The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-30
DIB BY FIUE IN CHINESE HTYU
a FOUR BROTHER RENDEZVOUS
GUTTED AT MIGHT.

FOur Buecumb- Thieves busy Perhaps
Before the BlaKe- Rescue NiuNlons,
Gambling Clubs and Little sleeping
lasles An Involved IN General Ruin.
-Four Cinnamon were killed and three
Cinnamon and a white woman were in
iured In a fire which wrecked tho six
story brick tenement At rs and n Doyers
street early yesterday morning. no their
best. the fremsn could not get all the
Cinnamon out Of the tenement That
thieves were busy at the Ore IL indicated
by complaints made az the Elizabeth
street police station house yesterday noon.
Several Cinnamon said that they had lost
good sized sums OF money stored In places
which we're not touched by fire. One
item Of loss was 81 500. Another item
was t2.OOO. Firemen found a safe. I'M
burned. with its doors cleanly detached
from the hinges. The safe was empty.
The owner Of Il said is contents had been
stolen. Some Of the Four Brotherhood
pIofessed 10 think the fire suspicious.
The Cinnamon who persisted we're Lou
HOuck Yuen. HON Main Get. Chu Sing
and Hon suk. Lou Houck Yush was a
man Of o.. too feeble 70 aght his
way out. HON Main Got and Chu Sing
were too eager 20 bring their trunks.
ARTICLES which the Chinese take with them
on every occasion. and the necessity Of
leaving which behind invests death with
one Of its chief tsrrors.
HON Suk. Tom Hing and HON Yah.
to give the simplhed police transcription
Of their musical names. we're all 80 badly
burned that they had to 90 10 Hudson
street hospital. There HON Suk died
yesterday afternoon. His two CON-
panions are likely TO live. HON Wing
was a fourth ChinAman hurt but he didn't
have 70 90 10 the hospital Neither did
Mary Emerson. the white housekeeper.
who was beginning her daily cleanup Of
the tenement when the FIRE began at
Z IN the morning.
The basement OF the tenement was
occupied by three Of the usual Chinese
social clubs under -Four brotherhood
Society protection. The whole ground
floor was occupied by the Rescue Society's
mission. better known az the Doyers
street midnight mission. which recently
advertised "a carnival Of religion" and
which caters only 20 whites This mis-
sion u supported by voluntary gifts.
Upstairs above il was TIM Morning star
mission for Chinese II was a sort Of school
and church, with meetings several times
week On the same floor across the
dingy hall was a -Four Brothers eating
a.
white folks never came Wing Kong Low
4 TO. the pFopristors. represented fully
fifteen men each holding a small interest
in the BUSINESS. The four upper floors
were honeycumbed into little rooms
where lived and slept Nbout a hundred
Chinese.
The lire seems n have started in the
restaurant and while there are probably
ons or two Chinese who know how Il
started no ons else n likely ever % learn
Some one on the street below spotted
unaCCOuntable smoke and sent IN an
alarm Chief Croker. Vho hikes 20 all
first alarms m dangerous neighborhoods.
got there IN tive minutes. Big Bill Hold
gins. skipper Of the adjacent Elizabeth
street police station. who works eighteen
hours q day. just put his trousers on over
his paiamas and headed the reserves
to the scene.
The whole Of Pell street vas IN alright
Several hundred heads projected from
the tiers n windows. Chinamen took
me Iona. uttered vocal walls and hegan
u throw their household goods down on
the hsads ~ the fremen and polics Al
Doyers street. was Crowding into Pell
Prom the Mandarin. which h one " tho
two old time giumills left m Chinatown
and which was on the Second story ~ the
building next the fire came men and women
without regard 70 previous condition
Of tOrpitude Chinese profanity and
Chiness shrieks of vOe FOR a time drowned
tho noise ~ the firemen
II was hard work for the fire fighters
Crarnmed In the tiny thoroughfare with
engines and trucks a block and two blocks
away. mostly worn out by the south
street fire. where sixteen Il them had
been temporarily knocked out, with a
great wall u fame towering above their
heads they had first IN stretch every
nerve IN get all the sleeping Cinnamon
ont n tho building scaling ladders were
hooked 20 the iire escapes. already loaded
with fleeing Orientals The iiremen
charged up and threw tho hAndiest China
men down into the life net They had
almost AZ much work checking others
from precipitating their trunks from alOft
10 the pavement
Il was some time before the building
could be- entered To get az Il from the
Mott street side was impracticable. for
another building interviewed Access by
the roof was delayed because the tens-
ment II higher than IL neighbOrs II was
over an hour before the Gremen were
able TO search tho dozens u little bed
rooms and found the bodies q three
Cinnamon. two firmly grasping their little
square buFlap bound trunks and the third
lying upon the trunk he had wedged in a
doorway In trying 10 drag it with him 10
safety