Show A RUINED SHRINK A CHINESE sanctuary IS BURNED IN SAN BAN FRANCISCO FRANCIECO in the light of rep repeated dated occurrences of the strangest and most moat startling nature which the press is called upon ironi day to day to record and of which with equal frequency the police are compelled to take cognize inc toc enone etione dare predict to what lengths toe chinese C will ill carry their factional feuds these thes imbroglios and vendettas vend ettas lead to almost daily of violence not infrequently murdes murder and disturb continually abe peace of of chinatown the latest outrage was committed at noun yesterday in the desecration of the shrine of the tuck kee wong no 2 lodge of the sam yup yap Socie society till au and the destruction of almost the entire sacred property by fire the great excitement cit ement created and the inability of the witnesses to speak english made it particularly difficult to reach even sin jan approximation of the facts but the following statement may be accepted as reasonably near the truth the shrine is located in a deep recess of a room on toe second floor front in the three story stone building at 35 waverly place in the depth of this ibis chancel like niche sat the loss or image from which its it s the idolatrous cus custom tom of the members of the society to solicit propitious influences upon their enterprises the joss is as usual a squatting quaffing quaff ing flure black and hideous and wearing conspicuously conspicuous Iv a long lone gray beard and fierce piratical moustache over and about dim haug a paper and cloth drapery of tinsel gilt and many barbaric barbari hues chaes at his feet burned the sacred lamp of peanut oil that illuminated lumina ted the pitchy gloom of the chancel lower still and along the altar rail on a level with the face of the kneeling devotee there was a long box fill filled editn sand into this at various intervals were thrust p punk ok like sticks of incense which burned for regulated periods yesterday morning the vestryman or attendant pie prepared pared the sorine shrine for the customary noonday noon day worship he threw out the shouldering ing stumps of incense and placed in the box fresh sticks replenished the lalling lamp and retired until the priest woo yuen should come at noon noo r and inaugurate the dally worship tills this attendant completed his bis work about 10 and departed depart eds leaving the shriner room unoccupied 3 and as is 14 the confiding or negligent custom of the On inese unlocked it is certain that some member of the lee sall sah bo BD or the gl GI sin some other unfriendly guild covertly gained entrance and planted a pyrotechnic bomb in the box of sand adjusting the tapering fuse so that it stood innocently boo erect among the sticks of incense at high noon woo yuenli his sacerdotal robes of green and yellow walked into the room and after a rayer applied incense sticks slicks in that devout devout act he ignite ignited cE the bombs treacherous f fuse use thero there was a bering flash a heaving of sand from the bed of the box a shock and a roar and a blinding blaze the priest tell back balf and endeavored to gain the door through the rolling smoke the idol shattered and shorn of its whiskers toppled turning the sacred lamp and throwing the blazing oil in every direction the canopy and hangings hannings hang ings caught fire in an in an incredibly short time the flames were roaring briskly and advancing along the woodwork to toe main room coolies attracted from all parts of the neighborhood went running to the scene and an alarm of fire was turned in from box 25 at the corner of dupont and washington streets the fire department quickly extinguished the blaze the material damage is placed at 75 but the spiritual loss to i he be sam yup yap company is beyond estimate and irreparable no clew is so far obtainable to tile the designing scoundrel who plotted the atrocity |