Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-03
EErrER FROM SAN FnAscrsco.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 80, 1876.

LETTER FROM SAN FRASCEsCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 80, 1876.
Capital is sensitive at all times,
but since the attempt If the Repub 4
llcans TO raise a rebellion in the South
capital in this city is becoming even
more fsensitive.p Bankers are not so
accommodating as before this political
merchants are="hedging.n
and all classes of business met are re-
stricting rather than extending their
operations. Some of the banks, il Is
saian are calling in their loans, also
some of the SENTINEL correspondept's
creditors. This shows an unsettled
state of affairs, and that a financial crash
is expected in consequence OF the i'm
pending political troubles. In case
there is no serious trouble, there will
at any rate be a serious demoraliZiny
Influence felt throughout the various
trades and professions. There are now
five or six thousand men in this city
out OF regular employ ment, and at
least half that number of women. A
panic in trade circles would more than
double this number of oilers. This is
owing totwoc causes: the Chinese, and
the additional fact that the population
Of the city is too large for its amount of
business. In fact, we are ten years
ahead of our natural growth. The
same statement applies to hotels, thea
ters, newspapers, and other necessary
evils. The Palace Hotel, otherwise
known aS
SharOn's White Elephant,
Has $50 boarders, with accomlnoda
lions forIl2,O00. And many of these
are "taken in" at reduced rates to ''till
up" The Bonanza Kings have two
mortgages on the ''elephant''-ore for
81 900 900, at Z per cent. per year. and
another for S750,0o0, at 6 per cent.
The establishment loses about $780,
600 a month, counting the heavy
interest. The Grand Hotel just
about makes both ends NEE. and
bre d. Right in the face OF this eX
| perience Lucky Baldwin is building
another elephant" with 495 room-.
In view of all these hotels it would
seem that the price of accommodations
would con Q down; but they all main
yam blSb EiHtS, anu bIdlifh 4
Hence, the private boarding houses,
scattered all over the city, and The less
toned hotels, kept on the European
plan, all do a land -otfice business.
Our city is also notably improving in
The matter. Of buildings. New houses
are springiDg up, like mushrooms, on
all sides. Yet the price of rent re-
mains the ame Landlords evidently
underrate the demand, by the exorbi-
a n rentals demanded.
J43 chinese social Equality.
IT, San francisco leads the Pacific coast
lie the matter of Chinese eQuality-po-
lilieally and socially. On the seventh
of November last the first Chinaman
that ever voted in this city, or on si,e
the coast, cast his vote in tho Second
ward. He had been natnralized two
years previous. Also. the first China
man that aver tasted Duptial bliss, with
a white woman, legally, did so In this
'cify last week. But before she would
debase herself, she receive from John
$4,000, as the price of her suppo-ed
virgin affections. She is now living
with her pig tail husband, in a Chinese
house on Dupont street, near Clay
right inf the midst of Chinatown. That
woman must have a cast iron constitu-
ton. sHeT name was Fannie Waters
an old maid IF a debateable age. She
bad been employed "a a governess.
and IN Sundays would improve her
shining hours in teaching a class of
heathcns at a Chinese Sunday-school.
There sha met All Wah. Esq the boss
of laundry, Hence this pig tail story
Of crooked passion.