The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
CHINESE CLUBS ENJON COPS.
WING FUTS AND CHUS APPEAL
TO SUPREME COURT

town that they appeal to the American
courtA for ALMOST anything, The elders
around the loss houses are shaking their
heads sadly and wondering what the world
4 coming 10. Next thing, they agree, a
Chnamsd whose COUSIN has been laid
out in a gun fight will swear that the real
murderer did It. The Chinese court In
Mott street might as well go out OF business
Yesterday the Chu Association OF 10
and y Doyers street and the Wing tut
Club-nothing 10 do with the New YORK
Athletic Club-at % Pel street. obtained
an order restraining Capt. Kear and his
plain clothes men from picketing their
club rooms as gambling houses. The order
is returnable Monday before Justice Davis
All Chinatown is going about smiling
all over it's yellow face. It has been sup
posed that the Wing Fut Club for example,
was about the largest and most prosperous
temple Of chance between Chatham Square
and Elizabeth street. 1t has been sup
posed that the old Chinese, with face ike
a comic make up In the Chinese Theatre
who issued from % Pen street at 1880
o'clock sharp every day, was calling out
In the Canton dialect, Drawings OF the
lottery Results Of the lottery
Goodness mol He was merely calling
Chinese newspapers. For the Wing Fu
Club and the Chu Association as well say
the legal papers 'are used as a place OF
social Intercourse and contain books
newspapers and periodicals, mainly in the
Chinese language No gambling there
Not the slightest hint.
II has been supposed that the Chinese
who appeared at the door Of % Pen street
every afternoon and sang sing-song
Cantonese spiel along the sidewalk was
announcing that the pie-gow game was
omen for the day. That Is a great mistake.
He is calling attention TO the fine display
OF choice vegetables in the store on the
ground floor. So, too, the announcement
made at 9 O'Clock advertises the Chinese
Theatre up in Doyers street 1t does not
have anything to do with fan-tan. Any
one who reads the injunction papers which
describe the perfectly unsullied purposes
of the Wing Futs can see that. For these
papers show that the Wing Futs at their
social meetings are concerned with harm
less discussions Of the traffic in Chinese
lilies and margins on Nankin ware.
Its the same way with the Chu Association
At 10 and u Doyers street. They meet TO
advance the interests OF the Chinese race
When the Chu5 we're pulled, 70 the NUMBER
Of twenty--iG, on April 5, they paid their
IS apiece like little men because they don
understand English and it would cost them
moro than IS to learn. The heavy oak door
at u Doyers street, which Is REINFORCED
with riveted iron bars, Is to render the Gnu
Association immune from the intrusion OF
persons, Chinese and white, who would
butt into a circle Of sages and aristocTats,
immersed in a DISCUSSION OF the ninety--lIth
saving of CJnfucius. The thoughts Of Con-
fucius are terribly hard TO follow. In
tagging after his great mind, the Chinese
use system Of their own: The major
propositions are represented by discs Of
rcd oel loid about an inch and half in
diameter. The minor propositions are
represented by white discs OF dimensions
exactly similar. The thoughts Of Mencius
and the other minor philosoph are repre-
sented by blue diSc', II Is great system
In order 20 escape the oontag ion of inferior
mind., whom they might encounter on the
street, the philosophers Of the Chu and
Wing Fut schools enter by back entrance
and sundry secret passages.
One who knows the Chinese we'll, and
knowing them has learned the art Of lying
without blinking, spoke thus yesterday
Of the situation in Chinatown:
-Its blamed shame the games 50 easy.
About the time the cops on Elizabeth street
get res dy 70 raid, the word Is passed up
Pell street. They keep on APPLYING.
And by and by the cops bang at the doors.
Zipl and the head men Of the gambling
house duck through one Of the little secret
panels. I he deck hands 60 on playing.
in come the cops. There's a big rough
house. on to the cooler go All Sing, pro-
prietor-hes a laundryman-and All FUt,
dealer-he's a packer In a chink store.
Along comes a short hair chink in American
clothes and balls them out. Next morning
they all get fine Of S. And the old chink
u calling on lottery returns along Pell
street before the Magistrate has got through
lecturing on the Sin Of gambling. All
chihlks look alike TO the COPS
At % Pell street yesterday afternoon two
Cinnamon stood lettering by the door. A
SUN reporter passed them, up the stairs.
Sid two words in Chinese singsong and
followed up the st irs
On the FIRST floor there was a vegetable
shop and two Chinese lodgings, where
respectable looking old gentlemen sat
Hoor, two hal open doors emitted singular
pungent smell. These doors were closed
mysterously from within, but before they
were closed they gave a glimpse Of China
men reclining on couches, doing something
interesting with long, clumsy pipes and
alcohol lamps n the front apartment
YVES a door which felt to the knock like a
solid wall. II was studded with iron bolts.
Before THE Sun reporter knocked, there
was a gently clicking sound, as though
proposition Of Confucus had conhicted
with a proposition Of Mencius. After the
knock there waano sound.
"Whassamalla?' suddenly asked the
Chinaman who had followed.
where's the Wing Fut Company mo
sabe Wing Fut,4 said the Chinese. NO
catch EN-. Y u tly 1eben Mott. Maybe you
catch-em And strange to say no other
Chinaman In % Mott underst cd a word Of
English.
At 10 and p Doyers there Is another
heavy door. Chinese two doors down
the street said that he had a key He
opened the door and went up one flight.
The place was vacant. There were the
bright spaces on the walls where the tail
ends Of hunks had kept the wall paper
clean. II was a strangely narrow room.
you see!" said the guide. "Evlybody
20 way. All gone,"
The reporter approached a closet. The
door was locked. Yet for a moment Il
seemed as though the sound Of q major
proposition Of Confuoius knocking against
a minor proposition had hoated through the
keyhole.
3Closet topsidel' said the guide. sNo
catch em key SAY you come, ! show
you Chinese gin. Come on" And he smi ed
m st engage lglv.
As the searching party went down the
stairs Of 10 Doyers a pair OF Chinese who
Tipped from nowhere In particular watched
them on their way down the stairs.
And while drinking Chinese gin from n