Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-22
WHOLE No. 1861.
Q Living as families.

children 80 Living as families.
Herded together with appar-
MomeH.........lbl ent indiScriminate parental
Chlldren.5I6 relations and no family classi-
hcauon, so far Us ascertained
ProStitutes-..567 Professional prostitutes and
Children......S7 children living together
CHINESE PROSTITUTION.
This examination has led 10 the foregoing
result in regard to the relation of the sexes.
No well-deiined family relations have been
| discovered other than as shown, while the
next clasSIiications seems to be q middle
stratum between family and prostitution,
partaking in some measure of each, if such
y condition OF things can he possible The
most revolving feature Of ail. however. is
| found in the fact that there are SO large n
number OF children growing up as the as
! sociates and perhaps the pfotegeS of the
professional prostitutes. In one house
alone. on Sullivan alley, your committee
/ found The inmates 10 be nineteen prosti-
tuteS and sixteen children. In the locali-
! ties habited largely by prostitutes women
and children, who apparently occup9 this
! intermediate family relationship already
alluded to, live in adjoining apartments
! and lntermnglc freely, leading to the con
/ ciUsion that prostitution is recognized
and not immoral calling with the race and
that II Is impossible 10 tell by II survey Of
their domestic customs where the family
relationship leaves of and prostitution be-
gins.
WHITE PROSTITUTION.
The Investigations which have been car.
red ON by your committee have developed
another disgusting and surprising feature.
1t Is in reference to white prostitution in
that locality. The map accompanying this
report shows IN what sections and To what
w ,f
Chinatown. The number of degraded
women who ply this vocation there is I'M
known. But the point that viii impress
itself more strongly upon the ordinary
minds Is that these women obtain their
patronage almost cDtirely from the Chinese
themselves. Their habitations seem to
have been taken Gp in the Chinese quarter
solely Ter this purpose, and their mode of
life seemsIo be modelled after that of the
Mongolian. to larger extent than after the
manners and customs of the race to which
they belong. Many, if not most of them,
confirmed victims to the opium habit in
one form or another they present pictures
of paIlid wretchedness hard To parallel in
any community where total deprdvity rules
supreme, and their sex sinks to the lowest
point of human degradation The Chinese
drug and opium stores at night usually con-
tain numbers of these
wRErcHEp BEINGS
Seeking opium or medicameuts for the
physical diseases To which they are con-
stautly subjected and more wan sad, hope
less and wretched-looking faces the human
eye seldom encounters in tho streets or
slums Of the most popuipUs cities of the
world. This is a feature OF prostitution in
Chinatown with which it Is difficult and
perhaps impossible TO deal. Your COM
mittee can only point out the conditions
under which il exists as one OF the numer-
Gus evils which reach to and grow out of
the presence Of the Chinese among us. 1t
is one OF the many counts in the indict-
ment against the race, and upon which we
hold them up for trial before the public
opinion of our country from which we be-
speak a just and wise verdict. For the poor.
wretched woman who enters this particu-
lar walk of life there need be no punish
ment other than her own miSerieS no word
of reproach, but all our pity. Let her
"who enters here leave hope behind"
WHITE WOMEN LIVING WITH CHIENMEN.
Another surprising as well as disgusting
feature developed in the investigation is
the fact that there are numerous instances
of white women living and cOhabting with
Chinamen in the relation OF wives or mis-
tresses. In Cne instance where an example
of this was found there was one white wo-
man living among q large number of Chi
nese women and childrcn-the mistress Of
one or more of the little brown men ~
who, when the place WIS visited by the
surveyors employed by your committee.
roundly beratcd them for thus invading the
citadel of their domestic rights. and threat
ened various modes of punishment there
for. In one instance Chinaman had
assumed marital relations with a fair widow
with several children by a Caucasian hus-
band. AT No. 800 and 902 Dupont street
there is a white woman living with a Chi
naman on the third floor at 6l3 Jackson
street, second floor; at 70S Commercial
street, second story: at 70s Commercial
street, third stow at 710 Commercial
street, thIrd story; mt us Commercial
street, second story. There are in each of
the foregoing one white woman and one
Chinaman living together. At 74O Com
mcrcial street, second story, and ut 9l6l
stockton street, there ave two white women
III each place living with Chinamen
CONCLUSIONS AND Recommendations.
We have thus presented for your conSid-
Grafton, and tor the consideration Of the
public, the salient features of the mode of
life, effect upon home labor. habits, indus
tries vices and contempt of local laws OF
Chinese in Chinatown. 1t clearly appears
that the present and prospective condition
of things calls for 4 more energetic and
better-dehned line of policy than San Fran
cisco has heretofore displayed and the
adoption and enforcement Of such meas
ares as will bring this people under the
same control rs that which is now exer-
cised over other people generally We
cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the
Treaty and Restriction Act constitute no
eftectual barrier as yet against Chinese i'm
migration. The tide may not be flowing in
upon us as rapidly nor with the same vol