The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1895, Page 11

R R THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1895 2 3 dare to keep any tickets in the office. The police would come up here and raid the office. You just wait here a moment and T'll go downstairs and get them for you.” Mr. Reynolds locked his desk and in- vited his visitor out into the hallway, after which he turned the key in his door, and then went downstairs by the back way. He went to the bank, opened his box in the vauit (it costs him only $4 a year, and it is safe from the police), took out four two-bit tickets, and brought them upstairs to the young man who was waiting, The tickets were in an envelope. Mr. Reynolds led his visitor into the darkest corner of the corridor, looked around to see if any one was in sight, and then hurriedly slipped the small envelope into the young man’s hand in exchange for a silver doilar. *“Che drawing is July 3,” he said. “On the 5th or 6th you'll see the list advertised in the Examiner. Come and see me next month. Good-day, sir.”” And the next morning Mr. Reynolds was arrested for seiling what ‘“‘purported to e’ a lottery ticket. The wording of the law in this respect is fortunate, or else Mr. Reynolds and his fellow-rascals might es- cape the penalty of conviction by frankly admitting that the tickets sold were not | lottery tickets. Such a plea would be true Of all the swindling games ever offered “ enough in this case, but Prns'ecm%ng At- to a public that likes to be fooled yet does | torney Dare, under whose direction the not like to lose its money the lottery swin- | warrant was drawn, says the law has been dle is the very worst swindle of them all. | tested in that respect. And even if it bad What do you think of the E. Fox & Co.’s | not the chances are that Mr. Reynolds clearing $28,000 net in six weeks in San | woula rather pay his fine than admit Francisco alone? And every ticket they | openly that his tickets were fraudulent. sold in those six weeks, or in any other | The case is set for next Wednesday in weeks, was a shameful, lying fraud. Not | Judge Joachimsen’s court. Mr. Reynolds one of fthem could possibly draw a prize, | said yesterday that he would plead guilty. for the simple reason there isno such lot- | The fine may be $5, or it may be $100. Con- Spanish AmorisapTotienyGupagy i THE LOTTERY FRAUD, Agent of the Spanish- American Fake Un-~ der Arrest. COUNTERFEIT TICKETS. How the Bogus Coupons Are Worked Off on the H Public. JOHN R. FRITZ GIVES ADVICE.| He Tells a Supposed Peddler It Is More Profitable to Sell Only Fake Tickets. WI'-D“‘:V(WAN“ Cusa on wednesday. July 3. 1895 TS TWENTY- FIVE CENT Tucr€ T ENTITLES THE HOLDER TO ONE-TWENTIETH OF SuCH PRIZE In GOLDCON OR ITS EQUIVALENT. &S MaY BE DRAWN BY (TS NUMBER N THE WITHIN NAMED ORAWNG IF PRE D) LEnTED FOR ParmEnT BEFORE Tre Cx Malion oF FHREE MONTHS FROM 1 HE DATE OF SAD DRAWING e it il aperbl iU m i e ehdreaiaiadveiinedyreconiedionn i o Perez, = 5 5 e S % Amprican 3 B 2 Mwfl - (sl oA H = 3 2 % @49«7‘%1‘3 Commissioners s = ican GuarsntecCrmy hasa cash S 2 1d . fortie pas meutol prizes g 3 Coniiter on jresentation such > 2 be y cket or torward dratt P one of its deposiaries i the United States. % e i b pand 1u full by our suthorized ageutsiaall lasge citics. 2 ONE OF THE FRAUDULENT SPANISH-AMERICAN LOTTERY TICKETS PURCHASED FROM C. P. REYNOLDS IN THE FLOOD BUILDING. tery company and consequently there is | sidering that the tickets sold are fakes of no drawing and no distribution of prizes. | the first water, and that Mr. Reynolds The rascals who conduct the fraud make a | knows them to be fakes—as he has more business of picking out a few persons each | than once admitted in private to different month and paying them from $5 to $20 to | persons—the fine ought to be large enough have them spread the news among their | to make it more profitable for Mr. Rey- friends and acquaintances that they won a | nolds to make a living in some other way. great big prize in the Fox lottery. And there’s the Little Mexican fraud | the court has discretion to make it less. that took $30,000 out of Oakland, above all | commissions to agents and all expenses in | dodging the police, in one month. Same | kind of a fraud as Fox'’s. Same facts re- | garding its non-existence. Same lacking | of a bona-fide prize-winner. | The Montana fraud used to be zood for $40,000 a2 month in San Francisco. The | fact of its being a palpable fake, however, | became so well known that its business de- clined, anda now it's rather difficult to se- cure a ticket unless you