The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-22
STRUGGLES IN WIFE
Rich Merchant From Orient
Commissions Friend to
Import Bride.
CAN STAY IF Welded
Marriage VIII Take Place Soon and
Will Add to the Very Few
Legal Unions in This
Colony.
CAN STAY IF Welded

NEW YORK. April 21-Chinatown is
greatly excited over the surreptitlous ar
rival of Chinese slave girl destined to
become the wife of one of the big tea
merchants. Size has been in the colony
Two or three days, and the Cinnamon
nave buzzed and jabbered about her and
repeated every bit of gossip with an in
terest that could only be equaled should
some pretty Fastener suddenly descend
into Western mining camp peopled only
by bachelors
There are but four Chinese wives in
Chinatown. Scores of the well-to-do CHI
natoWn merchants have white wives but
only four have wives of their own race
AS there are several thousand Cinnamon
in Chinatown, or interested in laundries
or other business centered there, and all
but few necessarily in a state of single
bIeSSednesS, the arrival of silken-
clothed, cramp-footed, almord-eyed and
altogether pretty bit of Chinese fenininity
was bound to make a stir
Then, too, the existence Of the Chinese
exclusion law made it necessary that the
slave girl be snluggIed into the country
AS long ago as Jan, IA the tea drinkers
and the opium smokers gossipped as they
lolled about Mey Sing Lees journey 70
China to bring Ling Foy wife, for which
Moy was to receive $500, besides his pas
sage money. Now Moy is back, and
everybody except the immigration off,
Gals knows that he brought Miss Fong
Lung with him.
Moy Sing Lee, the man who took the
loo mile trip and smUggied the girl into
the country, used to be a successful gam
bier in Pell street. He lost his money
during the winter, and, being a man OF
resolution, wit and action, was selected
for the girl smuggling trip by the tea
merchant.
ed in Victoria, b. c., with Miss Fong
Lung. He declares that at no time did
she cry for, ,homesiekness. The pair
had no trouble 10 speak of until they
arrived at the Canadian border in North
ern New York. There the officials look
ed at Fong Lung, tried to question her,
cid question NOV Sing Lee, were told
that the girl was Moy's daughter, and
were proffered dubious passport.
After much urging Moy consented that
Just one peep be had of little Miss Fong
At this private view the slave girl dis
played as much animation as a painted
canvas. The stolid fatalism of her race
was personi1ied in her attitude, her UNI
questioning glance, her perfect air Of
Indifference. She was bundled in silks in
a dark little room hung with blue-fgur-
ed China silks, high UP in a mean, sQual
id tenement She did not know what
fate was in store for her, and there was
no indication that she cared. She is sew
enteen years old and five feet four inches
tall.
No one wSo would not promise never to
reveal the girls hiding place was permit
ted to see her. Ling Foy the prospective
husband and present owner of the girl
intends to furnish a fine horse in West
| Ninth street, where there is quite a colo
ny of wealthy Chinese merchants, and
there little Miss Fong Lung will be taken
10 live. She will have servants and
horses. Ling says. After she is married
she cannot be deported, but Moy Sins
Lee can be sent to prison for two years
if convicted Of aiding in breaking the
exclusion law