The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
TTMAN REBELS
At THE ORDERS
OF CHIEF LEES
Police Officials in a
Merry War.
THE CAPTAIN WILL SUBMIT
THE STORY OF AN o'FARRELL-
STREET FLAT.
THE CAPTAIN WILL SUBMIT
Residents of a Quiet Neighborhood
Protest in Vain to'the Authori-
ties Against the Affection
Of Midnight Revelry.

Police Captain George W. Whitman and
Chief of Police Lees have clashed. The
Chief thus far has had the best or the
encounter, but the Captain is suppresslng
an expression of his chagrin with a hope
that the residents of a very reputable
part of the city will raise an indignant
howl to vindicate him. Captain Whitman
says he must bow to the orders OF ms
superior, but in bowling he suspects that
the orders have a suspicious aspect. The
trouble between the two police offclais
has been brought about by woman.
About a month ago the quiet residents
of OFarrell street, near Hyde, received
an addition to their number and shock
to their feelings in the presence of a new
tenant in the block. The newcomer was
a woman and evidently popular at I'M
seemly hours of the night. She was gra-
cious in her reception of her friends, and
welcomed them with particular good will
after the electric lights went out. Cabs
rumbled up to her door when her neigh
bors were deep in slumber and were dis
turbed from their sleep by the clash of
the wheels and the clang of the bell upon
the door.
Now and again the silence of the street
would be broken by the sound OF revelry,
the music of midnight pianos and the
laughter of noisy, boisterouS voices.
O'Farrell street was shocked Whisper
ing Of the scenes In the new tenants fiat
grew into indignant protests that found
expression at police headquarters. A
committee of O'Farrell street residents
went to the City Hall and registered a
formal complaint against the new tenant
Protests came from every side and an
investigation was made
Captain Whitman, whose duty 1t Is to
are not molested by undesirable new
corners, instituted a rigid inquiry. He
discovered that the woman whose pres
ence was objected to was not unknown to
him. He declares that he forced her to
leave house on Eddy street because of
her conduct, and he determined to make
When the woman received her orders to
leave Captain Whitman also threatened
to blockade her house with bluecoats I'M
til she did leave.
Before the time came for the woman
to go, however, Captain Whitman was
startled by receiving oruers from Chief of
Police Lees not to modest the woman and
to permit her to remain where she is.
Captain Whitman says he could do moth
ing except obey the orders of his superior.
The woman whose presence has shocked
a neighborhood has not been molested in
what her neighbors insist is too pro-
nounced a hospitality. In discussing the
somewhat pompously that ne is a devo-
tee to official superiority, but If cabs con-
tinue to disturb the slumbers of the resi-
dents of O'Farrell street, near Hyde, and
new protests are made to him he will
again report the matter to the Chief of
Police.
Captain Whitman says his hands of
fciafly were tied by the Chief of Police
by the assertion that the woman, of
whom complaint has been made, has
promised to silence the vocal and instru-
mental music of her fiat after midnight.
The captain has taken the matter very
seriously Complaints were made to
me-" he said, land / ordered an investi-
CATION. This woman once occupied
house on Eddy street and L ordered her to
leave 1t. She obeyed the command and
knew nothing more of her until the
protests against her method of enter
tainment came from people living ON
OFarrell street. ] would have ordered
her to leave there but Chief of Police
Lees says that / shall tame no further
action in the matter. That IS all there is
to the affair. Chief Lees informs me