Show 1 I Ch Chinese Se Girt Girl G it I Bares B ares H Horrors of f tJ i i if SIave Trade In United States t yA ky I II I IL A 4 l lI I I II t 7 I a I I 1 I I a It t I Wt L IL i t- t i tiei I t r rC C LJ I FORCED TO LEAD LIFE OF SHAME mm i San San- Francisco Chief Chiefs Slave 4 Market and Trade IsI Is I 4 Brisk By NEA NE Service SAN SAM FRANCISCO Feb 13 Every horror of ot the tho slave in Chinese which has resulted In veral In Indictments In- In I e hero here Is epitomized in the th experiences or J Lim Taule a ft s slave av re I ro rescued I Of or have havo been bought boucht I In Cl na and aDd t braugh-t brought broucht to thi country L n T Taule ule Is la th the first to tal tell het her story stor lor- lor or publication feat eat of the tonj man man teon or diric dIrK hae bae sealed th the of Jr S Lim I was obtained to for lcd l AP d V ins i of r the the rala lav tr tr ir irI I 1 ll i noV not JH v being ne printed in the San ri Ibe Dg Daily News has baa ted crested a ur re op OJ the Pacific coast BY FRED V WILLIAMS Author of Silver Flower The story tory of Lint Lini IS 11 th the story of 75 per cent o of the Chinese slav slave siave gills gitis In America Evely VelY liner Imer that plows through the Golden Gate from the orient brings Its lt quota They land here as merchants wives and soon qoon are wallo swa ed cd In Inthe inthe Inthe the Chinese underworld under San Francisco Is the chief slave market Girl slaves sta sla PI es are literally sold to the highest bidder Their mas lers take them theft wherever they please I In China their prices range ringe from 50 to Here they bring brine from 2000 to As A a girl girl grows older or loses her health her value alue do- do deI deceases de deceases eases c ceases In the meantime she the must I eam back her price and price and a profit At the Immigration station on An AnI Angel Angel gEl Island there are today 45 Chinese I girls Tomorrow a boat will 1 ill 1 leave a amany as many more Some o ot of them th ir aie al e I I for fOI shame sham and suffering Where here are they going What will become or of I them These questions al ama aie e an 11 ed b bLim I Tsu Ie I nas wa as kidnapped from my home In Inthe inthe inthe the Kwong Tung Tune province in China by I bandits They sold me for 25 to a anoman oman noman In Canton who kept me as a al servant ervant until I was 15 SOLD FOR I I Then Thou I was sold told for or to a al dealer in slave girls I begged her not notto to send me into the resorts of o Hong Hong i kong Hone kong to which shipments shipment of girls were made from her house each week I TIlls This woman said she the would find rue me a rich husband from America I Iwas Iwas Iwas was very happy happ He came in the per per- person person person II I son of or a Mr Lee from San FrancIsco Mr Lee paid and took look me toe before the American consulate at Canton I where w e were married My husband nas as American born and carried I papers I I had no idea that an am thing thine but a happy hoppy home horn awaited me M husband left leet me when the tho steamer docked In inSun San ISan Francisco and add eid ho lie would call Ifor for me I never san sa- aw him again j I I learned afterward that he was n a highbinder and that he had to marry me and bring me to this countr country I was nas at th the Immigration station two months when a white while attorney called for me with nath landing papers paper papers lie He said he ha would lake take me mo to my hus bus husband husband band OLD OD WOMAN LAUGHS H lIe He took me In a closed cab to Chi Chinatown Chi Cht- Chinatown and left me nie in charge charre o or of an old woman When ben I asked for Cor my hus husband hus- hus husband band she laughed and said there th re was no husband huband The Tho old woman brought me a bun bun- bundle dle dIn of clothes clothe and ordered me mo to put them on Then she the told me my doom I have paid altogether for you and I must get It II back she said She Sir promised I could buy my freedom by earning carping this amount To To To- Tonight night sh she added you you must enter enter- entertain entertain tain tam my customers custom rs That nIght I refused to work lime old woman beat bat me sac terribly and lock lock- locked locked locked ed me up in a dark duk room with rats Dy By morning I was so terrified that I agreed to obey her In everything My first owner onner sold me rue in six months month M- M My second owner ol told me that he h had bad paid for Cor me and be- be COntinued on Vase Two 1 t i FORCED TO LEAD LIFE OF SHAME BY PURCHASER Continued lCt from from's Page Pago ao One tore fore I could go free tree I must earn that amount Frequently I was told I would be b killed by the tho It If I ran ay anny I GUNMEN ON GUAR GUARD My owners belonged to tongs I These tongs employed gunmen It was the duty o of these gunmen to guard us There have been many cases where slave girls have been murdered when they tried to flee I i became ill and began to lose ray my beauty My owner a member o of the theOn On Yick Tong shipped me mn to Stock Stock- A highbinder of ot the Suey Sing Tong fancied me and one night at the point of a gun he me and took me back to San Francl Francisco co The On Yick Tong threatened war wai with Ith the Suey Sing Tong if it the kid kidnaper kidnaper kidnaper naper did not return me or pay for forme me A Buddhist priest in ChInatown helped raise the tho money and took a apart apart part ownership 0 in me Thereafter I worked for or two owners My My E In six lx Ix years as a II slave slavo gIrl have exceeded all all of which ny my masters took There are hundreds o of girls like me bought and ant sold body and soul |