The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1900, Page 3

T FRA NCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH , 1900 DECENCY BACKED BY PUBLIC OPINION WILL WIN TO-DAY AGAINST INGLESIDE e 1 deci San e to Francisco the gamblers g eag . . t undone to pre the o ment o its to provest r pulp e enace once appear tc DR. MACKENZIE DELIVERS SOME SOUND ADVICE ol oo e AND MISERY ESTI ) OKMAK AND T BECA s a pre g address, w He 1l be qu the hizve such fessi sein- shall pr r with imed at owners of the ave made large investments In without the gains of pool- ments will be unproiit- " e duty of our city to profits on all investments? This for those who are engaged i1 all it be done for P < “earnings of others '3 and gather to our city a horde al criminals the greater evil DRAWN HERE BY that a rich THE RAC n which in the p has made ETRACK T should make less in the ing a legitimate business, cr city should be made the gather- EV. E. A. WOODS, pastor of of professional criminals First Baptist Church, followe public be l.q..] auched - ‘ Siay o up. o ey ted for bu r in of dishonesty, the number of criminals and suicides ) during the evening ceremonies, and C. D. South w be the poet of the occasion. | The rogramme will be unusually ntcr- | esting and will b rendered by grest | of well-known entertainer: iger, niece of Oom Paul sing. ' There will be a dance or and Kelleher, several selectic Male Quartet, a tenor suvlo Callender and several hax- Timothy McCarthy. Mrs. “Eckel and a special quariet s of =chool children will ren- I selections. There will be | | BN AON SHINT Arrangements About Com- pleted for £t. Patrick’s Day Celebration. a chor me v dance Miss Pearl Hickman and solos by Miss Daisy Keane zand O’ Brien The convention will meet again nex’ ANCIENT IFWS?MELODY AT EMMET CELEBRATION‘ ‘Frog‘ramme Almost Completed for Festivities to Be Held | March 1 ingements for the celebration of the the T r o Bar H A birthday of Robert Emmet are progress- | ing satisfactorily, and several interesting 5 1 | feat rranged for the occa- s are being commi ge met in he . e J. J. Conniff presiding and T. J. < wies - % ac secretary. The celebra- on will be held at Metropolitan Temple Rev. Peter (. Yorke will de- ati A hundred or more of | nent citizens of the city will be :e presidents and oc- tform. i | Robert Emmet | . the Robert Emmet Club | d the Wolfe Tones of ipate in the ceremc eague of the Cross Cadets will as ushers. A musical programme is | rranged which will be rendered by Walsh | some of the best vocal talent in the city e teliow | Which already been engaged for the | te lose a rep- | occasion. | nimseit | A aistinctive feature of the programme | States. | will be that most of the music will be | loyal | Jrish melodies composed over a thousand | to which was recently years ago, the ke: | aylor of Dubhlh‘ tions be spread | discovered by Father the meeting of this con- | This will be the first time that they will Thereof be sent o | be heard in public in this part of the y of our Geceased friend. country. Tickets for the celebratjon can be se- cured at Deasy Brothers, 20 Sixth street. on and continue through the afterncon | The committee urges that holders of ad W evening of St. Patrick’s day, March [ mission tickets exchange them for re- T M Tickey will deliver the oration | served seats as soon as possible. ed fam! The convention decided that the celebra- | uld be held at Woodward's Pa- | 1 l SR 2000 0 o NGLESIDE’S CHEAP BRIBE TO DISHONOR THE CITY. ——(After the Great Painting, ‘“The Pursuit of Fortune.')—- 0 ARE FACING A SERIOUS CRISIS. THE LOCAL AND EASTERN GAMBLERS WHO FOLLOW THE EVIL FORTU N A MONOPOLY OF RACE TRACK GAMBLING IN EXCHANGE FOR $i00 A YEAR. THEY DEMAND, THROUGH TH THAT THEY BE LICENSED TO PREY UPON THE CITY. THEY ASK THAT THE SUPERVISORS GIV LY WITHOUT HINDRANCE OR REGULATIO FOR THIS PRIVIL 3 EW CRIME > PEOPI THIS CITY, THEY AGREE TO PAY INTO THE CITY TREASURY $100 INGI RS WE HE RECO ME AROU AT L S AND T cided one at dectsio Justified e public. Who are those reversal of this d ? nxious for their 17 This question w teachers and g ians of publ business men engaged in hone Do these classes unite in the praye poolrooms uld be licensed and g honore Mayor has done and s: for which our city gives him prs eople will not soon fc those rds in one of his messages: ‘“‘Pubiic gambling is a great evil, leading to po erty, disgrace, degradation and death, which the rocords of this clty abundantiy prove, and its practice should be discou tenanced and suppres Under our new city charter the people have been prc ised and they expect honest. decent gu ernment. Surely our Supervisors will not trample the messa, of the Mayor ander foot, disregard the wishes of the peopl. reverse the action of their predecessor nd commence the boastful reforms of ministration by legalizing public gam- bling.’ | -— | TOO MANY LIVES ARE RUINED BY CORRUPT EVILS | EV. JOHN STEPHENS, pastor of | Simpson Memorial Episcopal Church, does not mince words in discussimng the racetrack evil, that should be 1 must be suppressed. Like every other | member of the sacred calling he is en- | ONE OF ITALYS CRUISERS DUE HERE SHORTLY Now on Her Way Up the Coast-From Panama and Will Stay a Month. The Itallan cruiser Calabria is expected here in a few d She at Panama on February 7 and was to sall for San Francisco two days later. She will re- main here about a month and will then | uth again for Buenos Ayres. The | is in command of Signor Alberto | Cantelll and carries a crew of twelve of- ficers and 245 me Her displacement is | 2467 tons and her length is 250 feet. Her coal capacity 0 tons and her horse- power 4000. She armed with two tor- pedo tubes, four .152 mm. and six .122 mm. besides a modern secondary bat- he bark J. D. Peters arrived from anta Rosalia yesterday after a smart passage of twenty-eigit-days. The cap- tain reports leaving in port at Santa Ro- alia the ships Isle of Arran, Thornlie- bank and Barfillan, barkentine Northwest and schooner J. B. Leeds. Among the arrivals yesterday were the Norwegian steamer Leander and the British steamer Strathgyle. The Leander comes from Kutchinotzu, Japan, with a load of coal. After discharging she will ke on a cargo for Viadivostok, Siberia. The Strathgyle is one of the Santa Fe steamers, and comes here from Hongkong via Yokohama, Honolulu and San Diego. She has not a great deal of merchandise for San Francisco, but she will go away with all she can earry from this port. Two of the men who were engaged in whitewashing the interior of the transport Slam were badly burned with lime yester- day. Dan McNeil and Willlam J. Burns were taken to the Harbor Hospital, with severe burns about the face and eyes. Dr. DURI 'HE MORG 3 ITS § 2 UPON THE PEOPLE A REPETITION OF THE OUTRAG | when he speak ITS ST $10 A IST DAY BEFOR! 'PPRESSION. THE NEWSPAPER. I e o gaged in, he denounced the racetrack ar the poolrooms. He points out the danger to our growing youth, and adds his ap- to the mémbers of the Board of Su- pervisors to keep closed the infamous sj.ot that has brought ruin to hundreds of both sexcs. Dr. Stephens unalterably op- posed to the reopening of Ingleside, and against the evil he voices the opinion of his whole congregaticn, which is composed of the most influential zens of this city. He said: is “When the late Board of Supervisors voted almost unanimously to close the racetrack and the Mayor at once attachcd his signature to the ordinance the moral elément of the population mc approved, N st heartiiy judgment of those who think morality should be the firs f our municipal auth ng is conducted now jus and all its evils still considera Hor, then, The racetrack people depend upon the profits of gambling to keep thc si- main. nstitution that of vice and any the proceeds called sport alive can_only exist on | ought never to be legitimized, and will not be with the consent of people that have a sense of Christian morality. The clos- ing of the poolrooms should be_effected without reference to the racetrack. Thare is no superfluous merit in this to justify the contemplated evil. To permit either one is to_compromise with the devil. “San Francisco has nothing to do with Tanforan or the Oakland track. San Mo- teo County and the people across the bay are responsible for them. If they wish to incur the guilt of condoning such an cf- fense we ought as a city to_be self-re- to follow their One can hardly see what specting enough to refus bad example. othing has since occurred to | CE, COST THE PEOPLE OF 8. THEIR PROFIT 3 TELL THE REST OF THE STORY. FRANCISCO NEARLY $3000 THE PUBLIC PAID THIS THE EVIBGREW TO SUCH DAILY THE STORY OF BEGAD TOLD | reopening of Ingleside. If we cannot utterly abolish this abom- | | ination let us remove the fascinating evil | continuance of this vice to justify the p i | | ; | | far from our youth