Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 10

Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, May 13, 1952 1 Hangtovn's 49er Group to CEHTEnniAL STORY Hold Revival Trek May 24 order's unwritten history and un PLACER VILLE, May 13. The. Chinese Residents Proud Of 'Men From Oakland' Title full membership of Hangtowns James W. Marshall Chapter No. recorded records, new members were "taken into" the local chapter.

The revived chapters haven't changed the basic format much, except that they have added the 49, Clampus Vitus 'f orty-niner mining town fraternity whose revival rocks the Mother Lode "Only a jew dared to settle across the Bay in Oakland, where the phrase 'men jrom Oakland' meant a class of Chinese separated jrom his brethren in San Francisco By EDWARD W. CHEW spasmodically is expected to be in attendance May 24 and 25 when the Clampers convene" in responsibility of preserving California history to the more estiva celebrating. of Sixth and Webster Streets, eating a real Chinese meaL Charter, or 22nd Street, and San Pablo "Road." As the town grew, the: Chinatown was moved, until finally one of the city fathers who owned property on First between Castro and Brush let the Chinatown in on this new site. I Today, only a few short blocks, centered at 8th and Webster Streets, is Oakland's commercial Chinatown. Thousands of Chinese-Americans have moved away Genoa, to commemorate that community's link to mining days' history.

At the turn of the century, And, of course, preserving the solemn obligation of taking care of the widows and orphans of E. Clampus Vitus, which has natural that the Chinese Family Associations would come to Oakland. One of the largest association buildings was that of the Four Brothers Association, near the entrance to the Posey Tube. A fire leveled this building to the ground a few years ago. But, by the end of this summer, this family association will formally open its new headquarters on Ninth, between franklin and Webster Streets, i Thomas G.

Lew, Oakland resident, is International president of the association, which has branches in North and South America. miners in distress. growth of the Oakland Chinese population, was at a snail's pace. There was an estimated 12,000 Chinese in the entire state of Cal Oaklander Wins revived chapters in most of the Mother Lode mining towns and in San Francisco (Yerba Buena) and Los Angeles Pueblo, is a confraternity in which each member from this area which has become ai beehive of super-highways. ifornia in 1850; 10,000 lived in San Francisco.

Each freighter, however, Warehouses, and industrial build From the beginning, before Oakland the city was even Oakland, the town, the overseas Chinese people referred to their brethren residing along the eastern shores of San Francisco Bay as "men from Oakland." The term applied only to that particular group of overseas Chinese who had the vision to break-away from the already densely populated Chinese community in San Francisco. Even today, this- distinctive nomenclature is humbly enjoyed and proudly shared by all Chinese who work and live in Oakland. For it required more than courage for the early Chinese to emigrate from "Dai Fow" (San Francisco). The "men from Oak brought new arrivals. Christian is an officer of equal dignity and the chief of these is the Noble Grand Humbug.

logs. 11,000 IN EASTBAY missions began converting the rv vu "China boys." The law and press There are more than 11.000 Marshall Chapter's Noble gave him their blessings, and Chinese living in the Eastbav: Grand Humbug, Swift Berry, the Alta California ventured to Library Contest Albert W. Coset of Oakland re-cently placed first in the general division of the annual Oregon State College library contest, it was learned today. He was awarded a prize of $23 in books, according to William Carlson, director of libraries at the college. Coset, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred H. Coset, 5006 Webster Street, is a junior in the field of education at Oregon State. some 8000 are Chinese-Americans. The remainder are new predict in an editorial that "the ONE OF OLDEST Troop 45, Chinese, Boy Scout Chinese man will one day be able troop, is one of the oldest organ comers, largely warbrides and their families, who lives in will blow the ceremonial Hew-gag to call all Clampers to drop their gold pans, picks and rockers for the trek over the Sierra to Genoa.

In addition to initiation rites for a number of Ne- to vote BUILT RAILROADS ized troops 30 years the wooden-frame houses near the Oakland Council Very active in Chinese commercial district. More and more Celestrials Scout work is Dr. Raymond L. These 3000 Chinese poses a chal braved the Pacific to "Gum Eng. Chinatown civic leader.

vadans being taken in as Poor Blind Candidates, the order will lenge to the present generation Shan." They came to help build of civic rights rne guardian land" had traveled a distance or Chinese-Americans; that un the railroads, cultivate the soil, pay homage to John and watchdog over governmental less these war brides support the much greater than that expressed by geography. They had moved and irrigate the dry deserts of legislations which may involve Thomson and other early day figures of Mormon Station, progress made by Chinese-Amer- the last frontier. When the rail the interests of Chinese-Ameri Old-time group of Chinese children attending True Sun-shin Episcopal Mission, Sixth and Harrison. With them Is Deaconess Draut. who with Rev.

