The Savannah morning news., 1900-10-08
ouR CHINESE POPULATION.
4 Chinese Dentist Whose wife Plays
Marches On Piano.
FRANK 81. Todd IN Ainslee's

Frank n. Todd IN Ainslee's
1T g. impossible 10 state and useless to
Try 70 guess how many Cinnamon are
now In this country. Mr. Scharf. late
United States Chinese Inspector az the
pore OF New York. thinks there may be
10000. but the estimate seems too high
The census does not snd cannot AFFORD any
reliable data. you might as well try 70
take census Of the neas Custom house
statistics are worthless except 10 show
that ever exclusion law passed has slim
ulated immigration They cannot take
account OF the thousands smugRled in
along the 80 miles Of Mexican and ca
madam border aud along the Gulf coast
The Canadian Pacific Railway h. said to
bring In from three 20 five thousand an
nually IN bond. the company agreeing to
pay the Dominion government the 81 cap
tation Sax for every one that has not left
the country within "a stated time. The
inspectors cannot tally those. All we can
be sure OF in regard 20 the number OF
Chinese here Is that u Is very large. and
that IL Is constantly Increasing Beyond
'hat one guess Is a. good as another
An early complaint against the China
man was thar he did not bring hts family
and did not mean to remain here OF
late there are evidences that he g. growing
contented here. as he is TIA the Dutch de-
pendencies and thas occas ionally he looks
upon this country aa his home. our larg-
est Chinese community. san Francisco 3
Chinatown, contains anywhere from u. 90
TO 1000 Chinese. according 10 tho bias Of
the person guessing. and is noticcably TAX
ing on an appearance Of greater perma-
hence When the local papers began re-
Gently 60 salk OF moving a. which they
DO whenever the editors fertile brains run
out OF other sensations. II was brought
70 the attention OF the movers chat a
number OF mercantile houses 10 Chinatown
had each millions Of dollars invested and
that II would be az sensible 20 talk Of
moving half the retail aud banking bust
ness OF San Francisco.
Nor can Il longer be said that all the
Chinese women among us are here for
immoral purposes a great many China
men have brought their wives ana are
raising their families here. From the rear
or the laundry can sometime be heard the
pratte of the Chinese infant There are
Chinese schools for Chinese children.
There D. Chinese dentist on Sacramento
street who has an upright piano in his
parton. on which his wife plays sousa
there e. "A Chinese photographer. who fes-
titles that the fear Of a camera A. growing
less among his couutrymcn every dav.
When a Chinese woman plays an upright
piano and "a Chinese photographer can do
q good business among his cousins they
are rapidly getting ont OF Joint with tho
old order They have migrated in the true
sense. n they retain a liking for burial
~ Asiatic soil u r. nothing 20 the point
In a Western view. going home dead ~
80 good as not going home At all
The volume Of the overflow from the
Chinese empire Is. 81 course. beyond sat
isfactory calculation. Kong Yeu Wei puts
the number Of Cinnamon now living
abroad az 100000 What other country on
the globe could lose $500 600 subjects In the
period Of a single Uterine and not feel
that u had suffered tremendous deple-
ton OF rs wealth and power?'