as possible. Too lives have been ruined, too many destroyed, too many homes hearts broken during the | as many reputations wrecked and ple of San Francisco in looking upon tha present_proposition with any favor whai- ever. It ought to arouse most strgnuo’x: opposition and burning indignation.” —— CITY FATHER ARE WARNED BY REV. F. S. FORD| EV. F. S. FORD of the First Chris- | tlan Church strongly believes that | no better way of cleansing the city of evils and temptations is to be | found than in closing the poolrooms and preventing the reopening of the Ingleside | racecourse. He warns the newly elected | Board of Supervisors that by reopening | the track they wlill fly in the face of the | better element of the city; that the citi- zens approved of the action of the old board when It passed resolutions closing | that den of vice, and if the city fathers | do not wish to place a blot on thelr es- cutcheons at the very outset of their ca- reers they must down the measure which will be introduced for the purpose of en- r|rh!nf the treasury with a revenue of $4000 for forty days of heart-breaking, Bacigalupl dressed their wounds and sent them home. John O'Neill, who gave his address as the New Westérn Hotel, had a narrow es- cape from drowning early vesterday morn- ing. John had been imbibing water front whisky pretty freely and wandered down Union street wharf, thinking he was go- ing home. His plunge into the bay sobered him somewhat and he managed to grasp a pile. He says he supported himself in that w: for nearly two hours, and then “Billy"” Gately heard his cries and pulled him out with a rope. O'Nelll was taken to the Harbor Hospital, where Dr. Baci- galupi pumped him out, and Wfter he had recovered somewhat sent him home. The Chinese who was scalded by the blowing out of a boiler tube on the Han- cock’s launch last Saturday was sent back aboard the transport vyesterday. His wounds are all superficial and he will be about again In a couple of days. APPLAUSE FOR REAL MELODRAMA HERE was another eruption of melo- drama at the California vesterday afternoon. “In Darkest Russia” is a mass of megaphone herolcs, siren timent and situations of the ‘“‘sample- copy” kind that are usually capped by the legend, “continued in our next.” Nothing like it has been seen since the palmy days of the blood-sponge drama when it flourished on Mission street. Defiant virtue and discomfited villainy abound and arouse the hysterical sympa- thies of the sentimental enthusiast to deeds ‘of handy work and floor thumping that surpass in sustention and fervor any display of approval that I can recall. Judged from the applause, “In Darkest Russia”’ is a success. The multitude of trite sentiments and bits of bait in the form of soul-claiming climaxes gave the audience, which responded clamorously to each and all, a severe afternoon's exer- cise. The muscular energy expended in consistently applauding a four-act melo- drama should offer a field of research for statisticians of physical force. But again 1 say, in view or In hearing of the applause, “In Darkest Russia" is a success. It was o voted by acclama- tion yesterday afternoon. he villains (there aro several) were behissed and the heroes and heroines (there are several of these also) were cheered wildly. Line after Iine brought a fi““ ot gallery gladness and plaudits in the pit were plentiful The p].{, in spite of its combustible qualities, 1s dank and sodden and the e A DISGRAC THE VOTE TAKEN THIS AFTERNO( nd benefit the people will recelve from the, temptation and crime, all under the guise | ;. of legitimate racing. = do OF TH W HE ¥ the tra jion ¢ SORROW VISOR OPL tempts to make revenue out of the crime- breeding spots ‘When the old Board of Supervisors closed k its action met with the appro- and the new it is the entire city, e e e RACE COURSE 2 REOPE DISTRESS, DIS- Dr. Ford said: particeps headed monster” was a violent will certainly have weight with pervisors when they consider t tant question of reopening or for: Ing the nefarious resort. 1 the subject Dr. “Surely t hydra-headed m be permitted to w again " within the suburbs. est Board of Supervisors would the opening of this trac mbl rt pard In p gles! nga ines > roll cor evil of a great increased by the I am eternally racecourse is al proximity of a g theft. prostitu of resuscitating A fly in favor of at sports, but when e | thousand forms have parasites upon the boc and amusement eve: must say in the name and of the peace and p that this leviat redeeming | much confid in our Ma | tray their trusts.’ e CONSIDERS THE ! | FPVHE congregation of Presbyterian Church, w the h more he has spoken from his pu uncertain terms against the and the poolroom e livered yesterday on el shetorbrbtorde sleetedelefetoedebodedeefeede dederteleedtedeb doddeleteleebedetdedede de hededeboied sub ering now it the door of our national Congre: % 3 i n the flc h hesitate before they op of iniquity which munict has once clo: Publi trust. He 1o forbid the bans when such ances are proposed as licensed and legalized crime. “Gambling is one of the worst d It is right that the press should the battle. It is true and loy it is untrue and disloyal not so e The ministr with it to is e end.” ARE | TOBIN, N It is inconceivable that m he % | in part $ L *No words can be too strong tc [ the sense of outraged decency t L |in every honest and e mind | proposal to permit by munictpal another season of racetrack suburbs with its have none of it; le same conscience that polyga tration rolls of scores of our best citizens. one and the Su- impor=- sver clos- ing on said why the lens ur fair an hon- sanction ing in all its forms is dishonest and the power for armingly reat city. 1 of moral vice in a parable homes 0 few too rs and will be- RACE TRACK A FESTERING SORE Memorial is located on Eighteenth Rallroad avenue, South cisco, has been apprised by its pastor. ev. Her- bert N. Bevier, of the attempt = mada by unscrupulous men to rec e Ingle- side racetrack. Dr. Bevier has raised voice in the past and den d the cor- rupting influences of this a In an address de- - t he sald 0 express hat arises sanction gambling. sore and ry, and he city Let us enlivened m! top t great evil from pouring into our city cincts; let the public virtue arise. G bilng is an evil and only an evil racing when it leagues itself with crime becomes particeps criminis, and so equa'~ Iy guilty. Let our Board of Supe ors od gates teousness a public alse to that trust who fears iniquity of evils— housan he re; it is a sucking whirlpool of the most dan- gerous vices. It bas wrecked t of preclous lives and starved t take up so to do; o do. 11 honor to The Call for its fine fight. back of and will d |EVIL INFLUENCES OF RACETRACK DAY B JRE THE GAMBLERS ENORMOUS TARIFF FOR THE | LEAD TO RUIN GIC 1IC PROPORTIO! THAT s SUICIDE AND CAPITAL 5 A » N WILL BE THE ANSWER. + | HE Los Angeles Record, referring editorfally to the racetrack evil, ) The temptations of the racetrack have ven two more victims to ruin. criminis. the road to ruln at the track. C The San Francisco Emporfum, one of the largest general “I am very much opposed to our city . entering into partnership with any kind | stores in the State, has discovered, when it is of crime. There is no question that the |too late, that absolutely no confidence is to Ingleside racetrack anc the poolrooms | be placed in employes that patronize the race- are great evils, and when this city at- | courses. The criminal records of San Francisco during the last five years show that hundreds of hon- est young fellows have taken the first step on ‘onfidential board will fly in the face of the better | clerks have embezzled money, trusted city of- element of this city if it nullifies the work | fictals have robbed the city, wives and familles vested ma ter. of Its predecessors. The fact capital that certain me: in this vice-breeding evil not enter into a_consideration of the It is a question of whether it is right or wrong, or whether it is for the have starved while the head of t n have in- races. In than one case it strongly the racetrack have led to murder. it has been an axiom in Sam Franc more suspected that the evil Influ he family ruined himself both in body and mind at the has Db es of For years sco news- best interests of this city to reopen the | paper offices that every great crime committed racetrack. Ingleside has ruined more | Within & certain radius of the city had what an a 3 is known as a ‘‘racetrack end.’ e situation young men than all the poolrooms of this | 1% Xiows 38 &\ T e Feads of Dusiness midst. I with any paper or public organ that wiil ch evil: ompose s "To open one and close the other is not remedying the gambling evil. Both should be closed and temptation kept out of our am very much in COMMUNITY IS ENDANGERED BY THE RACETRACK tives to watch their