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THE LOTTERY FRAUD.
Agrent of the Spanish-
American Fake Un
der Arrest.
COUNTERFEIT TICKETS.
How the Bogus Coupons Are
Worked Off on the
Public.
JOHN R. FRITZ GIVES ADVICE.
He Tells a Supposed Peddler It Is
More Profitable to Sell Only
Fake Tickets.
Of all the swindling games ever offered
to a public that likes to be fooled yet does
not like to lose its money the lottery swin
dle is the very worst swindle of them all.
What do you think of the E. Fox & Co.'s
clearing $28,000 net in six weeks in San
Francisco alone? And every ticket they
sold in those six weeks, or in any other
weeks, was a shameful, lying fraud. Not
one of |them could possibly draw a prize,
for the simple reason there is no such lot
ONE OF THE FRAUDULENT SPANISH - AMERICAN LOTTERY
TICKETS PURCHASED FROM C. P. REYNOLDS IN THE FLOOD
BUILDING.
tery company and consequently there is
no drawing and no distribution of prizes.
The rascals who conduct the fraud make a
business of picking out a few persons each
month and paying them from $5 to $20 to
have them spread the news among their
friends and acquaintances that they won a
great big prize in the Fox lottery.
And there's the Little Mexican fraud
that took $30,000 out of Oakland, above all
commissions to agents and all expenses in
dodging the police, in one month. Same
kind of a fraud as Fox's. Same facts re
garding its non-existence. Same lacking
of a bona-fide prize-winner.
The Montana fraud used to be eood for
$40,000 a month in San Francisco. The
fact of its being a palpable fake, however,
became so well known that its business de- \
clined, ana now it's rather difficult to se- i
cure a ticket unless you just happen to run
into a peddler who has them. If you find
such a peddler give him a piece of jour j
mind, and tell him that the footpad who
takes his life and his life's liberty in his j
hands every time he does a stroke of pro- j
fessional business is a manly, brave fellow I
when compared to the peddler or agent or j
dealer who sells two-bit fake lottery tickets
for a living. Selling fraudulent lottery :
tickets is a mean, small business, so con- i
temptible, in truth, that the ordinary i
criminal and ex-convict despises it he.'irt
fly, and an honest man's soul grows sick i
within him at the contemplation of such a j
very low order of the human family.
And the Spanish-American fraud. The
town is flooded with the two-bit, four-bit
and dollar tickets of this fake. One of the
oldest dealers in the City is responsible for
the statement that in one year this com
pany has sold 1,000,000 tickets in this City
alone.
A man named C. P. Reynolds, whose
office is in the Flood building, is the chief
promoter and agent in this City for the
"Spanish - American Lottery Company,"
that exists only on the fake tickets sold.
He dresses very well, wears spectacles and
looks more like a respectable business man
than the very small fraud and thief that
he is.
Heretofore he has enjoyed immunity
from the police, not because they were lax
in their duties, but because of Reynolds'
extreme cautiousness. He never keeps
any tickets in his office and he is very care
ful to whom he sells them. But Detective
Wright found a way to reach Mr. Rey
nolds.
Last Tuesday afternoon Mr. Reynolds
sold four lottery tickets. He was sitting
quietly in his office, with his feet on the
desk and a newspaper in his hands, when
a very green-looking young man, who was
not entirely as green as he appeared to be,
pushed open the glass door that bears the
sign
• SKANISH-AMF.RICAN GUARANTEE :
COMPANY.
; C. P. Reynolds, Agent.
And inquired, quite innocently, if he could
buy some lottery tickets.
■'Why— well— come inside," said Mr.
Reynolds, eying the stranger very closely.
The verdant young man came in and
stood by the desK. *'You have Spanish-
Americans here, don't you?" he asked.
■No; I have no lottery tickets here,"
was the answer.
il Then I'm in the wrong place, I sup
pose?" said the straneer, and he turned as
if to go out.
•■Hold on, sir," said the agent of the
Guarantee Company, "I can get some.
What kind of ticket? do you want?"
"What price are they?"
'■From two bits up."
