The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

IMMuGRATIoN-C. c., Oakland, Cal. There is
in the United States the law that shuts out i'm
migration from China so for as it applies to
laborers. Then there is the act that prescribes
rigid system of inspection of all immigrants
coming to this country. Every such vessel
must be supplied with q manifest giving a
complete list of immigrants on board and the
following information as to each immigrant:
The full name, age and sex, whether married or
single, the calling or occupation: whether able to
read or write the nationality, the last residence,
the seaport for landing in the United States, the
final destination, il any, beyond the seaport Of
landing; whether having ticket through to such
final destinations whether the immigrant has paid
his own passage or whether 1t has been paid by
other persons or by any corporation, society, NUM-
cipalty or Governments whether in possession
OF money, and If so, whether upward of
$50 or less whether going to Join relative, and if
what relative, name and address; whether ever
before in the United States and If so, when and
where; whether ever in prison or almshouse or
supported by charity; whether a polygamst;
whether under contract expressed or implied, to
perform labor in the United States: and what is
the immigrants condition of health, mentally and
physically; and whether deformed or crippled and
If so from what cause.
In addition the officers and surgeons of the
vessel must attach to the list OF Immigrants a
signed oath that no one of the passengers is an
idiot or an insane person. or pauper or likely
10 become public charge, or suffering from d
loathsome or dangerous, contagious disease,
or person who has been convicted of a felony
or other infamous crime or misdemeanor in
voIvlng moral turpitude, or polygamist or
under contract to perform labor in the United
States. Those who come within the prohib-
ltory sections of the act are denied a landing.
Each immigrant is examined by four inspec-
tors, and the decision of three governs.
MILuoNAIRES-Great Fortunes, City. 1t is
impossible to give list of the great million
aires ana the amounts of their fortunes, for
the reason that when they are alive they will
not tell an6 when they die the executors de-
clare that the estate is worth 81 0O0 900 and
over. A number of lists of supposed fortunes
of people many times millionaires have been
published. In this State the fortune OF James
Lick was given as $4,000 900, Michael Reese
50 O00, 900, Nicholas Luning $4,000. 900,
Leland Stanford $50, 900, 900, Charles Croker
$40 900 OOO c. p. Huntington S35 900, 600,
600, 900 each, William Sharon and Peter Don
ahue $40, 900 900 each, William o. Brien 3d.
600 OOO James L. Flood $15,0OO,00O. OF
Eastern millionaires there may be mentioned
the following ratings of fortunes: John d.
Rockefeller $150.00O,000 William Waldorf
900 O0O Russell Sage 800, 100000, Cornelius
Vanderbilt $50 900 900, w. H. Vanderbilt
$75 900 O00 H. M. Flagler SEC, 000, 900, Will
liam Rockefeller 0,000,O 900, John Jacob Astor
$50 900 900.
THE AMERICA CUP-Hayward, Haywards, Ala
media County, Cal. What is known as the
America cup was won from the English by the
America in a regatta sailed on the 22d day of
August, 1851, over a course from Cowes around
the Isle of Wight The cup won by the Ameri-
can yacht was not formally presented to the
New York Yacht Club until the 9Th of. July,
1857 by the owners with the understanding
that 1t should be distinctly the property of the
club and not OF the members, or owners OF a