The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-10
LEE FONG RETURNS TO
HOME IN CHINA
Will Spend Sometime With Brother
In New York Before Sailing For
The Orient-Expects To Return
To United States.

| There are comparatively few per-
sons in Cambridge who do not know
Lee Fong; old and young, rich and
poor, high and low, all classes, kinds
and conditions of people were on
good terms with the friendly laun-
dryman from the celestial kingdom.
! Lee was an all around sport and
good fellow. He loved baseball, and
his was usually the first money that
was put up to secure a team, and
his SIS was the first to be offered as
reward for a home run to be
knocked out by a member of the
Cambridge team; he was an enthu-
siastic duckpin and tenpin roller; he
loved a good horse, and, in time.
learned to like the automobile; he
was also an ardent bicyclist several
years ago, when the craze existed,
and he even fell for good game OF
pool.
When the Cambridge Duckpin
Team went to Baltimore several
years ago to roll match game with
one of the teams of that city, Lee
Fong amazed the Baltimoreans by
appearing on the alleys and rolling
game that was hard to equal, let
alone beat. Later he went to Phila-
delphia and put the same thing over
on some of the alleys there. 1t was
reported, at the time, that he was
offered considerable sum of money
to make a tour of the larger cities in
games, but Lee modestly declined,
saying that he was at home in Cam
bridge, and knew everybody and
h 11,f hot
would be different at other places.
By his good nature, his honesty,
his liberality and his earnest efforts
to please, Lee Fong made a host of
friends in Cambridge, and when
short time ago he announced that he
had sold his business and was going
back to China, there was feeling OF
genuine regret upon the part of
these many friends, which was only
partially removed when he stated
that he did not intend to stay, but
that he wanted to see his family and
spend few months with them, after
which he would return to New York
and possibly to Cambridge.
Lee came to this country in De-
cember, 1888, and after a short stay
went to Ottawa, Canada, where he
remained until sometime in the year
1892, when he removed to Boston,
Mass. He only stayed there a short
time, and in July of that year went
to Hartford, Conn. The last of the
following year, 1898, he spent in
Baltimore and Washington, where
he remained until September, 1895,
when he came to Cambridge. Since
that time he has been resident of
and during all of the
twenty-one years spent in the midst
of, at first, strange people, he con-
Quoted himself in such way as to
win the confidence and esteem of the
general public.
He was an enthusiast in every
thing but politics; about politics he
said he did not know anything, only !
be wanted to see his friends win, and |
he was always willing to help them.
A short time after the Baraca Class |
was started at Grace M. E. Church,
his city, Lee became a member of |
he class, and when a contest was
started for new members, Lee be-
came allied with one of the crews |
and worked as hard as any mem pr |
Of the class to make his side TRIM
plant.
He has been, for several yedfs, /
very desifsas of gct:tES- MS son. :. q ! :
young man about twenty-one ye4rs I
Of age, over to this country with I
him, but could not succeed in getting |
him here permanently. the Chg |
man having been here only Few /
months ago on a visit. Since his
return to the celestial kingdom, Lee |
has been more or less anxious to go |
pack and revisit the scenes of his |
and the desire gradually |
became so strong that he finally de- |
to pull out and go, and as
he result sold out his business here. |
Lee left Cambridge last week for
New York, where he will spend |
month with his brother, who has a
arge Chinese restaurant, after
which he expects to cross the CONT
lent to San Francisco, or some port |
IN the Western coast, to embark, en- |
'oute for his home at Hong Kong, |
China.
When asked what he would do In
China, Lee Fong stated that he
would not do anything; that little
American money would go a long |
ways in China, and that he expected
% carry enough with him to last him |
'or several months, during which |
lime he would visit his family and |
other relatives, and then he would |
return to New York: where he ex-
poets to learn the restaurant bust |
ness. His many friends here wish
he genial Chinaman the best kind of !
a trip, all kinds of luck, and safe |
trip to and from the celestial empire,
which has now become a republic, |
and hope to see his smiling counte-
nance in Cambridge before very
many moons have rolled around, land
this will not be at all surprising, as
Lee stated just before he left that
Cambridge was the best place in the
world to him, and that he would
surely come back. 81 could not stay
away" he said, cas- the people are all
my friends, and have been so good
to me that I just love the people and