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Show SING FAT IS SAFE. There are few people who have ever been to San Francisco who do not possess something reminiscent of Chinatown as it was, and the souvenirs sou-venirs of that other day usually came from Sing Fat's. The following from Town Talk regarding the Chinaman having the greatest purse and personality per-sonality in Chinatown will prove interesting to those who lmew him in his treasure house. It says: One day last week I came upon a forlorn looking look-ing Chinaman, seated amid the ruins of Dupont street, reading the Examiner. "When he looked up I recognized, despite his unkempt appearance, Sing Fat, the most widely known merchant of Chinatown, whose store, stocked with costly fabrics, fab-rics, quaint bronzes, rare porcelains and the varied va-ried ornaments and treasures of the Orient, delighted de-lighted the heart of the Eastern tourist. The flames had reduced that great store, extendlr.fi on an angle froni Dupont to Sacramento street, to a mass of blackened ruins, and there sat Sing Fat, imperturbable as ever, as calm and unmoved as though he knew it would take but a little while for his store to reappear with its heavily laden shelves. He greeted me somewhat cheerfully. Sing Fat is an old resident of San Francisco and he has confidence in the future of the city. He told me that he had ejght hundred thousand dollars dol-lars worth of stock in his store and that carried not more than ten per cent of insurance. "What are you going to do?" I asked. "I have some money in a bank in China," he said; "I am going to Los Angeles for awhile. I will have a little store down there, and after awhile, some months from now when San Francisco all right again I come back and build here again." |