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Show Amid Smoky Smells Chinese Hold Convention Dimly Lighted Hall Is Bedecked With Tinsel and Tassel of Oriental Colors; Many . . . States Represented PORVaJkKD-Orav Oct. (By A. P.) In a half-lighted hall, bedecked with tinsel and tassel of riotous oriental-colors, oriental-colors, to ths Intermittent clangor and whine of a dosen strange Instruments and the smell of exotic odors. Chinees delegates from many states to the national na-tional convention of the Hip Sing tone pursued their deliberations yesterday and today. Ths orientals were willing to let Caucasian visitors In between sessions for brief glimpses of the vart-hued glory of their meeting place, and to enjoy. If they could. Its weird music, and endure. If they had ths fortitude. Its weirder smells. Also they were most generous in handing around cigars ci-gars to all comers and cand.ed ginger and sections of green sugsr cans, j Purely benevolent ars the purposes of the gathering, according to ths official of-ficial tong press agent, a young Cbineee, who. verbally and eartorlcally, might well have been mistaken for American. Ameri-can. "It Is purely a buslneas meeting," he said. "We are planning no war on other tongs." The Hip Hlng tong. he sdded, plans to go into business In earnest in the construction snd operation of a woolen wool-en or cotton plant In China aa a working work-ing ground for the capital of affluent members and prosperous individual tonga. And then three new buildings ere wanted by the "Hip." te keep company com-pany with the $100,000 structure built In San Francisco, the national head quarters, last year. For the first time a tong, purely an American development, develop-ment, for there were no tongs until Chinese came to this country, plans to make entry Into China. Money Is to be raised at this convention for buildings build-ings in Honkong, Seattle, Chicago and New York. i A lavish banquet last night wss attended at-tended by hundreda of the tongmen. There were sharks' fin and birds nest soup, chop suey, durk and many other oriental dainties. Ths feasting lasted ; all night. ! Down on the sidewalk a special detail de-tail of police kept vigil. The police, it seemed, were not greatly iro pressed with ths Hip 81ng declaration of purposes. |