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WHERE SATAN IS KING.
The CremOrne Dive and Its
Record Of Blood.
TWO LIVES TAKEN In TWO DAYS.
HaIlinan'S Crime Hatchery - Where
Even Murder Abides.
TT Runs III DEFIiICE OF THE POLICE.
The Palace Varieties and Its Black
Scenes of Eice and immortality
Underground.
TWO LIVES TAKEN In TWO DAYS.
IT RUNS IN pEFIiyCE OF THE POLICE.
CHAPTER II.


= There is blood in this chapter.
1t could not be otherwise when the history
Of the Cremorne is laid bare.
Hallinan's Crime hatchery THE CALL
has ehriStened it. Is not the title an honest
one7
You will think so when you have read
the record 1t is written in blood. 1t is
borne ont by official testimony in every
line. 1t Is authentic
Halinan's Crime Hatchery bids defiance
to the police and runs in spite of them.
Win it defy an indignant publicP We
shall see.
The public has been asleep long, long
time on this dive question, else the Gre
morne and the Palace Varieties and a score
of similar dens of iniquity would have closed
their doors long ago.
There are many reasons for this public
lethargy, but the chief reason is that most
honest men and women know altogether
too little about this terrible vice, the dive.
In dreamy sort of way they may have
known that there were such places in the
city, but where they were or how bad and
vile they have had but little notion. They
didn't know, and they seemed 10 care less.
Now The CALL shows you what these
dives are like.
Do you like the pictures9
Would you like to find your son at the
Cremorne or the Palace Varieties?
You would rather find your daughter at
the bottom # the bay.
Yet somebody's boys and somebody's
girls are there nightly.
Isn't it horrible to think of-you fathers
and mothers?
Are you going to sit idle with folded
hands? Are you going 10 let these moral
sores aud stenches befoul the fair city much
longer? Are you going to see them cut out
and driven away without having had a
hand in the cutting and driving?
Join in the good work and help The
CALL TO close the dives.
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There Is no instrumental music here. but
the greasy negro walters sing vile songs that
can be heard out on the still streets for sew
eral blocks. When the police tried to quiet
these voices they found the law discrim-
mated ID favor of vocal musc-save the
word! So long as the strings and brass
were silent, the human voices might wake
the dead, and yet be uninterrupted for aught
the police could do.
Boys are frequently seen In the Cremorne,
The police know this. and have tried in
vain, as they say, to put stop to
it. The fault here. it is claimed, is
again with the law, which prohibits boys
from entering such vie dens only when not
accompanied by parents or guardians.
That word guardian" the police say,
throws the door wide open. and il is utterly
ont Of the question TO procure evidence that
will stand against such a law. Anyone old
enough may, for the time being, be a boys
guardian.
But the worst has vet to be told. Human
blood has been spilled on the floors aid
walls of the CremOrnP. even on the sidewalk
in front. And murder has stalked through
these foul halls and held high carnival here.
On July 80, 1885, Phillip de Bosom was
aSsassinated III Haliinan's crime hatchery
how fitting the term by notorious thug
and blaekleg, Jack Garrity. Ii was a little
after o'clock in the evening, when the
revelrIes were just beginning, that Clarity
thrust his knife into the body OF young
Phillip de Bosom. The victim was only %
years of age. and married! He was taken
TO the Receiving Hospital. where he died in
few hours from hemorrhageS caused by
the knife wound.
Murder" said the Coroner's jury next
day.
The jury system took care of the muir
derer. lie still walks the streets.
Next. John Whalen, aged 25 years,
married; shot ana killed by MS cousin Tug
Wilson in front of Jack Haliinan's crime
hatchery. April %, 1890, was the date.
The victim aud the assassin had both been
drinking Of Hallinan's vile poison and been
reveling ia his dive. They continued their
orgies in drunken bTawl on the sidewalk
till one was shot dead.
There is yet another.
Russell Avery, aged 81, native OF Cali
fornia; killed while sparring with pugilist
Cuffee at the Cremorne only two davs after
Tug Wilson had killed bis nan. Ii WAS a
brutal sparriDg match, such as the police
tried 10 stop last winter and failed. There
may be another such murder almost any
night, for sparring matches are still in
vogue at the Cremorne.
The annals of the criminal courts Of this
city are filled with records OF crimes conf
United and criminals graduated from the
Cremorne hatchery. Burglaries have been
committed by its patrons, doubtless Matched
within its walls; thefts great and small,
perjuries, embellishments and fOrgeries.
child murder aud soul-killing are crimes of
frequent occurrence. having for their parti-
cipators patrons and employees of the Gre
morne; or their scene of action or plotting
the Cremorne.
Doyou doubt il?
Read the records of the police and crimi.
nal courts. The CALL cannot detail each
one of them to you. but if you have your
doubts the proof is plain and easy Of access
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THE FISH FAMILY.
Professor Jordan Lectures 3 efore Sports
men and Anglers.

