Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-06-03
INCOMING JAPANESE.
Their Number Rapidly 1nreasinQ
 In tho United States
They Como to Our Shores for Eduea- tim, and, Unlike the Chinese, Adopt Our Manners and Customs
 Cheap Workeru.

''It is singular that the influx of Japanese has been passed by with so little notice" said Collector of the Port Timothy Guy Phelps the other day. ''For many. years they have been com ing in twos and singles, but latterly there has not been steamer that has not had it's quota of Japanese. The people should be warned in time, before the evil becomes so great that it's eradi- cation may require the harsh measures that have been found necessary with the Chinese.,'
 The immediate occasion for Mir. Phelps's remarks, says the San Fran cisco Examiner, was memorandum that he had just received from the com missioner of immigration, showing that for that part of April which had then elapsed there had been brought into this port the number of 341 Japan csc, of whom 835 were males and six fe- males. The number did not include those expected on the Belgic,s which might raise the figures to over 400. On no previous occasion had the Oriental steamers brought over such a horde of the Milado's subjects; and never be- fore has the question as to their desira- bility in the community been raised According to the figures compiled at the office of the Japanese consulate in this city there are at present on this coast 3,S66 Japanese men and 200 wom- en, making over 4,O00 in all But these figures, by the admission of the con- surs clerk, are only approximately cor rect, and the evidences would tend to show that the actual number is much larger. The great majority of the males are young men or boys who have come to this country to acquire an edu- cation.
 They adopt the manners of the whites, and have shown no inclination to herd by themselves. But, like all oriental peoples, they will work for a ridiculously small wage, and hundreds, and even thousands, have supplanted the servant girl and the serving man in the homes and clubs of San Francisco. The ambitious labor for little more than their board, passing the middle part of the day at school and giving their services morning and night for what they eat and 8 place to sleep, with perhaps a dollar for spending money now and then. There has in this way been introduced into the homes of San Francisco a new order of menial service, and many families that had been unable to hirea girl, or even Chinese, could give food and shelter to some diminutive Jap anxious to be- come proficient in the learning of the whites and willing for that end to give his time and labor.
 The certificates on file in the irnmi- grafton office describe fully ninety per cent. of these immigrants to be farm CTS, yet it is known that very few leave the city for the interior. They give their occupation as farmers probably for the reason that they come from the peasantry, and having been engaged in mo employment of definite character give that of their fathers. While they have remained in the cities, they are well fitted to take the places of the whites in vineyards and orchards, be- ing able to withstand the summer heats without suffering.