The San Francisco call., 1898-12-06
WAR ON THE OCCIDENTAL
 AND ORIENTAL Chinese Dislike the
 New Line. ILL TREATMENT CLAIMED THE PATRONS ovERCHARGED, ABUSED AND ROBBED. Circulars Warning Prospective Pas sengers Against the Company
 Freely Distributed in
 Chinatown.
THE PATRONS ovERCHARGED,
 ABUSED AND ROBBED.

The Chinese do not like the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, and are making an effort to have all members of their race boycott the new line.
 Circulars in the Chinese language, head ed Warning to the Public" and signed by Those who have suffered" have been scattered broadcast over Chinatown dur ing the past week, and the charges against the steamship company made in the circular have caused considerable comment among the Celestials. The peo- pie are advised not to patronize the ''new company" as the O. and O. is termed, on account of the i'll treatment given the Chinese passengers. This circular is sim- ply an open expression of the opinion held of the company eyer since it started.
 For some time past" prominent mer- chant in Chinatown said last night,
 there has been considerable complaint from the people arriving. here from Hong kong, and the stories of abuse and over charge which they have told has caused 9 great deal of talk, and now large pro- portion of the Chinese going back to Hongkong are taking the coast steamers up to Victoria and there embarking for China on vessels of some of the routes leading from there.'
 The chief complaint set forth in the cir cular is that the passengers are abused by the crew. The authors of the dodgers fur ther claim that the company refuses to al- low its passengers to carry all of their be-
 
 all but one bundle and blanket, and they say at the end of the voyage the owner is a lucky man if he Is able to find his belongings. One instance of many is sighted in the case of a Chinaman who left here on the Belgic last month. A trunk in which was packed considerable wearing apparel of value and several hun- dred dollars in gold was taken from him and sent below as freight. When Hong kong was reached the trunk and its con- tents were missing.
 iG from Hongkong to this city are required to put up deposit with the company for return fare. This is done by the company to protect itself In case the immigration inspectors refuse to admit the passenger in question. If the passenger is allowed to land the money Is returned, but the Chinese do not like the method.
 The circular further objects to the quar- ters at the Mail dock which the Chinese are huddled into after being allowed to disembark. The accommodations, 1t is claimed. are not fit for COW. Besides for the three days before leaving the vessel % cents day extra is charged for board and then after the passengers are landed on the dock they are charged 50 cents a day until the inspectors allow cular claims, is miserable, and at most should not cost more than 10 cents a day.
 The circular concludes with an urgent warning to all the cousins and friends of the authors not to take the new com pany'' under any consideration should they desire to return to China The we'll known clannishness of the Chinamen will, no doubt, result in this warning being needed.