The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-08-29
a JAPANESE CLUB.
The People From the Land Of the Mikado
Do Well In Gotham.


The People From the Land Of the Mikads
DO Well In Gotham
Over In Chambers street there is .
rather dingy-Iookfng Office on the
second floor of an old-fashioned build
an elevator in it.
Ii you climb the stairs and cast your
eye upon one of the doors opening into
the Office IN question you may see a
notice on it setting forth that within is
the Japanese Consulate Most persons
pass 1t by without paying any attention,
for in the minds of majority of New
Workers the Japanese contingent in
this city represents but little in point
of numbers or in any other way. That
Is where the ma ajority Of New Yorkers
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 inao it,
unless. indeed, Ii 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 il 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 who
are quite as prosperous. comparatively
speaking, as the Japanese who are lo-
Gated here. And yet but little is known
of them, for they have q wonderful
faculty of attending 70 their own busi-
ness, and doing it in an unobtrusive
way.
For the last decade or so the number
/ of Japanese in New York has been con-
stantly increasing, and now the colony
Is very good-sized one. What is more,
/ it is made up OF men OF more than mod
crate means
Few races, not English speaking,
have shown greater inclination to adopt
| American customs than have the Jap
anese who have located in this city.
/ They dress and talk like Americans;
| they attend our theaters and mingle in
our society, and in every way they seem
70 assimilate themselves with the condi-
tions that surround them. Unlike the
Chinese and other nationalities, they
| have not settled in any particular .o-
cality, but are scattered through II
| this city and Brooklyn. Pleasant md
satisfactory neighbors they make, too.
The New York Japanese have theil
club house, however. It Is . good
sized dwelling on West Twenty-second
street, between Sixth and Seventh ave
nues- Handsomely fitted up with both
/ Japanese and American furniture 1t is,
and as for treasures IN bric-a-brac, this
| particular club house is way ahead oi
1 many swell American club houses. II
goes without saying. almost. that there
| may be had such tue as can be had in nc
other club house or cafe in all New
York The club has Japanese cook
Its library is well filed with Japan
ese books and its reading-room table.
are freighted with Japanese news4 y
pers There are receptions on the an
| niversaries of the birthday of the Japan
ese Emperor and on such other occa
sions as may be decided upon Near J
all the Japanese in this city belong tc
the club, and it is about as well man
| aged an organization as there is in the
| city.
1t is stated that there is not Japan
ese pauper in New York, and that, a. q
matter of fact, there are very few who
do not possess at least moderate means
IN. 7. Mail and Express.