The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-07
OFF TO FIGHT THE HATED JAP.

me First Company, OntneSe volunteers
Departs-Seventy-fve Able-Bodied
Celestials on their Way Home,
Armed with Bass Drums,
Large-BOre Tubas, Fiery
Rain, Bombs, and
Skyrockets
The Jap might as well yield grace
fully as to COrea
With SEVERAL big bass drums, some
very formidable large bore tubas, three
cases of fiery rain, a large number of
bombs, and several gross of skyrockets,
seventy five able-bodied determined
Cinnamon started from the Grand Cen
trail Station last evening bound for
China, via Montreal and Vancopvel
These seventy five Chipamel. ~t,h
their terrOr-insplring baggage, aIs sup
posed to form the first company Of the
first regiment of volunteers from the
Chinese colony in this city and Brook
Ign, to aid the mother country in her
present little difficulty.
Chinatown was in a state Of great
excitement yesterday. For several
days there had been rumors In the tea
shops, fan tan resorts, and opium joints
that a regiment was being organized to
return to the Flowery Kingdom and
offer its services to the Emperor to
fight the Japs.
Little strips of red fire cracker paper
bearing notices which Cinnamon said
we're war like, appeared on the bulle-
tin boards outside the josshcuse, and
In other convenient places, informing
those willing to fight where they could
enroll.
Slight credence was placed in the re-
port, however, and when q reporter
spoke about it to Sun Kwong On, the
wealthy merchant at 81 Mott street, he
declared he wouldn't give q pound of
tea who won the fight. If the g was
any movement on foot to raise soldiers
for the Chinese Army, it would natur-
ally start among the Black Flags, and
he knew nothing about it.
The rumOr, however, resolved itself
into fact yesterday morning, when
Kwong Gwen Ok, who was formerly q
shirt ironer in a laundry in Van Brunt
street, Brooklyn, presented himself,
followed by seventy four other stall
wart Celestiais, at the house of the
Chief Joss, 4 Mott street, and wanted
to make sacrifice for a safe journey to
Shanghai.
KwoDg Gwen Ok led his company
into the house of the great painted tin
Joss, where, in a brazier of bleziDg
charcoal, he and his followers for three
hours made burned Offering of chickens
| feet and ROSTERS wattles. Before leav-
the pss house they fell on their faces
and invoked the curse of Heaven on
all their enemies.
The followers of Kwong Gwen Ok,
when they returned to the street, found
it crowded with jabbering Cinnamon.
The men who had been sacrificing to
the Joss separated, some of them hold
ing receptions at the establishment Of
Tuck High, 10 Mott street, others at
Quong Sun Wah's, 80 Mott street; Sang
Chong's, % Mott street, and at other
4 places. Every Chinaman on the street
wantedto bid Joss-speed to the brave
men who were gg5SEag so far to fight the
enemies Of their fatherland.
Four large express vans were driven
into Mott street at II a, M. They weEs
soon loaded with the baggage of Kwong
Gwen Ok and his men, and were driven
away to the Grand Central Station.
Soon after the vans had gone a pro-
cession of hacks and cabs began to pass
into Mott street, and Cinnamon with
fierce visages and war like determine
tions in their bias cut eyes climbed in.
Each had a valise which took all his
strength to carry. All the afternoon
until the shades of evening the China
men sat in their carriages in Mott
street, each carriage being the centre
of an excited group. Just as dusk fell
f~recrackers were thrown into the street
in front of QUong Tuck Lungs at IL
Mott street, and a procession of cabs
and hacks, each having four Cinnamon
inside and one on the box with the
driver, started for the Grand Central
Station by way of Mott and Bayard
streets, the Bowery, and Fourth avenue.
AS the procession passed through the
Chinese quarter cheers greeted it.
Roman candles and irecrackers fixed,
and red fire filed the sky with a glare.
Hundreds of Cinnamon rushed for
the elevated railroad trains and the sur
face cars which took them to the Grand
Central, where they wished their com
patriots a safe journey and confusion
to the hated Jap.-Ne1O York Times.