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The Officers and Directors of
The National Bank of Commerce of Detroit
extend to you
Hearty Greetings and Sincere Good Wishes
for A Happy and Prosperous New Year

OFFICERS

RICHARD P. JOY
President
WM. P. HAMILTON
Vice-President
HENRY H. SANGER
Vice-President
CHARLES R. TALBOT
Vice-President

SAMUEL R. KINGSTON
Vice.President and Cashier

HARRY S. COVINGTON
Vice-President

CHARLES N. MAYCOCK
Vice-President

0. L. HATT
Vice-President

ROBERT C. WANDEL
Assistant Cashier

L. H. D. BAKER
Vice-President

JOHN W. JOHNSTON
nt Cashier
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ALBERT C. VOSS
Assistant Cashier

II. D. NEWBERRY
Assistant Cashier

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DIRECTORS

SAMUEL R. KINGSTON
Vice-President and Cashier

GEORGE R. FINK
President, Michigan Steel Corp.
D. B. LEE
EDSEL B. FORD
President, Motor Products Co.
President, Ford Motor Company
WILLIAM P. HAMILTON
ALVAN 'MACAULEY
President, Packard Motor Car Co.
Pres., Clinton Woolen Mfg. Co.
CARLTON M. HIGBIE
JOSEPH MACK
President, Keane Hi ghie & Co.
President, Realty Trust Co.
CHARLES H. HODGES
President, Detroit Lubricator Co. EDWARD
i M. MANCOURT
Viceres., Consolidation Coal Co.
S
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CHARLES S. MOTT
t, American Blower Co.
Vice•Pres., General Motors Corp.
Presi RD P. JOY
RICHARD
H . NELSON
President,
President, Nelson Baker & Co.
Treasurer, Packard Motor Car Co.

A CHASSIDICFAMILY, FOLLOWERS OF THE REBBI OF KUSINITZ, BUILDING THEIR
NEW HOME IN THEIR NEW SETTLEMENT IN PALESTINE.

The Foreign Settlement 25 Years After

A quarter of FL century ago the dis-
trict was spoken of as the Ghetto; just
like that, with the definite article. The
word, to be sure, was more pictur-
esque than accurate. "Ghetto," to the
historically minded, brought up a pic-
ture of medieval Italy, of gargoyles
and curfews, of an area confined by
walls and iron gates, and an alien race
marked off by distinctive garb and the
yellow badge. The lower East Side
of New York suggested no such mem-

cries even to its inhabitants. No law
decreed that Jews fleeing tenni East-
ern Europe should dwell there. Econ-
omy of rents and transportation (the
needle-trades shops in the maze of lit-
tle streets East and West of Broad-
way were within walking distance,)
proximity to the landing station and
the bureau of licenses for peddlers,
and perhaps more than all else, sheer
accident, had determined that this
newest wave of Europeans should roll

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up on that bit of the American lit-
toral. But that the halt was to be a
temporary one was evident not alone
from the preceding history of the
quarter but fr on events that present-
ly began to happen.
The so-named Ghetto in the year
WOO was bounded on the East by the
river and can the West by the Bowery.
The outposts of big business skirted it
from the South approximately at
Chatham Square, and at the northern-
most f Tont ier was the Tompkins
Square Park, which at East Seventh
street arose like a fortress to bar the
invader's further progress. Though
the invasion had begun nearly a score
of years before, the conquerors had
not yet contrived to wipe out all traces
of the aborigine A quaint German va-
riety theater on the Bowery, a Roman
Catholic chapel somewhere near the
Jefferson Park, ancient. residences
with carved-oak doors on East Broad-
way, stood as melancholy monuments
to the ousted races. On the extreme
south-eastern fringe remnants of the
dispossessed lingered on, mingling
with their supplanters; so that among
the children of the newcomers Irish '
was synonymous with American.
To the outsider wandering over the

CHARLES M. ROEHM
President, Roehm & Davison
JOHN R. RUSSEL
Vice-Pres., Russel Wheel &
Foundry Co.
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W. SALES
Stier Co.
SALE
MURRAY
P side nt,
H. SANGER
HENRY
H E
Vice-President
ALLAN SHELDEN
Capital st
CHARLES R. TALBOT
Vice•President
CHARLES B. WARREN
Counsel for the Bank

