Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-30
CHINESE FUNERAL POMP.
An American and Two Chinese
 Bands In the Procession.
NOVEL AND INTERESTING SCENE.

How Gen. Lee Yu Doc was Escorted to
 His Last Resting PIace-Provided With
 Food and Drink for His Journey Over
 the Dark River-The Funeral Eyre.
 NEW YORK, Oct. S0.-A Chinese baby girl was the only blithesome Celestial ill Mott street yesterday. She wore pink pantalettes adorned with gold tinsel, a baby blue blouse and an enormous queue In her ears were gold filagree earrings. She stood on the steps of one of the dingy Chinese tenements, and chattered gayly to every Chinaman that passed. The Chinamen smiled and then passed on to take their places in the funeral procession that was forming to escort Gen. Lee Yu Doc, of black flag and Tonquin fame, to his last resting place in Evergreen ceme- tery. The ceremonies began at Undertaken Naughtons at 10 p. m. The corpse was in walnut casket, heavily draped with black.
 Around the coffin a number of Chinamen, some of them the relatives of the dead gen. eral, grouped themselves. About the coffin joss sticks were burning, and at the foot was a table spread with substantial meal of roast pig, roast chicken and rice. The Chi r1ese funeral ritual was gone through with by a high priest dressed in black trousers and a Prince Albert coat. Everybody was snok- ing cheap cigarettes. At the conclusion of 8 chant by some of the old 0hinamen the coffin was placed ill hearse, which was followed by two ancient tally ho coaches, into which were loaded an American brass band and two Chinese bands. The mourners, of whom there are said to have been over 250, packed themselves into sixty hacks and trailed after tue hearse and the tally ho coaches The procession crossed over to Brooklyn by the Al. @-JNl & slow walk to Evergreens cemetery.
 There crowd of fully 5000 people awaited the mourners The women ill the crowd out numheFed the men by about q hundred to one. The grave was on the top of Celestial hill, right before the open back door of a brick building which is said to be a bone factory. Five thousand Americans had con gregated in the cemetery. 1t was 4:4O o'clock before the advance guard of Lee Yu Doo's funeral escort hove in sight. Their coming had been announced long before by the sounds of ditge played by the American band and by the loud banging of the Chinese tomtoms An almond eyed mourner on white horse led the procession. He held aloft the banner of the Lun Gee Tong, c. F. N. s. society, of which Lee Yu Doc had been distinguished member during his lifetime.
 A Chinaman named Lee Moy, who wore q quilted blouse with yellow facings, and an enormous sword, took position at the head of the grave, and then the other Chinamen crowded up to him. Every one of them wore black and red streamers intertwined like turbans, about the head, and many of them wore Masonic aprons The grouping of Chinese banners and standards in the background was quite picturesque, but the combination of colors displayed in the attire of the ulourners was marvellous in its hid eousness.
 The coffin was lowered into the grave by the gravediggers, who lost no time in shovel ing the dirt upon it. When the grave was half filled, Lee Moy planted the banner of the Lun Gee Tong c. F. NJ s. society at the head, and other mourners followed his ex- ample by planting other banners and stand ards on all sides of the coffin. There were but few Chinamen standing about the grave. The bulk of them remained at q modest distance, but when they saw Lee Moy, Wong Chin Foo, Tom Lee and other leaders take off their mourning badges and throw them into the rapidly filling grave they, too, took off their badges and heaped them together at a short distance.
 A properly authorized official applied a match to the heap, and when the blaze was fairly started there was a rush to cast into the flames every banner, standard and badge that had been brought to the cemetery from Mott street One banner alone was saved from destruction. This was an American flag It was reyerently furled and brought back to the city. Lee Yu Doo's funeral pyre was augmented by the addition of a trunk containing all his wearing apparel, letters and papers, the roast pig and chickens which had figured at the obsequies of the morning and thousands of incense papers. When the bonfire was at it's highest Lee Zoo, a relative of the dead man, knelt at the foot of the grave, and spreading napkin, placed upon it two roast chickens, bowls of rice, a bundle of joss sticks and two gaily decorated candles. He opened two bottles of sham shu or Chinese brandy, and to each of the half dozen other relatives who knelt beside him he handed a tiny cup, filled with the brandy, which each man, after a vay brief prayer and many obeisances, sprhkled upon the ground. Each mourher, before leaving the grave, took off the blue muslin tunic iI which he was robed and cast it upon the funeral pyre.
 The royal umbrella, which was feature of the funeral procession, shared the fate o all the other mourning insignia by being cast into the flames. Altogether the ceremonie: at the grave lasted less than thirty minutes
 YerlSes' Indignant Denial.