The San Francisco call., 1896-04-09
LIQUOR AS YOU LIKE It,
]. Cominsky's Clever Scheme
on the County Bound.
ary Line.
A COUNTY LICENSE NIT |!
Queer Developments Arise From
Secretary Holbrook's Crusade
Against Coursing.
COUNTY LICENSE? NIT /!

The rcrusade Officer Holbrook of the So
mails has started against the people who
conduct coursing matches has developed
some ludicrous situations.
Just as in the Venezuelan controversy.
it is case of boundary line that is crop
ping up, and over which there is every
likelihood of being squabble.
In the mean time while Secretary Hol-
brook is worrying himself and, incident
ally, worrying the Ingleside Coursing Club
the people out at Ocean View are sitting
back in their chairs and having a good
quiet laugh. They are on the boundary
line between San Mateo and San Fran
cisco counties, and that portion of the
coursing acres in this county which is un-
der the jurisdiction of Mr.. Holbrook can
be cut off entirely without interfering with
the sport. AS q matter of fact the cours-
ing is al. done in San Mateo County, and
that portion of the 160 acres leased by Eu-
gene Casserly and NJ. ". Kerrigan which
is in San Francisco County is used soleiy
as hospital" In other words, it con-
sists of about four acres, in which the
hares, wounded or otherwise disabled
while in transit from the Merced plains.
are turned loose to recuperate so as to be
good and strong before being chased by
the dogs.
One of the funny incidents in connec-
ton with this boundary line is the rela-
tionship of J. Comisky to San Francisco
and San Mateo counties. The gentleman
has wayside house not far from the
Abbey House, kept by Mr.. Casserly, and
fba fono
than is this same Mr.. Comisky. The
boundary line cuts diagonally through his
house. and while he serves drinks in San
Francisco on one end OF the bar he serves
his San Mateo customers on the other end
OF course Mr.. Comisky is in the United
States-that he cannot help-and neces-
sarily he pays an internal revenue license,
But as to county license or licenses there
are none around his place.
The gentleman rightfully claims it
would be hardship for him to pay two
licenses for one bar. That would amount
to $210 yearly, or $126 for San Mateo and $s4
for San Francisco. Instead, he takes the
benefit of the doubt, and when the San
Mateo license collector calls on him he
serves him drinks on the San Francisco
end of the bar, and Fred Lees could not
get toddy from Mr.. Comisky any place
but in San Mateo County to save his
whiskers.
Comisky bought 3ox125 feet Of property
at the boundary line, from Mrs. J. Ander-
son, about fourteen months ago. It is on
this property that he has built his inn.
Mrs. Anderson has always paid her taxes
OH the property in San Mateo County, and
it is not likely that Mr.. Comisky escapes
that disbursement on the "heads I win,
tails you lose" saloon business he has with
the license collectors.
But, to return to the Holbrook crusade
He has, so far, taken no action toward
stopping the Ocean View people from con-
ducting coursing matches, and it is not
likely that he Will.
Strange to say, Messrs. Casserly and
Kerrigan, who are mainly interested in
the Ocean View grounds, are strong sup
porters of what Officer Holbrook has said
in regard to the sport. Mr.. Kerrigan, ior
instance, said yesterday:
Notwithstanding the opinion expressed
by ID. Shannon, ]. r. Dixon, John Grace
and ]. III. Rosseter, that the killing of
hares by dogs is not cruel, say it is, and
am running coursing as matter of busi-
ness only. I expect that our place will
soon be closed up on the same grounds
Officer Holbrook is advancing, but, nat
urally. action will have to be taken in San
Mateo. not in San Francisco.
st mas been advanced that dogs tossed
the hares up with their noses and killed
them that way" continued Mr.. Kerrigan.
THAT is all nonsense. The dogs chew
the hares when they catch them, and it
sometimes takes twenty or thirty minutes
before the hare dies"
Messrs. Casserly and Kerrigan have the
largest coursing grounds in the State and
they claim that while coursing is cruel,