The Chinese Gambling Den

Attacked by Students on Huron Street

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SUNDAY NIGHT GAMES

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Have Been Going On for Some Time Among the Chinese Who Come from Neighboring Towns

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A gang of enraged students smashed up a gambling den in the rear of Wah Lee's laundry on Huron street Sunday night. Bricks and paving blocks crashed through the windows upon the money-covered tables, frightening the opium-smokers, who grabbed their cash and gave chase to the students, who were not caught.

According to Mrs. Fay, who lives above the den, Sunday night is the regular time for these orientals to meet and gamble away large sums of money. Chinamen come from Ypsilanti, Jackson and other surrounding towns. Not long ago seven students persuaded the Chings to cook them a meal and serve it after the fashion of their own country. Whether the young men hit the pipe is not known, but the reason given for the raid Sunday night is that the den keepers are said to be enticing young men there for the novelty of trying the opium pipe. "The Chinamen gamble with the students," said Mrs. Fay, "and they lose large sums there, but I do not know anything about the opium smoking, except that the Chinamen do it." They cook the opium for a time on the end of wires in the flame of a lamp and then insert it in their long pipes. A favorite game with them is the dice game, played with two dice marked in Chinese. These they cast in a large earthen dish with high sides to prevent one with deft hands from turning the dice over after they fall. Naturally suspicious they have kept their den running in a quiet way and it was not found out until exposed by Mrs. Fay.