The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-20
SAUSALITO WILL
Be IN The SWIM
A Mammoth Floating Bath
ing-House Contem-
plated.
LOCATED ON THE FRONT
Many Eastern Capitalists Are
Interested in the
Scheme.
THE CARNIVAL IS BOOMING.
Voting Contest Goes on Merrily With
Miss Amjornson in the
Lead.
THE CARNIVAL IS BOOMING

! A big scheme is -umored about the water
| front of Sausalito. Lieutenant Colonel
| William st. Paul Seitz, the former lessee
| of the Sausalito Hotel, is in the East inter-
| esting Eastern capitalists in building an
| immense floating bathhouse in front OF
| Sausalito. Colonel Seitz is forming stock
company of Eastern capitalists. This
proposition has been in quiet agitation for
over year. 1t is now coming to head.
Colonel Seitz will return to Saus alto in
| few weeks.
| The plans have already been drawn up.
The floating bathing resort will consist of
hot ard cold water baths, restaurant and
| theater combined, making Ssusalito the
pleasure resort par excellence of the Pacific
| Coast.
The plans have already been drawn up
| and are in the possession OF Lieutenant
Colonel Seitz.
1t is stated that everything will be on
! grand scale and be superior to anything on
this coast. The building already planned
will be fanked by four high towers and the
architecture will be the modern Gothic.
Lieutenant Colonel Seitz, who will
return in few weeks. was last year the
| lessee of the Sausalito Hotel. He held an
| important position in the last Midwlnter
II
Canada, where he held a like responsible
position in an exposition in that city.
| From that city he went on to Eastern
cities and has got Eastern capitalists In
terested in the construction OF an elaDor-
ate bathhouse near Sausalito.
! The location of the floating bathhouse IS
stated as being between the Pacific and
| San Francisco Yacht clubhouses on the
| Sausalito Bay Land Company's property.
| For three weeks the Sausalito Electric
| Light Company, under the proprietorship
| of T. ]. Frost and Tom Scully, has been in
full blast. Fifty houses on the hill are
| Illuminated by lncandescent lamps. The
com any is stretching wires as rapidly as
| possible.
1t is proposed to have during the carni-
val the legend "Sausalito' suspended near
the depot composed OF at least ESQ electric
lights.
The plant has been adjudged as the
most complete on the Pacific Coast for its
] size. Enough power is generated there to
supply all the house and street illumlna-
ton of Sausalito.
| Fifty houses on the hill are already IL
Illuminated by incandescent lights, and
| orders are out for 100 more.
| The dynamo was got from the Fort
Wayne Electric Light Company and the
power engine from A. l.. Fish Co. This
is an So horsepower engine.
tits expected that at least fifty lights
will be erected for the illumination of the
streets OF Sausalito on the hill and down
on the front.
| When this is accomplished Sausalito
will be visible like brilliant constellation
of stars from all the bay cities.
| The carnival preparations are progress
ing rapidly and successfully. Nothing
| definite will be determined, however, be-
| fore the meeting on next Monday night,
when the committees will report.
! GenarQl Dickinson states that thera jS
much money in sisht-enough to make
| the carnival an assured thing.
! Commodore Bruce says that everything
on the bay at the festivity will be splen-
didly illuminated. Nothing, however
will be definitely decided until the meet.
! ing on Monday night
! The voting for the carnival queen is go
| ing on merrily. The record stands as fol-
| lows: Miss l.. Amjornson 129, Miss K.
Becker 125. Miss r. Miller SO, Miss LIGHT
enstein 80, Miss K. Forman 81.
| Yesterday afternoon it was doubtful if
anything would transpire at the trial of
| William Cohen, arrested as being seller
OF pools under the management of Har.
rison & Co.
! Commission Broker or BOOKSELLER Har-
rison said yesterday: Il am not pool
seller; l am commission broker. My
| fight will be on these grounds. / receive
per cent commission from every buyer,
and commission from the Bookmakers'
Club of New York. do not run pool
room-simply commission house, and |
am licensed as such. The money made
here does not remain with me, but goes to
the East to the parties who employ me. l
am the first man to run an establishment
of this kind on the Pacific Coast, and / do
not come under the poolroom law. / run
legitimate poolroom business"
The case against William Cohen will be
prosecuted by A. Silva, prosecuting at
torney, and the defense will be represented
by James w. Cochran, ex-District Attor-
ney of Marin County.
A. Silva said: II shall try this case
under Penal Code section 3d. making it
utterly immaterial whether a person is
agent or proprietor OF poolroom, so long
as he sells pools on race or aids or abets
q hazard on an event"
Judge Pottrell of Mill Valley will try
| the case in question.
The case is designated as "People versus
w. Cohen" and was instigated on ticket
| bought by Marshal Greed.
Marshal Creed saws he bought the ticket
for 81 10 and lost on the proposition. This
was about the LIST of July.
Monday the trustees passed an ordinance
for bidding the purchasing of pools. 1.-THE
trustees have put too much upon me.n
said Marshal Creed. ut is very difficult
matter to decide who are booksellers and
who are simply visitors. Consequently l
have made no arrests. l notified all pool
BUYERS that if they continued to buy I
would arrest them thirty minutes after
notification. But / was unable 10 find any
| who bought after my warming.
In the meantime Harrisons poolroom
or commission-house goes on at full blast
and unmolested. Harrison saws If de-
feated in the courts at SausaIito he will
Immediately appeal to the Supreme Court
and there is sure of victory.
Il shall continue to run here" said he
"as long as wish-as long, in fact. as / can
make money. | know it, because have
tne law on my side. am not poolroom