Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-24
GOING TO PAINT CHINA RED.
Fifty-One MongOlians start on Visit
TO Their Home.

TO Their Home.
From the Boston Rerald.
NEW YORK, Sept. ia One-horse ex-
press wagon, with dingy red wheels and
faded black body, swung into South
street from Rutgers slip yesterday and
jolted out on pier A. Three solemn
Cinnamon elm bed gravely down and
biiuked at the steamer Parthia that lay
alongside the pier. They and a crowd Of
their countrymen are going to live on the
vessel for the next six weeks, for they are
going to Hong Kong. Hop Soy, Yen Sch
ard FOn Lik appeared good and early. so
that they would not be left. Six OF the
Madison street policemen walked up and
down the pier to keep the tough boys Of
the Seventh ward from having tun with
the Cinnamon.
Hop and Yen and FOn chartered to the
driver of the faded wagon. and he handed
them three bundles wrapped and corded
inside OF heavy, cheap, red WOODEN
blankets. They swung the bundles across
the strlng-piece to Shuen Yung, one of the
ships crew, and he laid them carefully
on the PaIthia's deck. All this excited
the curiosity of the tough boys who were
hanging around pier 40, and three OF
them took off all their clothes and dived
getting near pier a, squawking, which
emanated from the wagon. grew much
louder. hop and YEN and FOn and their
driver were banding big crate full OF
chickens out OF the wagon.
After a while some more one-horse
wagons ratified down the long pier, and
out of them came more Cinnamon and
mysterious bundles and halt a dozen zinc
covered trunks. whose new sides flashed
nd 10 in ba
ward sunlight. This kind Of thing kept
happening at intervals all the afternoon.
and by 4:30 O'Clock there were tifty-One
Asiatic laundrymen, Rrocerymen, cigar
makers and restaurant keepers on board
of the Parthia. This steamer used to ferry
people between Liverpool and New YORK
for the Cunard line, but when faster shins
were built she was put in the tea trade,
sailing between this city, Hong Kong and
Yokohama. An enterprisng man found
out a few weeks ago that many New York
Cinnamon who wanted to go home ana
astOuish their friends by painting parts
OF the Flowery Kingdom red in the Ameri-
can style were afraid to do so because it
costs a great deal to travel across the
continent and then home by steamer.
The Parthia's agents were willing to
make contracts to carry Cinnamon be-
tween this city and Hong Kong at $50 a
Hong about the chance for cheap visits TO
China. and Willie said be would try to
drum up some trade. Willie Is not a poet,
as you might imagine from his fine name,
but haTd-headed business man, weigh
ing about 1870 pounds. He went around
Mott street telling all the Cinnamon he
knew how easily they could 20 home and
come back. Within a week scores of
yellOw-skinned men were trOtting around
to the steamship company's Office, fixing
contracts Tor their passage home. Their
Consul fixed things for them at the Gus
tom house so that they could come back
to America. and Collector MagOne issued
dark red passports to al Cinnamon who
applied for them and could prove that
they were living in the United States be-
fore Congress passed the law torbiddinG
Chinese laborers TO enter this country.
Fifty-one passports were issued alto
getber. Each man was accurately de-
scribed in his passport. Ii even gave his
complexion.
The Chinese end Of TIE Parthia was
very busy at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon.
The tity-one passengers were unpacking
their mysterious bundles and making up
their beds, keeping up meanwhile
wonderful amount OF chattering just
as If they could not chatter enough, In
terpTeter Sing went on board and helped
them. They all had to climb around care
fully, because their part of the deck was
damned full of boxes Of shark-fns, and
barrels Of rice and potatoes, and heaps Of
cabbages, and mounds OF small water
melons. They carried all these provis-
ions on board TO eat on the way, because
they bad heard how badly some steam.
ship companies feed steeraVe passengers,
and they had made up their minds not TO
get left IN the matter Of rations. On the
uppor deck they had five young white
pigs in fancy pen, one coop holding 43
hens, and another, divided into two COM
partments, which contained II ducks aud
Il hens.
Treasury Officer Henry Hopper called
all the Cinnamon aft on the spar deck
just before sailing time and inspected
them, TO make sure that no man got away
on the wrong passport. Each one OF them
smiled and chartered delichtedly when
MIR. Hopper gave him his piece OF dark
red paper. with his name, age, weight,
business and American home written on
II. Out OF the titty-One Cinnamon, forty.
nine were distinguished by the location
OF a mole on his face or clearly shayen
head. No two had them alike. When
the travelling flfty-one started back to
their sea home they ran plump into the
arms OF Hong Iuen, the Chinese CoDsurs
boss bOokkeeper, who collected u tax or
50 apiece from them in an off-hand way,
and gave them receipts on slips Of yellow
paper. At 6 O'Clock the Partbia was
hauled away by two lively tugs. She is
expected TO reach Hong Kong in forty
five days, going by way Of the suez
canal.