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Identifier: californiaalaska00webbrich (find matches)
Title: California and Alaska, and over the Canadian Pacific railway
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Webb, William Seward, 1851-1926
Subjects: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company California Central Railroad Union Pacific railroad company Canadian Pacific Railway Company California -- Description and travel Pacific Coast -- Description and travel Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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entlemen of our party, in the pine grove onthe ocean drive. Early on that morning, withthe two stewards of our train, and servantsfrom the hotel, they drove out to the groveand prepared the lunch. About twelve oclockwe took two larg-e four-in-hands and drove outto meet them. We arrived about one oclockand enjoyed a most delightful repast, afterwhich one of the party took three or fourphotographic views of the scene. The neat appearance of the Hotel DelMonte, of which we have spoken, was largelydue, according to the statement of its manager,to the use of Chinese servants, about sixteenof whom, divided into gangs of four, were con-stantly engaged in the work of cleaning. The Monterey 63 head-eardener of the hotel i^^rounds g^ave somevery interesting information in regard to themanner in which they were laid out, Chineselaborers being employed to do the work. The Chinese, as laborers, are very impor-tant factors in the industrial civilization of thefar West. Nearly every town west of the
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yHc-fi/eA.t^ Rocky Mountains and Utah has its Chinesequarter. They swarm along the line of thePacific Railroad, and are found in the oldmining gulches of the mountains. In everyvillage of California, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada,and up in British Columbia they are met with, 64 To California and Alaska. eneaeed in some kind of service, as cooks,table-waiters, nurses, gardeners, laundrymen,railroad builders, miners, agriculturists, serv-ants, and as assistants in manufacturingestablishments. They beo^an to come to thePacific States in 1852, and though theircapacity is very limited, being confined prin-cipally to the power of imitation, they learnquickly, and they are quiet, clean, and faith-ful, and do not go on sprees, as some oftheir white neighbors do. On account of theirgenius for imitation they make good cooks, andthey are very successful in cultivating a smallvegetable garden. The Pacific Railroad wouldhave been delayed some years, and cost muchmore money, if it had not been for the mate

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