The San Francisco call., 1895-10-11
"SPEAK K-EASIES" RA|DED.
BerkeIey's Marshal Strongly
EnforCes the New Liquor
Ordinance.
SEVEN DEALERS IN TROUBLE
An Exciting Day in the Usually
Quiet University Town - Ar
rests to Be Made.

BERKELEY, Oct. 10, 1s95.--The wave
of reform has reached Berkeley, and there
is prospect not only of 'dry Sundays" !"
but dry weekdays as well. All the "speak-
easies" are closed, the cigar-stores with
small rooms in the rear no longer sell
Temperance drinks" the billiard-haI
signs reading "soda" are now true to
reality, and the drugstore clerks ask
would-be purchasers of private supply of
fluids that cheer, for physicians pre-
scriptions. This sweeping change in
Berkeley life was wrought in one short
hour this morning when Marshal Lloyd
and several deputies started forth to exert
the authority accorded them by the new
liquor ordinance of Berkeley. The visits
of the officers were as startling as bomb
shells to the unsuspecting keepers of the
various places where Berkeley users of
liquor have been wont to satisfy their ap-
petites for the various liquids which are
legally supposed never to approach within
a mile of the University of California. For
years half a dozen or more cigar-stores
hotels, cafes and drugstores have freely
sold drinks in sufficient quantity to satisfy
the cocktail routes of San Francisco.
They have readily admitted total
strangers to the bar of intemperance. no
questions being asked, no open sesame
being necessary but the price. Marshals
have succeeded one another, temperance
agitators have come and gone, and candi-
dates have taken pledge after pledge to
close the "speak-easies," but the liquor
men have smiled and still continued to
quench thirsts of all kinds.
The immediate cause of the tremendous
change is an ordinance recently passed by
the! Town Trustees. Its provisions supply
the one great requisite needed to enable en-
forcement of Berkeley's liquor laws-the
right of search. Hitherto there was no
way for an officer to secure evidence of
violation of the law, except by finding
some one who was willing to testify to
having entered the sanctum sanctorum of
Temperance house" and sampled its
beverages.
But the new law forbids even the storing
Of liquor in any part of the town without a
license, and permits the Marshal ostensi-
bly, to guard against dangers of fire from
inflammatory liquids, to enter any estab-
lishment to which his suspicious may be
directed and explore its recesses for him
self.
A small room, with pretty little bar, in
the rear of George H. Stricker's cigar store,
on Shattuck avenue, opposite Berkeley sta
ton, was entered by Marshal Lloyd, in
company with w. H. Bone, and a few
minutes later the executive officer of
Berkeley was loading an express wagon
with some excellent whisky and valuable
stock of wines and beer. Fonzos cafe,
kept by Fred Fonzo, on Center street,
near Shattuck avenue, was entered by
Lloyd and Deputy Rawson, and the wagon
received another stock of contraband goods.
The California Hotel, conducted by J..
Doran on the corner oil Shattuck street
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Deputy Marshal Esmond and Deputy
Sheriff Davis, and the Acheson Hotel, on
the opposite corner of the same streets,
managed by A. Berg, also received an Off
cial visit from the officers of the law, who
had by this time received supply of
liquors.
The billiard-hall of S. Solomon was
were found there. Mr.. Salomon's sign,
t'Soda and Cigars" appeared to be fully
descriptive of the salable stock he owns.
Their labors over in the immediate vicin-
ity Of Berkeley station, the officers turned
their attention to other stores in the town.
notion, soda water and cigar store on
Telegraph avenue, just across the street
from the northeast entrance to the univer-
sity grounds, was entered, and the officers
found three demilohns of fire-water, eight
bottles of pale lager and bottle of native
wine.
The stock seemed to be small consider
ing the reputation the stationery-store,
which is owned by Mrs. Silyershield, has
long enjoyed. and the officers proceeded
to pry, for further discoveries: Four dozen
more bottles OF pale lager and FIVE gallons
of whisky were found in dark closet in
one of Mrs. Silvershield's rooms. In a
stationery-store kept by Mrs. Mullagher
opposite Mrs. Silvershield's. Deputies Raw
son and Osmond found four dozen bottles
of the same pale lager, with which Mrs.
Silyershield has presumably been regaling
her customers, and four demijohns OF
stronger stuff.
Mrs. Mullagher had trapdoor in front
OF her establishment, but it proved of no
avail against the Sherlock Holmes of
Berkeley. A few bottles of beer were
found in store kept by Mrs. Thompson
at North Berkeley station.
This completed the days finds of the
officers, and the whole collection. barrels.
cases, crates, demijohns and bottles was
which there is now stock of liquor, prob
ably the largest ever gathered together in
Berkeley.
Every thing in the way of "bracers' is
there. There are wines, beers, whisky,
brandy, and even the mysterious bottled
concoctions that help to give a drugstore
appearance to large saloons.
lue pTOpTlcCOTS OI CHe seven places IN
which liquor was found will all be arrested
under Berkeleys new liquor ordinance.
The charge to be placed against the per.
sons named is that of storing liquor and
holding it for sale in violation of the ordi-
nance.
Marshal Lloyd stated this evening that
he has no evidence of the actual sale of
liquor by any of the parties mentioned
but of the storing there can be no ques-
ton, and convictions are certain in every
case if the ordinance stands in the courts.
The ordinance in question provides as a
penalty for its violation fine or imprison-
ment, or both. the fine to be not under $50
and not over $500, and the Imprisonment
for not less than one month and not over
three months.
The raid has caused much excitement in
Berkeley. 1t is the most successful move
ever made against the illicit liquor traffic
in the town and gives promise of future
rigid enforcement of Berkeley's liquor
ordinances.
The total value of the liquor secured is
about $500. 1t Is expected that those who
are to be arrested will vigorously contest
against the new ordinance, but local lights
in the legal profession say there are no
holes in the law.
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