The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-23

conception of romance. the dashing Be douin of the plains. The Bedouin in New York drifts up on Washington street among the Syrians and usually takes to peddling from a pack, as do the other Orientals. There are a few hun dred stranded Arabs thus floating around New York The Egyptian. who ships in the same way and is of the same type, may be classed with them.
 Tn the Lascar one finds different type of Oriental seaman. He comes in whole crews. always on British ships, whose owners are seeking more and more to displace their own seamen with Lascars.
 Lascar is specific term employed to designate Hindoo seamen on British ships. They are of the ordinary low caste Hindoo type. short, small, thin, dark men, with sharp-eut features and straight, glossy hair, which distin- guish them instantly from the negroid type. They always make their own ar engagements as to cook and eommissary. and often have a priest along with them.
 The Filipino sailors are always called Maniamen. There has always been certain number of them coming here on Britisa ships. and no more have been observed since the war than before, They are reckoned in with the negroes, live at the same boarding hoses and are controlled by the sham shining agents. Lately these have been Japa- nese, who have been getting control of this end of the boarding and shipping business.
 The Manilaman is distinguished by a peculiarly sad. Respondent cast of coun- i tenance. He aways looks as if he had recently buried all his relatives, and of ! ten excites the sympathy and pity of visitors to missionary meetings; all though he really isn't any more de- pressed than his fellows, black and white.
 1 As for tpe real colored man-Sailor- town will reveal as many types of him as of white men, A different kind of negro comes from each of the West In diai Islands, and a man accustomed to them can tell what island they hail from at first sight. There are Spanish negroes and French negroes, and Cock ney negroes, who enunciate the broad est ''a's'' and strew the deck with h's." The Japanese are no such hlpless creatures as mist Of the Orientals who drift into this port. They are smart men and able seamen. although si small | that an extra number of them is needed.
 There are three departments aboard: dnnlr i,n os. o,,J 4Hn ards Although there are many Japa- nese sailors, vet both Japanese and Chinese are most commonly found in the stewards department. Often the steward himself is either a Japanese of a Chinaman.
 A certain number of Chinese cooks coming into this port have permits to land, given thef when the exclusion law was passed. No more permit are issued, and cstom house officer usual ! ly stays aboard to see that the Chinese . in the crew do not land.
 The old cooks who have permits have two clubs of their own, ne in Cherry and one in Water street, where they live when ashore, sally ot tou exchange greetings with old friends and pick up the news of Chinatown. Occasionally q Chinese cook cuts off his queue and comes in as Japanese, but it must be some strenuous reason that impels him to this
 1 The liners have usually crews of their town nationality, who go with them reg ularly. It is the tranps, with theor mixed crews of every race under the 4 sun, sometimes checkered crews, black and white, that import picturesqueness to the quarter:
 There are plenty of men living in New
 York who can remember going to the wharves in their boyhood to hear the sailors sing as they hoisted the anchor. The saicr sings no more, which is rath-
 CT a pity. If one goes to a sailors smoker of a Saturday night at the Epis-
 copal clubhouse at 34 Pike street he
 will hear songs from every port and in