Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-09
.SHR|NERS KOWTOW
TO GREAT DRAGON
THEY DRINK RICE ZEM-ZEM IN
CHINATOWN
Visiting Mobiles See Oriental Quarter
and Smell the Heavy Smoke
of the Festive
Hop

The tom toms beat and the cornets
suueaked q noisy welcome In CHINATOWN
last night, for the Shriners with fez ana
emblem invaded the precincts OF the little
oriental city early in the afternoon and
remained until the rice wine cups had
been emptied and the mobiles were having
dreams Of the happy hunting grounds
For once those mobiles who visited the
Chinatown district were given chance
to see what real Chinaman looked like.
The great red and pink and white, yell
low, green and purple lanterns swung
from the caves of the little houses and
merchants stores on Apablassa, North Los
Angeles and Marchessault streets. Inc
closed shutters and from out doorWays
where the wearers. of the red fez were
welcome. Guides piled their trade to ad-
vantage from one end of the town TO the
other, showing the visitors the sights and
gaining them admittance to some OF the
homes where, because of the exclusive ma
ture of the Chinese, but few men ever
enter.
Their General a Shriner
But the Chinese are great on etiquette
especially when they finally learn what is
| expected of them. When they became i'm
pressed with the idea that 1t was not the
regular New Years crowd that they were
| the hot sands the yellow men became
happy. When they learned that Gen
Homer Lee, whom they all admire, was
Shriner their faith in the white man Wen wen!
the word from Wong Fong, director OF the
fates of man. woman, child and business
among the yellow men, then they becam'
| assured, and the wearers OF the fez Wer'
given hearty welcome.
| At the Gong Jue temple, where there arr
many Chinese Masons constantly in at
| tendance, the Shriners received a roya
welcome, and the temple was kept as sof
| of an open house.
| The Chinese restaurants did a grea
business and the Shriners wrestled will
chop. sticks and noodles to their hearts
delight and to the infinite enjoyment O
the Chinese. If there is anything that Il
discouraging it is the white mans first at
tempt to eat noodles with chop sticks, ant
he rarely ever tries the performance NOR
| than once.
See Big Dragon
At the Bow Wong Wui hall, the home o
the great dragon, the Shriners wer
liancy. Banners of all kinds and descrip
tions hung about the big hall, while tn
huge dragon. 300 feet long and .glitterins
mass of gold and silk, basked in tn
radiance and was happy His huge head
with the enormous jeweled eyes, looke'
out over these strangers from the no
sands, and his great mouth wrinkled int
| a kindly smile of welcome.
For years this great dragon or its pre-
decessor has been carried in the Fiesta
floral parade. This year there will be M
dragon in the parade. The federal officer
began to watch the Fiesta parade closely
and Immediately thereafter the 300 Chimes
used to manipulate the dragon were line
up and those boys who had no paper
were promptly sent back to China. Fo
this reason the great dragon basks secur
in the lights of the tong hall in Chinatow
and receives his guests there. Last nigf
tea was served to many of the Shriner
1.xr1 10 lNaa Of fol Vsae
little maids of Chinatown.
Sinners are welcome to the little settle
ment during the week and every courtes
will be shown them.