Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-05-09
CHINESE IN AMERICA.
Nearly All the Ce1estials in This Coup try
Are From Canton.


Rev. George III. Gutterson, New
England Secretary of the American
Missionary Association addressed the
Women's Missionary Society at st.
Louis on the status of the Chinese in
the United States.
According to the census of 1890, said
Mr.. Gutterson, there were 100, ATS
Chinese in the United States. They
are found in every State in the Union.
The largest number, however, namely,
72, 472, is in California, and more than
one-third of this number in one city,
namely, San Francisco. A conserva-
tive estimate of Chinese in certain of
our larger cities gives the following
results: st. Louis, 3oU, divided into
the "Jen and Lee'' families, Free
masons" and "Highbinders;" the latter
class are commonly supposed to be
bound together by certain oaths, in
the carrying out of which they do not
stop even at murder. They, with the
"Freemasons, are not on good terms
with the "Jen and Lee" factions. The
last census allows 2648 as the number
of Chinese in New York and Brook
lyn, yet there are supposed to be at
the present time nearly 10000 in the
two cities. Philadelphia reports 1000,
but it is the trading headquarters for
something like 5000, who come from
all parts of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. There are about 800 in Bos-
ton proper, and probably 500 or GOO
more who go there to trade. There
are but three or four Chinese women
in Philadelphia and six in Boston.
The Chinese in the United States
are nearly all from the province oil
Canton. The reason of this is prob.
ably due to the fact that this was the
first district open to European trade.
The principal occupation of these peo-
pie is that of laundrymen. They are
also employed in importing Chinese
groceries, market gardening, paper
hanging and painting; they also make
cigars. Very few have found their
way into American families as servants.
One of them in New York invented
and patented laundry stove which he
manufactures in his own foundry.
Five young Cinnamon have been put
into the Baldwin Locomotive Works in
Philadelphia, where they are learning
the machinist's trade. The general
opinion is that they make good citi-
zens, rarely figuring in police courts,
though they are sometimes arrested
for playing 'fan-tan," said to be SINH
lar to poker. Sometimes, also, they
are arrested for smuggling opium or
their own countIymen across the bor-
der.
There are very few Chinese children
in the public schools. Philadelphia
reports five, st. Louis none, New York
about half dozen. The latest status
tics show that there are in America 291
schools and institutions for uplifting
these Mongolians, eleven denomina-
tions being represented in this work,
in which the Baptists lead with sixty
nine; Presbyterians. fifty-eigbt; Con-
gregationallsts, forty-seven. There
are twenty-niue undenominationa en-
terprises. In Greater New York there
are thirty-seven schools; Boston has
ten schools and missions. The total
number of Chinese reached by these
various mission enterprises is 1924.
Those who have become Christians
give very generously toward the sup
port of mission work for their country
men, both in this country and in China.
Ninety-three members of mission
schools in st. Louis contributed last
year $500 to the support of Christian
institutions. ons.-Springfield Republican.