The San Francisco call., 1907-02-23
PERAZZI IS To APPLY
FOR HIS BELATED DUES
Plumber Has Undying Hope
of Becoming a Police
Commissioner
SEES TWO CHANCES
Creswell Wants to Follow
Example of Umbsen,
Who Retired

Feeling that breach is widening
between Mayor Schmitz and his tutor.
Abe Ruef. Fl. J. Perazzi. master
plumber and three-times aspirant, with
the backing Of the Curly Boss" for a
seat at the table Of the Police Commits
sioners. is about to appeal through his
friends TO Schmitz to be given what he
declares are his belated dues.
Perazzi has been at the forefront
in three campaigns which returned
Schmitz winner. Everybody that votes
In the Forty-frst. Forty-fourth and
Forty fifth districts knows Perazzi. He
has swung the voters along upper
Kearny street into the musicians col
umn and brought victory. he says, out
Of defeat more times than one. Up to
the present although he has not been
too modest to ask. he has received
nothing for his pains except the plumb
ing Job on the Ruef building, which
was no favor at all, says PerazZi, who
declares he was awarded the contract
because his figures were the lowest.
This was cons Iteration, apparently,
which appealed irresistibly to Ruef,
and so Master Plumber PeraZzi got
the Job at the lowest figures, which
had nothing whatever TO do with pol
itics.
TWO CHANCES on BOARD
The impending retirement of Cres-
well from the Board of Police Commits
sioners and the accomplished retire
mert Of @. H Umbsen leaves one seat
TO I'LL and another in prospect Perazzi
wants one of them. and points to the
fact that this is the third time he has
aspired. He says it is up TO Mayor
Schmitz TO say whether II. J. Perazzi
shall have the job.
II have formed district clubs for
Schmitz" said Perazzi yesterday, and
T have worked for him through three
campaigns. What do 7 get? Nothing.
r am disguised. This is the last time
7 shall even consider politics"
The aspirant for one of the vacant
posts would not say what his policy
would be II given place on the com
mission. but it was evident that If he
missed the job again he would be con-
firmed in his conviction that plumbing
had politics beaten to death" as a
money maker.
When Mayor Schmitz lands in San
Francisco. sped hither by a "swipe" Of
the big stick" he will find his Board
OF Police Commissioners shot full Of
holes" and also a badly dented political
outlook. Commissioner H W. Cres-
well viii follow 9. Il. Umbsen out of
the commission. and there viii be two
vacant chairs around the table where
Doc Leahy carves out police politics.
CRESWELL DISGUSTED
Mayor Schmitz has had CreswelFs
resignation for about six months, ever
since the carmen's strike but as il
was never accepted the Commissioner
has held on in the hope thai, he might
be able to DO some good"
Il am heartily sick" continued Cres-
well yesterday, "of being the minority
member Of the board. I have voted
no" alone so long that I am bored.
II / had one man with me on the board
I would stay, but it is no use.
The incident OF the renewal Of the
Dunn Bros saloon license is an ex-
ample. A saloon that would not obey
the law at a time when lawlessness
meant so much greater evil. and which
would not close at s o'clock, deserved
no sympathy at the hands Of the Police
Commissioners or the public. AS for
those three notorious resorts near the
park, where young girls We're de-
bauched, there is no penalty too heavy
for such Yet the board blandly re-
newed their licenses and gave them an
other lease in which, perhaps, to con-
tinue their nefarious traffic I would
refuse such a place a license forever"
There was a meeting Of the Commits
siOners scheduled for last Thursday
night. Creswel was the only member
present Commissioner Umbsen had re-
signed and a recent bereavement in his
family was alone sufficient to explain
his absence; but the rest-"where are
they2" asked Cresweu to himself. as he
and the clerk sat alone in the big
room. No one came. and Commissioner
Cresweu met himself, so to say and
then adjourned the meeting till next
TUESDAY, night