Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — New York Chinamen. [ARTICLE]

New York Chinamen.

New York Sun. We have a Chinese population of nearly ten thousand in this city, but it is a rare thing to see any Chinaman applying for help at any of the publi charitable institutions of the city Our Chinese residents are always ready to assist each other in all the emergencies of life. Most of them belong to societies of mutual assistance on the Chinese plan. When one of them is penniless he can borrow money. When one is out of work he finds others ready to aid him in procuring it. When one is ill nurses furnish the needed service, and, if he dies, the expenses of his burial are always easily obtained. Several hundred of them have become well off through the business of their washhouses. There are no loafers among them, and all of them are noted for their industrious lives. There are few of them addicted to the opium habit, though many of them occasionally indulge in the fumes of the drug. Ijt is mainly the wealthy men among them who indulge the luxury of Chinese wives, but others who desire to form white matches find no difficulty in doing so, as far as the procuring of mates is concerned. As a rule, •thAfMdren.bprn of these unions adopt the American style of life. The Chinese of New York boast that they produce proportionately fewer criminals than any other element of our population.