Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-31
SEEN IN CHINATOWN.
NEW YORK YOUNGSTERS, WHO ARE
FOND OF STUNNING,
Find Among the Almond Eyed Denixe7s OF
Mott Street Much That Is Interesting.
Chinese Restaurant

EOtS street. Auc0 Ao2S - Interesting.
Cleanliness of the Orienfals-Meals It .
Chinese Restaurant
There has grown up fancy among the
young people who are rather suffering for
amusement to explore Chinatown, and
they find much that is amusing beside
the yellow skinned beauties. Sunday
evening is the time chosen for this sort of
stunning. as then the pigtaiiers con
gregate from far and near to buy supplies
Of Chinese food, which last them all the
week In their Jersey City and Hoboken
laundries, At that time Mott street and
its vicinity present a pretty fair iInita-
ton OF Hong Kong. despite the fact that
trains are laundering by through the ele
waited network at Chatham square. The
streets are almost impossible with the
chattering crowds of Cinnamon. each
with parcel under his arm, containing
salt turnips dried shrimp, tea and rice,
which they have come 10 purchase for
their seven days supply These Chinese
eat comparatively little American food.
and the Chinese groceries, OF which there
are thirty or forty, Go thriving trade,
drawn from ali the cities within easy dis
tance, many of the grocers being worth
anywhere from fifty to a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars
You will find their stock is nearly alk
imported, they keep very few American
products. and you viii wander among
these iostllng crowds for hours without
hearing one word of English or suspect
ing that such tongue was known were
it not for the patent medicine advertise
ments, which carry the language every
where, and are seen here in profusion
setting forth their merits in both tongues,
and reaping, it is said. great store of
shekels from the pigtailers, who dote on
stuff Of the sort and pay fortunes to their
own nostrum sellers for the style of medi-
cines which were in vogue in Europe in
the middle ages In every grocery hangs
three or four pairs of antlers in the
velvet, and the powder obtained by
pounding fragment of them in mortar
with a silver of Chinese ginseng root
makes dose which would go on a silver
quarter, costs anywhere from $40 to So,
and is taken once q year by any one who
can afford it with the firm conviction tina.
it has power TO not only cure but ward
off possible disease during the coming
year.
The method Of getting prescriptions is
u
Chinsman who feels that something is
seriously wrong inside goes to the joss
house, sets up two incense sticks in the
incense burner. takes a small jar full of
narrow bamboo slips In his hand, bows
three times and begins to slowly shake
the jar from side 70 side In the course
of minute or two one of the slips works
its way out from the others and falls on
ba hos her ? I'D ba-
number corresponds to prescription to
be found in :. tartered and dingy ''oraclo
book" hanging on the wall The patient
secures that prescription from his chemist,
and takes it with full faith in the Joss
diagnosis and remedy Nearly every man
Jack of these Cinnamon that the society
people go down TO gaze at curiously az
they clatter through the narrow streets
among the stands where sailed peanuts
and Chinese cabbage and cucumbers are
sold, is 3 waSherman.
There are 1000 laundries in New York
alone, 900 in your city and 200 in Jersey
City, which is called in the Confucius
''musquito land" Each laundry has from
two to five men working IN il, and most
of them make money, for the Chinese
exclusion bill keeps away competition
and gives them q sort of laundry trust OF
it. One young woman, who has lately
been on an expedition of this sort. when
she acquired this piece of information
sew in ii the explanation Of fact that
had greatly puzzled her-which was that
every ChinaInan she saw was clean. She
had gone into little rooms crowded TO the
doors with Orientals, where the windows
were shut and the gas burning, and yet
there was not the smallest hint of I'M
pleasant odor. She had explored opium
dens and found every smoker with the
snowiest stockings on his unslippered
feet, and she came home much amazed
having had some previous experience
among the lower classes of other nations.
Possibly the laundry profession being SO
widely difIused explains their cleanliness
They not only wash themselves. however,
but the Mclean man can so into their bar
Der shops any evening and see the barber
brush out and braid up their long queues,
shave away all the hair around the face
and neck, remove all traces Of beard and
manicure their nails. his customers COM
ing out from his hands IS fresh and clean
as yellow rose.
OF all the places in Chinatown the most
interesting are the restaurants, Of which
there are eight. The Delnouico's is Hong
Ping Los, where one can order spread
Of forty courses. which it takes two days
TO est and which can be had for the SUN
of 800, and provides enough for party
of six. Here's meal for three ct the /
Chinese Delmonico's and the prices: We /.
had tea. sansu rice brandy. two kinds /
of wine. dish of chow -chop-sucy. which 1
is a pungent and palatable conception Of
chicken livers and gizzards, fungi bamboo
buds, bean sprouts, water chestuuts and !
eli manner OF savoy spices stewed to- /
gether; a dish of cuttlefsh, one Of ducks /
breasts chickens wings, pigeons wings. /
& bowl of rice and rooncake ~ way of /
sweets, and for this, with al the attend |
ant dishes Of sauoes and condiments, one I
pays S125 A full, square meal. deli /
ciously cooked. dainty and delicate. fer !
about forty cents apiece or less. because /
there was enough On the dishes to have /
fed three or four more people. TINS fact (
Is becoming known. and o-er five hun (
dred Americans are regular customers az +
the Celestial eating house. They do not .
want them there, either. because they ara /
too cheap. TheT study matters closely. |
AID manage 70 get their meals for about /
ten cents, while the Chinese, who are al /
high livers. spend their money freely
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