Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 15, 1882, Page 9

1JE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, APRIL 15 188 DEWEY & STONE, FURNITURE Sl [ O SCLOTHEMAT Ting, Uir=mnall ORCHARD & BEAN, | J.B. FRENCH & 0o, CARPETSIGROCERS! I. OBERFELDER & CO., WHOLESALE MILLINERY AND NOTIONS, 1308 and 1310 DOUGLAS STREET. Spring Goods Receiving Daily and Stock very nearlyZComplats ~ J.A. WAKEFIELD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN S TNEC FEE R ER. Lath, Shingles, Pickets, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOLDINGS,(ILIME, CEMENT FILASTIEE, HE'Td. STSTATE AGEN1 FOR MILWAUKER CEM¥NT COMPANY] Near Union Pacific Depot, - - OMAHA,NEB Special Attention Is Once More Called to the Fact thax MM .. E.INWVLA N 'S8 CO. Rank foremost in the West in Assortment and Prices ot CLOTHING, FOR MEN’'S, BOYS' AND CEILDRHEN'S WHAR, ALSO A COMPLETE LINE OF Furnishing Goods Hats and Caps ‘We are prepared to meet the demands of the trade In regard to Latest Styler and Patterns. Fine Merchant Tailoring in Connection RESPECTFULLY, M. HELLMAN & CO,, 13011308 Farnham and 300 to 312 13th * | covering individuals who we 4 | wended their wayto a | story and basement brick structure on : | the north side of Jackson street, be- A DEN OF DIRT. Oelestial Sleeping Apartmenta in San Francisco, Distrusting Sights in the Mongolian Quarter. San Francico Cail, April 7th Yestorday morning, shortly after 1 o'clock, Sergeant Harmon, accompa- nied by a posse of his men, left the 0Old City Hall for the purpose of dis- guilty They arge three- of violating the pure air 1 5 |low Stockton, which they had heen informed was filled with Chinceo sleepers. The upper stories are reached by a narrow flight of stairs, the steps b [ of which are covered with dirt half an ¢ | inch thick, while the walls of the stair- case and the ceiling are covered with smoke and soot from numerous open fires and Chinese tallow candles burned in the hallways as offerings to the heathen gods. The basement, which is ten feet wide, is approached by a rickety, not over-securo stairs, which leads to a narrow privato alley runniny the entire length of tho house, and from which entrance is obtained nto the basement rooms. One ot the first rooms at which the sergeant knocked at was one in the basement and covered with matting, once of a light straw color, but now soiled and almost unrecognizable from the amount ot accumulated dirt, an in. crustation of mud, soot and dust, should be termed a couch. Behind these filthy hangings were discovered ten Chinamen, alongside of each an opium lay out and pipe, some smok- ing, others strotched outat full length on their backs, stupid from the intox- ication produced by opium, with their mouths a Some were utterly unconscious, but their eyes wide open, as well as their mouths, and their sunken, pallid checks gave themt pearance of corpse The atmos; i 0 ho one previ 18 tnmurpassed, Pul n this room, as in the one | b e o visited by the oflicers, was im sas City and ¢ nated by the fumes of opium, but | sioux City was far moro dense, and ren l; breathing still more diffioult. The | poisoning exhalation coming from va- | * s tho ¥ rious sources, when breathed by tho officers, who bul a short time before had been ivhaling pure air, made some of them sick, and caused them to leave the filthy den. But in ad- dition to what has already been de- scribed, there was ome sight which was still more revolting. Adjoining the entrance, sat on a higch stool a wrinkled Chinaman, not less than fifty years of age. He_ was at- tired in a suit of Chinese elothing greasy and filthy. The arrival of the officers did not seem to disconcert him, for he never moved from the position in which he was in_until he was forcibly removed from his seat. He nearest the street. Not receiving any response to repeated knocks, the ser- geants used his No. 10 brogans in- stead of a knocker, and brought into requisition the only Chinese word with which he is acquainted, that was, “Himonah,” which means ‘“‘open.” After a number of vigorous kicks, sufficient to arouse a few sleepy Mon- golians on the cpposite side of the alley, and cause them to open the doors of their rooms ajar, and peer out, and ‘‘himonah” had been re- peated time and again, some one in the room exclaimed in a voice indica- ting clearly that the owner thereof had been awakened from a sound sleep, ‘‘Wassa matta?’ “Open the door, and be quick about it!” said the sergeant. A CHINESE LODGING. “All light,” came the response, which was followed by the turning of a key in the lock, the drawing of a spring catch and the shooting back of several bolts, and the swinging open of the door. As the sergeant and his men filed into the room, an elderly Chinaman, with wrinkled features, short gray queue, and attired in baggy pataloons and not over-clean blouse, stood hold- WM. ROGERS Manufacturing Company, ~————MAKERS OF THE——— Finest Sitver Plated Spoons and Forks, % The only and(ss W original firm of ional plate that is giving for in- | Rogers Bros. stance =~ single All omr Spoons, Forks and plated Spoon s Knives plated triplethickness with the greatest Each lot being hung plate nly on of care, the sectio s on a scale while where expo d being Pl.l“d: to to wear, thereby insure a full de- making a single it of silver on P 4 plated Spoon them, wear as long as We would call ~ AL e, a triple plated tion to our seo- one, 30083 e Rival. Tioved All Orders tn the West should be Addressed to OUR AGENOY, A. B. HUBERMANN, Wholesale Jewe'er, OMAHA, - =~ - =« . NES ing the door with one hand, while was seated at a small, narrow table, the top of which was as dirty as the rest of tho articles around him. On this he had before him a bowl, in which there was a mixture of rice, lights and greens, which he was con- veying to his mouth by means of a couple of chopsticks, 5lrectly in front of this was a small coal oil lamp and an open fire in