The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-09-04
CLASS USURPs
SCHM|Tz' PLACE
is STAR GUEST
Former Mayor Is Crushed by
Treatment Accorded
Him at Jail
SNUBBED BY HOSTS
Telephone Magnate's Cash
Wins Favors Formerly
Enjoyed by Boss
MEAL HOUR CHANGED
Fallen Chief Executive Is
Deprived of Last Vest
ige of Glory
MEAL HOUR CHANGED

Eugene e. Schmits has lost even the
forlorn consolation that favored i'm
mate of county Jail enjoys. Hin last
honor has been torn from him. Louis
Glass is now the star boarder at Sher-
III o'NeiI's dreaded caravansary and
Schmitz, broken in health and spirits,
bereft of even the occasional comfort
of visits from his old friends, Is a
spectacle to excite piey. He suffers
and his agony is that of the misery of
a long term behind penitentfary bars,
crowded into the experience of weeks.
Only bis wife now comes to see him
and the deputies pass their former
master without the merest nod. Glass
has more money. and that commodity
in the county jail, as elsewhere. bays
friends.
At first Schmitz was the royal guest.
He was pampered and waited on like
the leader he was and the mayor that
he had been. He had his own eating
place and his own dining hours. He was
malefactors who stole dimes or a few
dollars. He was the aristocratic head
of a gigantic graft administration of
which his keepers were the pages and
the lackeys. So he ruled IN the county
jail that when he went to dinner it
was at a private table and the food
was from the prison keepers table. He
went downstairs by a, back way and
his djgni7ed figure was not seen
among the rabble that clattered knives
and forks against tin cups in the outer
room.
Schnitz met Glass last Monday. He
smiled and proffered his hand. Glass
did not see 1t. Convict refused to speak
to convict The shade of difference in
their outlawed position toward society
rendered Glass conscious of his supe-
riority over the former mayor from a
criminal point of view, and he snubbed
his fellow felon.
schmitz's friends have ceased to
visit him. and one by one they
have deserted their former chief
Only DOC" Leahy comes now to
see his former political friend.
The man who even in the county Jail
aspired ITO play at mayor has been
beaten. 1he supreme court has dis.
posed of the last shred of his claim to
the honors he has lost Several of his
political friends who had been visiting
him were exposed in their clandestine
trips and made a final call. They have
not returned and on Labor day the mis-
cry of the convicted mayor was COM
pleted. Louis Glass ousted him from
his eating room and dinner hour. Louis
Glass has money and spends it in the
only place and way he can just now.
He tips his walters, the deputy sherifts;
he tips his house keepers, the TRUSTEES.
and he fraternizes with his host. the
sheriff
Il would like to eat my dinner in
that little room off the kitchen" said
Glass on Labor day. land would like
IL at 5 o'clock" Glass had entertained
several OF his friends 1T the jail,
where his view is screened as much as
possible from the realities of prison
bars and locks and great keys. He dis
cuSSe0 his case Win LIS ldHJSiS, WIZ
held out high hopes TO him, and he felt
somewhat at ease. So he asserted his
wants like any rich man who expected
to pay his way in the world might
have done.
What he asked for was the last con-
cession which Schmitz enjoyed. 1t was
Schmitz's dining room and Schn1itz's
hour. But who was Schmitz? So Glass,
vice president and general manager of
great public service corporation,
ousted him. It was pitiful, said one of
the guards yesterday, because 1t was
so small. Schmitz was told with scant
courtesy that he would have to give
up the hour and the room to Glass.
He was not asked; he was told. It
was ths first turn Of the screw, the
closing of the prison doors. the clank-
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