Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-14
CHINESE NEW SPAPERS.
NOT JOURNALS OF THE CELESTIAL
EMPIRE, BUT OF CALIFORNIA.

Four Newspapers Printed in Chinese
Characters. Published Regularly in san
Francisco How the Editing and Print
ing Is Managed Advertisements.
The ma jority of the chinese merchants
and business men in this ,Ity, as we'll as
their clerks and hoook okee err. can read and
write the English language, and ,rut" IA
number Of them are suits Iiitl- To he daily
papers
That thOs,' however who are not 50 glft.,d
may have an opportunity of knowing what
Is transpirins III the busy world, there are
at the present time four newspapers printed
IN Chinese cnaract RS regularly published III
| Francisco They are all issued weekly and
have AN average circulation Of ; .,UU copies
/ he majority Of these papers are s,.nt INTO
the interior of this state, u WH-hIu. ton
territory, british Columbia and the sand
wlch ,saniS Only about uu,~rttn of the
Whole number l. taken in this "Ity The
. subscription price of each j. s. per an
mum, delivered by carriers in the city, and
;, year If sent through the mails to the
,Ountry or abroad
The oldest paper OF the quartet is The
Recorder. published by Nun kre ~ co 1t
ha, teen in existence eighteen years, and
has subscription list OF 30, Of which ~
are delivered IN the city and the remainder
mailed 10 the interior. Mum kee lis first
editor and proprietor, made fortune out
Z the Recorder Selling out three years
o. he returned 10 China to spend his de
clinIng years The Oriental is published by
Wah bee " Co 1t has been in existence
five years, and has a clrr rrulation of about
100 The Weekly Occidental Is now in its
fourth year, and Horn Hong n Co, its pro
prietors claim that it is the live paper and
has the largest cIrculat. on 1t has 10 city
subscribers and ~ III the country. Cum
shoe, its translator and reporter, is well
educated III English and Chinese, and moth
ing Of interest occurs IN the Chinese quarter
that he does not report for the paper which
he represents
THE LATEST ASPItAST FOR PATRONAGE.
The American and chinese Commercial
News, the latest aspTant for journalistic
honors among the hnese, was started by
Suey he, N Co Il little over three years
/ ago Its prOprirtors intended to revolution
ize the hne>e newspaper business in this
city, and engaged large staff OF reporters,
! etc. Their purse, however, was not "a large
as their Ideas, and year ago they gracr-
fully retired bankrupt The present pro
prletOrs now have the paper on paying
basis and claim circulation of 90 The
title Of the paper is printed in old Roman
text, and above it Is u represe ntatlon Of
flaming dragon
The stall of thineSe newspaper consists
usually Of four persons VIZ. an eiItOr
sub editor, q translator, and a printer or
pressman. The editor and sub editor are
generally the proprietors, ami each usually
edits one half the paper The translator Is
a most important person. His duties are 10
pick up news around the chinese quarters
and read carefully the American daily
papers From these he cull> the III irket
reports, accounts of outrages on Chinese,
the passage Of any laws or ordinances par
tlcularly affecting the hinese, and any
other items which he thinks will interest
his countrymen These he translates into
chinese characters and hands them to the
editors for insertion
The editors copy the characters 50 sup
piled them with the ordinary chinese pen
aud specially prepared ink on what is called
transfer paper The sheet OF transfer paper
Is the same size As the paper to be prluteI
, When the editor has his sheet of Il ansier
paper filled with characters his lab, l. done
and he hands the paper over to the printer
HOW THE PRINTING Is DONE
This functiOnary has photographic stone
already prepared. and to it he transfers the
characters on the paper. After setting
the ink on the stone with nitric acid and
gum he is ready Tor printing. After pass
! INK a wet sponge over the stone, he rolls
over it AN ink roller, the ink from which
. only adheres to the written characters He
then lays the sheet of paper to be printed on
the stone placing on top OF it a metal cover
An iron bar is now play ed acrusS this cover
] ,,I itFbt A ~ kal y
the foot of the operator. The frame on
which the stone Is set is then. by means of
strap and pulley worked 10y the printer, made
TO slide under the bar its who length The
| pressure Of the bar ON the cover causes
. the impression of the linked characters to Is
transferred from the stone to tue paper
The process Is repeated until the required
number of copies Is printed Then the
stone is cleaned oil and smOothrd down, and
the characters for the other side OF the pa
: Ier are transferred 10 II, and the printing
of the other side Of the printed sheets COM
menCea One side only Of II paper eau be
printed at a time. a smart printer can
print one side of 40 sheets IN an ordinary
working lay. Five working days are re-
qulreI 10 get out an edition of l,UN
The papers are printed with black ink on
single sheets OF thin white paper. except at
Chinese New Year, Wien ether rel paper ls
used or the characters are printed in red ink
On the ordinary paper, red being considered
the lucky color among the Chln,s+
The charge for advertisements is regu-
lated by the number Of characters employed
The price would average about cents a
word in Eng i,h, or e for one inch square
for one InSe tIon, with Il reduction for ais
running for over six months The adver-
PsueTaily consist q of sail
ing days of steamers notices issued by the
Chinese Six Ompanles, and prices OF sew
ing machines lamps, rr-arns and other
commodities which ind a ready sale among
the chinese, These are inserted by white
merchants San Francisco Chronicle,
Beating Three Gard Monte" Man.
The confederate, of course. took the &C
casiOn Of the operators turn of his head to
bend Upa corner of the right card. wink 1T
the group. and thus seemingly open the
way to u sure thing In the ordinary
course somebody would have bet on the
card and lost, for the expert handler would
have Strengthened that card and bent
another. But there was variance from
usage, and the rogue was delighted 10y
hearing two men say that they wished to
bet simultaneously. Their so apiece WAS
put i'll the hands of one of the party, along
with S2u from the gamb bier, who felt certain
that lac couldn't be defrauded if he won
Now, consider the situation for an in
stant. One Of the three cards lying face
downward would win S1U. To dead Ger
tainty it was not that which had lis corner
twisted. The gambler may have doubted
if such opponents would be fooled by
that familiar trick, but he doubtless r,n-
Snned that. at the worst. his chances would