Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-15
CHINESE BOOMERANG.
MAYOR BARTLETT,S ANTI. MON
GOLIAN RECORD.
An Unexpected Explosion in the DEM
ocratic Camp, Spreading
General Dismay.

the anti-Chinese plank in the Democratic
platform, and especially and specifically in
his speeches indorsing the untrue and ma
licious clause which has the words The
Burlingame-Swift Treaty, thus unfairly
implying that Mr.. Swift is in some manner
responsible for the presence of the undesir-
able Asiatics among us-makes the follow
ing article of interest and point, and which
appeared in the San Francisco Post October
18th
You know, of course, that Mayor Bart
lett has never tried to enforce the Chinese
laundry ordinances passed by the Board of
Supervisors, but you don't know his rea-
sons for taking such an unpopular posi-
ton" remarked an old resident of North
Beach to Post reporter, to-day -" can
tell you, however" he continued. 1.-THE
Mayor is personally interested in not hav-
ing the Chinese laundries removed from
the city limits, and in not having the Mon
COLLARS compelled to do their laundry work
in brick and stone buildings. In other
words, he is the owner of a piece of prop
erty that he has rented for the past twenty
years to Chinese laundrymen at an exorbit-
ant rent. 1t was occupied as Chinese
washhouse until Mayor Bartlett went into
the fight for the gubernatorial nomination.
Then he ousted the heather and the place
has been vacant since. If you don't be-
lieve it, go and see for yourself"
ALAS! IT is TOO TRUE.
The reporter could hardly believe that
the respectable Silurian Mayor and Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, who is ask
| ing for the vote of the i-Chinese labor
ing man, would be guilty of such incon-
| sistency, and sought for documentary
and ocular proof of the allegations Going
to the Tax Collectors Office, the newsgath-
erer found in volume 4, on page ia, of the
tax collections for the year 1856, that
Washington Bartlett was assessed for a
| house and lot on the north side of Green
witch street, beginning % feet west of Jen-
sen street, running west % feet. thence
north 1915, east % feet and south 40.6 feet"
The assessed valuation of the lot was placed
at 500 and the building at $50. The re-
porter then went TO the place indicated in
the Tax Collectors book, and easily found
the property. To say that the building is
a Silurian monument would be an insult
! to Silurianism, for there is no more dilap-
idated or disreputable looking structure in
San Francisco.
| BARTLETT'S CHINESE LAUNDRY.
1t is a low, one-story building, and from
its tlme-worn appearance must have been
| built in the early days of San Francisco.
The exterior is repulsive enough, but it is
| elegance enough compared to the interior.
which presents a matchless aggregation of
smoke-begrimed walls sunken, patched
and broken floors, rotten partitions, and
siding that ia covered with what was once
Shiny dirt, and everywhere the evidence
| that the place had for years been occupied
by Chinese as wash-house. In the back
room stands brick furnace, in which the
heathens had heated their water for laun-
| dry purposes, while in another room is the
remains of an old furnace used for cook
ing. The structure stands on ground that
slopes from Greenwich street north and sits
on stills, so that all the dirty water from
the wash-house runs into the yards of the
neighbors. On the east it shoulders I'D
against grocery store, and on the west is
built up against valuable and substantial
row of comfortable residences On the
north are homes OF poor people.
THE NEIGHBoRs ON BARTLETr's WASH
HOUSE.
Eyes" said the widow who keeps the
grocery store, in reply to question from
| the reporter, Mayor Bartlett owns that
building, and has for twenty years"
Has it ever been occupied as wash
house,"
You might better ask if it has ever been
| rented for any other purpose" was the re-
ply. Why, he has had it occupied by
| Chinese for laundry for fully twenty
years, and it was only few months ago
| that the last heather went out You see,
| as soon as he was talked about for Gov
ernor he made the old Chinaman go out,
but told him that in few months he could
| come back again. That means that when
he gets to be Governor or gets beaten, he
will rent the place again to his old Chinese
tenant. The place has always been great
nuisance to the neighbors, and has put me
to great deal of expense. You see the
water from the wash-house runs into the
yards all around here, and twice have had
to have new foundations put under my
building, caused by the rotting of the I'M
derpinning. If had not, the store would
have fallen down long ago. | have lived
here for twenty years, and during that time
| the only improvement he has put on the
building was pipe from the watercloset.
Before he did that, the watercloset he fur
nished the Chinese consisted of box
placed under the building The stencil and
drainage from that was such a nuisance
that the neighbors complained to the
Health Officer.
MEAN REVENGE.
"The result was that Mr.. Bart EFT had to
open his purse to the extent of few dol