New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-24

quarter of century ago there is a goodly por
ton of the ten thousand natives of the F1owery
Kingdom in this city who have successfully as
simulated many American customs and adopted
principles altogether foreign to their own
ancient civilization. This broadening of the
Oriental mind has not occurred in a few days.
The evolution of the Chnaman from his old
time bigotry and self-sufficiency to a higher
plane. where he sees his failures and wants,
and, in Yankee parlance, to get there, has been
the result of years. John Chinaman in this
city is indeed awakening from that dreamy,
narcotic lethargy which once seemed the curse
of his race.
When the news of the massacres at Kishineff
reached the Jews of this city, and a general
appeal for charity was made, there were two
Cinnamon who responded as if their own people
had been afflicted. Joseph H. Singleton presi-
dent of the local organization of the powerful
Chinese Empire Reform Association, and Guy
Maine pronounced Ming). head of the Chinese
Mission of ST Bartholomew Church, met the
Jewish relief committee, and Mr.. Singleton said:
I'VE want to help you. We believe in liberty
and want to aid those who suffer from bigotry."
THE Chinese will give a benefit performance
for the Russian Jews" said Mr.. Maine We
ought to raise several hundred dollars for you.
Jim Ling, stage manager and boss of the
Chinese theatre at No ) Doyers-st., shook his
head at first.
Il no know" he said. Il Iikee help. but 1
fink performance not muchee good. No cloWd-
No monee."
Contrary to Jim Ling's expectations the the
atre was thronged the night OF the benefit
The forty actors who do not draw salaries, but
divide the gate receipts between them, Of
fered their services for nothing and played their
parts with particular vivacity. 1t was tragedy
lOf oft no TartlTS,
Chinese were first made to wear the queue by
their savage conuuerOrS as a token of SubJec-
ton Fow Chung the Booth of Doyers-st., had
a record number of curtain calls, and the box
office receipts turned over to the Jewish commit
| tee amounted to $3.50
This evidence of Chinese charity, in contradic-
| ton of the oldtime belief that John Chlnaman
is only for John Chinaman," is only one lIustra-
| ton AT the time Of the jacksonville disaster
the Cinnamon of this city, through the efforts OF
| the Rev. HUE Kin who is in charge of the
Presbyterian mission in Mott-st, raised nearly
| 800 for the relief of sufferers
| 1t has been the Chinese custom for immigrants
to foreign shores ship back the bones of their
dead to their native land. AT Hong Kong there
is great clearing house for skeletons, where all
that is left of the wandering Celestial at last
returns for q final resting place. Here relatives
of the dead may come, and for the sum OF Slo'
to cover shipping and storage, they may obtain
the coveted box and its rafting contents. In
the Chinese cemetery on Long Island the body
is only allowed to lie for about four years.
Then comes the grewsOne task of digging it up.
pulling the bones apart and cleaning them,
packing the gaunt cargo in a tin covered box
about the size of infants coffin, and shipping
| it to Hong Kong.
| The more advanced Chinese however, have re
yolted against this uncanny custom. They now
want their bones to rest in the land of their
adoption They have bought a plot of land at
| Kensico and organized what is known the