The herald., 1896-01-29
BURIED IN THE FILES
The Police Board Acts Upon the
Ministerial Manifesto
REPORT OF CHIEF GLASS
A Document Showing Who Leases Crib
Property
Saloon License Granted In a Case Where II
Had Been Once Refused Because
of an Adverse Report


from San Francisco this time to be present
to hear the latest manifesto from the Min
isteral union read before the board yester-
day. The document was the same one
submitted to the council one week ago.
Upon previous occasions when these docu-
ments have come before the board from
the ministers, Barham happened to be, by
accident always, out of the city.
Officers F. L. Benedict and j. B. Rollins
were before the, board yesterday, charged
with neglect of duty, in the fact that they
had. after arresting vagrant, neglected
TO properly prosecute the case, and as a re-
sult the prisoner had to be discharged from
custody and the jury summoned to
hear the evid ence in the matter
had to bs dismissed. Benedict in
defense, stated that the fault
had been all his own and that Robbins had
not been to blame. Neither man h Ad ever
been upon the carpet before and the chief
gave both men an excellent certificate of
character, they were ordered to be repri-
manded and restored to uuty.
The chief submitted this lucid solution
of The social evil probem:
At your regular meeting held January 4.
Won instructed me to notify landlords own
ing property known as cribs on the east
side of Alameda street, between the ware
house on the north OF Also street ana
Chinatown and occupied Dy prostitutes, 10
vacate the same at once.
T now Respectfully report that have met
the landlords and Iessees owning and con-
trolling the said property, and have IN
formed them of your orders and ind that
there are thirty-four cribs fronting on Ala
media street in the space mentioned, and
that they are with the exception OF three,
which Shafer brothers rent themselves,
leased to different parties. The lessees
are George Lecour, who has ten which are
controlled by Joseph Watt for him;
Blanche Laborde, who has nine, which she
rents herself: ouis EgriX, who is, | am
informed, IA resident of Santa Monica, has
six, and one of the women occupying the
sane acts as his agent and attends to the
renting of the rooms, and Jamlie. Rotten
beck and Oscar Wagner, who have four
cribs leased, and Rottenbeck attends to
the leasing of them. These leases were all
given by Shafer Brothers for three years or
more, and most of them expire IN March,
1897 Recently fences have been con-
strueted by other parties leasing from
Shafer Brothers in such way that the
cribs in question had no entrances from
Alameda street, which has necessitated
the abandonment of three cribs by the
lessees in order to give them entrances
from the said street to the remaining
cribs. | also find that there is consider
able contention with part of these lessees
about giving up their leases and they are
claiming that they should be paid to can
eel them and Shafer Brothers state that
they ask unreasonable and exhorbitant
prices which they can not afford to pay.
Shafer Brothers further state that they
will at once serve legal notices on these
lessees to quit the premises and that III due
time they will get them out.
/ have met all of these parties except
Lecour, Legrix and Wagner, and have ex-
planned to them that your orders are i'm
perative and must be obeyed.
The aoove report was received and placed
among the files
The chief reported that he had instructed
his various watches to keep First street
between Main and Los Angeles streets
clear, as petitioned by the various whole
sale merchants of the vicinity some two
weeks ago, and that the cent restaurants
on Main street near Los Angeles and Re-
uuina are to be abandoned as soon as the
leases upon the places have expired.
The application of r. c. Clark for ap-
pointment as a special officer at the bar
racks of Gods regular army was permitted
to be Withdrawn, and the application of ID.
a. French special was reported upon
adversely, the applicant being reported to
be not citizen of the United States. The
application was denied.
committee from the Merchants asso-
citation. consisting of Messrs. Pridham,
Iichtenberger and Coulter, came before
the board to protest against the gathering of
idlers upon some of the public streets of
the city. John P. Solomon, (, jeweler on
Main street near First, on the other hand,
complained that the police will not permit
people to inspect his store windows. The
chief remarked that he appeared to be be-
tween the devil and the deep sea. The
merchants committee asked if anything
could be done to abate the poker Joints
around town. The answer was that poker
playing is not an illegal pastime, and then
the curtain was wrung down upon the Sc
rious problems which had been under con-
sideration.
The ministerial manifesto, after some
desultory discussion, was ordered to be
filed. after some of the statements in the
paper had been questioned in the matter
of accuracy,
VIM. Dunns application for a saloon
license ut 222 Commercial street was
grained, the mayor and Commissioner
Cook voting in the negative. The official
report in the matter was adverse when filed
a few weeks ago, the place having been
closed because a previous proprietor had
violated the Sunday closing law.
The application of : l.. Marin to be ap-
pointed "a police officer was filed. and the
application of Michael Fitzgerald at lO3
South Los Angeles street; j. B. and C. +,
Rogers at 124 North Main street, were re.
terred to the chief.