New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-19
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STRIFE IN CHINATOWN.
TIE BITTER RIVALRY BETWEEN THE SEE
YuP AND THE SING YUP.
EVEN THE JossHousEs HOSTILE CAMPs-AP-
PEAi-s TO THE CHINESE CONSUL AND
PRESIDENT RoosEvELT-THE POLICE

H'EN THE JOsSHOuSES HOSTILE cAMPs-AP-
PEAIs TO THE CHINESE CONSUL AND
PRESIDENT RoosEvELT-THE POLICE
CANNOT INTERFERE AT PRESENT.
Society in Chinatown is aroused and the beating
of tom-toms and the bare OF the wsrhorns have
drawn the faithful TO their own particular stand
ards from under whose bedragoned and sacred
folds they hurl defiance The cloak OF philosophy
and calm fatalism has been thrown off and the
shrill cries from Celestial threats which are
reverberating in the neishborhood OF Doyers and
Mott SITS. tell OF deepseated feeling within oriental
breasts
Chinatown a city in itself is often torn by inter-
ma, feuds OF which the despised Christian knows
nothing but the present war is OF NJ small mo-
ment-indeed important is 1T that the josshouses,
the aboies OF the sacred Celestial gods and the
much esteemed dragon. arrayed against one
another is Tammany against municipal
reform.
That weird and mysterious organization known as
the Highbinders whose influence every Chinaman
respects and fears is original OF the FER
mentaton. Two powerful societies are the control
ling infuer ces In that centre Of Celestial life n
New-York The moro powerful is See iup. the
Four Sections. Highblnders. and the weaker pa
tons Everyihins is divided INTO sections in Chinese
social life. and If the Mclean man doesn duiSny
interfere this may be equally true OF chinese anal,
omee See Yup has the prestige. and Is composed
of Chinese as ws nqe9 a. IL 5n,
opu' eri and lacks the boated pride of its rival
Both societies are composed OF merchants. and the
Sing Yups complain that the more aristocrauc sns
Yups are controlling the trade, and fr!ghten Gus
toners from their Ohe Sing iupsl weL-illed shops,
Breathing vengeance, the Sing lups told thelr
grievance to their Consul, Hsu Nal kwang VINO
confronted by representatives of the rival facuohs
prudenty decided to call in the aid OF Police Heau-
quarters President Roosevelt had hard tough
nut to crack when Mr.. Hsu Nal kwang placed the
matter before him yesterday. He was asked to
place the club above the dragon. and with his blue
coats throw the Hghbinders their seals ana para
phernalia to the four winds OF the heavens Inc
president of the Police Board pondered long over
the trouble, and called in Acting Chlei comm aiia
together they pondered still further They MADE y
an abstract matter--a OF tweedledee ana
tweediedum-and eventually decided that II
tweedledee did not perform an overt act asaiinst
tveedledum then tweedledum had no case against
tveedledee. 1t ordered. .
This was TOO much for Oriental wisdom, ana tne
wanderers from the F.owery Kingdom filed sadly
from the Office OF the young Solomon, judged out
not appeased 49,, $1,000 - A.
So the tonl-toms still keep up their cater ana the
rival gods still glare defiance from their CLASSY
eyes. ~. l,o.a
of tweedledum. the police of the r:lzabetn-st sta-
ton are on the lookout. and the Highbinders may
vet be humbled in the dust. The standards sun
float from the rival battlements and Chinatown IL
an armed camp.