The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-26


work. The police say the China
men go to Sunday school only to
learn English and to associate
with well-bred white girls.
when a Catholic priest came
down here into Chinatown to
work." said Officer Aaronson, a
Chinatown policeman, THE CHA
boys asked him why he didn't
start Sunday school. He rented
a room and began Sunday school
work. One day he asked a China
man who had suggested the Sum
day school. why the Cinnamon
didn't attend
lyon no hab got Mclean girl
teacher replied the Chinaman.
|suggestively. The priest closed
the Sunday school"
The police say the Chinese Sun
day school boys always fool their
teachers and that many OF them
live fast lives, in spite of their
regulations for long. sincere and
loud prayers at the missions.
The women who work in the
missions always take the part of
the Cinnamon when they are in
trouble with the police.
In October, 1908, a beautiful
girl, well-dressed, called at a New
York police station to see Charley
Shue. who had been arrested,
charged with a serious offense
against girl of IA years.
THE police ought to have
spanked the girl instead of paying
any attention to her story" said
the young woman. Charley
wouldn't have done such a thing.
And if he did the girl tempted
him."
At another time, when 90
Cinnamon we're arrested as the re-
suit of stories told by young girls,
the station houses were literally
flooded with flowers. dainty vict-
uals and cigarets that were
brought to them by well-dressed
white women who claimed to be
interested In Chinese mission
work.
These women argued with Cap,.
Buchanan of the police station
that IL "our boys are guilty 1t is
the fault of the girls"
When the Cinnamon were tried
the court room was thronged
with well-dressed women.
Magistrate Furlong became an
CRY at them. Said he, in open
court:
"The Chinese Sunday school is
simply makeshift for these fell
lows to acquire a knowledge of
English. l haven't any patience
with this maudlin sympathy which
induces missions and Sunday
schools to send their young wom-
en- here with fruits, flowers and
cigarets for these Mongolians. Il
deplore the sickly condition or
American womanhood that per-
mits itself to be led into such
folly"
| Women mission workers who
think they get to the bottom of
1.-THE Chinese character are badly
fooled, say the New York police.
Cinnamon who seem to tell their
teachers all about their lives and
relations belong to secret Chinese
lsocieties.
The high caste Cinnamon flock
to the Sunday schol that has the
lprettiest teacher. II a low caste
Chinaman begins to gain the SYM
pathy of the teacher one of the
high caste men will go to him,
according to policeman in China
TOWN, and tell him to stay away
from Sunday school. And the
pretty Sunday school teacher will
wonder why she has lost another
lpupil. @
Two weeks ago, Captain Calvin
of the district in which Chinatown
is situated ordered all the white
girls on Mott street to move. Over
! so girls left quarters which they
ad been occupying with China
Zen.
There is police rule in China
own now that, only white girls
I yho are the wives of Cinnamon
AN live in the district. China
\ men who have white wives are
imposed to be so grateful for this
,olice favor that they will recipro-
ate by preventing the sale of
Il ,pium to white girls who come
nto the district.
4 In spite of this rule there are
hundreds of white girls of various
Il ocial degrees who visit China