West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-06-11
CHINESE JOURNALS.
How san Francisco's -Four Celestial Ncw,
"apcrs Arc nrnught Forth.

CHINESE JOURNALS.
How san Francisco's -Four Cclestia, News
"sp"rs Are Brought Forth.
The majority of the Chinese mcr-
chants and business men i'm San Fran
cisco, like those in Gothum's Celestial
district, can read and write the En-
gliNh language and quito a number OF
them are subscribers To the daily pa
pcrS. That those. however. who are
not 80 gifted may have an opportunity
of knowing what is trau~pirmg i'm the
busy world, there are at the present
time four newspapers printed i'm Chi
neSc characters regularly published in
san Francisco. They are all issued
weekly and have an average circula-
ton of 1000 copies. The majority of
those papers are sent into the interior
OF the state, To Washington Territory,
| British Columbia and the Sandwich
Islands. only about onc-hfth of the
whole number is taken i'm the city. The
subscription price of each is 500 per
nnum, delivered 10y carriers i'm the
city, and 50 year if sent through the
mails TO the country or abroad
The oldest paper of the quartet is tho
| R'cOricr, published bv Nun Kcc n co.
| II has been in existence eighteen wears.
and has a subscription list of $50. OF
which eighty are delivered i'm the city,
and the remainder mailed to the intcri-
/ or. Mum kcC, il, first editor and pro-
| pretor, made a fortune out of the Re
cOrdcr Selling out three years ago, he
returned to China to spend his dcclin-
| ing years. The OricHtdi is published
! by Wah Kec u Co. II has been i'm cN-
/ iStcnce five years, and has circulation
OF about 100. The WucHy OccjdcHtat
| is now in its fourth year. and Horn
Hong ~ Co. its proprictorS. claim that
! It IS the live paper and has the
largest circulation " 1t has POO city
| subscribers and 800 i'm the country.
/ Cum Shoe, its translator and reporter.
/ Is well educated in English and Chinese,
| and nothing of interest occurs i'm the
! Chinese quarter that he does not re-
! port for the paper which he represents.
| The Occdcntdt publishes the latest
! Chinese Jokes. Some of them are so
| good that readers do not stop laughing
| at them from one publication day to
| another The 1mcTtc0H 0Hd Chinese
| toDtDterctdt NcUS, the latest aspirant
! for journalistic honor- among the
| Chinese, was started by Suev Kcc Kco
N Co, little over three years ago Its
| proprietOrs intended to rcvolutionize
the Chinese newspaper business i'm this
city, and engaged a large staff Of re.
porter- etc. Their purse. however.
was not as large as their ideas, and a
year ago they gracefully retired The
present proprietors now have the pa
per on paying basis and claim q cir
culation of 700. The title of the paper
is printed in old Roman text, and above
II Is representation of flaming
dragon
The staff of Chinese newspaper
| consists usually Of four persons, viz: an
editor. sub-editor, translator and IL
| printer or prcs,man. The editor and
the sub-cditor are generally the pro-
! p1etors, and each usually edits one
half the paper The translator Is n
most important person His duties are
10 pick mp ncwS around the Chinese
quarters and read carefully the Amer
lean daily papers From these he culIs
the market reports. accounts of out
/ RACES ON Chinese, the passages Of any
laws and ordinances particularly affect
ing the Chinese. and any other items
which hc think, will interest hi, cOun-
trymcn. These hc translate. into Chi
nc,c characters and hands them to the
o"ilor'' h' cdiioIS copy the char
''tcr7 80 -npphcd them with the ordi-
nary chinese pen and specially pre-
| pared lnk ON what is called transfer
/ p"Pef. hr -hcci on transfcr-paprr is
,n' ,,,,' same si/c as inc paper TO be printed.
"h'h inc cdiitor mas ms sheet Of trans
i'i-paPer hI'ed with characters his
I"Doi '' a"h'' ana he hands his paper
over '' iI, printer ms iuncuonry
""- "l1"2r'pnlc stone already
I''P'I'"' ana 10 u me- transfers the
on ln' paper setting
.n' '"N 0" 'h' .i"H' WIN nitric acid
W. ", ~" - I'''N I'i printing
'l'''l wei sponge over the
Inh from winch only adhcrc~ TO the
"lIl.'n characters. iic then lays thc