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The Washington times., 1909-06-27
All Protect
The Opium Supply.

The Chinese are aware OF the recent
prohibitive duty placed upon opium.
Therefore. every tiny jar is being zeal
ousIy guarded. and the smokers who are
able to procure iC upon the sly pay
dearly for their journey to the tempo
rary land of dreams. The white wife
Of one Cinnamon was willing that a
photograph b. taken provided copy
be shown to the United States Senator'S.
in order that they. as she reasoned.
might understand that opium was nee
essary 10 victims existence.
That little incident serves TO illus
trate how white women. some of them
still showing unmistakable traces of
refined rearing in now dissipated faces.
have locked themselves in the little
world Of Orientalism and It's drowsi-
ness. They never see Broadway or the
city beyond; some of them seldom stir
from the low hunks and their wooden
head rests; their life centers in one
room. whose most precious furnishing Is
an inlaid pearl tray, long bamboo pipe.
a small lamp, a jar of opium, and long
piece Of wire upon which the putty
like narcotic IS held over the flame un-
til the more rank doors are gone. and
the heat has given it the soothing prop
critics that are craved.
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"Chinks" Averse
To the Camera.

The man with the camera is eyed with
particular aversion. Attempt to take a
street scene. and there is an immediate
run for cover by practically every Ce-
lestial in the block. There are wild ges-
lures. much excl ed talk. and a con-
slant menacirzg wag OF the head of the
older men.
An inside fiash!ight OF two opium dens.
a stupefied woman in one of them. was
obtained with the utmost difficulty
Upon entering the low-ceilinged, dingy
place was filed with opium smokers
Our mission understood. every man ex-
cept the proprietor rushed into the
alleyway in the rear. Occasionally an
enraged ChinamaL would come to the
window and hurl some bit of advice TO
the proprietor with whom we were argu-
ing Entreatics. money. yelled threats.
and repeated assurances that the photo
graphs were not wanted as evidence
were necessary before the picture was
obtained.
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opium smokers. A beautiful girl she
would be, too, If It wasn't for the
habit f" This girl, afterward learned,
occupies a room in one of the most
squalid buildings OF Chinatown. Her
closest associates are Cinnamon.
Following the murder Of Elsie Sigel
and the crusade inaugurated by the po-
lice, the Cinnamon, good and bad, for
TO do them justice, there are both and,
have grown more sullen, taciturn and
exclusive Stunning parties, except in
the restaurants and cuTio shops, are not
as welcome as they used 10 be Every
one, more OF less, is eyed with sus-
picion. The rival tongs are at war
among themselves and the curious white
man or woman is not wanted I found
that Of late the stranger is regarded
either as a crusader or a meddler.
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
How Chinatown Nell
First Saw Opium Dens.

Before these more sordid surroundings
were temporarily forsaken for inter
views with the missionaries and others
who are laboring TO reclaim Chinatown,
some Of them being interested in the
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
The "Coke" Fiend
Who Once Was Pretty.

As Detective Miller, Nammick. the
missionary; Mrs. Morris. and I sat in
a little hole-in-the-wali. called a res
taurant. in Doyers street. one night. a
girl OF scarce sixteen, wild-eyed. nerv-
Gus. but pretty withal. came IN.
Got change for five. chink?' she
asked.
mo ehangee." replied the suave pro-
pr5etor.
''She's q .coker A" said the detective,
simply. They are worse than the
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
Prince Henry
Wanted His Pipe.

Il is said that Prince Henry. on his
visit TO this country some years ago.
offered Yee a fabulous sum for this old
opium pipe He told us, in broken
English, that IL was not for sale.
.AlI samee good, you smokee opium? ?"
asked zee, as somebody in the gaping
throng spoke of the effects Of the drug.
Then with Oriental civility the priced
pipe was offered to anybody who chose
to seek Oblivion through its menacing
mouth.
There are two peculiarities of China
town residents that strike the seeker
after information there. No Chinaman,
although he may have his scales, his
measuring shells and his opium bottles
upon a nearby shelf, will admit that he
sells TIE drug. No white woman, no mat
ter how eElaciated she rnay be nor how
apparent may be the effects Of years of
"hittin tie pipe, as IT Is called there,
win admit smoking it. Another pecu-
liarity is the antipathy CT the China
man toward the user II cocaine. the
coke fiends." as they aye referred to
as they walk in a d4ze about the
novels OF Chinatown. And Of the two,
those who have had years OF expert
ence with these people say that the CO.
eaine fiend Is the most unfortunate and
the quickest to die
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Cinnamon Jealous
Of All White Men.

