Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-07
CHINESE IN AMERICA,
Interesting Facts Found by American
missionary Association.

Prom the Springfield Republican.
Rev George Fl. Gutterson, New England
secretary of the American Missionary Asso-
citation. addressed the Women's Missionary
Society yesterday on the status of the Chi
nese in the United States
According to the census of 1890 said Mr.
Guttcrson. there were 100. 40 Chinese in the
United States. They are found in every
state in the Union. The largest number,
however, namely. PAP, Is in California,
and more than one-third of this number in
one city, namely, San Francisco. A con-
sentative estimate of Chinese in certain of
our larger cities gives the following results: :
St Louis. $50 divided into the "Jen and
Lee families, 'Freemasons' and High
Dlnders. the latter class are commonly
supposed to be bound together by certain
odthS, IN the carrying out of which they do
not stop even at murder. They, with the
+ re SInasons, are not on good terms with
the Jen and Lee factions. The last CEN
suS allows 2.64S as the number of Chinese
IN New York and Brooklyn, yet there are
supposed to be at the present time nearly
1".Up in the two cities. Philadelphia re-
ports 2.Nt'. but 1t is the trading headIuar-
tiers for something like 1900, who come
from all parts of Pennsylvania and New
jersey There about 500 in Boston
proper. and probably 800 or $40 more who
20 there to trade. There are but three or
four Chinese women in Philadelphia and
Sx IN Boston.
The Chinese in the United States are
Eedrly all from the province of Canton.
The reason OF this is probably due to the
fact that this was the first district open to
European trade. The principal occupation
of these people is that of iaundrymen. They
are also employed in importing Chinese
groceries. market gardening. paper hang
icS and painting: they also make cigars.
Very few nave found their way into Amer
lean families as servants. One OF them IN
New York invented and patented a 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
machinists trade. The general opinion is
that they make good citizens, rarely fgur-
ing in the police courts, though they are
sometimes arrested for playing 'fan-tan.'
said To be similar to poker" Sometimes,
also. they are arrested for smuggling opium
or their own countrymen across the border.
There are very few Chinese children in
the public schools. Philadelphia reports
five. ST. Louis none. New York about half
s-doZen. The latest statistics show that
there are in America 291 schools and insti-
tGttons for uplifting these Mongolians, IL
denominations being represented in this
work. iNwhich the Baptists lead with 60,
PreSby rians, IS; CongregatioDalists, A..
There are - undenominational enterprises.
In Greater New York there are 81 schools;
Boston has 10 schools and missions. The
total number of Chinese reached by these
various mission enterprises is Z, 324. Those
erously toward the support of mission work
lO- their cOuntrymen, both in this country
ana in China. Ninety-three members OF
mission schools in St. Louis contributed last
year $50 to the support Of Christian insti-
buttons.