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Show 1 1 New York's "Ghetto." A vivid picture of New York's lower low-er East side is drawn by Mary Frank, librarian of . the, Itivington street branch of the New York Public library, li-brary, in the Century. She writes in part as follows : "The street was crowded with people. peo-ple. Up and down, as far as the eye could range, rows of push-carts lined the curb. Gray-bearded patriarchs, mothers with babies in their arms; bargained for fruits and vegetables, hardwa.re, handkerchiefs, hats, underwear, under-wear, furbelows of a thousand kinds. Aged grandmothers, bent, stood aside ' from the crowd and gazed with tired and wrinkled faces on the rushin" ; life; and there were children, children, I children, dodging In and out, running I up and down.- everywhere. ' Over it I all the flickering torches of the push-j push-j carts threw an Old-World light. This I was the very heart of New Y'ork's Ghetto, a great city Itself, of -vague and distant boundaries, all within our Greater New York." |