The herald., 1893-08-30
A HULLABALOO ABOUT NOTHING.
The Police Commissioners Pos
ing as Great Reformers.
If Saloon Is Obnoxious Why Not
Revoke Its Licenses
Proceedings which savor of a Desire to
Make Political Capital and Evils
Mentioned which Can Be
Instantly Remedied.

Instantly Remedied.
Lively times are in store for the police
commissioners, and they have long ere
this become we'll aware OF the fact.
The dive question was brought vividly
before them yesterday. yet they refused
to act.
There were only three members pres
ent at the meeting, yesterday morning,
they being Commissioners Tufts, Bra
dish and Bosbyshell.
AGAINST THE DIVES.
The saloon dives of the city were
struck hard blow by the chief of police,
who presented report by Secretary
Moffett, asking that licenses of certain
saloons be revoked. The report makes
very interesting reading. and is as fol-
lows:
II consider it my duty to call the at
tention OF your honorable board to the
following named saloons which are re-
sorts for prostitutes and thieves and
which ara conducted in most disrepu-
table manner:
lNUs tDO NOLtA UARLA pVi Cow thiAO0 bhC
Pacific Gardens, the license in the name
OF F. Conrad.
mo. 800 North Alameda street, called
the White House, the license issued to
John w. Williams.
mo. 253 East First street. the old
Conclave, license issued to 8. E. Booker.
"The first named place, F. Conrad's,
| Is in the cellar of the building at the
northeast corner OF Main and Arcadia
streets, in a room that, because of it's
terrible sanitary condition, is unfit for
human habitation. There ia stage at
one end of the place, from which,
nightly, so-called musicians give enter
tainments for dirty, debauched and
criminal men and old, worn-out street.
walkers, whom it would be fattery to
call prostitutes, who are so utterly Lost
| to shame that they will probably solicit
anyone going in there who they think
may have a quarter of dollar. The
place ia one of the very lowest, dirtiest,
disease and crime-breeding dives on the
Pacific coast, and I earnestly recon-
mend that your honorable board revoke
| the license.
| 1.-THE saloon of John W. Williams, No.
800 North Alameda street. is also a
meeting place for prostitutes and
thieves, and the proprietor keeps the
place running at all hours of the
night and Sundays. There are rooms
| to let in connection with the saloon,
and under control of the proprietor Of
the same, go that when soliciting
prostitute secures victim in the saloon
she has convenient place to take him.
I have an affidavit of one Otto Crueger,
who states that he was spoken to by a
woman in the said saloon, to whom he
gave money for herself, and for the
proprietor of the place, in payment for
the room, and that when, at her solici-
tation, he was following her through a
dark passageway, he was assaulted and
badly beaten by two roughs, who no
doubt intended robbery, but he escaped
from them. the woman disappearing.
1.-THE proprietor of this saloon has
| been repeatedly fined for violation of
| the. IL, o'clock and Sunday closing Or
| dinance5s once some months ago, again
| on June 4th, again on June 8th. and
| Sergeant J:sA. Smith reports to me that
said saloon was not properly closed on
last Saturday night, but kept running
until after 4 O'Clock Sunday morning,
and wasfull of drunken prostitutes and
men who were drinking at the bar. al
| though. the front door was closed and
locked. I also heartily recommend a
revocation of the license for this place.
| "The third place to which wish to
| call the attention of your honorable
board is the saloon at No. 233 East
First street, formerly called the "Con-
clRve." but now commonly called Joe
Chambers saloon,'' for Notwithstanding
| the fact that the license for the place ia
| cf 4
Joe Chambers has remained about the
place all the time, as manager, and
| think no one having knowledge of the
| doubt that the saloon ia owned by
Chambers, making tho third time that
| this man (refused, for cause. a license
in his own name) has secured by mis-
representation and false pretense a
license to conduct rendezvous
for prostitutes and pimps and
| thieves. Dangerous ex.convicts and
| other bad criminals known to the po-
lice, who come to this city, 60 straight
| to the Chambers saloon with such un-
failing regularity that 1t is evident that
they know where they are going.
Burglar Harry King, convicted and sent
to the penitentiarv short time ago, and
his companion, OK Convict George Dough-
erty, made the Chambers saloon their
headquarters, and when Detective Bos-
qui recovered the jewelry and silverware
that was stolen from the houses OF E. A.
Forester and J. P. Kimball, he got it
from the room of the said Joe Chambers,
he or his barkeeper having taken it over
the bar; and other valuable lots of Jew
elry the police have good reason to be-
lieve have disappeared through the doors
of this ealoon. Dick Woods, who is al
most constantly in the said saloon and
plays there, is reported to the police as
an ex-convict from Arizona, and when
| ex. Convict Frank CLARK came back here
| from the penitentiary few days ago,
Detective Auble followed him straight
| to the Chamb bers saloon, and although
he has not been in sightfo the past two
or three days. tough-looking indi-
| vidual who came with him is still hang
| ing around the place. Two OF the most
notorious pimps who have ever come
to this city (the Doheney brothers.
| Jim and Ed) have been constant visitors
| to the Chambers saloon. and one of
| them for number OF months has been
| a bartender there. These fellows--the
Doheney brothers, and their manager,
| Joe Chambers are the parties who