The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1899, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. FRIDAY IBER 3, 1899. THE TIGER HAS RETURNED TO TOWN AND UNDER JOE HARVEY'S PATRONAGE HAS RESUMED HIS SWAY Gambling Begins Un- der Protection of State Laws. gL Police Said to Be Unable|* to Prevent the New Outrage. - e A Mason-Street Establishment Incorporated as a Legal- ized Den of Crooks. his ob- t- now 1ced and h t He b games nce are and com- L e | I i '!!" (A ;\ TN wgfim % t ok t it che ormed of off Joe was ey the ps T its collapse no ef- | revive it. There ws Commission. The nd Chief Lees had trou- , and the gamblers who good will of the Chief t themselves at g0 ure. They decided to awalt s and to watch an opportun- e again the local fleld. Their :d deeply into the law and y ways to discover a means through the law they could t the laws. At last the avenue was ved and the gamblers lost no time in pting its advantages. gamblers received their inspiration ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Some would beallred, and others would be full of white matter. The black- heads would be all over my face. I spent about ten de for soaps, medicines, eto., but they never did meany good. Itried CuTr- CURA SOAP, and it only took three cakes to cure my fa JOSEPH B. CLAMER, Court St., Elizabeth, N. J, e world. Porrer Davc Axp Cuxw. wton. *How to Cure Pimples,” free. T d e igad Bold throughon! Coxr., Bole Frope. BABY HU Land Scrip Land Warrants 0f All Kinds For the Location of Government And State Lands Both Surveyed And Unsurveyed. F. A. HYDE, 415 Momteomers Stn San Prancieco lzhe amount he had allowed HOwW LOCAL GAMRLERS B an an S SRR SR SO SO SR A R [ R O O O R S TAKE ADVANTAGE OF STATE BENEYOLENCE | AN \ B S e O e e S e it \ ‘. N N CHARLES ASHER AG&ENT OF MOSE GUNST. L \\\\ L AN A \\\\‘\\\ N R e S BB @b+ >+ 0050 il When the gamblers of the Palace Ho- tel found themselves without a scene for their operations they looked around for a new field or a new subterfuge for playing again in the local field. Joe Harvey was the master spirit of the combination. He had behind him the moral and, if neces- sary, a more substantia Charley Fair. of Chief of Police Lees. with the patronage of local gamblers and A B R SRCE SROSS SRS THE FIRST STEP TO MAKE THIS CITY A “WIDE-OPEN” TOWN. from the Chinese. most curlous feature of the whole affair. The white gamblers were at their wits end until they saw what the cunning Mongolians had done, and then they saw that the opportunity for which they had been seeking had come. It appears that some time ago the gamblers of China- town discovered by some lucky chance cloak of protection in the State law Representatives of fraternal and benc lent institutions had gone to Sacramento | and had induced the Legislature to en- dow socleties and clubs, which were not organized for gain, certain which protected the favored tions from tax and police clubs thus favor we aw to incorporate and under to the Civil Code were and inqui: n conditions, would have been dis- agreeable. organiza- spionage. The tted n amend- reed from This perhaps is the | { blers et privileges | by | which, under | Attorne; saw which th s the tremendous advantage amendment to the law gave them. Social clubs without number were | organized in the Chinese nese gamblers saw from the dominion of the police. aw that an Incorporation a A S exempted them from the polic Chi quarter. cial club ks of the and gave them an opportunity to their gambling trade without inte p! ply ruption. Their spike-studded doors were | removed. Their close and careful watch- | ing of the police was removed. Glass barricade law that w and under the protection of a intended to be a henefit to fraternal and benevolent institutions the Chinese plied their gambling trade. The police were at a loss what to do, But they took the law into their own ands and raided the new Chinese “so- " clubs. The glass doors were broken. themselves llberated | They | | teeth. doors were substituted for iron and steel | employed by Chinese gam- | Jabbering Chinese were sent scampering over roofs and into cellars. Gambling games were broken up, although the po- | lice saw that the ostentatiously placed placards heralded the fact that the raided | clubs enjoyed State protection and the framed certificates of incorporation ga them protection from police Interference, With consummate cunning had found in the laws to violate other tion. After the raids the Chinese showed their laws without molesta- thelr traffic, and Patrick Crow! was then Chief of Police, was heavy damages. in court, but law: ued for The case is still pending be w ‘ormed express the opinion that the Chinese will win and that the law which gives to soclal and fraternal