The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-01
FRISCO UNLIKE
FORMER PERIOD
Visitors See Few Re-
minders of Old Days
on Visit.
HISTORY Is RECALLED
Incidents That Made Cali
fornia Famous Are Related
to Eager Listeners.

SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 2O.--Vlsi-
tors to the democratic national con-
vention will see but few reminders
OF the old, romatic days Of san
Francisco, when the red-shirted
miners swept down from the gold
atreaked beaches OF the Sierrns and
threw fistfulls OF pay dirt" on the
bars or store counters for hat
ever they wished to purchase
They will never run across such
characters as the little old million
aire who used to haunt the "Barbary
coast" resorts In the memory OF
tome " tho old time residents. This
individual who had hit n pay
streak" early In the mother Lode
OF Nortern California, used TO order
one particular brand Of champagne.
the price of which he knew we'll Al
though he was a good fellow" he
never would allow himself TO be
victimized by the looae, vicious finan-
cecrinE of the district. lie would
keep the cork from every bottle, no
matter how corvivi1l be might be.
ana when the time came TO settle up
ne would produce these corks to
check against his bill. II the dun
did not coincide with the evidence OF
the corkage he would not pay II.
Gone Is the roaring coast and Its
less picturesoue onvirons. Bottle"
Koenig and Bottle" Meyers who
used to run noisy cock fighting es-
tahlishmenta In what In now the
shadow Of the hall of iustlc. have
long since passed on and the Mon
tana dance hall" most blaring and
blatant Of al the coast resorts II
hardly memory. Even the estab-
lishmentof tho old German doctor.
according to some local histories
used 70 he the German cmperor's
personal physician, II gone almost
FROM tho recollection 90 man II -
here that the denizons OF the coast
were bathed and shorn and set right
physically after their jousts with
John Barleycorn.
Chinatown guides stlll point out
the little restaurant hanging precari-
ously over old Dupont street where
Frank Norris. the author went occa-
sionally to get bit OF local color.
Directly ahead and facing the HaH
of Justice in Portsmouth Square. n
cove for the citys human drVt,
where the Vigilantes staged many n
stirring scene and the "sand-lottcrs''
under the leadership OF fiery Dennis
Kearney. dlscoursed the towns poli-
teal issues.
Some of the old wine shops, rivals
In the new world OF the coffee houses
OF Addison and Steele as gathering
places of the artists and the literat'
still cling to the Latin quarter. Rut
most OF the old cafes. whore much
OF the city's history was plotted. re-
main in name only. Gone IL Duncan
Nichols. the Bank Exchange" OF
former days where the famous F1sco
Punch was served over a mahogany
bar that was brought around the
Horn. The old Cliff House, whore
presidents o. the United States and
other renowned itinerants used 10
enjoy the sea food breakfasts. was
burned years ago.
On waveriy Place stili may be
seen the quarters OF the old Siberia
club. stronghold OF Yee Nee. king
OF Chinatown" Here, before tho
police axe parties" became a feature
of Chinatown, the chance games OF
"coon can" chuck IA luck" and
"fan-tan" were played in tho midst
OF a maze OF corridors, sliding panels
worked by great secret springs and
exotic orders OF opinion and Chineeo
dishes. Above the gambling room
were the alcoves where the beaten
and broken pAmestcrs could sleep oil
their debauch and could remain un'
Ill they had recouped their fortunes
The black docks that lined thf
front" from China Basin to thf
Preside arc gone and stately berth,
for ocean liners have risen In theil
place. The dingy bars that stood
back OF them, where adventurers NJ
all degrees were once dropped. drug
stupefied, through trapdoors anc
into waiting boats below as part oi
the great Shanghai game. all hav,
been swept away. The Shanghai
was the system for recruiting th'
crews of the lime ULCERS" th'
great deep sea barks that plieC
principally between San Francisct
and South American ports. The,
got their name through the fact tha
for more than decade those undel
English registery carried a con
sIgnment OF lime juice on every voy
age TO combat cpidemics OF sour
among the crews. With improved
conditions the scury disappeared
and the lime juice went back int,
the water front cocktails.
The ball cannon that made up tn
defenses OF the old Preside ma!
still be seen in mock defense o
Sutro heights Mob Hin once tn
home of the city's elite, shows
collection OF Jagged foundations
much as the great fire left Il
'-South OF the Slot" the ancient tene
ments have given way to snlar
apartments in their midst standing
the slowly dislntegrating ruins o
the mission OF Sorrows,' known II
the Spanish as the Mission Do
bores," built in 1875 by the Fran