THE "EVILS" OF SAN FRANCISCO.

Evening Star, Issue 3631, 12 October 1874, Page 3

THE "EVILS" OF SAN FRANCISCO.

■The American correspondent of the ‘ New Zealand Herald ’ by the last mail writes as follow^: * .The l -newspapers have dropped the local option business, and are now laboring with the Hoodlum- question, young, ruffians, have -given so trouble lately, the authorities are about to enrol 200 special constables to assist the regular police in protecting Citizens from their violence. A few days ago a pprty pf these Hoodlums sought entrance to Montgomery Queen s circus without payment of the bUstomary tribute. Being refused ad-, mittance, they deliberately stoned to death a young man named JRamsay, one of the circus Their crimes have been of late so mauy and so violent that the police have been unable to control the evil, and certain .portions of the oity are almost entirely in tfyoir, hands, Murder, robbery with violence, .and filthy abuse are their favorite pastimes. Tl}is state of affairs hap ffifecbme such a serious evil thaf y thinking for

jSan Francisco if homkitn mediate notion ?is not taken for its suppression. The [whipping posts and the stocks would (probably reduce the evil. San Quenten j(the gaol) is full of criminals, and yet jthere is no appreciable difference in the of crime. Of course the preisence of some 25,000 Chinamen in this jcity, and the action of the Trades’ ,'Umens- jiq preventing the apprenticeship of boysj except, to a very limitedextent, has much, to do, with the evil. Whatever manufactories there may be two thirds. of the employes kre Chinamen, except in the foundries. As John Chinaman is content to work;for about one-half the wages necessary to sustain awhile man, they get the preference, arid the feeling against them is not confined to the Hoodlums. The Chinese question is one that sooner or later will give rise to a vast deal of trouble in this city and State.* The number -of the JC)elestials in California is oyer .6.0,000,. and;, j , come,.’’ The element is by ho means a desirable.one. To £hp insurance- com panies they, are a Constant source of dread. ? j Their carelessness has already cost* them dear. Their habits are such ,as to ..render disease; of a peculiar .kind a permanent Svil in this city, and now that they are importing a considerable number of women and going ibth thb;business of raising young Chinaman oh the.spot, of course their htimbevs will increase rapidly. Every trade is in their hands; they are shoemakers, cabinetmakers, jailors, , cigar makers*—-in fact, everything. All the!laundries and mpst of. the vegetable gardens are worked by them. Many of the wealthier Mongols are merchants, and import most of the,aHMes - cbhsumyd by ,the ; CHIM.. are Several joss-houses, ‘ and tfeiee; or four Chinese theatres in what is called the .quarters. Almost bvery visitor to.’Frisco Visits that locality. * The performances at the theatre are continues,A play is-'put on the stage about the Ist January, snd the last act ill completed about the following December. '