The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26
'SAUSALITO'S
 SAD PLIGHT Name of a Fair Town Besmirched. FAST BECOMING NOTORIOUS RESULT OF THE PooLRooM
 SCANDALS. Even the Gamblers Supply a Lesson in Dignity to the Officials
 of the Marin Muni-
 cipality.
 
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAUSALITO, June 25.-One brief month ago this little city was deemed an ideal pleasure resort, a cool and delightful spot where the warm sum- mer months could be whiled away agreeably. To-day its natural beauty remains, and that Is it's sole attraction. For the cause the chance visitor has only to look along Water street. the principal thoroughfare of the town.
 "Poolrooms"-that one word tells the story.
 The town has been blighted by them, it's good name dragged in the mud of turmoil, and the decent citizens of the community nauseated by the presence of gang of inciters to law breaking. fighting and boodling. Three of the Trustees were elected on a poolroom platform and did their duty-if such word may be used in that connection by voting for the poolrooms But when 1t came to the proposition of per- mitting two men, Harrison and liar Vey, to monopoliZe the profits of the business to please Christopher Buck ley, there arose a rebellion.
 Up to that time the poolroom gamb- lers had acted decently enough, and, so far as mere personal behavior goes, they have since then. These men come and go, thinking only of their gains and losses, and they never yet have in- suited woman ill the town, notwith- standing the paragraphs of yellow Journalism.
 But the townspeople have not de- ported themselves as well as the gam blers have-there lies the sting. There have been fist fights, wars of words, monetary corruption, cutting of tele- fiya cd shooting scrape. The occasion seemed to be made for officials and smooth" lawyers like Sylva such picnic scrap pers as Creed. such weakling justices as Bellrude and Simpton and that riff raff Of a community hanging like vul- lures around every game Of chance. These have been in their element.
 Why the Trustees refused license to the third corners can only be con- occurred. A peculiar thing in this con- nectfon is that nearly every honest man will conjecture the same way But they did, and to their action may be ascribed the lamentable results. When the wires in Broyer, Glynn & Hum phreys' rooms were cut the far-seeing toWnsmen saw coming relief to the towns plight. The officials had leaped in one instance before they looked by tampering with the wires of the com pany doing business under a Govern AA4SAS SAoA SCi cliN DOlIuCu ny thC GoN- ernment. The company removed it's wires, and in the expressive vernacular of Billy" McMillan:
 T guess the whole shooting match is over''
 To-day Sylva, Harrison, Simpton and others were in San Francisco petition ing Superintendent Jaynes to place their wires back. They were told that only when affairs S-ere amicably settled and the scenes that have daily dis graced not only a single city but scan- oal1zed county and even brought the good name of the State into disrepute were stopped would the wires be put Dack. AS the San Mateo contingent seems inclined to continue the agita- ton 1t seems as though this trio will have to be settled with before any pool room can operate. To true sportsmen, those who have at heart the sport pa tronized by royalty itself, there re- mains the hope that the town will dis continue its disgraceful procedure. even 1T the smooth lawyer, the nobleSt scrapper of them all, the Justices that see law as others see it, and the whole gambling fraternity are forced to pick up their beds and walk.
 To-day the town was quiet. The ac- ton of the Western Union Company in removing its wires from the favored pool-ooms after they had been cut in the San Mateo trio's place of business prevented resumption of operations and the gamblers did not cross the bay in numbers.