The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1899, Page 25

[ PAGES SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1899. UEY HIN, { of slave gir Chris n, She eller, keeper her seven Chinatown busine 1ip her n. d to become a 1t ‘white te , 0 the s could to gain uey Hin herself sered e In Shan- fore she be- 1l young girls, rere was and Wo Sing, Ah Ho h sick, but they That made $5100. ars old,.but 2 T bj T st rls had be die; - you. k nd my father is top many. was an old woman came nd > lcoked at me. I r When sl ad I hid mother. My father han to go away. ight she came back 2 ) my father and mother 1d money in m give it to my ) nted nothing to yes, I had he ship, and I th other little 1ght to San Frar n of u woman on some we g ny turn. They. , but I was r w much I cost. but ere filled L ld they e from “Then, ah, it's all of my life I like hink about. Tt wasn’t but two next r three years. My husband got sick and didn’t get a bett and then h ied. T didn’t have nvthing but just myself, and I had to live. and I could not live on nothing. No. I had to have thi , so I got a little house: vou know, one with a little window soon I went back to t go to my own would not ant to Iw and I bought three girls. Two of dead, but Ah Moy, t's Ah Moy was a baby, and 1 paid her f nts for her. After I had retu few. months I nt back to C I wanted to s ways I wanted to go b: So went, but I didn’t let know I was there. I went to the place where they put the babies There was a baby there. A of a brown baby, and she di t look ch good any But I wanted 1e one from my own village, and so I took the and she is Ah L ent to Hon again. to die. ttle bit Don’t you think she a girl now? She's not a slave vyou now. She's a good gi j me as white girls so 1 say others. She T antung. she shall never be like the s most all die soon. ly the ho and the dear Jesus t.. You see she is a girl and her people sold her., so what can she do? “That trip T brought home four girls girls besides Ah Luey. You see it was not hard to ggle the girls into this country t You can't do it so easy now. Sometimes they come, only some- times now. You see the Hop Sing tong fix it with the Custom House. They swore to the officers that the children were born here and went to China to and th who wants to nd they tell all Hen I went back once more. ar ago and 1 hey did )t seem to be with r when we g but I watched them. learn the an white white they 1 ng them up to , the girls didn’t ke 4 when the inspector aske they ot very fat and then n and Miss Lake sold them to Loo Wing. All the here I will not » bad any mo They are all y g0 or they may stay here they go. Hom ( g to China. I bought her in You want to talk to her?” d T did, and Hom Get smiled her out of sight and came in with a now. gs. She seated herself as all do, cross-legged. “Oh, yes indeed, I'm going home,” she said, through the interpreter. “I'm going back to my own home. My father didn’t sell me; he would not do it. He just wrote a let You want to i father he loves me and he & 1 was stolen. You see ather he quarreled with a man. The man wanted to do him harm. So this wicked man he got another man who knew my father = ) lived in gkong to write me to his fam- r to me. was ‘doing any and he 1 Then the man took me d lost me so my me town and father’s enemy cou'd find hen my father's enemy sold me to Suey Hin and she brought me here. father did not know where T was till the white teachers wrote to him in China. The teachers aid 1 was freed because Suey Hin loved Jesus, Then my father wrote this letter and he sent $70. Isn't that such a lot of money? Don’t you think my father loves me? nd I'm going home and I will see my sister and I'll sce my two brothers, but 1, ob, I don’t know, you see 1'm not like all the other girls at home now. I love Jesus, yes, but then—— You want to > the letter my father wrote?” While we were talking there was the bustle and chatter of some one coming in. Suey Hin called out and Man Get, Ah Ho #nd Ah Chung came into the room. We shook hands all around and 0000000000000 the girls said they Francisco. crazy. cheap.’ $250. here to me. Get to her father. Chee. floor. ORNFESSITN F £ UEY HIN, a Chinese slave-owner, who has been importing Chinese girls into g SMUGGLED THEM INTO SAN TRANECISSO, *WHY SHE HAS JUST SLAVES SOLD IN SAN FRANCISCO. FREED - 00000000000000000000000000000OOGOOOOOGOOOOOGOOOOOOOO0 THEM. (4] @ [+] San Francisco for years, has just been converted to Christianity. To show her o sincerity she has freed the seven girlsin her possession, valued by her at $8300, © and will endeavor to see them safely married. Several of the girls were kidnaped and they will be returned to their parents. In the light of her new faith, Suey Hin g uncovers the whole nefarious Chinese girl slave trade in San Francisco, and de- © scribes how the girls are sold here among the Chinese for a few hundred dollars. She herself when only five years old was sold into the trade by her own father, and 5 lived out the whole dreadful life to the time when she adopted Christianity. 0000000000000 0000 0000 dead. You see I bought her in Victoria. ‘When I wanted to love Jesus I thought I would ask her father to home and get her married. him; but you see he is a very bad man. He went right to a man, showed my letter and said: ‘You are going to San woman gone That fool You buy Man Get. The Man Filled Both of My Hands Wity Gold and | Then Became His Slave. had been to a white man’s store to do some shopping. They opened their parcels and showed Suey Hin and me what they had purchased and bragged about how cheap they had bought them. Ah Ching gave a piece of bine ribbon and a pair of long blue silk stockings to. Man Get. looked pensive and took the blue things and patted them. “She has just heard her father is So he sell her to Loo Wing for He was sure she was very sick, so he sell her very cheap. “Loo Chee did buy her and then came He said: ‘I will take Hom He wants her and she can stay at home and be married. He never sell her any more.’ He lied, : “I almost let Hom Get go with Loo He went away, he sald, to buy a ticket to take Hom Get to Victoria. But he drop this plece of, paper on'the Ah San she was playing with Loo Chee and she picked the paper up 000000000000000C0CO0COL0000000Q000 [>] (] good English. “What will you do with her?” Suey’s face saddened. You could see she was very fond of the child. “I don’t know; maybe give her to the mission. Do you want to go to the mission, Ah San?"” The little face clouded and the tears began to run over the black eyelashes. Suey gathered the little one up in her arms. Ah San's were not the only wet e she said: “I good, I good girl, Sue “What will you do girls?” I asked. “Oh, I suppose they get married. Only they must marry Christians. I Chris- with the other quick and brought it to me. it is: BILL OF SALE. Loo Wing to Loo Chee— April 16—Rice, 6 mats, at $2.. $12 April 18—Shrimps, 50 Ibs, at 10c . April 20—Girl, $250 April 21—Salt fish, 60 Ibs at 10c tian man. dead. While Suey Hin was The girl 250 tiny cups of tea and [ dried cocoaput. $263 put & doll in my lap. Received payment, 1.OO CHE Victoria, B. C., May 1, 1898, “Then I Know Loo Wing had sold Hom Get to Loo Chee, but I said no, oh mo, not at all! I would not let Hom Get go. Then Loo Chee went to the Kwal Kung tong and made a big complaint about me. ‘“Fong San came and he said I must give Hom Get to Loo Chee or he would make me trouble. After all the money I have paid Fong San. No! Oh. I have given him plenty money to protect me! Well, he knew Hom Get belonged to me because I only sald I would send her to her father if he would keep her and get her married. When he sold her that broke the bargain. “Well, that was two months ago. Last week Fong Sing came to see me. He told us Loo Wing was dead. . So take her 1 wrote to lish. “You a boy and like dolls wore the dress of a boy. “‘Oh, yes, she's a girl. a boy so the mission steal ‘her. I very cute! bring her up for they come and re: not at all! “Where did you get her?” “Bought her. was ten days old. San, come here. everything! Loves Me."" I sell her cue her. You see? “I not boy, I girl; I Ah San.” inquiringly at Suey Hin, for the child See, here now Hom Get has no home and she must stay here and I'll get her married. I won’t let her marry any but a Chris- The blue ribbon she wears? Oh, that’s to show she has some one ‘What you call mourning.” telling about Hom Get two of the girls brought us confections A little three-year-old girl in a red sam and yellow trousers It was dressed in Chinese style most magnificently. “Lunt gave me,” she said, of In Eng- Ilooked I dress her like people” will not They slave girl and then Oh, no, no, I make her look like a boy.” I Bought her when she She's smart. Oh, she understands Now, Ah San, sing ‘Jesus Ah The little one repeated the sentence and then she said the whole of “The Lord. is My Shepherd,” and all in very Receptacle for Gast.Of f Girl-Babies Near Swatow, Ghina. From a Photograph. tian now, and