Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1889 — A High Life Chinese Wedding in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

A High Life Chinese Wedding in Chicago.

It was a solemn but strange wedding. The parties to the contract were Moy Sing, a disciple of Confucius, and Miss Ida Wagner, a comely German girl from Streator. The ceremony was pei-formed in a room richly hung in Oriental trappings, near Hip Lung’s Hotel. There were present a score or more Chinese, a few of whom had wives of Anglo-Saxon blood. All wei-e in holiday attire, and when the marital knot was tied there was a general rejoicing. The rites were pronounced after the manner set forth in the statute books of the State of Illinois. The performance was soon over, and then the friends gathered about to congratulate the nexvlv wedded pair, just as Americans do. Then a queer little orchestra, consisting of four Celestials, performed on several oddlooking stringed instruments and a tom-tom or gong, producing a weird kind of music. There was nothing elaborate in the dress either of the bride or groom. Moy Sing wore a royal purple silk robe, with the usual flowing sleeves and wide skirt, while his bride appeared in a suit of India silk. At the conclusion the groom led his bride to Hip Lung’s hotel, at 223 South Clark street, where he has rented a suite of rooms. It is an eminently respectable house, and is known to the Chinese from San Francisco to New York as the resort of the silk stocking element of Mongolian society in Chicago. In this hotel two other Chinamen with American wives occupy apartments, and the advent of a third white woman was duly celebrated. The groom, Moy Sing, is a native of Canton, and is 23 veai-s of age. He is a cigarmaker in the employ of Sam Moy. It is said that Mr. Sing met Miss Wagner in Streator some years ago while he was conducting a laundry there. —Chicago Inter Ocean