Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-16
CHARLEY CROCKER'S FENCE.

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antry than the following from the New York
Times The Communists of San Francisco
threatened to tear down Crockers fence on
Thanksgiving Day. But that festival is
passed and Crocker's fence, so far as we know,
is intact. Moreover, the dispatches say that
the day passed off quietly, and that the Com
munists appeared in a grand procession, bat
without any disorder. Crocker's fence, let
US say, has certain representative quality
which is likely to make it mi-historlc.
Croker himself is regarded as one who covets
the vineyard of California Naboth, pow
erful prince who Expresses the poor man and
lives in palace built on the sweat and blood
of the doWn-trodden millions. Presaically,
Crocker is one of the six poor men who built
and own the Central Pacific Railroad. Raised
from poverty to riches by this admirable en-
terprise, Croker spent portion of his new
millions in building unto himself gorgeous
dwelling house of wood, marble, and plaster
of Paris. In this marvellous pile every Known
order of architecture is represented, and the
structure presents a wild confusion of the
most expensive designs in stone, plaster,
paint, and vari-colored woods. 1t is an A lad
din's palacc-including the unfinished win
dow. For, unhappily, one Yung, an under
taker, owns nook of the ample square block
upon which Croker has erected his pleasure
dome. Yung is not a Chinaman, as his name
would seem to imply, and as a New York
evening paper has too hastily inferred, but
Caucasian, whose cause is warmly champ
toned by the anti-coolie Communists of San
Francisco. Yung owned, and stir owns, the
lot of land which forms little niche in the
square otherwise held by Croker. This raj
road magnate bought all the lots in the block
but Yung's. Yung set a high price on his
lot Croker agreed, after much delay, to
pay it. Then Yung put up his price, and
the result was that one swore he would not
sell and the other was equally emphatic in
declaring that he would not buy But it was
awkward for the rich man to have the under
takers modest mansion and humble wou,i-
shed left, the only blot Oh the fine block
which contained his palace, gardens, and
pleasure houses 1t was like the
fly in the ointment of which Solomon speaks.
If Croker had lived in the time of David,
King of Israel, he would have found means
to put Naboth, otherwise Yung, out of the
way. But, as we manage things differently
in these days, Croker merely built a ire
mendous plank fence all about Yung's house,
nclosing it on three sides. 1t is so high that
Mrs. Yung cannot see over it, even if she |
climb to the sky'ight in the roof of her hus-
bands house. 1t is SO thick that Yung's |
small boy cannot bore through it with GIN |
ct, or knock out a covenient knot, and so |
scream defiance through the orifce when the |
1fant Crockers take their pleasure in the
palace gardens Yung complains that this
gigantic fence impedes healthful circulation
# the air, battles the draft of his chimneys,
nd shuts off his legitimate share of the sky.
cut in vain; the fence remains, monument
f the rich mans tyranny 1t is one of the
lights of San Francisco. In Boston, the
tranger is courteously entreated to 90 and
ee the big organ. In San Francisco, he is
hoWn Crockers fence 1t is marvel of
arpentry, and a prodigious example of the
TT of getting even with an undesirable neigh
or Naturally, the working men of that re-
ion have warmly espoused Yung's cause. 1t
not that they love Yung more, but that
hey hate Croker. For Crocker is rich, and
ley are poor. While they were sitting on
lie string piece of the wharf, fishing in the
IN, or playing bean-poker in the haunts of
n, Croker was building the Pacific Rail
,ad, scheming how to get rid Of paying the
overnment any interest on its advanced
pital, and laying up money by the million.
therefore,, they hate him and declare that his c
nee must come down. Occasionally, the
orking men, in intervals of bean poker and
hing, denounce society, law, capital, and
e aristocracy. Invariably, Crocker's fence
mes in for share of the general denunci-
ion. No meeting of the oppressed chill
en- of want is complete without red-hot
fusion to this historic structure The ely
the working men of San Francisco is
Down with Crockers fence '' A meeting
the oppressed was once held on Mob Hill,
e aristocratic eminence which is decorated {
tn Crocker's stucco palace, at which va
JUS famboyant speakers referred in warm
ms to proposed sacking of the town, to
nging certain persons to lamp-posts, and
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