New-York tribune., 1910-12-30
TONGS SIGN PEACE PACT
Cruel War in Chinatown Over
and Crafty Gunmen Retired.
UNCOVER PRIVATE ARSENALS S
Diplomats Come to See Dove Of
An,ity acknowledgements
Mark the Great Night.

Somewhere in the secret arsenais CT
Chinatown lies a huge pile of revolvers.
Before they are again called into use their
steel barrels will be tarnshed with rust
and cohwebs viii trace themselves across
the trigger guards At least it is hoped
So for last night the two warning factions
in Chinatown met and signed q treaty Of
peace There will be no more gun nights
between the Four Brothers Society and the
Society OF On I.eongs.
Scarcely had the last representatives of
the rival tongs affixed their inscrntable sig
natures TO the long bit of yellow parchment
in the Joss house al No. 16 Mott street
tiian the air was torn asunder by the Wild
music Of Chinese instruments and the sharp
s,ls prir1g of thousands Of firecracters.
The more famous among the Chinese gun
fighters of both tongs. men who have been
mortal enemies for years, stretched over
the treaty table and shook hands and nur
INJURED Chinese affabilities to each other
/ It was the Chinese great night
A little after o'clock five officers of the
On Leong Tong pattered into the joss house
palace for the time being by myriads Of
lanterns and joss sticks While they
sQuatted about the room, Y. Z. Yuing, the
Chinese Consul. and Chu Chung Tan and
WI Chang, of the Chinese Embassy in
Washington, entered at the other end of
the place, 70 the accompaniment of sweep
! icg obeisances from those of lower caste.
In few minutes Lieutenant Hackett, of
! the Elizabeth street station, pushed open
the door at the head of the stairway, and
with him there were five officers from the
-Four Brothers Society. There was & slight
stirring Of uneasiness among all present a
the gun fighters Of the warring tongs met
face TO face Nobody knew during those
moments whether the notorious gun men
would start operations on sight, and thus
blow up the proposed peace treaty in its
very inception
After silent but eloquent contemplation of
each other for some seconds, however the
rival tong men sat down and rppled into
friendly conversation. Everybody breathed
a sigh of relief, and then concentrated on
the business in hand A yellow piece OF
paper-it was quite six feet in length-was
spread on the table, and Y. Y, Iuing, the
consul after some earnest talking with the
tong men, asked each in turn to step for
ward and sign
There followed great scratching Of paint
brushes, otherwise known as Chinese pens,
across the paper; the marks were blotted
with sand. and the great war was at an
end officially at least The tong men then
sealed the peace compact by shaking hands
once more and assuring one another of
each others humble respect for his newly
made brother And it was said that they
were smiling in friendly fashion at the end
of festivities
Then it was that the music and fireworks
We're started going, while all who had at
tended the conference scampered down the
stairs and adjourned to the rooms of the
Chinese Consul.
In the rooms of tse On Leong Tong q
huge joss stick glowed and smoked before
the Chinese God of War, as though in
palliation for the interim Of peace which
it is agreed to maintain a result of the
treaty.
On two side tables two enormous roasted
pigs, fancifully adorned in Chinese papers
and ornaments from the Far East, sent
appetizing odors into all recesses of the
room and made the hearts of the Orlentals
tingle with anticipation. These choicest of
Chinese deiicacieS were to be reserved for
The ali-night celebration to follow the sigh
ing of the treaty.
Down in narrow, mysterious Mott street
Cinnamon Of high and low degree We're
crowded on the sidewalks six deep, await
ing the outcome OF the meeting.
BY the terms OF the treaty all cases pend
ing in the courts wherein Chinese are in
volved will not be interfered with by the
two tongs. All properly seized before the
war shall be returned to the rightful own
ers. All debts due TO Sam kee 6 Co, or
Mott street. shall be paid by backward
debtors of the Four Brothers.