The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
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TAG BUYING INFECTIOUS

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All the way up Broadway and the
neighboring streets hundreds of taggers
smiled their way into the pockets of
the passing throngs and smiled the
dimes into tag" Golfers In the
Office buildings, banks and theaters the
tagging went on undistyrbed.
Lawyers paused in their delvings
among legal books TO buy tags" doc
tors evidently found medical authority
for buying tags" for they gave up
most literally. Real estate men stopped
buying real estate long enough to buy
tags"
Out in the streets these same men
were tagged collectively.
Laborers halted their picks and show
els to give up hard earned dimes. In
many cases these dimes went TO aid
the children Of the givers.
Along the water front sailors, whar-
fingers and longshoremen joined in the
merry game and were glad to be 'lt'
for sums ranging from 10 cents to IS.
On board the Nordland, Lieutenant
General Miss Genevieve Chambers found
most cordial welcome, and the rough
sailors bought as long as their coin
held out.
Pretty nurses in uniform from the
Providence hospital. one of the benefit
ing hospitals, sold tags in the streets
A delegation Of Elks, consisting of
E. z. Laymance, John Delaney, Harry
Anderson, Alex Rosborough and George
Evans, roamed down Broadway buying
tags" from every tagger in sight by
making each girl autograph her tags.
When they got through the delegation
looked like a walking ''ad' for tag
day" Open house was kept all day
by the Elks, and each incomer had to
buy tags" to prove himself a de-
sirable"
CLUB MEMBERS SHOWER GOLD
With the aid of the steward, who
locked the dining room doors after they
got in, and Edwin Stearns, secretary OF
the chamber of commerce, who con-
Quoted them through. Miss Louise Ma
hony, Mrs. H c. Capwell and Miss
Halle Bakeweu tagged a number of
members at lunch in the Nile club. In
the evening several women went to
the Athenian club. where the annual
high jinks" were being held, and were
showered with gold.
Oakland's Chinatown responded more
literally than did that section in San
Francisco and one of those who tagged
there said:
I'VE only had to say charity and
they gave up their money"
Tiny little Chinese maids in their
curious costumes set Chinatown liter
ally on Qre WITH enthusiasm WQ6Q Lney
appeared selling tags" Numbers of
the stores bought strings of tags" and
strung them along the windows and
overhead in the outside entrances.
In Berkeley a man who had only i'm
perfect vision was leading a totally
blind man about. They heard the plea
Of a pretty miss in addressing a passer-
by and Of their own volition bought
tags" for the unfortunate of their
neighboring city.
one armed man jumped off a BIZ
cycle in Broadway, and approaching
Mrs Montell Taylor, who captained a
number of the fairest taggers under
General Miss Emma Mahony, bought
two red tags" which were one of the
unique features of the day.
These red tags" which were much
larger than the other, proclaimed the
wearer either married or single, as the
case happened to be. and bore the
words, Don't tag me-"
RED TAG CAUSES GOSSIP
Some tried to defeat the purpose of
the red tag which was to point out
to the blushing maids on the street
just who were the "eligibles" and who
were not. Married men bought tags
which announced, I'm single" only
to bump into their wives at the next
corner also wearing tags marked I'm
single"
IN Ye Liberty theater the actors
sold tags between acts in their make
ups These tags were autographed
and brought in many dollars.
A number of girls, under the COM
mand of Lieutenant General Mrs. w. E.
Dougherty, visited the various military
posts about the harbor on the Nc
Doweu and were met on the wharves
by the officers and their wives. The
latter tagged all the soldiers and then
turned the proceeds over to Mrs.
Dougherty when she came around The