just happen to run into a peddler who has them. If you find such a peddler give him a piece of your mind, and teil him that the footpad who takes his life and his life’s liberty in his hands every time he does a stroke of pro- fessional business is a manly, brave fellow when compared to the peddler or agent or dealer who sells two-bit fake lottery tickets for a living. Selling fraudulent lottery tickets is a wmean, small business, so con- temptible, in truth, that the ordinary criminal and ex-convict despises it heart- ily, and an honest man’s soul grows sick within him at the contemplation of such a very low order of the human family. And the Spanish-American fraud. The | town is flooded with the two-bit, four-bit and dollar tickets of this fake. One of the | oldest dealers in the City is responsible for | the statement that in one year this com- v ha 1d 1,000,000 tickets in this Cit; Pany hasmel Y | the only ones that even pretend to give alone. A man named C. P. Reynolds, whose | office is in the Flood building, is the chief promoter and agent in this City for the “Spanish - American Lottery Company,” that exists only on the fake tickets sold. | He dresses very well, wears spectacles and looks more like a respectable business man than the very small fraud and thief that he is. Heretofore he has enjoyed immunity from the police, not because they were lax in their duties, but because of Reynolds’ extreme cautiousness. He never keeps any tickets in his office and he is very care- ful to whom he sells them. But Detective Wright found a way to reach Mr. Rey- nolds. Last Tuesday afternoon Mr. Reynolds cold four lottery tickets. He was sitting quietly in his office, with his feet on the | desk and a newspaper in his hands, when a yvery green-looking young man, who was not entirely as green as he appeared to be, pushed open the glass door that bears the sign SPANISH-AMERICAN GUARANTEE COMPANY. C. P. REYNOLDS, Agent. And inquired, quite innocently, if he could buy some lottery tickets. “Why—well—come inside,” Reynolds, eying the stranger very closely. said Mr. The verdant young man came in and stood by the desk. *‘You have Spanish- Americans here, don’t you?’’ he asked. *No; I have no lottery tickets here,” 'was the answer. “Then I'm in the wrong place, I sup- pose?” said the stranger, and he turned as if to go out. “Hold on, sir,” said the agent of the Guarantee Company, *“I can get some. ‘What kind of tickets do you want?'" “What price are they?” “From two bits up.” “Well, I'd Like to try a dollar’s worth of the two-bit tickets,” said the sly young rhan; ‘‘but you say you haven’t got them here?” “That’s all right, I'll get them for you in a minnte. You see, the police are watch- ing us very ciosely these days, so I have to be careful, Those — articles in the | fakes and frauds. {in this City are counterfeits. But the law limits the penalty to $100, and The practice has been to make the first fine a light one, and subsequent ones heavier, and this practice seems to be in keeping with the spirit of the law, though not at all in touch with the public spirit at this time. The fact is that the law does not fit the times, but that is another mat- ter. Considering further this subject of iraudulent lottery tickets it is certainly safe to say that at this or no other time in the history of San Francisco would there be any sympathy wasted on “Agent” Rey- nolds. Even the people who continually | break the law by buying lottery tickets will be glad to see Reynolds exposed, and would be still more pleased to see him driven out of the business or outof the City, and if this is true of Reynolds how about the Upson gang of counterfeiters? Early this week Detective Wright searched the premises of several printing and litho- graphing houses near Clay and Mont- gomery streets, but could get no trace of either Upson’s plant or product. Upson is out on bail pending an appeal to the Superior Court from his conviction in Judge Low’s Police Court. And while he is on bail he is counterfeiting more lottery tickets. The Little Louisiana, the Mexican Gov- ernment and the Honduras lotteries are the ones most counterfeited, because they are prizes. Of course the pretense doesn't amount to much, but it is there, such as it is, while all the others are out and out Now, don’t rush off to buy a ticket in one of these three companies until you have learned how the counterfeiters of these tickets work. Chief Crowley has stated positively that fully a half of all the tickets of genuine lottery companies sold And the Chief knows what he is talking about. He has seen and