The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-11
I, REINHARDT, AGENT.
7G4 ELM STREET DALLAS.

weekly paper, somewhat smaller than the
Sun. IL Is to publish the news, or so much
of IL as is likely To interest Its readers. The
matter it will contain is 10 be written or
selected by Mr.. Wong Chin Foo who will
dictate 1t 20 a Chinese scribe. lie, in
turn, Will print or paint II with India ink
and pointed stick upon sheets of paper,
from which IL will DO phot0.lithographed
aud then printed from the stone in the
shape in which it is to appear. The pub.
fishers say that but Tor this process the
publication would be impossible by reason
of its cost, In the past it has been Gus
tom0ry 10 engrave the whole OF each Chi.
nese work to be published, because the GO, 9.
VOO word characters ottho language are not
represented by type.
Mr., Wong Chm Foo is 3 Monaghan Of
rank, who has held Office in China. lie i'm.
bihed republican Ideas in this country, was
graduated from an American college, and
upon returning to his native land found
life there less agreeable than in America.
lie is best known here as u lecturer in
English. The scribe who will act az his
amanuensis is one ola number In this city
who gain their livelihood by writing letter.
and communications OF every sort for
their countTymen. Tho publishers are
obliged TO pay $40 a week for his services,
aud say that wherever they have turned in
the pursuit of their business they have
found similar proof of the lack of founda-
ton for the belief that there Is such thing
as "Chinese cheap labor" They could ret
Caucasian office boy for S. a week, but
have to pay S Tor China youth.
They say that the leading men among
the Chinese in this city are pleased with the
prospect OF possessing q paper that will con-
vey to them the news OF the week in the be =
loved hierogyphs that Americans can be
brought to think of only In onneclion with
wash bills, .lrecracktr labels, and tho it,
erature Of the tea trade. But the same
Cinnamon say that they cannot understand
in what manner the enterprise can be made
to pay. The publishers, outhe other hand,
point to the fact that there are in New
| York 5000 Chinamen, 900 laundries and 30
Chinese groceries. Although they admit
that but few Cinnamon are educated up to
the fun possibilities Of their
few hundred signs that express
their simple ideas and wants. They like TO
read, yet at present have no other oppor-
tunity TO doso than Is afforded by The wall
over the doorway TO Tom Lees grocery at
Mott street and Cha ton square. This wall
has served as their only newspaper for
years. Upon IL are posted notices OF the
| pening and closing OF all those lsundrles
| that are or have been members OF the Long
| II s0cety-a secret organizaLion about
the nature OF which 10 New Yorker
has ever been able 10 learn more than that
II is the ALE same Flee Nason.n To the
New Yorker the most interesting thing
about Tom Lees wall has been that the ad.
yertisements are painted on bits of paper of
every hue, and make up adisplay as divert.
ing 10 the eye rs the contents OF dress
makers ragbag.
But the publishers OF the Chinese Ameri-
can say that tho 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 blung and laundry apparatus and
all sorts of things that they would like to
have the means OF presenting to the notice
of Cinnamon. --New York Sun.