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Show H OGDEN'S ENLARGED 1 Bj CHINATOWN. 3 ffl Ogden's Chinatown Is either shlft- h M Ing its base or there is a greater I I gal Chinatown building up in this city. j Jj,l Tne Celestials for years were con- I iJ fined to a small number of buildings i Ml on tae south- slde lower Twenty- f l)B fifth street, but now they are spread- 'I lull lnB ,out an a ar5 clny s to te j mi found In the new structures on Grant If 'Hi avenue, north of Twenty-fifth street. ' Ml .The Chinamen apparently prosper Jjji la Ogden. A merchant says they are H his best cash customers as they buy H4i k3 best meats and never quibble over 'It! Prices, and he concludes they have i g ample funds to meet the demand of ( 'ill their appetites. ! fljl This reminds us that the Japanese 1 Mr 1 also are on the increase and they, j H too, are to be classed among the well- to-do. A well Informed public man IHI says there are200 Japanese land own- l ers In the Ogden district and the I lall Asiatics are coming in at -a rapid rate. j Ml Thirty years ago there was great i ifP PreJudice displayed toward the Chlna- r j ml man in the weBt, who then was the jVj cheap laborer threatening to lower i lill tne standard of living of every wage M earner. In those dayB'John China- jffl man was driven from pillar to post Kk and, now and then, was mobbed. The !JH grown-ups denounced him and the 1 Ijl small boys threw stones at him. His 1 life was constantly in peril. Today nj he Is respected, and since the immi- lij SratIn of Japanese in large num Wt bers, he has come to be regarded as Hll a more desirable person than the. sub- JSIf Ject of the Llikado, and consequently ijlll he Is freed from attacks and moves iltrl alonE nitQ unmolested, while the ' HI Jap receives the imprecations of the jjfflj Sandlotters. I MI The Chinese were first induced to I f j seek employment on ,the Pacific coast, llNi by the Central Pacific RaUroad com- 1 m Pany at the tIme of tne buIIdln& of 1 that road trough tho Sierra Nevadas, if dt and from then up to the time when H e Japanese displaced them as cheap IIJj laborers, they were the object of pub- ( B ic wrath and adverse legislation, cul- i m niinating in the Chinese restriction 'I'll act signed by President Arthur. ! ' ilif I OO |