bandled probably more lot- tery tickets than any other one man in the world in or out of the lottery business. A short time ago he had two big wagon-loads of tickets burned, and there are now about twenty-five tons of counterfeit lottery tickets in the basement at police head- quarters. But perhaps you want something more than a bare statement of facts. Thatis quite right. You are entitled to details and you shall have them. You want to know how so many counterfeit tickets can possibly be put on the market. Then read: In the first place the really clever lottery ticket counterfeit is a fine piece of work. It is a photographic reproduction of the original, ard sometimes it is printed on as good a quality of banknote paper as the genuine, and sometimes not. However, the majority of the people and the ped- dlers are not good judges of banknote paper. Now,a good many dealers and peddlers who would scorn to sell a fraudulent or counterfeit lottery ticket are vet selling these very same frauds and counterfeits. Why? Because they don’t know it. From their agent they receive a bundle of tickets—perhaps $10 worth or perhaps $100 worth. From ocne-half to two-thirds of that bundle of tickets is made up of the “queer” kind. That's the way they are put on the market. When the packages of genuine lottery tickets are received through Wells Fargo they are at once opened by the head agents in this City, and half of the contents of each package— month. They paid cash for that lot of tickets about at the rate of 70 cents for every dollar’s worth of tickets,and some of the tickets sell for more than a dollar, in- deed, as high as $10. The agent that or- ders 5000 tickets knows where he can place 10,000. That'sa sure rule. Now on the first 5000 tickets he makes a very good profit, but the profit on his second 5000 is what makes it possible for him to own fast horses and live in a fine house. He sells his tickets in small lots to peddlers and storekeepers, and these in turn, if they be so minded, have the same chance to make a handsome profit by adulterating their purchases from the agents. On the genuine lottery tickets the ped- dlers clear 15 cents on every dollar’s worth, On the counterfeit tickets in small lots their percentage is 35 cents. Now, the peddlers who are thrifty do notlet this chance slip by. Itisonly a few anomalies in the way of partly honest law-breaking lottery-ticket sellers whe hesitate to make the larger profit. And the man or woman that buys a lottery ticket? He or she has one chance out of four of getting a genu- ine ticket—and then only providing that they buy of a peddler who does not handle the tickets of the fraudulent companies. John R. Fritz, who lives on the top floor of a tenement-house at 3 Clyde street, isan associate rascal of the villain Upson. Clyde street runs off 'Townsend, between Third and Fourth. John R. Fritz has made Clyde street notorious, He works for Upson, and is counted very clever in the matter of “shoving” “‘queer’’ lottery tickets. A stranger who knocked on John R. Fritz’s door last Tuesday afterncon found the “shover” at home. It was the rascal himself who opened the door. “Is John R. Fritz within?’ asked the stranger. “Yes—that is—well, I am Fritz,” after he had looked at the stranger very closely and was satisfied he was not a policeman in disgui “I wanted to seeif I could getany lot- tery tickets?” said the stranger. “Straight or bogus?” said John R. Fritz. Then he aaded, “Come inside; who sent you?”’ The stranger declared that he used to work in the railroad office, and from the clerks there had learned that John R. Fritz would be a good man to see about getting bogus lottery tickets. Frilz quizzed the stranger very thoroughly for a time and learned from him that he was out of work and desired to peddle counterfeit lottery tickets. “The best way to do,” said Fritz, “is to sell the bogus tickets straight. Ialways have better luck that way, though some people want them mixed with good tickets. Of course, we give them what they want. But my advice to a young man starting out in the business is to sell our counter- feits and nothing else. “Joe Johnson makes the finest counter- feit youever saw. It'sa great ticket, and it sells just as good as the straight one. Besides, thére’sa whole lot more money in the bogus tickets for you. I can givethem toyou at 35 cents on the dollar, and that's a good profit, you know. There’s a lot of cheap counterfeits on the market, but I wouldn’t advise you to touch them. You're liable to get tripped up on them sometimes. ““But the counterfeits that I will se1l you