Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-08-01
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
Picturesque CHINATOWN.
A View Of snu Francisco'- Intrresting
CoIony that H. seldom Presented.

IICItRESpiE CIfIN1IOUN
A view Of san FrancIsco'- IntrrestinE
COIony that il seldom Presented.
There is no quarter Of any city in America
more interesting than San Francisco's China
town, says correspondent Of the New York
| Commercial Advertiser. Except that the
houses are American in design and struc.
ture, Chinatown is in all ways a little China,
"A bit taken bodily out of the Flowery King.
dom and set down on these shores The
houses are those built by American resi-
dents a score of years ago, when the region
now occupied by the Chinese was the fash
ionable district Of the city. The Chinese
have taken complete possession of it, and
have converted it into an oriental city The
| population is exclusively Chinese the street
scenes, the shops, the manners and the mer.
chandise Of every kind, even to the edibles
in the market, are those of far Cathay.
The fresh fish one sees exposed for sale on
stands in the middle Of the streets are
caught in American waters, but the queer
dried fish, the dried ducks and other dessi.
Gated meats the nuts, the confections. the
conserves. and, in "A word all but the most
perishable Of food products sold there, are
imported from the land of the yellow mems
nativity.
The first impression made upon the mind
Of the visitor to Chinatown is that he has
suddenly stepped into some oriental city.
The next is that there has been very great
exaggeration in the published accounts Of
the squalor, the filth aud the vice Of the
Chinese quarter. There is, in fact, no
squalor at all, as we understand the word
in New York These people are well fed
aud well clothed, and comparatively well
housed The population of the quarter is
dense, but not nearly so dense as that Of
the tenement house districts of New York,
and there are nowhere any indications Of
that poverty which prompts men and women
to wear rags and feed upon unwholesome
things. The commonest laborer among
these people has whole garments, aud good
ones, ON his back have sought diligently.
even in the cellars inhabited 10y the rag
pickers-the show places Of the guides-
for tatters and patches, but have found
none. These Chinese are all well kept and
well cared for and they have an abundance
Of perrectlv Wholesome food Th.ir mar
kets are lavishly and variedly supplied
with food products of the lost ,,,ol;t,' and
uarfect fresbu4s. aud any Na,, v,rLou
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