New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-14
Secret Organizations of Capitalists Use Desperate "e'
M. to Get Their Human Contraband
Across Our Borders.

A, s..ood tbougi, II is certain that both the
oor,,n.r,es and an organized peonage do. IN
fact exist. The immigration officers expect
! 70 know more on those points before they
are through with DR.. Moy and the three
Ar,sr;cans who were indicted with him at
| Boston.
| Rut OF the ways that are dark and tricks
that are not always vain In running the
blockade the government men are We'll
aware. The smuggled Chinaman Is tragic
figure enough at times, but he ortener ap-
pears in an exceedingly comic light to the
men who are set to trip him at our ma
tlonal threshold. 1t would seem at nrst
that II would be an easy thing to slip
man across a national boundary OF nearly
ten thousand miles in extent. AS matter
of fact. Il is q very difficult thing, as Is
seen by the shrinking Chinese colonies OF
hundred American cities A great many
more Cinnamon die or go homo TO emma
every year than manage TO slip past the
guards.
The simplest way, evidently. to import
group Of coolies Is to load them on vessel
and land them at some unexpected spot
from which they can be quickly transferred
TO some crowded Chinatown" In a city
where they will be indistinguishable from
the older inhabitants. 1t IS not really SO
simple as il looks. In the first place, the
government keeps an eye on the trans
naciHc steamers and assures itself OF the
destination Of any considerable bands which
travel by them. Again, schoonerload OF
Cinnamon is not likely to set sail from any
neighboring port without some one being
aware of 1t who may become informer.
government officers in Boston received an
unsigned postal card from Newfounoiano
saying that forty-two Cinnamon were walt
ing at Placentia, a little fishing village on
the Newfoundland coast, TO be taken 10
'the States" A government man was sent
hurrying TO Newfoundland. He reached
Placentia and found that the Cinnamon had
sailed in the schooner Froiic, of Marble
head. at daybreak that morning.
He telegraphed back to Boston, and the
story was given to the newspapers. Glar-
ing headlines told in every port OF the
Atlantic Coast how the schooner Frolic
was then at sea, searching for place TO
land forty-two Cinnamon with pigtails.
| Cutters cruised off shore from Montauk 10
Machias, and every coasting schooner and
ocean steamer along the coast from Nor
folk to Halifax kept sharp lookout for
the smugger.
For a week the newspapers were full OF
rumors how eighteen Cinnamon were seen
coming from Lynn to Boston. when there
had been no Cinnamon in Lynn before
how the Frolic was supposed 10 have run
| into the Merrimac River and unloaded
there, and many other such.
1t was near daylight one morning week
! later when a fireman in some coal pockets
in Providence started down the coal pier
| 10 get a monkey wrench he had left. He
was walking over a pile OF rags, when
something soft turned under his foot and
he fell. The rags were warm and fiat
face turned and looked at him as he picked
himself up. He separated the heap into
two scared and speeches. Cinnamon and
q pair of empty fertilizer bags.
The Cinnamon could not tell him what ne
desired to know about their business on the
! pier. In fact, they could not tell him any