Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-30
A CHINESE FUNERAL.
Queer Celestial Ceremonies Over
Gen. Lee Yu DOCS Body.
ONE OF THE BLACK FLAGS.
Bountiiul Rations OF Chicken, Rice and
Roast Pig Prepared for the Depart
ing Soul of the Dead Man.
Many Mourncrs.

New YORK, Oct s0-The Evening World
says:
The Chinese general, Lee Yu Doc, was
walked in Undertaken James Naughton's car
riage house, 81 Mott street, with the most inn
presSive ceremonies known to the Celestials.
Gen. Lee passed away ten days ago at y
Mott street His body was emhalmed. I'm
dertaker Naughton, who enjoys a monopoly
in burying deceased Cinnamon, provided a
magnificent rosewood casket draped 1t with
rich black Grape, lined it with the costliest
satin, and finally put Gen. Lees corpse into
it. The.casket was taken to the basement bc-
meath the undertaker's shop at 81 Mott street,
where, on two saw horses, it remained until
the morning.
Four Cinnamon were ON watch with -
night and day, having their meals brought
to them They passed the time in talking
and smoking opium, with which they were
plentifully supplied by their countrymen on
the outside. At the head of the caslket n
long, thin board. about foot wide, was placed.
1t came to point at the top, and was
marked something like target there in blue
colors. The rest of it was red papered, COW
cred with white hieroglyphics.
"What is the meaning of thatp reporter
asked
The innocent Chinaman professed not to
know.
Finally one of them was induced to tell
He said the red paper represented the dead
mans career from the cradle to the grave
The hieroglyphics were his misdeeds. Over
them poor Lee would have to climb In order
to reach heaven, as represented by the blue
target spot on top Lee could not have been
very good during life, as his misdeeds as re-
lated on the board, were more than eight
feet in length.
Three pine tables covered with linen, were
placed in a row, three feet apart, directly in
front of the foot of the casket. At 10 a. m.
the services began. Frosted confectionery,
of the most delicate description, was spread
in quaint old dishes ON the first table, beside
chicken, steaming hot and some light white
biscuit. A young pig, cooked brown and
whole on a big pan, with the head facing the
coffin, was placed in the center of the next
table. On each side of it was pillow Of
white roses, one of them marked in immor-
telles
'My cousin is at rest"
The third table was loaded down with
knickknaclks of all kinds joss sticks in
bowls of rice burned rapidly, dispensing a
sweet aroma. Big wax candles shed a lus-
trous but rather weird light upon the sur
roundings. Little finger cups were on the
table, and there were small bottles of wine
and water and chopsticks.
A solemn looking Celestial dressed himself
in white robe and turban. Four others
followed suit only they dispensed with the
tnrban. Four more dressed i'm blue robes,
but no turbans. Then the man in the tur-
ban knelt before the last table and touched
his forehead to the floor three times He
rolled his eye upward then and others poured
water into the little finger bowls. After
Il
man emptied the fluid into tin dishes i'm front
of him on the floor
The food was provided so that if he should
wake up and become hungry on the way to
heaven he might have plenty to eat. The
collation. was subsequently carried to Ever
greens cemetery and spread on the grave
About IL o'clock more than a hundred Chi
namen of the Lung Gee Tong club, of which
| the deceased was a member, marched from
their club room at 10 Pell street
/ Some had black robes, curiously wrought,
while others had blue and white Some wore
black turbans and others yellow The ma
| jority of them carried huge Chinese lanterns,
flags or pictures of birds and beasts printed
on pasteboard. Lowelrs band preceded them,
| playing a funeral dirge. A Chinese band,
with tomtoms, was along also and made dis
cordant music when the corpse house was
reached.
Then by twos they al knelt in front of the
third table and bowed and salaamed, as the
men in the white and blue robes had done
The men who were robed were the near reIa-
tives Of the dead man. Seventy-two car
riages, three stages and hearse drawn by
four horses were engaged by the mourners.
! Lee has two wives in China He came to
this city four months ago from San Fran
cisco.
He gained his title of general in the
Franco Chinese war, when he was leader
of the famous ''Black Flags" whose fierce
fighting and revolving cruelty made all the
world shudder. After the war he was
obliged to fee from his native land. He
went first to San Francisco and then came
here.