New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-14
Starvation or Drowning Often Ends the Coolies Hopes
to Enter This Country, Even at Price
of Long Peonase.

few years ago one Of these craft. suspected
Of having Cinnamon on board, was chased
down the coast from Puget Sound by
revenue cutter. The cutter was gaining.
but night came on before she could get
within gunshot
She kept up the search even after the
schooner had been lost In the darkness,
and presently, at mOonrise. saw tho fugitive
vessel again standing Off shore. The cut
ter overhaued her. The captain was In q
great rage at being held up on the high
seas. When the revenue men insisted that
they would search her he protested still
moro violently. They went through her
from stem TO stern and found nothing
whatever that should not be on nome
ward bound trader.
A week later two dead Cinnamon were
washed ashore thirty miles UP the coast.
The federal agents In Vancouver learned
that a band Of fifteen coolies had been seen
making their way to the waterfront cary
in the morning the day the schooner saiieu.
Considered as evidence, the TWO iac''
mako slender proof. but the sailors aio"s
the coast believe that the Cinnamon welo
thrown over from the schooner and lett 10
drown as negroes were thrown over iro'''
slave ships in the old days when every w.
sci that carried "black ivory was couN'eu
q pirate by the law Of nations.
Both Canada and Mexico ADMIT china.
men. though the former imposes ta& -
800 a head on all who remain IN the coun-
try for more than three months. or iate
vears nm TO the beginning of the present
trouble Mexico has furnished more popu-
lar base of operations for the smuggiers'
II was a month OF moro ago that gov
ernment launch boarded a schooner WHICH
had sailed with Cinnamon from Lower
california. No Cinnamon were on board'
though certain sights and some not uncer-
tain smells made the officers believe iha'
they had been there not long BEFORE Again
the story was widely circulated that l"'
Cinnamon had been thrown overooaro'
Again. Il was only two weeks ago tha'
q launch with a party OF fishermen-a play
wright. an aviator and a steamship MAN
saw a scrap of canvas waved violently on
a little barren island off from San Diego
Bay. They put In for it, and found ten Chi'
nese. Six threw themselves Forward OF
the ground and screamed an appear ioi
helm. Another had gone mad, and was
shrieking. writing and throwing stones
into tho sea.
There were sharp rocks all around the
islet. and In the heavy sea the launch dareo
not try to land among them. Frank PIX
lev. the playwright Of the crew. tried then
with what little Chinese he knew, ane
=, gathered that they had been wrecked there
ten days before, and had been without fooc
and practically without water ever since
What the vessel was or what had become
oe her crew he could not understand. Tit
men in the launch threw their water casl
among the breakers, where 1t floated to the
beach, and filled bag with the remains o.
their luncheon and tossed that on the rocks
The government launch came next day ant
| took the Chinese off.
| But all the cruelty and danger OF Chinese
smuggling does not come by sea by any
means. Four Cinnamon were sealed into
box car somewhere between Mazatlan, OF
the Pacific coast of Mexico, and Nogales
at the American boundary. They had some