CZECHOSLOVAKS IN AMERICA
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and the Dakotas. Czechoslovak immigrants do not congregate in slums. In fact there are no Czechoslovak slums in the United States. The Slovaks of course came chiefly to Pennsylvania, seeking employment in mines and steel mills.
Czech labor in the urban districts consists almost entirely of skilled workmen. Merchants are plentiful, and professional men of all branches abound. A directory of Bohemian merchants in Chicago, for the year 1900 , and one which even for its time was necessarily incomplete, gives 266 grocers, 45 physicians, 43 lawyers, 40 custom tailors, 22 music conservatories. In 1917 there were in Chicago 46 male and 22 female medical practitioners and 78 lawyers. Among the professional classes the most numerous, however, are school teachers. A reliable estimate places the number of teachers of Czech descent in Nebraska at 290. College and university professors we meet in relatively large numbers, three of them on the staff of Yale University. Czech Catholics have a college and seminary in Lisle, Illinois, and many parochial schools and academies. Non-Catholic Czechs in the larger cities maintain schools, usually in session on Saturdays and Sun-
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