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Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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eaving one day shefell asleep and her weary head rested on herloom, where she saw, in a dream, her father andtwo brothers and their respective junks, periledin a terrific storm. She agonized to rescue themfrom danger, and seized her brothers junks, onein each hand, and her fathers in her mouth. Asshe dragged them to the shore, she heard hermothers voice calling, and, with dutiful spirit,but great forgetfulness of her fathers danger,*she opened her mouth to answer, and awokefrom her dream; but in a few days tidings cameof a dreadful storm and the loss of the fathersjunk and the safety of the brothers. Her dreamhas given her more honor than Pharaohs gaveJoseph, and the Virgin Mary has no loftier titles.Thank offerings are made to her by boatmen,after every deliverance from peril. One of herassistants is Favorable-wind-ear, and theother, Thousand-mile-eye. The temple on Pine Street is devoted to KwanTai, the god of war. It is in the building ofthe Kong Chow Asylum, and has connected with
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286 wmm ^m€iwm wow^mw. it a Iooni for ancestral worship. The asylumlias a large hall for the public meetings of thecompany. The stranger in San Francisco will visit thetemples on Clay Street and Dupont Street, ifno others. The Clay Street has taken away someof the tinsel that formerly adorned the one on Du-pont Street, and is the most elaborate, havingcost about i^SOjOOO, and is dedicated to the worshipof Kwan Tai, and this same god occupies thecentral place in the Dupont Street Temple. He is the most ■popular of all the gods, and isalways red-faced, with a long, black beard. On the walls of all the temples and about theentrances are seen red placards—the records ofthe gifts made for establishing and supporting it.The Heathen Chinee, unlike the AmericanChristians, who always give their alms in secret,connect merit and worship with these gifts, some-times burning incense before the names of thedonors, while an attending priest offers prayersfor blessings on them. In the Clay Stre

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