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'SILK WEAVERS FROM ORIENTTURN TO GOOD AMERICANS INMELTiNG POT OF LA CROSSETHRIVING SYRIAN COMMUNITY KEEPS MANYOLDCUSTOMS“Four Thousand. of La CrosseAristocracy has Society of its OwnRespect for Tradition Keeps Alive Family Observances Followed for Ages in the Orientvat arJohn Schmidt, a German; rested ”“Patrick O’Flaherty, an Irishman,! was arraigned in court......“Two Scotchmen giving the nam-es of Andrew McDonald and Douald , McPherson are held by the po-'lice ••“You don’t ever see formulas like ■ those in the papers. They look ‘queer. The nationality of the men who happen for the moment to be embroiled with the authorities has I nothing to do with their cases. Their race is in no way Involved. It Its | strictly an individual affair. Then . why, in the name of fairness, do you j say a Sjriati” every time one of jour people happens to he mixed up I in some affair that gets into the ! courta?”member of the little coramuUIIXIAM IIOESUHLEKWILLIAM 4. FIUEJmt Tv Hans' n'wth la Frosf Vfc«-Preskk»Bt of the Poultry Asso. He's Secretary of tlie Poultry Assu-; I asked tbe question The reporter «at|o. -ml City Comptroller ciatlon and a Successful Breedercouldn’t answer. ; . ■ ...... —— , 1 ■ —-- —“We are not *o different from the.. . Although this is a democratic com- jrest of Americans , pursued the in-, nil|Ilitv._and even though certain of terrogator “Wnal do you know i|R ro;nibcrt arc. notablc Democrats _ about us. ex,opt tb;,l «lt;• -omc frow lwitl|^ tal,iIa, D,_..here is in Lai the Orient? Arc we ko,hI rlli*eo». cnmira thr,viug and SUcceu(al so-, ■'i( 0!?1C fnd jU(l8( loT. °Jltrsc‘f: icietv for the support and furtherance 1j bo the reporter did. Here is what»f arjstocTai.v. But the reader need I he found: jnot trcBable for the safety of the re-jM\t Families Here |public or our democratic city gov-;In the !o«cr end of North Ga.ernmcnt even though it must be ad-Crosse, with scattering rcpreseiita- m,ttP(1 that certiin prominent lead-1 ir , fives elsewhere in the city, there is ;Cf.w; of thc slt;K.icty are domiciled with-rt;a community of about sixty families. ip thf, w^ns of lhat temple of our ** roughly classed a* Syrians’ by |p)ort«f.s tl.c city Hall. For thcA “Syrians'’ b ________s : their neighbors. There are about o I'aVte'ofhigU degree before which thc j souls among them, f all ages. Mosl(80ciet\ bow* in reverence is an aris-u- of them come from the Mount Lc- tocrat.*v of feathers. st, banon district of Asia Minor. Tliev j chickens—La Crosse is famous for i re village folk, for the roost part. ichickens. perhaps it should be said the city is noted for poultry, to avoid ,It hough some arc from thc cities i le j of thc east. In their native homes.. ^auderstiudSgs7 but * that is'i ; most of them were silk/ weavers for nirrc ninttcr of phraseology which!that is the chief industry of «h« I doOB not afto,t Ihe'ilUtement thnt «■id Mount Lebanon listrlct. In La*tJir mallcr ol feathered thorough-!.le« Crosse they are druggists, con fee- L;lt; Crosse .iMUs the crown to Ixt . Honors. theater iwncrs. painters. (f|1 lhp sUte Mmmbm of the ! a- i laborers. rh- have no distinctive Wcster|| Wisconsin Poultry assoeia- i w occupation to ct .hem apart from. who 8houid know, claim thati t.ieir neighbors, i tHere are more farcy fow ls per cmp-li-Tmany of them wcrcpcddlers but «t;.|a , , Cros«c than in any other’recent years, as thrift JjJJJgjJLiiy of the state. There are se.cnty-;ive menibers of the association, and , their annual show, which was held for the twenty-fifth ime last 1ccem-• her. is the largest in Wisconsin, not I excepting even the state fair at Mil- • i waukce.if all tlie feathered aristocrats La Crosse produces every year were to crV *f’l° l,not n revieving Mand it would!increased ' gone into Ahicli arcis thriftm ’ their capital they have o-! little business, most of ill j prospering.Memeiut now own approximately $150.Ou0 •rs ' worth (ft property in La Crosse. One v'si hundred and eighty-five of their children an- attending the public | and parochial schools of the .With only two exceptions.take well. anhow\ tho review or j would beat anv cop £or thc standing* j _ 555h still endurance record. Incubators \L T. .m! ,»nd hon. of tho .cventj-fl.e mom ] hers of the Western Wisconsin Poul- tifamilv of the community home Most of the men are Amerito the United States with the intenS'.nr b~ sone ,,a,k ,o ££££, , m« of I batrh \Nk 1,000 marX- Thov 1..VC IV,,. Cl.ur.hr the t:»lh- *»■' » noted Is cx^u*lvc of the »Wth-!»