so- ¢ietles the right of incorporation protects | them from police interference. | ing the Chinese | of the State a right | Commissioner. They resented the interference of | who | yers who have reason to | soclal club, was assured of the trade of horsemen, ‘blacklegs and roustabouts of the race- track. The racing on was approach- ing. If money was to be made it must be made quickly. The town was flooded with =oldiers com- and going. Harvey racked his brains for an opening. He had with him ley Asher, the factotum and sub- servient agent of Moses Gunst, Police Max Katzenstein, another of the old Baldwin Hotel contingent, was ready for any duty, but Harvey could not see, even under the favored condition of police connivance, an opportunity to open a new gambling house. After a deal of trouble and discussion, the success of the Chinese offered a sug- gestion. Harvey decided to establish a and under the shadow of a law which was intended as a boon to worthy institutions prostitute the laws of the State. The inspiration was not by any PHELAN'S TALES QUEERED BY HiS OWN WITNESS Grand Jury Vindi- cates Supervisors. Another of the cheap political tricks with which Mayor Phelan has character- ized his present campaign has fallen of its own weight, and fallen hard. A com- mittee appointed vesterday by the Grand Jury will call upon him to-day or to- morrow to apprise him of that fact. The charges of wholesale fraud and knavery recently brought by his Honor against the Hospital Committee of the Board ot Supervisors have proved so utterly groundless that the jury has thrown the whole case out of its calendar and turned in disgust to matters of more merit. When a few weeks ago it became appar- ent that the City and County Hospital could mot be maintained upon the amount set aside for it in. the tax sched- ule submitted by the Mayor, and that un- less more funds were immediately forth- coming it would have to close its doors to the indigent sick of the city, his Honor attempted to shirk all responsibil- ity for that deplorable condition and at the same time make a bit of cheap politi- cal capital by setting up a cry of fraud. He sought his typewriter and framed charges of jobbery and extravagance against the Hospital Committee, and he set it forth clearly that if there had been no jobbery the hospital could be run upon it. These statements, together with a list of wit- nesses, whom he suggested, would be com- petent to point out just the transactions in which his alleged crookedness had oc- curred, he laid before the jury. Believing that he acted in good faith the jury at once instituted a most search- ing Inquiry. One by one Mayor Phelan's witnesses were called up, catechised and turned loose again. Assessor Washington Dodge, the Mayor's star witness, was one of the first to be placed on the stand. Mr. Dodge was chairman of the Finance Committee of the last Board of Super- vi and if crookedness existed would be well able to say when and where it existed. ~Mr. Dodge, however, told neither. His evidence consisted solely of an admission that as chairman committee he had violated the provisio of the one-twelfth act about twelve times in every year of his administration and that at the end of the fiscal year he beat even that by carrying over a_deficit of $2500 in the hospital fund. Mr. Dodge went further than this. In answer direct questions he admitted that the hos. pital could not be conducted decently upon the amount fixed by Phelan and that | bugkoed; | used them simply as agents in his pecu- of that | liar campaign and had fooled away two | they | committee which wil | and inform him of that fact. mittee will not only express its indigna- tion, but will offer Mr. Phelan transcripts the testimony of his chosen witnesses upon whom he relied to make good his charges. That will be the end of the jury’s No to | | busines: it was one branch of the city’s govern- | further investigation will be made. ment in which economy nothing but harm. Dr. Clinton, chairman of the hospital committee of the last board, testified to about the me thing, and like Mr. Dodge, failed olutely to point to any act to the discredit of the Supervisors against whom Phelan had laid charges. Will D. Griffin, the Mayor's $125 expert, failed as blankly, notwithstanding he was hired by his Honor to expert hospital accounts and find anything that would make political capital. The members of the Grand Jury body realized at last that they had been that his Honor, the Mayor, had would work weeks of their time in doing it. Then got of Tt with his Honor's -charges. RECKLESSNESS OF A BOY COST HIM HIS LIFE H ing at 37 Jessi body falling down the elevator shaft. : : scious, and shortly. after the surgeons had shaved his head in order to dréss a