"N-s came across a woman who was
then living-and is yet, I suppose-the
kind of life I am now. She asked me,
perhaps for politeness, perhaps for an
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Americanized,
Not Christianized.

a Chinaman may b. Americanized
and yet worship at the joss house still.
The clipping of his cue and the discard
ing of their peculiar Oriental robes does
not mean that he is Christianized al
ways 1t merely signifies that he is
Americanized-
Yes, 1 have heard of these costly
gifts to young girls. These are mainly
volunteer teachers, however, who come
TO the missions on Sunday afternoon,
from al parts OF New York. and teach
for the love OF the work. The Chris
thanking of the heather Chinese should
not be stopped because OF the Sigel
tragedy. but he should be taught re-
ligion for religions sake. and not for
the sake OF meeting some American
girl"
There are thirty missions in Greater
New York interested in making Chris
tians of the Chinese. according TO Miss
Clark The murder Of Elsie Sigel, she
believes, is an unusual tragedy, but
even If something of this kind occurs
but once in a generation she holds II
TO be an eloquent substantiation Of her
theory. for there is many an unknown
story OF q wrecked life in which the
element of actual murder does not
figure.
Chinaman Pleads
For His countIymen.
But there is another side to this prob
lem, a problem OF which Miss Clark
says she has made a study OF seventeen
years without solution There is GER
tain pathos about il all-from the China
mans viewpoint. DR.. Lee Towe. Chi
nese Christian. superintendent OF the
Mott Street Methodist Mission. and two
white women teachers who stood by and
heard his plea, spoke with all the pa
thetic' earnestness of a Celestial cropping
Continued on Fifth Page)
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
Opium's RaYages
Show on the Girls.

This woman doesn't look like an
opium smoker. She has the reputation
of not being one. For that reason,
therefore. the ravages of Che habit upon
the next white wife we we're to see
were all the more apparent and shock
ing Climbing up four rickety flights Of
stairs ia the rear Of the joss house we
came 10 the single-TOom home of George
zee. he smoked on nonchalantly as
Ne entered: his wife merely looked up
with a lanquid smile. recognized some
in the party and babe US enter. Then
she lay back, a fran, watery-eyed,
weak creature, a pitiable victim of the
fumes that were everywhere about us.
For fourteen years, 1t was said, she had
lived the life In which We found her.
George. on the other hsrd, was fat.
sleek, robust. and as enerx etic a China
man as one would want t. see. He trav-
eIed once with a minstrel show. He
stopped smoking long enough 10 sing
a coon song in Chinese. At least, he so
described il. lie seemed to take a pos
tive delight in preparing the opium for
the smoke. jabbering necessarily until
it reached just the proper consistency
to be placed in the pipe. Then he puffed
a few times and silently offered it TO
the white woman, who lay curled on
the opposite side OF the bunk. She
clutched il eagerly. her thin, waX-col-
ored fingers in striking contrast 10 the
blackened bamboo, colored through
sixty-four years constant use by zee
and his ancestors.
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and Incidence, as degrading as IL may
be, with a Chinaman husband seems
better to the girl who has become ac-
customed to that life than the empty
promise Of a future happiness.
Attitude Toward
Chinese Missionary.
"As to the Cinnamon themselves. few
of them appreciate the work of The
American missionary. There are good
ones, admit. and to them ali credit
should be given. The average China
man, however, haTks to the voice of
the missionary for two things:
'First-the desire to become acquaint-
ed with young American girls.
"Second-tEe desire TO learn the Eng
fish language and not the teachings Of
the Bible
young female missionary; subordinate
the study Of English to the understand
ing Of the Christian religion-and watch
your Chinese classes dwindle.
Chinese mission work is not the
sphere in which young girls should
work. There are Cinnamon who would
not U.ke advantage of anyone. On the
other hand it Is a significant fact that
ers are those whose homes are beauti-
fed most by costly Oriental bric-a-brac.
embroidery, silks. and gifts of all de-
scriptions fashioned and lavished by
the most artful Oriental hands.
Pretty Gifts
For Pretty Girls.
THE gifts in the home of the male
teachers and the elder women teachers
are incSnsequential compared to those
that adorn the drawing rooms Of girls
like Elsie Sigel.
Il believe that for every Chinaman
who processes our religion there is an
American woman, especially In New
York Chinatown, who yields TO the al
lurement of the opium den, the soft
tread of an Oriental lord. the enhancing
rhythm of his flowing silken robes and
to his native kindness
IF there are no girls to teach them
the religion of the Christian nine China
men out of ten IS bold IS the state
nlent nay seen, will continue TO kneel
in the loss house and will burn his
incense and say his prayers to Buddha
as OF yore-
And the Celestial is not wholly to be
blamed. With scarcely ten Chinese
women in our Chinatown, is 1t remark
able that the man from the Far East,
with the acuteness born of the fore
fathers, should meet hall way the Amer
lean girl who by her actions and by the
acceptance of his gifts shows herself
to be interested
Mrs 14orris
A Free Lance.
Mrs Morris who is an earnest. un-
obtrusive. self-sacrifieing woman, and
q most mfaitering friend TO the unfor-
The Washington times., 1909-06-27

