The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-12-07

of Mongolians live in q section Of the city
not covering more ground than one or TWO
of the blocks or squares Of Wichita. They
call the section .sChina town." We spent
nearly day there-noting and watching,-in-
terested, beyond explanation, in the ways
and doings of these sallow-faced, cieaniy-
dressed. sly-eyed race, noiselessly gliding IN
and out on soles Of felt, carrying souls tha'
never felt They know no right nor wrong
beyond simple policy. Nothing to them Is
immoral which pays and nothing moral that
don't pay. OF absolute or fundamental pu-
rity they have no conception. Upon all 9TH
err peoples they look with contempt and dis
dain. While not openly violating the laws
OF this government, they hold no inward re-
spect for them and never appeal to them ex-
cept to get some Anglo-Saxon punished, OF
in other ways to get the best OF some citizen.
They have their own secret tribunals and
laws, and the death penalty. which Is often
pronounced among them, is carried out by a
pretended mob execution on the street, ID
the night, and there is no witness ever found
to testify as TO who or how it was done.
Thousands of these people are huddled into
Easements, cellars, suD-cellars and sub-suo-
cellars-dens. From every hole, opening OF
aperture in the sidewalks. walls OF houses,
roofs or windows, the black heads, elongated
ewes, and sleek, greasy faces of young ana
old peer and peek and jabber. Hundreds OF
shops. not oyer four feet front, five feet high
and six feet deep, piled one upon another
like packing boxes, and each containing from
one to three workmen, are seen. Ihey say
there are no yirtuous Chinese women brought
to America, only slave wretches doomed TO
vileness. Yet we stuck our head into little
places or rooms not over six feet square con-
tanning from three to five women each. Ihey
crawl creep and slip in and out Of every con-
ceiyable opening, while the narrow sidewalks
swarm with artisans down on their hunKers
plying their trade or offering their queer
commodities for sale to each other. Their
stores and markets are still more curious, SO
much SO that we will not try to describe them.
Every one of their little dark stores seemed
to have a meat market where the show WIN
dow ought to be, and of all the queer, greasy,
smoky-looking. flattened-out, dry fowls that
were ever put up for sale this side OF China,
was there. We noticed hundreds buying
fresh pork in chunks about as large as sad
die rock oyster, and about the same shape, FOR
which they paid from one to three cents, win
a little sprig of something green thrown H.
No dogs are seen in China town-they all die
| with the dyspepsia, or voinit themselves 10
death. Thousands of these Chinese are en-
ployed throughout the city: in factories, as
house servants, as laborers, etc., and many
thousands more as section hands on railways
and as miners in the mountains. After they
play out and die their bones are shipped back
| to China. II we were running the thing we
don't think we would wait for them to die
before reshipment.
But we must hold up on the city or some
reader will cry out for rest. Still We ough'
| to say something of its churches and schools
The latter are excellent; the former not or
thodox enough to hurt, or to materially In
terfere with the pleasures and enJoyments O
a people more bent on money and fun IN TINS
life than on eternal rest in the life which Il
to come. If business holds up little Oh
Sunday the gardens, the theatres, the excur
sion steamers, yachts and railway trains
more than make up the loss. Nothing shor
of an earthquake seems to round the peopi
up to realization of hot place below. Blu
their hospitality is unbounded. hallocl
holds forth in his splendid Temple OPPOSITE
the United States mint. He is the same lux
urious. easy-gaited, indolent thinker an
winning orator that he was when kansan
/ The Temple is seated Ia opera house, cush
, ions, galleries and all. Upon the back of tn
i stage from which he breaches stands mass
i've organ. Kalloch loiters in from side
2 door and gently lets himself down into
5 hinged rocker. The great organ sweils an
r roars. A seraphic soprano rises and SAL
heayenward in a song cheered by strln
: of fifty other sopranos, altos, tenors an
e bases. A sleek, well-kept old deacon steI
forward, reads chapter and prays, and the
e the Reverend Isaac rises to the demands
:. the hour in a sermon whose best points al
5 yociferously cheered. And this is the happ
y go-easy style in which the christian Poop
n of Frisco go swinging along the heaven
e road that is supposed to reach the pear
gates of Paradise. The doctor-he is calle
c doctor or mayor. by everybody Heiress-Love
s us all through and assured us that lie Wi
d happy, and we don't doubt it.
e This city of the Pacific is the New Jerus;
It lem of earth. The great business interest
: especially the mercantile, commercial al
:, manufacturing interests, are in the hands
Il the Hebrew people, and when the great Je'
d ish holiday. the Day Of Atonement, is ann
e ally celebrated, and then only, does all bus
a ness come to stand-stiil; and if the hosT
p tality o. that city is an earnest of what u
J. Jewish people would do were they in the
S. cendaucy in America, life would be far lie
1t selfish and more enjoyable.
e, Upon either side of the entrance to u
e Golden Gate are projecting, rocky headan
'e which protect the waters Of the bay as tn
d are swept in by the tides from the Paci
n Ocean. On the south side of the gate thr
E. great stones, either of which is as large
N the Occidental hotel, at some time have br
ken off and rolled into the sounding Sc
lie From where these rocks broke away the
ID nous Cliff House stands. And upon tho
j. rocks gather TO sun themselves the oite
70 described sea lions. Hundreds upon hu
D. dreds of these seals make these rocks the
\. home. From the corridors of the house '
re looked down upon them, as thousands ha
ia done before, and for hours watched the
es gambols and listened to their plaintive eric
rs which can be heard above the lashing OF {
ID mighty waves which eternally break up
'e rocks far beneath the house or roll along I
he stretch of sandy beach to the south. Sol
I'd of these sea lions are said to weigh fife
"a hundred pounds. From the city proper
ID the Cliff House, or to the ocean beach,
re seven miles. Half way between the city a
"a the ocean is the public park, and from
Sc city through the park and on down to
s, beach at the Cliff House have been built
re made the most delightful drives and roa
l. ways-hard and solid and smooth as hot
IN Over these winding ways, uncovered roa
&c and fiower-fringed drives where exo,ics a
he pines and eedars rival each other in fires
N ness, and where all the flowers you ever 81
IL in a dollhouse or conservatory, bloom in pr
ID lection the year round, being cared for
Of the city government, all frisco turns o
e. for an afternoon airing. Fifty single hors'
ly one right after the other, being driven doy
)r these roads to the beach at 2:2o ana =
he gait, is "a common sight, while the numb
n of fast spans and fours-in-hand stringi
"a along everywhere is bewildering. Sol
ell good friend, I'VE don't know who, had tax
he great pains to impress the landlord OF
p Russ House-Inine host-with our very ext
oi Importance. Either because Of which
OIL from the very generosity of his nature-'
re guess the latter--we were permitted to enj
oil several of these delightful drives, taking
u the famous California race coursc-a m
&c track with grand stand that cost fortu
III and a clubhouse costing $4,000, where
eft | .;,,o- 10. Tho 4; rot tim,