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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-09-11

city. The Chinese fastened on TO it. and
leech like they have sucked the blood and
beauty out of 1t. It's rooms have bepn
divided by pntitions SO that each room
now makes four. and zach of these four
little cubby holes OF rooms Is now fitted
up with shelves like sleeping car. and
in these the Cinnamon. packed away like
sardines. sleep ON mating which smells
like the concentrated essence of asafetida.
A gang of perhaps a half dozen occupies
each room. and here they cook. cat aud
sleep In the space occupied by one Of
the original hotel rooms thirty-five men
now live.
Chinatown is most dilapidated look.
ing quarter Aside from the dirt and
nth, the window panes are in many cases
out and the holes are patched up with
boards and old hats. You see No vbita
Americans in this quarter, and Won are
practically in a foreign CITY when Won
enter 1t. The people upon the street are
all IN chinese dress. and every man has a
pigtal. You see Chinese babies trotting
along behind their fathers. and now
and then Chinese woman leers at
you from behind the iron barred windows
of the disreputable houses Of the neigb-
borhood. The Chinese women of Ills
quarter are uniformly bad. They are
brought here for immoral purposes and
from girls of ten to haggard, wrinlsled Old
women they are bad characters. Curious
looking creatures they are, too. Not as
large as the men. they have their black.
glossy hair combed tight back from above
their almond eyes, and. with bic rings in
their ears and on their fingers, they dress
in extravaganza style. | saw ono very
pretty one in store buying fan. She
cd xryff he
fat, sleek Chinnman, for a long time be-
fore buying, and took a smoke out of an
opium pipe before completing her pur-
chase. =
The great majority of Chinese men who
come TO this country are young men.
They come here unmarried or without
their wives. and their lives when away
from their work are largely made up Of
debaueheries. The women brought here
are bought and sold, and in the San Fran
cisco papers | have just read the record
OF fight between the Chinese mission
here and man at San Diego for the DOS.
session Of Chinese girl for which the
San Diego man had paid al 900. Tho
courts would not give up the girl to the
man, and no recently brought her up
on the charge Of stealing at San Diego
The scheme is to get her back to that
place, whore she has no friends, and to
then force her in to his employ.
took look at some of the Chinese
restaurants and tea houses here. The tea
houses are gorgeously decorated with pa
per lanterns on the outside, and the cook.
ing in the restaurants is done almost
altogether with tiny fire and blow pipe.
In some Of the restaurants a wild and
discordant music is kept up, and in one
found pig tailed Celestial with thick lips
playing a sort Of banjo, while a girl,
painted and powdered, kept time on a
little round drum
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Rends nc a Romnncn.

St Louis dispatch says: Miss Nil.
dred Westinghouse, the daughter OF II. l..
Westinghouse, a st. Louis millionaire. left
for Miles City Mont, six weeks ago. where
her father has 100, 600 head Of cattle on
the ranges, and where Miss Mildred in
tended to gain little wild Western ex-
perience. Before leaving St. Louis she bid
fond good-by to a wealthy young man
prominent in social and financial circles.
to whom she was betrothed, and whom
she expected to marry in December. Soon
after arriving at Miles City Miss Mildred
was informed that a stalwart vounp New
Yorker, named T.. NJ Young, had been
seriously injured in runaway She vol
unteered to nurse him, and the couple
were introduced. The New Yorker was
big and handsome His injuries were such
that his foot had 10 be amputated. Miss
Mildreds heart melted with pity and
soon love Joined pity, and she lost her
heart. The young man was wealthy for.
merry lived in Kentucky. and was inter
ested in mines He proposed marriage
and she told about the good yonng man
she left behind that her folks had s. lected
for her. He argued against the claims of
the good young man, and on last Friday
Mildred and her eonvalescent lover eloped
from Miles City to St. Paul. where they
were married. The ceremony took place
in hotel, and Mrs Needinghouse. Of this
city, was the first caller. She was aAame
with indignation, aud refused to say any
thing to her new son in-law The father
is now on the train from Miles CITY and
there win be a time when he overhauls
the truants.
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LOOKING OUT AT THE WORLD.

