The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1900, Page 23

A sddidd il sttt el ol sl st Pages 231032 e F sl a sl il ol d ol st s s 4444444244424 4 424410 Pages 2310 32 O R R R R WE NEED NOT BE ROBBED SOCIETY STIRRED TO THE CENTER BY RESIGNATION OF BALDWIN Tide of Opinion Sets Against Those Who Protested Against the Presence of Mrs. Edward Parker Deacon Within * the Sacred Portals of Burlingame. B o = SR N PR S e s S SCER SRCER S OF OUR STREET LIGHTS Supervisors Have a Remedy If They Choose to Accept and Use It. Assessor Dodge Can Be Compelled to Force Estates to Pay Taxes Out of Which the City Has Been Defrauded. file the statements was worse than the sor Dodge probably made knew that the persons w statements In the cases I, The Assessor n to give for his extrs o5 that nance Committee of the Boari \cisco shall involved, T4 ible for errors and that tas as well as the | the firat and primars clatm upon pervisors, are | tate and ‘are not barred by any time 1 t the refuge of | tatlon which may be made SBAnS 9 1t the Assessor was 'S soes would not demand the city and an city and- the he t to mercha b local legislatc >sed remedy will the opi P the slightest degre slandly what other remedy | pervisors have o suce crisis be paid, | D 1 year, i a | fact rema taxes due to the v has the power to forc his duty is v follow demand anged. If the Su ble ¢ tponed until s of the city m Salaries must be met a d away. They They ancisco ‘o | TEACHERS WILL PROTEST. t the mercy by ttng off the street ghts. re f reed fro other com FEP DI Reducing Their Salaries. t they Substitute teachers in t loc: ivenue of | Ment will not submit to a reduct possible o - sagreeable predicament | (DT pay for working davs without a b e ve done noth- | Struggle. Under the old rules substitutes . - ¥ iheir very doors, | Were pald $350 a day for their services - remedy | When actually engaged in one of the . er $30.000 | EChC and were given §1 a day for hold- e Sint ith'its indispensable | Ing themselves in readiness for " ot Py vice when not engaged with When the new board went into offi Re: dge. pny Iiasas Sewis on. 20 By over- | ™as manifest that some mode fc s remedy % trenchment must be sought out. It - it has but | decided to reduce the salaries for the suh Assessor Washington | stitutes to $250 for working days, this pe S him to perform | duction materially assisting in the effort er the law and the thing is .to- prevent the depletion of the school ts of the outlying districts, | fund, f the various improvement | Lact Friday evening a meetin 1 1 - € n k eeting of the | are most vitally interested in . : most vitally interested 't | substitute teachers was held at the re shutting off of the: dence of Rose M. § 3 Shotw what an outrage |Street, for the purpose of drawing up res- 3 - fct upon the city. s 10 be presented to the board, pro- how ft 18 to b against proposed reduetion. to meet the members Siute £ m that if s rvisors agal be red I reduction ® . nity k question: laries shc They say % ¥ s unjust fo eduction to fail st the virtue of public ast the vir ¥ itutes, and point to Yioard of Supervisorsmwhich ‘rettred | the t e will s00n be a week’s - e 1o e | Vacation in all schools and six weeks y Jsent board has en- | cation in summer, which will greatly re- Wil be remembered | duce t irre heir income for the vy izens not connected with the department i _their willingness to sign the p, The document board at the next regular meet. strictly | ttio of Lloyd | 1ot this city and | In& 43, ‘while S o RO 1 Th:]» MARRIED AT ST. JAMES. praise - o 11-;‘1;"51;'-- William J. Fleming and Maude - .- e between the assess- Lockie Now Msan and Wife. sement is shown. The | The marriage of William J. Fleming. xjer was appraised for{ the son of Captain David Fleming, a well- ed £ noth- | known resident of the Misston, and Miss 2 Maude Lockle, daughter of Mrs. Ellen Streets Can Be Lighted. b Laockie of Vacaville, took place at St » jons of | Ja 1t is s t many mes Church Thursday morning. The s ihiior:s : “1 Hg;‘; ceremony was performed by Rev. Father | T PR SARRLION. Dempsey of St. Mary's Cathedral at $:30, | e O ¢ Appraie. | Miss Carrie Lockie ‘was maid of honor. ¥ of apprals. | Daniel Cauley acted as groomsman. The bride is an accomplished and attractive young woman