Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-18
A Cinnamon with the Dreadful
Disease in New York City
WASHING PEOPLES CLOTHES.
So Sick He is Hardly Able to Work-His
Countrymen Afraid to go Near Him.
The Health Officers Pronounce it a Gem
uine Case of Leprosy, but Have NO
Place to Take the Victim.
HIS Tale of Woe.

NEW YORK, July IA Chinese leper
has been discovered in an East Side lauu-
dry. He is Chin Hop Sing. and when a
representative of the health authorities
paid him a professional visit he was indus
triously ironing a shirt. He has been 4
leper eight months, and seven months of
that time he has spent in washing the linen
after an examination, decided that IT
was genuine case OF leprosJ. but say they
cannot take the man in charge because they
have no place to take him
Here is the story of the Chinaman: A
year and half ago when Chin Hop Sing
came to this city from San Francisco he was
as healthy Chinaman as any one could
wish to see. There Were, however queer
rumors about him II was said that
Chin Hop Sing had lived with a leprous
friend in San Francisco and that he had
helped to support him until the doctors
came and took his friend away. His
countrvmen Stunned him. At last he was
driven into miserable room where only
THE LOWEST OF THE Low
reside. and where it was said other lepers
had hidden In that place Hop Sing live1
until fund of 500 was raised to take him
back to China His friends wanted to get
him out of the way. Chin took
the money and promised to go away.
He did SO, but only as far as Newark, \.
j., where he invested in a laundry kept by
Tt Chung Chung was leper, and in j
very bad way. The two formed partner
ship. Chung was rapidly growing worse,
Hop Sings malady was Just begin
ming to show itself in blotches
which broke out on his back and neck His
partnership did not last long. Some say
that Chung got so bad that he could not
work, and Hop Sing did not want to do all
the work. Chin Hop Sing braved
the wrath of the subscribers of the fund
and came to New York. His head began to
swell. His ears were assuming large pro-
portions and his nose had reached
remarkable size. Besides his
eye-lashes had dropped out and he was
getting bald He went TO the laundry of
his cousin, Chin En-, and demanded ad
mittance. His cousin was afraid to send
him away, so he let him stop there until
morning When Chin En- awolse he saw
how Hop Sing looked
HE WAS TERRIFIED.
He would not stay in the place, which he
believed was already infected with the
fearful disease He told the leper he
would sell out for $50. A bargain was made
and Chin En- has not been seen since.
Chm Hop Ling took possession of the
Laundry Immediately, and went right on
clothes there ever since The little fat
Chinaman the folks in the neighborhood
have patronized for the past seven months
is leper, and he can hardly do work For
hours at 4 time he was compelled to rest.
He has found it impossible to
get any help, for there was not
a Chinaman in the city who would work
for him. Sometimes he would find a
strange Chinaman from San Francisco or
New Orleans, who would work for him
until they found out what was the matter
The case was reported to the board this
morning with the results stated above.