The San Francisco call., 1897-01-27

ers walked over all this route to Post
street, where they were lifted into COW
cred express wagons, and in that shape,
signifying their sorrow, were carried to
the cemetery.
There the crush was almost as great as
it had been in the City.
The Sam Yup cemetery is little patch
of ground adjoining the Jewish cemetery
at the further limits of Richmond. The
purpose of going there was not to inter
the body, but only to complete the funeral
ceremony, for afterward the body vas
ia ken back to the undertaker's, there to
remain some time and be finally sent to
China.
The road leading to the cemetary was
darkened for mile by people who fol-
lowed the slow procession. They came
by streetcar, on bikes and by private con-
veyance, and when the hearse drew up at
the gate. the platform provided for the
casket and the mourners and the priest
had already been pre-empted. A mounted
policeman rode into the mass before it
would disperse. At one end of the plat
form was an immense table, and upon
this was spread the roast pigs and sheep,
poultry, trays of rice and of tea and gin.
that weighted down several wagons in
| their transportation.
The casket was put in place, and the
mourners took their places about it, and
were so pressed upon by the crowd as to
be scarcely able to retain their places.
The bonfire that makes part of the cere-
mony had to be lit at a considerable dis
oIip had ho
monuments that flank the place and
broke down some trees in the neighbor-
hood, trying to hang on to the branches.
The ceremony was shortened on this ac-
count.
Then came the most remarkable scene
of all. Immediately upon the removal of
the casket to the hearse again and the
withdrawal of the mourners to their bag
gace-wagon, the crowd developed into q
mob and made rush npon the table
filled with meats. 4 woman started it.
She wanted souvenir of the funeral of
Little Pete and, stepping forward, took
one of the little vessels that make part
! of the spread. The crowd yelled and in
two minutes the table was swept clear of
the more portable things.
A man picked up dish of rice and
threw it over the crowd, creating panic.
I The mounted policeman, who had ridden
away, escorting the mourners, hearing
the noise, returned in time to see four
men dragging away the carcass of e
roast hog. He dashed through the crowd.
overlook and compelled them to carry it
back again. amid the boots of the crowd.
Thus ended the public funeral service of
Little Pete. The throng struggled back
to town, carrying with it a sense OF hav-
ing been well entertained.
For three days the widow will make
lamentations at the undertaking estab-
| lishment, and then the body will he
placed III a receiving vault at Laurel Hill
until, the estate having been settled up,
it will be sent to China, and widow and
children Will 60 with it.
The Chinese New Year will begin on
Monday. 1t has been stated that the
widow of Little Pete has expressed will
lingness to go home during the trst
month of the new year. taking with her
but $4,000 and that she wishes tie re-
mainder used in paying legal fees, funeral
expenses and costs of settling up affairs in
general, but principally to be used in the
detection, arrest and prosecution of her
husbands murderer.