and the groom is prominen n is inevitable xed and the law which the taxes of interest on the coast. r repeated taxes of st to give problem which the | Board of Su; demand B e e e e e o o e e bebess® R - had for the asking were slipping away from the treasury. And then Ascessc Dodge pleaded that his bondmen would be held in responsibility for any ror he might commit He knew that under a section of the Political Code he is not re- form obdurate. He age was lost to this rgued This may be so, but the result is not _in rtaint of he can be met. The 15 that the present board can ralse "hr‘ money which iz needed by de- manding the taxes due to the city and not D ire its business | Substitutes Object to the New Poard 1 depart- on of * P oo b > R e >oe EDWARD PARKER DEACON vie e b ee a0 L R = SR e e HE resignation of Charlie Baldwih | Burlingame of the slight put upon his Edward Parker De: soclety by the ear: is heard within of swelldom ming of the butterflies of fashion as tl flit from house to hou and speculate on the awful event. That Mrs. Deacon has left the city and her brother has not resigned, as was reported; The scandal that the attempt and the occasioned has not gossiping but has to the utter- | pec- | it raised has sister, Mrs, hed over the wir most parts of the country and is now as | hungrily discussed in the boudoirs of New ton. Philadelphia ion and frivolity as it is here, | where it origmated. of the oceurrence that | a storm and has divided | all of swelldom into two opposing camps | is as follow Some three months s every one knows, is the unfortu- | v was mixed up “ e of any decrease in salary. Resolu- arge esta y olu- | e ns were drawn up and signed by the gy substitute teachers present, and many cit- | nd now nothing Il be presented | nd other cen- not occur makes oclety is talking and will not be quiet until it has thoroughly exhausted ¢ of the affair, p nate woman sible or im- s opportunity national scandal came when Charlie Bald- came out here | guest at a Burlingame lunch party, and he result has been ibly be desired by even the most active in the work of regenerating the wild and woolly West. that could pos in business circles. The young couple will | Dodge, whs | spend their Nonevmoon traveling to points | [ haaa o on oo b e be a e asl bl oo te e de e ol oo b e o o o JSWADED WD WD SDU P WP 3 ® % 9 - expert employed A | Proe. MacoonAaLDS and the | ¢ | OBESITY WAS ssor to act, | | | 1€ MUK ly. The at- | @ | FOR THE called par- | ¢ | SMALL Ehow > jon. He who a P out the hold- 4 gs of ons was | ¢ K r and agal the £ pon him to take ac- How the Deficit Can Be Met. The patter seemed to be per- aerstanding versally con- »se nothing in r or omission against these 1ollowing. section ttical Code, will show errors ¢ fects in form duplic asecssme ascertained w e origin he city ani c written <o Attorney sk d effect as the written it Attorney.” 4 by *his law the < directed Asses- - to such point_the board T »d Republicans combining n te to dem what the | e THE PROFESIOR_ d. eut A ® CKED LIKE A SHINESETAUNDRYY B S R e R G SR SO S N S A S DKIED HIMSELF A5 DID ALSO THE GIRLSe. t ¥ and County Attor- ceen and said that his con gladly ®iven wheneve. As. as an opinfon in favor ity of the law. That | dvep consideration, he | 4 some time. tle iron commonl. e would mnt act: but iresculng the unwashed zou reasons for his refusal | Into se; unch Christian Endeavor, was ce to save three well- ashed ‘“‘reasons’ are interest- | Washington’s birthday vecaume they ektiats Wfbleg _"Dm:'f | fringed hores of Ei Campo. 4 snight and probably did come wne | Early on the morning of the national pe dirertion of other Assessors. Jie | holiday the Christian Endeavor, carrying r the green- der 1k Franefeco had heen con- | ~exor's first reason had | the fishermen who rounded the poliit ) destroved at the firet attack. iabove El Campo made ready their whale " [ guns and harpoons and headed for the City Is Being Cheated. | Eore off the picnic grounds for the pur- t the Assessor pleaded that his po'or] of bagging what was apparently a subpena witnesses is llnited to those [@ POt P000 3000009000 00600000000t00000000000000000-00-0000e0 . " for it. City Attorney | WET and briny episode, now made | fishermen bent to their oars not wish this consent to be