The San Francisco call., 1899-02-11
BOMBS AND EGGS
MAY RESULT IN A
BLOODY STRUGGLE
Highbinders Disturb a
Performance.
WILD PANIC IN A THEATER
CELESTIAL ACTORS sHoWERED
WITH ovoID MISSILES.
Police Suspend Much-Abused Free
List at the Jackson-Street
Temple Of Art With
Dire Results.
CELESTIAL ACTORS SHoWERED
WITH OVOID MISSILES.

The simultaneous explosion OF two bam-
boo bombs and a dozen eggs OF the vim
tage of "a in the Jackson street Theater,
last night, drove the thousand or more
Celestials who were celebrating the New
Year by q visit to the playhouse pell-mell
from the theater in search OF a fumigant,
and caused stop to be put to the drama
until the actors could remove the odor
that had been served to them.
Highbinders are supposed to be respon-
sible for the disturbance created. and it
is probable that some arrests will be
made to-day, If the culprits are not put
to death in the meantime by their out
ragged countrymen. When Lieutenant
Price took charge of the Chinatown dis
trict the highbinders, and not the owners
OF the theater, seemed to be conducting
the place. They entered and left the play
house at will without even the formality
of presenting pass. The lieutenant sus-
pended the free list, and since that time
all highbinders have looked alike to the
doorkeeper. Last night three members of
the Suey Sing Tong, presented themselves
at the door Of the theater and calmly no
titled the man in charge that they guessed
they would see the play without paying.
The doorkeeper informed them that they
had another guess coming, and q police
man escorted them to the street.
Shortly after this occurrence two bombs
were exploded in front of the stage by
pdTIeS, VINO ESCAPED Dy the L lSu dley ell
trance, but it is believed by the police that
the guilty ones are members of the Suey
Sings sent into the theater by the men
who were refused admittance. The ex-
plosion of the bombs was a signal for
other highbinders in the gallery, who i'm
mediately began a bombardment of the
actors with choice collection Of eggs
that ripened long ago. The Celestial
Thespians fed, seeking refuge behind the
scenes, but they took with them an evil
odor, while their gaudy raiment had as
sumed several new and striking hues.
Pandemonium reigned in the theater
after the explosion of the bombs. Think
ing that another murder had been COM
mitted the audience arose as one man
and made for the doors. The police were
on the scene almost as soon as the re-
port of the exploding bomb was heard,
and finding nothing serious had occurred
forced the thoroughly frightened China
men back into the theater and ordered the
management to proceed with the play.
The drama, however, was lame and halt
ing after that. There were bitches that
Jared on the supercritical audience, for
no theater-goer can admire hero who
half StrangleS every time he gets a sniff
of himself, or sincerely grieves with a
heroine who let's her blind sister perish
in the burning factory while she digs
neck.
So 1t is only natural that those disap-
pointed theater-goerS should scorn the
proffered aid of the barbarian police and
joyment on their own hook. A week or
a month in jail would be no punishment
for the Notwithstanding short of death
would fit their crime, so it is likely that
the morning sun will break upon long
rows of defunct Suey Sings corded up
along Jackson street, ready for the
Morgue wagon and a newly dug hole in
the City Cemetery.