The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-09
THE DIVE CRUSADE.
Coed Results Of 1.-THE Calls"
Fight.
PLEDGES OF PROPERTY OWNERS.
They Viii not Sign to Uphold the
CFem9rRO.
Other Vile Dives Are to Be Closed.
What the People Say About
the Natter.
PLEDGES OF PROPERTY OWNERS.

the strong stand which the prOperty-owners
are taking in the matter.
why should l sign to peTpetuate an evil
which the police are trying to wipe out?'
they ask, when the dlvekeepers come to
them with their petitions.
"But other people will sign" they are
told.
"Well, let them. Pm not so sure about
that anyway. The CALL has made this
business of signing for divekeepers most
beinOus proceeding in the eyes OF the pub
lie. Y Gull have 10 excuse me in future"
The doom Of the CTemorne dive is sealed.
It eannut get y property-Owners to sign
for it.
THE CALL has canvassed the whole
block, and there are less than half dozen
who show an intention of signing for the
renewal Of the license which Will expire on
May D.
All the Others have declared that they
will not sign.
THE CALL should not be understood as
making this fight solely against the Gre
morne.
/ is trying to close all those dens of evil
that are refused licenses by the Police Com
missloners.
1t was seen at the beginning of its fight.
however, that success would not attend
divided effort. So the CremOTue was sin
gled cut as it was one of The worst
The CALL believes that its efforts will
have done some good, even though by some
unforeseen chance the CTemcTne should &c
on IN its vile course.
Do all our readers understand the situa-
ton?
Long ago the Police Commissioners de-
MED the CremoTne retail liquor dealers
license, but the pToprietoTs. Mailman & Ho-
man appealed from that decision to the
pTopeTiy-OwHeTs on the block.
Twelve of these Owners-12 out Of 60 odd
signed petition which in fact demanded
that the License Commissioners should
issue the CTemorne another license, in spite
of its Introduction by the police
For nearly two years the CremOrne Sc
cured its legal existence In this way. Every
quarter the prOprietors applied TO the
Police Commissioners Tor llcense-and
were refused, emphatically. Every quarter
they turned TO the neutrality-suspicious.
secured what they wanted. license TO per-
petuaJe the existence of an Ubiquitous resort
for bad characters Of both sexes, an indie
cent stage performance Of the VileSt kind.
and general Crime Hatchery for men aud
women, boys and girls.
Then The CALL began its crusade
against the Crime Hatcheries. In casting
about Tor the worst Of these dives the Gre
mOTne readily presented itSe II as the most
dangerous 10 PUBIC morals, because OF us
location on the leading thOrOuEhtare. and as
the most iniquit0us because tile volume of
crime Matched there in year was greater
than that Of all tie other dives.
Then The CALL set about to remove
this evil first Its labors against the Gre
mOTDe are nearly over
First THE CALL exposed the true eharac-
ter of the CTemOTne Crime Hatchery; gave
truthful pictares-in words and sketches
of the wild reTelries and Vileness of this
black hole.
Then the twelve property-owners who
had signed the last petition Tor Mailman &
HOman were interviewed and the fact
brought on: that they had either signed out
of ignorance of the true character Of the
CremOrne or from eaTelessness. Not one
but expressed regret for having signed, and
declared he would not sign again.
When these things had been done and
published, Chief Crowley, the Police Com
missioneTs and good citizens generally re-
joiced that sc much had been ACCOMPLISHED
toward arOusng public sentiment that
would refuse 10 license the CTemorne any
longer.
The Chief OF Police declared uneouivocalIy
that the worst dive in the city was as good
as closed He felt sure it could never OBJ
tain another license
But THE CALL wanted TO do the thing
thoroughly and be sure Of its ground. Its
TepOTteTs went 10 tie assessors block book
out al the New City Hall and collected a ull
list or the names of all the propertv-Owners
on the block bounded by Market, Mission,
Third and Fourth streets, in which the
CremOrne is located.
There were so names on the list. The re-
pOrteTs went TO work Cd these so with the
purpose in view Of asceTtanng whether
there were y in that so who would sign an
other petition for the continuance Of the
CremOrne.
Careful canvassing Of the ownership Of
the property on that block has reduced the
number 10 O., and ofthese there are but two
pTOperty-owners who may be willing to
sign the petition should Mailman &
Holman be f0olhardy enough to attempt To
secure another property owners consent"
license.
1t is not at all certain that these three
Will sign. but their answers to THE CALL
reporter were not strong enough negatively
&c warrant their names being placed on the
list Of those who will not sign.
And now the CTemorne must close. There
is no help for il. Il is the decree of the
prOperty-owners, and the law makes this
final.
Here are the property-owners' names and
their answers to the query. "Will you sign
for the CTemorne?'
In one OF two instances, where the owners
themselves could not be seen, their position
on the question has been CLEANED from their
legal representatives or from friends or
relatives who knew how they felt about the
continuance of the CremoTne, or from those
10 whom they had already declared them
selves against that dive.
NOn-TesdeGts are not entitled to sign,
The full list is as follows:
THE MOST REVEREND ARCH
BISHOP P. w. RIORDAN - The Rev.
Father Montgomery spoke for the Bishop.
He expressed himself as entirely in accord
with THE CALLS movement, and said not
only would the church or any OF her officials
not sign such document but would do all
in their power TO aid The CALL in trying to
close such an Infamous dive as the Gre
mOrDe.
EDWIN FRETWELL-Wi not sign.
MRS. JANE DUFF-Mrs. Pfeffer. her
daughter, assured THE CALL reporter that
her mother would never sign her name TO a
paper sanctioning such place as the Gre
morne.
MRS. JAMES IRVINE-Wfl not sign.
JOHN CAHALIN, salesman-Will lot
MISS TILE BRAUER-Will not sign
J. LAWRENCE HAWKS, paying-teller
Bank Of California will not sign.
CLARENCE w. HAWKS-I will not
sign.
CHARLES DIETLE, tallor-I certainly
will not sign.
HENRY WORKMAN. merchant will
never sign such paper.
WILLIAM T. S. RYER, real estate e.
Never.
J. d. PETERS. nonresident = Cannot
JAMES FISHER-Wil not sign.
GEORGE X. MUNROE. capitalist-NO.
Il. FAWCETT-Wil not sign.
JAMES MULCAHY-liwill not.
BETTE S. SMlTH-NeYer have signed
and never will.
G. w. SMITH-They never had my name
and never will get ii.
il. LUCHSlNGER, surveyor-I will not
sign.
DIR. DAVID WOOSTER They will not
get my sigma uTe.
GEORGE WRITTELL-I will not sign.
c. +. F0RREST-Will not
MRS. MARY b. TOBIN-I will certainly
not sign.
DAVTD KFIT, niercbant-Nost en,nbat-