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PAGE SIX TO TAKE CENSUS OF CHINESE SEATTLE FIRM TO COLLECT AD DRESSES OF COUNTRYMEN IN UNITED STATES. Remarkable Protectorate Over Thou sands of Chinamen Is Maintained at a Great Cost. Immediately after the Chinese New Year the Quong Tuck company of Se attle will begin the work of collecting the name and address of every China man in the United States, capable of reading either English or Chinese char acters. This work, done as thorough ly and successfully as the United States census bureau gathers its sta tistics, i s undertaken annually by the Seattle firm, the only establishment In the United States which knows at all times the names and addresses of practically every Chinaman in this country. The work of collecting this informa tion involves the expenditure of hun dreds of dollars, and is a labor of love, for there Is no remuneration of any kind. For years the Quong Tuck Com pany has successfully gathered the list of names of Chinese residents in ths country who are able to read or write In any language, and has kept it for reference. Thousands of letters sent from China to Chinese in this country are delivered to the men for whom they are intended through the work of this volunteer census bureau. It is estimated by members of the Quong Tuck company that more than $300 is spent annually In postage to forward letters ad dressed to Chinese in America in care of the Quong Tuck company. This is approximately 15,000 letters sent for ward each year. Forward Many Letters. Scores of letters addressed from Chi nese come to the Quong Tuck com pany with the name of a Chinaman known to be somewhere in this coun try, written in Chinese characters, and only the name "Seattle" on the envelope to indicate its destination. Sooner or later the postal authorities searching for the person refer the let ter to the Quong Tuck company and It is forwarded properly, says the Seattle Times. There is an unknown number of Chi nese in America who cannot read or write any language. Comparatively few of their names are listed at the Quong Tuck company, but the others are nearly all there. Xo other Chinese firm in America makes such extensive preparations for the annual revision of the directory, and no other known firm of any nationality undertakes such an extensive work of protection for their countrymen. Since the federal government estab lished the Nippon station for Seattle Japanese ther e has been considerable talk among Seattle Chinese in fapor of securing a substation for Chinese and locating it at the store of the Quong Tuck company. The firm itself has taken no steps in that direction, but its work in seeking out and taking care of Chinese in this country is practically as effective as would be a substation. Moreover, it is done with out even the remuneration that goes to the official in charge of a substa tion and involves a heavy expense for the work. Heretofore the Quong Tuck company has supplied to Chinese throughout the country copies of the exclusion law and the treaty. Scores of Chinese from interior points where local at torneys are not familiar with the pro cedure, appeal regularly to the Quong Tuck company for advice regarding their papers, and the company's own attorneys here supply the information at the expense of the Seattle firm. Keeps Tab on Exclusion Laws. If the exclusion law is revised at the coming session of congress, or the treaty with China changed, the Seattle company will immediately print and distribute copies to Chinese, through out the country. The necessity for a knowledge of the law affecting them is apparent to all the Chinese, but the Seattle firm is depended upon to sup ply the information. The collection of Chinese addresses gives the Quong Tuck company a mor e comprehensive idea of the number of Chinese in various parts of the coun try than i s possessed by almost any one else. The company approximates the Seattle population at 800; in the state there are said to be 3000 and in Portland between 400'0 and 5000. Of Portland Chinese population, 1000 are engaged in cannery work on Puget Sound. San Francisc'o Chinese popu lation has been variously estimated at from 13.H00 up. Eight years ago there were 40,000 in San Francisco's China town. The remarkable decrease In San Francisco's Chinatown is cited by Chi- nese in touch with the situation as one of the clearest reasons why a revis ion of the exclusion act cannot hurt in dustries on the coast. It would take years to build up the population Jo Its level prior to the passage of the ex clusion act. IT BRINGS RESULTS. Important Announcement Regarding Football Will Come Soon. NEW YORK, Oct 17.