The markets, the groceries and tho
restaurants are a strange sight indeed.
Ham and bacon seem to be the chief meat
sold, and the grocers sell meat as well as
vegetables and staple articles. A dirty
little white cheese, about as big around as
the palm Of your hand and an inch thick.
is sold everywhere. and the heads Of cows
and calves are esteemed a dainty. The
whole of Chinatown is honeycombed with
these grocery stores, and there are per-
haps more business places in the twelve
blocks than in any similar area in the
United States. There are shoe stores
where Chinese shoes are sold, china and
art stores where the finest OF goods are
displayed, and workshops where nearly
every trade and art is carried on / saw a
score Of BARRIERS at work in the cellars as 1
passed, and in one case / saw barber
picking out and cleaning the ears Of his
pig tailed customers. There arc Chinese
tailors here, Chinese jewellers and Chinese
bankers and tobacconists. The cigars
sold are of the cheapest grades, and two
cents seems to be the average price.
Tho Chinese are doing all classes Of
work in California. | saw gangs of them
working on the railroads as / passed
through the state, and these railroad
workers were clad In blue cotton gowns
and wore upon their heads thick straw
hats, which looked for all the world like
great inverted basins. They live while
working upon the railroads in tents put
up along the side Of the track, and they
viii do the work cheaper and better than
Caucasian laborers. They do not strike
for shorter hours. and in Chinatown they
seem to work day and night, and Sunday
as well as week days.
Twas surprised to note that the Chi
nese Of the Pacific slope have none Of the
meekness OF the Chinese of the eastern
states. They are as independent az though
they owned the country, and they will
take the wall for nobody. They quickly
learn their rights. and they yield them in
no instance. They fight for themselves
IN the courts, and they have money in
plenty to carry out their plans. A very
common sight here IS the Chinese vegeta-
bic peddler, who walks along the streets
with two great baskets hung from the
two ends of pole which rests upon his
shoulders. These peddlers practically
crowd of the other passers on the streets,
and there was an attempt made to exclude
them from the sidewalks. John China
man went into the courts and received
tho right to carry what he pleased, and
the white man who would shove the vege-
table peddler to the side would certainly
have a street quarrel and might get
shot or cut with knife. The presump-
ton in the courts is as a rule in favor of
John Chinaman- He knows It, and he Is
not backward In taking advantage Of It.
As to tho wealth Of the Chinese Ia Cali
fornia, am told they always seem to be
able to raise plenty Of money when they
want it. HENRY STEPHENS.
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Miss LAURA A. RlGGAR.
The Warm Praise of California ORA
matte JoufnaI

