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Q. Altogether what does it cost?
You know how much it comes to.
A. From five to six dollars at the most.
There is very little saving over.
Q-Are there any private chair or ricksha coolies in the place where you are living, whose masters give them a lodging or who can lodge at their master's house ?
A. Yes, there are some, Some of the coolies who are employed at the Peak stay there, and, when their master sends them down town to buy food and so on, they pass a night in the coolie house and return to the Peak in the morning.
cents.
Q.-Now, how much a month do these men pay for rent?
A.-He pays half of the amount I pay. That is to say if I pay $1.80, he pays 90
Q.-Suppose he only sleeps three nights there in the course of the month, how much does he pay then?
A. He pay's the same.
Even though he passes only three nights in the house,
he has to pay half the amount that we have to pay.
Q. Where do the coolies in your place come from?
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A. The whole of them come from Chu-chau.
Q-Are there any coolie guilds to which they belong?
A.-No.
Q. Anything like a Pork Guild ?
A.-No. I am a newcomer and I don't know anything about guilds.
Q. Don't people ever ask you for subscriptions?
A.-No.
Q.-Have you not contributed to anything?
A.--No.
Q. How long have you been here?
A.-A little more than a year.
Q. And you have not subscribed to anything during that time?
A. No.
Q.-Not on festival days?
A. Only once a year, that is in the seventh moon.
Mr. Wilcox. Do you belong to any guild?
A.-I am not a member of any guild.
Q. Are you a member of the Triad Society?
A.-No.
The Chairman. During the time you have been here, have any of the private chair coolies in your house reported their master as not being a good master ?
A. No. They attend to their work daily and there is no talk against their
master.
Q.-Have any orders gone out from your house that certain non-Chinese masters are not to be served ?
A.--No.
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