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Show CHINATOWN RESIDENTS LEAVE SAN FRANCISCO SAN' FKAN'Cl?CO. Au. Sanj Frunciseo's Chinatown at one time I perhaps the largest In ahy American or European city, continues to decrease de-crease in population, according to suitements from the Chinese consulate consul-ate and the Chinatown police squad. Uefore the San Francisco fire of 19CC there were over 30,000 Chinese her.-. 11 w.-fs estimated. Today Chinatown is credited with a population of between be-tween ."..000 and 7.000. Chinese populations of other sections sec-tions of the United States also are decreasing, de-creasing, according to census figures at the consulate. In 1000. they sho. v. there were approximately tf.uU'J Chinese in America. In 1&10 the number num-ber had decreased to aboul 71.000 and in 1!J0 to 55.000. Many reasons have b?cn assigned for the decrease hero. The consulate thinks restrictions on Chinese iniml-giatlon iniml-giatlon have been tho main cause and agrees with officials of the police squad that tha ban placed on gambling gam-bling in the Chinese quarter is another anoth-er reason. Chinese lovo to gamble. I the police say, and when the ban was Ordered many left. j Eastern cities have called many San Francisco Chinese where they engage in the restaurant rind laundry business. busi-ness. Chicago, it is said, has drawn 'heavily upon Ban i i.mciaco Oriental j quarter. no |