The herald., 1893-08-23
CHINESE CHASED FROMCOMPTON
Practical Enforcement There
Of the Geary Act.
Mongolian Fruit Packers Replaced
by White Labor.
Cl,tnsss Fruit Packers shown tho Road
to Los Angeles aud Made to
Follow IL In Short
Order.

Special to the HERALD.
CoMProN, Aug. 22.-Our usually quiet
little town was shaken from center to
circumference last night about 10
O'Clock by vociferous shouting and loud
talking in the tented campground of the
imported Celestials, near Ching
Wung's laundry. The cause of this un-
usual occurrence was readily ascertained
by the curious ones Of our population
who did not already know what the
commotion was ali about and cared to
90 close enough to the point Of attack.
OF course there was no real attack, as
the word implies in the psrlance OF war,
but the way the six Chinese fruit pack
ers employed by Cook & Langley
crouched and trembled as they were
brought into the mystic circle of men
might have created the impression that
the Celestisls had severe attack OF
fear and despair.
There were possibly 80 men who made
tbs raid on the Cinnamon. The masked
and unmarked raiders seemed to have
come from all directions. They assem-
bled by prearrsngement early In the
evening and bold their council of war
at the stock yards south of the Southern
Pacific depot. At O'Clock or soon
thereafter the Cinnamon quit their
work at the Southern Pacific warehouse
and started for their tents In the north
part OF town. The crowd soon followed,
and Immediately after arriving at
the camp ordered the Cinnamon
to "etack arms and take posi-
tions inside the circle drawn up by
the callers. The Cinnamon hastily
obeyed. They were then told that they
must break camp at once and walk to
Los Angeles that night. After some
little delay the portable camp was in
motion, and up the railroad track the
Celestials started, looking neither to the
right nor left, but ever keeping their
almond eyes fixed on the electric lights
few miles ahead. They were escorted
by the raiders for long distance up the
track, but were assured time and again
that it was not the purpose of the raid
ers to harm the Cinnamon. What was
wanted, and what was meant to be done,
was the riddance of the routed men, to
give way to white laborers. The Mon
goliane took In the gravity Of the situa-
tion quickly enough, and if they swore
any at all it was done in secret to their
god Josh, as the occasion was not op-
perfume for audible joshing.
Eight Cinnamon composed the fruit
packing gang proper, but when the en-
gagement first opened two of them dis
appeared as suddenly and mysteriously
as if the earth had swallowed them.
The white boss and another white
man hired a buggy and drove to Los
Angeles later in the night, presumably
to secure another gang. They returned
at 4 O'Clock this morning without other
help, but gave out the impression that1
new gang would arrive from Los Angeles
on the o'clock train this afternoon, but
they did not naterialize.
This morning women, some seven in
number, were put to work packing the
pears at cents box-the price paid to
the routed Cinnamon. A number of
white men applied for a job, but the
boss or foreman would not give them
work. There seems to be a grievance
against the foreman because of his harsh
epithets towards the raiders, but it is
hoped that no serious troubles will re-
suit. Last night he barely escaped be-
ing thrown in the slough, and it is said
that he had to publicly retract the state
ment that "a Chinamsn is better than
white man."
The pear crop, which is very large. is
ripening rapidly, and must be packed
and shipped at once, or the damage will
be considerable. 1t is believed that by
tomorrow ample facilitieS will be pro-
yided for the handling of the fruit by
Cook & Longley, but 1t will probably
Ia -ba do Mo-, "a
women from Los Angeles may be en-
ployed, which will not be objected to
here.
The feeling against the Chinese in
Compton is generally very bitter. Last
nights occurrence has been the subject
of animated discussions on the streets
and highways all day today. There is a
variety of opinions concerning the affair,
but so far as your correspondent has
been able to learn those who condemn
the act are very few in comparison with
those who either applaud or withhold
censure. The sentiment here is almost
universal that the Chinese are here on
the coast without the sanction of law,
and are, therefore, not entitled to it's
protection.
Judging from what your correspondent
he ard today, the next raid in this section
will be against the Chinese berrypickers
over at Gardena.
Everything was quiet at and around
Campton early this evening. The
laundryman was given until the 1st Of
September to leave Compton, and he
thinks he'll move 'heap belle quick"
ANOTHER VERSION.
COMPTON, Aug. 22.-The nti-Chinsse
wave is sweeping the Mongolians before
it here, and Chinese are things of the
past in Compton, il is almost safe to say
forever, for the citizens are determined
to keep the community clear of them in
the future.
There is only one Chinaman left in
town and he runs laundry. He has
his orders to move on, and will do 30 as
soon as he can return the clothes he has
at the laundry.
The places vacated by the Cinnamon
by the deportation last night were filed
this morning by women and girls. The
packing company can get all the white
help they need without any inconveni-
ence or loss OF time.
The celestials were marched out two
abreast aa far aa Lynwood and made to
swear that they would never again set
foot in Compton and were turned loose.
No violence whatever was INDUCED in.
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