fracture of the skull he expired. Young Schwartz’s destination was the third floor, and it is surmised that ho attempted to jump off the cage, not knowing how to stop it, and fell down the shaft. He was an industrious boy and was residing with his parents at 305 Eddy Three weeks ago he went to work for the Wagner Leather Com- street. pany. ERCULES SCHWARTZ, a l4-year-old Wagner Leather Company at 306 Clay street, lost his life yesterday morning while attempting to alight from a freight elevator in the bufld- e street, occupied by the Kast-Glanville Shoe Company. Willie Miley of 621 Girard street was in charge of the elevator. that young Schwartz, a stranger to him, came to the elevator door very early in the day and asked whether he was going up with the elevator. plied that he would start in a few moments, and went after a can of oil. As soon as he had turned his back Hercules got upon the elevator and started up. A moment or two later Miley was horrified by the sight of Schwartz's ifiley gave the alarm and the body of the unfortunate boy was taken out of the well and carried to the Harbor Emergency Hospital. errand hoy, employved by the He said Willie re- He was uncon- %Wtommwmmmm mad and yvesterday appointed a 1 call upon his Honor The com- | SAN FRANCISCO 10 BE SHOAN OF MUCH SHIPPING Pacific Coast Com- pany Will Go to Seattle. On January 1 San Francisco will cease to be the shipping:and general business center of the Pacific Coast that concern will be moved to Seattle, which will thereafter be the home of the corporation and scene of its greatest activity. Although no public announcement of the fact has yet been made, it became known on the street yesterday that Goodall, Per- kins & Co., which firm has been for years the company’s agents and managers, had been deprived of the agency and was clos- ing up its books as rapidly as possible in order that the formal transfer of the busi- ness might take place on or before the appointed date. The change is due to the fact that the Great Northern Railway Company has secured a controlling inter- est In the Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany. The headquarters of the railroad are at Seattle. By_this latest deal in steamship circles San Francisco merchants will lose all the advantages and profits of one of the most profitable shipping concerns on the Pacific Coast, save those that will accrue to the clty as one of the ports to be touched at by the company's boats. The handsome steamers Corona and Pomona will no longer make this city their home port, and the lines to Vancouver and Alaskan ports, as well as those to Ensenada, in peninsu- lar California, and Santa Rosalia, in Mex- ico, will make the Sound City the distrib- utipg point for the | means Harvey's own. | bler, Fred Merker, conceived it, and would support from | He enjoyed the friendship | He was favored | | election had been held and the following Steamship | Company, and all of the local interests of | thousands of tons of | istrator; Democratic nominee, An old-time gam- have made it practicable with profit for himself were it not for the fact that the Harvey combination possessed more money. Harvey and his friends seized the suggestion and looked for a suitable lo- cation for a club. The gamblers finally settled upon the house at 143 Mason street and a week ago the gambling den was opened. It is perhaps the worst house of its kind that was ever opened In San Francisco. Its cappers are abroad upon the streets in- viting the unwary to visit it. Its agents are in the ciubs, on the streets and in saloons advancing its interests. Its games of faro, poker, roulette, wheel of fortune | and craps are conducted without inter- ruption. It exists as a menace not only to people of the city, but to visitors and strangers who, have the right to expect | police protection. Harvey was altogether too clever to per- mit his own name to be known in the combination. After consultation with his friends, among whom Chief of Police Lee: secured a lease of the | premis 3 Mason street. The con- | s at ference with Lees took place at Farley's saloon and Harvey was assured that the police are powerless to The gambler then lost no time in perfecting his plans. The Mason street house was renovated from top to bottom. It was superbly furnished with every possible incident to luxurious surroundings. Word went forth that it was to be the most exclusive gambling house ever established on the coast and particular stress was laid upon the fact that the police, with convenient ignorance, would not know that it was in existence. On October 18 a strange document was filed with the County Clerk. It purported to be the articles of incorporation of the California Club. The California Club, so the articles