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Hartmann said the cotton was of poor quality & short fibre & is used in America to mix with wool but as pure cotton is of little value.  The people at the races were very interesting.  In the 1st class [[strikethrough]] gran [[/strikethrough]] stand fully one half were Chinese.  There were also many Japanese.  The chief foreign element were the Americans and second were the British.  One of the illuminating features was numbers of Chinese women wearing skirts or European [[symbol: female]] apparrel.  I questioned Prince & he