"Weil. I'd like to try a dollar's worth of
the two-bit tickets," s-aid the sly young
man; "but you tay you haven't got them
lu-re?"
"That's all right. I'll eetthem for you in
a minute. You Bee, the police are watch
ing us very ciosely these days, so I have
to be careful. Those articles in the
Cam. are to blame for all this trouble. The
business isn't what it used to be. 1 don't
dare to keep any tickets in the office. The
police would come up here and raid the
office. You just wait here a moment and
I'll go downstairs and get them for you."
Mr. Reynolds locked his desk and in
vited his visitor out into the hallway,
after which he turned the key in his
door, and then went downstairs by the
back way. He went to the bank, opened
his box in the vault (it costs him only $4 a
year, and it is safe from the police), took
out four two-bit tickets, and brought them
upstairs to the young man who was
waiting.
The tickets were in an envelope. Mr.
Reynolds led his visitor into the darkest
corner of the corridor, looked around to
see if any one was in sight, and then
hurriedly slipped the small envelope into
the young man's hand in exchange for
a silver dollar.
"The drawing is July 3," he said. "On
the 6th or 6th you'll see the list advertised
in the Examiner. Come and see me next
month. Good-day, sir."
And the next morning Mr. Reynolds was
arrested for seiling what "purported to be"
a lottery ticket. The wording of the law
in this respect is fortunate, or else Mr.
Reynolds and his fellow-rascals might es
cape the penalty of conviction by frankly
admitting that the tickets sold were not
lottery tickets. Such a plea would be true
enough in this case, but Prosecuting At
torney Dare, under whose direction the
warrant was drawn, says the law has been
tested in that respect. And even if it had
not the chances are that Mr. Reynolds
would rather pay his fine than admit
[ openly that his tickets were fraudulent.
1 The case is set for next Wednesday in
! Judge Joachimsen's court. Mr. Reynolds
I said yesterday that he would plead guilty.
I The tine may be $5, or it may be $100. Con
sidering that the tickets sold are fakes o*
| the first water, and that Mr. Reynolds
i knows them to be fakes— as he has more
than once admitted in private to different
persons — the line ought to be large enough
to make it more profitable for Mr. Rey
nolds to make a living in some other way.
But the law limits the penalty to $100, and
the court has discretion to make it less.
The practice has been to make the first
line a light one, and subsequent ones
heavier, and this practice seems to be in
keeping with the spirit of the law, though
not at all in touch with the public spirit at
this time. The fact is that the law does
not tit the times, but that is another mat
ter.
Considering further this subject of
fraudulent lottery tickets it is certainly
safe to say that at this or no other time in
the history of San Francisco would there
be any sympathy wasted on "Agent" Rey
nolds. Even the people who continually
break the law by buying lottery tickets
will be glad to see Reynolds exposed, and
would be still more pleased to see him
driven out of the business or out of the
City, and if this is trne of Reynolds how
about the Upson gang of counterfeiters?
Early this week Detective Wright searched
the premises of several printing and litho
graphing houses near Clay and Mont
gomery streets, but could get no trace of
either Upson's plant or product. Upson is
out on bail pending an appeal to the
Superior Court from his conviction in
Judge Low's Police Court. And while he
is on bail he is counterfeiting more lottery
tickets.
The Little Louisiana, the Mexican Gov
ernment and the Honduras lotteries are the
ones most counterfeited, because they are
the only ones that even pretend to give
prizes. Of course the pretense doesn't
amount to much, but it is there, such as it
is, while all the others are out and out
fakes and frauds.
Now, don't rush off to buy a ticket in
one of these three companies until you
have learned how the counterfeiters of
these tickets work. Chief Crowley has
stated positively that fully a half of all the
tickets of genuine lottery companies sold
in this City are counterfeits. And the
Chief knows what he is talking about. He
has seen and handled probably more lot
tery tickets than any other one man in the
world in or out of the lottery business. A
short time ago he had two big wagon-loads
of tickets burned, and there are now about
twenty-live tons of counterfeit lottery
tickets in the basement at police head
quarters.