—According to Walter Camp. Yale's supervisor of ath letics, who was a member of the party entertained at dinner by the president, and heard the latter's arguments against unclean football and his em phasis that radical changes are neces sary to make the sport safe, something will come from the president's agita tion. He said. "As to the object of the president In calling the conference at Washington. I at present say nothing except that football was the subject of discussion. I expect to hear In a day or two from the president and until then there is nothing to divulge. It Is probable that an interesting announcement wil' be made at that time, which it woulf be improper to discuss *t this time. Taft With President. "Football as it Is played is a brutal and unsportsmanlike game," said Sec- retary of War Taft in reply to a ques tion as to whether he was In sympathy with the president's efforts to Improve the game. "The president has discussed foot ball with me several times lately," con tinued the secretary. "The passion for winning the game at any cost has led competing teams to resort to unfair methods. It is considered only rlgh and proper for several men on one side to do their best to 'lay up' the star player on the opposing eleven, and this naturally leads to bitter recrim ination, until underhand methods give way to out-and-out slugging. Such disgraceful incidents take place as those at Columbia-Wesleyan game here in New York last Saturday." Cadets Must Pla y Clean. "Are you in favor then of abolishing the army and navy games?" he was asked. "Not so long aa they are fairly arid cleanly played," he replied, "but If there is any sign of intentional under hand work evident in the contest thi* fall I shall d 0 my best to have the games stopped; and it will certainly go hard with any cadet who may be guilty of rough play." "Have you any suggestions to of fer to make the game less objection able?" "Oh, no, indeed," returned Mr. Taft, smiling. "I am not an expert on foot ball, but in. common with others It seems to me that' if the game can be more open and heavy mass plays abol ished the change will be beneficial." President Has Hard Job. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 17.—Re ferring to President Roosevelt's talk with the men representing college foot ball at the White House President Charles W. Elliot of Harvard universi ty yesterday said: "The president, with characteristic vigor, has tackled a hard job. It is hard to bring about a reform through the very men who have long known about the existing evils, and have been largely responsible for their continu ance. His only chance is to convince them that the evils have become in tolerable." When President Elliot was asked if he and President Roosevelt had talked upon the subject of cleaner football, he said that they had seme conversa tion at the last commencement, when Mr. Roosevelt was at Cambridge. For many years, in his annual report, President Elloit has criticised foot ball as played in the leading American colleges, and he hopes that President Roosevelt's action may bring college athletic authorities to see that a real change is demanded in football, as i is now played. Vermont Sunday School Convention. ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt., Oct. 17.—The thirty-seventh annual convention of the Vermont Sunday School associa tion will open here this evening. The town is already filled with delegates from all parts of the state, many of whom are accompanied by their wives. Several leading pastors and many prominent Sunday School workers of this state and several adjoining states are in attendance and an interesting convention is expected. Among the speakers from abroad will be the in ternational chairman of the Sunday School association, W. N. Hartshorn and Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner, one of the most prominent International field workers. Both will address the con vention tomorrow. —La Grippe lets up!— when (perbt Davis 1 ) '» "sed- Cures Coughs. Colds, Pneumonia THE EVENING STATESMAN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1908. DECISION SUITS MANAGERS DECISION ON RIGHTS OF THEATRE MANAGERS REND ERED BY SUPREME COURT. Holds That Proprietor of Play House Is Under No Obligation to Serve the Public. NEW YORK. Oct. 17.—The owners and managers of the New York thea ters are highly pleased with the re ; cent decision of Justice J. H. Brown, of the Pennsylvania supreme comrt, bear ing upon the rights of theatres and their patrons and express tbe hope \ that the principle involved In tine de cision will also be recognised by the New York ciurts. The decision re ferred to was given by Justice Brown in Pittsburg, Pa., in the suit of Wil bur Homey against Nixon & Zlxnxner- i man, on an appeal from a Philadelphia court. Horney sued for damages be cause on February 26th last he did not get the seats for which he held eight tickets. Justice Brown in his decision said: "The proprietor of a theatre is a private individual, engaged in a strictly private business which, though for the entertainment of the public, Is always limited to those whom he may agree to admit to it. There is no duty as in the case d£ a common carrier, to admit every one who may apply and be willing to pay for a ticket to the theatre. The proprietor has acquired no peculiar rights and privileges from the state, and, therefore, is under no implied obligation to serve the public." \ SPORTS DENVER, Oct. 17.