Part 2

The thanks of the author are due the many writers whose works he has freely used, the members of his staff, and Miss Alice M. Guernsey for helpful suggestions, and the Rev. F. Mason North, D.D., for reading the manuscript and for valuable criticisms.

J. R. H.

CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS, New York City, April, 1912

ILLUSTRATIONS

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“Where Us Fellows Has to Play” Frontispiece

A Jewish Immigrant Boy 17

A Little Maid of Italy 17

The Home of a Russian Peasant 48

A Russian Moujik and His Family 48

From the “Church of All Nations,” New York City 66

An Italian Kindergarten (Penn.) 74

How the Chinese Babies Ride 82

Rescued Slave Girls (New York City) 82

CONTENTS

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I. Who Are They? 13

II. Why Do They Come? 21

III. Our Jewish Neighbor 35

IV. Our Russian Neighbor 43

V. Our Italian Neighbor 51

VI. Our Chinese Neighbor 59

VII. Makers of Good Neighbors 69

VIII. Good Neighbors and Bad 77

IX. Neighbors to the World 87

WHO ARE THEY?

“Dago,” and “Sheeney,” and “Chink,” “Greaser,” and “Nigger,” and “Jap.” The Devil invented these terms, I think, To hurl at each hopeful chap Who comes so far over the foam To this land of his heart’s desire To rear his brood, to build his home, And to kindle his hearthstone fire. While the eyes with joy are blurred, Lo! we make the strong man sink, And stab the soul, with the hateful word, “Dago,” and “Sheeney,” and “Chink.”

—Bishop McIntyre.