are just as good as the straignt, and if you happen to run up against another ticket of the same number, you can swear it's the other ticket that is bogus and yours the genuine. “‘Of course, I have no tickets here. The police are watching, and the Cavrr is mak- ing such a fuss about nothing that we have to be very careful. But I'll give you Johnson’s address up on Fourth street, and if you can satisfy him that you're all rignt, you can get what you want. What saloon do you hang out at?” The stranger was at a loss to answer for a moment, not being well versed in the nomenclature of the saloons about town, and this fact made John R. Fritz—don't forget the name—still more suspicious. And after he had given the stranger Joe Johnson’s address at 127 Fourth street, he was in a hurry to say “Good-day.” As the stranger went out the front entrance John R. Fritz went out the back way and headed for ““Joe Johnson's” place to warn him that a suspicious-looking stranger was making inquiries. Of course Joe Johnson is Joe Upson, and he has his counterfeit tickets so well hidden that the searching policemen could not find them. He probably rents a box in the bank vault and keeps all his tickets there. John R. Fritz is a medium-sized man who wears a light bluish-gray business suit and a sandy mustache. Look out for him. Detective Wright is watching John R. Fritz and his pal Upson, alias Johnson, and before long both of the petty rascals will be in court again. But they will pay their fines and go back to making and sell- ing counterfeit lottery tickets probably as long as there are foolish and unsophis- ticated persons to buy them. THE NEW PARK LODGE. The Manufacturers’ Association Asks That It Be Constructed of Cali- fornia Materials, The members of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of California are watching every improvement that is being made and is contemplated in the State for the purpose of having only home productions and materials nsed. The an- nouncement that the Park Commissioners propose to construct a fine lodge in Golden Gate Park did not escape the attention of the manufa cturers, and yesterday the fol- lowing letter was sent by the association to the Commissioners: Information has reached this office that your commission is about to open bids and let con- tracts for materials for the new park lodge. At the present time the attention of the people of this State is drawn verg‘ closely to the sub- jeet and object for which this association was organized —yamely, “patronizing California manufacturers and productions”—and we de- sire 10 most respectfully call four attention to the same, and hope you will think of it when you let these contracts. There is hardly anything that will go into this building that is not manufactured in Cali- fornia, We notice that you will usea great deal of hard wood in the interior of the build- ing, and there are plenty of hard woods in Cal- ifornia. We also notice thet there will be s large steel vault, which can be manufactured in California just as good and as cheaply as it can be munufactured in the East. This association has now & membership of 750, which represents some of the largest manufacturing and producing interests in the State, anda very large amount of invested capi- tal. The different members manufacture nearly every article that you will want to use, and we ask that you give California articles, of whatever nature, the preference where quality and price are equal. We notice that the flooring of the poren is to ‘be lllh‘l'g‘, and, of course, you know that there is very fine tile flooring manufacturers in this State. As to the roof, we are not informed \Elmt your ideas are, but we wish to state that the tile and the slate roof are manufactured at home. There are immense deposits of. slate in this State, some of them being successfully worked, and the slate-workers say that they can furnish a very fine slate roof for about one- third more than tin or iron would cost, and the slate will outwear tin or iron many times, We inclose you herewith one or two pieces of our printed Inatter, whick will show you the objects of this association, and we will Turther they come, 1000 in a package usually—is taken out .and replaced by a like number of counterfeit tickets. That is the first adulteration, and it nets the head agents, whoever they may be, just 50 per cent. Suppose an agency received 5000 Hon- duras tickets through Wells Fargo & Com- CarLy are to blame for all this trouble. The business isn’t what it used to be. 1don’t pany’s express—a supposition that is not even quite up to