—Billy Nolan, manager of Battling Nelson, accuses Jimmy Britt of having thrown his fight with Joe Gans last year to the negro for a consideration of $12,'0'00. He says that Britt cannot refute the charge and he declares that Britt, by means of crookedness, has done more to hurt the prizefight fame in Califor nia, the greatest of all the states which allow pugilism, than any other person. He says this in reply to the statement of Britt that he (Nolan) is seeking notoriety while biting the hand of pugilism which has fed him by charging that money was used to cor rupt the California legislature and kill the Ralston anti-prizefight bill at Sac ramento last winter. Nolan asserts that money was used to corrupt the legislature and that Britt's crowd tried to hold him up for $1000 after the Colma fight, Harry Corbett saying to him that the money mentioned was to go into the "Sacra mento fund." Says Britt Laid Down. Hearken to the call of the wild Bil ly Nolan: "Any man who will purposely lay down to a nigger, as Jimmy Britt did to Joe Gans In that memorable fake last year in California, is enough to sicken any man with good sporting blood In his veins. Why did Mr. Britt accept $12,000 of a $14,000 purse when he lost to Gans on a 'foul* if there was not a prearranged affair? On that oc casion Britt threw down boys who were raised with him and who went to school with him, in fact, he gave th e double-cross to all his friends so that he might make money out of the bet ting. He deliberately hit Gans three times, when Gans was on his knees, to foul Gans and give Gans the deci sion. If that isn't crookedness in sport I would like to have the expression defined for me by Mr. Britt. How the square sporting public pricked up Its ears and opened its eyes when a few months after this 'battle,' Mr. Britt purchased some expensive flats in San Francisco has become a matter of history. This Gans affair Is only one of the sweet jobs Mr. Britt has framed up in the Golden state to trim the people. Papers Protect Jimmy. "James Edward Br'tt has done more to hurt the prize ring in California than any other man or men. He has deliberately skinned the public time and again. That is pretty strong, is it not?. But it is the truth. This is the first time, I believe, that anyone has come out in print In either the east or the west and charged Britt with these things, but it ought to have been done long ago. The papers in California do not print such shocking things because they are all prejudiced in favor of Britt. I would not have mentioned such things in Denver probably had it not been for the attack Britt first made on me in print. I can very easily handle Mr. Britt if he starts talking about me. "No wonder Britt has made money. Why shouldn't a man make money, who would do the things which Britt has done? Any man who will adopt the tactics of Mr. Britt can make as much coin in almost any profession or business.'* No Ideal Home. NEW YORK, Oct. 17—Miss Har riette A. Kayser told the New York City Mothers' club in the Murray Hill hotel yesterday afternoon that there is no such thing as an ideal home, that in many places the father was the sole guardian of the child. Miss Kayser ap peared strongly to resent this fact. She said: "Now, a man may be an angel,"— the mothers laughed—"yes, he may be an angel, as some people assert, but he may also have softening Of the brain. Some, too, have a desire to tor' ment their wives. Under this condi tion it is impossible to have an ideal home. Ideality means equality and simplicity. Until there is the same code of morals for men as exists for women there never will be an ideal home. Tm Just sick of all this talk about divorce. They say the higher educa tion of the women is to blame. I wish the men would pay one-fourth the at tention to the lower education of man than they do to higher education of women." The Delicious Fragrance from a hot Royal Baking Powder biscuit whets the appetite ROYAL Baking Powder improves the flavor and adds to the healthful ness of all risen flour-foods. It renders the biscuit, bread and cake more digestible and nutritious. Royal Baking Powder makes hot breads wholesome. 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