and Anglers.
The announcement that Professor David
Starr Jordan of the Stanford Jr. University
would lecture before meeting of the
Sporsmen's Protective Association last
evening on matters pertaining to Pacific
Coast fishes caused quite large gathering
Of ladies and gentlemen to assemble in the
parlor OF the Knights of the Red Branch
Hall.
Merton Allen. president Of the associa-
ton, introduced the learned professor, who
gave very Interesting lecture on fishes,
principally of the anadromous and salt
water varieties. On small table near the
speaker were placed some fishes, which
were obtained from the market stalls.
Among the number was wolf fish with
head which somewhat resembled one of the
notorious Casey's bull dogs, and body
which tapered off similar to that of ser
Uent. The fish is quite common in Pacific
waters. His jaws are so powerful that he
can crack with ease the various kinds OF
shells on which he preys.
There are 410 kinds of fishes in the waters
of the Pacific" said the professor, "ano the
majority OF them have been given names
which, scientifically speaking. do not belon z
to them. There are few OF the number which
are natives of the coast-most of them mi
grate to the Pacific from other waters.
Temperature has a great influence on
the varieties of fishes that inhabit the salt
waters. There are two temperatures which
meet and divide at Cape Conception a
cold wave from the Arctic reaches as fas as
that point, when the course changes and
the water then becomes warmer, travelling
south along the coast belt. In the cold lati-
tudes the fishes are found to be much more
palatable than those taken from warmer
waters.'
OF the surf fish the speaker said that there
were few species on this coast which pro-
duce their young, aud of pelagic or wander
ing fishes there were nineteen species. OF
estuary fishes there were four species and
of anadromOus fishes ten species. The re-
are five kinds of salmon which frequent the
fresh waters in the breeding season On this
aOaSt
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the place was raided and the performers
caught In the very act of their immoral ex-
hfbitions. The evidence could not have
been stronger. and the police began to con-
graduate themselves.
But, alas, they reckoned without their
host Jack Mailman bad pull" and he
pulled himself and his pals male and
femaie-ous of this scrape as he has out of
many similar one. He demanded a Jury
trial in the Police Court and eleven Of his
peers acquitted him.
Because the performance was not I'M
moral?
Not at all. Because one of the figures In
the disgusting exhibition happened to be a
stuffed dummy.
1t was the merest, frailest technicality
Imaginable, but coupled with Jack HALL
mans political pull was all sufficient.
These gentlemen of the jury" most Of
them being reputable citizens and tax-pay-
ers, with sons and daughters CT their own.
thought 1t right to say to Jack Halii-
nan by their verdict: you are not bad
fellow. Go ahead with your crime hatch
cry. sin-producing and insanity breeding
dive. 1t isn't really indecent You have
eur Endorsement"
Mailman demanded and was accorded a
separate trial. How, now, about the eleven
performers, some OF whom Were engaged in
al immoral exhibition, where no dummy
was employed? Here was the chance for
the police. 1t would surely trouble Halli-
nan somewhat to have to pay big fine for
each of his eleven employees. sand In
time" so the police foolishy argued among
themselves, 1--WE can close him up or reform
h!s place by series Of persistent raids"
Again the police reckoned without that
'pnIl."
When they presented their case to the
Prosecuting Attorney and urged for speedy
trial they were met with the unexpected IN
formation that there had been an agreement
10 the effect that naiiinan's trial was the
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Professor Josiah Keep of Mills College
delivered lecture last evening on Column
bus in Linderman's Opera-hCuse. 1t was
given under the direction Of the Alameda
County Worlds Fair Association.
Artificial stone sidewalks are being laid
on both sides OF Railroad avenue, between
Prospect and Webster streets.
1t now looks as If the Trustees will grant
at least two franchises for electric light
plants to private parties. One is 70 c. Nj.
Bassett ana the other to the Price Bros.
The Trustees have decided to retain control
Of the municipal plant for street-lighting.
Justice Byler will go TO Calistoga Friday
to look at a ranch with a view Of making a
purchase.
