Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-30

F. Glenn were summoned at once put
Mckee died within twenty or thirty
minutes without having recovered con-
sciousness. Although his head was
badly mutilated, his skull being slight
ly fractured above the left eye, the
physicians say that death resulted from
the shock.
THE TRICKS OF CHINATOWN.
Sights to Be Seen BY Country Visitors
at IS a Head.
BY far the most interesting part Of
New York city in the eyes Of visitors
from out Of town, is Chinatown, which
is invaded by thousands Of sightseers
every year. Ninety per cent. Of them
go at night and are bent on seeing the
dreadful things which Cinnamon and
their Caucasian associates are popu-
larly supposed to do. AS a result OF
this curiosity, a custom Of working Off
frauds on the visitors has grown up in
Chinatown, and 1t has proved to be a
highly profitable business all around.
Almost everything that visitors to
Chinatown see nowadays Is more or
less fraudulent. Whether the visitors
come by night or by day, the greater
part Of the entertainment provided by
their guides is fraudulent, although
they never know 1t and go away satis-
fled that they have seen the real thing.
The Cinnamon who live in China
town are not fools, neither are the
white women who associate with them
nor the white men who pick up a liv-
ing in more or less questionable ways
in the quarter. None Of the China
men, and certainly very few Of the
women, could be induced to make pub
lie display Of their private lives for
money, but they are not at all averse
to arranging little exhibitions for the
edification of visitors, who pay well,
thinking they are seeing the real thing.
There are fully. score Of men Of
the Chuck" Connors type who call
themselves Chinatown guides. They
have lived in the quarter for years,
know every man and woman In 1t,
know the gambling dens, the joss
houses, the opium joints; in fact, are
a part Of the quarter and we'll qualified
to show people about.
The minute a visiting party strikes
Chinatown it is taken in tow by one
Of these guides. Sometimes the guide
meets the party by appointment, for
many Of them have connections with
hotel clerks uptown who tout for
them, but oftener the party wanders
about until a guide picks it up and
makes a bargain to show 1t China
town.
OF course, the party wants to see
opium smoking, a game Of fantan in
operation, the quarters Of white wo-
men who live with Cinnamon, and all
the other things that are part Of the
quarter. The guide leads them up dark
alleyways through winding Railways
where they cannot see their hands be-
fore their faces, and finally into little
box-like rooms where white women
and Cinnamon smoke what is supposed
to be opium for their amusement. All
is carried on in whispers,
a good deal is said about the police and
other dangers Of the expedition, and
the visitors are worked up to proper
state Of excitement.
What the Cinnamon and women
smoke is not opium at all. Generally
a small piece of wax Is cooked over
the lamp and inserted over the pin
hole Of the pipe bowl. A convenient
cigarette in the end of the pipes broad
stem supplies the smoke.
A few puffs and the smoker rolls
over in what appears to be deep slum-
ber. The guide leads the shivering
party out, and warns all hands to keep
the matter very quiet.
Next he finds q Chinese gambling
den in full operation. Fantan, Chinese
dominoes and games with the long
strip of cardboard covered with Chi
nese characters, are being played.
The table Is covered with money, the
banker hauls his coins from the CEN
tire Of the table with his sharp pointed
stick, and the players suck away at
their gurgling water pipes. A careful
ly arranged protest Is made when the
visitors enter but the guide arranges
matters and the play is resumed.
This is just as complete a fake as
the opium smoking. The supposed
gamblers are just play acting for the
benefit Of the visitors, but they do it
very we'll, and the visitors, especially
the women, for there are women in all
Of these parties, go away properly
awed.
Visits to joss houses, restaurants and
alleged dens are made, fake fights oc-
cur, dramatic scenes are enacted and
by the time the trip is over the vis-
itors have seen about all they can
stand.
For a long time there was a China
town woman who used to commit sui
eide every night for the benefit Of Wis
itors. She was a good-looking girl
and had a room at the top Of a Doy-
ers streets tenement.
For a long time the fake opium
took place in her room. A
and touching tale Of this
girls downfall used to be told conf
dentially to the visitors by the guides,
so that she was an object Of special
At q certain stage Of the exhibition