Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-17
THE CHINESE In CALIFORNIA.
A Dreadful PIetare OF the way shey
Live and Where-rheirk Fifth, Parsi-
mSRy, and Idolatry.

: A Dreadful Picture OF the way tbey
Live and Where-Their Fifth, Parsi,
msny, and Idolatry.
, The San Francisco Herald of q
: recent date has the following: = q
Il The steamer China recently
brought 1850 Chinese. OF these
thirty two were womenma ,9aivy4 ,
| True they did not scatter them
selves among friends, nor did they
| go to the different hotels and lodg-
4 ing houses in the city. The whole T.
| 218 men went to one house, which be-
| fore their arrival contained about
1 Z, GOO of their countrymen. This
house is known as the Globe Hotel,
| and is situated at the corner Of Jack.
son and Dupont streets. At either
entrance number of Cinnamon are
seated, selling fish, or fruit, or meat,
| or other Chinese dainties. The stairs
and walls are perfectly black. .'''i
At the top of the first fight of
stairs is long, narrow, dark pas
sage TO the right are a number of
small rooms, Occupied in some cases
by Cinnamon, and in others by
Cinnamon and their families.
On the passage way, and
directly outside the doors of these
rooms, a number of fires are lit,
and over them are pots or cans,
or some cooking ustensils. Here
the walls are perfectly black from |
the smoke of those fires, which
scatters round the building, and is
almost suffocating Now and then,
when a side door opens, q faint
glimmer of light is thrown on the
passage, and by its assistance the
end is reached, which leads to the
outside gallery of the court in the
centre of the building. -
Here it might be expected a
breath Of fresh air could be OBJ
tanned, but this open air was found
to be even more offensive than that
in the interior of the building. In
the yard underneath was collec-
tion of filth which loaded the air
as it rose with foul and unendur-
able stencil. In addition to this
there are three filthy water-closets
on the gallery which are sufficient
to bring disease to the entire local
ity. From this another flight of
stairs is assembled and the third
story reached. This is, if possible,
worse than the other. In many
of the rooms the newly arrived
Cinnamon were to be seen sitting
together in groups, while all their
bundles and other paraphernalia
lay strewn around the floor. Some
were lying down on mats, sleeping
soundly, and others we're engaged
in an examination of their effects
or mending their clothes. In other
rooms on this fiat there were shoe
and tailors and matmakers
at work, while others were engaged
in the manufacture of Chinese
baskets. Women and little ones
squatted around the fires. "a. ~
Up another flight of stairs and
the top story is reached. Here the ,
greater portion of the new arrivals
were slowed away, as many as
twenty occupying the same room of
about twenty feet square. Many of
them looked anxious and bewil-
dered, astonished, no doubt, at the
new quarters. This floor contains
the gambling room and temple of
the Chinese Joss. This room is
neat apartment, and is kept scrupu-
lousy clean and tidy. To the right
of the door or entrance are three
small glass cases, each of which /
contains small bronze statue, er
Joss In front of these statues are
three small tables, On which are ar
ranged, in neat order, joss sticks,
lamps, which ale burning, large
precious stones, and
bouqets contained in large vases.
From the centIe of the ceiling, in
front of each joss, a small lamp
hangs burning. Around the room
are number of very well executed
pictures, representing pagodas, val
Ieys, rivers and cities. This room
is continually guarded by fat,
burly Chinaman, and very few are
admitted to it except to worship.
This hotel is rented by DR.. Low
Ci Jah, a Chinaman and it is sup
posed he has never less than two
thousand persons lodging in it at one
time. Men, women and ehildren'are
huddled together without regard to
sex. AS many as ten or twelve,
perhaps, different families are to be
found in one room. /,