other reason-tO try the dope Well, 1
don't have to talk about all the rest. II
was such a strange, queer feeling that 1
tried It again and then again. 1t was
nothing but living suicide that I COM
mitted I guess. You see where 1 am
now.
Eyes, the Chinese treat US well
There IS no work to do. They keer the
opium supplied. 1t Just seems HE
sleeping your life away. But the Chi
nese are jealous. even among them
selves, and no Chinaman will stand for
any attentions toward US from white
man. Other than this, woman can't
complaint that is, after she gets in the
life and gets used to it all
II don't know about the Sigel affair
It's rather unlike the chinks to kill
any one. They are quiet people, Won
know, and just want to be let alone I
guess they wouldn't bother an Ameri-
can girl unless she showed that she was
fascinated by the kind OF life they live"
Then she lay back with tired, care
less air and reached for the pipe.
Retaining Girls
From the "Hop Joints"
The free lance" missionary they call
Mrs. Adele B. Morris, who for seven
years, following her conversion IN the
Doyers street mission, has gone about
in Chinatown doing good" She is not
a believer in the theory that the average
Chinaman either desires or appreciates
the efforts of Americans TO convert
him to the teachings of the Christ. Her
work is among the girls and women Of
Chinatown-those who, through en-
vironment or through the fascination of
this strange thing called the magnetism
Of the Oriental, fall prey TO the under
life.
Al present Mrs. Norris Is endeavoring
to establish a home. for these reclaimed
white women. If tile necessary $500, and
it seems a small sum, can be IA sed,
there will be food and shelter for every
girl who wants 10 leave the hop
Joints" for the opportunity Of better
things.
1T is impossible to teach religion
when your prospective convert has an
empty stomach" she says, with the
wisdom of experience. "A life Of ease
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
Another View
Of Mission Work.

Almost as emphatic against the theory
of the young woman missionary is Miss
Helen F. Clark. head OF the Clark Mis-
sion in Worth street. who for seventeen
years has ministered to the educational
and spiritual needs of the Chinese and
the Italians IN downtown New York.
You never hear OF young women
teaching Italians and the other races
said Miss Clark, why the Chinese? I
have small class here. thirty or forty
is the average. 1 have been told several
times that II 1 would engage young
women teachers my classes would
double
Il would close the door Of rny mission
first. and I have told them so.
II admit that perhaps the Chinaman
is more anxious to learn English than
TO become a Christian. We manage,
however, in teaching English to teach
the Bible. too. There are some good
Ch.naman who forsake Buddha for the
new religion. There are others who do
not.
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girls. some In toe orientals themselves.
talked with another slave TO the
''habit"-and 10 the fascination Of the
Oriental.
Chinatown Nell" viii do for a name.
for she has lost interest. and the world
is little expected to care She was
lying on another one of these curIously
made mating hunks. She had finished
her smoke. and lay idly. languidly, stu
pOrOusly gazing at the mean, dingy
furniture around her. ChinamaE, evil
IDENTIFY her husband. for most OF them
are called husbands, even if they are
not, walked IL, said How and, picking
up the discarded pipe. gently showed the
woman over that ne might smoke IN
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"Dope's the Thing;
It Makes You Forget. "

Did you come in an auto?" she asked,
after a strained silence. broken Gsily by
an occasional unintelligible cultural
grunt from the Chinaman. Il came
down in an auto the first time I saw
Chinatown" she said. q guess if I leave
now it will be in an ambulance or the
police patrol?'
And why is it all? Do you love the
ChinameD?" she was asked
With a feeble attempt at feigned en-
ergy she puckered her lips in scorn.
Love them? why. What do / care for
them? have grown to hate thern. But
the dope is the thing. 1t makes you
forget"
IT came down here first on lark. ]
tell you-to see the town. We thought
it would be the proper thing to take in
the slums. Somehow the sight fascin-
ated me. It was all so queer and
strange. These jabbering Cinnamon,
the happy looks upon their faces as
they lay smoking those long, queer
pipes; their apparent easy life, nothing
to do but lie and smoke-and dream. A
night or two later 1 got a girl friend
TO come with me.
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Serves Chung Wee
With Pride and Faithfulness.