the truth—earlv this inclose you a list of our nembership, printed on May 14, 1895. At that time we had 550 members, but we now havée 750. I trust that your commission will consider this matter very carefully’ and not only patronize Callfornia manufacturers, but give them the preference wherever possible. No agency has more influence in bene- ficially affecting the health and comfort of the peonle than the Royal Baking Powder. WATER AT HOLLY PARK, Efforts of the Good People to Secure an Adequate Supply. PROMISE FROM MR. HOWARD. Committee of Resldents Assured of a Service From San Mateo County, Holly Park las two long-felt wants which it is bending all its energies toward having filled. One is water and the other a materialization of the park which ex- County Surveyor Fitzhugh laid out. The park is on thé crestof a high hill com- manding a magnificent view, and is not yet anything more than a grassy oval | around which Holly Park avenue has been graded. For weeks and weeks the residents have been agitating and working for these desiderata, and it begins to look at last as if their labors would not be in vain. One of the first steps was the formation | property belongin; any number of people anxious to buila who will start in to do 50 whenever they see good Wailer prospects. Messrs. Poole and Bahrt are inclined to the opinion that the park improvement has been very poorly conducted in the ast, and they lay the blame for that argely upon the last incumbent of the Surveyor's office. Holly Park avenue, they think, was graded so as to benefit the to the Fair estate on the north side, and with little regard for that owned by hard-working men to the southward, and the $6900 already spent uron the plat itself, they say, was practic- ally thrown away, as there seems to be nothing to show for it. The intention is to have an artistic stone wall or bulkhead surround the park, and steps leading up at every entrance, but that idea could wait, says Mr. Poole, a tem%ornry sloping down, or winding off, of the present steep sides, being all that would be necessary just now. Other resi- dents, though, are not so easily satisfied. There issome complaint astothe progress Contractor 8mith is making in the grading and widening of Mission street. Mr. Bahrt says he is plowing up the entire roadway for nearly a mile, almost to the Six-mile House, rendering it almost impassable for teams, and yet without muking any great headway. %or fear that the contractor might apply for an extension of time, Mr. Bahrt threatens to circulate a petition pro- testing in advance. The progress of this improvement is of vital concern, now that some definite promise of an adequate service has been given by Mr. Howard—thatis, if water cannot be obtained from any other source than the San Andreas and Pilarcitos reser- voirs, or by any other route than along the Mission artery. H AVE| NORT! T o WEST AVE PLAN OF HOLLY PARK. of the Holly Park Improvement Club with N. C. Wienholz, president; Thomas O’Neill, vice-president; Ed. Poole, secretary, and Martin Bahrt, treasurer. At every meet- ing these matters have been discussed with a great deal of enthusiastic unanimity, and an executive committee was chosen to look after the park, while a special committee was selected to confer with the Spring Vailev Water Company. Secretary Poole and some other mem- bers or tne executive committee have laid the park matter before the Committee on Streets of the Board of Supervisors, with a readv champion in Supervisor Hobbs. Tney®asked for'an appropriation of $10,000 to ve expended the coming year. Some slight objection came from Supervisor Benjamin, who thought the $10,000 would be simply thrown away unless water could be secured, and for a while the prospects W ere not encouraging. The water committee, however, con- tinued tugging away at the Spring Valley Company, with the timely assistance of Thomas Magee, and is finally about ready to report an assurance from the company that a liberal sup ply of water is onlya question of a very little time. ft was at first supposed water could be supp lied from the Clarendon Heights res- ervoir, but Messrs. Poole, Wienholz and Piclhop—the committee—held a consulta- tion with President Howard and Mr. Ma- gee yesterday, learning differently. Mr. Howard would have paid the park a visit but for Engineer Schussler’s absence. He promised to arrange for a service as shon as the improvements on Mission street, near the Six-mile House, would approach completion, and informed them tgat the Entrance to Holly Park. service would be from the regular San Ma- teo County