Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-27
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about all. An excellent subject, like smallpox,
to play upon thSfears and fancy with, but, after
all, very few "catch it."
From the Mexican boundary to the British
line and west of Nevada, there is some eight
hundred thousand population, living in Two
states and one territory. Almost their entire
trade centers here. Added to this is a large por-
ton of that from Arizona, Utah, Idaho and
Montana.
1t is an inland commerce that pays large
profits, dealing almost exclusively in the last
named states, with miners who are willing to
pay roundly for their supplies Compared with
the entire traffic but little is manufactured here.
Nearly all comes from the east and Europe.
The chief manufactures are woolens, blankets,
and the coarser qualities of mems wear for the
mining camps and ranches. The Missouri
wooden mills make all there are in the market,
besides those brought from abroad. This cor
| pOration has been consolidated with the Pacific,
and now constitute a single company. Their
employees are mostly Cinnamon, earning an
average of ninety cents a day, and boarding
| themselves, excepting lodging, which the COM
| pany furnishes. No better blankets are made
anywhere than at the Mission. Their reputa-
ton is worldwide, owing TO two things-quali-
ty of wool, Californian and Australian, and care
in the manufacture, using the best of staples
and machinery. Stewart of New York pur-
chases all that are sold outside the Pacific mar
ket. They are also making carriage robes of
| quality equal TO the best blankets, and of ele-
CANT designs, retailing at twelve dollars apiece.
Agricultural machinery is made extensively
and various other kinds to a limited extent
| Machinists command from three to five dollars
| per day, and are scarce at that The emma
| men in the labor market hold the balance OF
| power, rendering strikes impossible. The lsrish-
man knows that, as soon as he strikes, the pig
tail is ready to step in, and hence the intense
and blind hostility of the Hibernians to the
celestials Many employers prefer the latter;
always industrious, never idle or drunk or dis
orderly; rarely before the courts; neat, thrifty,
quick to learn and minding their own business.
They are an important and indispensable element
to this section. 1t is hard to see how business
could go on without them. Their only vice is
| opium smoking, but this was taught them by
white men-Englishmen-in their greed of
money-getting by the opium traffic. Many of
them spend sixteen and twenty dollars month
for this drug, but they trouble no one, as do
| the Erins when they have a drop too much,
which comes quite often. In face of facts, the
character of the Chinese. their good conduct,
sobriety, industry, fidelity and aptness,
| their treatment by California as a state, and by
some classes in society, is an outrage and injus-
| tiee to them, and a stigma upon the good name
Of the state. Experience is showing people here
that they are making mistake-pursuing a
policy specially injurious to the welfare of the
whole coast.
But the early Cal(ornians-the "forty-niners"
are slow to learn the arts and ways of progress.
Many were southern men, born and raised
under the regime of slavery, and believe in the
rights of no race except the Anglo-Saxon. The
newcomers are getting CONTROL in wealth and
numbers, and are bringing the Others into line,
though never so reluctantly.
San Francisco is city OF intense peculiari-
ties. 1t was settled and built up under the fever
and stimulus of adventures from every nation,
bent on sudden riches. All days in the week
were the same-holidayS were omitted in their
almanac. The traces Of this heated and anxious
life remain. Last evening Sunday on our way
to church we passed several theatres, each with
| thronging crowds at its doors. Billiard rooms,
dance houses, play rooms of all sorts are in full
| blast, while the churches are well attended. Il
| seems as though all the populace are on the
streets, bound somewhere. No one seems to
| care where any one else is going. The play
house is as much matter of course as the
| al,
Jewish element, who profess to keep Saturday
But while they keep open shop on Sunday, this
profession is but a badge of hypocrisy In time
this looseness will disappear. We notice a
marked improved in two years; fewer stores
open, places of worship better attended.
But nowhere is there iany disturbance In a
months stay we have seen no row, not even
dog fight to draw around the unwashed. Every
where there is remarkable quiet and courtesy /;
there is peculiar nonchaance and Ichivalry all
over the state, and especially here. California
society is democratic; there is a delicate sense
| of honor and fair play among the leading clas-
ses Of business men, to degree unusual for
| new country. In this respect il compares favor
ably even with the oldest states. From the
earlier reputation of the country many are
happily disappointed who come here anticipat-
ing that business is done as by curb-stone bro
kers. The mining stock exchange, that has
given California negotiations their repute
abroad, is fair representative of the character
of the merchants, bankers, and traders general
ly. The average of wealthy men have not made
their fortunes in mining, but in legitimate and
regular trade. Usually the schemers, adven-
turers, and business gamblers are engaged in
manipulating these stock excitements in order
to dupe the "fats" who have some money, and
| are anxious to try a hand somewhere. They
are curse to genuine mining and the state.
In the insane asylum at Stockton are some
fourteen hundred patients A large proportion
are there from disappointment, fortunes
wrecked, hopes blasted, purposes unaccom-
plished. Let it be understood that success is
attained in California by the same laws
| and processes as anywhere else; that
brains, industry, integrity and capacity are aids
to victory, though, perhaps, the same degree of
them may secure better harvest than In other
sections 1t depends mostly on what men wish
to engage in and what their tastes are.
A few evenings since DR.. Stone, formerly Of
1
recent mining stocks furore, over which thou
sands went half mad, many lost, few behind
the curtain won, while they chuckled at the
fools outside. A handful of sharpers managed
the entire programme based on nothing. He
has just begun services in his new church, an
imposing and elegant structure. We know not
where its beautiful, chaSte, cheerful interior can
be equaled. 1t would serve as a superior model
for the new Piedmont church, easily surprising
the new Methodist and Universalist. Its repro
duction there would give Piedmont church the
handsomest and most fitting interior we know
/ of IN large Atfantte cities. Dr. Stone is
meeting with abundant success, Indispensable
to large congregation. The same may be said
Of DR.. Stebbins, the two leading clergymen on
the coast, though the former has a fervor OF
manner, a pointed, pithy and glowing style,
that gives him wider influence and popularity
than the scholastic elegance and precision Of
his compeer. Each is doing a valuable work,
cordially sustained by large circles of coworkers
and friends.
| Among the business interests should be in
cluded the fruit, vegetable, meat and fish can
ing establishment of Messrs. Cutting & Co. of