The road way leading to Bay Farm Island
is being put in first-ciass condition. 1t was
almost lmpas sable during the greater part
OF the winter months.
The horse and buggy of Frank Silva,
which were levied upon by w. j. Robinson
to secure judgment of $3.50, were sold at
auction yesterday and brought the sum Of
S2lO.
Ed North, aged 10 years. broke his arm in
two places Monday evening while eXercis-
ing in the gymnasium Of the Olympic Club.
The case Of Z. L. Homer against Mrs.
Emily l.. Cole to recover doctors bill for
services rendered her husband was non-
suited,
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and that her parents thought she was doing
hnusework-a small girl plump and round,
but on whose face dissipation was beginning
to tell.
A tall, dark girl, with short hair, who
looked as if she might have been school
teacher few years ago, but on whom con-
sumption has set its mark-a girl whose
smiles are as unreal as is the well-laid-on
red that tiEts her hollow cheek.
A stout young woman, with a very bust
ness-like air-coarsened, hardened, tough
ened to her work-a woman whose hair Is
plastered down over her forehead, whose
face is clean, eyes clear. dress neat and stiff
with stareh-a woman who thrves in spite
of the foul air-a human anomaly.
Another anomaly-a woman OF 40, big,
tough, coarse, boisterous, who elbows her
way through the crowd, and makes more
money in one night than some Of the others
do in two.
A frail, 1.-THE, willowy girl, with a thin
face and thin voice, who looks as if puff
of wind would blow her away-a poor girl
who will be borne out to Lone Mountain
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test case, and upon its success or failure de-
pended the prosecution OF all the cases. The
police Indignantly denied that they were
parties to any such agreement.
But the pull prevailed.
Again the police tried to reform the Gre
morne Now there is law, or city or
dinarce, against selling liquor where
pngilstic exhibitions are given. Hallinan
was openly violating this law. December
9, 1891, the Cremorne was raided again In
the midst of a boxing match, while liquor
was being peddled around by short-skIrteG
mattresses. Jack Hallinan was arrested
and brought TO trial in Police Court l.
Surely he WAS convicted this time; the
evidence was SO very clear?
Ne.
Again the spill" 1t TRANSFERRED at the
"triap' that the brutal sparri3g exhibition
was only a part of the play. And so, on
January q of this year, Jack Mailman was
again "yindicated" and permitted to go on
making paupers, lunatics and criminals.
The police say they tried to stop the early
morn revelries in the cafe" Of the Cremorne.
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JACK haiiinan and by hundreds of
honest, reputable citizens Even the public
records of the criminal courts attest the
dangerous character of the place.
Its doors are wide open seven nights in
the week
The history of the Cremorne Is record
of crime and hideous sensuaIity. In spots
The record Is written In blood. for even
murder has been patron Of this unholy
place. Mailman & Holman are the present
propTietors. The den was started by Jack
Mailman. an ex-pugilist. The present
rental of the premises is $3.50 month.
Mailman & Homan sublet the lower por-
ton.
When Jack Mailman opened his den Ed
ward Homan, an old pal, was his manager.
Only in the last year and a half has the
manager become 4 partner.
The Cremorne soon secured for Itself a
prominent place on the blackjack of the
Police Commissioners. This black book con-
tains list Of dives and resorts TO which
the Police Commissioners have refused
licenses. The Cremorne was at once spotted
by the police as flt place to be closed ~.
But tie foolish law-which only pretends
10 give the Police Commission discretion In
the matter-made it possible for Jack Halli-
nan to run the Cremorne in spite of the
police. He secured the signatures OF u
property-owners on his block, recommend
ing the Cremorne as a fit place for the
neighborhood. and his doors are open to-day.
The Cremorne has never been a better
place than it is now, though in years past
much worse. That is TO say, its indecent
and immoral stage exhibitions We're once Of
more fagrantly offensive character than
they are now. or have been In recent years.
Mailman & Holman were arrested along
with eleven OF their male and female en-
ployes on May IS. 1891. TIE charge against
them was conducting an immoral exhibit
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Six Stories in Oakland.

