The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-07
CHINESE JUNK
CAME IN LOADED
AND A BANQUET FOLLOWED.
THE FIRST EVER PULLED OFF IN
SAVANNAH.

| Chinese Dishes Direct From the
Orient and Served in True Chinese
style by Real Cinnamon, for the
| Benefit of Mr.. l.. W. Nelson and
His Gucsts-SmnII Crowd Watched
Performance From Drayton street.
Guests Were Made Proficient in
Use of Chop sticks, But Much
Food Was Spilled On Floor.
The arrival of junk from Chez Foo
was attended last night by a social ses-
sion al Robert Chung Changes chop
suey house that would have caused
even Kuropatkin to tarry for a mo-
ment-and Kuro doesn't believe in
stopping long in one place if the back
door is ajar.
The junk was laden with good things
from the Flowery Kingdom and was
consigned to L. w. Nelson, Esq,
Lessee of the Casino, Recorder of
Thunderbolt, erstwhile stage manager,
etc, etc, in the care of the Honorable
Robert Chung Chang.
There were present Mr.. Nelson and
ten guests, but just what occasioned
the display Mr.. Nelson neglected to
mention. Whether he wanted to show
his friends that he was not afraid to
eat what others cooked, even though
the others We're Sons of Joss, or
whether he desired to show his ability
to speak pidgin- Chinese was not quite
clear.
First Chinese Banquet.
What was clear, however, was the
fact that nothing like it had ever been
pulled off in Savannah, and that the
names of the score or more dishes
sounded like a lost laundry ticket
looks on Saturday night when the
Chink has your only shirt. The names
were even worse than that, and a man
who could have called over a list of
Kuroki's entire force of commissioned
and commissioned officers without
drawing a breath, would have met his
Waterloo had he gone up against the
Nelson Robert Chung Chang dishes. in
an enunciation sense.
1t was Chinese banquet done IN
in real Oriental style Robert and an
assistant were on hand to point out
just which string in the soup was
once the part of a sharks fin, and
which had at one time been part of
the home of bird. Then there were
other things that Robert and his as
sistant explained which were not clear
ly understood by the at first hesitat-
ing and then enraptured guests. The
Almond Eyes, however. experienced
little difficulty in showing those at
the dinner table how to use the chop
sticks.
Were Clumsy at First.
At first it was all very awkward and
considerable of the rice, and other
things, slipped from between the sticks
and found their way on the floor. But
II was all part of the ping-pon
game, and table manners didn't count.
since no one was permitted to seat him
self until he had discarded his coat and
rolled up his sleeves. To the small
crowd that gathered in the drizzling
rain on Drayton street, it was more in
teresting than the Chinese ragtime be-
ing played in the Devils Auction"
further down the street.
There was a bill of fare on which
there were things Chinese to eat, and
things Chinese to drink. But the bill
Of fare was not used by the guests. In
deed, they made no effort to use it un-
til the wind up, and then Robert Chung
Chang and his assistant experienced
great difficulty in rescuing it from the
white Devils. Indeed the two men
from the Far East prevented the carry
ing out of conspiracy.
Conspiracy Wac Frustrated.
Judge Twiggs had suggested that
the bill of fare be cut into eleven
pieces and that each man take his
share and visit a laundry. The guests
were in for the play, even after
Deputy United States Marshal Doyle,
who has things to do with the Chinese
exclusion act, opined that there were
enough chara cters on the slip to break
every washee shop in the city. But
Robert Chung Chang saved the bill of
fare and saved the Savannah Chinese
colony. and it will not be used in get
ting shirts and collars that belong to
others.
The junk discharged it's Gauge
shortly before o'clock, at which hour
heavy firing was reported from the
adjoining retreat, and departed with
Host Nelson and the following prison.
ers of war Mr.. l.. A. Bowers, Mr..
James Nj. Dixcn. Mr. Marion Lucas,
Judge H. D. D. Twiggs, Mr. John
Sullivan Schley, Mr.. w. G. McDon-
ough, Mr. Burt Wooloy, Mr. George
w. Ham, Mr.. Joseph Doyle and MIR.