The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-26
|OR|EN TAI
GAMBLING
New Chinatown is
One Great
Game.
|CHlLLINGWORTH
LEADS CRUSADE
Fan Tan and Che Fa Players Are
Being Remorselessly Hunted
Down.

HE local Police Department has for
some time past been conducting a
crusade against the Oriental gam
blers of Honolulu, and. thanks to The.
interchangeable efforts of Deputy Sheriff
Chillingworth, several hundred offenG-
ers have been convicted and punished
during the last three months.
This. however, appears to in no way
deter the Oriental gamblers, and hard
ly a day elapsessbut a score or more
are conducted TO the police station
The japanese and Chinese will gam
BILE, particularly the latter, and ii is no
uncommon thing for Pake to he ar
rested for gambling at Waikiki in the
morning and rounded up on a similar
charge the evening of the same DAY at
Palama or Kalihi.
The police as rule base their opera
lions against the gamblers on infurma-
ton giveE by a person who is usually
under obligations to the Police Depart
ment or who expects to be. Very often
such clues prove valueless and result In
nothing more than a wild-goose chase.
Often as many as four or five attempts
are necessary in order to capture a
gang of suspected gamblers. Somehow
or other they get wise and when the
officers of the law arrive on the scene
of the game they are greeted by an
empty room or the spectacle of doz-
en- or so Cinnamon innocently sipptns
tea and conversing amiably together
AS rule it is difficult to obtain mon
ey in a raid on gambling Orientals. At
the first sign of police interference the
cash is spirited away, and when the
officers put in an appearance the gam
bIers are found playing presumably for
buttons.
1t is surprising the amount of ready
cash a Chinaman can lay hands on IN
an emergency. In a big raid 1t is the
exception rather than the rule for
man to be unable to secure bail money
They stick to each other like brothers
and it is this that hinders their con-
viction for vagrancy. or, as the pena
code puts ii, having no lawful or WIS.,
ible means OF support" All Sing may
be prosecuted for yagrancy, and right
ly so, but All Moy will swear at ms
countryman's trial that All Sing has
been cooking rice for him for the ias'
six months.
Gambling joints are to be found scat
tered throughout the city and in every
suburb. When the police are more un
remittingly Jealous than usual, hastily
constructed shacks, erected solely tol
gambling purposes, spring up IKE
roushroons on the billsides and barrier
nIaces where flourish the lantana ane
the cactus.
The long two-story tenement houses
which grace the new Chinatown, Ews
of Nuuanu stream, are nests OF ORIENT
al gamblers and games are in progress
night and day Magoon's Long Hous'
in Kakaako harbors an army OF nesroe'
and KanaRas who gain their hveihoo'
solely by dallying with the dice, ana
when funds are low, by petty iarcen
les.
Each race has its favorite games In
Chinese affect fan tan, pal kau am
ache IA" The little brown man Is gen
era1iy disturbed while patronizing
came of chuck luck" or Russian
yUarn The natives and the negroe
swear nv CRAPS or seven eleven.
The elderly Kanaka plays "che ia re
ug;ouslv. with him the game is eS
alted TO the dignity of a profession.
The principal stamping ground OF tn
Oriental gambler covers large are
Eva of Nuuanu stream. Tne oistile
has become thickly populated since th
fire of 1899 DESTROYED old Chinatown an
cauaed its denizens to take up tne'
abodes across the river
Tha vbole district IS one great gam
Wing dem and it Is to be hoped the pres
emf notice crusade win sweep the iouue'
$50 Trono beneath the gambling associa
lions and reIegate the joints 10 an oo
scurity of dust and decay
Tba chinan,an is born lover OF spec
,otton but holds to the games OF ciahN
that are wholly his own or nave Dseon.
adonted by his race. Fan tan, Cnine,
auop "a mai kau are distinctivei
et,,ra.e che ia and craps are adopte
games. t,a qaIa day
4. 80 chinese quarter for II Is then III
chinese laundrymen from miles 81 ~,
sarar-oeate in Chinatown. Ostehsipi
thasa lsundrymen and their helpers 90
go for the purpose of purchasing SUI
nile, of soap, starch. 1000 anu a,I;t
e. the Following week. put IN
-. oon,a To gamble. And yet gampie
sar,,y tho right word: 1t might iiol
.r,,tt,S,,,lv he said that they come 10
No. nv the slant eyed sharks VINO pos
&c Gamblers: for in the various .saile5 5,,>
e 81 the element of winning is reou'
ed to minimum A.,<,b r,hina
To the person passing through :, - ~
town no evidence of gamolihs -
narent; everything wears Chines
puerile innocence a sign s,.a tails IN
- II reveals to John Chinanan 1na
there ts.g, IS a game or maybe two going 0
inside. .,..s IF a lot O