The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-04
NOTICE.



Twin be in the following cities to give informa-
ton and register Cinnamon as per the following
April z; San Luis ObispO, April 10i Ventura,
April l3; Santa ANA aud Anaheim, April 4 I;
Santa Maria, April 8; Santa Barbara April u ;
Los Angeles April Il TO May g.
Registration closes May 8, 1898.
My Office hours are from A. NJ. to P. VI.
full information regarding registration may be
obtained by calling on me.
All applicants for registration are required to
furnish three uumOunted sun photographs. one
and one-bSlf luchrs from base OF hair to point of
chin; also Two Witnesses who will certify under
oath that The applicant Tor registration resided
iu the United States prior TO The passage Of this
Deputy Collector q. s. Internal Revenue.
The result of posting these notices was
that in many OF the districts during the
past month from twenty to fifty applica-
tons for registration were received by the
Deputy Collectors. but strange to say, in
most Of the applications the law regarding
the length of the photograph was disre-
garded, ana hence upon the arrival of the
applications here they were sent back for
new photographs. Fhe error in the picture
measurements may be remarkable coin
cidence only, but nevertheless they exist to
an unusual extern. Before the Issuance Of
the last Six Companies circular many Of
the applicants for registration in the nte-
riOr of the State had new photographs
made when their applications were denied
on account of the failure Of the picture to
comply with the requiem ents Of the law,
but since the circular mentioned was issued
In almost every case when the applications
have been returned the applicants have re-
fused point blank to make new appllca-
tiOns, giving D reason for their refusal.
In this connection it may be of interest
TO mole something about how the Six Com
panes issue their circulars and how they
distribute them. The original circulars of
Ehe Six Companies. or those sent out as in
structiOns 10 the agents of the companies
Throughout the country, are always printed
on plnk-tlnted sheets Of paper, ana Chinese
type is used in printing them instead of en-
CRAVING The characters on stone, as is often
done IN Chinese pTin ting. Every pink sheet
Is carefully counted out to the printer and
ne has TO return the same number of sheets
10 Inc company again. II ten, or even fifty,
sheets are spoiled in printing the spoiled
sheets are returned with the good ones in
order To make up the correct count. Then
Inc instructions are mailed. by Wells-Fargo's
express when possible, if not by registered
mail, TO the parties for whom they are In
tended, and then, making such changes
as they desire in the original man.
uscript the public circulars are issued
on white paper and posted around
the Chinatowns. But the Chinese do
not get their instruction from the placards.
They one and all go TO the agents of the
Six Companies, in whatever town thew
may be, and from them, personally. get the
instructions sent out by the great controu-
ing power Of the Chinese in America. the
Six Companies of San Francisco. All sorts
OF circulars are pasted on the bill boards
and dead walls of Chinatown but the SIX
Companies can only be held responsible
for those officially signed and the latter
are the Only circulars that have weight
with the Chinese other than the prOcla-
nations OF the Consul General
The charge that Collector Quinn receives
81 for each Chinese that registers is denied
by that gentleman emphatically. He de-
elaTes, a. he has repeatedly declared, that
when the time comes for enforcing the
Geary law it shall not be said that money
could have been saved if the proper efforts
TO get the Chinese TO register had been
made, nor shall any Chinese be able to say
he was not given every possible oppor-
tunl;y TO obey the law or failed to receive
all instructions u ecessary to lead him to do
so.
Whether the failure to carry out the
threat Of arresting the presidents of the Six
Companies viii make that body more ag-
grcssiya than before Is matter of c0D1ec-
fore, hnt certain 1t Is that the number of
REGISTERED Qh)lese In CRlIioTpia on May
6nsxt, If they do not obey tho law In greater