The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-10-15

restrained, or unreSlralneu'
"A of other laws and codes, has
4 "a for many years existed in
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 ara of the nations
law; they made men secure in the
commission Of atrocities and yelled
the existence Of a set of moral condi-
tons almost beyond comprehension;
certainly past momentary 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 a
curiously fascinating corner trans
planted from another world-far too
original and alluring to be removed.
They called il Chinatown. 1t is no
place; it is no street in particular,
though il has it's center and its boun-
daries. IL is rather degenerate state
of the senses.
New Workers know of it, of course,
in dim sort of way. Now and then
there was a brawl. 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 ia its true perspective. The
bn G-ct ri
in the cloud that obscured the fact.
Now the mist itself is dissipated. New
York knows that Chinatown-the
spirit, not the PLACES one of it's
cruel, almost unthinkable problems.
The latest outrage in Chinatown
place that brews outrages faster than
quagmire matches mosquitoes-is the
abduction of a pretty mill girl of
Weehawken and her Imprisonment in
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
VILE" 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 a 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 chop suey Joint" to
get a bite to eat There she was
drugged. and the next thing she re-
members she was being carried
through the Iabyrinthal 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
selsibility. When she next recov-
cred consciousness she was in a dim
ly lighted room and a hideous China
mar 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 beatings
she was made TO understand that she
was the slave of her eaptor and that
the best thing she could do would be
TO remain quiet But devious, dark and
dirty as Chintown is. news will travel
there, and the girl had not been in the
den more than "a hours before a
'lobbygow"-a Chi7aman who acts as
stool pigeon and informer for the DO.
lice--told two Mulberry street detec.
tives that there was a white girl pris-
oner 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
in Wongs room, her face so bruised
that her friends had difficulty in rec
ognizing her when they visited her al
the headquarters of the Gerry society
Wong was locked up In the Tombs
but he probably will get out of the
scrape on the ground that the girl
willingly accompanied him to his lair
A regularly organized traffic in
white and Chinese girl slaves exists in
Chinatown and every detective who
has worked in that section knows II
now.
II is true that scores OF women fall
prey to the Chinese every year by first
visiting Chinatown on stunning and
sightseeing trips. Others are attracted
there by Che gaudy tales about how
kind and gentle the Chinese are tC
women: how well they clothe them