CONTENTS:

PREFACE - AUTHOR'S NOTE

CHAPTER 1. "THE MINERS CAME IN FORTY-NINE" 

CHAPTER 2. HOUNDS AND HARLOTS 

CHAPTER 3. THE SYDNEY DUCKS 

CHAPTER 4. THE SECOND CLEANSING 

CHAPTER 5. "WHERE NO GENTLE BREEZES BLOW" 

CHAPTER 6. THE BELLA UNION 

CHAPTER 7. THE CHINESE AND THE HOODLUMS 

CHAPTER 8. THE SLAVES OF CHINATOWN 

CHAPTER 9. "GOD HELP THE POOR SAILOR!" 

CHAPTER 10. "COMPANY, GIRLS!" 

CHAPTER 11. SLUMMER'S PARADISE 

CHAPTER 12. THE END OF THE BARBARY COAST 




PREFACE

To HELEN

Author's Note. 

For advice and assistance in gathering the material for this book I am 
greatly indebted to many San Franciscans, among them Idwal Jones, Edgar T. 
Gleeson, Fremont Older, Dean Behslich, Luke Fay, Chief of Police William 
J. Quinn, Lieutenant James Boland, Sergeant Patrick McGee, Thomas Crowley; 
Mrs. Eugene Welch and Miss Helen Hamilton of the Public Library staff; 
Miss Mabel R. Gilles and Miss Endora Garoutte of the State Library at 
Sacramento; Paul Joseph Tomanoczy of the Civic Center Book Shop and Mrs. 
Elspeth Sedwick, through whose courtesy I was permitted to read the 
manuscript reminiscences of an old-time San Franciscan which Mrs. Sedwick 
is preparing for publication; and many members of the Family and Bohemian 
clubs. 

I am especially grateful to Richard Prosser, Edward F. O'Day, and William 
Wren, without whose aid my task would have been more difficult. 

H. A.