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Show x NEW YORK AS A M FOREIGN CITY. - . , , s In the city of New York there are only 737,477 white persons born of native parents, or but 21.4 per cent of the population of the city. This statement means that j out of every one hundred persons . living within the municipal boundaries boun-daries of New York seventy-eight are either foreigners, or the chU-dren chU-dren of foreign-born parents, or colored people. New York, however, how-ever, is not the first, but the second city of the country having the lar- gest foreign-born population. Fall River, Mass., is first in that respect. re-spect. Official figures show that there are in New York city more males under twenty-one years of Slavonic parentage than of any other people, and the number of Slavonic men more than twenty-one twenty-one years of age exceeds that of any other nationality except Germans and Irish. In the Fourteenth Assembly As-sembly District of New York co., the percentage of Hebrew families with nine children each is six times as great as the Protestant percentage, percent-age, while the number of Hebrew families with no children is about one-half the Protestant percentage. II. McMillen, Leslie's Weekly. |