con- known to the world for the first | in the mad race to be first on the spot, H pointed, as the “levia- e portly Professor Mac- principal of the Lincoln Evening and falling on the the briny he taxes to the Su- | Christlan pleasure-seekers, occurred on | about the professor Miss Carrie Morton, who (eaches the young mind to shoot in | the Cleveland Primary, and Macdonald were dly drifting with the a erew mad with with boathooks, | ing out on the deep. Those in the accl- | dent constituted the last boatload. When the launch was being neared Professor Macdonald lurched with the dingy and | the laws of gravity prevailed. The half- | drowned pleasure-seekers spiashed and | shouted and rose and sank. The rescue work well trouble confronted the | How were they to get home? they askea ooking like two unkempt mermalds escorted by Neptune in clinging garb. Finally the professor was placed In the engine-room and time, in which the dingy - e dingy of the lit- | only to be dlss used for the purpose of | Slowly risin ressed | < one another. g The dingy, marned b was informed that only that part of the | & merry crowd of teachers, put out from | excitement and whieh yenresented: property | this eliy for the resorts f the Marin | was soon to the rescue. Miss Morton wis - | shore. “About 3 o'clack in the aftérnoon | the first to be rescued. Dr. Macdonald's the ladles in the Their apparel—as much as they | could spare—was hung out on the rigging | for the action of the sun and wafting breeze. Sightseers in the Marin hills were mistaken when they laundry was. cruising the bay, for It was the returning home of the Christian Endeavor, with passengers aboard, some réscue was also easy, but the launch was brought into play before Professor Mac- donald was saved from drowning and sharks and other dangers, occurred when the merry eviathan sporting in the warm afternoon ' taken Irom the shore to the launch wait- believed a floating The accident crowd was being SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1900. Bia *® O A g > e 50648406046 040004+04+60000006+0 | Some six weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Bald- | win and Mrs. Deacon drove over to spend | with. Walter S. Hobart, the a few da brother-in-law of Charlie Baldwin. Shortly after they drrived at the Hobart place a telephone message was received at the club from Baldwin ordering lunch sage was re- ceived there was a party on the club | porch, who in some way or other became for six. At the time the me: aware of what was going on. In this party was a matron who has ever been foremost in the good work of regen- eration and who, during a long and ardu- ous career as a social constructor, has ever been the foremost to seize on ever: thing that could help to promote the a France, which resulted in that gentle- | Pirations of those who were tolling up the man being shot to death by Deacon, who was afterward tried for murder and ac- 2 French court, to visit her brother. Sie spent most of her tfme in qulet re- tirement at the Baldwin Mountain View | Ranch in Santa Clara County, receiving no callers and making no attempc to mix | ny way with the righteous of .the local | Four Hundred. : RNED HOME "= DRESSED IN HER PASSENGER CLOTHES steep paths that lead to the gladsome | light of conventional excellence. This matron heard of the order and saw her chance for a grand coup. Baldwin was going to bring his sister, Mrs. Dea- | cred portals of aristocratic Burlingame. Soclety needed | a first-class, good scandal, and here was the opportunity to make one and present | to San Francisco's real people the one thing they needed to —give them that | standing for which they had so long | con, to lunch within the s strived. She at once protested against the pres- | ence of Mrs. Deacon as prejudictal to the | | goodgorder of San Francisco matrons and as afainst the discipline of San Francisco She was backed in her protest by maid: those of her own set who were with her, and the matter finally became so warm that | some of the men of the eclub approached Dick Tobin, who is Baldwin's most intimate friend, and requested him to see Baldwin and tell him of the state of affairs at the club, so that he might keep his sister away and prevent her being subjected to the insult and humiliation that