The Home Savings Bank of Oakland.
which recently purchased lot 10Ox100 on
the corner Of Fourteenth street and Broad
way, is preparing to erect a six-stOry brick
building on the property. This will be the
taliest building in Oakland, and will doubt
less spur others TO similar structures. Next
Saturday Will am j. Dingee Will sell at
public auction the thirteen lots adjoining
this building. The lots are 25x1O0, and as
they lie in the business heart of the city are
bound 10 be in great demand
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The EfrehAll.

An alarm was turned in at 1916 o'clock
yesterday morning for fire that started In
the basement Of the two-story frame build
Ing at S33 Bush street, occupied as dwell
ing by l.. ii. Lichtenstein. The loss
amounted to $50 and the cause was the care
less handling of matches.
AT ABB o'clock yesterday morning an
alarm was sounded from box 62 for fire in
the two-story frame dwelling of James
Evans Mt 30S Jessie street. The Chinese
laundry at 306 and the japanese store at "a
Fourth street were also damaged. The loss
TO the buildings amounted to $1,000 and to
the contents $500. Careless cigarette-smo
Ing was reported to be the cause of the FIRE.
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LATEST sHIrPING INTELLIGENCE.



NEW Y0RK-Apr 6-Br bark Baroda hence Nov
22 for Queenstown. was spoken Mar 81 West
ern Isles; lost maintopgaliant mast and buwarks;
did not require assistance.
Movements of Trans-Atlantic Steamers.
LIVERPOOL-Arriyed Apr 5-Stmr Michigan. I'm
Boston.
ANTwERP-Arrived Apr 5-stmr Herman. from
New DIRK.
SOUTHAMPToN-ArriyedA ADJ 5-stmr. AlIer I'm
New York.
QUEEN Apr 5-Stmr British
Process. from Philadelphia.
NEW YORk-Arriyed Apr 5-Stmr America. frm
nrA
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nun. 4 Ut many Gays
the police Of the South
ern station had been
working up evidence
against the dive-keep-
ers. They were very
careful, and went to
great trouble and ex-
pense in securing repu-
table ye-witnesses who
could coTToborate their
charges. At last they
thought they had a sure
4.o1 A. - aA~A~fu
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truth is vouched for by
the Board of Police
Commissioners by the
various policemen who
have patrolIed the beat
on which the Cremorne
is located since its doors
were opened. seven
years ago by the police
captain and police ser
geant. In whose BALI
wick il is; by the Chief
of Police Of the city 4;
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EVEN MURDER HERE.

9Ae History Of the Most Notorious Resort
in the CitY.
Fer years the Cremorne has been notori-
Gus as place where indecent exhibitions
have been given.
This is not rash statement. nor one
founded on anything but hard fact. Its
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LICENSED TO MARRY.

Licenses to marry were issued yester-
day to:
William T. Burns and Annie Parker. 1922.
Christian Wins ana Annie Q. Schurr. 23-22.
Sydney Clark and Emma l. Rains, 30-2l.
Henry }. DAVIS aud Beatrice G. Wood, 2S-1S.
Jeans Hansen and Marie Petersen, 24-25.
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PALACE HOTEL.

THE PALACE HOTEL OCCUPIES AN ENrIps
l. block in the center of San Francisco n ts rho
model hotel of the world Fire and earthouars
proof. Has nine elevators. Every room Ia iarga
light and airy. The ventilation is perfect A nstc
and closet adjon every room. All rooms are easv
OF access from broad light corridors The central
court, Illuminated by electric light, its tmmsnsa
glass roof, broad balconies. and troni
Cal plants, are features hitherto aown In Amsrt
can hotels Guests entertained ON either the Amer
can or European plan. The restaurant il ths 49,
In the city. Secure rooms in advance by teIe,rah.
Ing THE Psy.ACse unTsoS. "pu-
Isl " San Francisco TIL
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One Instance.