read, was organized for purely soclal purposes, for the entertainment of members and for the promotion of their soctal intercourse. The document read, with delightful untruth, that an had been elected directors for a period of one year: A. P. Culver, W. H. Roach, Ray Mead, W. S. Ferguson and J. F. Powers. The writer of the document must have been selzed with an after thought for he scratched out the name of Roach and substituted H. W. Orear. These directors are not particularly well known. Orear has the honor of being the dispenser of cigars at the Union ferry depot and J. F. Powers is his clerk. Ray Mead, as far as the directory gives in- formation, may be a vaquero, and he may not be. The other directors have rot had the consideration to give the directory JoE MARvEY DISCUSS THESCHEME. % Five Dot : mfl LI INSURES INITIATION L o e SRS SR SR T e ) freight they now land in this city. Al- though it 1S known that some of the large force of clerks and other employes now employed in this city by Goodall, Perkins & E!n. will be taken to Seattle, a greater number of them, it is understood, will be thrown out of their positions on the first of the year, MRS. GLEASON MISSING. Had a Quarrel With Her Husband and Disappeared at 10:30 0’Clock at Night. Mrs. J. A. Crounse of 12 Oak street re- orted to the Corone: izzie Gleason of 415 C disappeared at half-pas 1 ‘Wednesday night, and ihat her relative feared that she had commi nicide or met with foul play. Mr: that Mrs, Gleason had a qu husband, and that Mrs. Gleason arted from her at half 10 o’clock in cottish Hall on Larkin strdet. That was the last time that she was seen by any of her relatives. The missing woman was black, with a short jacker, chameleon waist, a Galnesboro; red flowers and black plum She Is 5 feet 5% inches tall and weighs 140 pounds. ————————— John A. Russell Improving. John A. Russell, the clerk of the Board of Supervisors, who suffered a stroke of paralysis last Wednesday afternoon, is rapldly approaching recovery in his apartments at the Lick House. Mr. Rus- sell is still a very sick man and needs careful nursing and constant attention, but his condition has so materiall, roved that those in attendance feel con- dent that he will pull thrnu(fh all right, notwithstanding his advanced age. This news will be a source of great sat- isfaction to the many warm friends Mr. Russell has, not only in this city but throughout the enure coast. B R R S R g @I D e e R R S S I OSSR S Y dressed in and tan or > hat with —_—————— P. Boland, candldate for Public Admin- . people any information in reference to themselvzs. This gambling club has been organized to run for thirty years. A copy of its articles of incorporation has been filed with the Sec- retary of State. The rooms of the club are open for business. Its patrons are already numerous. Its walls echo to the clink of coin and the sound of many excited volces. It permits no one not a member within its doors, but everybody is welcome as a member. One need but ring the doorbell, hand § to the negro attendant and receive the mock ceremony of initiation. In consideration for this $5 in gambling checks are given by the club, Plainly speaking, the club is an outrage upon city. It is a menace to young men and strangers, but it is unknown to the police after the conference in Farley’s saloon. Tf the police, however, are un- able to locate 143 Mason street, and are powerless to place an officer at the faro able, The Cail will show them the house and instruct them how to get in. MARKET STREET MUST BE SANDED T0 SAVE HORSES Wet Pavements Traps for Drivers. It is not uncommon in the early morning to see half a dozen horses lying on the pavement helpless In the space of two blocks on Market street. A slight mois- ture or a fog makes the pavement almost as slippery as glass to the feet of horses not shod with rubber. Hundreds of driv- ers avoid the bituminized pavement, be- ing actuated by fear for their horses. So many accidents take place that the need of some public action is evident. The Call this morning offers the suggestion that Market street should be sprinkled with sand whenever it is necessary to make the pavement safer to drive on. Yester- day many persons who have a wide knowledge of hor: and are largely con- cerned in the use of them were inter- viewed concerning the necessity of using and freely. One and all declared that the remedy needed to improve the lot of drivers had been discovered by The Call. Secretary Charles Holbrook of the So- clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was enthu stic for the use of sand. He had seen horses lying upon the pavement in one Market street block. The only way that the animals could rise was by having a blanket thrown down to give them