Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-27

DOCKS OF the company snow tndI tle
club has done a fairly profitable bust
ness, and has made from $4,000 to $780,
900 each year, which has been permitted
to accumulate in the club treasury.
This amount is now carried in the club
treasury, with prospects of its being
frittered away in some such fight as is
now brewing, there being no present in
dication of an early dividend being de-
clared."
Chinese in America.
In view of the present discussion of
the question of Chinese exclusion an
article in the January Forum on The
Chinese In America" will be read with
interest. Its author, Sunyowe Pang.
is an Americanized Chinaman whose
object is to persuade his readers that
the permanent or temporary residence
here Of Chinese immigrants Is by no
means to the disadvantage of this
country, tho he will not succeed in per-
suading many to change their views as
to Chinese exclusion. He says in part:
1t is the general impression among
Americans that the Chinese in this
country are parsimonious. This is not
the case. The Chinese have earned
enormous amounts of money, to be
sure, but they have also spent largely.
Their savings may be estimated as not
more than ten per cent Of what they
earn, which is very often permanent
ly invested in this country, and does
not go to China. Laborers seldom save
anything, and this. Is as true of the
Chinese as of other nationalities. In
the first place, the Chinaman is usually
charged more for what he buys than
any one else, and again he is inclined
to be spendthrift when he can. He
is an epicure in his own way. He is
also fond of silk clothes and expensive
shoes. Very often he Is gambler.
The actual needs Of the Chinaman are
greater in this country than in China.
The climate in the Kwang- tung pro-
yinces is so mild that all he requires
at home is q thin cotton blouse and
trousers, and two extra garments for
winter. His hat is Of roughly plated
straw. and he wears straw sandals. In
this country, he must wear wooden un-
derclothing, a felt hat, and leather
boots, IL q laborer. His boots in Amer
lea cost four or five times as much
as his whole outfit in China.
The food bought by the Chinese is
often quite as expensive as that of the
whites. Instead of living almost al
together on rice and chop sooy, as is
the general impression, Cinnamon, be-
Ing quite as fond OF meat as Ameri-
cans, buy pork, beef. and chickens.
Chop sooy is made to sell to curious
white persons who visit Chinatown. In
the vicinity Of every large city where
there Is any considerable Chinese COLI
ony there are truck gardens devoted
to raising vegetables exclusively for
Cinnamon from seed brought from
their native land. These vegetables
are unknown to Americans. But the
Chinese also consume large quantities
of the finer kinds Of American veget-
ables. The Chinaman has a sweet
tooth also; and in the best Chinese
restaurants in San Francisco, New
York and Chicago and other large
cities, the be~t OF wines are served to
Chinese as well as American custom
ers, together with the finest and most
expensive foods. In the average Chi
nese restaurant in those cities good
board can be had by the Chinese for
from fifteen to twenty dollars month,
and these restaurants are largely pat
ronized. AS rule, the Cinnamon are
compelled to lodge in mean quarters.
but In New York and San Francisco
there are number of well-appointed
homes, occupied by the families of
well-to-do Chinese merchants. which
the American seldom or never sees In
New York there is an apartment house,
up-to-date in every respect, occupied
by Chinese families. The Chinaman
sticks as closely as he can to the ira
ditions and customs of his country,
which are strange to the Occidental,
and, therefore, q subject for comment
and often for derision.
There are not many rich Cinnamon
in America; but some of them are very
well on, with fortunes ranging from
500, 900 to $500.00 There is one null
ti-miiionaire. Chin Tan Sun, who is the
richest Chinaman in the country. Chin
Tan Sun owns whole towns, and em-
ploys hundreds Of white men and wo-
men In his factories and canneries. He
owns ranches, city real estate, gold
mines and diamonds; ne runs lottery
games; he imports laborers; he con-
ducts 81 real estate business: and he
has several merchandise stores in San
Francisco. He is self-made man and
very shrewd and progressive. He came
to America in the Storage as lad. and
went to work in kitchen. He married
O. white woman, and with their savings
they originated little lottery" BUSH
ness In San Francisco. He was largely
patronized by Americans, and soon
grew rich enough to become merchant
also. From this beginning he develop
ed into a commercial and political
power. He is called big Jim" on ac-
count Of his size. He is six feet tall,
and we'll proportional, good looking
man. In business he is regarded as the
sole of honor. His wardrobe is mag
nificent, and several Wallets are needed
to care for it.
Had Good Time.
A. ]. Smell wanted to attend party,
hut was afraid to do 80 on account Of
mains in his stomach, which he feared
would grow worse. He says: II was
telling my troubles to lady frelnd. who
said: .Chamberlains Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhna Remedy will put you in con-
dition for the party I bought a bottle
and take pleasure in stating that two
doses cured me and enabled me to have
good time at the party" Mr.. Smell is
a resident Of Summer Hill, N. 7. This
remedy Is for sale by druggists.