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betAveen six and fourteen, in a population of something over a
hundred and eleven thousand that inhabited forty-five streets in
the Seventh, Tenth, and Thirteenth Wards.    All of these w^ere for-
 

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eigners, most of them Russian, Polish, and Roumanian Jews, and
they are by all odds the hardest-worked and, barring the Bohe¬
mians, as a class, the poorest of our people. According to the
record, scarce one-third of the heads of families had become natu¬
ralized citizens, though the average of their stay in the United
States Avas between nine and ten years.    The very language of our