The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
Local Liquor Dealers
 Disappointed.
MEAGER RED CROSS FUND
WELL KNOWN RETAILERS DE-
 CLINED TO CONTRIBUTE.
Committeeman Discuss Their Griev- ances and Speak Harshly of Those Who Did Not
 Help the Cause.

The funds of the Red Cross Society were increased yesterday by liberal contribu- ton from the Retail Liquor Dealers As sociation of this city.
 The amount is not so large as the gen. tlemen who collected the money desired and had reason to believe would be forth coming. There are 4500 retail dealers in this city, and the promoters of the move ment estimated that the average would be considerably over $1 for each dealer They expected to secure fully $l5,OO0.
 After three weeks of the most energetic canvass throughout the city the yolun- teer committee secured $116S 75. This was secured only by the expenditure of much time and of practically dollar for dollar of the amount collected. The committee of which the members labored so Jealous ly in the humanitarian cause was made up of nine of the best-known dealers in the city. The roll of honor reads:
 Henry Adler, president
 Jesse Marks, vice president
 T. M. Ferguson, treasurer.
 J. k. Krumb, secretary.
 William hoeder.
 Joseph Parker.
 E. w. Osborn.
 Charles Green.
 Rudy FiShbeck.
 Now that the incident Is closed and the laborS of the committee have ended, the members are discussing their experiences in their unselfsh labors. What they have to say is not complimentary to some men whose prosperity, it was supposed, would prompt them to do something for the men who are at the front fighting for their country.
 Pop" Sullivan, of the Hoffman Cafe, | is one of the men who was handled with out gloves at the last meeting of the com mittee. A subscription blank was left with him for three weeks. At the end of that | time a well-known member of the com | mittee called for 1t. He was struck dumb | when he found that there was not an entry on it. MT. Sullivan, who Is credited with yearly profit of some S25,000 had not subscribed a cent! | The committeeman turned away more in l sorrow than in wrath, fearing to voic- l his feelings in the frame of mind in which he found himself
 Down at Frank Garca's, on Montgom- cry street, opposite the Occidental Hotel | the Red Cross cause received the same | chilling reception.
 l Matt Storn, the widely known horseman was at the bar when the committeeman called. He was about to drink social glass, but the reception accorded the Red | Cross representative stayed his hand. l The refusal to aid the cause was couched in such strong language that Storn and his friends would not. taste the liquor. I They paid for their drinks, left them 1 standing on the bar and vowed openly, | that they would never again seek enter 1 talnment there.
 received a similar reception at Obermey CTS, opposite the Palace Hotel, and were 1 practically ordered out of Mangels Brothers store, Franklin and Hayes 1 streets.
 J. Began of the Louvre, with his army of employees, could only collect S5. while | the Baldwin Grotto contributed just $1 50.
 Among the liberal contributors, in addi- tion to the splendid workers of the com mittee, were M. E. Hornlein of the Cafe Royal, J. P. Dunne and Charles Ascher of the Baldwin Hotel
 The movement was inaugurated in an transformations manner by Harry Adler ria+n of ra,nlK' Dor1ny With big-hearted T. M. Ferguson, he, in common with the remaining members | spent their time and their money in the cause. With the support they had reason to expect from the men who did not con- tribute, they would have made a showing 1 In keeping with their expectations