Years ago, she told me. she was
Philadelphia missionary and a choir
singer and organist for the Sunday
Breakfast Association. She came 10 New
York TO work and while on one Of the
stunning parties that one sees every
night IN Chinatown. she vas struck
with the gentleness Of tbe Oriental Just
how she became enmeshed IN the web
that holds with grip Of steel scores OF
her kind neeG not be told here, but
she seemed 70 be half way content
THE boss" she calls Chung Wee, who
rams a little tobacco and tea stors in
back room not ten by twelve in size.
She talked freely while the boss was
cut.
Like all OF the rooms in which the
chinese smoke and dream their lives
The Washington times., 1909-06-27

away half its space is occupied by a
mating covered bunk upon which some
times four and five Cinnamon lay in
varying degrees of stupOr the opium
outfits between them. Above, cut into
the wall, is another bunk. 1t is here
that the boss" shambles or 10 bed
when his dreams are rosiest and when
the long used pipe grows too heavy to
be held in ustleSs hands At four the
rext afternoon we dropped in again
and the Chinaman was just having his
breakfast of rice, Dora Freeland, Will
all the pride that she might show n.
ministering to king. serving the meal.
Chinaman Kind
To His White Slave.
And why are you here and why are
these other white women here? What
is the fascination about II an?"I asked.
We'll I don't know" she began. i
guess it's the kindness of the China
man as much as anything else. Dispute
the fact that in their own country the
women are slaves, there are no more
genfler people on earth than the China
men when an American woman Is con-
cerned. They divine your wishes even
in advance. I never have 10 ask for a
glass OF water. It is proftered me
There is nothing a Chinaman won't do
for his white wife. Abuse is unknown.
IT can't say that there is love TO any
great extent Ia the life. But kindness
means everything to a woman and when
a woman who has had a hard struggle
comes to Chinatown it seems there is
something soothing about the way these
Orientals move about in their soft slip
pers. in their sing-song tones and In
their constant puff, pun upon a bann-
boo pipe. Perhaps they Il become fasci-
mated and stay. Just as / did. although
when I started in missionary work
never dreamed of such q thilg."
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
FORCING WOMEN
TOLEAYE THE DENS
New York Police Determin- :
ed to Make White
Girls Get Out.
CAPTAIN CALVIN
BEGINS CRUSADE
Detectives Sent Through Hop +
Joints to Round Up the
Smokers.

tunate young woman. is doing q work
that has the sanction OF the police who
are trying 70 redeem Chinatown and OF
church people who. In some form or an
other. are trying to stolve the problem
of the Yellow Man and what to do with
him.
During the three days and nights that
she. la company with Sixth precinct de-
tectives. piloted re through Celestial
dens CT iniquity, I saw many an empty
hand outstretched toward her-and tbs
appeals were not in vain As a free
lance" missionary, she is one Of the
stanchest allies OF the resolute Cap
tain Calvin, OF the Elizabeth street sta
ton. whose difficult task ii is to bring
comparative purity out OF vice IN Mott
Pell, and Doyers streets.
II Mrs. Morris plan to establish a
home in Chinatown for reclaimed girls.
for which she IS now asking voluntary
contributors. n1ateriaIizes. the girls and
women who have recently been ordered
by the police to vacate Oriental dens
will have somewhere to turn-other-
wise, it means the Bowery.
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
Mrs. lforris
A Free Lance

Mrs Morris. who is an earnest, un-
obtrusive. self-sacrificing woman, and
a most dnfaitering friend TO the unfor-
The Washington times., 1909-06-27
Chinaman Pleads
For His Countrymen.

Continued on Fifth Page-)
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-25

Recientcnente N. Guerin do en- una
evista francess, LA Nature, esta ex.
l,iicaci6n:
Ia poste no produce por 81 mismo
| sonido; sino que es el conductor y
npliiicador de los sonidos trasmiti-
los: primero por las vibraciones norm'
les de los hilos por la Influenza de Ia
brisa; segundo por las de los aislado-
res.
"Por mucha homogeneidad con que
IS alambres hayan sid0 c0nstruidOs,
iempre hay en- ellos pequenas diferen-
las moleculares que hacen variar el
peficiente de dilataci6n.... Aparte Ia
nfluencia del vicnto.... los incesantes
ambios de temperature alargan 8 en-
,ogen continuamente los alambres. 81
stos poseyeran una cOntextura com
plctamente homogenea, el alargamien-
%, solo &c manifestarfa por una infle-
ion del alambre, que conservaria su
punto fijo de apoyo sobre ell aislador.
'or el alambrc sc alarga mas por I'M
ado que por otro, Y Sc producer So
re el aislador rozamientos, tantO mas
'ncrtes cuanto mas espaciados estan los
postes.
"Estos movimientos son cOnstantes
v sensibles, Y los esfuerzos de Traction
sc traducen en- crujidos, que el aisladoi
aInplifica, y que el poste absorbe en-
su masa, unificando los sonidos de los
diversos alambres."
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-25
WLG CORTE DR DISTRITO DEL
+ uUBTRITO JUDICIAL D1 SAN
JUAN, p. y.
8seaAes Unidos de America. E Pre-
alAsats de los b. UU.-S. q
0eclaraci6n e dominAo
EX.PARTE

