The evening world., 1889-06-21
PEN PICTURES OF CITY LIFE.
DRAWN At RANDOM BY EVENING
WORLD REPORTERS.

Pearl Fishery to BE Undertaken by Chinese
WSrkmcn.
II is not very generally known that the
Gulf of California contains very valuable
pearl fisheries, which extend for hundreds
of miles along the coast of the California
peninsula and Mexico as we'll.
These have been owned by a Mexican
citizen named Salvador Solavio. and were ac-
quired by him at a cost of about e6, 900.
They extend southwark from a place called
Ensenada to Cape 81. Lucas. and from there
cover nearly the entire gulf side of lower
California, a distance in all of about l, 800
miles.
1t has recently been announced by a paper
published. in San Diego, the so~uthernmost
city in California, that all these vast interests,
which have hitherto been almost entirely I'M
developed, have been leased to q Chinese
firm in San Diego, zee Choung Long & Co.,
Tor a large sum OF money.
They agree to work the fisheries and de-
yelop the industry, but are going to employ
their " countrymen exclusively in this
work.
1t is said that they will spend $40, 900
right away in estn bliBhlng fishing stations.
and they will send to China Immediately for
are easy TO obtain in the vicinity of Hong
Kong, and the intention is to bring over 800
Cinnamon i'll the first shipload and put them
at work at once.
lnis ueal mas created u Dig sensation III
Southern California and III san Diego.
Everybody is excited over it because 1t is the
intention of the Chinese firm to do their
business direct with China through San
Diego, and all goods will pass through that
port.
Another feature of this remarkable con-
tract is that the company now in charge of
the fisheries intend to buv up all the Mexi-
can silver currency they can get hold of and
float 1t in China M a profit. II Is the only
country in the world where it will pass.
Passengers ON IA sandy Hook steamer
Amused by a shark.
"A shark! ~ cried out one of the paasen-
gers ON the Sandy Hook steamer st. John
as she was leaving her dock at Atlantic High
lands early one morning last week.
The passengers, among whom was an
EVENING WoRLD man. rushed to the side of
the steamer and curiously watched the mo-
tions of the man-eater.
He was of Il dark gray color and about six
feet in length. He glided swiftly along with
the steamer with his sharp fin cutting the
water like q knife.
Now and then his white belly would CLEAN
in the sunlight as some passenger woul
throw an orange skin or u lead pencil, or
anything at the fish. He swallowed every
thing thrown to him. About half way across
the bay he gave a sudden dive and diSap-
peared.
Was it a shark ~ asked the reporter of
Steward Burgess.
"Oh. yes. 1t was a shark. There are any
quantity of hem here, from the small dog
fish up to the regular man eater. 1t is a dan
gerous thing TO battle in these waters, that is.
away from shore. We clean up ship after
getting down here. and l suppose the scraps
we throw over attract them inside the Hook"
Many SO-Cnlled French Wines Which Are
Of American Vintage.
You can depend on it that seven-tenths
of the wine that is consumed in this country,
purporting to be imported, is of American
vintage" said a well. known wine merchant a
few days ago. r.
THE French clarets that are served in
hotels and restaurants, especially with table
d'hote dinners. are grown in California and
Ohio. and are bottled and labelled with
French trademarks. only to increase the ex-
pense to the consumer.
d" II used to be the practice to send wines
from this country to France, where they were
mixed with q solution of logwood and sent
back here as native wines, but this has been
discontinued and the fixing is done right
here on this side of the water.
" You can safely say that not more than
three-tenths of the claret that is served as i'm
ported is genuine"