Show LIVES IN A CHAIR A prosperous chinese of oakland who has no other home from san francisco chronicle oakland has a taxpayer whose home is nothing more or less than an antiquated rockine chair and who has astonished the authorities by obeying an ordinance which it was thought would serve to end his peculiar waya it enforced the eccentric resident is a chinese named chang wee and he repairs cane seated chairs for a livelihood chang wee covers a great deal of territory and does not consider it worth while to establish himself in a house upon his back and when mealtime or or night overtakes him he him kelt down where cr ho chances to be and enjoys a repast ot rice and prunes goes to sleep for the night chang is partial to highways and many have been puzzled to seo him h addled up in his chair at the side of some suburban roid calmly waiting for the morrow some time ago chang was told that he could not occupy the streets at night unless ho hung out a lantern for tho law was explicit on the point that obstructions should be indicated by lights after dusk this did net discourage disco the chinese and he at once secured a beacon which be hangs from the back of his chair now upon retiring chang is a property holder and owns a lot in partnership with another chinese on east fourteenth street nevertheless he considers himself too poor to afford a place in which to sleep and eat he walks through alameda and contra costa counties repairing chairs and makes fair caces thereby he bas put in the past week in oakland and will row strike out on his country beat to bo gone two months among tho chinese of this city he is looked upon with suspicion for they consider his ways radically inconsistent and absurd nevertheless chang wee is leaking a good living and saving all but a mite of it |