W blotted out, which laid in the heart of San Francisco, halfway up the
hillside from the bay and was two blocks wide by two blocks long. In
this circumscribed area an Oriental city within an American city, more
than 24,000 Chinese lived, one-half of whom ate and slept below the
level of the streets. The buildings they occupied were among the finest
that were built in the early days of the gold fever. What was at one
time the leading hotel of the city was as full of Chinese as a hive is
full of bees, for they crowd in together in much the same way. As the
gold fever attracted the Chinese to the Pacific coast, San Francisco was
made a headquarters and the Orientals soon established themselves in a
building on the side hill. As they continued to swarm over, gradually
the American tenants were crowded out until a certain section was set
apart for the Chinese residents and Chinatown became a
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