The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-03
CHINATOWN IS. DESOLATED
FOR THE MOVING DAY CAPT.
CALVIN DECREED HAS PASSED.
IAchi Minnie Vowed She wouldn't and
Then Changed Her Mind-Bargain
Marriage Certificates Flashed in Vain
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-Exeunt Women and L%obbysows Too
Lichi Minnie sat on the edge Of her bec
and argued 1t out with Capt. Mike Calvin.
$50 you weren't thinking anything O.
moving2' uueried Calvin Nth :arcsn.
Moving? Say, quit your Kidding. Cap
What put 1t into your pan that l was goint
TO mover Ltchi Minnie smiled broadly
station as she reached under her pillow
for a cigarette.
where were you when / came arouno
here two nights ago?'
"Me? Why l was up in Boston, Cap
visiting friends in the Back Bay district
just got back this morning.
Calvin bit of a grin.
$50 nobody's given you the tip that to-
day is moving day for all you girls in
Climate wn: that it's a case Of git to-day
or the Islacd for a rest up? Come now,
get a truck and beat it with your furniture
while the suns shining"
Lichi Minnie feigned to be startled;
then after casting a glance up at the
captain she grinned again and came
down to hardpan.
S'NS ~ yoo otdiSht, >dp' coio
Minnie with earnestness, Il can't move
because, I'm cleaned cleaned an not an
iron dollar in the sugar can. Give me a
quarter to get to Coney Island; III blow
before another hour
Calvin cast a glance at two glistening
stones in Minnie's ears. another at the fur
niture. Then he said that Liohi Minnie
was better heeled thar he was,
Take the rocks to Levy's.' said he.
They're worth fifty if they're right.
You can get another fifty on your
furniture
Minnie screamed shortly: .
why. Cap. you wouldn't have me hook
my rocks. They're my front. Cap.
They're all the front I've got. An the
furniture-I've been paying so cents a
week on that for three years. an it amt
one-third paid for. Go easy. Cap. go
easy"
Capt. Calvin took out his watch sig
%nifcantly. He pointed to the figure
XII.
Until midnight tonight, Min said he.
and he climbed down the three flights Of
stairs to Pell street.
Pell street was in a state Of mind all
yesterday afternoon. There was a gath
ering of the Celestial clans in front OF
Lung, the good friend Of Mock Duck and
tender Of the getaway in that gambling
house where the recent raiders found the
policy slips all done in epigrams from
the Chinese classics. stood with his hands
in his sleeves n out OF his pig eyes
he viewed the passing Of the p%ushcarts
and express wagons piled with furniture.
He called in staccato treble across the
street to Tzi Chung. the gambler who was
just padding down the stairs from n scene
OF desolation in the fiat two foors above
the street.
What Hor Lung called out was not for
the barbarous ears of Capt, Calvin or any
Of his men stationed every fifty feet along
Pell street. But in answer TO the hail
TIL Chung simply rolled his eyes up into
his head and hoisted one shoulder. Tzi
Chung had come to believe hat the fiat
on the second floor above the street was
pretty nearly his. TZi Chung had learned
the vanity Of all human convictions.
Capt. Calvin went to a house on Doyers
street, climbed the stairs and stopped
at a door which had failed to open to the
knock OF his men in the last two DAYS.
He banged on the door and 1t was opened
by a Chinaman. Calvin walked in, kicked
out OF his way an opium mat that cluttered
the floor and caught a woman by the
sleeve OF her kimono as she started to
speed for a back room.
You too" said Calvin.
dare you to chuck me out was the
viyenish challenge thrown at Calvin.
I'm a respectable married and
Gee Gum here is my man.
let's see your marriage certificate
The woman hounced to n bureau drawer
and brought out n heavy paper rolled in
IA cylinder. She slapped il into the cap
tain's hands and turned up her nose.
How long have you been married.
queried Calvin without looking at the
paper.
The certificate will tell you that.
What you asking me forf"
How old are you now?- was Galvin's
next question. as he ran his eye down the
length OF the paper.
I'm "a. il it's any Of your business"
Then you must have been married
when o were ! years DID, snapped
back Capt. Calvin after some hasty calcu-
lations. This date is 1882. ! guess you'll
clear out with the rest Of EN-"
In the course of the few days OF active
work that the captain of the Elizabeth
street station has put in among the rook-
cries OK Chinatown seeing that his orders
for the speedy emigration Of all white
women are carried out he has learned
that marriage certificates are al common
as punksticks throughout the quarter.
The, pride of the upper circles seems
w HdNc uciihtihpi soibo solbPldtl't |
with this usage of society.
Capt. Calvin knows OF one stationery
store on Park row and another on Pearl
street where marriage licenses can be
bought, winged cupids and all. ready
for the signatures for a modest price.
At each of the dispensing centres there
are obliging clerks who will even Ali
in the spaces upon the diotation of their
customers II haply they should suffer
from a deficient early training. There
was a set custom that obtained in China
too which provided that should
a wife" of one of the residents die the
marriage certificate which she obtained
by inheritance might pass to her first
friend either by sale or bequest.
Along with the passing Of the China
town wife the seven plaques Of the Eliza
beth street station are to be visited upon
the h%omeloving lobbygow. When Calvin
issued his orders that the women must
go he inserted as a corollary the peremp-
tory fiat that the lobbygow must fit also
or get TO work.
A sad day for the lobbygows Was yester-
day. On the corner Of Pell and Mott
there assembled four Of depressed
mien. Each had helped his special patron
to pack her gasolene stovea and silk stock
ings on a pushcart and each had cleaned
the milk bottles and fed the cat for
the last time. Five cents Of the wage
had gone for cigarettes and
dark was the prospect. The gloom was
lightened any when Calvin swung
around the corner and stopped in front
Of the group.
Feeling strong to-day. Luigi was
the greeting that the police captain was
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