The San Francisco call., 1899-04-01

corruption. Every poolroom in the
State and in the United States pays a
daily tariff of $40. From every possible
source the money flows into the Golfers
of the course. OF the millions thus re-
sceived the public has: no account from
the directors of Ingleside. These gen
tlemen tell only what they have done
with part of their enormous income.
What they have done with the re-
mainder is their secret and the city s
sorrow.
The directors, however, are entitled
to the hearing they have demanded.
They report that in four years they
have expended $166,S61 SO in salaries.
This money has been disbursed to men
imported from Eastern States, such as
judges, handicappers, starters and the
track employees. They have been paid
with money robbed from public and
private treasures, filched from local
houses of business and drawn from the
hard earnings of poor men and women.
In order that Ingleside might pay it's
imported employees $166,OOO some men
are in San Quentin, others are in the
graves of suicides, the torch has been
applied to homes and families know the
secret sorrow of disgrace.
And the directors of Ingleside boast
that $SS6, $50 IS have been paid in stakes
and purses. 1t has been shown that the
people of San Francisco. paid almost
this sum alone to the association
through the bookmakers. And the
purses and the stakes in most instances
went to Eastern horse owners. The
Breeder and Sportsman, the official Or
gan and defender of California horse
men and breeders, has voiced a solemn
protest against Ingleside and has
shown that California breeders have
suffered and not gained from the ex-
istence of Ingleside. The 'skate" and
not the stake horse has had the favor
and the encouragement of the track
gamblers. The breeder has bowed to
the gambler and when the directors of
Inglesi6es seek to show that they have
contributed to the breeding of thor
oughbreds in this State they assert that
which every California breeder of thor
oughbreds denounces as untrue.
The financial statment of Ingleside
shows. also that $123,000 has been ex-
pended for meeting expenses. rms
means that extra labor was employed,
that private detectives Were pressed
into service to protect the gamblers
from each other and occasionally the
public from them all. The legitimate
industries of this city received none OF
this money, and with the reference to
it the managers of Ingleside have tabu-
lated their. last great expenditure.
Among the others, however, there is
one that merits special reference.
1t is the total of gifts made by the
association in four years to charltaple
institutions The total is $7975, an av-
erage of 1898 rs a year. Out of the
millions that Ingleside has absorbed
from. this city this miserable return has
been made to the institutions which
the racetrack helps to make public
necessities. And these contributions
NAV we'll be called blood money. Char
ity has received from the gamblers this
small relief because the lives of. San
Franciscans have been sacrificed. be-
cause honor and regulations have been
lost. Ingleside has been charitable in
the blood of a Norton. the dishoner OF
Widber, the disgrace Of a McGlade
The gam blers of Ingleside have opened
their greedy palms and convict stripes
upon young men tell why.
/ The directors of Ingleside plead fur
ther in their own cause. They declare
that they have put money in circula-
ton, and unfortunately they tell the