hhetttt journal
The San Francisco Music ard Mai
heartily appreciates Wilmington's fore.
most contribution to the stage. In q
eulogy of the greatest and best country
IN the world it concludes: "They NAV
but twinkle at the first, as did our Laura
Biggar, but each day gaining strength
they gain, bigger and bigger. until thew
burst upon MS refulgent, amazing. illum-
mating and scintillating, like the meteor
or flashing like a comet across The tbeat,
rical horizon Laura Biggar the pride Of
the Pacific slope, has those graces Of
feature, form and mind that warrant
success behind the footlights piare
Possessing a grand soprano voice, She
can both sing and act, and woman-like
dress with taste to complete the picture
Of enchantment. Laura Biggar's future
as promised by the past has already
arrived"
That is very kind and enthusiastic.
The motive for this inspiration is partly
explained by the following: when all the
while they are drinking in, with HON
age, the portraits Of Lora Hollis, Stella
Chase Ainsworth, Laura Virgil, Charlotte
and Essie Tittel, Ida Van Siclen. Helen
Mason Osborne, Lizzie Vigoureux, Lottie
Wade LeRoyle, Helen Dungeon, Rosabelle
Morrison, Isabelle e-McKee, and the
very latest addition, superb picture of
charming actress, Laura Biggar, the
Pride of the Pacific,
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hEesRs. W. D. WooD & Son Of Pitts
burg one Of the largest iron manufac.
turing firms in the country, a firm Of
"robber hsrons' ia The language Of the
disciples Of Calhoun and not Of Jefferson,
has decided to discharge ali the boys in
their employ who are under IA years Of
age They win urge them to attend
school, and will purchase books for all
their boys whose parents are poor The
protective system haa centralized the
iron industry very much at pittsburg and
the robber barons" thore are very pow
crful, but their conduct Is in bright con
trast with the persistent action Of that end
Of the Mills bill movement which is sup
plying The brains for the cause The
Southern free traders have defeated the
purpose Of the Blair Education bin for
several successive sessions Of Congress,
although the South IS badly in need Of
better public schools. The genuine free
trader, that is, men ike Mills Carlisle
and breckenridge, are SO deadly in their
opposition TO any governmental foresight
that they are actually opposed to public
school education Their continuance in
politics, Ike that Of their predecessors.
depends, they well know, upon the ig-
noranee Of their constituencies.
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pENINsuLA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Diphtheria is prevalent in Bishopville.
a small town in Worcester county. and
assumed a very malignant form. Six
deaths from it have occurred within a
week.
Tie two schooners built for the state
oyster navy by Train A. Bounds Of Bar
rem Creek Springs, have been launched
the first on Saturday and the other yes.
terday. The two boats will be taken
from Salisbury soon to the Sharptown
marine railway for rigging, etc.
DR. William n. Leonard. whose death
from yellow fever at Jacksonville was
announced yesterday is a native of
Talbot county, Md, being the son
OF the late William X Leonard. a promi-
nent citizen. He had been a resident
Of Jacksonville about four years. had
married there, and had built up a fine
practice
hsma Lowe, a prominent citizen Of
Caroline county and we'll known through
ont the state, died at his residence. in
Greensborough, Sunday, aged 66 years.
= widow and five grown children survive
him. At the extra session of the l.egis-
lature held in Frederick City in 1861 he
was appointed folder, and with two ex-
ceptions had filled that position in each
successive Legislature until the last one.
The surveyors of the Eastern Shore
Railroad arrived at Salisbury Sunday.
They have just completed the route
which runs by Sharpstown 1t is said
that should the road cross the upper part
Of Dorchester county and along the Della.
ware line in Wicomico county. those two
| counties will object to paying the amount
they promised last fall, the people claim.
ing that these counties would not be
much benefited
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I viii praise my God forever,
God who is so great and glorious,
He who has for man created
All the different kind Of flowers.
And of all He made the faireat,
Surely Is the snow white lily
In il, over all praise Him,
God who is of all the greatest.
Up the rcd rose sprang exclaiming,
stand aside, ye other flowers,
Ills for me TO speak the praises
OF our God SO great and glorious.
Since from me is made the altar.
And the sweetly perfumed sugar,
And the cooling scented water
From the eyes 90 those who suffer:
Most Of all ] show the mercy
OF our God SO great and glorious
To her answered the coronation.
Truly am far moro famous,
With the brides 1 am tho rose queen.
Everywhere in the hands I'm carried,
And for presents am given
Every day 20 lovely ladies,
Even as their own life they love me.
Brides take beauty from my beauty
Most Of all ! show the mercy
Of our God SO great and glorious"
From the Hebrew Spanish
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-09-11
TWO SCORE YEARS AGO.
Where Bayard Taylor Got His Hats
When Youth.

Where Bayard Taylor Got His Hats
When Youth.
Says the Kennett (Pa.) Advance IN
dreaming back into those good old
times" Of half century ago:
There may be more business doing in
Kenneth Square to-day than there was
forty years ago but the average citizen
was not then so dependent upon the out
side world, Mifilin Pyle then made all
the hats worn in the community. When
a man wanted hat he went down so the
shop and ordered it and had his measure
taken. There was no great variety of
style, but they were good. honest
hats, and they wore well. George p
McFarlan carried on the same business
at Old Kenneth and there was another
hat shop on the place now owned by Joel
Scarlet Every shoe worn in the com
munity was made right here at home
and the same was true of the clothing
On the kennett hills the wool was fed
and grown At the mill at Chambers's
It was made into cloth and IL was
fashioned into garments by John Darling
ton in the house now owned and occu-
pied by Rebecca Plankinton. The plow
was the chief agricultural implement
that was not strictly homemade and
they We're manufactured by Hiram Hall
for time at least on the site of the
present national bank building at the
head of Broad street Ahiel Nedery was
his assistant and all the frame work was
got ready with a drawing knife. The
pillow castings came from Wileys foundry
at Peekskill, N. Y.
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AE ENDowIp A ~ LIeRARY

