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Hartmann said the cotton
was of poor quality &
short fiber & is used in
America to mix with
wool but as cotton is of
little value, The people
at the race were very
interesting. In the 1st
class grand stand fully
one half were Chinese,
There were also many
Japanese. The chief
foreign element were
the Americans & second
were the British. One of
the illuminating features
was numbers of Chinese
women wearing European
skirts or apparel, I
questioned Prince & the