Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — Americanism in the Making. [ARTICLE]

Americanism in the Making.

Almost anything you can think of, it is said, can be seen somewhere in that long, erratic historic street that strays upward from the point of Manhattan island, cutting across the streets and avenues of the world’s largest city at its own sweet will. Something once seen there by Mr. J. B. Kerfoot, the author of Broadway, indicates that the enterprise, the daring and adaptability to new conditions that were characteristic of the early settlers in America are still characteristic of the people who are crossing, the Atlanfic to our shores in the twentieth century. j s One day, says Mr. Kerfoot, I saw an Italian peasant woman, fresh landed from the steerage and dressed in all the fete-day regalia of her native province, chase a Broadway car for half a block in front of the post office. She caught up with it from behind when it stopped at Park place, and failing to notice the entranceway, grasped the brake handle of the rear platform, threw a sturdy, red-stock-inged leg over the rail, and swung herself aboard with the satisfied air of having successfully surmounted one of the early difficulties of the new country. Broadway smiled, collected her fare, and went on about its business. — Youth’s Companion.