Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-29
INSPECTION or CHINESE.
one scharf Inspires False Statements
Sing Bow, an interpreter, Coming Here.


seeking admission into the United states
through the customs district of Vermont, |
the services of an interpreter have become
necessary, and at the request of Collector
Smalley, Mr.. Sing Bow has been assigned
to duty i'll that capacity at this port Mr.
Bow comes here from New York
An item which appeared in the Boston
Herald and other papers and which it is sur
missed was inspired by one Scharf, a Chinese
inspector stationed AT New York. has the
above fact as basis of truth while the bal
ance of the article, which stated that hundreds
OF Cinnamon had been brought into this dis
trct through Montreal by Chinese agents
who are operating i'll Boston, has very little,
if any, foundation SO far as can be seen
from an examination of the methods of do
ing business here In the article also was
this. when the Chinese who are entitled to
enter the country. under the exclusion law,
reach Montreal, they have photographs
taken. They send the photographs along,
with minute descriptions and personal pecu-
liaiities of themselves, to the smuggling
agents in Boston. The agents put all these
facts in atIidavits, by means e which they
are enabled to have men identify the Chinese
laborers as merchants and pass them at Bur
lington.n And the statement that the gov
eminent has discovered that large numbers
of Chinese laborers. l. e. Chinese laundry
men, are being smuggled Into the nitcd
States via Montreal and Burlington, is
false
Special Agent Converse j. Smith OF Bos
ton has recently made "A careful eXamina-
tion of the district of Vermont to see wheth
er or not there was any truth in the charges
made by Mr.. Scharf, aud after very care
full examination Mr. Smith has made a re
port in which he says that the eXamina-
ton Of Chinese entering this district is con
Quoted in most thorough and careful man
ner. that he sees no evidence Of any fraud.
and in fact says he cannot see how the eX-
animation conld be improved upon.
Scharf has charged every official whom
he has come in contact with both in New
York and Vermont, with fraud. incompet-
ency and inefficiency. He commenced
with gross and mcalled for at
| tack upon Collector Hendricks, and
| followed it up by attacking Collector
! Kilbreth, and the deputy collectors aud Off
| GERS in charge Of the Chinese business in
| New York. He also attacked Collector
Benedict while be was collector Of this dis
! tlict. and has followed it up by a series of
attacks upon Collector Smalley. and each
! time his assertions were found to be untrue.
| 1t is understood that Scharf has very little
| TO do in New York and devotes most of his
time to pouring his griefs into the ears of
any one who will have his complaints
! printed.
The method of examining Chinese in the
| Vermont district, as was found upon inqui-
ry, is substantially as follows: The papers
! of all Cinnamon desiring to como into the
United States through this district, are first
| 1l,t,ntt Tod fln aptn Of
and are carefully examined 10y
his special deputy, Gen. Greenleaf,
who has such matters in charge, and if the
names of the person OF persons de-
string admission are found on the
list of members of the firm to which
they claim to belong large number
of which are on file in the collectors office,
and the firm has been found on investiga-
ton to be a bona hde mercantile concern.
and the witnesses who certify that they
know them to be merchants have been ex-
amined by special agents of the treasury de-
partment and reported as worthy of belief,
the general passenger agent of the railway
company which brings the Cinnamon from
Vancouver is informed that tine men may
be brought to the frontier for identitica-
ton The papers of the Cinnamon are then
sent to Richford the frontier port, and the
deputy collector in charge al that port, to-
gether with the Chinese Inspector OH duty in
the district, are directed to make a careful
examination of the men aud If found tc
agree with their papers in all respects 70 ad
nit them. If they do not So agree, or any
suspicious are entertained regarding thcir
identity, the men are returned to Montreal,
and their papers returned to the collector
In case any question arises a, to the China
mon being merchants or regarding the cred