T work Always now for Jesus. ‘T used to work hard for the devil, hif vou call Satan; but now I work harder for Jesus.’: HELEN GREY. ———————— VERNACULAR OF CRIMINALS, RIMINOLOGY has its own langauge __terse, expressive and incompre- hensible to the uninitiated. It is arily a growing as well as a i hanging langauge, tu shich the young, active and ingeni- re constantly contributing, 2 expressions are dropped from time to time by common consent or give place to new and more forceful ones A few of the words and phrases have proven so apt that they have found their Way inte higher society,-and are used side by side with those of more reputable - origin. Some slang words are in general use among rogues, but in addition each coun- try and each city has its peculiar dialect, New York naturally having the - richest and most complete lexicon of this sort in America. A detective is referred to as and 2 'he crook is un’’ or \er who com at repeated and regu- Is ‘being referred to s a ‘‘re- he fellow who knows every de= ve by sight and can tip him:off to his an “‘elbow atty an old- des 'is termed ghthouse.” The of ang is their ain guy, - plac ofmeeting the “joint” and the. z 1f is the “‘push.” i results from a rob- ral as ‘‘the low one'! hite one.” A and a diamond lunder which referred to in A gold watch and a silver watch is a pocketbook is a ‘leather is a “spark ; “Graft” a rogue's line of business, and a pickpocket is a ‘‘grafte ” while the shoplifter is spo " (pronounced_*‘hyster ““flagged 1 to g < 3 er, counterfeit mon; s man who is ‘& shover.” A among criminals _as 2 Jewelry thieves weighters,” ~flat or aks.” A -bank thief J* and afe thief is a ockout or chloral drops termed vly come into the fraternity is t broken out,” and a re- ared it."” 1 who works with thieves Is a an who steals from a er.” ~A man who trying to steal from his formed man has A wom those in attendance is spoken of in t way. There are ‘“‘cross- 1 busines: on his tours about the country and at- tending conventions and other crowded occasions brick n are also spoken o gang stolen_gc g who_off! nee to hi and a ‘“crib n or g cer A man is Sent to the “ju, » goos to the county prison or jail, but State prison is the “stur,” and his term is e pressively referred to as So many “stretches” in place of years. When a prisoner is convicted he is said to be settied; If released, he is turned out. Dividing the' spoils is known as ‘“‘whack- ing up.” Warning signals are given by a peculiar throaty hacking. watch and chain are often referred to as a “‘super and slang.” and when a thief announces that he “pinched a guy’s vel- low supet on the green-light rattler,” it v be translated into the statement that stole a gold watch on a Four- teenth-street car. “The guy tumbled and we done a lamb'* signifies that the intended victim was onto the game and the thief ran away. “He screwed his nut” means that he turned his head so that he could not see anything. “The guy was made up” easily understood to mean that he was * disguised. —_—————— “Are your eyes tired?” asks a Colum- bus avenue optician by means of a sign' in his window. “Try a massage, 2 cents. The operation takes ten minutes; and is very soothing. The opticlan places you in a chair and quickly manipulates the eyelids with his forefingers and thumbs, rubbing them first toward -the nose and then back toward the ears. He says that it prevents the circulation of blood across the eves and clears away the tiny, flitting spots that sometimes bother people who read a great deal. As most people know, thé birth of a girl child into a Chinese home is not a welcome event. him. mply nother mouth to fill; Shé is a “go-away child’—that is to say her home and goes to her husband’'s, wherea When a_Chinese father X hold he counts only his “Th and for this s wh often’ not_allowed to live. ~When they are n they are disposed of by some such indirect mea S e companying photo. Here we see a basket ened to the wall of. the c of Chaochao-foo, some thirty miles up river from the treaty port of Swa- tow. This basket is for the reception of newly born girls’ who have not found a w n thelf own homes—a veritable “letter box.” where baby girls are * may possibly be troubled with some slight scruples about actually’ killing the infant, so he places it in this strange re~ ceptact hing to adopt whence ey tne remove it and do W make the hat he I he with 1t It Christian ‘niissionaries sometimes d female child is at liberty to awful practices like this that air of the Chinese.