Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20
FROM FAR AND NEAR.
EASTERN VIEWS OF THE CALI.
FORNIA FRUIT UNION.
Suicide of a Physician-New York
Observation-Disclosures Dis
ease-GeneraI Affairs.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE HnoonD-Us1os.l
DOMESTIC NEWS.
What is Thought of the California Fruit
Union in the East

from San Francisco of the organization of
the California fruit-growers have been
much discussed in the fruit trade here. At
the recently-organized Foreign Fruit Ex-
change, the Secretary told your correspond
ent that the movement attracted wide
spread attention in the East, and letters
had been received asking the extent of the
California organization, its plans for the
coming season, etc. Prominent foreign
dealers with whom your correspondent
conversed admitted the importance of the
proposed organization, though claiming the
superiority of foreign grapes and oranges
over the native, besides greater cheapness.
Careful investigation ELECTED the fact that
the only known firm here who make Cali
fornia green fruit speciality has a small
warehouse on Vesey-street pier. Their
fruit comes almost entirely from Washing
ton Porter, of Chicago. They sell largely
to hotels, grocers and Broadway fruit
stores. The dealers say they have a mo-
nopoly of California fruit in this city, and
make their own prices. They received
about fourteen carloads of fruit from Chi
cago during the past season.
Albert Merritt, Of the Merritt Fruit Com
pany, said 81 have been expecting this
movement by the California fruit-growers.
Their fruit had been badly handled in the
East. Chicago commission men have got
the best of it, while inferior fruit has been
sent east to New York. | made an expert
ment with California oranges last season,
ordering a car load just at the close of the
Florida season. The result surprised me.
l found the fruit delicious, with tender
pulps and few seeds-far superior to the
Sicily oranges California fruit should be
sent direct to New York. The delay at
Chicago is apt to spoil the fruit, which
reaches there in good condition. | don't
| approve of refrigerator cars, unless they
are run differently The fruit gets spoiled
at the start by an insufficient quantity of
ice placed in the car. The men in charge
of the cars wait till they get to the noun
tains, where ice is cheaper, before fully
] stocking the car"
| Phillip Rohlman. a dealer in Florida
fruits, said what California needs is a
| central agency in New York Tor the sale of
! their fruit. AS it is now no one knows
where to go for it. With fast fruit trains
and lower freight rates it is possible to
build up big trade here and take it out of
the hands of the middlemen."
A member of the firm of Maxfield
G. Co. said: 81 think most dealers III
| Florida fruit here will be glad to handle
the California products if they had
any inducement to make it pay. In my
! opinion it is only question of few
years when the native fruit will drive
foreign fruit out of the market alto
| gether. The oranges from Florida we con-
slider superior 10 those from California, but
the latter beat the Sicilian fruit all hollow.
The railroads will have to reduce the freight
rate still more before the Pacific coast fruit
can be laid down here at a profit"
A prominent merchant, strongly identi-
fled with California interests in New York,
| said: The difficulty in successfully
placing California fruit on this market is
| the same as with wine from the Pacific
coast. Neither is seen here with the
best. To meet the fullest sue
cess it is a matter of the greatest
| importance that the fruit should be placed
in the hands Of purely American houses in
! the East. The foreigners here are doing
much to kill the California trade. BY
keeping carefully posted from this end of
the line, the fruit-growers can make this
Union a gigantic success. If, however
they send carloads of fruit here without
knowing exactly how much the market
can stand, it is sure to result in a heavy
loss"
Since commencing this dispatch, your
correspondent learns that there has been
discussion in the fruit trade as to the adj
visibility of placing California fruit on the
foreign fruit exchanges.
The Chinese in the East.
| New York, November 19th-John A.
|
here, has been furnishing the press with
news about the recently formed anti
Chinese League, which has branches in
Boston, Buffalo, North Adams Providence
New York and Brooklyn. "In two weeks
a monster anti Chinese mass meeting will
be held when l shall lay before the labor
ing men the results of over two years in
vestigation of the Chinese problem. The
New York Custon-house knows nothing
alNN +la go
into the city The Restriction Act is a
farce, and complied with in only one
case out of a hundred. Many of the
Chinese driven out of Seattle and Wyoming
are daily arriving in New York. The owl
trains on the Pennsylvania road come in
daily at o'clock in the morning, with
from ten to forty Cinnamon on each train.
They drop off at Bayonette, Newark, Pat
erson and other New Jersey stations, are
hidden by friends till they wish to go to the
city, then they cross the ferries by twos and
threes, so as not to attract attention. Our
| League employs men to watch these trains
tThey report the number of coolies arriving
hele. At Belleville and Blossville. N j.,
numbers of Chinese are working in facto-
ries and quarries. In Newark 200 of them
are engaged in hand scroll work. They
don't need to come to New York,
there being plenty of advocates
"
But they are slowly and surely taking the
places of servant girls in this city. My
books show y Chinese employed as serv-
ants on Madison avenue, 40 on Lexington
avenue, and few even on Fifth avenue.
The Chinese mission churches are doing
much to help this movement; also an
agency in Baxter street for the employment
of the more intelligent Chinese by wealthy
families. Since the Mikado craze many
| have what fbav COLL
Mikado rooms, furnished in japanese style
Chinese servants are employed during the
| reception hours, to make the scene more
realistic. But by far the most i'm
portant discovery made is the fact
that some fifty Eastern capitalist
! intend building a four-story factory
at Tawanaka in the northern part of the
State. They will employ twenty white
| teachers, five for each floor, whose duty it
is to instruct the heathens in weaving,
carving by machinery, wood turning, scroll
saw work, even tanning leather. The Chi
nese are extensively employed in cigar
manufactures here and in New England
| returned from Boston last night. l found
on the eastern coast of Massachusetts a
large number of coolies being imported
and taught how to weave in the wooden
factories there, One Chinese contractor in
Boston took an order to furnish 900 men
TO excavate rock for building firm. He
| had the coolies on the spot within forty-
eight hours. Three New York cigar firms,
whose names l now show you, employ be-
tween 800 and 700 Chinese. am going to
| Washington tomorrow to see Secretary
Manning Dooner declined to reveal the
nature and extent of the organization
which employs him and seven others, but
claims that it extends throughout the
United States. 1t is subsidiary to a larger
combination of labor interests, and from
boomers statements means business with
the Mongolians.
Those Disallowed Claims
WASHINGTON, November 19th.-The Sec
ond Comptroller of the Treasury to-day fur
nished the following statement in relation
to the claims which have been disallowed
by him in adjusting the accounts of a Navy
Pay Director The Second Comptroller
discovered two vouchers, one for S27, pur-
porting to be for $40 five-cent foreign post
age stamps, and the other for S35, purport-
ing to be for photographing fifty anatomical
specimens for the naval dispensary They
were both made out in the name of a woman
who is an artist residing in Washington.
and were certified to and approved by
Philip S. Wales, Chief of the Bureau of