The San Francisco call., 1910-07-30
BUSINESSMEN
HAVE No USE
FOR SCHWARTZ
ErstwhiIe Dive Keepers Effort
to Obtain Saloon License
Will Be Fought
Opponents Fear Plan to Open
UnsavOry Resort in Down.
town District

Businessmen Of Market street be-
town association and the knights of
the Royal Arch are determined that
James Schwartz, who formerly oper-
ated the notorious Thalia and other
low resorts in the city, shall not have
a license to conduct a saloon at 749
Market street.
+. Schwartz application for a permit
comes up on next Monday night before
the board Of police commissioners. The
matter was continued from the last
meeting Of the board. At that time
+ Commissioner Percy Henderson de-
clared that he would not vote for
Schwartz license. Commissioner Spiro.
who is a grand trustee of the Royal
Arch. and Commissioner O'Connell
were noncommittal. Since that meet
ing Mayor p. II. McCarthys latest
? sppointee TO the board Commissioner
g.. Joseph +. Sullivan. has taken his seat
and viii participate in the considera-
Iion of the Schwartz application
IT was reported yesterday that the
- protest from the Downtown associa-
t.fon. the Royal Arch and the business
: houses would be needed and Schwartz
would be kept out OF the block on
srhich he has set his eye
There are two important counts
which are being urged against James
Schwartz and his application. IT is
considered that there are enough sa-
looms now in the block in question
= and that Schwartz reputation is not
: Uch as to entitle him TO a location in
The retail shopping district in Market
street.
KEPT MANY DIVES
Wherever Schwartz has had sa-
loon business there has been dis
graceful resort. One Of his early
::ioints'' was Bottle Koenig's" resort
on the Barbary coast, notorious dive.
Then he moved out Of the region where
dives are the rule and invaded a dis
trict which before he came was not
so contaminated. establishing the
7Thalia at Turk and Market streets.
This was 2 dive under the sidewalk,
which men and women frequented and
which had the evil eminence Of being
The worst resort contiguous TO Market
street He left that location before
. the fire and after the infamy of his
place had been exposed
,. But the type Of resort moved with
him He became associated with the
Belvedere music hall in OFarrell
street, which was a beer hall on the
ground floor and had subterranean
- desdfau in the basement The fire
wiped out that resort, and Schwartz
has been quiet SO far as San Fran
= disco was concerned until now. when
= he is trying TO break into his old busi-
! ness in the center Of the retail shop
ping district
George Appel Schwartz's attorney.
represented 10 the board OF police COM
3 n1issioners that Schwartz was going TO
conduct a regular saloon, but the
Downtown association and the Royal
H. IL
-tions. The basement which Schwartz
has excavated under his new building
in: Market street is unusually deep and
1t is feared that if the old time dive
: Keeper secures his permit he viii open
a dive in the shopping district.
ROYAL ARCH PROTESTS
- At the last meeting of the board of
.: police commissioners a protest was re-
ceived from the knights Of the Royal
Arch asking that the permit be not
granted on the ground that there were
now sufficient saloons on that block.
While the petition did not raise the
point Of Schwartz reputation, that was
an important factor in actuating the
organization.
That point has been brought to the
attention Of the Royal Arch by the pro-
. test Of the liquor dealers already doing
business in the block
: The Downtown association also ap-
pcaled TO the Royal Arch to oppose
Schwartz petition, saying. in part: 1T
appears TO this association that the
saloon industry is amply represented
aon that block and that il viii be to the
best interests Of all citizens if the
humber be not increased in this down
town shopping district"
=: The businessmen on the block in the
south line Of Market street between
Third and Fourth are very active in
fighting Schwartz. &. B. Newman of
= Carroll & Triton and James A SOren-
son OF the Sorenson company have the
matter in charge. Already 80 per cent
OF the property owners and SO per cent
OF the tenants in the block have signed
a petition opposing the granting of the
permit to the dive keeper. and the op-
ponents intend TO go before the police
p: commissioners next Monday night with
q. solid front and secure the defeat of
schwartz petition.