Daniel W. Wu established the Mission. from a settled Chinatown to a Jay Long Chairmans Forum Council at U.C. BERKELEY, May 13. Jay Long, 20, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. H. Lone. 475 Hudson Street.

lpans, Oakland may be faced roads were built, they found as Genoa was first called. cans in a frate-rial-type lodge known as the Chinese-American with a Chinese ghetto. their talent welcomed as laundy Thomson was the Norwegian town with very few Chinese. It meant a bewildering change in their lives and yet, it was what Oakland's Chinatown has been men, operators of resturants and formerly the who first adapted the long skis of his native land to wintertime Citizens Alliance, Native Sons of the Golden State lifting its face. The old fronts have succumbed to chromes, Missions in San Francisco Ming Quong Home.

This residence for orphans and under and The C.A.C.A. unites the 100,000 (Americans of Chinese ancestry, neons and brickglass. The quaint, those Chinese pioneers wanted. BEHIND THE WALLS They were tired of the phleg matic attitude of their country mysterious Chinatown of de Oakland. Today, True Sunshine privileged Chinese girls today is 1 Oakland, has been' appointed chairman of the Forum Council on the International Board at the University of California.

A junior student in political science, Long attended Alameda High School before the is whether they are members or not! tective novels is gone. The last tong war in Oakland has been held its national (convention last history for more than 20 years year in Oakland The long queues, skull-caps and men, who were contented to live behind the wallest boundaries of Chinatown. And in "Dia Fow's" Chinatown, they spent their hours talking about their own Members of the C.A.C.A. are bright color tunics have given largely the sons; of the hardy away to Western clothes. pioneers who prepared the path for the current! generation to Twenty years ago the Chinese- superior race and superior cul use over the Sierra to carry mail from Placerville to Carson City in the late '50s and '60s.

The Clampers carry on a riotous heritage handed down from early days in California mining camp history. Newcomers to a camp found they were not accepted unless they were Clampers or agreed to join. Once they had agreed to become a Poor Blind Candidate in the high-sounding order, picks and pans were dropped and an initiation was worked up almost immediately. With the PBCs gold dust supporting the! festivities, the celebration lasted as long as dust and thirst existed. In this way, it is reported in the American with a high school di ture, and found comfort in main walk in, the descendants of those groceries, cooks, peddlers, and companions for little children.

The faithful Chinese gentlemen who served alternately as cook-gardener-father-mother and often times family confidant, has earned a niche in the romantic history of early California. These rare men stayed with a family for many generations and were often considered a close member of the family in which he served. Only a few of the China steamer arrivals settled in Oakland, to become "men from Oakland," to become the first of a small group of Chinese who were extending their hands to the "white devils," and thus to begin the gradual process of assimilation and acculturation. The Chinese community grew rapidly soon April, 1906. By 1910 almost 2500 Chinese SPECIAL! "MAGIC-MARGIN" --f ROYALS AA50 Reconditioned MM Guaranteed taining their superior status as a located at 51 Ninth Street, with its own modern building and facilities.

It maintains a ranch in Los Gatos for girls not yet in their teens. Chung Mei Home, at this period of history, was organized as a Christian home for needy Chinese boys. Originally a small wooden frame building in Berkeley, it is 'now housed in spacious quarters in El Cerrito. BUILD NEW QUARTERS A two-story, wooden frame who survived the pioma inspired awe; this generation of Chinese Americans are graduating from Bay area known as the Episcopal Church of -Our Saviour, at the corner of Ninth and Madison Streets. It's colorful history has been told, and re-told in many languages, around the world; and even today a letter may come postmarked "Alaska" with a request for pictures of the famed mission.

COST IS MILLION The congregation recently completed a million dollar building program, erecting a parish hall, a chapel and a vicarage. There is now a spacious auditorium, and school rooms. hardships which go! minority community in alien en viorments. injustice and hand in hand to determine with pioneering. colleges and universities.

It is impossible There is much good in China's life1, but there is much plain rub i Among the first to go into the Korea campaign were members bish in the pseudo-culture wnicn i -i i t-: nau aevciupcu tu -w of the U.S. Marine Reserves and members of the Army Reserves; the majority of which were Chinese Americans, born and Chinatown. The few who saw this clearly in the 1880's took the ferry across the bay to make a new start in what is now the city raised in Oakland, It is the only Chinese mission of Oakland. In Oakland, the Chinese enjoyed, at least, a little building on Eighth Street, near Harrison, became the Chinese Methodist Church. While services were conducted downstairs, the upstairs of the building was partitioned and apartments were rented.

The Methodist Church today; is building more spacious (were living in the east side of The inevitable transition is continuing. The Chinese-American has unconsciously integrated into the Oakland society, and more freedom; a freedom envied jtne ay giving Cantonese lessons in reading, writing, history and Chinese culture to the younger generation. Chinese school students at r4 CHRISTIAN CENTERS have proven an honorable neigh tend these classes in the after Before 1906 only the Independ I bar. He regrets that many of his quarters, under the direction of ent Baptist Church and the noon, after they complete reg Chinese American brethren are WASHINOTON AT lOth OAKLAND the geographic Ibjoundaries of Chinatown. Once I in the 1880s it was that area from the waterfront to Eighth Street, and the youngsters all attended Lincoln School.

