Hey everyone. Thanks for coming back for another CHP episode. No making you wait

49 days like last time. The Tong Wars Part 2. I left you hanging last episode with the death of one of the local New York

Chinatown businessman, Mr. Longgane. He was a hip saying and he met his end in a hallway

on 9 Pell Street in Chinatown. and he died at the

died at the hands of an Enlyong soldier or Highbinder as they were referred to in the press.

It's now August of the year 1900. President William McKinley is on

the throne, TR Teddy Roosevelt, is waiting in the wings. McKinley still is a year to go before he's assassinated by some anarchist.

And in New York Chinatown, copious amounts of enmity and hard feelings have been built up between the Onleongs and the Hip Sings.

They've been battling each other ever since the Hip Sings came to town and began to make moves

and what they felt was their rightful share of the proceeds from the

vice trade and other criminal enterprises in New York, Chinatown.

Why should the Aon Leongs have everything to themselves? Each tongs used their resources and temporary

advantages to attack each other, using the courts, the police, and good old-fashioned

intimidation each had their champions within the

establishment who led the interference for their ongoing participation in the

vice trade. People got beat up all the time but there were no dead bodies in the middle of the street yet.

So Long Gain was shot and killed, and they rounded up the usual suspects.

Someone named Gong Wing Jong and Anliang was picked up and thrown

into a cell in the tombs. One thing I found interesting in reading about the Tong Wars was that many

times when these gangsters were rolling up on each other.

There always seemed to be a cop walking as beat.

A lot of these perpetrators were often caught right at the scene of the crime.

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