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Show CHINATOWN HAS AN UNDERGROUND Excavating for the Lyceum Causes Chinese to Grow Uneasy and Finally Make Known That Under the Old Theater a A Tunnel Exists Which Leads to a Dismal Chamber Has Ogden an underground Chinatown China-town l.ke that of San Francisco before be-fore the big quake? Arc there subterranean sub-terranean haunts unknown to the police po-lice where crime lies hidden, where lce Is rampant and yellow and white fugitives from' justice may live without with-out fear of discovery? A d.scovery made toCay by Contractor Contrac-tor W. C. Gale, who is excavating on Twenty-filth street for the proposed Lyceum theater. Indicates that there Is some ground for suspecting that such Is the case. Uneasiness on the part of the Celestials connected with the Wah Sing Lung Oriental tea store just west of the Lyceum excavation, led to the discovery that deep down In the earth under the site of the Lyceum Ly-ceum is a secret room, a den of Chinese Chi-nese This room Is thirty -six feet long by eighteen feet wide. Because Wah Sing Lung feared that the excavators would break through the cavern-like rendezvous of Celestials, Celes-tials, he was forced to make known the secret of lis existence to the contractor. con-tractor. He did net do so, however, until A. L (l;. hrc::icr of the contractor, con-tractor, who Is doing the actie overseeing over-seeing of the work, grew suspicious of the Chinaman's man.- :nquirles as to I the depih the excavators were going and w orked a ruse en I he excited I Lnnc. Lung was told that the excavation excava-tion would go down about twenty feet. I.i desneration, the Chinaman then confessed that be had a room built under the ground about fifteen fcjet from the surface. After the story was I old by the nervcus Chinaman dale assured him that the excavation would not go down twenty feel, but was only to slope gradually from a few feet below be-low street grade at the street line to about ten feet at the souin end of the building. This Is for the dressing room of I he theater and not for a cellar. When the tea store man was assured as-sured that his underground room was in no danger, he appeared to be sorry that he had speken or ;t at all anil grew very taciturn In regard to the hidden chamber. When seen by a Standard reporter about noon today, Lung would not talk about the subterranein chamber any finther than to admit that it existed He refused to state for what the room M MB Mil rg j Is us.-'d. deftly pretending that h. I could not understand what was asked. Finally he said that b nad a kitchen and some tables in the underground den. He declined to permit the news-; news-; paper man to lslt the place. I Persons who reside or work In the j neighborhood of the Lung place tell some strange tales of mysterious hap- i peninps'iri which tho secret chamber I i Is believed to have played a part. It i I said that abaut a year ago the po- j j lice traced a much wanted suspec; to I the l.v. store and saw the man enter en-ter the place. A few moments later the police had the place surrounded and made a search of the premises. The suspect could not be found. The occupants oc-cupants of the place, who were round, smilingly assisted the; police in tho search and apparently lent the ofTl- cerA all the aid possible. Xo secret j nom xv.x fo:nd. but persons who remember re-member this raid believe that the man must have been secreted in tho underground chamber. When Lung was asked todav what he .lid with the dirt that was taken j from the cavern, lie smiled and said, "Make chop sney noodles." It Is common knowledge in police! circles of the larger cities that the I Chineup at all times have seeret hiding hid-ing places that are known only to the few who hrtve helped to build thm The fight of the San Francisco police some years ago against' tho notorious IIlKhblndi'rR led to the discovery of many such secret chambers. In "Chicago, "Chi-cago, during the recent fight nualnsl the white slave traffic, the detectives in charge of the work were baffle 1 by the secret haunts of Chinatown, where many of the white slave traders so"ght refuge and where many a white girl was hidden from her friends and from the authorities until tho activity of the police had lessened. (ienr-rallv the opium dens of the Chinese are bidden chambers below the ground, and some of iha most I loathsome of brothels have been unearthed un-earthed In similar haunts. That other underground abodes of Chinese exist In Ogden. and that deeds and scenes are enacted In these places that would not "be tolerated on the surface, where they would become Known to the police, is a reasonable supposition based on discoveries of the police in other cities. |