Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-28
SEES NO FUTURE
IN SAN FRANCISCO
THEATRICAL MAN GIVES UP
TRYING.
Says Things Are Worse Than After
the Catastrophe, and Every
Mans Hand Is Against
His Neighbor

T. Daniel Frawley, proprietor of the
F'rawley stock company now playing th2
Colonial theater, San Francisco, and
probably the most popular theatrical man
who ever trod their boards here, is going
to quit the quake town. He can see no
future in theatricals there at present, and
although his company has only been there
a short WHILE he says he has no idea of
losing any more money playing nope
less game.
DAY looking around. He declares he has
no intention of doing anything else here.
but being out of the cast. this week ne
ran down for rest B% ba me Is dfa @
in a bad way And when Dan Frawley
closes up show of his own there, volun-
tarIly. with all his popularity a ;ta and strong
said he yesterday. 1.-The situation is SO
bad. The people don't 60 onsh TO SHOWS 1,bs, be-
have spent what they secured from the
insurance companies and are now up
against it. They are are Te5renffnlng rel EN- sney
ties Then, too, it is dangerous to ven
ture out at night for. fear you Will be
slugged with brick6at II you ride IN the
the daytime. Maude Adams Is In her
third week there and she had only medi-
ocre houses night, although big matt
neeS, for just this reason-people are
afraid to attend.
City Up Against 1t
1.-THE truth is" said Mr.. Frawley, that
all San Francisco is up against it. With
their money spent actual want is threat
ened. The banks won't let anyone have
money; they have shut down on it. The
political situation prevents its coming in
from the east. Building has stopped;
many contractors have refused to go on
with their work they have undertaken,
and the vast number of idle men makes
IL much worse Everyone suspects every
one else; the labor fight is very bitter,
and il is common talk that contractors
and big business men foment trouble and
back up strikes to work politics or avoid
Jobs they have undertaken, The city will
be twenty years in rebuilding, and 1t Will
never get back to its old form unless
some strong. big man takes hold of It.
None of the local leaders can do this, be-
cause everyone suspects them. Rudolph
Spreckels Is thought by seven-eighths of
campaign for Interior motives; as many
think Phelan has graft In his work for
the city, and there you are. NO one trusts
anyone else; all pull at cross purposes.
and the city government is so thoroughly
rotten that decency has no rallying point.
1t Is terrible.
Don't ask me how it is going to end;
God only knows. 1t is worse now than
right after the quake; then people had
confidence in one another; but now. no
one believes in anyone else. And with
all their insurance money gone and no
new means coming In, can't see the fu-
II really have no plans here. am
going up to hear The Californians to-
night; we have heard them in San Fran
cisco, and they are a success. But / am
not considering anything in connection
with their future"
Mr.. Frawley says when he closes, which
will be at the end of the coming week, he
will take to the mountains and take 4
good rest He hopes things will brighten
up by fall, but is not sanguine.