New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-13
NEW TONG In FIELD.
MOCK DUCK TO Held IT.
Rumor of Neag Organization Startles
ill Chinatown.

The dawn of the New Year in Chinatown
brought new tong into that section which IN
tends to draw from both the Hip Sing and the
On Leong tongs. This was the rumor that went
the rounds of Chinatown last night while the
On Leong Tong was celebrating the years open
ing The fact that the two Older organizations
could not be drawn close enough together to
celebrate the Chinese New Year in common was
significant enough to cause the Police Depart
ment to flood the district with plain clothes men
and dozen extra uniformed men.
The Hip Sing Tong celebrated New Year on
Sunday night and invited none OF It's rivals 10
attend. nor did the On Leong Tong invite
any person outside of the organization The
members of the latter society started in at o: 80
last evening to celebrate and kept IT UP until an
early hour this morning. There was banquet
at No. IL hottest. and Chinese opera at the
headquarters of the organization on the top
floor of No. II.
Boston" who calls himself a Chinese mer-
chant was the eye of the organization. Nobody
was allowed inside the restaurant or at head
quarters whom he did not approve. The detec-
tives and newspapermen were treated courte-
ously, and every effort was made to convince
both that there no enmity between the
organizations.
peace no guns, lot of money" was the way
Boston" put 1t.
He said he did not carry gun, ana ulu hoI
want any one else to carry one.
Mock Duck has not been seen about China
town for two days, and the rumor that he is
the head of the new organization would not
down On the heels of the rumor that thlrd
organization was already formed came the news
that Wong Get. another character of that sec
ton was back in town and had allied himself
with Mock Duck. There is a history back OF
Wong Get which every Chinese youngster
knows Five years ago Wong Get was mys-
teriously missing. He was the president OF the
Hip Sings His friends spread the rumOr that
he had gone back to China. A few days before
he left a man and a woman were shot in emma
town The man was murdered and the woman
killed by a stray bullet.
Mock Duck succeeded him as president. A
wear ago Wong Get came back His return was
heraIded as the signal for break In the ranks
of the HIPS and the suggestion or something
more serious The police handIeG, tne seII IS
side of the matter, and after four Cinnamon hau
been killed in the Chinese Theatre, In Doyers-
ST I'm July Mock Duck was arrested ana spent
some months in the Tombs. Wong Get tried 10
get control of the Hips again Chong ron SillS
was chosen, and then a friend of Mock Duck
sent a coat of mail from San Francisco Tor
Mock Duck. ..,.
the peace conference of the tongs two weeks
ago Tom Lee intends TO have another cele-
bration tonight, and has invited several OF the
city and county officials. supreme Court ana
General Sessions justices and district Attorney
Jerome Police Commissioner Bingham and
Judge Warren w. Foster are TO be there IL is
to be simon pure peace dinner.
The performance at the Chinese Theatre last
night special one for separate Chlhese
tongs although members of both organizations
attended