The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-29
ASKS FOR PEACE.
RUMOR or AN APPEAL TO SIR
CHENTLNG LIANG-CHENG.
He's Been Asked to Arbitrate Between
the Tongs. Says Perturbed and Anx-
q. ious District, and II May BE That Mock
Duck VIII Have 10 Go Back to China.


the Tonss, Says Perturbed and Anx.
ious District and II May he That Mock
Duck VIII Have 10 60 Back to China.
Chinatown he.lrfi ,ast night that 81
Chentung aL.ng- Cheng. Chinese Min'st'r
to this coun'r1. would D, mere day to
make an effort to stop the tong killing.
1t was learned from Washington that the
Minister had left the city. The Chinese
Legation wouldn t say where he had gone.
A week ago fifty or more merchants
Of Chinatown drew up petition 10 the
Minister, asking him to use his infuens" 70
end the feud between the O. cong Ior~
and the Hep Sing Tong. They set out
that their business had been knocked into
a cocksd hat by the gun fights. White
patrons, the petition said, had quit coming
to trade therr, not caring to take the chance
Of getting hit by tong bul',t.
The agents OF the Six Companies in China
town were instrumental in getting the
petition drawn up. On Leong and Hep
Sing, distinct societies in themselves, are
the Six Companies, whose headquarters
are in San Francisco. and though the Six
Companies has kept out of the feud here
tofore. the leaders in San Francisco, 1t was
said, decided to take up the appeal OF the
merchants and ask Sir Chentung Lang
Cheng to intervene. Many OF the big
stores in Chinatown are owned by the Six
Companies.
The association notified it's representa-
tives here, Chu Fong Wing of Mott street.
and Lee Guy Hing of 80 Mott street, to
enroll the merchants and send their plea to
the Minister. A day or two ago Lee Bo
Wong, who runs the joss house in Mott
street and is the solomon of thousand
troubles the police never hear about, got
word, 1t is said. from the Embassy that the
Minister would do all that was possible.
Jim Wang, a leader Of the Hep Sing
Tong, whose house and joss is at IL Bowery
said last night that the Hep Sing Tong
had been informed that Sir Chentung Lang
Cheng would be here to-day in person to
bring about peace. That was the reason,
said Wang, that there wasn't any gun fight
last Sunday night and that Chinatown Is
quiet just at present.
The minister, Wang heard, would 60
directly to Mock Duck, leader Of Hep Sing,
and old Tom Lee. who rules the On Leong
Tong from IA Mott street. Mock Duck
and Tom Lee would be asked to arbitrate
the troubles which arose out OF On Leong
Tong hogging the gambling privileges and
Hep Sing going to the Parkhurst Society
and the police. and If arbitration wasn't
possible the minister might fnd sterner
way to end the trouble
Mock Duck and Tom Lee might find it
convenient to return to China, said Wang,
il Sir Chentung LANG -Cheng made up his
~ A. IL h. o,t al.
for them, and no amount of lawyers would
do any good. There were ways and ways.
said Wang, mysteriously.
The killings Of the past year have stirred
up the Chinese Government representa-
tives in this country, becaus, the tales
have gone all over the country, in some
instances greatly exaggerated and dis
torted. Shah Ka-fu, Chinese Consul to
this city, and LUX Wing, Vioe-Consul, went
to District Attorney Jerome a week ago
to ask him If he couldn't find a way to stop
the trouble.
There were more rumors of Tong raids
last nish' Gin Gum, a secretary Of the
On Leong "ono, went to the Elizabeth
street station g .rly in the evening and told
Acting Captain Tracy that Tom Lee had
learned that five Hep Sing bulldogs or
assassins, had left Philadelphia over the
Pennsylvania Railroad, that they were
due here at 9 O'Clock in the evening and
had planned to go straight to IA Mott street.
to make an end Of Tom Lee. Capt. Tracy
with three detectives went to the Cortland
street ferry and waited until o'clock but
no Philadelphia Cinnamon showed up.
The Eggers men in Chinatown were
warned by the Hep Sing last night that On
Leong Tong spies were locating Hep Sing
laundrymen in uptown districts and mark
ing them for death. According to Nook
Duck, On Leong Tong spies we're going
around in a covered wagon, ostensibly as
dealers in laundry supplies. Whenever
they found laundry with only one Hep
Sing at work they took the address, sized
up the place and reported to the On Leong
Tong headquarters to sharpen up olea vers
Two detectives are looking for the covered
wagon.