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Show HEBREW AND HIBERNIAN". Tammany has apparently the kind of leader it requires in Charles Murphy, Mur-phy, whose history is remarkable. The son of a poor Irish laborer who did work up to his 88th year, he evoluted from a ship caulker to a street car Hriver to a salnotikppner. and then to a lucrative political office, gaining in the course of about thirteen years $1,000,-000. $1,000,-000. He Is, however, kind-hearted, charitable, brave and a born leader. He has the executive faculty which is pronounced pro-nounced to be rarer than genius. He is sympathetic for the poor and has raised his family along with himself and one of his nephews, whom he adopted, will graduate at West Point this year. He will probably found an aristocratic family, like the Vanderbilts and Astors, whose beginning were just as humble. He is sober, has no vices and goes to mass on Sundays. Had his father remained in Ireland this son would probably have never risen much above the glebe. If New York is the Jew's, opportunity, itfa also that of the Irishman, and I am told that though the Hebrews are crowding the Hibernians Hiber-nians from some of their strongholds, the successful Israelites, the rich merchants, mer-chants, who abound on Broadway, are taking bright Irishmen into partnership. partner-ship. Signs over the big stores show that this is not now uncommon. Not long ago a cartoon represented a man with a telescope looking at the sign of one American firm amid a thousand Jewish ones, but while American names may still be in the vocative, j Irish ones are growing more and more frequently coupled with those of commercial com-mercial IsraeJ, Randall in Catholic Columbian. |