Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-14
CATHOLIC SERVICES FOR DEAD
 OVER THE BODY OF kO LOW

New York. Aug 13.-In a flower filled pool room in Chinatown today-the air sick with the perfume of thousands of chrysapthemums. T,ev. R. G. Hutchinson. a Catholic priest. recited the services for the dead over the body of Ko Low. presi- dent of one of the strongest Chinese secret societies. the Hip Song tong.
 Ko Low died in the Beekman street hospital Tuesday morning from a bullet fired at him as he stepped down the mar row hallway from the Chinese Delmoni- cos. with a beautiful white woman on either arm
 All the human welter that makes the population O. the chunk of the Orient that lies between Chatham square and Barclay street took part, directly or in- directly. in the greatest funeral in the history of Chinatown. 4 hundred extra police. among them mounted officers. who rode through the streets. and detectives. who watched from the coofs around the Hip Sing tong headquarters guarded the , swarm of lisitess and sightseers who ; watched the procession.
 But fears of the police that the funeral would bring back the tong wars that have, in years gone by, filtered the streets with Chinese dead. were almost dispeiled by great mass of Howecs. the largest sent to Ko Lows bier bearing the inscription From the On Leong Tong" The On Leong tong has been. since Chinatown began. the rival of the ! society of which Ko Low was president.
 Ko Low, according to Chinatown ! legendry. was wealthy and still pagan. . Mass in the Church Of the Transfigura- tion. on the edge of Chinatown was hardly over when Father Hutchinson fe- | ceived wocd that Ko Low had been bap- ! tized in the Catholic faith when a boy in the East India dock region of England. So pagan rites were displaced in the pool room by the rites of the Catholic church. After the services in the pool room. ! where the body of Ko Low had lain in l state. flanked with scores of tributes
 from tongs all over the country, the pro-
 cesslon to Cypress Hills cemettcy began 1 Motion picture cameras clicked. visit | ors who had been permitted through the police lines craned their necks. and the cortege started on its way
 | Behind the hearse-a modern sutomo- bile affair-came three Chinese. bearing
 the picture of Ko Low. Then an Italian i band. The air they played was "NeareI
 My God. to Thee.'
 Harmony familiar to Occidental ear,
 in the famous hymn ciashed with tn, q, rattiing tom-toms of the Chinese banr
 that followed bus held twelve mem
 bers of the Oriental band some with Tn,
 inevitable iciragette dropping from then
 lips. and all helping in the queer mlno strains of a Chinese funeral marc::. , Up above. on the roofs, detective
 watched as the procession passed. bu not a single shot broke into the weir, notes of the Chinese band.
 ko Lows body was taken across tn
 Williamsburgh bridge. where the ca-teE
 passed to Cypress Hills cemetery. At IT. grave. brothers of his tong depositel
 chopsticks and food. in accordance -wi;i the Oriental custom. The body will b r disinterred in five years and the bone
 of Ko Low taken to the home of hi
 fathecs in China.
 Meanwhile. three Chinamen-Iarr i Wong. James Cluck and Tom Lee-ar 7 held by the police wliie they seek to de 2 ternine whose pistol fired the shots tha { killed Ko Low and wounded Mrs. Ma
 Malbender. the white woman. who Is stl
 in Beekman street hospital