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Show IS A GREAT CITY OF FOREIGNERS New York is a city of foreigners. ' How great Is the percentage of jm- j migrants Is illustrated by a bulletin on the mother tongues of tho peo-t peo-t pie of that city. One iu every five persons in tho metropolis speaks Yiddish or Hebrew. Nearly one mil- lion of the Inhabitants are Jews, v German is spoken by IS per cent, !j Italian 12 per cent, Polish 3 per cent; & French, Swedish and Magyar by 1 J per cont each. ( In Manhattan Borough one In ev- cry three of the population is Jew. Tho Germans and Italians are al most as numerous. II No other city in the world has j such a great representation of for-i for-i eign-bonu New York contains more Germans than any city in Germany outside Berlin. There are more Irish there than in Dublin; more Jews than in ' Jerusalem; more Italians than In. any city other than Rome. And the- groat inflow continues. No wonder the problem of what to do with our Immigration Is worrying the law makers In Washington. oo |