The San Francisco call., 1899-04-16
MIXED THINGS
IN THE BAR Of
THE OCCIDENTAL
Two SWeIIs T angle Up
With Tourists.
THE PORTER TOOK A HAND
MEssRs. BOOMER AND CLARKE
COME TO GRIEF.
They Tried to Break In on Party OF
Englishmen Who Were Being
Entertained by Assessor
Dodge.
THE PORTER TOOK A HAND
MEssRs. BOOMER AND CLARKE
COME TO GRIEF.

Two young bloods of the swagger set
got mixed up with an official dignitary
and a party of English tourists in the Oc-
cidental Hotel bar shortly before midnight
Thursday, and while anxious friends of
all parties concerned in the row have been
since slyly hurrying about town enjoin-
ing eye-witnesses to strict secrecy, two
battered representatives of the bonton
brigade have remained within the con-
fines of their rooms nursing bruised
fronts and injured feelings.
Alec Boomer, son of the millionaire
stage-owner; Ed Clarke, prospective heir
to the wealth of his mother, Mrs. Jere-
miah Clarke; Assessor Dodge and a party
of wealthy Englishmen were the aggre-
cation who furnished the miXologists be
hind the Occidental bar the liVeliest mix
up it has been their good fortune to Wit
ness outside of a prize ring. To mention
the Assessor and the tourists in the same
breath with the young club men in this
case IS hardly talr, as Doctor Dodge ana
his friends, according to the testimony of
eye-Witnesses, were literally forced INTO
the fray.
DR.. Dodge and the EngIishnen, who were
guests at the hotel We're standing at the
bar taking a quiet little nightcap, when
Boomer and Clarke sauntered in from the
btlhard-room, where they had Just mar
rowly avoided row with one of the Hoff-
man boys. The young swells had evi-
IDENTIFY been playing star engagement on
the cocktail route during the evening and,
"all ablaze.'
Clarke took first liberties and started
the ball a-rolling by inviting one of the
tourists to shake dice for a bottle of
wine. The man from across the pond
eyed the local clubman cOntemptuously,
froze up like New York water main and
said in rather chilly fashion:
"Oh, don't know you, sir.
That was too much for young Clarke's
heated condition, so he thumped the tour
ist in the short ribs, and taking off the
! strangers hat, hooked the crown of the
skypiece under the tip of John Bulls
nose and gave it a wicked jerk upward.
| Then active international complications
were inaugurated Somebody threw
whisky glass, somebody shouted Land
/ on him, ChaUncey,' and then the precious
/ bunch got tangled up in real genuine
DonnybrOok Fair ruction. Fists flew
/ fast, and, judging from the damage done,
Z they reached the mark often. One of the
tourists sent a left hook to Clarke'S
breadbasket and when the unfortunate
young swell doubled up another tourist
landed on his eye
/ Boomer is a rather husky youth and he
/ fought gamely against such long odds.
managing to reach one of the tourists sew
I eral times without infiicting any serious
! damage. DIR. Dodge in the meantime was
making strenuous efforts to restore peace.
The hotel porter was pressed into ser
cernedl in the row were busily engaged
picking up crushed hats and rubbing
bruised features before the mirror.
Boomer and Clarke We're ordered to
leave the cafe, but neither of them dis
! playing any marked desire TO obey or
ders, the hotel porter was pressed into
action again He hustled them bodily
out of the cafe, and when they reached
the sidewalk both blOOdS again showed
fight One of them made a savage pass
at the porter, but the trunk wrestler
ducked away. They closed in on the por-
ter, who waited until they came within
reach and when they arrived he lashed
out with left and right, knocking both
down.
At this juncture Policeman Mcclure ar
rived, and had it not been for the inter-
( vention of friends the young men would
have been locked up. Mcguire took
charge of the belligerent swells and led
/ them down Montgomery street. AT Mar
ket street the vanquished cubmen sought
the pensive quiet of a dimly lighted cab
Jumps and discolorations.