The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-28
RADBLNG OF THE JAPANESE
rINDID WORLD FURNISHED
UITH A JAPANESE VERSION.
Gan Francisco Japanese Newspaper Sends
rs Reporter 10 Describe the Attacks
IpoH Two Eating Houses and q Bath
House Prompt Complaint 70 Japan.

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IFS Reporter 10 Describe the Attacks
Ipon W. Eating Houses and q Bath
House-Prompt Complaint TO Japan.
A mIl report OF the disturbances caused
nv the San Francisco mobs to the Japanese
restaurant and bathhouse on Monday,
Nav 20. is printed in Japanese in the jap
ortse American, daily, Of San Francisco,
NJ the issue Of May "a, which just reached
New York yesterday. According to the
-soort. the two American customers OF
the japanese restaurant who have been
reported in the dispatches to have zen
eiected from the japanese establishment
really have not been elected, but simply
hid themselves in the kitchen OF the restau-
rant. afraid as they were OF the mobs, and
fed from the back door. ,
Now, to begin at the beginning Of the
story. the trouble began at 7:3O P. M, Mon
day, May 20. Two or three men who
looked like laborers suddenly halted their
march in front OF the Lion Restaurant,
,2a Eighth street, kept by q Japanese. by
the name Of Inota Hawai-, and beckoned
10 several white men who were having
their dinner in, the restaurant to come
out. They were seen whispering together
for FIVE minutes. Then appeared on the
scene about thirty lAborers, who gathered
in front of the entrance OF the laura
They prevented every white man from
entering the restaurant. They even re-
sorted to violence TO enforce their plan
of boycotting the restaurant. Seeing that
trouble was brewing, the keepers OF the
restaurant closed their establishment at
an unusual hour OF 1850 P. M.
The rioters did not do any more damage
10 the Lion Resta urant than compelling
the keepers to close the door, which OF
course was a considerable damage. They
turned their front toward Folsom street
and there besieged the Horse Shoe Restau-
rant. kept by the Japanese, Morisaburo
Nakashima. The attack pom the Horse
Shoe Restaurant seems to have been pre-
meditated, for there we're already gathered
about fifty Of the comrades OF the rioters.
They had with them a wagon full OF a
mountain Of stones and bricks. The rioters
commenced their engagement at 7:SO by
throwing these stones n bricks al. the
Ella sses in front OF the restaurant n kept
on doing so until 1880 p. NJ. No wonder
that the glasses we're no match in this way
81 SIa ssay Window was left there. Two white
out Of the restaurant and told not to enter
it again. They. moreover, have beer
badly beaten with fists by the mobs. The
walters, true to the spirit OF byshido OF
went to the rescue Of their customers in
distress. But they were beaten back by
the flying bricks, which hit hard their chests:
Painful from the effects OF wounds caused
by the flying slings sent by ths incarnation
Of the American Indians, the walters stayed
in nod all dav tho ma nj dav
Under the circumstances the keepers
Of the restaurant, however brave they
may ordinarily be, were terrorstricken
and went way back inside the house and
we're two white customers left in the dining
room. These two were afraid to go out
from the front door. So they joined the
restaurant keepers and hid themselves
in the inside OF the house. They could
not go home all evening until 10 P. NJ,
when they stole out OF tho hou from the
back door.
On May Fl. when the reporter of the
JdpdneSo American went there the windows
we're patched with wooden boards. But
none Of the keepers Of the restaurant could
be seen in the place.
The b~athhouse, the Nagamoto Yuba,
kept by Nagamoto. a hotel keeper, which
bathhouse is just across the street from
the Horse Shoe Restaurant, that 10 at 1914
Folsom street, was also the scene OF rioting.
ALMOST b~lInulUdH0Oub WIN INC OutUuIB
Of mob spirit upon the restaurant several
fragments Of bricks were thrown into the
hathhouse. Immediately two or three
windoy glasses in front Of the establish
ment were broken. II was o about
1890 P. NJ. The bsthhouse had already
finished its days work, and there was left
there only one Of the servants of the place. !
What could he do against this wholesale
attack OF the mob? So he abandoned the
bathhouse to it's fate. But soon the~r rioters,
the Indians Incarnate, evacuated the bath
house. According to the one servant
those who threw stones and bricks num-
hered about two hundred. Happily for
him he was not injured. When the re- |
porter visited the place Nagamotn> the
proprietor was there. But fearing a second
attack, he did not open the business all day
on May 21.
As Tor the financial loss caused by the
noting, the damage caused on the window
glasses Of the Horse Shoe Restaurant
was by far the heaviest. IL amounted
70 $500. Besida the glasses we're insured.
It is a question whether the insurance
company will have to pay for the damage
caused by the willful acts Of men. But
That is not strictly our business to inquire
into.
Then, as has been reported in the des-
patches. the Japanese Association, which
stands for the protection OF persons and
property OF the Japanese colony in San
Francisco, together with the Japanese
Consulate officials, took steps TO call for
the actions on the part OF the foreign de-
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