The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-27
CHINATOWN'S BANQUET.
New York Celestials Celebrate Tam
manY's Victory.

New York, Nov. 27.-From shutdown
last night till almost daylight this
morning PeI' Doyers' Mott ana Mul-
berry streets echoed with the rattle
and crash of thousands of firecrackers.
! the squeak of one-stringed ViOlins and
the rum-te-tum of tomtOms.
Chinatown was celebrating Tamma-
ny's victory
1t may have been little 5elated, but
it was uprOariOuSly enthusiastic. The
leading merchants of the Chinese quar-
ter had united in tending a banquet to
the leaders of the incoming Democrat
ic administration at the Chinese res
taurant, No. p Pel street. They fol-
lowed it up with a theater party at
the Chinese theater, Nos. 5 and DOy-
ers street; a pilgrimage to the joss
house at No. 10 Mott street, and an in
cantatiOn and reception at the Chinese
Free MaSonS hall, No. 16 PeH street.
1t was a stag party, with one excep-
ton. The father of little Miss Chu
Que, a merchant of PeH street. named
Chu Wing Yen, had a place at the table
of honor for his only child and heiress
She enjoyed the admiration bestowed
upon her hugely, and chirrupped and
pointed to the red and green parrot
perched on one of the miniature palm
trees that marked off the spaces at
the table.
When the balcony on the third floor
resembled a miniature battlefield, all
cory with the red papers from yards
and yards of exploded frecrackerS and
the noise in the street drowned all con-
rooms,
she clapped her hands and twisted her
wondrously wrought red, blue, gray
and yellow sash and cried to her father
to have more crackers set off.
The hosts of the occasion were
Chang PaO Hsi, the Chinese consul;
Lui Wing, the vice consul; Chung Yuk
Chun, the mayor of Chinatown; Chu
FOng, the head of the Merchants aSSo-
evening dress and looked like Bourke
Cochran; Joe En- Singleton. the inter
prefer; Sue Chung Chew, another court
interpreter; Lee Que Hen, Guam Yep
Chin, Lee Yen Ngnig, Chu Young, Lau
Ding, Jung Hong Sou, Chu Yee Lon
Dick Que, Chu Kin Ngeng, Chu Ying
Yen and Lee Yick Ngeu.
They had as their guests Edgar Sal
tus, eX-Judge Joseph Koch, Secretary
Leary, of the park board: Judge JO-
seph Stiner, Judge CfOIdfOgIe Maurice
McAdam, NJ. Ovid Dupre, of the French
consulate; Police Captain 8Ieal<im Sen
ator Jacob Cantor, Assemblyman Sin
Shelmef, COunclIman-eIectH Henry G.
Hart ex-Street Cleaning Commissioner
w. S. Andrews, Charles L. Andrews
ex-Alderman Long, E. NJ. CastellO Ed
ward Jacobs and Robert Reynolds.
Judge Van Wyck was expected, but
found at the last minute that he could
not attend.
over the guest table a big floral
horse shoe, Tabled ''Welcome-Tam-
many" was suspended and autographs
of Judge Van Wyck We're wreathed in
bay leaves and placed on mirrors at
intervals around the hall An OrcheS-
ira of three pieces extracted Chinese
harmony from wood, catgut and sheep
skin for an hour before the food was
served. A violin Obligato on one string
after the maner of Paganini was rap
turOuSly applauded by the Oriental and
Occidental guests.
The guests tried with varying sue
cess to pick up the gi mon gon Chicken
deliciOusly cooked with maccaroni, with
the long ivory chop-sticks, until they
saw Gnu Lee, jolly merchant with an
aldermanic paunch grinnfng as he
calmly plunged his four-tined American
fork into the decorated saucer and ex-
tract the tOOthSOme mOrSelS in that
way, while they had been juggling the
tidbits in the air in vain efforts to get
them to their lips.
The imported Chinese mushrooms
were easier to manipulate, and the can
died fruit, fragrant blends of tea and
"heady' rice wine were handled with
out any embarrassment.
About 10 o'clock a phOtOgra pher came
in and took f1ashlight picture of the
scene, and then the party strolled over
to the Chinese theater. Here another
photograph was taken, and some few
acts of the long drawn out drama We're
interpreted for their deIectatiOn, while
4 fresh and vigorous orchestra renewed
some Wagnerian strains
At midnight, or therea bouts, the
sumptuOus joss house around the cor
ner on Mott street was visited. With
the scent of the sweet smelling incense
still lingering in their nostriIs, those of
the party whose digestion held out and
whose tympanums were stiu whole
went around to the mysterious resort
where the inscrutable rites Of the Chi
nese Free Masons are observed
BY TINS time it was 3 o'clock. and
many of the strangers in Chinatown
were in doubt whether yin she had not
been served in the form of No 6 pills
as the first course, and they were wan
derinS around in a real dope dream.
Pearys Go to Europe.
New York, Nov. 27.-Lieutenant r. E.