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Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project San Jose Newspaper Articles March 1886 Since 2012, the Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project has worked with historian Bonnie Montgomery to identify historical sources about the Market Street Chinatown and about Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans living in Santa Clara County. Ms. Montgomery has systematically reviewed newspapers from 19th century San Jose and collected and transcribed articles that report on events related to Santa Clara County Chinese individuals and communities, along with editorials, wire service reports, and articles that were intended to influence the readers’ perception of Chinese communities. The resulting files, organized by month and presented in .pdf format and .csv spreadsheets, provide a rich source of documentary evidence about journalists’ perceptions of historic Chinese communities and of the public debates about Chinese immigration at the time. The files include the full text of the newspaper article, along with the date of publication, name of the newspaper, type of article, byline or wire service credit, and number of words. San Jose, California, was one of the centers of the anti-Chinese movement in the U.S. west. The first state-wide anti-Chinese convention was held in San Jose in February 1886, and numerous anti-Chinese organizations were active throughout Santa Clara County. Some newspapers were deeply involved in the anti-Chinese movement, not only reporting on the activities of these organizations but also actively encouraging anti-Chinese policies and activism. Many of the newspaper records presented in these files contain racist descriptors and terminology we find offensive today, and that were also offensive to many people living in the 19th century. The views and language used are that of the original journalist. These materials are provided in order to facilitate direct access to primary historical documents for those interested in the history of Chinese communities in 19th century Santa Clara County. To the best of our knowledge, the materials presented here are in the public domain; however we cannot take responsibility for copyright clearance for your use of these materials. We would appreciate if any presentation or publication of these materials include the credit line, “Archival studies contributing to this work were conducted by historian Bonnie Montgomery.” The archival research presented here was supported in part by the Stanford University UPS Endowment Fund, under the directorship of Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project principal investigator Barbara Voss. Pearle Lum, Sara Ouenes, Keiko Kanno, and Seyma Ozel assistaed with article transcription. Claudia Engel and Megan Kane provided web support. Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project Historical Archaeology Laboratory, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 San Jose Newspaper Articles – March 1886 1 Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (staff) page 3 column 4 (News) “Laundry Cases. Hung Lee and Hop Son were convicted in Justice Buckner’s court this morning of violating the laundry ordinance and will be sentenced on Friday at 2 p.m.” 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (staff) page 3 column 4 (News) “Local Brevities.…San Jose Anti-Chinese League No. 3 (for ladies and gents) will meet in lecture room, Baptist Tabernacle, Monday evening, March 1st. ¶ The Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Company is substituting white laborers for Chinese as fast as contracts with the latter for wood-chopping expire.…” 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (L. S. Cavallaro, cigars) page 3 column 5 (Advertisement) "Make No Mistake. Buy your cigars and tobacco of L. S. Cavallaro, Music Hall building, and be sure that you are not getting Chinese goods. His cigars are unequaled in quality and are made by white men; can be smoked without danger of contracting leprosy and are sold at the most reasonable figures." 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (wire) page 2 column 2 (News) “More Chinese Driven Off. Portland, Or., March 1.—Between midnight and 2 o’clock this morning one hundred and eighty Chinese working as woodchoppers and grubbers from one to three miles back of Albina, the northeastern suburb of this city, were riven away from their camps, marched to the ferry landing and ferried across to this city. A crowd of eighty whites, most of them masked, divided into squads of twenty each, visited the camps and ordered the Chinese to leave, which order they obeyed without resistance.” 