would sure- Iy be hers as soon as she appeared in the vicinity of the matron and her supporters. The men who approached Tobin did so not because of any objections they them- selves had to the presence of Mrs. Des con, but because they wished to have Baldwin warned and prevent if possible | pain to a woman who has already suffered more than her allotted share. Tobin at once drove out to the Hobart place in San Mateo and, seeing Baldwin, ; acquainted him with the situation at the | clubhouse. Baldwin was at first thunderstruck at the news he received. He could very well understand that many women would not care to receive his sister after the scan- dal that had been attached to her name, but he could not understand that there were any so uncharitable as to object to her presence as a guest in a semi-public | place. As soon as the matter had been made plain to him, however, he at once ac- quiesced in the wishes of the matron and | her following and recalled his order for lunch by the saume messenger who took | his resignation as a member of the club. | The resignation was not accepted nor is there any likelihood of its ever being. But those who know the character of Baldwin say that the wound he received through his love for his sister is too deep to lightly heal, and, accepted or not, his | resignation “goes,” and he will never again enter the place where one of his family received such an fnsult. This is the story; now for the aftermath. Mrs. Deacon has already gone East. | and it is only a matter of a few days be- fore the Baldwins wil follow. As far | as they are concerned the incident fs closed. But not so with the rest of the grande monde. The matter means too much ' importance to the aspirations of our budding soclety to be lightly cast aslde. Soclety has been provided with its heart’s desire and it is making the most of the goods the gods and the matron have given it. On all sides the episode | is the oue topic of discussion, and strange to say Mrs. Deacon Is not the one who is getting the worst of it. None of those whose opinlons carry weight is arraved against her. Popular sympathy has been aroused by the hu- miltation to which she has been subjeéted, and while the scandal is none the less potent in the effect it has on the prestige of San Francisco's smart set, yet the matron is being handled without gloves for the part she has play=d in it. The R R R S O S e g St BSOS S o e attended the first scandal in which Mrs. | it first opened for business | his own relatives there, and if there was an tion should have come from the board of directors ana not from the matron or any of her supporters. dents which have been passed over, such | as the Galety girl affair, in which a well- known clubman was concerned, and they | cannot see why this affair should not | have been passed over in like manner. ‘? | | that the matron was less actuated by her | interest to prevent the demoralization of | society in general than she was by a de- | | sire to pay off scores left from an old feud. But this rumor cannot be substan- | tiated. | | | also resigned from the club is false While he, as a brother-in-law wof Bald win, naturally takes the matter very much to heart. he has not gonme to the ! lengths of resigning from the club nor is he likely to do =o. shooting tragedy on December 15, in which | Downing w: funeral John F. Mallon, a cook emploved in the | will l.‘;‘e place from St. Mary's Church Delmonico Restaurant, was killed by Offi- |at 10 o'clock this morning and the cer Edwards while resisting arrest. WHAT RACING GAMBLERS ‘CAN PLEAD IN DEFENSE The Evil of Ingleside as It Is Seen in Its Harvest of Sorrow. A Petition to Which the Board of Supervisors Should Give Deep Consideration Before They Vote. INCE certain members of the Board of Supervisors have shown an Inclina- tion_to reopen Ingleside, that field of blood which Is stained with the sin and sorrow of so many of the pecple of San Francisco, let the worthy gentlemen who have been chosen to make our municipal laws seek a justification for their action. Let them demand from the lawyers who are paid with money filched from thieving hands to plead a cause which has left its trail of crime and shame, distress and disgracg, dishonor and death, a reason for the revival of the