Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-14
OUR CHINESE POPULATION.
We Have Chinese Dentist Vhcae Wife Plays Sou&a Marches
 Upright Piano.

It is impossible to state and useless to try to guess how many Chinamen are now ill this country. Mr. Scharf, late United States Chinese inspector at the port of New York. thinks there may be 70OC00, but the estimate seems too high. The census does not and cannot afford any reliable data; you might as we'll try to take a cen sus of the teas. Custom house statis- tics are worthless except to show that every exclusion law passed has stim- ulated immigration. They cannot take account of the thousands snug gled in along the 5,28O miles of Mex ican and Canadian border and along the gulf coast. The Canadian Pacific railway is said to bring in from 3.CO0 to 5,0C0 annually in bond, the com pany agreeing to pay the dominion government the $50 capitation tax for every one that has not left the coun. try within q stated time. The in. spectors cannot tally those. All we can be sure of in regard to the mum, Der of Chinese here is that it is very large, and that it is constantly in. creasing. Beyond that one guess ia as good as another, writes Frank NJ. IOQQ, III AlnSIee.
 An early complaint against the Chinaman was that he d1u not bring his family and did not mean to re main here. Of late there are evi dences that he is growing contender here, as he is in the Dutch dependen cies, and that occasionally he look upon this country as his home. Gu largest Chinese communIty, San Fran cisco's Chinatown, contains anywher
 from 15,CCO to 4O.CO0 Chinese, accord ing to the bias of the person guess. ing, and is noticeably taking on an appearance of greater permanence When the local papers began recent
 to talk of moving it, which they dc whenever the editors fertile brains run out of other "sensations,'' it waa brought to the attention of the nov CTS that Q number of mercantil. houses in Chinatown had each mil lions of dollars invested, and that il would be as sensible to talk of moving half the retail and banking business of San Francisco.
 Nor can it longer be said that all the Chinese women among us are here for immoral purposes. A great many Chinamen have brought their wives and are raising their families here From the rear of the laundry can sometime be heard. the prattle of the Chinese infant. There are Chinese schools for Chinese children There is a Chinese dentist on Sacramento street who has an upright piano in l his parlor, on which his wife plays Sousa marches. And more significant still, there is Chinese photographer, who testifies that the fear of a ca mera is growing less among his coun- trymen every day. When a Chinese woman plays an upright piano and a Chinese photographer can do good business among his cousins they are rapidly getting out of 10 mt vii h 1 the cid oraer. They nave migrated in the true sense. If they retain a lik- sng for burial in Asiatic soil it is noth- ing to the point. In a western view, going home dead is as good as not going home at all.
 The volume of the overflow from the Chinese empire is, of course, beyond satisfactory calculation. Kong Yeu Wei puts the number of Chinamen TOW living abroad at 5,o9o, ,oc0. What other country on the globe could lose 1 5,eoo,0oo subjects ia the period of a single lifetime and not feel that it had suffered a tremendous depletion of its TealtE and power7