The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-18
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JOHN CHINAMAN'S OUTINGS. \ New Fad Tn New England's China
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 There's new fad in Chinatown.
 It takes the form of jump over to China for a holiday and a return when the laundry business picks up in the spring.
 The Chinamen are taking advantage of cheap rates to visit old scenes and renew the acquaintances of youth. Boston isn't alone in swinging the fad. for it has spread to all parts of New England
 How much does it cost to go from Boston to China? Only S100 That's the price of the ticket to Hongkong, but few incidentals must be hgur- ed for the long journey by land and sea.
 How can the Celestial afford to go to the Flowery Kingdom for an out ing? Easy enough, when you are as Sultu tlidl d tiCNSI ilidi IS Hdlu as much as s25 a week during the summer season. Their wages average $15 a week at good stand and at popular resort when the city goes on vacation.
 Some NChinamen own string of laundries and have so much patron age that they are obliged to send some of the work to steam laundries And it is these proprietors who most frequently leave here to visit their wives and the old folks.
 The Boston Chinaman who wants to get back to the country where reside about 4oOpoo,ooo of his fellows. goes down ato the immigration station on Long Wharf and has talk with the Chinese inspector If there is no ob- jection, and usually there isn't, he is given a number of documents that take several hours to prepare. The papers are Isomething in the nature of passport, and his photograph is essential.
 The prospective traveller buys his ticket and the railroad company that is to take him to Vancouver, B. C., ! files bond for his safe delivery across the continent and aboard the steamships which make monthly sail ings to the Orient.
 From the North station the China man goes to Montreal by way of Richford, Vt, the United States port for New England chinamen, which is located about mile this side of the Canadian boundary. At Richford an inspector makes certain that the fel- low is properly vouched for by the authorities in Boston. He is then permitted to continue the matter of sixty-two miles to Montreal, where the real journey begins.
 | At Montreal the railroad has a number of tourist cars reserved for the travellers to Hongkong. There are | two guards for each car, and they are | heavily armed because an escaped Chinaman means heavy fine that the Canadian government will surely col lect from the company. ! The ears may contain 100 China men. The trip across Vancouver is but matter of five days. The steamship will occupy about twenty one days in steaming from Vancouv- CT to Hongkong The old homers may have a month or two with their families and friends, and then back they come with their certificates tuck ed safely within the lining of their < blouses, SD there may be no delay or difficulty'in in passing government in spectors who will hold them up at a dozen points this side of the Pacific | Coast
 Most Chinamen desire to have their remains buried in China A corpse will he taken over at the same price, s100. If the body is properly prepared and sealed in lead box, the express com panies deliver 1t to the mourners,-- Boston Herald.