source of supply by means of a big water main. In consequence the property-owners of that neighborhood are L\ll‘)ilqnt in the anticipation of a general uilding boom. & Treasurer Bahrt analyzed the position of Holly Park yesterday afternoon, when he said: We have been very unfortunately situated. All our calculations have been based upon having a fine park, yet we were always met with the response whenever we pressed the park matter, ‘‘Aslong asyou have no water you can have no park,” and when we went to the water company we would be told, “Well, you have no buildings to speak of, and it won’t pay us to put in any water service.” Of course Empeny-ownen did not see their way clear to uild unless there was some immediate pros- pect of water. There are about 1800 families living around here, all having to make the best shift they can to get enough water to meet their wants. The charge per family for water is §175 o month, and many of them are compelled to leave their buckets stand over night in their cellars under slowly dripping faucets to get any water at all. Some are more fortunate and enjoy sufficient %rmnrefnrs flow of water in their kitchens, but the pressure is mnot N}ougn to give water any higher than that. Naturally these families are called upon to help out their many less fortunate neighbors. In case of firc any effort to throw water on to the roof of even a one-story building would be simply out of the question Wienholz’ place and Patrick O'Brien’s building were burned when, if we had had a water supply, they could no donbt have been easily nvedl:' This district would have all’ been built up long ego but for the lack of water. There are A meeting of the club was held last night, at which the water committee sub- mitted the results of its interview with Mr. Howard. FENDERS AND HILLSIOES, Health and Police Committee Considers a Variety of Things. Markley’s Chance to Sacrifice Him- self for His Inven- tion. Other things besides streetcar fenders were discussed by the Health and Police Committee of the Board of Suvervisors yesterday morning, but the streetcar fender was not forgotten. It was decided torecommend that the streetcar companies adjust some of the devices presented at the recent fender exposition and put them to the actual test. The Markley device, which gives warning before going into action, was particularly favored. This is possibly accounted for by a desire on the | part of the members to see Mr. Markley | prostrate himself before it, the car going | eight miles an hour, as he promised to do. A communication from Mrs. Florence | Percy Matheson et al., 1415 Twenty-third street, was read: 1 wish to call the atiention of your honorable body to a blemish upon the beaity of our City, & disfigurement which is a dally eyesore to'a large number of her citizens and’ the cauge of much unflattering comment from the strangers in her gates. I refer to the advertisement which surmounts one of our western hills and also in immense and glaring white Jetters is spread upon its sward. Most of us are proud of our San Francisco hills with their soitly rounded outlines, beautiful slopes and the varfed cloud effects for which they forma background, and when we see them thus de- famed through man’s greed advertising, to all who Jook up the long line of Market street that as a city the almighty dollar is all we care for, since such an outrage against public taste 15 quietly tolerated, we are forced to most in- dignantly protest against such desecration, Ts theve no way in which this flagrant and fn- jurious nuisance can be abated? By direction of the committee Clerk Russell inscribed upon the back of this letter the following sympathetic note of regret: 2 1t eppears that enterprise and rivalry in business and the comfiensuion paid to owners of lots for the lmv eges protested ngainst outweigh all artistic considerations, and it is to be regretted that the board hasno power t0 prohibit such displays so painful to the eyes of the lovers of the beautiful. The necessity of providing a suitable building for the treatment of smallpox gntienu of sufficient capacity to accommo- ate a number.of patients in case of an epidemic was discussed, and the recom- mendation made that the Finance Com- mittee provide the sum of $50,000 for that purpose in the next tax levy. A recommendation was made that the Board of Police Gommissioners be em- owered to make provision in the next Kscnl year for eight additional mounted police for the outside districts. A resolution was authorizing the purchase of a buggy at an expense not to exceed $200, also a single