The New York herald., 1870-01-29
The JkPS IN CALIFORNIA.
An Interesting Sketch Of the Colony Near
Gold Hill.
Irrom the San Francisco Morning Call

From the San Francisco Morning CALL
Up 10 this time the Japanese have accommodated
themselves IN their household matters at consider
able inconvenience, but this will be at an end
and IN a few weeks they Will be settled down as
own each family reposlng 'rlnder It's own vino ana
iig tree" Among their number are four carpenters
and these men are now engaged IN erecting build
ings Tor the use OF the party Ine houses TO be
Twelve In number dimensions thlrty-slX Ivy thirty,
each containing four rooms and buLt after tue
real Japanese fashion, with low, pitched roofs
the caves extending lar over the sills and forming
balcony or awning around the entire house. The
outer walls and partitions are all OF sliding panels
that can he shut together at the corners aud iodcd
into boxes, leaving nothing but the roof and It's
supports, during the hot summer days, afforalng
luxury that can only be exceeded by taking Off
your desh ana sitting IN your bones.n The parii.
ton walls are or paper, the outer walls OF wood;
as kitchen, and the TWO 0thers--iu each house
Tor silk raising, where the worms Will be Kept and
nursed and the silk weayed and otherwise manpu.
lated. l had omitted to mention that SILK culture
Will form an Important branch Of this enterprise,
$4,000 mulberry plants having already been out
FOR a beginning. me Japanese carpenters are
ingenious workmen, and their work IL done with
marvellous neatness. curious feature OF their
houses is that they do not contain nail, all OF the
joints and timbers being dovetailed together by
many Ingenious devices, and the whole work, even
10 ihe raters, IL as smooth as he had been polished
down with sand paper And the Japanese
neat people, Tor they aee no paint 10 hide anykblem
lshes OF construction or 0rnanentatlOn, no flgree
In the Dullding Is exposed Every morning as reatl-
larly as she cooks the breakfast or sweeps tho floor
tue japanese housewife takes wet clotn and
the whole interior Of the dwelling leaving part
untouched, and no stain or dirt spot to mar It's
cleaniy appearance. Then the japanese do not
come into the house with muddy boots, after the
style OF the American sovereign but having
covered the floor with neat mating, Always Ie-
move the dirty sandals before stepping upon it.
stood and watched the Japanese capeniers at their
work for some minutes, ana noticed the peculiarly
OF their movements. The Japanese works toward
him''-that Is. insI cad Of showing plane Irom him
he reaches out acts the plane upon the boarat arms
length, and pulls 1t toward him; and he cuts, saws
anu chops IN the same way HIS saws fixed in
handles like butchers cleaver, and the teeth slant
or "raken toward the handle. The planes are con-
structed like ours but the wooden portion is very
thin and wide The adZe Is fastened TO the end OF
ho0ped stick likesthe handle OF one OF the crooked
canes that are worn on the arm on Montgomery
street, and altogether their tools are different from
ours yet cannot observe that they are awkward In
appearance or awkwardy handled. rne men are
bright, Intelligent and polite lifting their hats and
"bOWl63 gracefully 10 strangers, and the women stay
AZ nome, 10 the cooking, take care OF the babies,
keep the house In order and manage pretty much al
American housewives DO, even TO the wearing the
Grecan bend. Take then all in all they are in cy~ry
respect superior race 10 tue chinese, and re-
semoe them In no manner except In their ply sical
appearance.