The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12

using 1t and threatened them with terms
he had not the slightest shadow of owner
| ship IN the spring, for the use of the water
OF whlch the campers were paying. Aze-
camp laid the matter before Azevedo,
who, having been vexed previously by the
eccentricities of Millard, resolved to shut
MIN hlm on from the spring and gave him no
tice that he would do SO on September 1.
Now, for the animus Of last Sundays
article in the Examiner. Millard, who dis
piayed such eagerness to get A from Oc-
cldental camp for water he did not own
found that, as soon as Azevedo cut off his
| supply from the spring, he would have to
go to an expense of several hundred dol
lars to connect with the Larkspur sys-
tenn He laid It all to the Occidental boys
and, II you will notice, he lays it on thick
when he refers to them.
AS reporter for the Examiner he
calls, them 'vandals. 'hoodlums,' 'dissi
pated Wretches.'
Under the guise of a cottager' he re-
fers to their camp as a place where it
seemed as if hades had broken loose
ha AS ia "a resident t Of Baltimore Canyon
camp grounds, he calls them young
fools and 'hoodlums rampant.
AS the whole trinity of complainers, the
cottager, reporter, resident rolled, into
one he says they yawped and bawled and
yelled and held awful orgies, In every
ae e Ten ne es Il he every line he he is syhhg
body methods have put him to. To show
you part of the falsehood in the story
IL WI giTe you the names 4Ss,, OF the members
out In print and accuse any one or all of
these young men of being hoodlums ram
pant, or OF being participants In such
orgies as he describes? Hardly. Here
are the Names" Mr.. Duke handed over
a paper containing the following:
VIII Moore, business manager OF the
Monitor
George Hammersmith, with Thomas
Magee & Sons.
Arthur Barring, with c. Craig & Co.
XIit q cJI1n
& Co.
William Wilson, in the United States
engineers Office.
James H Wheeler, with Brown Bros.
DR.. William c. Hopper, former assist
ant police surgeon. and captain of Com
pany A, League of the Cross Cadets.
Louis Haven, with Lilienthal SS Co.
Harry Hopper, with the Deere 1mple-
ment Company.
William Judge, with Bauer Bros.
Chris Bernhard, with Sherwood & Sher-
wood
Edward Moore. with the City of Paris.
Philip j. Eisenman, with Durham, Car
Herbert Ely, secretary of the Yukon
Mining and Trading Company.
Harry Wood Brown, teacher Of vocal
Charles Hopkins, with Payot, Upham
& Co.
If these young men are hoodlqms."
where you get your gentlemen? Maybe
Millard can explain. If they are hoodlums
the people Of Larkspur will be glad TO
have them next summer, as they had
them last, to visit Occidental camp and to
entertain the boys at their homes. Do
you think that any one reading that list
of names would believe for a moment the
story written by the spiteful Millard?"
Several members of the Occidental Club
also voiced their disgust yesterday at the
article.
Its worse than the Police Gazette"
said James H. Wheeler.
He couldn't even let our piano alone
without maligning it, said Will Wilson.
Called it that old discordant music ma
chine 1t was brand new, at that"
said VIII Moore of the Monitor, ''espe-
cially when one knows, as l know, that
the most stringent rule OF Occidental
camp was the one forbidding the use of
liquor. None of the party are drinking
men and at no time was there disposi-
ton to violate the rule. AS Mr.. Duke says,
that article, is using the Examiner to vent
a personal spite. In doing SO he has re-
viled the characters of gentlemen and de-
famed eStlmable women.
Mr.. Millard has taken occasion before
to interfere with Occidental camp. We
rented the ground, water included, from
Mr.. AZeVedo for the season We made our
connections with the pipe and a week or
two later received a lengthy letter from
Mr.. Millard in which he stated that IN
using the water we were committing
felony and were, therefore, liable TO be
sent to San Quentin. He also said we
We're not gentlemen in not having con-
LAS we did not recognize Millard in the
premises we ignored his letter. About
three nights later he visited our camp
and we told him then that We did not
want to have anything to do with MIN;
that we didn't rent the grounds from
him, and that Il he had grievance ne
could go and have it out with Azevedo.
/ do not know whether or not he went to
Azevedo, but when l saw Azevedo l told
him of Millard's visit. He was very much
put out about it, He Immediately doubled
the price of the water TO Millard and gave
him notice that ii would be disconnected
after the 1St of September.
''Millard, who was only paying 81 a year
for his water, sent US bill for $4 for the
season for use of water in our camp and
told us that unless the bill was paid he
would send his plumber to disconnect the
water.
LAS far as the story in the Examiner Of
the 'Bacchanalian revels' is concerned,
all / can say is that ] knew nothing about
any such proceedings and never heard of
them until my attention was called to the
story. l certainly would have known had
they taken place, and so would a number
of others at Larkspur. So far L have
been unable to locate any one who saw
them. l know. however, that the young
men of Occidental camp are gentlemen;
that they were gladly received in all the
homes of Larkspur and that on one oc-
cason during the summer they gave a
minstrel performance for a church and
raised 1926 That does not look like the
action of Bacchanalian revelers.''
Mr. Moore referred the reporter for The
Call to the residents of LarkSpur for a
refutation of the Examiner slander on
Occidental camp and for certificates of
the general character of the members of
that camp.
GAS far as 1 know" said James Cos
tello of O'Connor. Moffatt & Co.. a prom
inent resident of Larkspur 1.-The young
men of Occidental camp are gentlemen
They have that general reputation. at any
rate. AS far the story in the Exam
iner, of which they complain all | can
say is that | never heard of any such go
ngs on. My observation of the Young
men was that they were neither noisy nor
hoodlumish and always conducted them
selves properly"
It's a rank fal1e-a pack of fakes"
said Anton Shula. whose handsome resi-
dence is as close to Occidental Camp 8
that of Millard. "The idea of the whole
yarn is preposterous. No better behaved
young men ever camped at Larkspur"
The opinions OF a number of others were
to the same effect All accused Millard of
a palpable attempt to use his paper to
vent personal spite. Not one was found
who had ever seen the alleged petition
which, according to the same story was
being circulated for signatures to he
presented to the owners of the land ask
Ing them to refuse campers permission 70
occupy grounds in Baltimore CANYON. The
suspicion is that Millard or some one
under his direction manufactured the ne
tition out of the same piece of cloth from
which the whole story was cut They are
confident that, If ever presented, it will be