The herald., 1897-04-08

Su1Sned CeleStldlS, TepTtStnti'S thS oS'
Yup society of San Francisco. who are
here on a mission to Minister Yang Yu
Their facility for keeping themselves
in evidence is remarkable. Wherever you
go, there are staring, round-eyed Sec
Yups, in gorgeous silken attire. doing
the town in company with resident Ce-
lestials-at the white House, in the cap
itol. in carriages. on foot, even in pie
bean street cars; and, like their great
countryman, Lii Hung Chang. each is
an animated Interrogation point. They
| are all rich men, among the leadinS
! Chinese merchants of San Francisco
4 and members of the powerful See fup
society. 1t seems that the wealthiest
Cinnamon of the Pacific coast are di-
vided into two societies. the See Yups
and the Sam Yups. and between them
/ rivalry waxed so strong and bitter that
no end of trouble has ensued. For some
time the See Yups had the best of it,
until the Sam Yups gained the favor OF
Mr.. Fung Yung Hang, Chinese consul
| in San Francisco, when matters became
more tangled up than ever. The consul
employed some private detectives
(Amerlcans) to shadow the See Yups,
and finally to break into their quarters
and destroy several thousands of dollars
worth of property. The See Yups in
voked the aid of the California state law
for the protection of their property.
prosecuted the detectives and landed the
chief of the agency in jail. They Sc
cured an order from Judge Mckenna.
who was then on the United States
circuit bench, restraining the Chinese
consul from interfering further with the
members of their society. and also boy
cotting the Sam Yups, thereby causing
them great financial injury Then the
Sam Yups played a trump card. Through
the Chinese consul they reported their
side of the story to Minister Yung Yu at
Washington, who in due course laid the
whole business. so far as he knew it. be-
fore the emperor of China. Thereupon
his Celestial highness. according to the
cheerful custom of his country, slashed
off the heads of few coolies. treated
some of his courtiers to baths in boil
ing oil, arrested all of the relatives of
the leading See Yups in China and con-
flscated their property, and issued the
terrible ukase that should any See Yur
venture to return to the Elowery king
dom he should be diminished in stature
exactly by the length of head. Among
the innocent relatives in peril of decap-
itation are the four sons of Lee Took.
one of the richest among the visitors
TO Washington 1t is TO save the necks
of their kinsmen without paying to the
emperor their weight in gold to soothe
his lacerated feelings that these multi
are lltlC, Will Tie
minister to intercede in their behalf.
THEY VISIT THE LEGATION.
Their visit to the legation of the Golden
DraSon yesterday was revelation in
the matter of Chinese etiquette to half
dozen journalists--your correspondent
among the umber-who managed to get
inside. The ten rich merchants, in silken
garb so gorgeous that the Queen of She
ba would have turned green with envy
could she have beheld them, with their
several interpreters and attaches, fell
fiat upon their faces. in true Oriental
fashion, the instant they entered the
minister's presence. Mr.. Yang Yu, dark
and sinister, the expansive smile so IA
miliar in Washington society all gone
from his fat countenance, sat in solemn
state and much bedragoned brocade on
an elevated dais in the throne room. He
did not remark to his visiting country
men, as you or would have done Get
up, gentlemen, and be seated" and so
the luckless See Yups had TO remain
PROSTATE, full length on the floor, during
the entire interview, only raising their
faces just high enough to articulate
when addressing the minister AS none
of them speak the same dialect as Mr..
Yu the conversation had to be carried
on through interpreters, which prolong-
ed the interview unconscionably until
the backs of the spectators ached for the
millionaires, abased two long hours in
the dust. OF course we could not under
stand a word that was said in either
Chinese dialect; but through Mr.. j. c.
Campbell of San Francisco, attorney for
the delegation, we learned that the See
Yups informed the minister of injuries
received at the hands of the Sam Yups,
and that through the unjust misrepre-
sentation of the last named order, they,
the innocent See Yups, found themselves
in serious trouble. both at home and
abroad and they begged his Serene
Highness to intercede with the emperor
to remove from them the ban of his dis
pleasure.
A BIG CHINESE BANQUET
Last night a famous banquet was
given to the visitors by Tuck Cheong
& Co.. the leading Chinese merchants of
Washington, in the rear of their store on
Pennsylvania avenue. The strip of red
bunting which waved in front of the
place advertised to the resident Chinese
world what was going to happen, and
never was business so brisk with Tuck
Cheong & Co All day long. and all
night, too, the neighborhood was swarm
ing with pig-tails and parti-colored cos
tunes. for the instant the humbest
washerman beheld that scarlet sym Dol
he bethoCght himself of some pressing
need in the way of merchandise, and
hastened thereto ostensibly to make the
purchase but in reality to feast his OIL
factores on the delightful smells of cook
ing eggs two centuries old, birds nests
stewing for soup, toasting sharks fins,
chop-suey, and other longed-for deli
cacies which this benighted land of their
exile does not supply. But though
multitude crammed the place and de
voured" the feast with eyes and noses.
only fourteen sat down at table. A look
into the interior of the dim. queer store,
and especially a sniff of it's odors. was
Ike taking a peep into the Flowery
ngdom-the throng of admiring loung-
els, the favored few at the feast in gor-
geous robes to which Solomon and all
his glory couldn't hold a candle, each
Oriental nabob. with a skull-cap atop
his queue adorned with the carnelian
button denoting rank The banquet was
served in thirteen courses. the meats and
sweets oddly intermingled, soups, fish
and game being eaten with candies and
Lii Chez nuts. After each course came
wine and tea, or rice brandy in small
bowls; then more tea and more brandy
cigars for the guests and cigarettes for
the multitude, till literally "all was
blue BRIGHAM.