A mother writes to THE CALL: "Your
fight against those terrible hell holes Is one
of the nobleSt things you ever put your pen
to. My only son is lost to the world. He
met his first downfall in the Cremorne.
May God be with you Is my prayer"
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WARNINGS!

THE PUBLIC Is CAUTIONED AGAINST SoLIC-
itors for funeral work. For the most part they
are impostors and traders upon human sorrow, and
charge fabulous prices for shoddy work. Send for
your family florist visit some reputable estab.
iishment In person.
FLORIST CLUB OF CALIFORNIA.
WeSa ~
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MARRIED

RoDGER-RoBERTS-In this city. April q 1892
by the Rev. Thomas c. EaSton. d. d., David Rod
ger aud CiariSsa Roberts
DANIS-WoOD-In this city April s. 1892, at the
residence Of the Rev. NJ NJ. ellison. Henry j.
Davis and Heatrice e. Wood OF Australia
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Robbed His Employer.

Gustav Samuel was arrested yesterday on
charge OF felony ENLIGHTENMENT While
employed as clerk by Charles Fischer of
y Suffer street he is accused of having
stolen $53 90 on March 70.
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:" Lend Me Your Ears 81,

It is the claim of the makers of one of the
brands of foreign Cocoas that money cannot
buy the SECRET of it's manufacture
SECRECY invariably suggests CONCEAL
MENT. There is no SECRET in the manu-
facture of GHIRARDELLTS BREAK
FAST COCOA, save that the process is of
mechanical skill, coupled with the knowl-
edge of the harmonious blending of the
best and specially selected cocoa beans.
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BORN.

ENOS-In this city. April 4. 1892, to the wife of T.
s, Enos, son.
D0UGHEkTY-At the Potrero, March 21 1892,
TO the wife or John I. Dougherty. a daughter.
CUSACk-At the fOtrero. March 81, 1892, to the
wife OF Michael CuSack. a
CALLAGHAS-Iu this city, April s. 1892, to the
wife OF G. W. Callsghan. a daughter.
MlLLER-In this city. April 3, 1892 to the wife OF
Frank T. Miller son.
sHEA-iu this city. April 2. 1892. to the wife Of
Henry W. Shea. a daughter.
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lA-vR- Yin There IS Scarce a -, s srnas,a
bus Will yield 10 LA-NA-TUM and bsgin Il 49, ~
away Poison oax, Itch, rimpies Redness ysni.h =.
Dy magic aud old stubborn disorders La Ya.rum MI,
successfully attack. Tor BY ali ,trnsesks or H
IVA Sni'o So friee. Sc MIRO weFfsu I'm BIZ
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ALAMEDA.

will fall to either L. G. Chapman or o. c.
Kirk. Kirk has the water, gas and railroad
companies at his back.
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BIRTHS MARRIAGES-DEATHS.

Birth, marriage and death notices sent by mali
viii not be Inserted. They must be handed in at
either of the publication Offices and be Endorsed
with the name and residence of persons authorized
10 have the same published.
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I" / can positively
assert that Ayers
Sarsaparilla is the
best remedy to be
had for blood disor-
ders. / have put it
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AYERS
S ars a.parilla

20 the severest test, alter other proprle-
tary medicines and physicians had
failed, and it did its work well. My
daughter had suffered, since infancy,
from scrofulous sores and eruptions.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Thu DISCOVERY OF

the worlds
history Equally great the discovery AYERS
paa Superior Medicine the crofua all forms
diseases othe YOU
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For the Cure Of

our gratitude for what this wonderful
has done for our child. Geo.
M. Pendleton, Ell Dorado, Ark.
"When I came out of the army, was
troubled with scrofula. Two bottles of
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nounced it scrofula, but We're unable to
do anything to help me-. / grew worse.
The skin cracked at the joints, so that
1 could hardly walk. At last someone
recommended me to take Ayers Sarsa-
The Southern herald., 1892-09-23
Died:

On the 18th inst, at So'clock, at
his fathers residence in Centre
vile, Miss, ALLEN A. RoARE,
aged about "a years.
Another good man gone.-The
deceased was born and raised in
Amite county. The writer has
known him intimately for several
years and has always found him n
good and upright man. In his
protracted sickness he showed a
calm resignation to his Masters
will. While we know that a casket
contains his body we believe that
heaven has his soul. w. L. J.