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (staff) page 3 column 4 (News) “White Brickmakers. W. P. Dougherty, proprietor of the brickyards on the South Pacific Coast Railroad between San Jose and Los Gatos, has had an agent in the East for some time past securing white brickmakers, and about a hundred have already been secured and will soon be on their way hither. Many of them have families. The last Chinese were discharged from the brickyards last October, when the brickmaking season closed. The season will open again next month, and no Chinese whatever will be employed. Mr. Dougherty had found a dearth of white brickmakers in the State, and determined not to be baffled he sent an agent East, with the result as stated. The most interesting feature of the matter, and one that shows Mr. Dougherty’s earnestness in its best light, is that he will bear the entire expense of bringing men and their families to San Jose. In order to accommodate the business to white hands he has also ordered a large amount of moulds and other appliances which cost him $10,000.” 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (Boston Shoe Bazar) page 4 column 3 (Advertisement) “WE ARE BOOMING! ¶ And Please Don’t Forget It. ¶ The Boston Shoe Bazar! ¶ BOOMS ¶ When competitors are quiet. It booms because it gives the people better goods for the money than they can obtain elsewhere, and we are pleased to say that we will sell you only ¶ WHITE LABOR GOODS ¶ As we have shipped our Chinese made shoes to the City of San Francisco to be sold for whatever they will bring. Our goods are most all Eastern made, therefore white labor. Because the Chinese must go we are not going to sit down and cry, but we mean to push out and let the people know that we are willing to help make them go as we know we can make as much on White Labor Goods as ever can be made on Chinese goods, and knowing full well that our White Labor Goods will outwear any Chinese goods made at the same price. ¶ We are just receiving a nice, well selected stock for the Spring in which we know we can please you all. Customers wishing good shoes and slippers for men, ladies, misses, boys and children, will appreciate our selection and at prices that defy competition. ¶ All Goods Marked in Plain Figures. One Price to All. ¶ Boston Shoe Bazar, 33–35 West Santa Clara St., Under Auzerais House.” San Jose Newspaper Articles – March 1886 2 Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (Mountain View) page 2 column 3 (Letter) “Mountain View. Progress of the Anti-Coolie Movement—Work of the Club. Mountain View, Feb. 27, 1886. ¶ Editor Herald: Our Anti-Chinese club met last evening. Communications from the State Executive Committee were received relating to the pledges (Circular No. 1) and to the adjourned meeting of the State Convention, it being held that the accredited delegates to the San Jose State Convention were, as a matter of course, eligible members of the adjourned meeting of the Convention; and as the Mountain View Club had several accredited delegates, it was resolved last evening that any delegate who could not attend the meeting in Sacramento should be instructed to give his proxy to Hon. D. M. Delmas, who has important interests here. Hence Mr. Delmas will be instructed to attend the adjourned session of the State Convention as a representative of Mountain View interests. ¶ Mr. Chas. Detoy, a wine manufacturer and dealer, goes also, as a delegate at large, to represent our club. Mr. Detoy is an active and efficient member of the Mountain View Non-Partisan Anti-Chinese Club. ¶ Mr. Delmas has had all the Chinamen discharged from his large vineyard near here. Hon. M. M. Estee has also discharged them from the Collins ranch. ¶ It was intimated in our club last evening that at the next meeting a proposition would be submitted to earnestly request employers in this vicinity to discharge all coolie labor. ¶ Mountain View.” 3/1/1886 Evening Herald (wire) page 3 column 6 (News) “Knights of Labor. Proposed Plan for Driving Out Chinese and Convict Labor. A meeting was held in San Francisco last night by the committee elected by District Assembly No. 53 of the Knights of Labor to formulate a plan for dealing with the Chinese and convict labor question. The committee, which was composed of J. Wolf, Cal Dewing and J. D. Condon, made a report, which, after specifying the menace to working men caused by Chinese and convict labor, provides for an organization to be known as ‘The Bureau of Industry of the Pacific Coast.’ Its functions shall be vested in an executive board, which shall consist of one member from each local assembly of Knights of Labor and all the officers of District Assembly, No. 53. ¶ The duties of the Executive Board shall be the appointment of a secretary to collect all information concerning the organization, or relating to its objects, and the opening of an employment office in San Francisco for the purpose of furnishing laborers with employment free of cost, in all branches of industry wherever required. ¶ The committee then call upon the Chinese Six Companies to ship the Chinese on this coast to their homes as fast as the means of transportation will allow; they demand that the sanitary laws be enforced in the Chinese quarter; call the attention of the State authorities to the fact that the convicts in the State prisons in San Quentin and Folsom are worked in direct violation of the law, and in conflict with a provision in the State Constitution, and demand of the State authorities that convicts be employed in accordance with the law.