The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-23
WILL MAKE FRISCO
PARIS OF AMERICA
Mayors Announcement Makes Bar
barry Coast of City as Riotous rs
in Days of Schmitz and Ruef
BY r. w. MADISON.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. March 21.-
This is noI story. nor an interview
1t Is simply the setting down of Ger
tain historical facts beside some very
carefully uttered words of a man WHO
played an important par in the max
ing OF the facts.
The comparison is interesting, and
more or less important, not only as n
commentary on past chapters OF a
Eve years sordid history OF a grea,
city's government but more largely as
possible forecast OF the manner OF
the writing OF future chapters.
p. II. Mccarthy IS the man. He IS
the new Union Labor mayor OF San
Francisco, elected on an antireform
platform. Mccarthy is i fighter. who
has worked from carpenters appren.
tice at IA 10 the mayor OF the largest
city OF the west at 40. He is a little
man physically, broad shouldered Well
muscled, with the hard. powerful
hands OF the laboring man. Elected
on the ticket OF party standing first
OF all for pure democray, equality, he
has assumed during his first three
months in office. oftiness of demea-
nor without precedent In the city. IN
terviews" have become audiences"
Questions are put In the presence of
witnesses. Then. In the privacy or
his office, the mayor dictates his
answers.
With the hope Of throwing some
light on the true significance OF GER
tain facts in San Francisco political
history, facts which have proved inter
osting from coast TO coast. the San
Francisco representative of this paper
recently secured ali audience" with
Mayor Mccarthy and dictated TO HE
secretary a list ri questions. The
typewriter answers, returned the toE
lowing day, form with the facts an in
teresting, II not an enlightening
parallel.
One answer (this in reply to ques-
ton as TO what he meant in his cam
paign speeches by his promise 10
make San Francisco the Paris OF
America"D:
IL repeat want to make OF San
Francisco representative of The Times
with delights 10 its own citizens and
travelling people Of every race. In the
way of boulevards and parks. fine IL
braries and theaters, splendid cafes
and art galleries. | am now on the
lob. | will not tolerate wide open
town. I shall fight vice and | shall
not compromise with lawlessness. Tie
city will be run or a commonsense
basis with the social evil held down
with an iron hand"
Two or three facts One OF the big
issues In the campaign preceding Nc
Carthy's election was the open town"
issue. McCarthy's Paris OF America"
utterances made clear to the voters.
at least. where he stood. His election
was the signal for vicious all-night
celebration In the unspeakable dives
OF the city's infamous Barbary Coast
and in the tinseled uptown dens, hid
ing their death mask under the title
OF cafe"
Today the Barbary Coast is just as
riotous, Just as filthy. just as deadly
IN its debaucheTy from shutdown to
dawn as il was in the palmiest days
of Schmitz and Ruef.
Today the painted, besilked. beiew-
eled women OF the uptown underworld
are as bold In their parade OF the
streets. I'm their frequenting of the
cafes. as they were at the apex OF Saa
Francisco's notoriety as a wide-open
town. There is no effort today to