Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-16


In the second race next day. Well. of
course, won. The horse galloped in at the
pleasing price of 20 to l. The $4,000
won paid my expenses while in New Or
leanS ana put me some ahead of the game,
and L went home That morocco case and
telegram will stay by me as long as / live
ana De testimonial that eavesdroppers do
sometimes hear good to themselves in spite
Oh the OLD adage to the contrary
Mr.. James Keogh of Chicago was at the
Shoreham last week and talked interest,"
lngly of the immigration question. He said:
L nave been close student of this ques-
ton Of immigration for many years, and
have arrived at the conviction that ulti-
mately the tide of immigration into this
country must be stopped entirely. 1t can
not but be injurious for many reasons,
chief among which are that the majority
of the emigrants are of the lowest classes
In the old world. The slums OF the Eu-
ropean cities are dumped here in America
to prey upon the morals as well as the
charity of the country. Where one really
honest, Industrious and peaceably inclined
emigrant lands here fifty land who are
either too ignorant or too lazy to support
themselves in the eastern hemisphere
Take, for instance, the class of people who
1nhabit the lower sections on the East Side
or New York. Without any reflection upon
the Italians as a race, where will you find
lower class of people than those who live
In that section of New York known as
Little Italy?' Lazy, filthy dishonest by
nature and by schooling in the slums of
Genoa, Naples, Rome and other Italian
cities, they come to New York, roam the
city as Hlnerent organ grinders vendors of
fruit-among which are bananas often
times ripened by the heat of their bodies
as they sleep|aborers on the streets and
the railways, and scatter themselves
through the whole city, returning only at
night to their homes. Besides the fact
that they take from willing American la
borers the work they need to buy food,
they have bad influence morally upon
those who associate with them And
In the mining regions you find thou
sands and thousands of Poles. and Slavs
filling the places of American miners The
majority of these latter are as ready to
riot and to destroy property as a powder
barrel is to explode at the touch of a
match Why. L have seen thousand of
these Poles, Slavs and Italians at work I'm
the mines of Pennsylvania who were una
Die to understand an order of the mine boss
except through an interpreter, and who
never dreamed of such a thing as even at
tempting to learn word of the English
language. Surely these cannot be a desira
bie class of citizens
For these reasons particularly among a
great many, l maintain that immigration
to America will have to be entirely STONED
or we may look for the most disastrous
results therefrom.
Il often wonder why in this cosmonolitan
c1ts-the capital of the United States
there is not more of the Bohemian ele-
ment of the European governmental CEN
tiers, said Mr.. r. Lavinge at the Norman
die. Il am constrained to believe that
Americans generally do not fully under
stand the meaning of the word Bohemian
ism. / am afraid many of them connect IT
closely in their minds with the corruption
of the demi-monde. Now. in my estimation
and in that of the average Frenchman. no
greater error could be made We of
France understand Bohemianism to mean
f1londliness. hospitality, lack of fornality
and a general feeling of good will toward
each other. In Paris and In Marseilles-
my home-we carry the Bohemian methods
into our very homes and teach our chill
drei. the art of them. They are raised in
Its atmosphere and am satisfied they are
tn better for 1t. For instance friends
gather at yours or some other gentIeman's
nome, game of ecarte is had, after which
supper, thrown together of whatever
may be at hand with perhaps a few bot
ties of wine-all without formality and full
of good cheer. No Frenchman is too moor
to ask a friend to dine at any hour of the.
night or day at his home, and there is no
displeasure at the sudden appearance of an
unexpected guest. and no disappointment
at the repaSt of which he is invited to mar
take, because he expects to take as YOU
Americans say, pot luck Oftentimes We
take our families to some boulevard cafe
and there sit and chat over our wine or
our dinner en- famille, while throngs of
people wend their way through the cafe
up and down the boulevard. / often won
de-. why it is New York and Washington
have none of these street restaurants
They are charming places, and You have
such wide avenues-such splendid places
for them here. But i suppose the Yankee
notion OF propriety is too strong to change
to such methods. You cannot guess what
you miss by their absence"
Mr.. John B. Pierson of San Francisco is
at the Raleigh. Mr.. Pierson is a tea i'm
porter and has spent many years in China
in that trade. He said:
I'VE have some decently good tea here.
Indeed, we have the best we can buy
abroad. Bue we can't buy the very best.
Not a pound Of the really highest grade of
tea ever leaves the shores of China.
have been in the business twenty years.
and out of the twenty l suppose 1 have
spent eight In China. In all my experience
as an importer 1 have never been able to
secure more than three pounds total of this
tea These We're given to me on as many
separate occasions by the grower with
whom dealt And 1t is the real thing
in the tea line. Prepared as the Chinese
prepare it, that Is. by putting spoonful
in the bottom of the cup, pouring in hot
waited and allowing it to steep for a few
minutes, 1t is a nectar fit for the gods.
Occasionally some European monarch, and
once In while some celebrity in this
country, Is favored with pound or SO OF
- 4 C. for buying il, il cannot be dore.
When you ask tea grower there why he
will not sell It to you, he says. in broken
Eneiish: No; sell hch man here And that