« !• oil. oiifico of Our Lady of Lonrdca., cfrd hoi |«.llol. he just chickens . 1. ’*■, snu the Greek Urthudox church »f TI'C •'our Thousand and their volum-t» IS. Elias, both on Mill street. Hv | inous oflsprinK are siu.on-i.urc arts-;' MRMirtue of .he fact that It, rhilhl1 w,1° tr»,cc ;c,r '‘“'JT *to- i Salmonr, I. I... makes his home trees back to the originali cock and I'M here the city is #hc headquarters ol hen that came over with Noah in S. illii* 'di-' {national work among the Svriann in Ttwra a ,,,ncv • Lliiekmis alt;the central part of the United States. the value of the^e rare b*rd_a,cl uit for ir Salroone pariah includes ranges all the way from $J to $ e be- thc nine atatcs of Minnesota. W is- Estimating $5 as an average value. lt;; ron-in Iowa Illinois. Missouri, Ar- the breeding stock and show-pens of pikan a Indian territoiv. Louisiana the citv fanciers tot up to ilie hand- asiul Texas some tigurc of $20,000. The young.tll ame After th'cago Fair chicks arc sold for from 15 to 25!The Syrian rommunit' m Ij« cents each in a rea lv market, whc h b ,an Uro-se dates from a period imrnc- adds a tidy num to the value of tliej.N,ay idiatelv after the world’s fair in Uhi- fancy chicken business here, nnd c'*r cago \ number of these black-eyed, there is an output or about oo.uonv no* aquiiine textile workers troni the eggs a year. Ill scasou these sell in a 11111 I Orient hud an exhibit at the expo i ! etiiugs ot fifteeu for an estimated.c’ t lion W hen it ended, they found average of $1.40. Yes, the chicken bmi them iclves in a strange land writh business is some, business, particu- lea considerable stock of oriental em-! larly when it is remembered that \k*' • broiderieDamascus metal-work, not one of the chicken fanciers who isand -imilar characteristic goods upon ^nakc m- the poulti absoclatiou ihcir hands. They started out to di maHHH Iff ____ MW_______kos chicken raising his only line jo,r i*ot?c of them, working north through ,of endeavor. The money from thc I Kvn 1 Wisconsin as peddlers. They came i chicken business in the city is side-!*r,,r' j to .lane.\illet Madison. Eau ( laire. • line specie, garnered from back-yard kai*d thence to Iai Crosse. They liked coops.j the citv and settled here. In that Not that the chicken business in 1first pioneer band were four men. La Crosse is making anbody rich, t; Sdim Oh. Abraham Slciman. Kills _____________ 1iskaaf. and Alois Asfoor. Two vears .......... ii•aj.j later Aboud Fsris. now one of the mg * principal men of the colony, niovc-d # j his wholesale drygooda establish-» iiuigmiv Bijiwuo vStahlish-! mcnt from Dubu iuc.K ■ I As they pro:pcred in their new surroundings, makiug thc city thettle headquarters for itinerant mcrchan g a diung trips through the country.Hethey sent back to the Orient for their families and neighbors. So th«y transplanted their families, and in thc melting pot the second genera- j tion is becoming homogeneously American.At first the Syrians were a race apart, isolated by their unfamiliar tongue. Arabic is not spoken to any cxteul in La l’ros.«e, nor is English j a common accomplishment in Hyri- j an villages The Oriental custom* j the! prevailed among th^m with almost qII0 the same force n* at home. Of late . aph I ears, however, a gradual change has j |yf|esw The children meet of tin-uj;,]t j \merican-born. au. *er the Arabic of, FDWAHD H. MOFFM\ N■ ■ V,.„.l . .,,,,1 I ..fl k Um Ul| Hall 1 ovil 1 auticn
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jan 29, 1916
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