Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-14
WHITE AND YELLOW.
Matches Between Mongohans and
Caucasians.
The Chinese Dsstrust Of Yellow Men Who
We'd with Waite Women The Connse-
tioa Seriously Interfering With
the Formers Credit.


The m a jorlty OF the people Of this city
aad on the coast, and more especially the
gentler sex, look with contempt upon john
Cinnamon, and can only tolerate him as q
servant or as q laundry man. There are,
however, those OF the feminine gender who
regard the masculine Asiatie in a different
Ii ht, and have even gone 50 far as 10 en-
trely disregard public opinion and general
customs. and have been united in marriage
10 the Mongolians. The account given in
this journal several months ago of the
San Jose girl who became infatuated with
a Chinese house-s srvant, with whom she
came 10 this city and afterward married, is
by no means the only case on record. Several
such i'll assorted couples have been united
In the Eastern States. For the purpose OF
ascertaining whether there are any such
installed in this city Chronicle reporter
III ade tour Of the Chinese quarter yes
terday, and discovered several such cases.
One OF those persons who frequently 'hit
the pipe" was first interrogated, and in re-
ply TO the leading question, said:
30 yes; / know of a number OF China
men who have white women for wives.
There was merchant named Jim HI,
pont street, who had an American wife.
This woman was IA fat, good-looking
blonde, and she seemed TO be content with
her pig-tailed husband. HI closed his
business some time ago and went TO China.
Mrs. HI went with him. What made him
leave herel The reason is, and il is nearly
always the case, that when Chinese mar
ries a woman of any other nationality he
loses the confidence of his friends and IL
refused credit by merchants of his own
nationality The merchants say that ii
spoils Chinese to marry white woman.
They think that the white she devils be-
come their husbands rulers. Come over
to that feller ON the other corner. He
knows more about such people than l do"
The "feller" alluded to was summing
himself ON the corner of Dupont and jack
SON streets, and, having run the town"
for many years, proved good informant
when properly applied to in the back room
of a grocery a short distance up Jackson
street. Said he:
ga heather merchant named All Hen
Fook came here several years ago from
Australia and brought with him an En-
glish- Australian woman whom he had
married several years before. He had
four children by her, and they all seemed
happy enough. He set himself up in the
dry goods business, but no one would trust
him and he went back to China. About the
same time Chinese named Chin Tin came
here from Australia with a French woman,
whom he married soon after arriving here.
They had several children. He, too, went
into the dry goods business, at No. 96S Du-
pont street. and his wife took care of the
store Alter awhile the business 'dwin-
died away and they opened saloon on
Pacific street, between Dupont and Stock
ton. The woman attended bar, while the
old man tried to act like all American by
cutting off his cue AID utting on Ameri-
can clothes. A year Or so 20 they sold
out the saloon and went to New York and
have been told they are now pretty well
off. They have variety store and saloon
somewhere near the docks"
'But have all the Chinese with wives left
the city"
"Oh no. Come up the street and I'll
show you white woman with a Chinese
! husband. Here, let us wait on this corner.
! She Will be out about this time o. day.
! There she is now," pointing TO a woman
emerging from No. 154 W asbingtOn street.
Chinese tenement-houss on The corner of
| Dupont street. The woman appeared to
be about forty years of age and looked
like a servant. She carried bright little
kicking yellowiaced youn ster in her
arms, of which she ned very fond.
| Alter filing her beer can which was her
errand out, sue returned up the dirty.
&c taf~ IA
ably considers her home
"Who is she and who is her husbandy''
was next asked.
Il don't know their names. She is a
Scandinavian ani he is regular coole
He is a cook in some down town place and
he works hard. She too works hard, max
ing cheap overalls and mems clothing.
believe. They have four or five children
who speak Chinese AMI English and appear
to be bright enous b. There are several
other Chinese with white wives in this
place"
"Do you know Of any cases of white
men who have married Chinese womenY
II have heard of a few, but they are not
frequent. The last one recollect was that
of the China girl Selma, no married the
English dude several months ago. The
/ Chronicle had an account o. C..
where are Selma au1 her dude hus-
band nowy"
He got broke soon after he married her
and she furnished him with enou b money
10 start a coffee saloon on Market street
where hear ~ is doing pretty we'll Soon
after their marriage he took her out oi
Chinatown AMI they took rooms in a pri.
vate samily on Powell street. The gir
dressed up like an Amer t4n, aud played
herselt OF as n spanish dansel She was
pretty, and the people don's know the dif-
ference 20 this day"
allow do these oddly matched peopl,
generally get along toae.herg 10 thcy
quarrel a.l light like other peoplef"
Il never ls,' 4 O. their doiag aa. gues.
they go along al right 4 white womes
who have married Chinese are sad - h
faithful B. their husbania. We'll | masl
Ia soina. So isn 4" aud cmaa nl Chiaa