The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-30

as house servants, cooks, scrubbers, gardeners
pnters, they crowd out the Cascasian, leaving
thousands of the latter un0mplOved and suffer
Ing for the actual necessaries Of lie.
THE WASH HoUsEs
More Cinnamon are employed In San Fran.
cisco IN Laundry work than in any other Kind OF
labor. In all nuts OF tn" CITY their W, sh houses
are TO he found, every square block containing
from tour to six establishments OF the kind
Nearly al the hotels, ami many Of tho public
Institutions employ them, and the VA hings OF
nine-tenths " tho families in the CRY ars per
formed by thuu. A s,stcm prevails among
these Chinese lauHdr men whetcby tue item ct
ehou rent ~ reduced 10 the most economical
figure. Two,wash firms occupy the same prem
i. cs. and use the same tubs and materials, one
firm working during daylight, and at daik sur
rendering the shop to the other who occupy
aud use 1t until morning. By this system there
II also a saving Ia water aud fuel. AS general
thing Chinese Iaundrymen nro better ironers
than washers. The prices charged by these
laundrymen are OF course much loss than those
fixed by the American aud French. All tho
work IN done by hand, the average Chinaman
not caring to meddle with the mYsi cries OF
steam or complicated MACHINERY. All bundles
int not one OF these establishments runs a
eon. Most OF the wash houses here are sub.
AGENCIES log the different lottery schemes main
taincd by tn Chinese, deriving a small per.
ccntage on all ticket sales.
THRlR nUiLpING rRorrNsrrIrs.
Nom TIE VI gina cur Ea,erp1ss.
The Chinese quartcruf the cityis being rapidly
rebuilt. The pig-oycd and pig-tailed sons of
Confscius work like beavers They are busy
early and late, and both underground and oil
the surface. In their part of tho town the Celes-
tials have kept pace with tile march Of rebuild
ing In that part Of the burned district which Il
IN the hands of the whites In ordinary times no
one ever hears uf Chinese carpenter but now
all are carpenters. one would suppose that
John tile manner In which his eyes are SGT IN
his head being considered, would never he able
to saw a plank square across, yet he manages 10
make all manner Of joints and beNels When a
house much above the ordinary size IA to be
built, they precipitate themselves upon II In
hosts. They ~ at IL much as they set about tun-
Melting through amountain They swarm like
ants and like ants each is doing something
when "A large building Is being rooted by them
1t seems, Mt a little distance. to be covered with
n flock of giant crows. each pecking with all his
might. and squawking with all his ''main." When
"A Chiuaman i excited and is rushing things. he
/, yer, unhappy unless allowed to give tongue
vocal blast, would he AZ difficult as to silence
donkey when In tho midst Of his bray.
We have hinted at the underground labors o
the Mongulians. II may be necessary to explain
that once John Chinaman has come into posses
sion OF piece Of ground, he not untroquentll
builds both up and down. lie has an innat,
love 81 suhterrancan dens and caves In China
town, as IL Is being rebuilt, the underground
apartments are likely to be even more abundant
than In Chinatown IA II 10. In the "bomb
proofs J." and other holes they are digging an,
building, they will have their gambling an'
opium dens down below the sunlight, under
meath the ground.