The sun., 1910-04-10


death of little Row Mum, a Chinese girl.
llv between the On LsonE- and the -Four
Brother- a new. rich. powerful tong.
luis latest tong war endured desnl-
torilv from September % December last
lt r~duc--l the population of Chinatown.
already depleted from I2.OOO TO 2.OOo. to
htarv Ion. zach bullrt from a -
ca'ibre rev Oliver wps punctuation mark
to the rirh history of the DID Chinatown
hks that.
EEIAISS OF CHINATOWN
What remains' NigRer Nike Salter =
place - indeed gone forever Tony kellv
has lurlapped the walls and real Uictur-s
hang On them The Mandarin Cafe up-
stairs la Doy~r~ street gave way to a
saloon. II IL the only survival of tho
type Scotlv IaVelle's Chu-chu parlor.
which was metamorpho-ed into Big Jack
Poggi's. - a tradition. Danny Nalenti.
who acquired Fanny Callahan's famous
place at Doyers street and Chatham
Square. with its Ave entrances and one
eNit. closed up from dearth Of business
after Calvin got to work. A. for the
Chatham Club. IL has not a place where
to lay itA corpse. AZ Paddy Mullins's
thev dispense soda water
Soda water! Where you used 60 be
held up by the sentry and where the
drinks came up through an elevator in
the hoor Where the air VAS always
foulest. the crowd always most wicksdiy
conRenial. Where Paddy Mullins. in
stinctiv~Iy courteous. drank milk 20 your
beer and could be coaSed to lead forth
his blue ribbon bulldogs. Soda water
The idea is enough To make an old timer
more maudhn than the old fluids were
wont to.
II 10 a good thing that Chuck Connors
still takes the air on Pell street and can
no actually pointed out TO reassure sight
seerS.
SADIE
Sadie s,ill inhabits her Earret room in
Doyerp street "A Sadie n unusual
some account of her may be given. She
was a country girl and how she first came
to Chinatown cannot he known. Sadie
does not tell it Doubtless she will in
! her own good time
! She has dwelt in Chinatown eighteen
years. has Sadie. and she 10 a. good look
ing as ever II you saw her In Tony
kellys you would classify her In one
! glsnce a. from the upper West Side
visitor She would get at least one more
{ glance Of approval from you.
: Yet she lives in . little room at the tor
I ~ four story building in Doyern street
Every other room IL inhabited by Chinese
Thev never modest her. She can fight
She has a thorough understanding with
the powers that he She is safe ~ car
be and socially occupies a detached oh
servers point ~ view,
Her oue room N costly furnished. II 10
clean and homelike The electric piano
player plays snlv such airs a. Home
Sweet Home and -Old Black Joe Ger.
tain hymns have places in the musical
repertory
Sadie'S folks stiI live On y Ere~n and
PLEASANT farm up State She visits them
once a year They are proud Of their
daughter Who has become a well paid
milliner in the city.
Sadie ~ Intelligent. well informed and
re@p~ctable Only once a night she re-
clinea on the lounge and hreath~s tn"
black smoke while q few select tourists
gate At her
couple oT yearp ago Sadie found
that the stuff was getting n hold on her
She clit herself down from tWelve pills II
opium a day to three Sh~ has a will
power that would interest = professor II
psychology The act left not a single
lire nn her face
Though the Chinea~ hospital still min
is,ers a. the Cantonese In the visibly
de-olate house at i05 Park street. Am-ri
can physicians are callei in when tho
patient seems likely not to live The
Oriental mAtsria rnedica iS not Sufficient
~ satisfy cross-auestioninR CorOners
The Chinese themselves do not call Chung
wah Kong Sor p Sang FonG hospital
They call IL home The name means
literally The Combined Chinese Speak ina
Society's Curing Place
CHINESE LOGIC
One illusion entertained by habituAl
visitors 10 Chinatown will disappear when
u 10 understood that the Chinese mind
,loea not move in occult. mysterious ways
The Chinaman ~ ~ logical in hs thinking
- the German. He IL = lot moro logical
then the average American. An Ansri
can says: An Hoon was = member ~ the
IN IseonK Tong Therefore he vas shot
by a member % the Hip Sings nr the -Four
Brothers The ChinAman would consider
! thus: An Hoon did not belong tO the
Hin Sings or the Four Brothers There
fore his slayer came from one of hess
, two tongs.
/ The American would continue ill hs
, had settled in his mind thst All Hoon''
SLAYER was -Four Brotherhood men
/ = he Chins mon would reason. All HoOr
had never ANYTHING IN common with Hit
Sing. On the other hand manv Foui
! Rrother~ belonged formerly ~ On ISeong
J Al Hoon's companions weTs not FouI
Rro,hers Some of them or" Hip Sings
The law OF caste il not less than tho Law
nT tong Harm could not have com" Il
\h Hoon from Hip Sing Tong Their"
/ for. h. must have iss~n slain hy in. foul
3 Brot herS
/ The American might r~Ach the correct
conclusion. hat the Chinaman surely
would His logic il deadly in his oNr
afair-: hut IN ressoning ont anythinS
Anglo-Saxon. RnvthinG positive. he y
=. uncsrtain of ?ttaininE the truth a. IN
I American - IN studying Celestial prob
( lem
Il is trite but helpful 10 point out tha