The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-04
RUDDELL CON RADICTS It
Says the Statement That He
and Wise Are at Outs
Is False.
A Score of Atlanta Fair Actresses
and Illegally Landed Chinese
Women Located.

Deputy Surveyor of the Port Samuel J.
Ruddell takes exception to the statement
published in these columns yesterday that
Collector John H. Wise ana himself were
at loggerh eads.
He said yesterday afternoon that he
and the Collector are still on the most
friendly terms; that he was guest OF Mr..
Wise at the Cosmos Club on New Years
day, and expects, upon Mr.. Wise's return
from Fresno, whittier the Collector went
yesterday, TO be dined by the head of the
Custom house again. lie added that when
the Collector and himself parted night
before last they were the best of friends.
Mr.. Ruddell is now domiciled at the
California Hotel, having quite awhile back
given up his comfortably appointed home
Tor the convenient apartments of Brigadier-
General Warield's hosiery. He dis
claims ever having been the medium OF
Government secrets leaking out of the
Custom-house to favored reporters.
That he may have enemies in the Treas
ury Department he does not deny, but he
sees no particular reason, he says, why be
should have any. One word he has for all
that was published about him, and that
word is false"
The work of Surveyor William D. Eng
fish is so conducted at present that Mr.,
Ruddell occupies very responsible posi-
ton, and in Mr.. English's absence he is
acting Surveyor, the boarding of inc omine
craft devolving largely upon his trusted
subordinate, Ellis A. Holmes.
Quite number of the Atlanta Fair
Chinese women and half dozen Chinese
women who have managed TO slip through
the vigilance of the customs authorities
have been located in Chinatown, and it re-
mains with the Collector what he will do
to stop the laws being violated. Following
is a partial list Of the Chinese slave WON en-
so far found:
At Hor Him on Baker alley there are
three girls, one of whom is an Atlanta Fair
actress.
At Lob Wong's, on the second floor OBJ
posite Baker alley, is an actress.
Chin Kim, opposite Kim Kop's store
has an actress domiciied.
There is an actress and girl who was
illegally admitted besides at the CITY OF
Peking den on Jackson street, second floor.
At Wong Lux place on Bartlett alley,
third floor, are two actresses.
There IS an actress in the den at ]
Bartlett alley. zee Doom, on Bartlett
alley, has an actress. A so-called actress
lives in Wong Songs custody on the
second floor of the Wong Look house. On
the first floor OF Wong Fook's Bartlett
on Pacific street, second floor, is another
There is one on the second floor at How
Geo Kok's on Ross alley.
Upstairs over Sing Sing & Co.'S store on
Washington street are two girls, one an
Atlanta Fair actress and the other unlaw-
fully landed. There is also fair girl al
Lee Sings, on Washington alley One
lives at Wong Ong s, on the northwest
corner OF Baker and Sullivan alleys.
An unlawfully landed girl is slave at q
den on the north end OF Dupont street.
At Wong Sans house on Washington
street a girl named Kim Wing is domi-
ciled. She is said to have been unlaw-
fully landed. There is a woman at Ho
Moy's, upstairs, on the southeast corner
OF Sullivan and Baker alleys, who was
Struggled into the country.
I AT Leong Sings second floor, corner OF
Dupont and Pacific streets, there is girl
who is not an Atlanta Fair actress, but is
a recent arrival. All these unfortunates.
says THE CALLS informant, have come into
the City within the last three months and
been assigned to their respective dens.
The information does not come from the
Custom-house.