harness for the use of the superintendent of jail 2, and two horses for the prison van, after July 1, 1895. e It does not appear that any baking pow- der, when presented in competition with the Royal, either at the Government tests or before World’s Fair juries, has ever re- ceived favor or award over tie Royal or made un equal showing in purity, strength or wholesomeness. B A Woman’s Sudden Death. Mrs. Dr. Carll was found dead in her bed at 316 Seventh street yesterday. Dr. Hawkins thinks her death was due to natural causes. The body was removed to the Morgue and an autopsy will be held. Mrs. Carll was well known in San Francisco, and had quite a repu- tation in the south side. firoposed in favorof | ADMISSION OF CHINESE, Wise Says De Young Assisted in Landing Midwinter Fair Orientals. THE COLLECTOR TALES OUT. Some Side Lights on the Importa- tion of Coolles for the Chi- nese Village. “Were M. H. de Young in San Francisco I wonld order him to report for duty to- morrow morning without fail.”” said Col- lector of the Port John H. Wise yesterday. The remark was brought forth during a discussion of an article in the Chronicle in which the Collector was accused of having assisted in the landing of the Chinese who peopled the Mongolian village at the Midwinter Fair. Continuing, Mr. Wise said: “M. H. de Youngisa Special Collector of Customs, appointed by myself. His commission aoes not expire until next September, I think, and while he is a member of my staff I can assign him to any duty T see fit. ‘Were he here I would send him out to dig up these Chinese the Chronicle is talking about, and then we wou!d see who is most anxious to have the men sent back.” In regard to the charges made Collector Wise prepared the following statement : Factsin relation tolanding Chinese admitted under an act of Congress allowing them to come to the United States to participate in the Midwinter Fair at San Franci: 3 A few weeks prior to the arrival of the first lot of Chinese who came to participate in the Midwinter Fair I was requested by the man- agement, of which M. H. de Young was the director-general, to call at their rooms in the Mills building. I was then asked what ob- stacles if any would interpose to their landing. Itold the managers thatI was clearly of the opinion from what I had learned with refer- ence to those Chinamen who had gone to Chicaro to participate in the World’s Fair that it would be necessary to have a good substan- tial bond executed by responsible white citi- zens who would guarantee that our importa- tion would return when the time expired, and that it would be necessary also for me to take their photographs. The management informed me that they could not or would not give the bond, and furthermore, that they did not believe I had any right under the law to demand one. T re- plied that I intended to demand the bond anyway, and would also require the photo- graphs of the Chinese in triplicate. They stated that their agreement with the Chinese merchants was of such a character that unless I allowed them to land they would be very much embarrassed. It seems that the Chinamen had agreed to expend a certain amount of money at the fair on condition that the management—of which Mr. de Young was the director-general—wonld secure the landing of tne Chinese which they intended to jmport to assist them at the fair. I ascertained also that the Chinese mer- chants, and, I was informed, a number of white people, were interested in the landing; that they were to get $300 for each Chinaman who landed, and that if they did not secure their landing they would have to return the Chingmen and pay their passage back, with- out receiving a doliar for services which they had rendered. This was the basis of the interest which the Midwinter Fair menagement had in the land- ing of the Chinamen. The directory of the Midwinter Fair very soon after I left the Mills building communi- cated the substance of what I stated to the Treasury Department and procured an opinion from the law officer of the Government that I had no right to demand a bond, and I was so informed by the Treasury Department. They then tried to defeat my procuring the photographs, and on_the day upon which (he first steamer arrived I received a telegram from the department at Washington informing me that I could not force these men to have their photographs taken, &s it was contrary to law. 1 defermined to take the photographs any- way, and I then had am interview with Mr. Riordan and some of the leading Chinamen who were interested in bringing those people here, the result of which was