Page 5 Advertisements Column 1

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

their quo a o , ear y s ages o „„ c :«.:_ rt „- n . " of the fittest prevailed, and woe) to thel whose blood coursed a fair share of law- standards to its present P°s£°n as a d lessness-and it is these, by their sheer metropol.s respected by the world. rmiim : nn „ ew barv Coast was an underworld. There had panned out of streams, dug up didn't keep his eye on his adversary'saggressiveness, who have always given l t j s these people, also, whom Sam- time went on and its reputation grew, under a *ew feet of soil, or even dis- boot leg. a frontier its reputat.or. ul Go , ? wyn dramatizes "sproduc- inthe dirt strees of the out- • But L San Frandsco , re wiped outi If San Francisco's Barbary Coast tion preclStaf was forgotten in the the inhabitants than they would put lying distnets. 'Taydust' flowed over most p ; cturesque of all hel f s> The , seems to have had a more deeply purple izes the history of ** frontier merely th, prec»u. metal w B g r e en-be.ge tables like water. It Barb Coast fc V more _ Recentl hue than other spots where pioneers as a background-a framewwk for the ™«.* U ™J§ ? destroyed in the San casion when a foolhardy police Captain was nothing to wager a poke amount- an made hold d congregated, put -it: down n s* ggfi fi«, the Barbary Coast was sent a squad to clean out a gambling Ihg to five thousand dollars on the turn P rdens on Columbk A , that it was America's furthest-flung deed set out to do a man-size job. without * den ' the results Were dl * sastrous - of a c * rd or the spm °? * whceL «* the heart of the old Barbary Coast,) frontier. The gold rush to California in 1849 k £■ ■■■:; r-imldmo- dens flourished as they Fortunes were dropped, and the but the permit was refused by the; But Barbary Coast had its builders, carried in its sweeping tide hordes of T M'/ eof B wasno never had before in any land. Here the loser would leave with a smile. And police. The Barbary Coast is dead andl its sincere pioneers, its men and women gamblers, thieves, confidence men and round ot goon j.im es. - . came with thousands and thou- why not ? There was plenty more where it must remain so. But the memory, who went there to create a life for .professional murderers. These formed definition between ynderwo Id and ™™*™£J l h q{ utM they the other came from. lives on. themselves and, unconsciously perhaps, the nucleus of the Barbary Coast. As upper, the whole of the Bar- sand J?