Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-11-09

CAPTURING A CONTRABASD CHINANAN.
 arrived Chinamen are housed until they secure employment in Canada or accom- plish the secret object of every Celestial in the Dominion, which consists in making his way into Uncle Sam's terri tory. His almond eyed brother perhaps has written to him from New York or
 Boston and told wonderful tales of the almighty dollars that come rolling in at his little washee-washee shop and of the shekels that accumulate in a night at properly conducted opium joint
 All this tends 10 cause the Chinaman in Canada. where there is no prohibitiys legislation against his importation, to attempt to break across the border by hook or by crook and join his kindred of the ffatiron and the opium pill in some one of the great American cities The consequence Is that Montreal is the base of operations fur great deal of Chinamen smuggling, and, despite all that MT. Patrick Egan and the United States officials along the international line can do. each year hundreds of the undesirable orientals must manage to make their unauthorized way into the
 United States. It has even been hinted that the Canadian Pacific railway itself co operates with these Chinamen and is not averse to assisting them into the Eden of the laundry shop
 But there is no evidence to prove that the c. P. R. follows such an obviously shortsighted policy. In fact, the rail way authorities, as soon as an oriental reaches their territory, secure a photo graph and a concise description of him, for the railway itself has to put up bond of $50 for each new Chinaman brought into the Dominion. They main tain that most of these travellers from the east are Chinamen who have been in America before and are simply re. turning to that country after a home visit in the Land of the Chrysanthemum.
 But the persons who are genuinely engaged in Chinese smuggling are sev- eral gangs of interruptions characters who find their vocation an extremely profitable one. The regulation fee for each Chinaman secretly transported in- to the United States is sac For work of this character they are in no wise amenable to the Canadian authorities and carry ou their business right under the impOtent nose, so to speak, of the police of Montreal. But their day of judgment comes, of course, when they are once caught in American territory.
 Owing to the alertness of the United States oEe als along the line these smugglers Ind 1t necessary to resort to all manner of unique artifices in order to get their lemon complexioned pro teges into Uncle Sam's country. Last winter one smuggler was arrested in 1 Vermont with Chinaman in a sleep l ing car. The Chinsman was disguised | as a woman and had entered the sleeper | at Montreal, heavily yelled, without ex- | citing the suspicion of any of the rail- l way officials. A few weeks before this | a member of the same gang of snug l glers had been caught with an oriental | disguised as a bride and attempting to use the telltale veil. Sometimes a batch | of half dozen of these undesirable i'm | are ferried over the St. Law renee where that river constitutes the international boundary and are then driven to one of the northern Vermont towns, where they take train for their actual destination.
 Previous to his clandestine migration into the United States the Chinaman does not live as a homeless outcast in Montreal. That city is swarming with his pigtailed brethren, and they seem to have appropriated Lagauchetiere street as their own individual property. Along this narrow little thoroughfare one can see dozens of their homes, tea houses, laundry shops and joints where one can find a diminutive "Gate of a Sorrows" inside each doorway. Here one can see frequenters enjoying the acrid white liquor and the little opium pellets that stand for dissipation n the oriental mind. As a rule, he is troubled very little by the Montreal 'ivic authorities. In fact, it is not ,very one in Montreal who realizes the Iast number of Chinamen hidden away D the darker and less frequented streets Fl f that strange old Canadian city.
 ARTHUR J. SPRINGER