St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-11
SMUGGLING JOHN IN.
CiRCUiTGUS ROUTE or CELESTIALS
TO AMERICA.
THEY RERJURE THEMSELVES.

But Under the Law It Is Impos-
sibIe to Get at 1hem-Although
Workmen, They Are Allowed
TO Be Merchants, Students and
Actors The Pi2taiIs Very
Cute.
New YORK, Sept. 10-Ways thai are
dark and tricks that are vain disttn-
guish the nimble Chinaman as strongly
today as they did when Bet Harle
recorded his startling discovery in
graphic verse. In these days, however,
OF at least in New York, the Celestials
never venture upon such vulgar ana
apparent deception as playing euchre
with all the aces and bowers tucked up
their sleeves. They have a bigger
game On than that, and the manner in
which they play it is we'll nigh beyond
detection. The opponent at the present
lime is the United States government as
represented by the officials of the Gus
tens service and several treasury
agents, and the game of smuggling
not opium, although there is plenty of
that, if all reports are to be believed
but individuals. Chinese laborers who
are excluded under the provisions of
the Geary act. So well are the Chinese
planning tie game that the provisions
of the exclusion act against the en-
france of the Celestials are
PRACTICALLY NUIIlFIED.
Tor in nine cases out of ten those seek
ing admittance are able to pass the Or
deal of rigid examinations and investi-
cations. Collector kilbreth, in looking
over lot of alleged merchants, students
and actors the other day. brought" be-
fore him for a fDal disposition, said:
There is certainly fraud here" and
yet. alter most rigid examination, eX-
tending over half an hour, was unable
TO shake the testimony of a single indi
Vidual. The credentials being SEEM
ingly correct. they were admitted.
The same results attend every
other case. The law. it seems,
does not go far enough 10 reach the
alleged perfumes of the applicants nor
the Investigation to prove them, and
the documents i'll the possession of the
child-likc and bland heather are unim-
peachable in any court in the land. Ac-
cording to the suspicious of the men
most intimately associated With the
Chinese cases, four or five important
elements enter into the smuggling
cases. The most important of these is
we'll defined organization of smugglers,
having headquarters and agents in
Hong Kong, Vancouver, b. G., San
Francisco, New Orleans, Havana and
New York. The principal points, how
ever, are Havana and New York, and
the other cities are merely
FORWARDING STATIONS.
The other features which make this
scheme possible are the Free Masonry
Of the Chinese, kinship money and
desire 10 clrcuDvent the exclusion law
of the American. 1t is TO the cases of
the students and actors who enter the
country for the first time that the great.
est interest attaches. These all come
across the continent from the Pacific
coast to New Orleans in bond, and from
thence TO Havana. They have undoubt-
eddy received some instruction on the
way, but the finishing touches 10 their
education are put on at Havana,
where they remain sometimes a
month, sometimes longer. In Ha-
vana they almost Invariably are
domciled with one Yung Sing, and
when they reach New York they are in
variably met by Yung Luck, his cousin,
or Lee FOy, the latter's partner. These
three men have been openly denounced
by the Chinese inspector at this port as
smugglers. The examinations of the
applicants for admission take place in
the main cabins of the Ward line steam
ers. They arc extremely entertaining.
i he Chinese. TO prove that they are not
OF the laboring classes. have permitted
their
FINGER NAILS TO GROW
from the day on which they left their
own country. They remain throughout
the long investigation as silent and still
as so many craven images. On one side.
perhaps, is an alleged student. forty
years old an on the other an actor who
claims TO br an acrobat. female imper-
senator or king. They are generally