thieves' nest and the re-establishment of the poolrooms, those nurseries of vice and training schools for the penitentiary. The Supervisors should not deceive themselves nor evade the solemn responst- bility which is upon them. The records of the jail, the prison and the peniter tiary. the sflent history of the Morgue, the denunclation of the pulpit and of the press, the protest of men of affairs and of business bear testimony against the gamblers who would ply again their dreadful trade among the people of San Francisco. The story of wrecked lives and shattered homes, the mute evidence of suicides, the debauchery of men and the ruin of women. which have made of San Francisco a marked city, are facts which the Supervisors can neither un- derestimate nor ignore. Let the men who accepted office as the pioneers and champlons of a new and better San Francisco face the issue squarely. Let them reflect that with the com- ing of Ingleside a wave of crime, traceable directly to the doors of the race- course, swept over this city; that men sacrificed themselves and their families, giving up the dutles that bound them to decent, honorable lives; that young men robbed their employers, dishonored their families and are paying still their tribute to gambling thieves by smarting under the stripes of convicts: that b ness men were forced to establish a vast system of espionage and had reason to trust no one In the daily dread of personal injury which the record of crime, suicide and murder was pointing nearer and nearer to their own doors. Let the Supervisors reflect upon these facts before they make their decision and let them be prepared to vindicate themselves before the city which they will injure. Let them learn from the police t with the passing of Ingleside the wave of violent deeds passed with it and that as If by magic the social atmos- phere of the city was purifled. It was as if a moral pestilence had becn removed. And since the Supervisors have listened with inclination to the lawyers of the gamblers let the Supervisors insist that the attorneys stgte the nly and truthfully, omitting no fact and garbling none. Let the petition of these men who have been a blight to every community they have infested become a public record to show those that indorsed it and be for those that championed it the badge of their dishonor. If these lawyers cannot frame such a petition, which must be true, The Cail will do so for them and in doing so asks the Supervisors to give to it the con- stderation they have shown to the thieves of the racecourse. In keeping with the strict formality which has characterized the affair thus far the petition should read something like"this: Whereas, The Ingleside racinz course having proved to have been the zreatest polluter of public morals in San Franciseo, having made embezzlers, thieves, suicides and murderers of honest men, hav- ing led men {0 the commission of deeds of violence and raseality, It is ‘0 the hest interests of San Franeisco that the Ingleside racing course be reopened. Whereas, The Ingleside racing conrse having caused the follow- inx disasters the gamblers of the track should be given free rein to ndd to the roll and weight San Franefsco with mew dishonor and distrens: Theodere Figel, confidentinl bookkeeper, tried for murder and embezzlement. Ingsc Norton, emshier. emberzier =nd suicide. 0. M. Welburn, Collector of Internal Revenue, tried for embezsle- ment. James Rodgers, convicted of countferfeiting. W. F. Rodgers, serving term in n Quentin for counterfeitin Stephen Rosenbaum, convicted aw o connte Dr. Stark, sent to San Quentin “or counterfeiting. Kate Malcomsen, sent fo San Quentin ‘or srson. William J. Lyona, confidential bookkeeper. embezzler and Edward Lydon, confidential elerk, embezzler. Jennie Zwald. confidentinl hookkeener, embezzler. M. Buja, bookkeeper and embez=zler. Claus I=saksen, secretary, embezzler snd fugitive. Naniel Lynch, bookkeeper, embezzler and conviet. J. E. Bachmann, treasurer, embezzler nnd San Quentin conviet. A. €. Widber, City Treasurer, embezzler and conviet in San Quent! Robert Henry, collector, embezzler and uncaptured fugitive. John Dougherty, secretary, tried for embezzlement. Bernard Ward, accused and tried for embezzlement. Oscar Anderson, confidential