Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-28
The Lid Now Said TO Be
Off in the Big City.
Gradually the Town Has Be-
come wide Open" Again.
Trouble ia Chinatown---War Of Rival Mar.
rage Promoters.

NJ" York, and everyone is wondering
who lifted it. 1t has been getting
raised gradually for some time, and
dice Commissioner Eingham's recent
absence from tpmn, when his deputy
'Ithncwne waldo" was left in com
| natd, has been the signal for all re-
straint To be thrown To the winds. The
deepest thirst can no" be assuaged on
sunday in any rart of town, gambling
| houses flourish almost openly, aud
their touti crowd the lobbes Of certain
hotels; the roplr"pin and the handbook
ere much III evidence, and in the Ten
| dcrloin as well as on the East Side
nunG rous resorts nf unsavOry reputa-
| ton tiaunt th,lnselsrs under the eye OF
! the raGSrrby. Several prize fights
| take place every night i'm Father
| knickerbocker's to"n. in spite Of the
| stringent laws against public tistic en-
,ounteIe.
Not since the days when big Bill
| Dc"cry held the reins Of police control
| has New York been 50 wide open. The
| state Of affairs became clear to all this
| eek when il became known that a
| prominent mining millionaire dropped
| so. 600 at Gottli-h Walbaum's gamb-
| ing house near the Waldorf. Down
| in Chinatown there are said 10 be sixty
| fantan tables and ten lottery games
| running. each table and each game
| paying $3.50 a Week for police rrotec-
| ton. Who is getting the money?
| who is the real head Of the police de-
| partmcnt? These are the questions
| puzzlinS New Workers.
Chinatown, New York's caldrOn of
| mystery. is again bubbing and s.eth-
! ing as it has not dubbed and Seethed
since the rival societies, the on Leong
| ard tie Hip Sing. signed the famous
| Peace Of Chinatown last February,
| at which they SWore to be good. Now
| Chinatown is living in momentary eX-
| pect ation that something will happen.
| Over the ON Leong headquarters floats
| a new white flag with n red border,
| which. according to timorous Chris
| tarzcd Mongolians. is the death
| flag" and through chinatown's crook
| c,l alleys are strewn little red cards
| with nminous oriental lettering. which,
| some say. means Death to the Hip
Sings" though others maintain that the
| cards simply advertise the best place 10
| buy chicken chow. And new faces have
| appeared in Chinatown. The Hip
Sing men say that these are notorious
| Eatchct mon from San francisco. i'm
| ported by the ON Lenng. The present
| situation is the result Of an attempt
| on til" part Of the Hip Sing gentry to
| get The on Leong men to join them in
| an appeal to the District Attorney and
| the Police Commissioner to stop
l LII in ia
TN Leongers. though protesting their
| anxiety Ia Danish fantan. appeared to
lave been seized with writer's cramp
Whr,! the time came for the signing OF
| the appeal. The result has been a Sc
were strain in the relations between the
two societies. The Hip Sings wariy
| watch the death flag" flying in the
| languid May breeZcs and predict
slaughter The on I.ennStrs smile.
ana. in response to questions. ShruS
their shoulders.
Now that the Senate mas passed the
Hepburn bill, with the prospect that it
viii become Law without delay inter-
est in the proceedings of Congress is At
low ebb in the metropolis. 50 far rs
public discussion Of the completed bill
has gone, it seems to he regarded as a
generally satisfactory. if somewhat
radical measure. None Of the officers
Of the great railway systems have tX-
pressed an opinion of the law for pub
LEGATION, but their general attitude is
that they are willing to accept the
provisions Of the projected law and to
obey its requirements in the hope that
the politicians will turn to some other
subject and leave them To devote all
their energies to the task of carIng for
the great volume of transportation
presaGed by the promise of abundant
crops and unusual business activity.
This hope is ferVently echoed Icy the
Investing public, for nothing Is more
unsettling to financial values than
legislation dealing with economic con-
Citi0ns.
These are bad days for dead mon in
the metropolis, and also for their
friends and relatives, for with The
strike Of the funeral drivers a funeral
is a hazardous thing. In some cases
funerals have been held up for several
days because of the inability to get
drivers for the hearse and carriages.
been made for the cemetery, the
adamantine walking delegate appeared
and ordered the drivers away. There
have been several instances of funeral
parties being attacked by strikers who
lay in ambush on the road to the
cemetery and let fly volleys of stones
al the hearse and carriages. In tact, |
on some occasions. it has been as
much as ones life is worth to attend |
an interment. Wedding parties have
been subjected to similar annoy
ances. 1t is said that the strike has |
interfered with as many IS sixty we'd |
cings in single day. The general |
opinion has it that it Is straining the |
labor union principle few points |
when one cannot die or be married /
without permission to the walking dele
gate. Some irate bridegrComs have
threatened to lay the state of affairs
before President Roosevelt on the
ground that it puts premium on race
suicide.