The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-21
CHINESE ARMY MUST DISBAND
CHOP SUEY CADETS HAVE NO
BUSINESS DRILLING.

Gov. HIsEins's Hand and the Military Cod
Fall on the Celestials VINO Are Train
ing With Condemned, Rines TO Over
throw Isl An. Mebbe. 6P Mebbc Not
Chinatown is about to lose its military
arm. The Governor Of the State Of New
York has issued an order for the disband
ment of the First Chinese Regiment, better
known as the Chop Suey Cadets, that has
been drilling in season and out for ten year,
at and Mott street under the command
Of Major George Mcvickars OF the Sixty.
ninth Regiment. The cadets were organ
lied into military body under the aus.
pices Of the Chinese Reform Association
and only the day before yesterday marched
proudly down Broadway en- route to pic.
MO amid the plaudits Of multitude Of
spectators and shower Of ticker tape from
the tall buildings along the line.
The cadets owe their prospective eclipse
to a meddling outsider, a man who does
not live in New York State at all This
individual name not discloeed) appar-
emily viewed with alarm the military
activity Of the Cinnamon in this country,
for he wrote letter to Gov. Higgins say
ing that regiments OF them we're being
organized and drilled all over the country
for the purpose Of going back to their native
land to take part in mighty revolution
against the present Government.
Gov. Higgins must have been impressed
by the gravity Of the complaint, which had
spotted the columns OF the newspapers
Of the Southwest fully year ago. 1t APP
peared to the Governor that as the Chief
Executive Of a neutral and friendly State
in neutral and friendly Republic, it would
not do to let the plot or any part of it ripen
in the territory over which he rules.
So the Governor sent the complaint to
Police Commissioner McAdoo with re-
quest that he investigate and report. The
Commissioner was disposed to make light
Of the matter. From what he knew Of the
On Leong longs, the. chief warriors Of
Chinatown. he Judged that the cadets
would not be dangerous at home or abroad
even If they were allowed to drill with guns.
Nevertheless he turned the matter over to
Astng EEser1 his Confidential
Ward on the case. Ward found that the
cadets drill every Thursday evening in the
Mott street headquarters, that they carry
rifles Of type abandoned some time ago by
the National Guard and that they wear
uniform similar to that Of the State militia
He also found out that the organization is
protected by the Chinese Reform Associa-
ton, Of which Chin Mon Sing. also known
as j. NJ. Singleton, is president. W. s.
Lee of % Mott street is captain and Lung
Kai Maine is lieutenant The first sergeant
is Fong Su Men, the first corporal Paul
Lee Gym, and the second corporal Long
Men Hung.
Commissioner McAdoo sent the report to
Gov. Higgins and word came back from the
executive Office at Albany that the Chinese
regiment was violating Section rs Of the
Military Code and that 1t must be disbanded
forthwith. This section. which is part Of
the laws Of 1888, provides
1t shall not be lawful, but it shall be a
ever. other than the regular organized
corps of the National Guard and militia
and the troops Of the United States, eycept
such independent military organiza tions
as are now in existence, to associate them
selves together as military company or
organization, or to parade in public with
firearms in an city or town of this State
Exceptions are made for the veterans on
Decoration Day and when they act as an
escort at the burial of deceased soldiers:
also in the case of students in educational
institutions where military science is a
prescribed part of the course of tnstr,lc-
ton. Any one who violates this section
may be fined SO or sent to jail for six months.
or both.
"What are you going to do about the
matter2' Mr.. McAdoo was asked yester-
day.
up" was the reply.
How will you go about it?"
Il will have to see the Corporat ton Conn
sci about that" the Commissioner eail