Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-07-08
J Hrase1ers Views n the California
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MfaWftSeassF: Hahe who, on his
tour through the Pacific states and
territories, spent few days in San
francisco, writes TO a friend the fol-
lowing actm,ntA 81 what he saw Of the
Chinese in that city:
= Entering the Chinese quarters
from DapentstreeksssessBoandse eur-s
selves onss1aeksaasstneet, stlse apriaei-
pal business asNk pls~ssre lecality of
tile heathens. The first building that
attracted our attention was the thea
TIRE. the ,fraRt sQf which swass decorated
with bright colored fags aud Chinese
lanterns. AIittle distance beyond
we passed the commission house Of
Wong Hong & Co, next door to
which there. was a butcher shop.
This we entered, ostensibly to buy
some strawberries, and while +. kept
the butcher engaged in conversation,
] looked at the articles exposed for
sale. The principal meats we're dried
chickens, dried birds, with the en-
trails in them, and a few dried rats.
There were also many kinds Of fish
the sucker, smelts, ana q fislf called
by the Chinese 'Ghunghing,,. selling
most readily. Herring, dried and
packed, filed the shelves, extending
along the low ceiling. or vegetables
there were onions, cabbage, and a
plant resembling cur goutd.% Iswas
told by an interpreter that the Chi
'nese crack the gonrd, as 7 shall cali
them, and cook them with rice and a
piece OF herring. The next house
We came to being a barber-shop we
hadssthes good fortune Of watness-o
ing the toasorial feats of ~ Chinese
barber. The person, to be shaved
was sitting ona stool with his legs
crossed, keeping his eyes closed dur
ing the whole operation and paying
no attention To the stannts Of the
crowd. - The barber began by lather-
ing the head, the face and the ears;
he then shaved the head SO that the
hair left on the tsp Of the cranimm
,formedsa 4perfect circle AltSr thus
the fofehads the nose, 1.-The eyeids and
the lower portion Of the face were
deprived Of the hair. The razor hav-
ing finished its task, the face was
washed witila preparation smelling
so bad thatNe had to leave, sanai On
account of. crowd .at:the sdeor seauld
not see the ending ceremonies. Pro-
Heeeding on our way we came to
gambling den, which We would have
passed had not cur attentfoa been at-
tracted to it hy hearingaa sen Of Erin
cry out, "Luk at the haythensn play
ing with the bones % Accepting this
nvitation to look we found six Chi
namen sitting on d table playing dom
inoes. While wewere hssyzwasching
the same two Chinese wtmenlentered
the apartment with opium pipes which
they held for tue men to smoke AZ
ter smoking, the latter ljecalne very
much excited, and learning that they
would object Be- our presence, we
climbed the rlckety lstairs ard con-
tinued our tour Of inspection. Turn
ling into narrow alley, we came to
q bulletins board around which . crowd
of at leass three hundred chinese had
congregated. sAsking one of them
what the paper ON the board meant,
II was, informed that it contained the
news from Chicago. We could not
stand the stencil in the alley any
longer, and wereo obliged tosztarn
taek. ! sawga great many Chinese
children during my walk through the
Etown, and observed that most of the
youngsters were boys, in fact, I saw
only one girl As ~e stepped to
look at two little boys playing battle >
dore and .shuttlecock. an old woman
passed, who, squaw-like, carried her
baby strapped To her back. The
buildings in which the Chinese live
are k,w and dirty with perchesa ex-
lending nearly all the way acrbss the
narrow Streets They have 10 vim
ldows, and the doors are SO narrow
that only one person can enter at y
tlme.a Aceerdsng TO their sac, tise
houses shelter frem one To- tsso hun
tdred Cinnamon. Continuing up Jack
son street, we soon reached Stock
ton street, the end Of Chinatown, and
once more VIC could breathe pure
air. s'g& sssEa&I 9srgs7sasssgsG,-a ss EHs ca
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s Wade Hampton at Cincinnati =
Son behalf Of the solid south, that
wasonce sfrayed' against Gens Ham
Fcock. Isplesageits snaia axotessoaHti'e
gallant nomiaees of this eoaseptiop 81