The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-12
chinatown RUINS
WHITE GIRLS
CHUCK CONNORS, MAYOR OF
NEW YORK'S CELESTIAL SET.
ELEMENT, TELLS STORY OF
SUNDAY SCHOOL GIRL.

| New York, July 12.-"Ive seen a
lot of COILS like Elsie Sigel hike in
and beat it from Chinatown-come
from good homes n poor homes and
go to HI always de same HI"
said Chuck. Connors, mayor" OF
Chinatown.
Chuck COnnors is a man with a
hard face, who speaks a hard Ian
guage AMI has known a hard life.
He has seen the seamy side of
Bowery life for thirty years. He is
crude and vulgar. But Chuck Con-
nors has a heart, big and red and
pulsating, and in his curious way he
has done some good among his kind
in the evil haunts of the district over
which he rules as mayor"
Seated in the back room of Barney
Flynn's Bowery saloon. Chuck Con-
nors shook his head sadly at the
mention of Elsie Sigel's name, and
discoursed as follows: Il seen her
many a time in Mott and Pell streets,
sometimes with her ola loidy and
udder times with chink. Dat lit
tie skoit was like bunch o. little
COILS I've seen blow into Chinatown.
Her hear was in de right place, an
say, you can bet dat when dey put
up de barrier in dis here mission
race she got away ahead o de bunch
and started to lead de field. But
dey got 'er de same as dey get 'em
all
Queer About Chinks.
Deere is whole lot queer about
desc chinks. De women, dey get
crazy bout dem slant eyes. ana when
anybody gets to hittin' he hop desc
chinks smoke it's all off den.
Say. Dere was swell skoit come
down here few years ago, and she
took up wit a highbindin' chink in
an old dump down on Pell street.
She was quiet kid, and we didn't
t'ink much of her. an nobody knew
muffin bout her hist'ry Den she
got sick and it was de gallopin con
for her-she was Hunger for fair
and my wife Nellie she went in to
take a look at her She found de
poor little kid cryin' her lamps out
all wrapped up in an old musty flop
"Dis here kid seen her finish
ahead of her, I guess, cause she got
mushy all of sudden and spelled
it all out to Nellie. She used to be
a Sunday school woiker. too, and had
a swell dump up near Central Park.
she said. She met up wit a bloke
what trew her down and got her
head twisted. Den she went to the
bad.
Goes BughOuse Quick.
ITS oit'nly quick change from
Central Park down to Fourteenth
street, from Fourteenth street to the
Bowery, and then down to China
town. when a foolish little kid like
dat gets bughouse notions in her
coco. She made it in less than a
year.
We'll, Nellie, she tOle me about it.
and 1 couldn't get it off my noodle.
"A couple O. days later I sent my
wife down to see de poor little ting
again, and asst her where her home
was. She didn't want to tell, but
Nellie kind o. charmed her to tell
it. Well, not spielin' out the phony
bunk or anything like dat, | Just
want to say l sneaked up to Central
Park and beat it for dat house where
dis skoit's ole man andole woman
lived. Den told her old man where
de goil was. Honest, I tot her old
loidy would bawl her lamps out.
TaIIen U1rI RESCUED.
Il hung around de house and fer
long time dere wasn't no actions
but bawlin' going on. Den | say to
de old man, l says, You better cut
out de tears and get heavy on the
way if you want to get dat little Coil
out O. dat chink's joint an see her
alive again.
de old man hung back fer a min
ute an I seen maybe dat he didn't
want her-dat he didn't want her
now that she was spoiled An up
and says to him: 'Ye don't want her,
Ell. You don't want yer own flesh
and blood just because she's spoiled?
If yer'd KEEP out your ham fer her
when she was slippin,' mebbe she
wouldn't be there tonight says /,
just like dat.
of yer don't want her. dem