Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-22

ll9o u tOn0voa, u gIartng, and beookS
he mouctcuy Of our American dun husd
stseetA u = Ike The big sun6owss n
bed q p1nks, o. . spotted Leopard d .
1ock d sheen 6an Ftanclsco's China
dom b "A open street show, mussum
q curiosities In things Displayed In the
windows Of which noos but u China
man knows the ne, and things 70 saA n
bic provision stores which. u ab0sninAble
70 us. are curiouA He hes open cir
stands of hardware, tools, stc., HE the
New York outbreaks q such wares In
veeey street. His fruit stands abound
with long stalks Of sugar cane. The
Chinese little boy. arrayed IN faahion
Just like his fathss. but In color moro
luxuSiant, b also far more numerous
than In 10
Thee seemingly little old men 60 about
IN Pink q red sllken loose txouser, up
per garments oe red O. yellow, Q red Of
blus button ou thsir 81 Iike head eesr.
smhsuidered Chinsss shoes, and youth
full plgtail extended into silk braid. 80
attired they race about the street and
squeal sportively In their lingos - our
boys squeal in theirs. Females at night
may BE- seen chattering on the pavements,
goreeously dressed In robes Of pink
trimmed with many coloEs. n you are
In certain neighborhoods at night, the
Chinese man will dog you for blocks
and pour most serious suggestions into
your ear regarding the possibilities Of
seeing oriental female society. John II
not at all good man. He seems In cases
corruptible, but how much he was cor
rupted before he came here, and how
much he gained in corruption after, 10
more than know.
This glare and color Il confined to
what seems the fashionable center Of the
Chinese quarter. Reaching far beyond
on its outskirts IL block ON block, reach
ing high up the hills ON which the city
is built and far down to the wharves on
the level made land, all filed with China
men at work. Buildings which wealth
and fashion once occupied are full OF
them. Ramshackle sheds rotten with
decay are full Of them.
Tie air rceks with the peculiar odor
Of Chinese population. What makes
Il don't know. It u not - fragrant a.
. rose, neither is It 20 pronounced - the
whiffs New York gets when the wind
blows from the Hunters Point coal oil
refineries. ! am not defending China
dom; but in seeing and being very much
alive to the faultsof other races, Il seems
to me that we do yet strain at some gnats
and swallow few camels.
A drunken Chinaman IL rare. An un.
clean one in person ditto. Look at their
hands and finger nails and compare
them with those Of some other races
among US. He was the first washer.
man California had, something . little
less than forty years ago, and she then
needed him badly, for dirtier popula-
ton has rarely been seen than that In this
city in 1862. 1t was o sort Of forced un-
cleanliness. There was hardly time to
wash. There were few conveniences.
The pioneer hotel often ran but one towel
for horde OF guests. It paid better to
buy new shirt than expend an hour In
washing 1t. But under these circum-
stances you can imagine how long some
men would wear some shirts. At this
juncture the Chinaman came, jumped
into soapsuds and cleaned the people.
ct least outside. PRENTICE MULToRD,