clerk, embezzler and fugitive. Captain John M. Neale, U. S. A.. embezzler, deserter, fugitive and a officer dishonorably dismissed from the service. Peter McGlade, bookkeeper of Superintendent of Streets, tried for forgery and still under indictment. John W. Jordan, postoffice employe, robber and San Quentin cone et James D. Page, ex-District Attorney, forger, embezzler and con= viet. re. Cordelln Botkin, accused, tried =nd convieted of murder. hereas, It is not the purpose nor it within the ability of these petitioners to enumerate all of the crimes that have been cansed by Ingleside nor to tell of the widespread corruption which it and fts feedern, the poolrooms, have brought to this eity. nor to relate the stories of sorrow and sadness, of broken homes and shattered lives, of dishonored officinls disgraced citizens. We therefore petition, and be it Resolved, Thet the Board of Supervisors, representing the best in- terests of San Francisco, elected to give a better not a worse govern- ment to the municipality, reopen Ingleside as a snare for the weak and unwary and re-establish the poolrooms, that the youth of the city may be polluted and that a new seed of crime be sown. | men. to a unit. are with Baldwin and his JOHN H. DOWNING DEAD. siste - = who In such cases are generally as hard [ Popular Chief Clerk of the California on the erring ones of their own sex they are lenfent to the black sheep of the other, are on the same side. John H. Downing. who had been head and, strange to say, the women, as Hotel Passes Away. They say that while the publicity that | clerk at the California Hotel ever since died a few Deacon was involved was such as to bar | minutes after 12 o'clock yesterday at the her forever from being received, vet she | California Eye and Ear Hospital on Sut- { should not be molested. and, as long as | ter street, where he had gone to have an she did not intrude herself on the notice | abscess In his ear cperated on. of those who wished to p should have been allowed to go quietly on her own wa as the club was s her by, she| About ten days ago Downing contracted @i s eieseieseie@ * > They say. moreover, that semi-public place Bald- win should have been allowed to invite P e so doing that objec- objection to h They say there have béen other inci- There is another rumor which says Ces b e The report that Walter Hobart has ‘ John H. Downing. @rie v e ed >0 oe@ @ed-0o i LAk B B e I e ok B o L S g Chinese Gamblers Arrested. Chief of Police Sullivan accompanied | & severe cold, which finally settled in his Sergeunt Shea and posse to Chinatown | ear, causing an abscess. He went to the last night, and as a result of the visit | hospital, where an operation was per- | forty-five Celestials are behind the bars | formed. Erysipelas set in and the patient | of the California street police station. It |Sank lower and lower until the end finally was through the efforts of Officer “Jack” | came yesterday morning. Conlan that nan;nl;(g‘ '2:?,.;;'1’ (‘:‘?fiep:;r'fl The deceased was one of the best known 1 3 “onlan :xvl;m G iammen and managsd 1o gain amln:)esl Hlked men in the hotel business access to Wong Fook’s gambling rooms | 90 the entire coast. He was a native of unnoticed. Watching his opportunity, Ireland and about 40 years of age. He Conlan gathered In the necessary evidence | came to the United States at the age of and held the gamblers at bay until as-|19, and after spending a short time in the sistance arrived, when the law breakers | East were removed to the police station. Con- lan ‘repeated the trick at another placel 2ot e ot Fhe Eastern cities aad in_the net. upon arriving in this city found little difi- arted out to seek his fortune fi the West. He had pursued the hotel bus Chief Sullivan visited the Nymphia and | cuiy in procuring employment. nspected the place. He stated he was| He 2 tile L " e rysed to the resort and would In all g ms b gy gt probabill v - Ing its palmiest days and was for many $ e o TR AR years connected with the Oceidental Hotel, going from that house to the Cali- Killed by an Officer. fornia, where he occupled the position of SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Cape Nome had a | chief clerk at the time of his death. Mr. a single man. The will be Interred in Holy Cross Cemetery.