The age-herald., 1900-12-23
CHAN IS KING IF
 CHINESE GAMBLERS Has Made a MiI|on-WinS a For tune Daily in Fan Tan and Pi
 GoW-PoIitical Ambition

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 Chan Chung, the king of Chinese
 gamblers. who has made more than
 $1,000,000 running games in San Fran
 cisco, is a man of more than ordinary
 intelligence. He has code of morals
 quite different from that of occidental
 civilization, and therefore he does not
 consider that his fortune has been made
 by dishonorable means. Since the death
 of Little Pete, the most notorious China
 man of his class on the Pacific coast,
 Chan Chung has great success in in-
 creasing his income, although within
 the last few months he has closed six
 fan-tan games and two lotteries.
 Chan Chung is the descendant of 8
 wealthy family His father and grand father were sugar kings in China and owned thirteen factories. When he came to the United States Chan brought $2O,000 with him, and that formed a nucleus for the fortune that he has since accumulated. He is studying American conditions and institutions, and 1t is his ambition to return to China and engage in secret political work In talking about himself he said recently: q been here in this country twenty six years. have lots trouble, but get along. make and spend lots money.
 I spend, maybe, more than million dol
 lars finding out your habits and cus' toms. Find out all what you do; how you do business in courts; how you run your government how you trade and
 live; how you do in your homes. have big book that thick all about back to China eighteen months from now and take book along for secret use. Only 22O Chinamen out of 100000, 900 very secret. Just like secret society. "Bime-by-I think two years-we are
 going to have meeting. Only one other meeting in 4000 years; that was $50 years ago, about, and then whole prov ince turned over in one night, and so
 many, many people killed. Whole em- \ pire turn over.
 We have very, very secret society. Hard to find man you can trust. Not one man, probably, in 100000 Probably
 my head go off, my money all go-I no care; care for my own name. That's the kind of man I am.
 Chan Is a Merchant.
 q come San Francisco and stay one
 week. Then go San Jose and stay four years. Go in dry goods business. make plenty money Sena $40,000 home to my mother. I come to San Francisco broke. My mother she sent me $30,000. For long time had two, sometimes three, stores. have three good stores now.
 "About fourteen years ago l first
 opened up club. first go to my people and say: What for you be highbinders and kill each other in United States? What for you no go work?' I try to teach them something. They say: No
 can go work; nobody want us; you start
 up club and we go work for you
 "All right, start club. put man in work for me-make him work two
 hours day first week; then four hours
 second week; six hours third week.
 Bime-by, when man been there about eight weeks, make him work fourteen
 hours day. Then I say to him: I have to give work to some other man; you better go work on farm He say: All right. you get me place.. write to foreman of farm and he give him place--work first eight hours day, then next week nine, next week ten, because if man work too hard and too long at . first he quit and go back to be high hjpders and stoolpigeons. In this way