The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-10-16

New York under the eyes
and noses of that city's people 'and
their officials. In this sphere men and
women have moved like the flotsam
in an eddy, against the stream OF the
world without. The secret rules OF
the order provided the only known es'
cape from the arm of the nations
law; they made men secure in the
commission of atrocities and veiled
the existence of a set of moral condi-
tons almost beyond comprehension;
certainly past monentary tolerance.
over the whole was a hectic fila.
ment of romance and morbid interest
which appeared to the chance passer
o. the Sightseer to make the place
Curiously fascinating corner trans
planted from another world-far too
original and alluring to be removed.
They called it Chinatown. 1t is no
place; it IS no street in particular,
though it has its center and its boun-
daries. 1t is rather a degenerate state
of the senses.
New Workers know Of it. of course,
there was brawl, a killing of some
Oriental or an opium den raid. These
were matters of course. No one gave
them more than passing attention.
To-day, however, New York knows
Chinatown in its true perspective. The
Elsie Sigel murder was the first rift
in the cloud that obscured the fact
OF Sc
York knows that Chinatown-the
spirit, not the place--is one of its
cruel, almost unthnkable problems
The latest outrage In Chinatown-a
place that brews outrages faster than
quagmire matches mosquitoes-is the
abduction of pretty mill girl of
Weehawken and her Imprisonment in
a Chinese den, where she was sub
jected to horrifying cruelties.
This most recent unfortunate is
Christina Braun, Is years old blue.
eyed and inclined to be just little
wild Christmas case differs from
that Of hundreds of other girls who
have fallen victim to the lures of Chi.
natown only in the fact that she had
the good fortune to escape before she
became slave to opium-the SUI.
preme evil OF this most vicious hole in
all the vast metropolis.
The girl went to Coney Island with
some friends on a Sunday. She lost
her companions in the crowd and
finally, after wandering about for a
time, went into a chop suey "joint" to
get bite to eat There she was
drugSed, and the next thing she re.
members she was being carried
through the labyrinthal hallway to a
Chinatown den.
The girl fought desperately to get
away from two Chinese who were
dragging her along the floor of the
dark hall, but she was beaten into in.
sensibility. When she next recoy.
cred consciousness she was in a dim.
Iy lighted room and a hideous China.
han was leaning over her, leering into
her face.
Again the girl screamed and fought
to get out OF the place, but was
knocked senseless. Between beatfngs
she was made to understand that she
Vas the slave Of her captor and that
lac best thing she could do would be
TO remain quiet. But devious, dark and
Gag as Chintown is. news will travel
theie, and the girl had not been in the
Den more than q hours before a
lobtygow Chinaman who acts as
s'ool pigeon and informer for ,ne Do
Acef-tcld two Mulberry street detec.
uENs that there was white girl pris.
or somewhere in the colony.
The men set watch and. after a
time succeeded in starving out and
capturing Joe Wong, an Americanized
chinese gambler The girl was found
n Wongs room. her face so bruised
that her friends had difficulty IN rec,
ognizing her when they visited her a.
tae headquarters Of the Gerry society
wong VAS locked W in the ronbs.