But perhaps you want something more
than a bare statement of facts. That is
quite right. You are entitled to details
and you shall have them. You want to
know how so many counterfeit tickets can
possibly be put on the market. Then read :
In the first place the really clever lottery
ticket counterfeit in a fine piece of work.
It is a photographic reproduction of the
original, arc! sometimes it is printed on as
good a quality of banknote paper as the
genuine, and sometimes not. However,
the majority of the people and the ped
diers are not good judges of banknote
paper.
Now, a good many dealers and peddlers
who would scorn to sell a fraudulent or
counterfeit lottery ticket are yet selling
these very same frauds and counterfeits.
Why? Because they don't know it. From
their agent they receive a bundle of
tickets— perhaps $10 worth or perhaps $100
worth. From one-half to two-thirds of
that bundle of tickets is made up of the
"queer" Kind. That's the way they are
put on the market. When the packages
of genuine Icttory tickets are received
through Wells Fargo they are at once
opened by the head agents in this City,
and half of the contents of each package —
they come 1000 in a package usually— is
taken out and replaced by a like number
of counterfeit tickets. That is the first
adulteration, and it nets the head agents,
whoever they may be, just 50 per cent.
Suppose an agency received 5000 Hon
duras tickets through Wells Fargo & Com
pany's express — a supposition that is not
even quite up to the truth— early this
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1895.
month. They paid cash for tnat lot of
tickets about at the rate of 70 cents for
every dollar's worth of tickets.and some of
the tickets sell for more than a dollar, in
deed, as high as $10. The agent that or
ders 5000 tickets knows where he can place
10,000. That's a sure rule. Now on the
first 0000 tickets he makes a very good
prolit, but the profit on his second 5000 is
what makes it possible for him to own fast
horses and live in a fine house. He sells
his tickets in small lots to peddlers and
storekeepers, and these in turn, if they be
so minded, have the same chance to make
a handsome profit by adulterating their
purchases from the agents.
On the genuine lottery tickets the ped
dlers clear 15 cents on every dollar's worth.
On the counterfeit tickets in small lots
their percentage is 35 cents. Now, the
peddlers who are thrifty do not let this
chance slip by. It is only a few anomalies
in the way of partly honest law-breaking
lottery-ticket sellers who hesitate to make
the larger profit. And the man or woman
that buys a lottery ticket? He or she has
one chance out of four of getting a genu
ine ticket— and then only providing that
they buy of a peddler who does not handle
the tickets of the fraudulent companies.
John R. Fritz, who lives on the top floor
of a tenement-house at 3 Clyde street, is an
associate rascal of the villain Upson. Clyde
street runs off Townsend, between Third
and Fourth. John R. Fritz has made Clyde
street notorious. He works for Upson, and
is counted very clever in the matter of
"shoving" "queer" lottery tickets.
A stranger who knocked on John R.
Fritz's door last Tuesday afternoon found
the "shover" at home. It was the rascal
himself who opened the door.
"Is John R. Fritz within?" asked the
stranger.
"Yes— that is— well, I am Fritz," after he
had looked at the stranger very closely and
was satisfied he was not a policeman in
disguise.
"I wanted to see if I could get any lot
tery tickets?" said the stranger.
"Straight or bogus?" said John R.
Fritz. Then he added, "Come inside; who
sent you?"
The stranger declared that he used to
work in the railroad office, and from the
clerks there had learned that John R. Fritz
would be a good man to see about getting
bogus lottery tickets. Fritz quizzed the
stranger very thoroughly for a time and
learned from him that he was out of work
and desired to peddle counterfeit lottery
tickets.
"The best way to do," said Fritz, "is to
sell the bogus tickets straight. I always
have better luck that way, though some
people want them mixed with good tickets.
Of course, we give them what they want.
But my advice to a young man starting
out in the business is to sell our counter
feits and nothing else.
"Joe Johnson makes the finest counter
feit you ever saw. It's a great ticket, and
it sells juat as good as the straight one.