employes. —An: | every week to its list of victims. With thelr gambiing adjuncts, sesm marvelous power in | of those who patronize them. | “No community has a right to lead | into temptation, no government has wink at the existence of agencies fo | motion of erime. But the authoriti Francisco apparently would rather sympathy city ruined in body and soul than trol the money-ylelding racetracks. ployes would probably have lived houses paid regular salaries to private detec d yet the racetrack was allowed to flourish and added The races, to have & dulling ‘the moral sense the weale a right to r the pro- es in San ses the young men and often the young women of their It their fingers against the powerful interests that con- It it had not been for the racetrack, the Emporium em- honorable N a prelude to his sermon last evening | lives and would have been respected by their Rev. H. T. Shepard, pastor of Olivet Congregational Church, spoke strongly against racetrack. the His reopening of attack on t! | fellow men. Now, hunted by the Inglestde he “hydra- are against every against them. law and | haunted by the fear of a prison cell, they rush from place to place, feeling that their hands an ang every man’'s hands —_— company of a kind that without conspic- uous ability in their present assignments would be impossible in any other line—on the stage. Miss Katheriné Willard acts as If she might have had some talent that has been ruined by melodramatic maltreat- ment, but the others may not be similarly suspected. Harry Byers is a bandy-arm- ed American of the kind that brings us| into disrepute among foreigners, and he | exaggerated the pernicious caricature to| the uttermost limit of bad taste and ill- breeding. PORTER GARNETT. “The Old Homestead” will finish the week at the Columbla. ‘‘Because He Loved Her So,” by Willlam Gillette, will follow. The company comprises J. E. Dodson, Annie Irish, Francis Carlisle and other well-known players. To-night the Alcazar comgany will pro- duce ‘for the first time in San Francisco ever Again,” sald by those who saw it during its successful run in the East | (clb' be the funniest French farce of them all, The Grand Opera-house will produce to- night Rice's musical version of “The Girl | From Pari. “The Idol's Eye” is in its eighth week | at the Tivoll, with no sign of an abate- | ment of its success. There are many new comers at the Or- heum this week. Thelr names are: The | medley Sketch Club, a company of chii- | dren in “The Little Mother”; Anna Whit- | ney, monologist; Si Hassen Ben Ali's| Moarish troupe of Arabian athletes; Mar- tinetti and Grossi, musical artists, and | Newhouse and Ward, bicycle comedians. | At the Olympia, Ouhana makes a first appearance. he rest of the bill is as good as usual. Norris. & Rowe’s trained animals show at the Pavilion afternoon and evening. The performing animals number ' three | hundred. The first of the serles of Wagnerian | concerts in which Mme. Gadski and Mr. Bispham are to _appear will take place at | the California Theater_to-morrow aftcr- noon, at 2:15 o'clock. The selections are on this occasion from “Tannhauser,” Herr Anton Schott assisting in the tenor parts. On Thursday afternoon “The Flyinz Dutchman’” will be the theme, and on Friday afternoon “The Meistersinger." There will aiso be three concerts next weflek“un tha evenings of March 12, 13, and 14. The explanatory recitals with flana Dy Walter Dswmrcsch take place at 11 o'ol’)e{ in the morring at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s Hall. The dates and subjects are as fol- lows: Wedresday, March 7, “Die W Kkur Saturday, March 10, “Slegiried’ Mond. March 12, “Goetterdammerung’ Wedn s March 14, “Parsival,” and Saturday, March 17, “Tristan and Isolde.” Seats at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s to-day. All wool ready made blue serge Now begins the fourth week of the sale of our blue serge suits for $10. We find the suits selling faster each week: and for two reasons: The serge is so popular and ours at the price so irre- sistible. The suits come in single and double breasted styles and are made from our unfadable biue serge—a cloth that is durable and sightly. A blue serge is the most dressy busi- ness suit made. There is sale this week in our children’s department of Middy Suits, in ages 3 to 8 years, for $1.45; we con- sider the value $2.50. Out-of-town- orders filled—write for cata- logue No. 2.