New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
CHINATOWN'S NEW YEAR
Felestiois Celebrate First Of Ten
Suns of Delight and Good Deeds.

,-.;,atoxn ,ot its New Year celebration under
Yui headway yesterday. the first of the Ten suns
>s delight and Good Deeds. The old year had gone
~, with a salute of hrecrackers leaving 'he no.
,cr tangled streets with splotches Of red paper
Or the siush and snow. 1t had anything p"t 'ie
arnearsrce of "a day of delight bh, III u"e if'-i'
the New Year callers Jared for'h VIII .a.u
sacked in ire sleeves of glistenfng OIL sik water
proofs of brown and REQ that iooheo mn
sift smoking jackets
And every caller seemed 10 carry as ii"'S
,sosiv.s as one of Bob Evanss battesh'ps- p'
fore entering store tenement mouse e"0ii
rros,n SCI of a bunch of frecrackers- 1hete ""S
-,,so, for this because the noise would drive
ava. the sinshee those evil spirits tha' =" -
Years wait outside the door TO snip 'h
<ri,n6s and plaoe upon the sickness and nara
,,c, for tbe next twelve moons. AS soon as t "
salute was fred the eoor would open ana IN "o"as
ouicklv troon the callers with cackns cry o'
Gong We Fa Toy" This was done "iihe ~
n fled spirits beating it in terror
When the rain ceased Chinatown took on ga!
.n,.srance for the children in gala fciotnes-'n"
80 gi-is an mink and blue trousers and the poss :"
skirss-v-ere taken out with their elders Al ai VI
~ro-es the regular customers were trea'eu " -
amusing game. Eacn was inVitoh 10 ui1" -
.nvelone from a pile in box Perhaps the eiNei-
= a,..,,s5 s1 nofe; perhaps il held a pinch
oF s,,,nopder There much joking WIN 'he
,r,lvack5 because they must. according 10 ou ' "
light match the envelope and hoio II ui'' ~
-ord.r pursed out This brought good luck even
t,,, tho great feature of the afternoon aro even
ing was the dinner Of the Chinatown brahch OF 'i "
American Express Company. at the ONCE No -
Mott street For many years this has speiieo
hands across the seattle Pacihc-and the a'-
tendance record read like who's W no III NhlI"
-au-n Among scores of others were Quon he No'
Sam Kee Sam To John Kee. Moy Tlsh ana Lee
r. Lock. These are the men OF "esiIn' uie Hio'ie'
,t--s of .he quarter and they were viewed by
aned crouds of laundry workers and lonoyso,s'
,hs common p.ope OF the little Oriental world
TIC s,,esss were received by II. Julia, general
manager; ]. K. Christie. superintendent ana '" v
Y Markle of the financial department Ernest
Ia Grange who runs the Mott street ONCE aho
sneaks Chinese gave the other Americans the cue
IN shaking hands with himself every time caler
arrived He also soon taught them to say Sic
yuen- meaning Have cigar?' and 'Glnoe
Nuen' meaning Have q drink one OF the
Americans thanked him for the instruction remark
.pr II Ike 10 know 'em III all languages so /
won't miss any
There were many speeches. and, though most OF
.he big merchants understand English, there was
8 deal Of work for the interpreters. They talked
Of the financial situation and of the hard time In
.he quarter 1T is as Heaven Wills said one
sreaker and then his voice drowned by the
Trecrsckers that were throwing scares into the
evil spirits outside
Lieutenant Murray and the squad Of extra pa
troinen were busy last night keeping order and
watching sharply 10 that none of the fire
cracker reports covered the noise of 44s in the
hands Of tong fighters. The theatre IN poyers
street put on new attraction Wing Tim Ting
Nook which has only forty acts. the last OF
which will be reached in the spring Sam wo said
the title means Too Much Money IN the Pocket.
So rerhaps it's sonleth hing like ''Brewsters Mill
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