Travels in Europe and America . n of Ex-Governor Stanford that cost $2,500, costly residences of Flood, Colton, Crockerand other millionaireSo The view here is verygrand of city, bay, mountain ranges and Pacific. The Chinese Quarters offer varied attractionsto all tourists. Thousands of Mongolians swarmin the business center, in a rectangular block of oldbuildings seven squares in length by three in stores of rich Chinese merchants flank the mainstreets. Architecture, decorations, signs and plac-ards in red and gilt give shop fronts an Orientalaspect. Firm signs are not used,
Travels in Europe and America . n of Ex-Governor Stanford that cost $2,500, costly residences of Flood, Colton, Crockerand other millionaireSo The view here is verygrand of city, bay, mountain ranges and Pacific. The Chinese Quarters offer varied attractionsto all tourists. Thousands of Mongolians swarmin the business center, in a rectangular block of oldbuildings seven squares in length by three in stores of rich Chinese merchants flank the mainstreets. Architecture, decorations, signs and plac-ards in red and gilt give shop fronts an Orientalaspect. Firm signs are not used, but fanciful signslike man wo . There are ten thousand harm-onies, that suggest good luck. In the same store several kinds of business areoften conducted. The Chinese receive you withmuch courtesy, employers are calm and serene, andtoo conservative ever to be in a hurry. Be seatedplease, John Chinaman says in broken , or wine, or tea in finest cups are offered. Insight are lovely silks, paper goods, boxes of tea,. ROSE TREE, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA. TRA VELS. 389 bags of rice, dried fish and vegetables, preservedwatermelon, fresh imported sugar-cane for children,sprouted seeds, fresh pigs and poultry, nutritiousportions of beans in round yellow packages,indescribable mixtures, the smell of opium, raw andcooked. Odors numberless, all combined, are worsethan air below deck in a storm. In filthy atticsand cellars are shops and factories. Here theMongolian patiently toils, eats with chop-sticks,and sleeps on shelves with wooden boxes for pil-lows. Here in underground dens, around greasytables, he gambles, smokes, and sluggishly dreamsof friends in far-off China, and his favorite gods. There are a half-dozen Joss Houses, or ChineseTemples, in the city. A Protestant Church evenhas been changed into an abode of heathen of these temples are on the Pacific Coast,where are found ^ gods many and lords many ,goddesses, divinities, tablets, inscriptions, incens
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