New-York tribune., 1906-12-16
JAPANESE YORK HARD.
dmbitiOus to Become 1U That White
Men Are IN This Country.

Whatever may be the wrong or the right in
the anti-JaDanese sentiment on the Pacific
Coast there is no question at all about the ag-
eressiveness of these people in the Far West
an,ke the Chinaman, the native of Nippon on
Settling in America becomes ambitious to be all
that the white is. He is not content to be
\ mere laborer. On his arrival he may for a
time work for white man, digging sewers,
building railroads, picking fruit or doing house
work, but all this time he considers himself
merely going to school. He is simply preparing
for something better And when he has learned
a bit of the language and the customs of his
American employer he bids him goodby, starts
a farm of his opens shop.
The japanese believes that he is every bit
versatile quick witted and as intelligent as
the white man, and in whatever business the
Caucasian may prosper in that he thinks he,
TOO, can make money. And it would seem that
his belief is well founded In some lines of
business he has shown his superiority to
Che Caucasian and has crowded him aside In
tle metropolitan district around the Golden
Safe, for example. Japanese florists have al
.Nost a monopoly. In San Francisco. Oakland
pad Alameda nearly all the flower shops
}In by japanese They have big hothouses
hear Stanford University which vie with that
institution in attraction for tourists. They
in the OF fertilizers. and can make their
flowers grow larger and more brilliant than
many a white man who calls himself hori-
culturist
japanese farm laborers also going into the
fruit business in nearly all the Pacific Coast
cities, much as the Italian has done in the East.
He may be seen at the street corner beside his
stand, and always busy. When not attending
TO customers he is hard at work rubbing his
oranges to make them look still more golden,
or dclicatCly adjusting pyramidal display OF
silver prunes. AS tailor he has even crowded
many a skilled and thrifty Jew out of busi-
ness. One-tenth of the Japanese in skilled
occupations in California are tailors. They
particularly popular with women customers.
The reason is that a japanese tailor seems
3Ich more conscientious about making a fit
BAN a white man. Though frequently charged
,ith trying to work off shoddy for "all WOOL
yet few deny that he is especially solicitous
about shaping his garments that they hang
without a wrinkle.
A characteristic of the japanese which has
contributed to his success in business is his
provorbial neatness. 1t is shown in any number
of ways. 1t is to be seen in his own personal
appearance in the arrangement of the goods on
the shelves of his store, in the extra coats OF
varnish on his delivery wagons and in the care
grooming of his horses Even If he is a num-
BILE cobbler with shop down under the side
walk ne is likely to show this trait more than
many n native of Europe who has become an
American citizen and boasts of a plate glass
front store. For example, instead of wrapping
the shoes he has mended in an old newspaper,
like his italian competitor. he puts them In
white Dasteboard box, ties the cover with
piece of ribbon, and then, to give an artistic
touch to the package he will paste on IT
little picture of a tea garden
And not only on the coast. but in the Middle
West the Japanese forging to the front
In ogden. Utah, for example. one of the leading
dry and fancy goods stores in the town is run
by a japanese firm. There, too, are Japanese
watchmakers. Japanese pool parlors, Japanese
tobacco stores and Japanese barber shops
In Nebraska there has been a recent invasion
of japanese who eager to develop the here
tofore arid lands of the North Platte region.
now being turned into gardens with water from
4 govern irrigation ditch. About three
hundred of the Occidentals have secAred three
thousand acres Of land. on which they are rails
ing sugar bcets and potatoes. And they have
Yro~;,crc,!. one japanese laboror who took a