Besides, there's a whole lot more money in
the bogus tickets for you. I can give them
to you at 35 cents on the dollar, and that's
a good protit, you know. There's a lot of
cheap counterfeits on the market, but I
wouldn't advise you to touch them.
You're liable to get tripped up on them
sometimes.
"But the counterfeits that I will sell you
are just as good as the straight, and if you
happen to run up against another ticket of
the same number, you can swear it's the
other ticket that is bogus and yours the
genuine.
"Of course. I have no tickets here. The
police are watching, and the Call is mak
ing such a fuss about nothing that we have
to be very careful. But I'll give you
Johnson's address up on Fourth street,
and if .you can satisfy him that you're all
right, you can get what you want. What
saloon do you hang out at?"
The stranger was at a loss to answer for
a moment, not being well versed in the
nomenclature of the saloons about town,
and this fact made John R. Fritz— don't
forget the name— still more suspicious.
And after he had given the stranger Joe
Johnson's address at 127 Fourth street, he
was in a hurry to say "Good-day." As the
stranger went ont the front entrance John
R. Fritz went out the back way and headed
for "Joe Johnson's" place to warn him
that a suspicious-looking stranger was
making inquiries.
Of course Joe Johnson is Joe I*p?on, and
he has his counterfeit tickets so well hidden
that the searching policemen could not
find them. He probably rents a box in the
bank vault and keeps all his tickets there.
John R. Fritz is a medium-sized man
who wears a light bluish-gray business suit
and a sandy mustache. Look out for him.
Detective Wright is watching John R.
Fritz and his pal Upson, iilias Johnson,
and before long both of the petty rascals
will be in court again. But they will pay
their fines and <ro back to making and sell
ing counterfeit lottery tickets probably
as long as there tiro foolish and unsophis
ticated persons to buy them.
THE NEW PARK LODGE.
The Manufacturers' Association Asks
That It Be Constructed of Cali
fornia Materials.
The members of the Manufacturers'
and Producers' Association of California
are watching every improvement that is
being made and is contemplated in the
State for the purpose of having oniy home
productions and materials used. The an
nouncement that the ParK Commissioners
propose to construct a line lodge in Golden
Gate Park did not escape the attention of
the manufacturers, and yesterday the fol
lowing letter was sent by the association to
the Commissioners:
Information has reached this office that your
commission is about to open bids and let'con
traets for materials for the new park lodge.
At the present time the attention of the people
of this Htate is drawn very closely to the sub
ject and object for which this association was
organized — gamely, "patronizing California
manufacturers and productions"— and we de
sire to most respectfully call your attention to
the same, and hope you will think of it when
you let these contracts.
There is hardly anything that will ro into
this building that is not manufactured in Cali
fornia. We notice that you will use a prent
deal of hard wood in ihe interior of the build
ing, and there are plenty of hard wood* in Cal
ifornia. We also notice that there will be a
large steel vault, which can be manufactured
in California just as good and as cheaply as
it can be manufactured In the East.
Tii is association has now a. membership of
750. which represents Home of the largest
manufacturing and producing interests in the
State, and a very large amount of invested capi
tal. The different members manufacture
nearly every article that you will want to use,
and we ask that you ?ive California articles, of
whatever nature, the preference where quality
and price are equal.
We notice that the flooring of the porch is to
be tiling, and. of course, you know that there
is very tine tile flooring manufacturers in this
State. As to the roof, we are not informed
what your ideas are, but we wish to state that
the tile and the flate roof are manufactured at
home. There are immense deposits of slate In
this State, some oi them being successfully
worked, and the slate-workers say that they
can furnish a very line slate roof for about one
third more than tin or Iron would cost, and
the slate will outwoai tin or iron many times.
We inclose you herewith one or two pieces of
our printed matter, whicli will show you the
objects of this association, and we will further
Inclose you a list of our membership, printed
on May 14, 18!>. r ». At that time we had 550
member.-;, but we now have 750. I trust that
your commission will coiihider this maUer very
carefully and not only patronize California
mauufatturers, but give them the preference
wherever possible.
No agency has more influence in bene
iicially affecting the health and comfort of
the people than the Royal Baking Powder.
