Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17
M me CHINESE HOS0uZ4L

| themselves make good profits Tbs I'm
! porters and exporters Of ginseng are among
the nest prosperous of all the Chinese bus
ness men. The Chinese attendants at the
| services of the New York Foreigners MS
sion include two close friends one OF whom
! is making a fortune importing ginseng
grown In China for the consumption Of the
! Chinese in America. while the other IL vim
| ming riches exporting ginseng grown IN
| America for the consumption Of the Cniuese
| at home OF course. there is no possibility
| that American ginseng having been sent
! from here 70 China Is ever sent back TO
| America from China rs the real. celastt -
| grown article. or at least no such possIbilitF
is suspected by the New York Cinnamon.
| If there We're TO be such q suspicion,
I rloting woult probably break out IN the
| quarter at once for the Cinnamon. though
| often obliged TO make use Of American
/ ginseng In China won't accept anything
| but the homegrown article when living
| here
Chinese Plantations and Farms.
| Two at least Of the New York Chiaamcn
are coffee planters. owning plantations lu
Mexico. where there Is no ban on Chinese
| labor, but preferrinR the new worlds me-
! tropolls to any Mexican city as a place OF
residence They are understood to be doing
very well indeed from the commercial
| standpoint.
| On Long Island there are several farms
| conducted by Chinese. and very success
| fully, but along quite different lines from
| American farming. the crops produced be-
| ing different from the crops produced by
American farmers as the methods eGl-
ployed.
The Chinese farmers OF Long IslanI
make no effort whatever to produce taluIs
which Americans eat; they cater only to
the Chinese trade, and most OF the vege-
tables and other articles of food which they
raise and market are as unlike American
vegetables and foods well be iuaag-
tned. These farmers highly industrt-
Gus, cultivating their holdings inten siveiy
as the Chinese DO at home, economiziax
every inch of the soil and manuring It
lavishly. They are getting rich at their
occupation. too, at least from the Chinese
standpoint. and II they follow what wa&
once the all but universal custom of going
back to China as soon as they get a conpe-
tenCy according to the Chinese st;tudar I'd.
viii soon sail away for the orient there to
dwell in comfortable idleness till the end OF
their days.
The number Of Cinnamon returning to
the east after getting rich IS much smaller
in proportion now than formerly. since once
having gone home. even on a visit, II Is not
easy to return. Still in spite OF the many
Cinnamon who get into the country Illegally.
the total number of Chinese residents in
the United States decreased from the CEN
sus of 1890, when II nearly l27 900. TO
less than 10000 in 1900.
Returning to China.
The Chinese population of New York ia
hand. judging from the number OF buildings
in which they form the majority of ten
ants. it is increasing at quite a rapid rate.
The increase, say those who should know
is not made up to any extent of Chinese
newly arrived on American soil, but mainly
of western Cinnamon, who think they can
do better in the east than IN the west.
New Yorks Chinese residents always In
clude a number of students at Columbia
University and other institutions, but these
never mix up with the Chinatown "Chinks
or other working Chinese, being OF quite
another grade. The students, indeed. make
II a special point rule never to step foot
inside the quarter" apparently feeling the
deepest aversion to their toilng brethren.
With this exception the Cinnamon OF New
York are perhaps more clannish than tho
natives of any other country set down IN
the midst Of the millions who dwell at the
Hudson's mouth. Their ciannishness goes
to the extent OF unusual charities among
themselves, the prosperous being always
willing to help out their unlucky brethren
financially; money assistance from the
white people rarely being called for by q
pure blooded Chinese who has remained
true to his religious beliefs though the
white women who consort with them,
whether married not, the half-breed
children and sometimes the pure blooded
Chinese who have embraced Christianity
have often to be helped.