The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-21

with bolts and bars, which fall In place as
the escaping Chinese closes 1t. lie IS then
safe from pursuit for at least five to ten
minutes, for it takes that length OF time
with heavy sledges to batter down one OF
these doors.
Running through the room the fugitive
slams and shuts another barred and bolted
door al 3, and is then doubly secure Tor the
time being.
He can now stop and choose which way
he will go-out through sliding panel at
4, that opens into an adjoining house, or
down the narrow, crooked stairs at 5.
which lands him in the basement, where II
is as dark as night without stars or moon.
Once 10 the basement be closes door to
mislead the officers, since 1t opens only into
q room and goes through door 8. shutting 1t
behind him.
he can now go through door s, through
sliding panel at TO- and get into an under
ground passage connecting with others and
leading underground for several blocks, or
he can go through panel 8, thence through
doors Is and Is, and out panel IL to pas
sage 10 the roof of the house on his right, or
through doors II and Is and through panel
il to the roof of the house on his left.
In case he finds the way to the roof OF
either house guarded, he can run back
through door 10 to the other house, or open
doors IL and 16 and run down the stairway
at II, which goes down TO a still lower base
In other words, after being once Salely
inside of doors /, 2 and the fugitive has
at his command no less than fourteen Oil,
ferent ways by which he can escape, ana
four Of these, through the sliding panels,
would puzzle the officers to ind IL there
were no strong doors to contend against.
These chances OF escape from the build
ing are vastly increased when one adds the
hundred and one hooks and crannies In the
building where he can hide.
To thoroughly surround the building in
question would take 100 policemen, and
these, being summoned hastily and having
no good description of the escaping man,
the fugitive highlander might walk out
under the noses of the officers stationed
block away and they would never know
him.
What Chief Crowley wants is to close up
the underground passages by law, and have
the courts sustain him in dem olishing every
strong door in Chinatown, and he is pre-
pairing to make most vigorous fight against
1t. The Chinese do not like the prospect.
and they dislike more than the prospect
the articles in THE CALL.
Yesterday afternoon Hoo Sue. one of the
smartest Chinese in the United States, called
at the editorial-rooms of this paper and
begged that nothing more be said about
underground passages until after New
Years. Said Sue, in support of his request:
''For the past year the Chinese have made
nothing, and many of them have been
counting on the usual influx of white visi-
tors during Chinese New Year TO help them
pay their hills, which must all be settled
before the New Year is over. If the white
people don't come l don't know what We'll
do"
Sue was told that there was a veritabe
wonderland above ground in Chinatown,
which the white people will never tire of
seeing and to visit which entails no danger,
and was advised to tell his countrymen to
obey the law in its strctest Interpretation.
He went away dissatisfied and unhappy,
but made NO attempt to defend the practices
of the Chinese. which are condemned as I'M
safe to human life.