P0R CUANTO, habiendo presenta.
do 81 abogado don Gabriel Guerra. una
uooi6n nombre de Gavino Rivera.
para que se declare 4 su favor el do
Minio de la siguientc finca:
"R1stica: terreno sito en- el barrio
de "Maricao", de la jurisdiction de
Vega-alta, p. r., compucsta de dos
cientas cuerdas, equivalentcs & setcnta
n ocho hectareas. sesen,a areas y Sc
tcnta y ocho centiareas colindante por
81 Norte con Pedro Garcia v Enrique
Martinez; por el Sur con Maria Calde-
ro; por el Este con Angel Maldonado
n dicho Pedro Garcia, y por el. Oeste
con Tomas George Weymouth"
POR TANTO y habiendosc ordena-
do por el Honorable Emilio del Toro.
JueE de la Primera Seccion de esta
Corte. se publique Ia pretensi6n por
tres veces en- I'M pcri6dico de los de
mayor circulation de los que sc editan
ea esta Ciudad, para que los que ten
gan algdn derecho real sobre el inNue-
Bile descrito las pefsonas ignoradas q
quienes pueda perjudicar la inscrip-
ci6n en- general tod0 el que desee
oponerse pueda efectuarlo dentro del
t6rmino de sesenta dias, libro el pre-
sente en- San Juan de Puerto Rico, 4
% de Enero de 1904. Marin No
riSn. Secretario de Ia Corte.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-25
yOR CARLOS DICKENS

-Tenes ra16n-dijo Ricardo,-es IN tema de conver-
sac6n POGO dvertido Vayan al diablo los peitos los
iueces hablemos de No advinais quen ha
aeompanadoi
-Creo haber dido la de NJ Skimpole
y no os habes equivocado De todos los hombres que
conoaco es para mi e mis smpAtco Que alma tan candi
da, Es niho adorable
LIE pregunte 81 eerta persona tenia NOTICES de su
viaje.
Me contest6 que que Skmpole habia dicho don
de esabamos que habiendo manfestado vvos deseos de
vernos el viejo nno haba dcho que lie acompaharia,
Sc pusieron en- camino Embellishments.
Vale cien 10 que pesa oro-me dJo Ricardo
aunaue ha de pagar e gaso hace, porque no CO
noce e yaor nj e del dnero cambo pagar suclen
temente con e placer que compahfa Que facun
da oue gracejo que canor Sobre todo que desntere
sado que franeol
No veia prueba de desnteres de M Skimpoe en- la
combre que tena de delar pagar los demas sus gastos
nero en- FL momcno que ba hacer sta observaci6n en-
r5 en- e aposento nauralmente la conversation tomo
giro.
Diio que sentia grato placer VERNE que Jamas
haba recbido aguna mayor algeria que la de
mi curac6n Reconoca Ia afortunada mezca de ben de
NAL que existe FL mundo preender averguar por
one Ievaba una perna de pso precisamente para que
ID uviera mas .licha ponerse Ia en- una media de
seda apreciaba mejor Ia saud cnando vel ~igin en-
fsrns
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1909-01-25
Multa al beso


Entire Las curiosidades del pueblo ru-
90 figurs Ia de hallarse prohibido por
las leyes de policia urbana de Moscou
y San Petersburgo, el beso en- publ
90. Dos amigas 8 dos noyios que
practiquen en- dichas ciudades la oscu-
laci6n, y sean sorprendidos ain fragan-
tis por Ia autoridad, tienen que salts
facer la multa de cinco rublos 81 l
besuqueo tuvo efectO en- Ia calle, y
de diex rublos, 81 clio ocurre en- los
tranviss en- cualquier lugar de e.
parcimiento.
Ultimamente han extremado las au-
rusas su campaha contra IL
inmoralidsd, prohibiendo bajo la null
t. de einco rublos, las declaraeiones
amatorias en- tarjeta postal.