I CHINESE ON MOVE Before the turn Of the 20th century, Oaklano kfept moving the Chinese. Although the Chinese often did not heed the city-fathers, largely because they couldn't understands the ordinance, the city kept 'designating official "Chinatojwns About 1867 the official Chinatown was the east side of Telegraph between 16th and lfthj Streets. One night a coal-oil lamp exploded and the entire district went up in flames. The voliinieer fire department only succeeded in saving the lot. The next move was to the east-side of San Pablo Road, between 19th and 20th Streets.

This Chinatown was hardly settled the Rev. Edwar Lee. ular American language schools. Chinese Congregational Church The Rev. Daniel G.

C. Wu, or (the latter is now Berkeley, who did not make the ferry trip across. This must be understood. This is the fundamental difference. The men from Cathay originally came to "Gum Shan" (America) for the gold which had been promised them.

They saved their only for that happy yet to come out of Chinatown and into the larger society. Too many are still afraid of the "white devil" tied to old dained Episcopal priest, had al serving Chinese-Americans now MONEY BACK GUARANTEE PAY CHECKS CASHED FREE iving in that college city) were ready established the True Sunshine Episcopal Mission in San he only Christian centers min FREE PARICifiG STORE HOURS 9 A.M. TO 6 P.M istering to the Chinese people of Oakland. Frahcisco's Chinatown, when the need for a chapel in Oakland was! evident. Father Wu came to dream, when they would return While no ornate Chinese tq the shores of the familiar vu cif nri'c nnnncTCDiA Oakland, and conducted his' first temples were erected in Oakland, The people in Chinatown have even changed the name of the park across the street from Our Saviour.

While Oakland's city-fathers have designated this park as "Madison Square," the Chinese call it "Sheng Kung Hui Park" or literally "Episcopal (Our Saviour) Park." The Rev. Stephen Ko, an Anglican priest, with deep religious faith is the present vicar at Our Saviour, and the mission. The family being an important unit of Chinese life, it was Iff Mil UllUUblblllM lages of Southern China from May 14, 19S2 Chinese superstitions and quasi-Customs but the Chinese-American on the whole is determined to prove himself worthy of full citizenship in this Nation he calls home. Oakland's Chinatown is passing into history. Oakland, moving into its second century, is loosing the old Chinatown and gaining a new service in a rented store front.

Later the church moved into a whence they came. WOULD BE CITIZENS for many years a small shack served Chinese Buddhists and Taoists at the southeast corner converted wooden-frame barn at snovwT SHORTENING of Webster and Seventh Streets, The influence of the Christian 320 Sixth Street. For the next 36 years, Father Wu was to shuttle back and forth on the ferry between the two Chinese Episcopal The Oakland Chinese, however, was determined to become citizen of the "white man's" country. From Oakland, gates were opened and roads led to before the city fathers of Oak church began to be felt at this time. The Rev.

Lee Hon helped 23' TUNA TAW Solid Pack White Meat Va tin land designated bnbther spot: onChinese-American citizen. to establish the Chinese Presbyterian Church, and co-operating towns in the interior valleys of California, and down to Los An with the National "Board of the 47' WESSON OIL geles, and upwards to Portland etf firmed kud (sieft Presbyterian Church, he also was instrumental in forming the and Seattle. Quart Many of Oakland's early lived in his Caucasian em Libbjr's Sliced Libby'a PINEAPPLE AAi JUICED ZZP Peaches OfifJ tin JfaW ployer's home. This was a period of unconscious assimilation. He made frequent i to "Dai Llbby' Cream BlyU IT' but returned each night 2 31 Apple Sauce CORN 303 tla with more confidence in the new T6ng Yan Fow" growing in PEAS Garden far Oakland.

For one thing, in Oakland, he was not tied to the superstitions which had gagged the aeculuration process of his Libby'a CORNED BEEF ffA hash 33p Lonx 23 i I fse I Serve on repairs I 9 Campbell' TOMATO JUICE San Franciscan brethren. Before 1906 the estimated Chinese population in Oakland Farm Bar Reediest RAISIIIS was less than a thousand. The Chinese, with his long queue Vet-All Mle Gardea A Vegetables Vaa Camp' 1(1 fj Tenderoni far IV and in his Oriental costume Wricht' Para Peaea 4AM 12-ai. IU for these conservative people Preserves were not easily persuaded to dis card the costumes of their hon DIPC Swan'a Fancy Long Grain 29' IllWiai orable ancestors were already familiar sights in the streets of 2 lb. cello ba growth-conscious Oakland.

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