Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-17
CHINESE JOURNALISM.
The New Venture of the Cciestiais in
New York.
TNow York letter.

Inc flrst number OF the first Chinese
newspaper ever published i'm this city
Is to make its appearance to-day. Mr..
Wong Ching Foo Is the editor-in-chief
and the publishers, at No. 1879 and l9l
Chatham street, are Messrs. T.. p. & l..
b, Cole. The Chinese american is a
four-page weekly paper, somewhat
smaller than the Sun. 1t is to publish
the news, or so much of ii as is likely
to interest its readers. The matter ii
will contain is TO he written or selected
by Mr.. Wing Ching Foo, who will die
tate it to q Chinese scribe. He in turn
will print or paint it with India ink
and n pointed stick upon sheets of
paper, from which it will be photo
Autographed and then printed from
to appear. The publishers say that but
for this process the publication would
be impossible by reason of II, cost. In
the past it has been customary to
engrave the whole Of each Chinese
work to be published, because the co.
600 word-characters of the language
are not represented by type. Mr..
| Wong Ching Foo IS q Monaghan of
rank who has held Office in China.
| He imbibed republican ideas in this
country, was graduated from an Amer
lean college, and, upon returning. y
his native land, found life there less
! agreeable than II America. he Is best
known here as 4 lecturer in English.
The scribe VIII, will act as his amanu-
ansis is one Cf number in this city
who gain their livelihood by writing
letters and communications of evey
sort for their countrymen. The pub
4 fishers ave obliged to pay $40 week
for his services, and say that wherever
they have turned in the pursuit of
their business they have found simlar
proof of the lack of foundation forhe
beiief that there is such n thin as
,Chinese cheap labor" They cdld
get q Caucasian office hoy for .
week, but have to pay s. for Gina
youth.
They say that leading men among
the Chinese in this city are Teased
with the prospect of possessing paper
that will convey to them the 'ews OF
the week in the beloved hie'odyphics
that Americans can be ordght TO
think Of only in connsctiu with
wash bills, fire-cracker laoeis ma the
literature of the tea TRACE but the
same Cinnamon shy that .neh e.pi noo
understand in what ms.mer ny my H.er-
; prise can be made to ga3 vi, S one
fishers, on the other nn' ond pi on o 1H,.
o fact that there are ~ -, ahu oV Shi.
) Cinnamon, 900 I.lousn .ney ADMIT
n that 6ut few Gssoiiities of their al
S % No f,Woasd those few hundred
l. TX a ~ a,y.h IS their simple ideas
g lp;rn. TN eA,Iey like to read, yet at
'e apd wv us. no other opportunity
,. go M than is afforded bv
/" 20 over the doorway to
< ~, II. VS. grocery at Mott street and
t 'e5m Ii square. This wall has
st Chat as their only newspaper for
~ ser Upon it are posted notices of
/, yopening and closing of all those
!, .ndries that are or have been main
aimed by members of the Long III So
ciety-a secret organization about the
nature of which no New Yorker has
ever been able TO learn more than it is
ALE same Fleemason.n TO the New
Yorker the most interesting thing
about Tom Lees wall has been that
the advertisements are painted on bits
of paper of every hue, and making up
a display as diverting to the eye ms the
contents of dress-maker's rag-bag.
But the publishers of the chinese
american say that the fact that every
Chinaman can read and wants to is
mere item in their estimates. A
stronger desire is that on the part of
those merchants who make soap and
blueing and laundry apparatus and all
sorts of things that they would like to
have the means of presenting to the
notice of Cinnamon.