that they with- drew their objections to my taking the photo- graphs. I subsequently saw Mr, de Young, who spoke ot the photographe, and I pleasantly told him that he had beaten me on the judgment but that I had beaten him on the execution, 1identified all the Chinamen by the photos before I turned them over to the management, I then examined the law very carefully and had my officers watch ont for them during the time they were at the fair. Later I discovered that they bad put & joker 1 the law, which provided that these men could all remain in San Francisco twelve months after the closing of the fair. Idid not then.and do not now, have any more power over those Chinamen than any other good citizen of San Francisco who is anxious to see those people returned to their native country. I haven’t recently looked into the record to see when the time is up, but I am under the impression that there is yet a little while be- fore these people must go back. 1f it had not been for the great interest which Mr. de Young took in the landing of these Chinamen I would have had substantial bonds which would have secured the return of these people to China. I was informed, also, by the Chinamen at the fair, that they had to pay e large per cent of their earnings to the mansgement, and this is another reason why the mansgement was so very anxious to have these people represented at the Midwinter Fair. I discovered very soon, perhaps within a couple of weeks, that a great many of the Chi- namen were not at the fair, and I quie(ly ex- | amined the law and communir‘nleé with the | public authorities to ascertain what I could do | about sending these people back, but the law | was $0 very clear that there was no possible chance to interfere with them until their time | expired, but if the Chronicle will exercise as much vigilance in trying to loeate these Chi- | namen as they have to write this article, I | have no donbt when the time expires I will be able to send back a large percentage of them. Ihad a great deal of trouble to agree with Mr. de Youngas to the number tha: should be permitted to land. He claimed that there should be 400 or 500 of them, at Jeast, and I finally compromised upon 256, and had it not been for the great care which 1 exercised, in- stead of having 256 we would in all probabil- ity have had 500 of those people to get rid of now. I wanted to confine their number to seventy- | five when they first began to arrive, but the | fair management sald that that was utterly impractienble and at variance with the agree- ments which they had with the Chinamen. 1 understood from them that they had written contracts with the Chinamen, and it would be good literature in al ‘\‘ruhamhly if those docu- mentr could be published, 1 did however secure from the Chinamen themselves, or rather from_their organization, a bond that & certain number of them should £o back—thirty. Idid not want to land that batch and they gave me their company’s bond for that purpose and that bond I have here 8till, and when the time comes I propose to find out what has become of at least those thirty. I would be very much gratified if the Chronicle would let me know where any one of those fellows can be found, and as I have their photographs, which they seem to dwell upon & znozF deal, 1T will be able to identify them and can send them all back without hav- ing false affidavits to show that those fellows have a right to stay here. 1 find, since making the above statement, that the Midwinter Fair closed on the 30th day of June, 1894, and as this is only the 21st day of June, 1895, there is at least nine days left be- fore I can take any action toward sending those Chinamen back. I will repeat what I have already stated, that if it had not been for the interference of the directory of the Midwinter Fair I would have hi bonds which would have enabled e to ave sent every Chinaman back who landed for that purpose, without any question what- ever, and if any of them bad remained after the time was up the management of the Mid- winter Fair would have been responsible to the people of this State. — Other Charges Against Davis. In Police Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday J. C. Davis, the Rochester (N. Y.) man who was arrested for obtaining money from local mer- chants under false pretenses, was held to an- swer in the Superior Courton two additional charges. Bail was set at $1000 in tach case. The charge against Mrs. Davis was dismissed, a8 it was shown that she had not participated in his offenses. 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