The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-10
They Burn A Paper-Mache Devil in
 Portland.

The second incineration of the Chi nese devil occurred on Second and Ald- CT streets at o'oclcok this morning. His majesty's ashes were carefully picked up and carried away, and now only few blackened paving stones re- main to mark the spot where once the proud form of the spirit of evil lowered majestically over the crowd of admir- ing heathens.
 At 1 o'clock this morning active and industrious Chinamen poured forth in streams from every nook and corner of their irregular residences and com menced the crusade against the evil one.
 On both sides of the street for a block great fires were kindled at inter- vals of a rod, and two still larger fires blazed in the middle of the street at enther end of the alley of flame thus formed. Swarms of Celestials heaped fuel on these fires and other swarms laid behind eanch one a mat, on which was placed coal oil can containing blazing piles of sacred papers, dust pans full of crackers and apples, and tins filled with sand and stuck full of red candles and punks. At each mat sat solitary Celestial, chucking pa- pers into the coal oil can and feeding the larger fire, adding an occasional apple or cracker, to appease the wrath which the devil might naturally be ex- pected to possess at this deliberately laid plan to cremate him. The per- sonage himself occupied a huge papier- mache effigy made in his likeness, and it would be hard to imagine hime more evil looking than he was thus repre- sented. A stand had been erected for this effigy, and stood at the south end of the block. At the other end, suffi- ciently far removed to keep away all contagion of evil, was another and larger stand containing miniature joss house. Here were three priests in red robes, two in blue and a small boy, al- so in blue, whose duty it seemed to be to continually light papers on a candle in front of him, and cast the flaming sheets to the ground, to his own infi- mite delight and the imminent peril of his flowing neither garments. In the music stand were also several muSi- clans, who discoursed sounds hideous enough to reconcile the devil at the oth- CT end of the block to death by fire or any other way, if he could only escape the music
 The priest chanted, the Chinese fed the fire and the band played on, till 4 o'clock, when some one seized the devil, carried him twice down the line between the fires and then heaved him on a pyre prepared especially for the purpose, where he crackled merrily un- til the last of his obnoxious form curl ed and wreathed in smoke over the roofs of the dwellings of his subjects.
 Then ensued grand scramble for two tubs of holy water, which stood at each end of the block. Whoever got one of these when they had been duly blessed came in for unbounded good luck the rest of the year, but the priests intended to reserve them for them- selves, so each was guarded by po- liceman who approached the tubs with intent to take, steal and carry away the same.
 One tub was taken before it was blessed, but it was generally conceded that this brought no good luck. The other was blessed in the regulation way. In a scrimmage over it the wa ter was upset and the tub was cast on the flames and destroyed. So the Chi naman who covets a lead pipe cinch or good luck will have to defend his an- bitions another year. This perform ance will be repeated at this season in 1S97 It was witnessed by a great number of Chinese and a few white people of owlish tendencies.
 At o'clock this morning every ves- tige of the festivities, save a few flakes of charred tissue paper, had been re- moved, and no one passing through would have supected that he was on the scene of the orgies just described.- The Portland Oregonian.