The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-07

yers to prepare the fraudulent maria 9e
papers that are carried to China by the
agents TO be brought back and present
Cd to the immigration inspectors upon
arrival IN port Under the terms of the
national Chinese exclusion act. an
2merlcan-born Chinese of the merchant
class may at any time go TO China to
get wife and return with her to the
United States. 1t is this provision of
the law that the willy slave dealers and
Their American advisers have warped to
their purpose.
Are of Tender Age
Many of the girls sold into slavery
are OF the tender age of Is years,
they are never older than %, for at
that time of life, IN the Chinese mind,
a girl loses her youth Purchased from
their parents in the interior cities and
towns OF China and brought across the
ocean ia the big liners, they are SO
confused and dazzled upon arrival that
they can answer the questions of
the immigration inspectors only as
T3n hy Their custodians during the
II ever girl realizes what is
before her and refuses to submit,
bribery is resoyted TO by the agent in
charge of her ard tne Chinese inter
prefer, speaking between her and the
inspector, accommodatingly frames her
answers to fulfill the law. Several Of
these interpreters, wearing the blue
uniform of the United States immigra-
tlon service, nave been found visiting
the girls after the sale of the unfor-
tunate creatures into the slave dens,
The location of the houses within
which these girls are imprisoned have
become known to the authorities; in
fact, their barred windows serve as an
advertisement of the business for which
they are maintained. Before the burn
ing of San Francisco they were ar
ranged with their entrances on q pri-
vate alley known as Baker Court. In
the heart of the Chinese quarter. Watch
men stood where Baker Court opened
off Dupont street, one of the public
thorougbfares of the section. These
wstchmen were kept on duty day and
night, for there was constant fear
OF trouble from the Federal officers.
Since the fire of April, 1906, the help
less slaves have been kept in smaller
buildings in Bartlett alley, dirty for
bidding place. and in an immense wood
en- prison, especially constructed for the
purpose, al the corner of Second and
Harrison streets, across the bay in Oak
land,
The buildings are cut up into small
rooms, in each of which sits slave girl,
little more than a child, crochctinG
some dainty thing for her adornment,
slipping tea or breathing In the fumes
from the sacred smoking punks of her
faith. Day after day, year after year,
she is kept there with only an occa-
sionai outing for breath of fresh air,
Awful Life of Slaves.
These outings are given her once D
week On bright afternoon you may
see a pale-faced Chinese girl, appar-
emily walking alone along the streets
of The quarter. but she is not alone,
for few steps behind her you Will sec
a withered old Chinese woman. The
girl is under constant surveillance; the
old woman is watching her, ready to
CRY out the alarm should she attempt
TO escape. The slave is not allowed to
wander outside Chinatown, and before
dark is again securely locked In her
little cell The outing is more IN the
nature of an exhibition of the girl be-
fore possible Chinese admirers. Always
she is dressed IN the prettIest of blouses.
her black hair coiffured with utmost
care and heavily ornamcnted with gold
and Jade, ,.c A.
II is a miserable life that the en-
shaved girls are forced to endure. once
i'm a while one is stolen from Il slave
den bv Chinese and carried away 20
be made his wife. but Immediately one
of the highblnder tongs hHes a prIce