Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29

| is not thoroughly informed as to all the
| main points of American daily existence.
| Many of them are better posted upon poll
tics, history, geography and literature than
/ are our own citizens.
The Chinese, on the other hand, merely
learn enough English to enable them to do
business in that language Not one from
| the Consul down to the small boy takes any
| interest in our speech, our actions or our
welfare. This indifference or antipathy is
due to the infamous abuse and injustice
which they have suffered at our hands. In
Peru. Panama and Cuba, where a China
man is treated as man, he learns Spanish
rapidly and takes an active interest IN
everything that is going on about him.
This unpleasant condition of affairs is well
illustrated in the case of Ajax, a prominent
Chinese cigarmaker on Park Row, near
Chambers street. Though he and his work
men have been here many years, having
come from Havana, they speak. read and
write Spanish and bestow far more thought
upon the Queen of the Antilles than upon
our own country.
THE CHINESE WON'T STUDY ENGLISH.
For the same reason there are more China
men who speak French well, even in New
York City, than there are who do English.
.
at IA Mott street, only one employe speaks
English. Two are conversant with French,
four with Spanish and all with Japanese. 1t
may afford food for thought when it is
known the .chief newspapers read by the
Chinese are in their own tongue, in Japanese
or in Spanish. The American journals are
seldom or never seen in the stores, restaur-
ants and boarding houses of Chinatown.
With the Japanese the opposite is the case,
and in club and boarding house the New
York dailies and weeklies are constant
figures.
The Japanese are beginning 10 exert an
appreciable influence upon New York trade
and New York home lite. 1t began with
fans and bronzes, passed to china, porcelain
and bric-a-brac, then went to teas, umbrel-
las, dolls, portiers and wall banners and has
now gone to day and night fireworks. In
all of these fields they are unrivaled in their
own field OF work. In fireworks they lead
the world.
One feature of both Chinese and Japanese
is a perpetual surprise, and that is their
superb stoicism. DR.. Jackson, of this city,
argues in an able address that they are not
as susceptible of pain as the Indo- European,
and cites any number of cases in support of
his theory. Be that as it may, they do suf-
fer pain and privation with less demonstra-
them died in Mulberry street who had suf-
tered from lung trouble an entire year and
had not had morsel offood for three weeks
preceding his demise. During this period
he made no complaint to either friend or
neighbor, and only day or two before his
decease wrote on a piece of paper that he
was about to perish of starvation. The
Coroner's inquest more than bore out this
statement.
SACRIFICED HIS LIFE.
All Juen, of Is Mott street, popular
gambler, found one morning on his body
some marks which he diagnosed as leprosy.
He locked himself In his room for a week,
and then being convinced that he was suf-
fering from that terrible malady, drew his
will, wrote letter to his next door neigh
Dor, which he mailed so that it should not
be delivered tor "a hours, and then com.
of opium. Lee Chung, of 13 PeIl
street, had an ingrowing toenail
which became infamed and very painful.
In the presence of party of friends, celes-
tial and barbarian, he removed it with a
lancet, and neither during nor after the op-
GRAFTON manifested the slightest pain or
emotion. This stoicism runs into other
fields. At their theaters and concerts they
applaud little or not at all. At their public
meetings they seldom express any feeling
for the speaker who represents their senti-
ment or against him who opposes them.
Even in private life, in matters OF eating,
drinking, dressing and lovemaking, they
say almost nothing. no matter whether they
are extremely delighted or thoroughly dis
gusted.
The latest news regarding the Orientals
of New York concerns the laundrymen and
contains a grain of grim humor. A few
months ago the Caucasian washermen with
roll of trumpets proclaimed that the
heather must 60, and established a mild
boycott upon their places of business. The
Celestials promptly organized, notified the
police, employed detectives. and in several
tough districts hired roughs, who made
short work with the boycotters. Then,
carrying the war into Africa, they cut rates
25 per cent at the points where the competi-
ton would do most harm to their antagonists.
This was too much for the white washee-
washee. He growled for month, and then
with strange alacrlty made up with his
yellow brother to so thorough an extent that
the week following both advanced their
rates quarter. As linen and laundries are
nnkown in the Flowery Kingdom, who shall
now say that All Sin is not becoming civil
lied and christianized?
WILLIAM E. S. FALEs.