The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-18
TIE CELESTIiLS In CAL FoRNlA.
business Habits Of John Chinaman ON the
Pacific SlOpe-Views of Ono Of the Boston
ExcursiOnists-The Gambling Places, Opium

business Habits Of John Chinaman ON the
Pacific Slope-views of Ono Of the Boston
Excarsonists-The GambIiug Places, Opium
Dens, &c.
[San Francisco Correspondence Boston Commercial
Bulletin, July 49, .
Many OF the signs OF the great Chinese warehouses
do not signify the actual names OF the partners; but
the title that the firm adopt which Is handed down
TO their SUCCESSORS, who become the '& Co.. Thus,
Twang Sing q Co. may stand for Flower OF the Ea t
& Co., and Long See i Co., Fortunes Favors & Co.
but the more democratic establishments of An He
sam Sing may be supposed to bear their real names
prenxed TO the announcement that they do washing
A visit TO the Chinese quarters in Sacramento and
Dupont streets and the cross lanes Of that vicinity Is
brig to this country all their manners and customs
OF living, dressing and doing Asiness, exhibiting
John is packed in very cIosey-closer, much closer
than the Irish population. and, Notwithstanding the
less incident 70 sScs the qaarter'
large communities. Here you come upon little
shops with queer signs in tea chest characters,
written on orange coored paper aud the shop filed
with PACKAGES OF dried mimims, bales OF edible moss
and odd shaped jars OF China sweetmeats, sharks
fins, pats Of butter, or something like it that
locks like a small unbaked biscuit dipped III
yellow cclre The proprietor, solemn old
Uhiuaman, with round spectacles, is gravey porIng
his account book, and reckoning by the assist.
ance of Little square frame with longitudinal
wires upon which are strung large beads or little
spheres. One string represents tens another hun
dreds and another thousands. He moves them up
and down IN counting, and can read 80j IRON the
column, before putting it down with his cameTs
hair neil on the thin paper OF h Chinese book, In
odd looking characters from right to left.
Peripatetc cobblers, on little stools, with kit OF
tools beside them sit at shady corners and ply their
trade, repairing shoes that seem past use vita
cutting up meat In the oldest kind OF
style, and d. utilizing every part Of it and dis.
or inc Ms ne p IN
fJr table, to the scraps or his ears and nose for
poor purchasers; A. really seems as II Chinaman
tanned an infusion OF pork in some form. have at
grand dinner eaten the celebrated bird nest soup,
trace OF ham fat In it, Then we come to long cellars
flied with Cinnamon, thick as they can Sit making
Goth and other ea cigar mere
quick sale al the East In competition with those in
our own factories. Chinese BARRIERS shaving the
hand as lie sits with his legs crossed little square
box that catches the messes OF hair that drop from
wood for SALE chinese tailors and shoe and hat
stores, baskets, bamboos tea chests, chop sticks,
China bowls, pipes stores and trades OF every de-:
scriptlOn in full operation and the street full of
Chinese In every direction.
Some OF the large wholesale stores have quite the
aspect OF wholesale stores OF fifty years ago, and
its occupants Will be found to be two or three quiet,
very polite Cinnamon In dark blue and black silk,
with three or four porers or servants waiting IN the
en- ering and tea and cigars served, during which
ceremony compliments and conversation opens the
sale merchants are very rich and wei educated.
The gambling places whose name Is legion,
always have sentinel seated just inside the outer
door, win rope bell pull to alarm the players and
without the aid Of policeman 1t Is impossible for
an American to obtain admission, probably owing to
strict police regulations. ot
Opium smoking dens have been OMEN described.
and are here simply little square, disagreeably
smelling rooms, with two or three raised platforms
mat couch or two, and sort Of wooden pillow for
the smokers and two or three hunks, where they
are occasionally laid away to sleep or the effects OF
their dcbauch
this CITY are chiefly those who inhabit their houses
OF i'll fame In the narrow alleys that from sac
ramentO street to those that ruth parallel to it, These
unfortunate creatures appear to be girls of from
thirteen to twenty, and with faces and eyebrows
elaborately aud not inartstically painted with
Chinese vermilllon and India ink, and arrayed in
SNOWY Chinese SIX embroidered dresses, costume,
person of the masculine gender who passes their
domics. Respectable Chinese women are few in
numbers and rarely seen In public We saw but two
said to be wives OF merchants here; they were
laborously hobollng along In plain SIX dresses.
except the paint upon their faces.