Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-05-16

fications. An immense trade with
China is carried on here, and the
business district used by British mer-
chants and the banks, hotels, public
buildings, is composed Of fine mod
ern structures and even the resi-
dences of the Chinese quarters are
not the cheap wooden buildings of
Chinese towns, but substantial brick
buildings of several stories. The
fronts of all residences in the city
are uniformly alike, every story hav-
ing a wide porch with the Moorish
arch to give protection from the
sun.
The tourists took trolley rides to
the Peak and around the city, and
spent as much time as possible in
fascinating Chinatown. AS We did
not get to go up to Canton we made
the most of observing the Chinese
quarters in Hong Kong, which for
all essential purposes are truly Chi
nese. No more picturesque street
scenes can be found than in Hong
Kong. The coolies are in a state of
tent industry noted in Japan being
seen in China. Only the Chinese
we saw in Hong Kong and Macao
were not as cleanly as the Japanese
and not as friendly to foreigners.
The Hong Kong Chinaman has to
give some regard to sanitary cOndi-
tions, however, which he does not
do in the interior of his own coun-
try. The local government of Hong
Kong is in complete control of the
British, and certain great munich
pal improvements are found. There
is a fine system of water works and
drainage, and the sale of foods in
the markets is done under street
supervisors.
Chinese Food
This is the country of saving,
economy and hard work. The Chi
nese markets are wonderfully inter-
esting places. There is some meat
sold, brought from Australia and
Shanghai, but fish and vegetables
are the two chief sources of food
supply. There is no decrease in
the oceans fish supply and every
kind of creature caught in the nets
has sale with the Chinese. Near
ly every meal includes some kind OF
fish, fresh or dried. 1t is said that
three million of the Japanese live
by fishing, and the same proportion
of fishermen are found among the
, Chinese. Fish in the markets are
| ke,t alive in tanks and only killed
J end cut UP when purchased Poul-
try is slaughtered only on the day 1t
is sold, and at the close of market
! day no fish or poultry are left over
in the stalls. The average China
man makes rice his main food, and
goes to market for little piece of
fish or meat and a few vegetables,
!, which he carries home tied to a
bamboo string, and with rice he
makes out a dinner. 1t costs a
grown Chinaman about IL cents a
day for food, and SIS will buy him
clothes for several years. A big
brimmed, conical shaped straw hat
costs about 80 cents, and this will
last as long as the clothes. He goes
bare footed or wears cheap mat san
dals held by string between the
big toe and second toe. Chinese
swarm in all the buildings, and. the
streets of their districts are filed
with laundry hung out to dry on
lines stretched across the narrow
street. In the nearby streets to the
markets and at the street corners
are sold Chinese sweet meats. dried
duck and chicken, pickles, and hun
+ dreds Of things which foreigners
never use for food, and couldn't.
Sea weed is sold for soup, and In
. Canton and other cities rats; dogs
and cats are sold cooked, in the
open market. Boiled cat is "good
eat'' for the Chinaman of Canton.
We have a much greater respect
for rice as an article of food than
; ever before. It is eaten by the mill
! lions OF the Orient eagerly, and any
one can easily see how they depend
upon it for sustenance. It IL whole
some. easily digested, and q China