HE ENDOWED A FREE LIBRARY.
Yesterday was the eighteth anniver-
sary Of the birth Of Mr.. Enoch Pratt,
Baltimore's greatest benefactor The
Sun Of that city gives a worry modest re
port Of the occasion. but which we deem
worthy Of a place in this column Mr.
Pratt deserves not only the most dis
tinguished consideration because Of his
many well-spent years, but his example
in bestowing his great wealth upon a
free library is one that should Do held up
tochallenge therespeet and commentator
of everybody. and especially should this
be done in this city Wilmington is in
need Of a very mild imifator Of this wise
and generous patron Of his adopted city.
The sun says Of his birthday
Mr Enoch Pratt received an ovation from
q host Of friends yesterday. Oh the occasion o.
his eishtesh birthday. lie hos boon 50 al
lively identified with the pleading business and
public events in which Baltimore is Interested
that bis advancing years were lost to sight,
and cvcu many Of his cloae associates lid not
realize that he Is 30 years 81 a,se. Ic drove m
blithe and happy as a boy. nc stopped at the
National Farmers and planters' Bank. OF
which he g president snd delivered his daily
gifi Of q basket Of fruit for TIE clerks. Then
he transacted a good deal OF business at the
counting-room Of the iron house OF Il.
Pratt a. Brother on South Charles
street. He presided az The meeting OF the
board OF directors OF the bank, and in the
afternoon. before he dgove out 20 the country,
he paid his usual visit 20 the main building Of
the Pratt Free Library on Mulberry street
Wherever he went he was met with congratu-
latiOns and hearty good wishoe kilograms
and letters poured IN upon him from an airec-
tions from people who were not here to pay
their respects in person. Mr. Pratt said: II
am the happiest man in baltimore to-day.
Ny happiness comes from the fnct that let
the filthy lucre go, and there has never hecn
an hour that have regretted the gift of 81 20
90 20 found the Free Library The good re-
suits uf that institution are scen in my day,
and / enjoy IT, The congratulations which
have come 20 me ia almost overwhelming pro-
portions touch a tender chord ana make me &
happy man, 2
No wonder that man with such
heart should he able az four-scor years
10 do as much business as he did yester.
day.
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platform or the hotel machine the other
afternoon before dinner. The machine
was gallant and true, and told her that
she was very happily proportioned at 1870
pounds. In a mad freak of confidence
blended with curiosity, the fair one tried
it again on her return from the dining
room, and, by the tiny tip of her russell
shoes, il that machine didn't unblush
ingly haunt the figures 400 pounds at
her The fair one was consoled and petted
by her associate bellies until she recovered
her composure, but she has abhorred
weighing machines from that instant
New York Sun.
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To the Editor Of EVENING JOURNAL
the public that the report in circulation
that the firemen were druak at the Quig-
Icy fire on Sunday morning last is not
true, and that to attribute such report Il
the residents of West Fourth street op.
posite to the fire is worse than malicious.
We do hereby tendor TO them our thanks
for their brave ard efficient work in saw
ing eur homes and houses Mr.. and Mrs.
s. g. Logan, Mr.. and Mrs w. s. Griven,
Mrs H. T. Scott. Mr. and Mrs N. Tebo,
Mr.. and Mrs w s. Hoffman, Mr. and
Mrs j G. Rieble
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NEWSPAPER OPINIONS.

The Young Men 70 the Front.
Milford Chronicle
Between She SALISBURY faction and the
Gray Wolcoit faction 81 the Democratic
party there is litile to choose politically.
The merits of either arc not numerous.
and the tax payer Of Delaware has very
little 70 thank either for. Aside from
aged and answering Democracy
the former faction has nothing
Of which it can boast, and the latter
faction can only point to its
broken constitutional reform pledges for
ITS history. The former may be respected
for its bourbonism, but the latter is des
picable for its falsity From neither can
there be good expected From what and
20 what must the people who are not
Interested in personal politics turn7 To
the Republican party as it has been or
gained in the past No Decidedly not
Personal politics is what the people are
tired Of. What then2 To tho vounr
men who have grown up in the din Of
political strife in both parties; who have
been disguised with self politics, and
who want new faces reflected
from the political mirror Their
interest in politics is not boun-
ded by SaulsburyisIn or Bayardism, but
IS based upon desire 70 see justice done
70 an unrepresented minority and better
government given for the expenditure Of
public money. What better government
means is well known ft Is better man
agement Of county Offices. by electing
the officers instead Of appointing them
by the governor The election Of road
supervisors and the remodeling If our
public school laws SO that the tax may be
laid and collected by The state. etc. etc.
The time is rife for such an uprising. and
be Il from the young men of Democracy or
from the many able young men affiliated
with kepublicanism that the movement
starts, it has the assurance Of success.
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.


