Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-26
A TEAPOT TEMPEST.
TIE GRADUAL ENCR0ACHMENTS
OF THE MONG0LIANS.
Hotel Information Bureaus on Legs
Seekers for Millionaire Girls
The Christmas Season.
Correspondence of the RECoRD-UNos. |

Pacific slope was subjected only few days
ago. The cause for my silence regarding
the matter may be ascribed to incredibility.
The sensational reports of the affair pub
lished in this city's dailies, and transmitted
to the four quarters of the civilized globe
by the Associated Press, will give the i'm
preston abroad that within our midst men
occupying prominent positions, of what
ever nature, are as unsafe as those of the
monarchial capitals of Europe. The press
continues TO consider the affair in a serious
light, greatly to the detriment of the inter
terests it represents. Any one tax
ing a dispassionate view of this
so-styled Guy Fawkes scheme cannot
desist from smiling at the importance
attached to it. The fact is that the QUAR-
tet of socialistic cranks arrested here last
week. charged with manufacturing dvna-
mite bombs, and claiming to be members
of the Revolutionary Committee An
utoplan organiZation-hage never been
credited with possessing the necessary
modicum of common sense to keep them
out OF an insane asylum, and they are not
in any way recognized by the labor unions
in this city. The report of their having
selected certain persons obnoxious to them
for execution is mere sensational clap-trap.
and there was not a man named in the
prescription" list but who laughed at it.
1t is true there are few cranks here-and
where are they not?-prepared to take
lives and destroy property out of
PURE AND SIMPLE DEvILTRY
They are idiotic free-lancers, morally,
mentally irresponsible for their acts. but
they are without organization. | doubt
no oil fell
last week possess enough pluck to COM
binedly attack any one of the men alleged
TO have been named in their list The
whole thing smacks of desire on the part
of certain members of the police depart
ment to create large amount of capital for
themselves at very small expense-not a
rare case here. Their coap detat NAV,
perhaps, render them famous in the es-
TEEN of Russian and English detectives
who are also always on the still hunt for
dynamiters. A eynic at my elbow sug-
gests that maybe Scotland Yard has al
ready cabled for life-sized portraits of these
worthy emulators of the late Monsieur
Lecoq. In my opinion the affair is nothing
but tempest in a teapot.
STRIKING CHANGE OF SCENES.
Walking in a northerly direction from
Sacramento and Stockton streets. recently.
was amazed in observing how the Chi
nese have encroached upon that part of the
city: The residence once occupied by the
wealthy Macondray family is now inhab-
tied by filthy Monaghan shoemaker land
100 others" more or less; and there are
many other houses from Clay and Stockton
up to Vallejo street, in which a decade and
a half ago the really fashionable little world
OF San francisco was elegantly entertained
and amused, now infested by the Chinese.
If the walls of these houses could speak
what emphatic expressions of disgust one
would hear A feeling akin to homesick-
ness overcame me when | beheld these
changes. How often, in years gone
by, when all the word appeared
Colour dc rose to me, was / the recipient of
the klndest unostentatious hospitality in
not few of these houses. And where are
the former occupants now? Most of them
dead, and those yet alive appear to have
fallen victims to the seductiveness of stock
gambling. Once in while | chance to
meet one of these persons, and it is painful
TO note the change wrought by time and
adversely in his or her appearance But il
was not my purpose to drift into senti
mentalism when | began this screed. |
merely desired to illustrate, specifically.
how steadily and surely the
CHINESE ARE WORRYING THEMSELVES
Into many desirable localities. However
they are cautious and do not render them
selves conspicuous in their movements.
fearing TO arouse the Indignation of their
sworn enemies. The quarter of the city
above referred to is essentially Chinese. and
1t appears almost to be distinct from San
Francisco proper. A stranger passing
through that foul-smelling, pest and small
poX-breeding locality could without a
great stretch of the imagination, persuade
himself to believe that he had suddenly
been transported into China, were it not
Tor the Occidental style OF architecture he
encounterS-and this, especially so. after
nlghtfall, when very few white persons
traverse those streets, which are thronged
with this repnlSive element of our foreign
population. But the Chinese will remain
here; they will continue to prosper.
and they will continue to en-
croach, until the Burlingame treaty shall
be absolutely abrogated, which may not
occur until this human vermin, by the
millions, IS disagreeably thrust under the
noses of those who insist that the thread
bare clause in the Constitution providing
that this land shall be an asylum for the
oppressed of all nations is not impractical
at the present epoch. And only then will
the Eastern humanitarians (?) learn that
the Chlnaman is a most unsayory adjunct
to our foreign population.
THE HOTELS INFORMATION BUREAu
The chief clerk of a San Francisco hotel
-that Is, 1lrst-class hoStelry-is a most
knowing fellow. He has a wonderful ca
paclty for familiarizing himself with tbe
mlnutest details concerning the guests of
the house-thelr antecedents, the theft of
Their bank account, and their general mis-
sion on earth. Particularly does this BREATH
ing and thinking diamond-dr insinuote
himself into the good graces and confidence
OF the distinguished guest mailing from
east of the Rocky mountains. And the
guest may be ever so distinguished yet he
feels battered when he receives any Special
attention iIom that autocrat of the hotel
ofiice-who wouldn't? He does not CON
line himself to ferreting out small confiden-
llaI matters from the male guests, but there
are few ladies living in the house any
length OF time before he is the custodian of
Their history from Alpha to Omega. Thus
the Mogul of the hotel-for the proprietor
OF lessee is second in rank-gathers much
valuable and indifferent information
ne can be as smooth as polished alabaster.
and then again. he can be as inaccessible as
the North Pole. 1t all depends upon the
condition. of his digestive organs and
Whether ne has not been recently snubbed
oy guest feeling averse to Icing patron
zed One evening, finding one of these
hotei princes IN an amiable mood. | ven
tured, with quIvering heart, / must con-
~ pump the VaTlOuS
phases OF human nature he encountered i'm
the course of his business. many of which
are intensely interesting. The clerk. Oh
serving that l manifested pleasure listening
10 his gossip grew quite communicative
He remarked that the most cons;derate and
reasonable guest is
THE FORTUNE HUNTER
perhaps there is a method in his for
bearanee:l He usually halls from one
of the large cities along the Atlantic
sseaboard, where he is no longer welcome.
because of his shiitless habits and tend
eney in the direction of necessarily levying
tribute upon the resources of his friends
Beng, as rule, a man possessed of fair
education, pleasing address and experience
IN good society" and believing as most
untrayeled Eastern people do, that mill
lonalre's daughter can be had here at any
moment just for the asking, this fish comes
TO San francisco armed with very limited
letter Of credit and strong letters of intro
aucuen te prominen society people Thus.
early after his arrival. he is feted and made
much of. In the majority of instances
though, tRs does not last, because long
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