WATER AT HOLLY PARK
Efforts of the Good People to
Secure an Adequate
Supply.
PROMISE FROM MR. HOWARD.
Committee of Residents Assured of
a Service From San Mateo
County.
Holly Park Has two long-felt wants
which it is bending all its energies toward
having filled. One is water and the other
a materialization of the park which ex-
County Surveyor Fitzhugh laid out. The
park is on the crest of a high hill com
manding a magnificent view, and is not
yet anything more than a grassy oval
around which Holly Park avenue has been
graded.
For weeks and weeks the residents have
been agitating and working for these
desiderata, and it begins to look at last as
if their labors would not be in vain.
One of the first steps was the formation
FLAN OF HOLLY PARK.
of the Holly Park Improvement Club with
N. C. Wienholz, president; Thomas O'Neill,
vice-president; Ed .poole, secretary, and
Martin Bahrt, treasurer. At every" meet
ing these matters have been discussed with
a great deal of enthusiastic unanimity, and
an executive committee was chosen to look
after the park, while a special committee
was selected to confer with the Spring
Valley Water Company.
Secretary Poole and some other mem
bers 01 tne executive committee have laid
the park matter before the Committee on
Streets of the Board of Supervisors, with a
ready champion in Supervisor Hobbs.
Tliey'asked for an appropriation of $10,000
to be expemled the coming year. Some
slight, objection came from Supervisor
Benjamin, who thought the $10,000 would
be simply thrown away unless water could
be secured, and for a while the prospects
were not encouraging.
The water committee, however, con
tinued tugging away at the Spring Valley
Company, with the timely assistance of
Thomas Magee, and is finally about ready
to report an assurance from the company
that a liberal sup ply of water is only a
question of a very little time.
It was at first supposed water could be
supplied from the Clarendon Heights res
ervoir, but Messrs. Poole, "Wienholz and
Piolhop— the committee— held a consulta
tion with President Howard and Mr. Ma
pee yesterday, learning differently. Mr.
Howard would have paid the park a visit
but for Engineer Schiissler's absence. He
promised to arrange for a service as flbon
as the improvements on Mission street,
near the Six-mile House, would approach
completion, and informed them that the
Entrance to Holly Park.
service would be from the regular San Ma
teo County source of supply by means of
a big. water main. In consequence the
property-owners of that neighborhood are
jubilant in the anticipation of a general
building boom.
Treasurer Bahrt analyzed the position of
Holly Park yesterday afternoon, when he
said :
We have been very unfortunately situated.
All our calculations have been based upon
having a line park, yet we were always met
with the response whenever we pressed the
park matter, "As long as you have no water
you can have no park," and when we went to
the water company we would be told, "Well,
you have no buildings to speak of, ami it won't
pay us to put in any water service." Of course
property-owners did not see their way clear to
build unless there was some immediate pros
peci of water.
There are about 1800 families living around
hero, all having to make the best shift they
can to get enough water to meet their wants.
The charge per family for water is $1 75 a
month, and many of them are compelled to
k-ave their buckets stand over night in their
cellars under slowly dripping faucets to get
nny water at all. Some are more fortunate
and enjoy sufficient pressure for a flow of water
in their kitchens, but the pressure is not
enough to give water any higher than that.
Naturally these families are called upon to
help out their many le.*s fortunate neighbors.
In case of fire any effort to throw water on to
the roof of even a one-story building wouia be
simply out of the question Wienholz' place
and Patrick O'Brien's building were burned
when, if we had had a water supply, they
could bo doubt have been easily saved.
This district would have all" been built up
long ago but for the lack of water. There are
any number of people anxious to build who
will start in to do so whenever they see good
water prospects.
Messrs. Poole and Bahrt are inclined to
the opinion that the park improvement
has been very poorly conducted in the
past, and they lay the blame for that
largely upon the last incumbent of the
Surveyor's office. Holly Park avenue,
they think, was graded so as to benefit the
property belonging to the Fair estate on
the north side, and with little regard for
that owned by hard-working men to the
southward, and the $(5900 already spent
upon the plat itself, they say, was practic
ally thrown away, as there seems to be
nothing to show for it.
