t'u.re has been a curtailment of only
10 percent.
Mr. O’Malley is not truthful in his
statement. The pack according to
his own statement is that it will be
live and a quarter million cases
which is more than a normal pack.
(In spots the canners have failed to
get their packs so that some sections
are abnormal in production.) Pro
duction has not been cut 30 percent.
As stated by The Alaskan and
Alaska Fisherman last year, the re
gulations set forth by O’Malley mere
ly curtail the necessity of the can
ners putting out dummy traps. This
season has born out the truth of the
statement, O’Malley admits that
it was only 10 percent effective. In
other words he was only one third
correct when he stated that there
would be a 30 per cent reduction
this year.
THE BLAC K WHITE PLACE
by Ahn-Kutty
o
Ft was back in the wet days ard
the time of sailing vessels. Tne
place, Frisco.
Around a certain gin-mill loung
e(i the usual gang of shanghaiex’s.
crimps, pimps, macques, confidence
men, underworld scalawags and sa
loon hums. The gin-mill was one
of the blackest dumps along t**e
‘Frisco water front, albeit known as
White's place.
The general aim of the saloon
was to head in the unsuspecting, the
traneient, the country visitor an i
i
Hood him with vile liquor, then
when stupified and properly shinned
drag him into a small boat, trail p ,rt
li;m to a waiting windjammer and
toss him down the glory hole until
he sobered. And when the poor de
vil would wake he’d find himself t .
sea 1111 impressed sailor and in debt.
Some there were who didn’t succumb
quickly enough to the dope of ;ii'j
b ir-room and those were knock j i
out either by rough house treatment
or by drugs; sometimes both.
It was a 1 i;■ • I usmess—in la; -»s
timation of those who ran it. Tlir
destruction of souls for dollars ha l
a. lofty appeal to the wharf rai
owners, tin horn managers and the
horde of cockroach lieutenants. Tim
shanghai roost wms in commission
twenty four hours a day.
.Naturally enough, even m the
wt rst of the (lump days, a business
such as this was considered ja.-d
about the limit in degeneration, aMc!
it had to have a certain amount of
protection to carry on. Thereto! o,
tee Whites, of the black abyss, wee
schooled in dirty politics, in bribe
giving and in underworld rop fixing.
One of the good tilings of the Voi
stead act was to put such cess-pools
out of business. The black hole of
the Whites was forced to close when
California outwardly ditched the bar
tenders jacket and called itself dry.
But so long in politics, in order
t< keep what they called business
forging ahead, the Whites wore, oi
course, well up in the art of having
big (?) officials help them. One of
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