The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-07-29
Pacific. The latter are small and are.

Pacific. The latter are small and are
not to be compared with the oysters Of
the Atlantic. ButI like the Pacific clam
better than lis cousin Of the east, and |
liked him so we'll that got good many
of him.
did not see hootblack on the
Pacific coast ard very few newsboys.
Nearly all Of this business is confined
exclusively to licensed or rented places
in some nook within business block.
Nearly every business or Office block has
a little recess constructed in it opening
upon the street, like an oriental bazaar,
rented for cigar or newsstand or shoe
polishing outfit. The summer climate
Of the far west, from Denver to the
Pacific, is 80 even and free from storms
and rain as to make such little hooks
nice places to do business in and ex-
tremely convenient to tue customs.
They are characteristic Of all towns and
cities west of Omaha.
One night G party OF us, men and
women, went to police headquarters and
the chief assigned detective to escort
us through the Chinese quarter. We
visited their stores where everything a
Chinaman eats and wears is sold, the
barber shops and the Joss house, the
Chinaman's church. This latter was on
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the second floor of a business block, and
fitted up with oriental splendor. The
chairs were OF heavy, solid mahogany
and upholstered in the finest silk and
gold embroidery. Suspended from the
ceiling in sort OF hanging cupboards with
the front open were the images they
worship, hundreds of them all shapes
and sizes. The room was furnished with
electric lights and scrupnlously clean
and inviting. The American co]ors
were draped in front Of the Chinese flag,
upon which were lhensual Chinese claw
tracks signifying, suppose that it was
the Joss house. Upon the wall of the
room was printed a notice signed by tho
chief Of police, warning all persons from
molesting anything in the building or
! interfering with the Chinese worshipers.
This part of the city. comprising perhaps
six blocks very near the heart of the
city, is given over exclusively to John
Chinaman, and every visitor can find it
by the usual number of Cinnamon seen
upon the streets as he approaches the
> neighborhoOd. Some of them are we'll
to do-rich in fact, for a Chinaman, and
they vary greatly in appearance, Same
as Americans, depending upon their
station in life and means OF livelihood
The well-tO-do Chinaman when he
appears FROM his barber upon the street
in his shiny black silk and spotless hose
and linen is about as slicF &c they make
'em. In manv of the Chinese stores
some half dozen clerks are employed to
. gether with cashier and hookkeeper
q All of them use the Chinese ball thing
8 amajig for computing sums ar in max
Ing change. One Of them sried to ex
9 plain to the boys how the cling worked
Q but did not succeed very we'll. Tht
I Chinaman SO far as we found them al
9 speak English we'll, most Of them having
9 been living on the coast for years.
r found one Jap in an interior town VIII
b had been located at his present place o
o business for 32 years. The Chinese d
+ not adopt American ways aud invention
q readily, being wholly unlike the Japan
d ese In this respect; / do not think we say
II Chlnaman dressed i'll American c!othe
though we saw no Japanese hut VIII
y were. The Chinese merchants use thei
h own peculiar little scales exclus.yel.
: the scales being little brass pan sus
g pended from the end or little site
Is with the weight hung by string.
6 In making the night tour with I'll
re detective we ended by visiting Il banque
lg hall where the bon-ton OF Chinat0w
De had just had a banquet. The cooks an
m walters were then clearing things U
W but made us welcome and let us hel
III ourselves to some Of the dainties ar
sweets OF which the party had partake
"a, The place was fitted up in the swelle
1g fashion, the finest of china and linen
TX correspond Tho furniture was worth
%. fortune almost, being all of it sol
On mahogany. Instead OF chairs the Chin
IT. men use stools at the banquet tables b
no they are heavy and rich looking affai
IS while the chairs which grace the sid
'ai Of the room are Of the richest rarvil
m- and upholstery.
The following evening we made up
= party Of men only and with anott
u officer from the police station, saw
go wicked side Of Portland-wheIe VIZ
iat commingled the Japs, Chinese. whit
'ed negroes, French-the female portion
an which are as bad as they make 'em a
'hu seen in as bold relief perhaps right FRI
nj the street no need to go insidez
ms any city on earth-but that IS anotl
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