The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-04
BIG BILL WORKING
ON CHINESE PUZZLE
Tong Problem Proving Try
ing One for Captain
Hodgins.

NEW YC.SK. May 4.-Big Bill Hodgins
Is learning Among other things he Is
learning that the mind OF a Celestial is
filed with novelties and conceais many
things In Chinatown, where his vexed
lot is cast just now, he discovers that
you no sooner put your finger on a thing
but Il either vanishes outright OF dis
4ntegrates before your eyes.
There's q tong, for instance He is
asking himself how a man can be sure
that a tong is q tong, when as q matter
OF fact 1t Is two tOnEs-
To his unprepared ears q has been
disclosed that the -Four Brothers Is in
reality the general title for a pair Of
songIets OF es0teriC group known as the
Lung Kong kung Soy and Lung Tien
Kung Soy The first Of these divisions
IS made up Of the older men, the men
who have sat long IN thought and have
grown wise
The Lung Ten Kung Soy represents
the four OF i've hundred young blOods
OF the order
Il is they. say the information givers-
who had done al the shooting for the
-Four Brothers. What should they want
Of such a peace pact as Big Bill Is ex-
to by the blood Of COufucius aud every
body's ancestors in the celestial king
dOm2
Obviously between the two divisions
the get-together principle Is missing
Wanted Peace Pact,
II VIII be remembered that what Big
BIZ HodEfns wanted 20 do was TO set
the gun fighters Of the warning tongs
or the men who were authorized 70 act
for them TO sign formal treaty and
abide In peace for g while He knew
Il was large order 70 begin with: but
Il looks q little larger now than ever
before
He had a nice arrangement all
mapped out sam Lock, accompanied
BY eight -Four Brothers, and Tom Lee,
with eight OnE Longs We're TO have
gone with him before Judge Warren
w Foster and set their names TO formal
terms Of peace The plan went all awrz
because Of that little rift In one tong
And Captain Bill IS in a mood to won
der If anything Chinese isn't fun OF
riffs anywaT, which open I'D as you g
along
When ne went down among the Ulys-
FERROUS men whose speech does not
sound ike the ringing OF little pagOda
bells. he took Up q position In the mid
die Of Pei street Up came Sam LocE
presently and assured him that he and
eight others Of his tong were ready &C
sign There need be no putting or
either.
Fortified with this assurance, Big BIZ
took his way down Mott street 10 zoos
IN Tom Lee Tom baked He had ar
assortment Of reasons but they sim
mereG down finally 70 a dlstrust OF san
Secret Comes Out
Then Jim Gam. an Ong Leong Tong
let IL all out There were Two branches
Of the Fouf Brothers, he declared, and
the man OF men who signed for one dt
vision couId-t Be sure that The Orhe1
would observe vows that 10 be WORT
anything must bind both
Sam Lock. IL appeared ron, jim
oulv for the old heads among the FOu
Brothers Go see Gnu LOCK- san
Jim He Is the director OF the gIlTlel
Of the -Four Brothers sam Lock com
from san Francisco Here today BOl
tomorrow His signature IS useless j
viii not bind the men In Lung lie
II Vas a blow 10 Captain Bill; but n
sent without waste Of time lot On
Lock. Chu was shy about coming unit
he could be assured that sam Loo
wouldn't bt around while he olC n
talking Learning that he would nav
Big BIZ all 20 himself, he came
7,rfCs+aS -els of Expulsion from the On
IeonE brotherhood last NOVelOel
along with 1fty-tOur OLner men Wl
were now Four Brothers When IN
tong troubles broke OUT ne SAID 2
and the others -Four Brothers By n
fact Of birth, had been invited 70 -eaF
the Ong Longs Some had graFlLate
70 the older group Of men IN Ecu
Brothers. some 20 the ITEMS, the youth
fuI wing He himself, Chu said, had be
tome a Tieu.
Object Of Suspicion
The fact that he had been an On
feonE. however made him an object q
suspicion among his new associates
and they didn't share with him or Wit
his ffty-four companions any Of III
secret DEGREES of death that went fort
from time TO time
'sThose Of Us IN Ten Chu expIaine,
who come from OnE LeOng never hnO
who is 70 die or who has deCTeed N
death II might be sam Lock
might be the Tieu president I do NJ
even know who he Is who says, Thu
man shall die"
That settled it, apparently 50 far 9
C1u was concerned Obviously a China
man who had been boosted out OF or
group and wasn't trusted by the Otht
was as water in the hand IN treaty ma
teTs- The persuasive OutCast COnvinCe
Capt. Bin that he'd had nothing TO q
with the gunner OF their pOtting
the victims OF decree So they let CT
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one admission they did get from hir
y was one Of his associates IN the 7eI
faction, Long Tien KunE. he declare
who tore down the peace proclamatiC
the other day and made an efectuaI er
OF peace for q long time, If not for on
and for all
For that is the way It looks. ANY pa
could only be validated BY the sfgDatuu
OF both Four Brothers Organizations