*«•*«
friends and relatives can help them-thtt
most cas»s. tailoring, which fa conduct^ sobs
times in th<» bis tatlcrins: -::shmwti jw«»
times m a loft under th- synagoarw. »EOT=a
"sweated" work in their wry home?- The «**J
a true business man. and if to? ca" "'* * "
pennies each day. eren by th- u=eofaost«^
family in this work, he soon >V.t:* V.3 " *"2
an independence, which is w^il shown *7 t-» •
ord-^ of the Hebrew charities.. He Is not ass? 3
h!f» struggles either. _-»»««»
Groups of men cottnerted with th» ' " 3 f^Z
charitable societies are evr trying to * iet *^
wants and put him on a basis of - „r ^ien».»»
the Industrial Removal Society will ?UC * ,-T.
job in the AVest as soon Uhe verwa^
prejudice against t'.-* great unknown " *««4
which lies behind New York. Thrift is tie^
and m lons as he retains Ws ''*Spf«'
religious conscio:isness« no money is * rf Si
wine or tobacco, nothing in the '- v ° ;!t7 *
theatre or aanre
THE SEAL PASGEB.
The danger to the country from th* Ja*^
not that which comes from a n^st o£ 'J~~ £
vice. The danger Is a too rapid American'^,
these people. I mean ;im * -l— rf * >^
type. OS to a gnat play centre :n a vj*>
an.l you will see that every N»J « ni ? %'„«*»
been in the country one y^r trouu. o
fI&K. an.i ail are extremely fond ? ■»
they hi doing « Ba« *• "'f.fj, %**'
with the wrong type ••' AmertCM ' ha nds*w>
type of Jew which is 'V™*™*** m ts>
tedly vulgar. It Is this typo whlrt na» »si*
rapidly from the rigor of the oW " gyts*
strict confinement of th* "Buss.an L^ljana>
acts into the radical anarchist "J *^
ever way their radicalism leads tare*. an si* 1 *
The congestion of the East SB* LißSfl-* 1 *
edged fact. s-v.r 0« the r f V' ,*„ ** *
densely popu!.-»t-d in th- world- « „t BB taf
more easily i ' 'I' c term****
of tha Jewish ghettos which 1 "
the history si every great city °' K 'Z So a" 1 *
t«com« a tradition among these p«p£ ;f; f jwaw)
what the wealth of the flrst * f^ship«- |J)lt *
Jews in this country, it is !?£*JSt3S
get them to break witn their W-^ ta p*^
and to leave the ■'^'^'^otti***
where. The —..Ufa «* »» ?~± *> «-*•
and West in regard to «mm!»ran» **
deflect the currvnt of ««»in!»»«« JJ «T
pouring into the district. *ri ""^c* «» *!
Mb to draw out the *~ZZXm***jL
more productive field*. I kno* J° J »*. *^
are longing to to to the South.
era communities «^re the nc * ™ a high* *Jl
welcome them and train them wj*^, Js^
ship. It 13 just this work ttot Jl**. f co^
institutions We. th. E^caCon^ AIU
centrating their energy d^ strict e*T
auction in the P«* v " STtSdM^^A
coraluff imißlsratlon. and t1« **J
will tend to reduce rent ana
for better tenement hOU 7 9 ; n# . j^j **
The whole problem of "V,^^'
«olv«l by . study 1 «*££S *" »>2*J
th« application of the *f by «*f | [Z
s ,st,d. II will never »•%££ *, ** £U
placn as a "stum or t»
Charities and theCtommow^____
TH E H.STOR.CAL PBHCE°^ „
Each of «ho '^'"J, a-^JI,
teblC out late with the w j '*^Jlt
famous excuse, and. *" f » ? josa*-^***^
,ot away with It. ThO | J^WU«*
X aa winkls-KobißSoa «"*»