The intention is to have an artistic stone
wall or bulkhead surround the park, and
steps leading up at every entrance, but
that idea could wait, says Mr. Poole, a
temporary sloping down, or winding off,
of the present steep sides, being all that
would be necessary just now. Other resi
dents, though, are not so easily satisfied.
There is some complaint as to the progress
Contractor Smith is making in the grading
and widening of Mission street. Mr. Bahrt
says he is plowing up the entire roadway
for nearly a mile, almost to the Six-mile
House, rendering it almost impassable for
teams, and yet without making any great
headway. For fear that the contractor
might apply for an extension of time, Mr.
Bahrt threatens to circulate a petition pro
tecting in advance.
The progress of this improvement is of
vital concern, now that some definite
promise of an adequate service has been
given by Mr. Howard— that is, if water
cannot be obtained from any other source
than the San Andreas and Pilarcitos reser
voirs, or by any other route than along the
Mission artery.
A meeting of the club was held last
night, at which the water committee sub
mitted the results of its interview with
Mr. Howard.
FENDERS AND HILLSIDES
Health and Police Committee
Considers a Variety of
Things.
Markley's Chance to Sacrifice Him
self for His Inven
tion.
Other things besides streetcar fenders
were discussed by the Health and Police
Committee of the Board of Supervisors
yesterday morning, but the streetcar
fender was not forgotten. It was decided
to recommend that the streetcar companies
adjust some of the devices presented at the
recent fender exposition and put them to
the actual test. The Markley device,
which gives warning before goinsr into
action, was particularly favored. This is
possibly accounted for by a desire on the
part of the members to see Mr. Markley
prostrate himself before it, the car going
eight miles an hour, as he promised to do.
A communication from Mrs. Florence
Peicy Matheson et al., 1415 Twenty-third
street, was read :
I wish to call the attention of your honorable
body to a blemish upon the beauty of our City,
a disfigurement which is a dally eyesore to'a
large number of her citizens and the cau#e of
much unflattering comment from thu strangers
within her gates. I refer to the advertisement
which surmounts one of our western hills and
also in Immense and glaring white letters is
spread upon its sward. Moat of us ore proud of
our San Francisco rt ills with their softly
rounded outlines, beautiful slopes and the
varied cloud effects for which they form a
background, and when we see them thus de
famed through man's greed advertising, to all
who look up the lons line of Market street
that as a city the almighty dollar is all we care
for, since such an outrage atrainst public taste
is quietly tolerated, we are forced to most in
dignantly protest against such desecration.
Is there no way in which this flagrant and in
jurious nuisance can be abated?
By direction of the committee Clerk
Russell inscribed upon the back of this
letter the following sympathetic note of
regret:
it appears that enterprise and rivalry in
business and the compensation paid to owners
of lots for the privileges protested against
outweigh all artistic considerations, and it is
to lie regretted that the board has no Dower
to prohibit such displays fo painful to the eyes
of the lovers of the beautiful.
The necessity of providing a suitable
building for the treatment of smallpox
patients of sufficient capacity to accommo
date a number, of patients in case of an
epidemic was discussed, and the recom
mendation made that the Finance Com
mittee provide the sum of 150.000 for that
purpose in the next tax levy.
A recommendation was made that the
Board of Police Commissioners be em
powered to make provision in the next
fiscal year for eight additional mounted
police for the outside districts.
A resolution was proposed in favor of
authorizing the purchase of a buggy at an
expense not to exceed $200, also a single
haniesß for the use of the superintendent
of jail 2, and two horses for the prison van
after July 1. 1895.
It does not appear that any baking pow
der, when presented in competition witli
the Royal, either at the Government tests
or before World's Fair juries, has ever re
ceived favor or award over tWe Royal or
made an equal showing in purity, strength
or wholesomeness.
A Woman's Sudden Death.
Mrs. Dr. Carll was found dead in her bed at
316 Seventh street yesterday. Dr. Hawkins
thinks her death was due to natural causes.