Personalized Service for Every Banking Need

To present clients we recommend (luring the coming year it more intimate understanding
of
is in th is w ay only
our facilities and helpfulness. Make your plans and needs known to us. It ce
ds, ant i give
we can render the humanized service for which National Bank of Commer stan

proof of our real value.
stalk with one of our
For those who feel the need of such a banking connection w e suggest a
paren t.
officers. The advantages of a commercial account with us will be at

THE

N ational Bank of Commerce

OF DETROIT

MEMBER OF FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Poi eige Exchange

Domestic Exclutnge

Sahli/ ikpoxit Vaults

*let!, Dc posit Boxes

Complete record of balance, and s ignatures
is kept at both banks, and customers checks
can be cashed at either without delay.

Saving Accounts
Checking Accounts
Commercial Accounts
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Italian frontier on the West or com-
GENERAL MOTORS BUILDING
I
- Uptown Of
FORT STREET, WEST . - .
ing in from Little - Germany on the
Downtown Bonk: 14.;
Resources $72,374,345
North, the invading hosts seemed a
Capital, Surplus and Profits $5,091,577
homogeneous race with a uniform lan-
guage, culture and tradition. Signs I
(
in Yiddish over the shops, the "kosh-
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er" formula on restaurant and butch-
er's window, the prevalence of the six-
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worship, lent color to the illusion.
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Closer inspection dispelled the error.
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The Ghetto was not a centralized
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s t a l e , but a loose federation of kindred
tribes, with customs, maneers and (h-
with them many a favorite teahouse
warehouses of Caruso olive oil. in the
alts ts 4.1 their 01511. There were Jews
beyond the all frontier who have spil-
A deep sentimental
same block. Propnesy, doubtless, hasl and 1,1 1 1 111'11 111..
from Poland, Galicia, the Ukraine, sprinkling of Russian follows; and not
led
over.
This
sector
has
for
25
years
hand attaches the former inhabitant
Roumania;
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until one reaches the heart of the old
Lithuania, Russia 1111(1
its ricks; yet there eon seem but lit-
to these institutions. But for the rest
been the undisputed ground of the
each group had settled on its own ter-
a sug
tle question as to how the struggle is
instituti ne,• district is there oisn
a much us
elVA, nod these fOr1111•1" D-
they are Americans, like their fare-
likely to end. Unless there shieuld br
mastei s. On the Roumanian .1
r itory, erected its W11
tion of its i4 hil
runners the Irish and Germans, and
ace putting up a spirited re-
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and
while
fret
ly
communing
with
it
and
is- Nah n moiety hoard of• nemies, sistance. Carmen Sylvia cone Iodise a return to free immigration, the orig- with the passage lof time are la • til-
1/
w life.
neighbors, living its on
inal Ghetto is destined to dwindle to
the mostly Slavi. , are progressiveely 11S-
ing mor• and more so. The Gbett44,
I sentimentally named after the htt e a mere cultural vent.. r for its seat
peech,
ranging
from
s
Most
tin, st hlivious of national dilerences, seating their right of possession.
ngs in (111(.1 11 and restaurants with thalae- term! emigres. The newspaper 4411 - 11',, in common with alt foreign of settle-
a of thi,
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pai.S•
to •fietare oractiee, which is the subtl- striking of all is the ly
ti•.istie window displays „I. liver pasts III Old bookshops, the tht•aters are ments in America, is a bird
thorn. Ye ti crossed Grand the middh• n gion Just East of the and chopped egg plant, alternate with
Interpreter.
on, Stanton and
est, divided tl
likely to remain where they an and age.--The
n
wer.
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stir. and were in a new civilizatio.
Ilivingtthe
Italians from spaghetti houses, Garibaldi mfrs
ets
it
th.• defenses of the olde r Houston stre
Pit.
way
and
the
Ghetto—it
rot,:
was still 41111..I the Ghetto—began to
spill over the surrounding cuntry.
The natural harrier Of the East river
itself no longer could hold back the
W. M. HILL
onrushing in, ader. To the South the
E. H. HAMILTON, C. P. A.
1,1 , , remain , of the Irish were drive
.1 of their fast oesses. But it was in
t ' tt North that the greatest havoc was
.4 (ought. Before the first half-decade
INCORPORATED 191I3.
ESTABLISHED 1883.
If the et ntul p had gone by the Ger-
i.: .101 had all but completely retired
fl m the territory, leaving behind (in
II., langeage of the communiques)
444.:4t stores of provisions. The only
ti,es of the defeated people were a
lo,iklful of determined Weinstuben
.• d delicatessin shops. which tried for
a time to resist the tide, only to be in
