The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-01
HIP sing LIFE FOR EACH RAID.
urIE FONG. FIRST VICTIM or on
LTONG'S TENGEFUL DECREE.

Tuesday morning Score now stands:
ON Lcong. one cripple, one dead white
man ono dead Chinese
Hip Sing. no score.
The game is getting almost too one
sided to be interesting
Atto'clock on Tuesday morning Mott
,,reor was losing mp. Tho theatre crowd
had faded way, tie tourists were thinning
o,,, lights were suddenly dying in the
,ss,aurants and the clubhouses; shutters
were slamming A few Chinese scirried
IN their slipping shoes ahead of the cold
morning wind. and a few rods away the
Hovery ratified with its night noises.
There is n Joss house opposite No. Il
,fo,, street. ami over the joss house are
C1jo,so lodgings inhabited by On Leong
,,o, window on the third floor was
balf omen. and Just within sat an old China
nan rlaving a Chinese flute. Had any OF
,bo nss.er-by 81 opped to trace TO its source
ma, ii,,ie thread Of music which ran through
the night noises he might have wondered
rhy the old man sat by an open window
10 ulay his flute on might like that. But
M one looked up. and If ary one had tho
old Clinaman. with the flaps Of his fur cap
rulled over his ears. sat too farm the shadow
10 he seen from the street.
The flute droned lazily on, one tune after
another And around the corner of the
Rovery came HUE Fong, Hip Sing and
short haired Chuaman, in his American
clothes
HUE Fong passed the saloon entrance
At the corner and swept into sight Of the
window over the joss house. And sud
denly tho flute struck up a livelier tune
piercing Chinese melody. whose high
note, carried far. -River-of-the-Lotus' it
was. Chinese tunesssssiss
rnids and as familiar in Pekin "a Annie
Laurie is in Edinburgh.
With its first notes window closed
softly on the second floor Of No. II. And
irou behind the closed counter of base
ment fYeetmeat booth. just under tho
window where the flute was trilling.
Chinaman rose and crossed the street, lis
hands in bis sleeves.
HUE Fong was opposite the joss house
ut II now, he hesitated a moment, and
regarded with suspicion the Chinese who
was crossing the street. The latter, with
out looking up, turned his course. HUE
Fong nodded, as though satisfied, turned
swiftly into the entrance and mounted the
narrow, dark stairs. He who had risen
from the sweetmeat booth wheeled and
followed
The flute struck a final note and quav-
ened into silence. And then there were
three rauid pistol shots. n sound of scurry-
ing feet. and the rush Of the crowd Of night
loafer- on the Bowery, always eager 10 he
in at the death on Chinese murder. None
Of the crowd noticed that the window on
the third floor over the joss house had
been rapidly closed.
Ii happened that Detective Frank Cadet.
e I, ha la N oil " ha
been watching Chinatown day and night,
was only two doors away. Although he
DO more read the omen in the flute which
guided the murderers OF HUE Fong than
did the passing Chinese. he heard the shots
aud rushed up the steps OF IT, three at a
time. dim light was burning in the hall.
HUE Fong lay gasping nd Hopping Ike
landed trout, with the blood pulsng from
two holes in his breast, and a Chinaman
was running down the hall. Cadell beat
him to the stairs and tackled him. Down
came the captive with thump.
What are you doing here?' cried Cadell
They wait for hlml They wait for himl'
aid the Chinese, who was terribly excited
Who
No sabe," said the captive, recovering
himself Then he fell back on the mo
Kabe, and never another thing he said.
Detectives Corbett and Martin were only
q minute behind Cadell. They rushed up
the stairs. A trapdoor TO the roof was
open; and on the snow were the tracks of
three pairs Of Chinese shoes. They led TO
the fire escape. To right and lett of the
first floor hall. where HUE Fong WAS dying,
the rooms were open but deserted.
HUE Fong was carrie d down stairs and
laid under a big reiiec.Cr lamp in a Chinese
store. Seeing that he was nearly gone,
the detectives tried to get a dying state
nent. II was no use, he could not talk.
and died before the ambulance arrived.
Out Of the crowd which began to surge
against the doors Of II the detectives
culled everything which wore a yellow
tace. No one solved the riddle. No one
had ever seen the dead man. No one knew
anything They didn't even know the
captive until he himself announced that
he was ice Lee, laundrymau and lived in
II He waa unarmed. Whether il was
a case Of quick gun passing or whether
he was simply al innocent LOGGER who
ran out when he heard the shots il another
secret Of the On Leong Tong
He i an On Leong anyway: and the
house at II ia a hotbed of the On Leongs.
HUE Fong lived in kind Of Hip Sing lodg
Ing house AZ < Bswery, next door To Hip
sing headquarters, 1t WAS into 3 Bowery
that Wong Song, the Chinese whom the
On leongs were chasing, made his escape
on thanksgiving night, when the tongs
held that big Wild. siyshooter war dance
under the elevated railroad structure
hne tnng Is supposed TO have been one
" al h44uI ~ : NNfleer nTlkildtlh VINO III
iorm on gambling houses for the good Of
humanity and OF Hip Sing graft, Alter
ihe Lee faction Of gamblers, whose hired
mugs the on LeOngs are, failed in their
attempt TO start gambling game across
me B1"eTy in tho next precinct the On
leong- Issued decree w.. very raid,
they announced their a dead
Hip Sing
Sunday night acting on information
from he p.ainclothes men. the police Of
NE Elizabeth street station raided three
pe-goS games, running az IS Mott - Pel
ana is Duyers streets. The dealers were
caught with the goods on them. The in
formation was furnished by the police
hpl ty ID" Hip Sings but the game j. he
game. 80 The On LeongS set their all-day
ralch for HUE F0ng, who was hated in
tnIatown for other reasons than his
prejudice against gambling and got him.
FROM the mysterious dark that covers
NhnaiDWu from Occidental eyes two other
s9aaow7 appear On an upper balcony in
No't street there u a large green and gold
ign 10 thinese letters. IL Is the shingle
OF q new Tong. or rather a kind Of coalition
OF ne longs It represents the Boxers,
'nc Trad Society. and all that is con
eerFailve in c. 'nese life While not ex-
ac'y the same thing II is known in China
IoNn as the Boxer Tong Against it
are The reform element the Chinese Masons.
SoDa part ot the mission element, and the
hlp sing The last named organization.
PliE nlEIlluder bunch il travelling in