The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-27
WOE IN CHINATOWN.
Policemen With Pigtails Spoil the
Pleasures OF the Pipe.


4San Francisco CALI
Run, Here come the Fat Devils
Run faster. Hide the beans of the
fsntan, The men Of the Fat Devil are
IN pursuit.
There is a 1squedling. a screechins ike
noise of monkeys; a scurly OF s9It white tte
soles: a rushing of biouse-clad nSuf-s
down smelly passages ana a nuddnhs 81
the luCkiesJ OF them in some piacA noe
whittier the Devil and the DeVlS men
never. penetrate. But these are few, ana
even they search each other $ eyes aHA-
sWfil the Fat Devils men learn the way
even 20 this retreat before long lHSS
ask ore another.
ready why not fartherg they reply
For the Fee Gaee OF Chinatown, tne
famous Sergeant Conboy, whom the CIi-
qUartette of officers in MS squaG IA
are playing such havoc with the wen res
ulated W-breakIng CHINATOWN tudL tit5
/ orowsy opium smokers are awake az lelse
with CONSERVATION and the lookouts IN
the gambling dens shuccer al the Wail--
Ings of their anxious masters.
Peace can no longer be found IN the
enjoyment Of a soothing pipe, signs the
smoker
'',rhe charms of the game are marred,
groahs the gambler.
The time is Iraught with danger COM
And an because this quartette of Ser
geant Cowboys is as perfect group OF
actors as ever played in private on the
stage.
since the latter part of June. when they
were put on duty ia the Chinese quarter,
! they have been Offering a continuous per
| iigbtGinc change artists. Onicer Jonn
I Iuman-Big Jack. You knoW-has presto
changed from reehng, drunken soldler
into a dcOr-smashing Policeman jerome
/ Tyrrell-he' Jerry-has appeared as the
! calmest Of Celestiais one minute and the
hercest of law enforcers the next They
Z In.fr MA no nHfz M
Cinnamon, OF trCmps. ana they say th3I
their roles are not nearly eXhausteu-ln
IacL only besun-and that, Ike oth ls,5
/ actors, tney nave many changes OF OH
| in store. Their costume room proves It
The continuous performance commenced
when Sergeant Eonboy took them up
there a few weeks ago. lie had IDEAS OF
! his own as 90 how this Chinatown bust
ness should be conducted.
You We got TO fight men with their OWE
weapons, meet them on their own
ground" he argued.
what is always the Chinaman's weap-
Strategy.
Ever time He never resorts to storm.
And neither does Sergeant Conboy.
'.As long as these people resort to cum
ming to gain their ends We have got TO
resort to cunning to overcome them,' he
argued, and he started his men upon
their campaign OF ruse, OF play-actlnS-
At the end Of three weeks they had made
half a dozen raids upon opium dens, as
many upon tantan games and stu as
rested and caused to be fined l13 Chinese;
no one of them got Off for less than $40;
The squad was hated and dreaded AMI
pointed out IN warning from Broadway
20 California street and from Kearny TO
Stockton streets.
Come and see the new Devils that you
may know them. said these people when
the squad arrived
So il came about that all Chinatown,
except the 1900 who are summering out
of town, was on the corner Of Washing
ton and Dupont streets on the day when
the I'VE took up their headquarters there,
and an Chinatown returned home with
the features of those i've indelibly inn
pressed upon their minds for reference IN
emergency cases
The one is largely like a great noun
tain, they said
He is big Jack" who made his first
fame as special policeman at the Oryhe-
UNI, and is a combination of serene good
temper and iron muscle which is a most
excellent combination, especially IN MS
Two of them are tall and without
flesh. but strongly knit they said. The
one has powerful arm and the other
has firm mouth.
They are TyrreH and Richter.
THE fourth is a little higher than one
of these cut in half, but as broad as the
two halves put together.
That one is r. NJ Barry.
1.-THE master of the four is a man with
pleasant smile. but an eye that betohens
danger for us. He is the Fat Devil
That's the sergeant.
And in spite of the fact that every man,
blocks took notes on the personnel OF the
squad on the day of their arrival, never
theiess, they have succeeded in Disgusting
themselves so cleVerly time ana again
that they have created a panic by their
series of raids.
Jerry Tyrreu made himself famous in
the raid at S191z Washington street He
was disguised as a Chinaman. and the
result was eighteen prisoners marched OK
You're too tan for Chinaman: you re
too tall by far, Jerry, said Barry.
And haven't you ever seen tall Chi
naman2" put in the sergeant who couiu
listen to no Croaking.
Your nose is too big. objected I1tl-
man, who perhaps envles Iyrreii s Roman
..And what's the reason that noses
cant grow big in the climate of China?
cried the sergeant
back. Conboy afterward told someone OF
the makeup in this wise;
I'VE creased him and we painted him
and we tailed him; we put him into a
smOck and a skull cap and cOrk-soleG
shoes: and if it hadn't been for the nose
door without q murmur.
But his nose IS too big If he'd had one
of those nit-in noses IKE a ~, C9lI nam 9
he'd have been all right I asked one OF
the prisoners afterward now they knew
him, and he says to me. Nosy too Dig,
says he, and he hooked his myers like
Even so. TvrreII did immensely clever
work. His makeup was as perfect as II
to the right color: his eyes were mar
rowed his costume was correct
He sauntered down Washington street
with his shoulders high, his feet shut
fling At S191z he turned in casually. IL
was $50 O'Clock Light and shadows
were baf7ing. Nobody noticed him.
The lookout had no suspicious He saw
a big Chinaman coming to the game, thd-
was all. The big Chinaman dropped in
The lookout had merely given d glance
through the wicket This was evidently
a friend All was we'll
So past the first door
Up the dark passage Tyrreu shuffied
and no alarm was given
At the second door he already telt MINI
self successful. As he reached It, though,
q strong light struck his face.
The guard gave him a sharp glance ami
halted in the act of letting him in. The
face looks strange. was his quick thought
Without comprehending the ruse ne
shifted trouble in the air.
On the instant he gave his warning.
! There was "a sound of confusion inside
/ Tvrrell took in the situation. re threw
| the guard aside and wrenched his way n
There were the Cinnamon There, TN tls
table. lay the evidence It was beans, Dat
I it was evidence.
The big man let his cap fall, ne cast Of
his role With d sweep OF his arm ne mao
the covering. whimpering- end-tef iils
I lay--hrr7 lzar= covered with his rcVOlNe1-