The body was removed to the Morgue and an
autopsy will be held. Mrs. Carll tvas well
known in San Francisco, and had quite a repu
tation in the south side.
ADMISSION OF CHINESE
Wise Says De Young Assisted
in Landing Midwinter Fair
Orientals.
THE COLLECTOR TALKS OUT.
Some Side Lights on the Importa
tion of Coolies for the Chi
nese Village.
"Were M. H. de Young in San Francisco
I would order him to report for duty to
morrow morning without fail." said Col
lector of the Port John H. Wise yesterday.
The remark was brought forth during a
discussion of an article in the Chronicle in
which the Collector was accused of having
assisted in the landing of the Chinese
who peopled the Mongolian village at the
Midwinter Fair.
Continuing, Mr. Wise said: "M. H. de
Young is a Special Collector of Customs,
appointed by myself. His commission
does not expire until next September, I
think, and while he is a member of my
staff I can assign him to any duty I see fit.
Were he here I would send him out to dig
up these Chinese the Chronicle is talking
about, and then we would see who is most
anxious to hnve the men sent back."
In regard to the charges made Collector
Wise prepared the following statement:
Facts in relation to landing Chinese admitted
under an set of Congress allowing them to
come to the United States to participate in the
Midwinter Fair at San Francisco:
A few weeks prior to the arrival of the first
lot of Chinese who came to participate in the
Midwinter Fair I was requested by the man
agement, of which M. H. do Young was the
director-pem'ral, to call at their rooms in the
Mills building. I was then asked what ob
stacles if any would interpose to their landing
I told the managers that I was clearly of the
opinion from what I had learned with refer
ence to those Chinamen who had gone to
Chicago to participate in the World's Fair that
it would be necessary to have a irood substan
tial bond executed by responsible white citi
zens who would guarantee that our importa
tion would return when the time expired, and
that it would be necessary also for me to take
their photographs.
The management informed me that they
could not or would not cive the bond, and
furthermore, that they did not believe 1 had
any right under the law to demand one. I re
plied that I intended to demand the bond
anyway, and would also require the photo
graphs of the Chinese in triplicate.
They stated that their agreement with the
Chinese merchants was of such a character
that unless I allowed them to land they would
be very much embarrassed.
It seems that the Chinamen had agreed to
expend a certain amount of money at the fair
on condition that the management— of which
Mr. de Young was the director-general — won Id
secure the landing of tne Chinese which they
intended to import to assist them at the fair.
I ascertained also that the Chinese mer
chants, and, I was informed, a number of
white people, were interested in the landing;
that they were to get $300 for each Chinaman
who landed, and that if they did not secure
their landing they would have to return the
Chinamen and pay their passage back, with
out receiving a dollar for services which they
had rendered.
This was the basis of the interest which the
Midwinter Fair management had in the land
ing of the Chinamen.
The directory of the Midwinter Fair very
soon after I left the Mills building communi
cated the substance of what I stated to the
Treasury Department and procured an opinion
from the law officer of the Government that I
had no right to demand a bond, and I was so
informed by the Treasury Department.
They then tried to defeat my procuring the
photographs, and on the day "upon which the
first steamer arrived I received a telegram from
the department at Washington informing me
that I could not force these men to have their
photographs taken, as it was contrary to law.
I determined to take the photographs any
way, and I then had an interview with Mr.
Rlordan and some of the leading Chinamen
who were interested in bringing those people
here, the result of which was that they with
drew their objections to my taking the" photo
graphs.
I subsequently saw Mr. de Young, who spoke
of the photograph*, and I pleasantly told him
that he had beaten me on the judgment but
that I had beaten him on the execution.
I identified all the Chinamen by the photos
before I turned them over to the management.
I then examined the law very carefully and
had my officers we.tch out for them during the
time they were at the fair. Later I discovered
that they had put a joker m the law, which
provided that these men could all remain in
San Francisco twelve months after the closing
of the fair.
I did not then, and do not now, hare any
more power over those Chinamen than any
other good citizen of San Francisco who is
anxious to see those people returned to their
native country.
