Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-27

EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
Early California Raisin Shipments a
Source Of Qualification.
THOSE LOUISIANA STATE BONDS.
General Sherman Re. Elected Presi-
dent of the Army of the Ten
nessee Association.
ESPECIAL DIsPAT To THE PFcOpn- rY,rro>,
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
THOSE LOUISIANA STATE BONDS.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-us1oN !
WE TOLD YOU so.
The Chinese Colony a Cancer in the
Heart of New York Civ

The Chinese Colony Cancer in the
Heart of New York City.
New YORK, September 26th.-The Post
has long and significant article based on
the Chinese boycotting of white landlord
in Chinatown. 1t says: The District At
torney is looking the matter up with view
OF prosecuting. The Post continues: The
whites inability to rent tenement brings
to the fore question that might well be
considered by the owners of property to
rent in this city-are Chinese desirable
tenants? The answer is one long ago
made in San Francisco and other cities on
the Pacific slope, and was decided in the
negative. When once they have occupied
building it is difficult to rent it to people
of another race. Even Italians will sbun
quarters which once have been occupied
by Chinamen. In fact, the landlord who
rents to Cinnamon is soon at the tenants
mercv.
They may pay good rent at first, but
when they have occupied place SO long
that no one else would take it, they de.
mand lower rate. The landlord Yields or
his building stands empty. The Chinese
colony, as it is just beginning in New York
city, has been shown in cities and towns of
the West to be properly comparable with a
malignant ulcer. The Chinese colony eats
its way into the body polite and is as de-
structlye OF real estate interests as the ulcer
is destructive of the living tissues. Chinese
tenantcy grows like a weed. Rent one
building to ChInaman, and it is but
short period ere the buildings on each side
are also occupied by Chinese.
Mott street and its environing thorough
fares form local illustration of how the Chi
nese colony will grow. Yet it is but weak
example compared with those that San
Francisco furnishes. Once a Chinamap
gets foothold in any quarter, thereafter
everything decent is swept away before
him, never to return, unless something
approaching revolutionary movement
arises to overthrow the destroyer. This is
due to the fact that the Celestial is a very
undesirable neighbor. He is probably the
meanest and dirtiest liver, as a rule, that
this country nourishes.
What formerly was one of the finest and
most valuable portions of San Francisco is
practically ruined. AS the Cinnamon lived
and live there, so do they live in Mott
street. Anyone who cares to try the ex-
pertinent has but to take trip through the
homes OF the Cinnamon of New York to
satisfy himself that their manner of living
Is detestable and injurious to real estate in
terests.
The owners Of property in Mott street
and other thoroughfares than the neighbor-
hood now tenanted by Cinnamon do not
pretend that matters are anywhere near
approaching the crisis reached on the Pa
cific coast. Still the white boycott incident
has actuated them to a more serious con-
sideration of the problem than they have
ever given before, and there are the signs
OF wayering real estate values which the
white case has served to make more marked.
The Post, which is rated as the most con-
servative paper in New York city, sounds
the following alarm: The Chinese have
secured foothold in New York. If il be-
comes tirmer, if the increase in Chinese
population continues at the rate of fifteen
per cent. as it has in the past year, despite
the Restriction Act, what will be the effect
on property values? That is q question
that ought to trouble landlords.
Should the Cinnamon greatly increase,
and should they pursue with regard to
other property, tactics similar to those
adopted in the boycott case, the landlords
would be entirely at their mercy. In fact,
they are at their mercy now so far as Mott
street is concerned. They might drive the
Chinese out by a concerted effort but, in
order to secure Caucasian tenants in the
vacant places, they would be obliged to
renovate thoroughly, even should they not
be compelled to tear down and rebuild the
entire district