Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-04

taken an American wife. and he has the
reputation OF being very considerate
husband and father. a virtue which 10
very scarce In the part Of the city OF
which he Is the fondest. His children
don't braid their hair into queues, but
they do have almond eyes, and they are
very fond OF their father, which seems
to show that, after all the bad things
that are said about him, John still has a
heart In the right place. which Is out
side of his outlandish clothing. II any
Californian who Is rabld on the subject
OF possible Aslatic dominion In this
country were to come over here and go
through the Chinese quarter of this city,
he would be obliged to see a great many
things which wouldn't be In. keeping
with Pacific coast ideas. One is that
the environment doesn't always make
the man, Right down In shabby, dirty
Pell street he would find two or three
Chinese shops, each OF which is man
aged by man who Is quite as shrewd.
sympathetic, and quick-witted as any
man in a,similar position anywhere else
ii the United States.
Another Side.
There Is another side, however, to the
slum life OF this quarter OF old New
York, and 1t is visible after 6 p. m. when
the workmen In the few factories on the
street go away and the inhabitants of
the various tenement houses in the vlcin-
ity return to their homes. Then the as
pect of the street Is entirely different.
Everybody likes resting time once in
twenty-four hours, and II Pell street
and Mott street and Doyers street live
up to their privileges there is nothing in
the laws of the Police Department or In
the city ordinances in general to prevent
them. 1t is after in the afternoon and
before in the morning that the very
unamerican spectacles which are pre-
sented in this locality may be seen by
any one who chooses to look. 1t Is due
the inhabitants to say that they make
no secret OF their customary methods Of
life, and the social code of manners in
the poorer districts finds no fault with
the American summer stare, although
1t Is quite as offensive as anything
British. Let the visitor beware, though;
because the people live out of doors when
the weather allows it does not follow
that they expect unlimited visitors to
enter their houses, Nobody In the
Chinese quarter is likely to be ugly, but
a great many are as full of self-respect
as II they lived on Fifth avenue
or 'on one Of the swell streets which
cross that fashionable thoroughfare.
They sit on their doorsteps and fire es-
capes in full view of every one, for to
the Chinaman privacy Is desirable only
for vicious purposes. Visits are ex-
changed as informally as among the
Dutch founders of the city, and the
sidewalks are crowded with men chat
ting with one another Window shades
are not drawn, so any one may pry into
the domestic affairs of John Chinaman
to his hearts content.
Indeed, one must look aside from the
Chinese IL he would see the dark side Of
Chinatown. The Celestials have their
vices, chief among which are gambling
and opium smoking, but a more quiet,
harmless lot of people can not be found
in the best streets Of the city. The
miseries and mysteries of the vicinity
are to be found not among the Asiatic
heather but in the houses in which
Caucasians huddle together. Why lodg-
ing houses and family tenements should
be popular in part of the city which is
full OF beings whom the lower classes
profess to abhor is hard to explain; that
they are there, and fully occupied, can