The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-22
Sights in Hong Kong.

4 One of the first things | noticed upon
Handing in Hong Kong was the dissi-
Hpation which is always going on. At
first | thought some celebration must
sbe in progress, but upon making in
equiries | was assured that this was not
the case.
at is always so,' said an American
citizen. Every day certain number
of sailors are allowed to come on shore
and they avail themselves fully of this
privilege AS there are some two
thousand of these sailors at present on
board the mcn-of-war in Hong Kong
harbor, this city is quite lively most of
the time 1t is the men aboard these
war-ships who get the widest, for the
enforced idleness of their life breeds
recklessness when once they get a.
shore"
These sailors are beardless young
fellows for the most part, and though
they have a staggering and tyranni-
cal mien, should not think that they
would impress the Chinese as very for
midable. Walking about the streets
last evening in company with q cti-
zen, saw literally hundreds of these
sailors, crowding the saloons so thick
that you could not see the counter
Outside of the saloon the street would
be packed with rickishas, for sailor
grayitates toward rckisha the first
thing upon coming ashore. He does
not have to gravitate far, for the Chi
nese runners almost attempt the peril
Gus feat of walking on the water in
their eagerness to meet the sailors half
way.
Soon after landing the sailors gravi-
tate toward saloon, and, numbers
breeding reckless jollity, it is not long
before they cease to be free moral
agents. Then they curse and beat
their rickisha men, and ride about
with scarce any cognizance of whittier
they are being carried. As | have al
ready minated, / am implacably OPP
posed to the Chinese; yet my indigna-
ton was kindled in their behalf at first
when | witnessed the brutality with
which they are treated by these sailors.
But my commiseration was all dissipa-
ted when my friend said:
Don't pity them. John Chinaman
is under now, but he will be on the top
pretty soon. Wait till the sailors get
stupidity drunk, and they will be ig-
ANONYMOUSLY dumped out by the way
side, while these long-suflering heath
en- Chinese will proceed complacently
to 90 through their pockets. Don't
misplace your pity"
Don't the English make any effort
to check this evil?"
80 no, it is so common that they
don't care to interfere Once in n
while, when man gets TO smashing
things too generally and endangering
peoples lives, he will be locked up un-
i'll he gets sober. Bdt so long as they
only iniuro themselves, no matter if
they do break the peace, nothing is
done about it.
notice that very frequently, almost
always, the sailors will give the order,
go to the Temperance hail." when
they are well under 1.-THE influence
and there sleep off their booze. BY the
way, curious though the statement
may seem, the manager of the Hong
Kong institution is getting to be con-
iirmed sot. He has been inebriated
now for full week. The moral sem
timent that will tolerate such thing
puzzles me.
Despite all the abuses to which they
are subjected, however, these temper
ance halls of the Orient are institutions,
and really do great deal of good.
They may be found in Shanghai, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Madras, Bombay,
Calcutta, Yokohama, Kobe, and, for
aught know, in all the cities of the
far east. For 1925 day sailors and
travellers who want to economic are
entertained in first-class style, and at
the end of the year the citizens make
up the deficit in the running expenses
Cor. NeW orleans Times Democrat.
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