a chance to get a footing. They would try repeatedly to get upon their feet unavallingly. Much time would be lost, much unnecessary suffering inflicted upon the horses by the repeated falls fol- lowing their struggles to get up. It had been necessary to kill some horses because of_such accidents on Market street. No less emphatic in indorsement of Lue lan was W. H. Fuller of the Overland reight and Transfer Company. ‘San would save the lives of many horse: sald Mr. Fuller. “Every morning, b teen Third street and the Palace Hotel, I see three or four horses lying down on the pavement. All sorts of business men are seriously inconvenienced. Yau when the pavements are wet there is nothing for the horses’ feet to take hold upon. I am heartily in favor of .ne plan suggested by The Call and it will be very popular with all owners of horses In the clty.” John Petarson, foreman for McNab & Smith, draymen, said: ‘‘Sanding Market street’ when it {s wet is just what ought to be done. There Is plenty of sand at the beach and it ought not to cost much for carting in. I know all about the danger and inconvenience of the pave- ment waen it is damp. I live out on Octav] street and come down Golden Gate avenue and Market street early every morning. Some days I have to get off the street to be safe. We lost one horse that fell when the pavement was slip- ery. P Miomas F. Noonan Is the president of the Draymen and Team * Union, which has a membership of 175 and em- braces very large concerns. ‘‘We all con- sider Market street very dangerous,” sald Mr. Noonan, “when it is _wet and When it is only a little damp. One valu- able horse, to my knowledge, injured by Siipping on Market street, had to be shot. The Call has struck a good idea in sand- I8 &, Murphy, proprietor of St, George's stablos, on Buah stréet, said: “Sand is the only possible remedy for the slippery footing on the Market street pavement when it Is wet.” J. H, Leary of the Olympic Club sta- bles, 53 Sutter, said: “Sanding would be a very good thing, for it would let the horses get a foothold. By all means let us have the pavement sanded when it is ost needed.” " Garhart, foreman of the St. Law- rence stables, said: “The idea is a first class one. The horses can’t stand with- out having something done. Sanding is the proper act. One of the valuable horses stabled here fell and was injured. I saw four horses down on one block this orning.” Miex McCord 8f the Fashion _stables sald: “I saw four or five horses down on the pavement on one block to-day. I heartily indorse the idea of The Call about the use of sand. It will do the siness.”” el employed successtully to make pavements safer in London. There is no Teason why it should not do_well here, ELIZABETH MUIRHEAD IN HER OWN DEFENSE She Supported the Deceased and His Child During the Last Months of Their Lives. The contest of the will of the late Charles Walter Willey was continued be- fore Judge Troutt yesterday morning, with Mrs. Elizabeth Muirhead, the propo- nent, on the witness stand. By way of in- troduction to her testimony Mrs. Muir head stated the facts of her meeting witt Willey; how she had picked him up « the street and cared for him and his puta tive child for years prior to his death. Regarding the will Mrs. Muirhead said that she was given notice of the existence of the will by Mrs. T. J. Lyons, the execu trix, a month before Willey's death, but ghe did not open the envelope containing the instrument until after Willey's death She denled that she ever persuaded Mr. Lyons to procure a will from Willey in her favor, as alleged by the contestant and absolutely contradicted the testimony glven by Lyons regarding those matters. Mrs. Muirhead further denied that s l; had accused Willey of being the fath an fllegitimate child, bat said that aft Willey was_forged to recognize his c she adopted it, paying for its mainte- nance and physicians bills until ite death at the age of sixteen months. She also testified as to having pald for Willey's clothes, laundry bills and necessaries of life, and X&Id for the desk he used after he entered the employ of Lyons ————— Rabbi Nieto to Lecture. The season of winter lectures at the synagogue of the Congregation Shereth Israel, corner of Post and Taylor streets, Wwill be inaugurated this evening, when Rabbi Nieto will deliver an address entl- tled “Old Pictures in New Frames.” The public is cordially invited. —_——————— Convicted of Manslaughter. The jury in the case of Manuel Esqueda) charged with the murder of his wife, Sol- edad Esqueda, returned a verdict of man- slaughter last night in Judge Lawlor's court after several hours of deliberation, —_————————— Dr. Parker's Cough Cure, One dose will stog o & cough, Never falls, Try it, 25c. All drugglsts.!