VIII ir turn submerged or swept away.
Th.. German bank, the bookseller, the
society nulling hall, gave up withou
a struggle. The final surrender was
registered when a Yiddish company of
actors took over the Irving Place
Theater--only for a time, to be sure;
of Commerce Building, Saginaw, Mich.
which goes merely to show how tran-
sitory all such conquests are in Amer-
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ica.
Indeed, the military metaphor can
hardly he sustained to the end of the
story: The Irish and the German-
who had retired before the onslaught-
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of the East Europeans hail given way
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not
before the newest wave of immi -
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-WHERE ONLY THE BEST II AS BEEN CONSIDERED
grants; they had been conquered liy
°e
Customers
MAY E)MiCT TO FIND A.B.SEE ELEVATORS"
the
American spirit. Belonging both
Rosh Ilaslionah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends and
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.. . of them to nations which had tough
for centuries against assimilation 1. :
their Old World neighbors, here in th e
144-4 United States they had from the start
If the heart of an apartment house
I, grasped not only the impossibility of
•
is its elevator service, it must follow
ia]
isolation
but
its
undesirability.
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that the type of elevators installed
m
They . quit the old settleent
volun-
tle pressure
should he determined entirely on the
0 ,-• tarily It took but a lit
at* from the rear to make thew aware
Printing
basis of which will give the maximum
For Printers and Users of
A., that they had long outgrown the con-
service to the tenants.
- 3 - fines of a colony and that they be-
through the seer
new
friends
st longed with the main body of the pop-
E ARE constantly endeavoring to male
more
widening scoN of our men ice. And a retain of the old ones t. stfil
*. ulation.
find., a need for outside
in time the same spirit subdued the
gratifying to up There are times when every printer
•g.
- it any hour of the
k latest conquerors. To begin with, the
is at your
..„..
help pease know that ou r entire plant
A
a reprocntatice.
.
old
Ghetto,
like the island of which it
your
phone,
a
call
will
bring
T
.1.0 or night. Just as near ,1(
h hands of the rioter, will soon be
'Y is a part, was territorially limited.
new specimen hook of type tares,
Expansion could only go so far. There-
s1..
for distribution. It will show that we are germig on in the composition
it
fore, almost from the start, recoloni- ,
h e
Intricate for our complete senice.
.
t e n large or too
ration must he resorted to. By the
held, and we feel that no
year 1905 there was in Greater New
:
I' York not one Ghetto but a chain of
them. Brooklyn had three or four-
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4... in Brownsville, Borough Park, Wit.'
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; . liamsburg, and latterly in Bay Ridge.
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The growing Borough of the Bronx
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drew multitudes away from the home
4. settlement. And then, as the prosper-
,4
ity
of the inhabitants increased and
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An•
they readiusted themselves to the
TI
erican
scene, it was but a step f rhio
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_ _ __ i these newer colonies into the general.
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DETROIT OFFICE
unlabeled precincts of the community.
56 Henry St.
: Today no quarter of the metropolis
hot has its quota of former denizens
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I of the lower East Side.
Meantime the old conquerors—what
MAIN OFFICE
I is left of them in the original haunt ,
—are themselves being slowly forced
OFFICES
52 Vesey St., New York City
Quandt, Supt.
nut by the pressure of later immigra• •
g or, Office Mgr.
PHILADELPHIA
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Wm. Mehnert, Mgr.
DETROIT
tionp. Riding un Madison street fret,
FACTORY
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the Municipal Building thy the bus
BALTIMORE.
Jersey City, N. J.
nosrost
CLEVELAND
which has supplanted the ancient
HARTI ORD
horse car,/ one looks in vain for the
familiar landmarks of a quarter of a
century ago. The Lithuanian .lewish
25 Dump Trucks
• shops and stands and pushcarts which
once held exclusive sway at the South-
' western extremity of the narrow
thoroughfare, have vanished utterly.
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For three or four blocks the Greeks
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are in full possession. Further up the I
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I scene shifts suddenly to Italian. Al

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