Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-01-16
CHINESE SEA GRUB.
COST OF FEEDING A PAGAN ON
AN OCEAN STEAMER.

CO-TFiN . GfttsiE-TA
Crowd of CeIestials Leaving San Fran
cisco tor Par Cathay-A Quarreisome
Set OF Passengers Little Waste In Feed
/ ing Profits
/ The Oceanic Steamship company's of
bee was crowded the other forenoon hy
Cinnamon anxious TO avail themsel yes Of
the reduced rate OF passage by the Cana
dian Pacific steamship Abyssinia Two
hundred and forty took passage by her
and sailed about 10 o'clock Many held
od 70 the last minute in the hone that bet
ter terms might be made. but the agents
were memorable
Don't you fumigate the Office after the
China steamer leavesY' asked Hawaiian
dude who struggled to the counter
through the jabbering crowd of Cinnamon
to secure passage to Honolulu by the
Australia
W hat ails your" was the retort You
should be familiar with the essence of
Cathay az you come from Honolulu"
" course ! am. but nothing SO rank
as this
Good money all the same There are
no deadheads in the Chinese passenger
trade. no round trip complimentary tick
cts Everything is on basis of United
States gold coin and no credit"
CHINESE SEA LAWYERS
Happening along at lunch. the lead
thus opened was followed See the
Abyssilia lot of Chinese asked the dis
Penser Of hospitality at a neighboring
lunch bar Seem a queer lot Give a
great deal Of trouble. most likely. That
kind always do There are cripples and
broken down men of all kinds among
them
Have you had experience In that
trader"
Yes for years have been employed
In the Chinese trade quite a long time,
but have quit the sea These fellows
will have an armory with them They
are quarrelsome and dangerous, and there
are always sea lawyers aboard to stir up
trouble They tell the ignorant coolies
their rights, and ii we were not prepared
to fight at the drop of a hat it would be
all up with US and the ship. We gen
orally manage to keep them under"
What is the rate of passage2" asked
reporter who happened to be present
"Tweutv five dollars and whatever we
can get freight.
Arc in for freight war;
Ca" III Know only what we are
doing
Does S25 passage money pay the
Canadian Pacific on thirty day voyage
wheE he old lines could barely manage
to get along with $50 rate2'
J. should smile But you just skirrnish
around and find out.
What does it cost to feed Chinese pas
sengers2"
Il brought over 800 of them one trip
at an average cost of four and three
eighths cents a day per man Yes. it was
Ia nv cd tr+ rax- boA -.
Up to 300 fair average of the cost is
ten cents per head daily. above that the
average lowers think the Pacific Mail
figures on twelve cents but that depends
Oh circumstances
What kind of food do they get?''
Chiefly rice We take twenty-six diff
ferent kinds of elbows We take white
beans brown beans, black beans, red
beans. green beans-every kind of beans,
orange peel. sauces, dried shrimps, dried
Gsh. dried abaioue although they get lit
tie of that But the principal diet is rice
Five pounds Of fresh beef will go as far
with 100 Cinnamon as with five white
men They take a big mess of rice and
small piece OF fresh meat, which they lift,
bite eff a small morsel. and return to the
dish Then they pitch into the rice with
their chopsticks and sample the sauces
They are fond of salt pork and salt meat
FRESH meat goes further They should
never get sailed meat or pork
MUST EAT OR sTARvE
Have you ever had trouble with Chi
nese passengersf"
Often l remember once in the Picking
we had a thousand of them. and they
kicked about theii food | went down to
fad out what the trouble was. and then
brought down the chief officer The rice
WAS NOT cool, al tr tlAir lilyi-u
1 will give you ten minutes to begin
eating said the chief officer. after that
the rice will be thrown overheard
We could not move We were sur
rounded Times up, said l. calling my
boys to clear away Over she goes The
Cinnamon looked sulky for minute or SO.
and then sat down and ate the rice, and
that was the last of it.
We never have any trouble coming
this way until after we leave Yokohama
Up to that time the cooie is busy filling
up and 10y the time he reaches Yokohama
he is all swollen out with rice, cutting
very ridiculous figure. with his spindle
legs and overhanging stomach After
leaving Japan he Is IN good condition and
listens to the tnceudlary talk OF the Chi
nese high binder Ii we backed down OF
weakened in any way It would be all az
with US Cinnamon are a hard crowd IL
handle on shipboard
You have only to give the Cinnamon
plenty to eat and you have no trouble
said an attentive listener Il was in
Hong Kong when the Abyssinia came IN
three trips ago. and she had trouble about
the food She then sailed from Victoria
The other vessels seldom have any bother
OF that kind
You think that ten cents per day
covers the cost of the food supplied OF
shjpboard to each Chinese passenger"
Yes, do 1t costs less with care
when the numbers are large than when
there are few on board There is very
little waste | assure you 1t is not
losing trade al S25 per head San Fran
cisco Examiner
Change OF Title.
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