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142 “to order an alien drawn, quartered and chucked overboard”: Ibid., p. 29.
142 725 of 7,762 Chinese: Ibid., p. 29.
142 rejection rate rose to one in four: Ibid., p. 29.
142 “even the old monks”: R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee, p. 58.
143 some $30 million to $40 million worth of trade: Betty Lee Sung, p. 65.
143 90,000 cases of fuel monthly to 19,000: Silas K. C. Geneson, pp. 40-41.
143 difficult to even give away free cigarettes: Consul General Julius Lay to Acting Secretary of State Francis Loomis, September 28, 1905, Foreign Service, Despatches of United States Consuls in Canton, 1790-1906, Washington, D.C. National Archives microfiles, as cited in Silas K. C. Geneson, p. 34.
143 Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order: Silas K. C. Geneson, p. 36.
143-44 29 percent of the certificates: Ibid., p. 37.
144 “Much trouble has come”: Ibid., p. 36.
144 8,031 Chinese: Erika Lee, “Enforcing and Challenging Exclusion in San Francisco: U.S. Immigration Officials and Chinese Immigrants, 1882-1905,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives, p. 3.
144 dropped to 279: Ibid., p. 3.
144 in 1885, 22: Ibid., p. 3.
144 a total of ten Chinese people: Ibid., p. 3.
144 103,620 to 85,341: U.S. Census.
144 “They would stab through the rice”: Judy Yung interview with Mr. Chew, file 20, “Angel Island Oral History Project,” Asian American Studies Library, University of California at Berkeley.
145 “My cousin and I”: K. H. Wong, Gum Sahn Yun (Gold Mountain Men) (San Francisco: Fong Brothers, Inc., 1987), p. 187.
145 “It seemed not more than several minutes”: Gladys Hensen, Denial of Disaster (San Francisco: Cameron and Company, 1990), p. 26.
145 “They carried their bundles”: Chung Sai Yat Po, May 10, 1906.
145 robbed by the soldiers: San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 1906, and
April 29, 1906, as cited in Erica Y. Z. Pan, The Impact of the 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco’s Chinatown (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1995), pp. 43 and 54. 145 ordered by these soldiers to perform physical labor: San Francisco
Chronicle, June 10, 1906. 146 “shoot to kill”: Erica Y. Z. Pan, p. 53.
146 “high railroad officials”: San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 1906.
146 “the National Guard”: Gordon Thomas and Max Witts, The San Francisco Earthquake (New York: Stein and Day, 1971), p. 259.
146 Between 1855 and 1934: Stanford Lyman, Chinese Americans (New York: Random House, 1974), p. 110.
147 the ratio of Chinese sons to daughters: Betty Lee Sung, p. 99.
147 “if the stories told in the courts”: U.S. Treasury Department, Annual Report 1903, p. 98, as cited in Madeline Y. Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home, p. 75. The quote in the report comes from p. 51 in “Report of Proceedings of a Chinese-Exclusion Convention,” which was held in San Francisco, November 21-22, 1901.
147 “overrun with vermin”: Silas K. C. Geneson, “Cry Not in Vain,” p. 29.
147 “a race of pigs”: Ibid.
147 Description of Angel Island: Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991).
147 “prevalent among aliens from oriental countries”: Ibid., p. 13.
147 some 175,000 Chinese immigrants: Ester Wu, “Chinese Immigrants Remember Detention at Angel Island,” Dallas Morning News, May 21, 2000.
148 75 to 80 percent: Unpublished paper given to author by Bob Barde, Academic Coordinator of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at Berkeley.
148 “dumped together as so many animals”: “The History and Problem of Angel Island,” p. 3. Major Document #150, Box 26, Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
148 “There is no privacy whatsoever”: Ibid., p. 1.
148 “veritable firetrap”: Letter from the Special Immigration Inspector in Meredith, New Hampshire, to the Commissioner General of Immigration in Washington, D.C., August 21, 1915. File 53438-54, Box 208, Entry 9, Record Group 85, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
149 pitched a tent for him: Ibid.
149 “a prison with scarcely