. The redemption of the city, by Charles Hatch Sears . migrant women givesus therefore the first information covering a largenumber of cases which has ever been published,Polyglot Take New York City, though it may be more thantypical. New York is a city in America, but is ^ h a r d 1 y an American TowEf? Op Babel. A/tIV F9VMOCA• JiiiOO f^Otnuy SiVoeM £. UftO PCM^ceLLAfttovt63.^0 0 I 0S,800 IRE. LAN O Z city. (3) In a singleschool there are twenty-six nationalities; in asingle church (SecondAvenue Baptist) at oneservice twenty-seven na-tionalities were found,while on the street
. The redemption of the city, by Charles Hatch Sears . migrant women givesus therefore the first information covering a largenumber of cases which has ever been published,Polyglot Take New York City, though it may be more thantypical. New York is a city in America, but is ^ h a r d 1 y an American TowEf? Op Babel. A/tIV F9VMOCA• JiiiOO f^Otnuy SiVoeM £. UftO PCM^ceLLAfttovt63.^0 0 I 0S,800 IRE. LAN O Z city. (3) In a singleschool there are twenty-six nationalities; in asingle church (SecondAvenue Baptist) at oneservice twenty-seven na-tionalities were found,while on the streetssixty-six languages arespoken. ]\Iany homesare a Babel. Often themother cannot under-stand the child, nor thechild the mother, andfrequently the grand-mother lives in a foreignland with foreigners, though her kinsfolk. Sheclings to her mother tongue, but her grandchildrendespise it. While this was being written, a boy,whose name was clearly Irish, came to an Italian i7?.zoo t T A LY ?3 0 , Finland - Ruqua Foreifo Boro, New York City 1910. The Church in the Redemption of the City 157 Churcli Vacation School, but he insisted he wasItahan: Me father is Irish, me mother is a VVap (Itahan). It is the rapid neighborhood changes, more Neighborhoodmarked than those of the city as a whole, which ^*g^*so seriously affect the work of the church. Theaccompanying map indicates the changes in par-ticular districts of the old city of New York. The City Problem a Foreign Problem To any one familiar with the life of our greatcities, it is evident that the city problem is a foreignproblem. This is noticeably true of the problem ofdensity. The Federation of Churches of New Yorkmade a careful computation of the distribution offoreigners from figures gathered by the State cen-sus of 1905. It was discovered that every block of Congestion Duegreat density was a foreign block; for example, the ° of^ignersfour densest blocks in Manhattan were found tocontain per cent of Russian parenta
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