Excerpt from A Sketch of the Linguistic Conditions of Chicago

Chinese - Chinese is spoken by between one and two thousand persons.

AS is well known, the Chinese element is strongest in California and the other Pacific states. In the East the greatest number is in New York.

There are two Chinese papers, one in New York, the other in San Francisco.

Japanese - Japanese is spoken by less than a hundred persons. The Census gives 80 as born in Japan.

The Japanese are most numerous in California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho in the order named.

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