New-York tribune., 1900-04-22
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
MANY JAPANESE NfMIGRANTS-TYRO-
LESE FOR HAWAII-PRUNE COM
BINATION MAY FAIL.
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San Francisco. April 21-Japanese immigrants
are swarming into all ports Of this coast from
Vancouver. 10 San Diego. So many have ar
rived at Vancouver that tents have been erected
for their accommodation. That they have not
crossed the ocean 10 work in British Columbia
is evident. there is no labor for in ten of
them They simply select this route the
easiest way TO get entrance into the United
States. From Tacoma comes news that a reg
ular emigration craze prevails in Japan and that
fifty thousand young will be shipped TO
Puget Sound ports this year. Twenty 1.-TWO hun
drec are on the way in the steamers Ia
coma and Bramaer. 1t is reported that these
young japanese expect to get places house
servants but that only rough labor can be given
them. which they not physically able TO do.
In tbs city japanese arriving at the rate of
five hundred or six hundred a week. The China
steamer which came in this week brought over
five hundred, the greater part of whom are
plainly contract laborers imported TO work in
orchards. The Government edict forbidding any
more japanese TO go 10 Hawaii has turned the
tide in this direction, and unless some exclusion
measure is adopted the Japanese VIII soon begin
10 crowd white laborers in vineyards and
orchards.
The efforts of Hawaiian sugar planters TO
secure cheap labor for their fields prom
ise 10 result in scandals such as those which
gave the islands unsavory name fifteen
years ago Then it the Portuguese and
Azores Islanders who complained that the con-
tract labor system virtually slavery that
left workmen with no savings at the end of
three years The latest complaint is made by
the Tyrolese who induced by agent to
sign a contract for five years for low wages.
The party consisted Of twenty, and when here
waiting for the vessel they learned from fellow
countrymen that they had buncoed themselves
by agreeing to work for much less than the
wages paid in this country. Eleven deserted
from the ship and were secreted by friends
r1til after the vessel sailed. The others wished
10 remain also but the Austrian Consul was
appealed 10 too late, and nothing could be done
10 secure their landing The Austrian Consul
at this port claims that the steamship officers
aided the agent of the planters in preventing
him from getting the Tyrolese ashore. and he
VIII complain TO his Minister and TO the Wash
ington authorities.
The Harbor Commissioners have decided to
build four new piers between Union and Lom-
hard sts TO accommodate shipping. One of
these piers will occupy the space now filled by
the picturesque fishermens wharf The cost
VIII be S4o0o00
Contracts have been let for the costly new
house of Mrs. Chauncey r. Winslow, daughter
of J B. Stetson. II will be of red brick, in
colonial style, and IS to be on the south side or
Pacifc-ave., between Cough and OctaVla sts
The directors Of the Mutual Savings Bank this
week selected plans for the new ten-story build
ing which they will erect on Market-st, near
Kearnev-st This will be the first Of the mod
ern buildings TO go up the old Blythe Block.
now covered by a varied assortment OF olQ
wooden stores. The new building VIII be .I3
feet front on Market-st. and l3 feet on Geary-
St with a depth of 20 feet on the western side
and % feet on the eastern. The materials VIII
be granite for the first two stories and sand
stone for the others. The building Will cost
100000.
A large oil storage plant Will soon be erected
here TO contain surplus oil from many interior
districts Oil will be brought here in tank
steamers and stored. in order that long time
contracts with large consumers Of fuel may be
filed.
The May Flint, the third largest sailing ship
afioat IS in the harbor. and will soon be added
10 the sugar feet between this city and homo
lulu The Flint was formerly an English
steamer and served as an army transport dur
ing the first Soudan war Then she was con-
verted into a sailing vessel by Flint d Co, OF
New York and for six years she has been IN
the China trade She is now discharging four
thousand tons Of coal from Seattle.
Edward Davis. the preacher who danced in
the pulpit and employed other devices Of the
actor, has been sued for divorce by his wife,
who was a choir singer, named Alta Kingore.
Davis. after his retirement from the church,
joined Charles Coghlan's company and re
manned with il till Coghlan's death. HIS Wlfe
also went the stage, but illness compelled
her TO return to the home of her parents, in
Oakland.
It looks as though the big prune combination
which it attempted to form at San Jose
will fail because the required percentage Of
growers could not be secured. The packers in
sist that 30 per cent OF all the growers must
sign the combination, otherwise il Will fail.
Seventy-fve per cent has been secured, but 1t
seems impossible TO obtain the remaining 10
per cent.
The outlook for the Pacific Coast salmon
hackers was never better, the old stock Of
canned goods is entirely cleared out owing 10
a large purchase by the United States and the
British governments. A new cannery has been
started this season at Black Diamond, on the
RlNer.