To the Editor Of EVENING JOURNAL
In yonr issue Of yesterday you speak
of William r. Smalley as candidate foi
the clerkship Of the lower house at Tho
coming session and that he received five
votes two years ago and that
If the nine votes cast foi
Frank NJ Dunn had gone to him, he
would then have been elected and the
Sanlsburys would have lost control Of the
House According TO this statement il
occurs that as Mr. Smalley failed TO
receive the clerkship he used his infu-
ence through his father who
was a member to organize the house
in the interest OF the Saulsburys, in
direct opposition to the wishes Of the
men who secured his nomination Such
seems to have been the case, and yet Mr..
Smalley never received but four votes for
clerk OF the House. DRMOcRAT.
Dover. Del, Sept. fl, 1883.
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Milford News and Advertiser.
We have nothing to say Of the meth
eds used to secure such ticket, except
that The power used BY the convention
was never before exercised by the Demo.
cratic party or attempted by any part Of
It IN the political history Of the state.
The rights Of the minority, and a large
one ct that, were trampled under foot.
and It was hurled in the teeth of tn al
minority that I'VE have the power and
intent to use it. for we are the Democra-
tic party. -Delawarean.
We wish to remind the Delawareau
that il Is mistaken in its first statement
sor the political history of the Demo
cratic party. a. led by the Salisbury fac
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SAN Francisco, Sept. 6.-San Francisco
is somewhat alarmed over its Chinese
population. The number of Chinese hero
steadily increases, and there are now in
the city alone so, 600 Celestials. 'eThese
are not, said one of the leading citizens
Of San Francisco to me today, "by any
means the quiet inoffensive class that the
people Of the United States suppose.
They are a dangerous element, and the
Chinese rough is a worse man than the
American hoodlum. At first sight one
does not appreciate the Chinese character.
All faces Of Cinnamon look alike to him,
and it is only after he has become ac-
quainted with the type that he appreci-
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The automatic weighing machines one
sees in the hotels and abont town gener-
ally, sometimes play pranls. The antics
of one of them have caused comment In
Asbury Park One Of the fairest bellies
at the Coleman Honse, with Just an in
clination toward the cherubic dumping
order. tripped blithesomely on to the
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Kickinr on liz a nfnn.

Overheard at Coney Island-"There is
one thing about ladies swimming. y
whats thatg'
They cant put on any side saddle
style when they 60 in swimming They
must kick out like a man or get drowned
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Lawyer TO prisoner}-You look as If at
one time you might have been a respect
able member of the community.
Prisoner-Yes, sir: but appearances
are often deceptive. l practised law
until whiskey knocked me out.-Epoch.
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A Good Substitute.

At a summer resort:
Bella-Oh, dear What are we to do
to-day. without man on the grounds9
Carrie-Lets get boat and row round
the buoy Burlington Free Press.
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woman can drive bargain we know,
With lots Of assurance and gall:
But when she comes down to IA hen or a nail
Why, she simply can't drive them at all.
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Two materials appear in most cloaks
and mantles. The nuns cloak, made full
and of sufficient length to quite cover the
wearer, Is made Of csmel's hair STUFF and is
lines throughout with silk.
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With glsddening eyes so great the sun,
Who lifts his brow in varied light:
Bring light where'er your feet may run:
So bring day 10 sorrow's night.
Rose Hawthorne Lathr
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To-day the New French
Printed Flannels wheel INTO
line. An army of them. The
sort of stuffs that home-again
Summer wanderer by seaside
or mountain will be glad to