New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-25
HIP SINGS PAY DEBT.
KILL TWO ON LEONGS.
-Four Wounded in Nero Years
4fray Bet1ceen Rival ToBgs.

It IS a pleasant Celestial custom to pay of all
old debts on New Years Day. Now yesterday
being the first day Of the thirty-second year Of
the benefcent and illustriOus reign Of Kwang
Su, who sits on the dragon throne when the
most dreaded and entirely to be honored Tsi-An
allows him to do so, the Hip Sings started out
to square their long account against the On
Leong Tong. In a few minutes two OF the on
Leong Tong had Joined their ancestors. Pell-st-.
with its lanterns and vermilion and yellow pla-
cards, looked like a stage setting for the second
act OF THE Belle Of New-Yorlz,' but instead OF
the belle complaining They always follow me-"
there entered about a half dozen Hip Sing
hatchetren. armed with long blue baTelled re-
voIvers. When the cracking Of the revolvers
ceased to ningle with the popping OF the giant
hrecrackers. two men OF the On Lsong Tong lay
dead IN the street. and three others, seriously
wounded, were vrithing and crying shrily in
the Pell-st. gutter.
Mock Duck. the "Tszoz" OF the on LeOng
Tong IS back and they give him all the credit
Of the affair. "Tszoz' IS pronounced like a
sneeze broken off in the middle. and means
troublemaker no one disputes that Mock Duck
is we'll named.
Tom Lee. the Mayor OF Chinatown and the
head OF the On Leong Tong. had assured the
police that the Ratchet had been buried and
that all was peace between the on Leong and
Hin Sing Tongs. but Captain Tracy, OF the Eliz-
abeth-st. station. sent fifteen extra patrolmen
into Chinatown yesterday to be on tho safe side
About p. m. While the patrolmen were guess
ing what was printed on the big verrnilion ana
yellow pIacards and banners Lee Soon, a pros
porous laundryman. met Chu Ying, OF the same
craft. in PeIl-st. Gong He Fa Toy" said Lee
to Chu, which Is by way OF wishing one "a
happy New Year in the Middle Kingdom Lee
wished many thousands Of the same to the Il
lustrious Chu, when the latter jumped to one
side and yelled instead. "Lu Ike la To-" which
means Look out"
Lee did not look out IN time, and went down
with a big bullet hole through his head. Before
the Hip Sing hatchetman. who had leaped from
a doorway. could swing his revolver toward the
frightened Chu. doorways and windows vomited
forth Hip Sings. Chu outIived Leo only two
seconds.
The street was crowded with wrlulLled old men.
quaint dolI-Iike babies. merchants Of the peace
full trading Tongs, and a large scattering Of
On Leong Tongers and white men. For three
minutes the cracking OF the revoIvers sounded
like the continuous rattle OF machine gun.
Before the echo Of the last shot had died away
the only Orientals in sight were the three
wounded on Leong men. one wounded Hip Sing
man and eight prisoners who had been dragged
from the fray by Patrolmen Hoffman and
O'Donnel. and Detective Miller.
After the bodies Of Chu and Lee had been
taken TO the Elizabeth-st. station. Huie Poo. OF
Doyers-st.. was brought in. He had a big Jag
ged bullet wound through the body which Will
probably kill him. Before he was taken TO the
Hudson-st. Hospital he was identified as the
Hip Sing man who had tried 10 settls his old
years debt by shooting Lee.
All but two OF the eight prisoners are Hip
Sing men. When they were searched at tho
station house tho big guns I'm favor with the
hatchetnen were found in the sleeves or beneath
the tunics OF every one Of them. The presence
OF the guns the two On Leong Tong men has
led the police to believe that the gamblers had
some warning OF the rata TO be made on them
10y the "reformers" ana were partly prepared,
but tie Hips caught the-- uuawares
More Than one hundred shots were fred IN all
The bullets smashed nearly every window In
the houses facing the battlefield cut their way
through doo-s and We're found buried IN the
bricks and plaster o. tha walls.
Deputy CD-Iul5s.0ae- MACK visited Chinatown
later iu the day and went away after brief look
at the battlefield. Coroner Hamburger. accom-
panied by Deputy Assistant District Attorney
Turnbul. went to the HudsOn-st Hospital 70 get