Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-06-27
How Destitute A>iatics are Cared for Il,
london.

The London DAILY News says:
There is no place in London TO
chronological study like The West Indi,
Dock-road. A group of Lascars, will
their bushy locks and swarthy skins
contrasts strangely with the solitar,
Chinaman who leans thoughtfully
against the wall, his pigtail over hi.
shoulder; q Malay with yellow eyes
long straight hair, and strong jaw, i:
conversicg pantomimically with
tall, straight, hawk-eyed New
Zealander, whose check and fore
head are Enthusiastically tattoed. There
are full blooded negroes from Gambia
and half-cast Portuguese from Goa, na
tives of the Friendly Island, and lisson
Cingalsse, and representatives of per
haps half a dozen other races neither
easy to be distinguished at a. glance
nor capable of being understood By
any Englishman not endowed with TIL
gift of tongues.
These dusky foreigners are loungint
in front of their home, a large bricl
editice with the inscription " strangers
Home for Asiatics, Africans and Soutl
Sea Islanders" The history of this
institution is not q long one. Twenty
years ago London swarmed with miser
able Asiatics, who wandered shiver'
i'll " shout our streets in a state
of forlorn destitution. During the
three years 1854, IS ana '5G upward
Of a hundred of them died in the por,
Of London, some in their miserable
lodgings, some in the streets. Forty
inquests were held on bodies Of
Lascars, nineteen within the course Of
few weeks, and 1901 sick Lascars
were admitted into the Dresdnought
Hospital alone. Two hundred of them
were regular beggars in the streets OF
London. The deplorable condition OF
these miserable strangers in a foreign
land impressed several philanthropists
with the urgency of providing q
suitable home for them, and such
as them. Tho Maharaiah Dunleep
Singh come forward with muniticent
contribution; the Queen, the native
princes, mobiles, and merchants OF
India, and the British public, literally
gave for the work; and the building,
the foundation stone of which was laid
by Prince Albert, was opened in 1857.
Since the opening ofthe Home, upward
of 5, 600 natives of India, China, East
and West Africa, and from the Malay
continent end the islands of the South
Pacific, have been sheltered, main
tanned, provided with employment, and
sent home.
Some of the temporary dwellers in
the Home earn excellent wages, partic.
ularly the Cinnamon, of whom the
Americans are very fond as cooks and
stewards, A Chinaman came over from
Antwerp the other day, his ship having
been sold there. His wages had been
f8 per month, and as he could not gel
the same wages out of the port of Lon.
don, he deposited ESQ in the
savings bank, and paid his fare
as passenger to New York,
rather than make himself cheap by &C.
ceptlng lower wages than those he had
been receiving. Some of the South
Sea Islanders also earn high wages
and among the largest depositors are
the "Doctors, as the native India,
apothecaries are called, who have un
dergone course of training as dis
pensers. These voyage to the Yves
Indies on board Of ships carrying car
goes of coolies, where they act az dis
pensers and interpreters between til,
white courageous and. the coolies.