Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-09-05

The People From the Land Of the suksde
Do Wen In Gnfhnrn.

The People From the Land Of the Nuksde
DO Wen In Gotham.
Over in Chambers street there IS
rather dingy looking oaice on the
second floor Of an old-fashioned build.
ing, which is too conservative 70 have
an elevator Ia it.
II you climb the stairs and cast your
eye upon one Of the doors opening into
the Office N question yen may see
notice on it setting forth that within Is
the Japanese Consulate. Most persons
pass It by without paying any attention.
for in the minds Of majority Of New
Workers the Japanese contingent in
this city representa- but little In point
Of numbers or In any other way. That
is where the majority Of New Workers.
are in error.
Should you happen to be in this same
Japanese Consulate on many occasions
one thing will strike you very forcibly.
No ragged person ever comes into it,
unless, indeed, 1t be one Of the race Of
peripatetic beggars who visit every
downtown Office. No one comes into
| this consulate wanting to be assisted in
getting away from this land Of the free
| and home Of the brave because II has
| failed TO provide him with living
| Probably there Is no other consulate IN
this city Of which the same can be said
| Probably, too, there Is no class Of people
In our heterogeneous population whs
:re quite as prosperous, comparativel.
speaking, - the Japanese who are 10
Gated here. And yet but little Is know
/ Of them, for they have wonderful
faculty Of attending to their own bust
ness, and doing it in an unobtrusiy
way.
For the last decade or so the aumbe
Of Japanese in New York has been cor
stantly increasing. and now the colon
Is . very good-sized one. What is more
1t is made up Of men Of more than mod
crate means
Il Few races. not English speaking
have shown greater inclination to adoT
American customs than have the jar
anese who have located In this cit.
| | They dress and talk like Americans
} | they attend our theaters and mingle i
i our society. and in every way they seel
, | to assimilate themselves with the cond
| | tions that surround them. Unlike tt
, Chinese and other nationalities, the
5 have not settled in any particular !
cality, but are scattered throughs
a this city and Brooklyn Pleasant Al
r satisfactory Leighbors they make, to
9 The New York Japanese have the
: club house, however. 1t is q goo
: sized dwelling on West Twenty-seco'
s street, between Sixth and Seventh av
n nues. Handsomely fitted up with DO
8 Japanese and American furniture it
Q and as for treasures IN bric-a-brac, II
S particular club house is way ahead
+ many swell American club houses
Il goes without saying, almost, that the
n may be had such tea rs can be had in
b other club house or cafe in all n,
/. York. The club has Japanese coOk
r Its library Is well filled with Japa
If csc books and its reading-room tab
d are freighted with Japanese news
a, pers- There are receptions on the Z
T. niversaries of the birthday Of the Japs
c. csc Emperor and on such other oc'
IN sions as may be decided upon Neal
a all the japanese in this city belong
s. the club, and 1t is about as well m;
is aged an organization as there is in
a. city.
t. 1t is stated that there is not Jap;
Ii ese pauper in New York, and that, a
le | matter OF fact, there are very few v
It. DO not possess at least moderate mea
n N. Y. Mail and Express