a coal oil can, the blaze of each oasting a faint light to enable him to see wgnt he was doing, About twenty inches from and directly in front of him wasa candle box on end, and in this was burning punk, ‘allow candles and a lamp filled with nut oil. It was one of those altars which are to be found in almost every Chinese house, but it differed from any ever seen by the writer in this, that it was inhabited by insects. On tho sides, top and back were hundreds of cockroaches, fromn the eize of a pin head to an inch and & halfi 1in length, and in- numerable black beetles, running up and down, and from side to side, as if exercising in the warmth of the burning oil. Every now and thena few of the larger and bolder roaches left the shrine of Confucius and wan- dered to the place where the old man sat, and gome were s0 bold that they walked up the sides of the bowl out with the other he rabbed his eyes, and as the last officer crossed the threshold he muttered, in a tone full of astonishment, ‘“Nee chun mut yeah see coon!’ '“What's allthat gibberish?” asked the sergeant, gazing the while at the spsaker. ‘‘Him say, ‘Wassa matta, wha foah?” volunteered a young Celestial who had followed the officers, moved by curiosity to learn the object of the early morning raid. The room in which the officers found themselves measured ten feet in height with a depth of thirteen feet, and a width of fifteen, and contained 1,950 cubic feet of space, or within fifty_feet of the amount required in a room to be occupied by four sleepers. Ranged around three sides of the room are wide shelves, on which is spread matting, and above thisisa platform across the width of he room. On this, as on the shelves below, are spread pieces of matting and wooden blscks, which Chinese use as head rests or pillows. The atmosphere of this room was heavy, the stench of opium was detected the moment the door was opened, and breath- ing was difficult to those who are unused to inhaling the air of a Chinese lodging place. Prior to the advent of the officers this at- mosphere was inhaled and exhaled by seven adult Mongolians, who were sleoping on the shelves and platform described. The sleepers, who were more or less stupid from the effects of the poisonous drug the Chinese love 8o well, were after some difficulty aroused and made to dress themselves the sergeant having concluded to ar- rest them, as there were three more in the room than the law allows. They were then marched to the central sta- tion under escort of two policemen. A DISGUSTING SIGHT. The sergeant then tried the doors all along the alley, and one near the rear of the basement yielded to the touch, As it was pushed back, a sight was presented to view which, had it been seen by those ardent sup- porters of Chinese, who live east of the Rocky mountains, and whose only knowfedne of the Chinese and their habits is based upon the rose. colored pictures presented by the paid agents of the coolie importers, it would have done more to change opinions on the subject than all the arguments that could be made by the ablest senator or representative from the Pacific Coast in the course of a month, The room into which this door opened ie not more than twelve feet wide, and on each side are two rows of wide shelves, one above the other, These run along a depth of eighteen feet, -The height of the room is not more than ten feet. Be- tween the rows of shelves is a narrow passage which leads to a small room, not more than 5x12, which is divided by a rude partition extending about two feet and a half from the rear wall. In one-half of this is an open fire-place, constructed in the rudest possible manner, and on which the occupants of the room, or the major- ity of them, do'their cooking. The fire- place has no chimuey, and the smoke arising from the few bits cf kindling with which the Chinese ccok their rice and boil their tea escapes as it may until it reaches the front door. In its passage it floats to the ceiling and walls, begriming them with soot, which renders the place almost as black as if painted with coal tar, Im- mediately adjoining this open fire- place and fully open, is a closet, from which arises a stench that is almost unbearable. The shelves on the side of the room to which allusion has al- ready been made, are concealed from view by curtains, or, more properly 8] ing, pieces of dirty soot-covered cloth, extending from ceiling to floor, and have been, for want of a better name, termed “‘op1UM cOUCHES,” Yot is 1s difficult to understand why s fow boards, clumsily nailed togotzor of which he was taking his after-mid- night meal and inserted their anteumwm in his food, These pests did not ap- pear to annoy him, for he did not dis- turb them except when they advanced a little too far in the bowl; then he removed them with his chop sticks and continued his meal. The whole gang was arrested and taken to the central station. Across the Garden Wall. 1 looked across the garden wall, And saw her there—I see her yet! Alittle thing that played at ball. ‘What mattered fright? what mattered fall? I climbed —I broke the peach tree's net— T looked across the garden wall, And, curls and pinafore and all, Beheld her—never to forget— Alittle thing that played at ball. Grave has she grown, discreet and tall, * Since, when the morning dews were wet T looked ‘@cross the garden wall, Since she was five years old, and small, ‘With slipping sasb all crooked set, A little thing that played at ball. But still, sweet wife, when T recall How first we loved, how first we met, I watch across the garden wall A little thing that plays at ball, May PROBYN, Grateful Women, None receive so much benefit, and none are so profoundly grateful and show such an interest in recommend- ing Hop Bitters as women. It is the only remedy peculiarly adapted to the many ills the sex is almost universally subject to. 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