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streets on the Yyest side whose low buildings and quaint old rooms are filled principally with native Americans.The Italian Quarter.Overcrowding is not greater on Esisex street in the Jewish quarter than it is in Mulberry street in the Italian qoar-_ . ter. In Little Italy there is no such 5 i thing as home life. The Italian rarely ^ j comes to this country with the idea of ^ 1 becoming ft good American citizen. His idea is to work here at high wages long enough to save what will be a cotnpe-j teney when he returns to the old coun-' try, and he regards America as a kind : of purgatory which mmst be passed ‘ through before he enters the paradise • of ease and prosperity in his native : Naples. There is only one clean thing ' in the averugo Italian tenement house room, and that is the bod. This is certain to be high, soft and sipotless. It is in the bed alone* tluit the Italian housewife apparently trikes pride. The food is execrable, rooms frequently go uncleaned from r.he beginning of a family’s tenancy until its departure, and the general effect of Italian residence ujxni a tenement house is bad, yet the 1 bads nre always clean. Although the j evil does not reach as great a develop-; meut. among the Italians as it docs ' among the Jews the most flagrant instances of overcrowding have .been found in the Italian district. The ordinary proceed it re is for the family itself to sleep in its bods and to rent mattresses with a blanket to lodgers, who sleep- thus upon the floor. I have fre-fjuontly seen an Italian tenement in ; which at 1 o’clock in the morning one could not possibly make one's way across the room without disturbing and probably trending upon some sleeper. Considerations of privacy and delicacy are utterly lost sight of in such places. This possibly accounts in some measure for the somewhat common immorality of the rtalinns.The Jewish Qu*rtcr.
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Syracuse Sunday Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Jan 20, 1895
Page 5
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