The San Francisco call., 1898-06-09
DISAPPOINTED
 SALOON MEN No More Licenses for Resorts at the Camp. THE PROPERTY-OWNERS WIN PROTEST OF RICHMOND RESI-
 DENTS GRANTED. Since the Arrival of Troops at the Racetrack Saloons Have Been
 Springing Up Like
 Mushrooms.
THE PROPERTY-OWNERs WIN
PROTEST OF RICHMOND RESI-
 DENTS GRANTED.

The Police Commissioners arrived at
 the conclusion last night that all the sa-
 looms necessary to quench the thfrsts of
 the boys in blue" encamped on the old
 Bay District race track and their visit
 ors are now in operation. That decision
 proved bitter disappointment to nine
 ambitious saloon men who hoped to be
 granted licenses to dispose of sharp
 steams" and stronger liquid refresh-
 ments to the soldiers and the thousands Of people who daily find their way to the camp ground.
 The residents of the Richmond district
 made the fight and won a substantial
 victory. Since the first arrival of troops al the old race track saloons have been
 popping up in that locality like mush-
 rooms In the small strip of territory bounded by Fulton and Clement streets, Henderson and Eighth avenues, there are 3l saloons now running. and no less than nine applications for saloon licenses were
 made before the Commissioners within the past five days. The people of Rich mond then decided that 1t was time for them to enter a strong and vigorous pro- test. When they received information that dance halls and gambling dens were also proposed they thought that patience had ceased to be virtue, and that unless some prompt and vigorous action was taken the Richmond district in the neigh borhood of the camp would soon become a second edition of the Barbary Coast. A lew or the property owners met on Sun day and drafted the following protest. which was signed by 245 residents, and filed with the Police Commissioners:
 We, the undersigned residents of the Rich mond district. view with alarm the rapid prog resS Of vice in our community, due to the pres ence of so many licensed houses where liquor is sold, and they increasing 10 such an extent that the moral character of our young people is thereby endangered. We also know that there is an application before the Board of Police Commissioners for a license for officers club in the lower flat of 1424 Point Lobos avenue From the nature of the furn- ture. etc, we have good reason to believe 1t Is to be used for the purpose of gambling. We also informed by the agent Of the new Richmond Hall, at the corner of Clement street and Fourth avenue. that he considered rent ing the place for a dance hall with all it's usual accessories.
 We hereby protest against the granting of any more licenses to saloons or dance halls in Richmond district and we also request your honorable body to look well into the nature of the so-called Officers club before granting a permit.
 ing a fight to secure the licenses a com mittee of ten of the property-ownerS at Richmond presented themselves at the rooms of the commission last night to en- ter protest against the applications being granted. They were not called upon, however, for after an executive session
 lasting abent naf an ar houT the c9mmis a nounce that under no circumstances would any more licenses to sell liquor be granted to people intending opening saloons in the neighborhoOd of the camp.
 The applications denied last night were from the following saloon men, who hoped to engage in business at the loca- tions opposite their names: Purcell & Rashow, 1421 Point Lobos road; Nelson & Messerschmidt, S11 Point Lobos road; Cornelius Krame, 1421 Point Lobos road; Jacob D. Halst, 1913 Point Lobos road; John J. Mccarthy, First avenue and Turk street; Richard F. McMahon, Fourth ave- nue and Clement street; John Ehlers, First and Golden Gate avenues, and AL bert Farenbach, 113 Fifth avenue.
 After dispoSing of the saloon question the Commissioners took up the trial of the charges against five patrolmen ac- cused of neglect of duty. Policeman Sandman. accused of failing to properly patrol the crossing of Market and Kearny streets. was acquitted. Policeman John M. O'Connor, new appointee Henry D. Jackson and George Eastman were found guilty of having failed to re- port for duty on time and were fined s20, 1 s10 and $10 respectively. Paurolman Felix i F. Dougherty pleaded guilty to a charge of having gone asleep while on special | duty watching the Union Iron Works | property to prevent the possibility of | Spanish spies doing damage to the plant | and was fined $50. He would have been | dismissed from the department had 1t not | been shown that for several nights prior | to his derelction he had been sitting up | attending his wife, who was seriously ill |