The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-13

South of Market crowd, as have been
| told, began to appear in the fashion,
able restaurants and jewelry stores.
The horny hand raised a silver knife
to an untutored mouth and passed over
unaccustomed gold in return for the
inappropriate diamond. Formerly the
markets provided CHUCK" steaks and
legs of mutton for the laboring classes;
but one of the largest of them had
to put 100000 pounds of such provender
into cold storage because there was
no one to buy it. Your workingman,
with healthy appetite and a pocket
full of money, wanted Chateaubriand
steak and was partial to prime rib
roast and canvasback duck. And he
wanted to be served in style. The
silver and cut-glass of Marchands and
The Poodle Dog were none too fine
for him and he startled the voluptu-
aries at Taits by an invasion like that
of the French Jacobins in the days
when the mobiles had to fly for their
lives. He lives more simply now, as
advancing rents and retail prices give
him pause. His hair cut costs him
thirty-five cents and while he can still
shave for fifteen he must pay extra
for hot towel and for a razor on the
neck. His nickel glass of beer, once
so generous, has dwindled to taste
and he must pay a dime for a fair
drink. Prices in the popular eating
houses have gone UP third. Gro
ceries are higher and the huckster no
longer gives soup vegetables free with
H..
the laborer rides in the street cars
while the strike is on and his union
finds it out he is fined $25 or $50. He
must either walk and be "docked" If
late, or ride in the pathetic trucks
labeled San Francisco Has One CAL
houn Too Much"-trucks that charge
dime fares and provide springless
board seats. And every week the la
borers that work must put up $4,000
for the laborers who have erased
themselves from the Calhoun payroll
wonder the boulevardier and his fair
Imogene again have the French
restaurants to themselves.
SAN FRANCISCO POLITICS.
1t looks as If the grated labor gov
ernment would have control of the
city for some years to come. The next
Mayor may be Jerry Dinan, a creature
of Schmitz. Labor interests predomi-
nate now and will while the city is re-
building on great scale. Thousands
of reform voters have moved across
the bay and will register there, ali of
which ic ,1la ciy e. 4h W.
to make the outlook worse, the public
upon whom the reform movement de-
pends is firing of the graft prosecu-
tions. It's the old story of the pendu-
lum swinging the other way. One
hears that Heney is a bloodhound"
that the press exposures of municipal
iniquity are hurting the town." and
that so much harping on one string
is 'monotonous." At the theater the
other night where the play was
melodrama of baffled civic iniquity.
I observed that "the boss in defend
ing graft by invidious remarks about
United States senators who had made
it respectable, got about as much ap-
plause as did the reform mayor" who
cited the examples of Folk, La Fol-
lette and Roosevelt to the contrary.
Prophecy is thankless task. but If
San Francisco is not worse off under
the eventual successors of Schmitz and
Ruef than it was under those pre-
daceous worthless, I miss what seems
to be a fair guess. Just now there is
an ad interim administration which Is
clean and useful-but wait until 1t gets
the verdict of the polls.
PERSONAL MENTION.
I ran across Johnny Bowler the
other day, looking the same as ever
and longing for Honolulu. He will
have to stay here to preserve the
health of his wife. Johnny is busy at
his old trade Of contracting and is
putting up one or two big buildings in
the vicinity of Eddy and Leavenworth
streets.
H. T. Lake was at the dock to see
the Sierra depart. He is not In the
restaurant or hotel business now but