The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-22
THE CHINESE COLONY,
Part of it Naturalized and Thinking
OF Quitting Confucianism.

A Part of 1t Naturalized and Thinking
Of Quitting Confucianism.
1t was the talk among the Chinese Satur-
day night that Charlie Lee, Joe Korcher,
Wing Sing and Chang Name were to join
the Baptist church yesterday. A MORNING
NEWS reporter saw Charlie Lee yesterday,
and he said there is no truth in the rumor.
He would like the MORNING NEWS, he said,
to call him by his right name hereafter,
which he wrote in plain nglish-Charlie
Chang Now.
Chang Now said that as far as Joe
Korcher is concerned, he left Friday for
New York with Chong Wah. and he doubts
very much if they will return to Savannah.
As for himself, he has not made up his mind
yet whether he will join the church and be
baptized into the christian faith. He went
to the Baptist church yesterday as usual
with his teacher. In the afternoon himself
and five or six of his Chinese friends at
tended Sabbath school. There were three or
four present at the interview with Chang
Now, aud none of them would admit that
they intend to depart from the Oriental
teachings of Confucius. In fact, it would
appear that the Acknowledged children of the
Orient find the ohris ian Sunday school a
very appropriate channel for gratuitous in
struction in the mysteries of the English
dipn6ueb ana VD6 CHRISTIAN DlDle.
Chang Now said that he has been attend
ing christian churches for the past eight
years, and this year he has been very reg
ular attendant at DR.. Holmes church.
There were six or seven Cinnamon at Chang
Now's laundry when the reporter called
They listened very attentively TO the con-
versation, and occasionally addressed Chang
Now III Chinese & have the interview ex-
planned to them. When asked how many
Chinese reside in Savannah, Charlie got his
abacus, or machine for calculating, and
after sundry colloquies with his companions.
he said there are but fourteen here now,
since Joe korcher and Chong Wah have
gone. 1t Is hardly necessary to add that all
OF them are in the laundry business.
The Chinese of Savannah are not har-
monious colony by any means, and there
has been more or less litigation between
them, generally growing ont Of rivalries in
the laundry business. Some of them claim
that Chang Now attempted to play "Old
hutch's" dodge and establish a laundry
trust, Chang Now wanting to be the head
OF the trust. This Chang Now denies, but
he does not deny that there are and have
been some very inharmoniOus relations be-
tween them. Chang Now is suspected,
however, of having an interest in more than
one OF the laundries besides the one where
he lives, and he is no doubt the most
prosperous of the fourteen living in Savan-
nah. He takes life very easy, dresses neatly,
enjoys a carriage ride occasionally, has be-
come a naturalized citizen and attends
church and Sabbath school with great regu-
larity, but it is a significant fact that he
still wears queue, and has not lost sight of
his far eastern home which he left in his
childhood, for when asked if he intends to
return to China he seemed to think long be-
fore he replied: 81 don't know about that
yet. l haven't made up my mind"