The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-20
SAN FRANCISCO'S JAPS.
QUITE a COLONY OF THEM THAT IS
RAPIDLY GROWING LARGER.

Obtaining an English Education-At-
tendance 1t tho Mission Scholastic
uGious notwithstanding Citizens.
The first japanese to settle in san Fran
cisco were eleven persons, who arrived hero
from the Sandwich Islands in $50 Their
numbers We're added n very slowly until
1Ss0, when It IS estimated there wcro 200
located in this city. y great many of those
arriving here register nj the ofIi-e Of SaburO
Fiyii, the japanese consul, and according 10
the statistics furnished by that gentleman 297
had registered there up to the close Of the
year 1854 and % up to the close of the last
year. According to Eiyams, one OF the best
known and orc of the longest resident Japan
csc here, there are 1T present Il little over 500
of his coUutrymen residing in this city and
vicinity OF these, upward Of forty arc wo-
men, about twenty of whom are married
One married couple keep laundry in this
city and another couple conduct restaurant
in Oakland. The daughters of both couples
attend the public schools III this city.
GOOD STUDENTS.
Two of the married women are being ciu-
Gated at the University of the Pacific at San
Jose, while one bright young lady, Miss Sono,
is studying law at the same institution, and
when she graduates contemplates returning
to Japan and passing her examination to bo
GlliilAieAA u tue tstl- 10 WHICH NOLLEth are
equally eligible with men. Some Of tho
women IRE employed as house servants in
families where their husbands are employed
rs buffers or gardeners, etc, and seven of the
number are coUrtesans. There are, perhaps
five or six japanese in business in small
way in this city, but they admit themselves
that they DO not make a success of It, and
after running business TWO or three years
generally fail.
The majority of the japanese who have ar
rived here lately are between - and - years
of age, and they are nearly all the sons OF
people OF the middle class, small merchants,
farmers, storekecpers etc. Owing TO the
compulsory educational law that Is il vogue
in Japan, all of them are 10 a certain extent
educated before they leave home. and their
principal object in coming here is to obtain
an English education and study the manners
and customs of the white people, 50 that on
returning 20 their native land they viii stand
a better chance of obtaining rcmuneratiyc
employment. Another reason which brings
a number here probably is that in their own
country they are subject to military duty,
which interfcrcs with their studies and Is
very distaStcful TO them
On arriving here the first object Of the
young japanese Is to get employment TO keep
himself while he IS pursuing his studies.
Very few of them have been used to any kind
house servants, without other compensation
than room and board at first, with the privi-
lege of attending school during the day or in
the evening. After n year or so they usually
receive from $50 to s. a week
IL THE SCHOOLS.
About $50 of them are attending the mis-
sion schools out of working hours. while about
forty arc regular attendants ut the public
schools here and in Oakland Quite n num-
t..,A+l
others attend private schools after their DAYS
work Is done. There are over n dozen en-
rolled in the Lincoln grammar school, five in
the high school, three in the Oakland high
school three i'll the Hopkins academy and
three in the state university. At least two
thirds of these work morning and evening
before and after school hours. while the
others are sons Of Weather parents, who arc
able to provide for them while being cdi-
Gated. One of the pupils at the lincoln
school is graduate Of Toxic university,
while several Of those at the mission school
are sons of nOIlcmen.
\ number Of those here are profeszsed Chris
tiauS bUt the ma ioritv OF them are what the
consul calls 'skeptics'-that Is, atheists
though some cling To the religion Of
Buddhism. which promises rest in heaven
after many Transformations, births and re-
peated mizcrias of life and death. Here they
rs to their opinion OF place of future pun
ishment they answer with an old japanese
provcrh: "Jiyoku 10 sata mo, Kane shidai."
or the fortunes Of hell are graded according
to the amount of money one has
when asked ~ a reporter why there were
not more japanese women here ono OF the
men said: The les women the better:
womau's tongue thra, inches long can Kill
man six feet high
While the,Jan.us. ,.lr D., Ilaflrf-.,ffzntI -,,,}
become citizens, 50 far only two have availeI
themselves of the PRIVILEGE. There are some
mansions in this city at in Oakland whore
the whole force of servants. including butler.
gardener, house servants, etc, are japanese. !
They are do-ilc, Intelligent and polite Many
declare their intention Of becoming citizens
as soon as qualified. They are arriving in
increasing numbers oH every incoming
steamer from the Orient, and ut no far distant
date may Lc destined to become a power or
play a part in local po..ticS-S4a Fran !
cisco Chronicle.