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Show Tenement Army of Wall Street United Clubhouse l :id Playground Provided by Corporations. New York. Wall street with .its skyscrapers houses an office population of 800,000 by day and is held by a tenement garrison of 10,000 by night. Wall street Is the sole livelihood of tli is skeleton force of nightfolk. In discharge of a sense of obligation It has quietly fostered an interesting piece of citizenship work the last ten years. The major result of the work, leaders lead-ers say, has been to convert the district dis-trict from New- York's most polyglot belt, with 1,400 families' representing 23 nationalities, into probably its most" closely knit, most homogeneous community. com-munity. Financed by 1,000 Corporations. The work is financed by 1,000 corporations, cor-porations, firms and individuals under the name of the Bowling Green Neigh-borhooo Neigh-borhooo associations. The activity is expressed, for example, ex-ample, in terms of a model four-story dwellingliouse on West street for headquarters; head-quarters; a $500,000 playground covering cover-ing nine city lots on the river front ; 25 flourishing orchestras and clubs for young people; nine social nnd political clubs and lodges for adults; educational educa-tional classes, health clinics and community com-munity services in general which the association operates either singly or in conjunction with uptown agencies.' Irish pioneers, later joined by Aus-trians, Aus-trians, Syrians and Greeks, bead the census in downtown Manhattan, which also includes Slavs, Turks, Armenians, Serbs, Rumanians, Scandinavians and other nationalities seemingly too diverse di-verse ever to bring together. Yet racial demarcations, socially consid-ered; consid-ered; are disappearing, association heads assert. Common Employment has Helped. Common employment has helped to ward this coalescence. Wall street buildings like the Equitable, Empire and the various banks carry on their payrolls for cleaning and other work some 3,731 women and 2,051 men of the neighborhood. They work split tricks at the start and the end of the night, as a rule, and often double in restaurants at noon. Annual earnings for families In the district, with both parents working, average $1,G00 each, according to Paul Franklin, executive director of the association. Group activities and the second generation gen-eration of children have been the prin cipal factors in the "get-together" phenomenon presented by the community, commu-nity, It was said. The association has long since dispensed with interpreters. Where grownups have not picked uf. English their offspring are on hand ic piece out. To all practical purpose! the 23 nations speak a common tongue |