I haven't recently looked into the record to
see when the time is up, but I am under the
impression that there is yet a little while be
fore those people must go back.
If it had not been for the great interest which
Mr. de Young took in the landing of these
Chinamen I would have had substantial bonds
which would have secured the return of these
people to China.
I was informed, also, by the Chinamen at the
fair, that they had to pay a large per cent of
their earnings to the management, and this is
another reason why the management was so
very anxious to have these people represented
at the. Midwinter Fair.
I discovered very soon, perhaps within a
couple of weeks, that a great many of theChi
nnmen were not at the fair, and I qni»fiy ex
amined the law and communionled with the
public authorities to ascertain what I could do
about sending these people back, but the law
was so very clear thai there was no possible
chance to interfere with them until their time
expired, but if the Chronicle will exorcise as
much vigilance in trying to locate the^e Chi
namen as they have to write this article, f
have no doubt when the time expire* I will be
able to send back a large percentage of them.
I had a great deal of trouble to agree with
Mr. de Young as to the number that should be
permitted to land. He claimed that there
should De 400 or 500 of them, at least, and I
finally compromised upon 25G, and had it not
been for the great care which I exercised, in
stead of having 250 we would in all probabil
ity have had 500 of those people to get rid of
now.
I wanted to confine their number to seventy
five when They first began to arrive, but the
fair management snld that that was utterly
impracticable and at variance with the agree
ments which they had with the Chinamen. I
understood from them thßt they had written
contracts with the ''hinamor>, and it would be
pood literature in all probability if those docu
ments could be published.
X did however secure from the Chinamen
themselves, or rather from their organization,
a bond that a certain number of them should
go back— thirty. I did not want to land that
batch and they gave me their company's bond
for that purpose and that bond I have here
still, and when the time comes I propose to
find out what has become of at least those
thirty. I would be very much gratified if the
Chronicle would let me know whore any one
of those fellows can be found, and as I have
their photographs, which they seem to dwell
upon a pood deal, I will be able to identify
them and can send them all back without hav
ing false affidavits to show that those fellows
have a right to stay here.
I find, since making the above statement, that
the Midwinter Fair closed on the 30th day of
June, 1894, and »is this is only the 21st dny of
June, 185)5, there is at least nine days left' be
fore I can take any action toward sending those
Chinamen back.
I will repeat what I have already stated, that
if it had not been for the interference of the
directory of the Midwinter Fair I would have
had bonds which would have enabled me to
have sent every Chinaman back who landed
for that purpose, without any question what
ever, and if any of them bad remained after
the time was up the management of the Mid
winter Fair would have been responsible to
the people of this State.
Other Charges Against Davis.
In Police Judge Joachiaasen's court yesterday
J. C. Davis, the Kochester (8. V.) roan who was
arrested for obtaining money from local mer
chants under false pretenses, was held to an
swer in the Superior Court on two additional
charges. Bail was set at $1000 in tach case.
The charge against Mrs. Davis was dismissed,
as it was shown that she had not participated
in his offenses. The attorney lor Davis also
announced that Mrs. Davis' fat"her would make
good all loscet which merchants or others had
sustained through the prisoner's acts.
air. Varley's Fareiveil Mc-i insj.
Henry Varley, the London evangelist, will
deliver his farewell address before the Young
Men's Christian Association, to men only, to
morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
THROAT PARALYSIS.
. From the Courier-Herald, Saelnaw, Mich. £j
It was publicly talked aU over Clare County.
Mich., for some time before the Courier-Herald
sent a reporter to Dover to fully investigate
the Coulter matter. He finally ■went, and we
publish to-day his toll report. The Coulters
are prominent peoble, though Mrs. C. in re-
sponse to the question whether she objected to
being interviewed said. "Certainly not." Her
story follows:
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take up our abode in Dover, and everything
went along smoothly for several years, busi-
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Oar family increased as the years rolled by,
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could be procured, expending thousands of
dollars for their services, but could not obtain
relief. At last they stated my case was
beyond the reach of medical skill, and
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In connection with receiving the attendance
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