Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
matter of profitable notoriety with outfi
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Blow at the Chinophiles.

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Blow at the Chinophiles.
The agftators for the abrogation OF the
Chinese exclusion law received setback
in this neighborhood last week when a big
gang of Chinese laundrymen and ''mer-
chants in Brooklyn were arrested for
crimes against young American girls 1t
was found that the Cinnamon were in ca
boots with batch of American PROGRESSES
in this traffic. and the arrested ones were
held in heavy bail.
The expose of this sorry condition of
things was bad enough. but that which fol-
lowed the incarceration of the degraded
Chinks was infinitely worse Reference is
had 10 the nauseating consideration. not
To say affection. with which the arrested
Sl"tatnen We're treated after their arrest
DS their so-called Sunday school teachers.
mere We're some fifteen or twenty of thas,
women nearly all of them young persons
W exterior refinement and all of them
actual ,i teachers in Sunday schools estab-
hshed Tor the conversion and reclamation
OF the stolid. slant-eyed heath,rs Tho
cun'iinen had no sooner been CLAIMED into
Jdil oy the police than these Sunday school
aetc.'efS hustled To the Jail with words of
PufrlhS sympathy and all SORTS Of -1afu.ics
lor The celestial prisoners They car,.i,l
JeileS 10 them. and fruits. and pastries all
soriS or Sood things 10 eat both of The nr
o,"eH, ana the orient, not TO omit cigar
rs rs py the boxful and such like comforts
ihey stroked and patted and nettad tho
htlopDy-browed runners of vouua pirIs
oiHuren' IN truth-and one of the China
NIL leliow of more attractive apnc1r-
80, ~ Sueh term be allowable in this
connection, than the others was from tho
hrst hour of his arrest the center 90 q
SSHpathizing and molly-codding rroun OF
"C IeSS IMAM haIf dozen Of these Sunday
Syiooi teachers Each of the arrested
osiiitheh' II appears had beel a pupil
oi one or other of the young women ana
the teachers solicitude for tho correo,
material and otherwise of these papars
WAS something pretty hard for n white wa,
anu not necessarily an envious whits
ian-to look upon.
Went Little Too Far.
Hes went too far with this sort of sick,
iohSehse' however, when a number
OF them asked permission of the police IN
81, an ihsht outside cells of the imprisoned
N"I"hS 10 comfort them during the long
Watches, and then the keeper OF the i,iI
hcohtlnently hustled the queer SUNDAY
school teachers into the street and advised
thefh TO go home and behave themselves
An extraordinary feature of tho si,,,a,,
Is that all of these petticoated Christian
lZers or the arrested Cinnamon unhesitat
l!iSiy declare that the Chinese We're more
Sinned against than SHINING" and lust as
positively express the belief that the little
girls whose lives We're wrecked by tie
Cinnamon should have been arrested and
punished instead of the Cinnamon them
selves. 1t would be difficult to match this
for startling lopsiuedncss of view Long
years ago no less parsonage than an
Episcopal bishop of New York publicly
ana IN terms the meaning of which could
by no chance have been mistaken, declared
that he considered it outr. geous that re-
fined young women should engage AT all In
the teaching. at Sunday school or any
where else, of the kind of Chinese that
huddle In their quarter in New York. But
there seems to be something strangely fas-
chatting in these laundry Cinnamon of the
coolic class to hundreds of otherwise sane
New York young women engaged in Sun
day school work, and they all but fall out
with each other In their eagerness to get
hold of Chinese pupils for there are not
enough of the willing pupils to go
round it seems
The Brooklyn magistrate before whom
the Cinnamon Were hailed to be remanded
expressed his opinion of the Chinks' solicit
tous train of goody-carrying school teach
erS.
Dye know what think ought to happen
to you young women he said TO them. in
a tone of the most utter and wearied dis
gust in open court II think that every
mothers daughter of you ought to he
handed over to some brawny. muscular
Irish police matron and Spanked-yeS.
spanked-until you couldn't stand up-or.
l should say, sit down.!
The Plant of the BookmakerS.
What unfortunate man. so fond. not to
say SO Iunatical, as to belong to that hope
less species the horse-racing talent
doesn't enjoy the waling and the bleating
of the bookmakerS?
The New York bookmakers have been
tearing large tufts out of their thick (gen-
orally purplish black hair ever since last
Saturday afternoon. when a horse called
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average price Of 80 to 1. and thereby sep
arated the bookies from something like
s4OO,O 900 Of their greenbacks. not to speak
of the tremendous assortment of currency
that the INSIDE people won on the horse
all over the continent in the pool rooms.
No sooner had the horse won than the
bookmakers began to claw around and howl
that The Fiddler was a ringer. They
claimed that The Fiddler was in reality
horse named Mcnamara, Mcnamara, in
turn they averred, being himself \ ringer
and a false holder of the name of the horse
Hiram Johnson. The groans of the stool
men as they paid off" on The Fiddler
horse made sorrowful all of the hills and
valleys of Westminster. and they have been
more or less wild-eyed and panic-stricken
ever since. although the conservative math-
ematicianS Of the turf asseverate that this
present year of 1903 has been the banner
year of all turf history for the bookmakers.
By the way. what year isn't a banner year
for the bookmakers?
Everybody who knows anything about
horse racing it Is conducted around here
acutely enjoys the occasional grief of the
bookmakers as it is displayed when good
things of The Fiddler sort go through.
You'll never hear the bookmakers emitting
any blea is when some tremendously famous
"horse of the country" like McChesney.
backed literally for millions all over the
American continent. finishes last in q vile
field of selling platers when his price is at
to 3. When the champion of the east.
the gallant Hermis. 'the 100000 horse,
backed for millions at the weird price of
to 3 has to lower his colors to a poor little
understood wart of a race mare like Mamie
Worth a mare possibly worth $1,000, as
1.-The mighty Hermis'' did at Morris Park
on Wednesday last, those poor bookmakers
sit lust as tight can be on their little
stools and never a sob do they emit for the
griefs of the gloomy ones who wend their
dismal way back to town and get out paper
and pad and try to figure on how to duck
the fiat rent and the installment man for
the ensuing month. When the bookmakers
take for days and weeks and months in
succession, the $4,000 and $4,000 bets OF
falsely-touted Willie-boy plungers indus
triously engaged in going through their
patrimonies at a dead gallop, they do not
engage in any whimperings whatsoever.
But when, once in a great while. some
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