The Washington herald., 1908-02-26
All FOON SHOT DOWN
Feud Chinaman Is Silent as
to His AsSailant.
REFUSES TO TELL THE POLICE
Wears American Clothes and Is,
Called Cassidy-AIso Speaks Eng
Iish--Friend OF Tom lee, the Mayor
of ChinatOwn-A Golden Lily the
Cause OF All the Trouble.

New York, Feb 25.-On the first day Of
the new year, which was over two weeks
ago. All Foon went before the shrine OF
the Great Dog, in the Doyers Street JOSS
House-that same Great Dog whose eyes
are always kept turned toward the home
country, in Canton.
Before the shrine he placed cup of
tea, three punk snakes. and a sheaf of
red-paper prayers, even though he wore
American clothes and had his cue tucked
UP under his hat.
Then he stood before the man with the
horn-rimmed spectacles. and had him
shake the bamboo box Of fortune sticks.
One wooden wisp rose above the others
in the shaking. and the number of that
wisp inscribed in the Book OF Moons
showed that nothing but good fortune
and the right turning of the cards would
come 10 All Foon during the ensuing
year.
The Book of Moons" lied. The Great
Dog, whose eyes are always turned 10
the home country. played All Foon false
for that cup of tea. those punk snakes.
and that sheaf Of red-paper prayers duti-
fully placed before his shrine. for to-day
somebody shot An Foon in the dark, and
the one who did the shooting is not yet
dead.
known Hs Cassidy.
Does An Foon wear American clothes?
Yes. And ne speaks English? To be sure
He is even called Cassidy by the lobby
COWS and the black men who run the
dance halls in the Bowery But what
does that signify?
Does any one of those fellows who
wear a blue coat. and who stalk up
and dOwr through DOyers and Pell
streets swinging anight stick. think
that An Foon IS enough OF an Ameri-
can to run TO police station and tell
all he knows about the man whose face
he saw for an instant over the TOD Of
the blue green barrel OF a gun IN his
rooms at IS oliver street in the dim
hours Of to-day? Not An Foon Cas-
sidy, the wise Chinaman.
All FOOn is one Of the On Leongs,
and close man 20 Tom Lee, who is
called by the whites the Mayor OF
Chinatown. He sat down 20 Tom Lees
feast during the ten days of merry
making ar the New Year. along with
some other men who used 20 be mem
bers of the Hip Sing Tong.
OF course, since the killing in the
theater and the deaths in DOyers street
a few years ago, followed as those in
cidents were by the swearing Of a
perpetual peace between the rival So
cieties before a white commissioner. a
Hip Sing and an On Leong can sit
down 10 meat together without COM
junction.
Wear short sleeves NOW.
Especially this is so since so many
OF the HIP Sings wear short sleeves
now and do not walk with their hands
folded in the loop Of their long sleeves.
Since these things are so, it is quite
impossible, according TO the men in
blue uniforms. who carry night sticks.
that any difference between the Hip
Sings and the On Leongs could have
brought about the shooting Of All
FOon.
1t is written somewhere in the Ninth
Book OF KOng-Fu-Tse this pTOverb:
Save the petals Of yesterdays flow
ers, for in the blooming of to-mOrrow's
flowers you may forget the scent Of
blossoms that have passed
All FOOn scattered the petals of yester-
days flowers out in the new Chinatown
of San Francisco, when he was there
four months ago. Some man gathered
them up carefully and kept their scent
very near TO his nose. so that he would
not forget nor allow his eyes to be be-
guiled by the blossoms of the newer days.
Supposlng that in telling this little tale,
as it was told in scraps and fragments
by men in Chinatown who do not Ike All
Foon, the man with the American clothes, /
the Cassidy OF the Iobbygows, one should
drop the name All FOOn altogether and
simply relate a story. That would in no
way harm All Foon or cause him 20 stir
uneasily on the cot where ne lies in Hud-
son Street Hospital with . bullet through
his groin.
Surprising that a man, whose house on
Dupont street, out in San Francisco. was
burned during the fire. who straightway
rebuilt 1t. had delicate taste for the
Golden Lilies. which are now becoming so
scarce even in the home country. since
patriotic societies are doing away with (
4uolbHuluB. ana luElutI, suppose lnal I
after he had rebuilt his house on Dupont |
street, there by the steep Clay street hin, /
he had added TO his number one more |
Golden Lily, with whom he had gone /
through form Of marriage at the Meth /
odist Mission, on California street. out Of |
of American custom.
Exquisite Golden Lily"
Now this was a very exquisite Golden
Lily, indeed. She had such a mouth. and
her cheeks were like two plums that
grow red with the sun in Pupei her
lord. we will say, lavished upon her all !
of the jade and the gold the brocades and
the coral that she could carry on her
small person. She was ar exquisite plum
blossom that her lord kept shut up in !
back room so that the eyes Of common
men in the street should not be directed |
thither
One night not long ago may be. when
the fog was coming in over the top Of
the Preside hills and the street lamps i
were becoming blurred out there on that
steep Clay street hill the lord of this
particular Golden Lily went out to match |