The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
"CHINK" HUSBANDS
For White Women of Certain Class
Who Marry Temporarily.
The DEPARTMENT MONOPOLY.
Forces John Chlnaman 10 Take Dusky Madens
in Washington, but i Is mol so In ChIcagO-Ths
Ghetto Of that City and tho White Wires Of
CsesiaIs-Ths Chicago Way Of Managing
" Chlnk Husbands

w dsuiuB BlOuldubi no uOuDl, are more OF
less noticing the influx of John China
man at the national capital and marvelling
when and where he will stop. A wrte-up
OF Chinatown west of Van Buren street,
along Clark street, and adjacent territory
in the city of Chicago, and known to the
denizens of the Windy City rs the
"Ghetto,' made the writer acquainted
| with phase of Chinese settlement which
may be duplicated in Washington further
along. However, the Washington China
man seems to favor the dusky rather than
the white damsel, as all of the latter class
who are not concubnes in the Govern
ment Departments or living a life of
pleasure" CD In the "Divsion" being
pre-empted, principally by males of their
own color although not exclusively so,
as several madams have dusky lovers
whom they keep in luxury.
But here is how John Chinaman de
velops in Chicago and the kind of wife he
prefers while residing among us, for be it
understood these white damsels know
very well that they are married on the
European plan, after the manner of the
Government Department danes of 'in-
fluence"
Sam Moy, for many years king of Chi
| cago's Chinatown, ,has lost his power and
has been succeeded by dynasty of white
women. 1t is the first time that white
women have ruled Chinese colony, and
the conduct of the Cinnamon is attract
ing considerable attention.
Chinatown consists of gambling houses,
a joss house, restaurants at which chop
suey and birds nests are the delicacies,
tea stores, opium dens, and fancy goods
store rooms. Back of these places are
! interminable corridors with magnifcently
| furnished suites of rooms opening from
them, and these rooms are filled with
| thousands of dollars worth Of hangings,
rugs, and pottery from the Celestial king
| dom.
| Cinnamon are constantly coming into
the colony from New York city and San
| Francisco and it is absolutely necessary
| that there be someone in the colony who
! can reach the city authorities. Arrange.
ments must be made for protecting the
] gambling games and the opium dens from
! the raids, and when n chinaman is az
! rested it is necessary that a lawyer be
secured, that bail bonds be signed and
| that the Chinaman must not get the
worst of il in his encounter with law as
| il is interpreted at the police courts.
Up TO short time ago Sam Moy was
| the go-betNeen. He used to be rich, and
was sent for from Chinese colonies all
| over the country and consulted as arbiter
| in highbiDder and business disputes
among his fellow .coUntrymen. A little
while ago he, in the picturesque language
of the police department, lost his graft. "
Chinatown refused to bow down to him.
He was allowed to iutercede at the sta
tion, but when it came to carry out his
desires in the colony ne was up against a
stone wall. lie looked about him for an
explanation.
In his own words he found that there
"were too many Mclean women"
The identity OF these women who are
strong enough to Overset the influence of
an old ruler among the most conserva-
tive, tradition. bound people on earth, is
naturally of interest. Some of them are
married to Cinnamon. For instance,
May Lee, whose real name was May
Mennan, and who married Sam Lee, the
tea meachant, at the first mixed marriage
held under the Chinese rite in Chicago's
Chinatown, is woman of more than
average intelligence and beauty. She
wears fashionable clothes, talks English
correctly, and is known to every China
man ON Clark street. She went down
there first on a summing party, liked the
restaurants, went back, got acquainted
with the Cinnamon, met Lee, fell in love
with his money, and since her marriage
has had 20 times as much money as she
had before. Lee, whose wealth cuts
much of figure in the colony, hos his
his own way with his people most of
! the time and Lees wife has her own
way with him. Wise Cinnamon who
owe him money, OF who want iRVors
for themselves or their relatives go, not
to the tea merchant but to his wife.
! Nine times out of ten she getsthem what
they want
J The way the American women ingra-
/ tiate themselves into the good gTaoes Of
/ the Cinnamon and then turn around and
| rule them with hands harder than iron
| is a lesson in diplomacy, In Chinatown
there are many restaurants to which
/ American Summing parties, made up Of
men and women, go. Chinese walters
! used to be in demand at all these places.
! Then an American girl got a job iD one
/ of them as waitress. Trade left the
other restaurants and went to the one in
which the white girl worked. The
Cinnamon who owned tho places that
were left out in the cold saw that the
attraction in their successful rival s place
was not entirely one of a astronomical
nature, and they too secured American
mattresses BY doing sothey wrote their
death warrant of personal independence.
The white girls obeyed orders al first, bat
then they began to get acquainted with
each other They talked over the i'm
mense profits Of their employers and the
badness OF the habit OF putting all the
money under loose board in the hoOr
until there was enough there to provide
a ticket TO China and a subsequent resi-
dence of luxury there. They thought
the money should stay In Chicago and
should be scattered instead Of being In
one bundle.
They had the advantage oi knowing
Chicago and Chicago customs, they had
fair idea of police workings, and knew
enough policemen to keep the obnoxious
blue uniform out OF the place while a
quiet pipe was being smoked. They kept
what meagre books were essential to the
conduct of the Chinaman's g business, and
soon they were partners in all but name,
OF the tea stores, the restaurants, and the
gambling places. Their employers con
suited them about business ventures, and
they began to demand more money. In
every case they got it, Even one girl
got married to a Chinaman, and then
another. Now there are 23 white wives
Of Cinnamon in the colony, according TO
one of the wives, and several courtships
are in progress AS soon as a marriage
took place the wife insisted upon costly
presents. The groom, whose love was
an outgrowth of his business instinct,
urged on in many cases by his sweet
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