San Francisco History
 

My Own Story


by Fremont Older

Editor
The San Francisco Call

THE CALL PUBLISHING CO.
SAN FRANCISCO
Copyright 1919


TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD
 
CHAPTER
1. THE BEGINNING
2. MY FIRST POLITICAL FIGHT
3. MY MISSION A FAILURE
4. PHELAN FOR MAYOR
5. MY DIFFICULTIES IN CHARTER FIGHT
6. TOBIN-WELLS-SCHMITZ CAMPAIGN
7. TRICKING THE CITY
8. ON THE SCENT
9. A CHINESE WHO WOULD NOT SQUEAL
10. THE STORY OF LILY
11. TRAPPING FOUR SENATORS
12. PARTRIDGE IS NOMINATED
13. PLAYING MY LAST CARD
14. PLANNING THE GRAFT PROSECUTION
15. LINING UP FOR THE FIGHT
16. GETTING UNDER WAY
17. THE CARMEN'S STRIKE
18. LEADING UP TO CALHOUN 
19. CALHOUN IS THE HERO OF THE CITY
20. "KEEP AWAY FROM THE BEACH"
21. CALHOUN GROWS DESPERATE
22. PLOTTING WITH ROY
23. MAKING TAYLOR MAYOR
24. PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT
25. IN CALHOUN'S CLUTCHES
26. RESCUED AT SANTA BARBARA
27. EFFORT TO SAVE FORD
28. CONVICTION OF RUEF
29. RUEF SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY
30. JIM GALLAGHER WEAKENS
31. GHOST OF THE TOBIN-WELLS FIGHT
32. FICKERT PLAYS HIS ROLE
33. MY ATTITUDE ON RUEF
34. RUEF BREAKS DOWN 
35. FIGHTING FOR RUEF'S PAROLE
36. PAT SULLIVAN'S STORY
37. CHARLEY THE STAGE ROBBER
38. CHARLEY MAKES HIS ESCAPE
39. CHARLEY'S ROMANCE
40. THE GOING OUT DINNER TO CHARLEY
41. THE QUEERNESS OF FRITZ
42. THE STORY OF GEORGE
43. TIM O'GRADY
44. CHARLES AUGUSTUS BOGGS
45. PEDRO
46. DOUGLASS
47. LOVE TRIUMPHS
48. HUGO AND RUTH
49. TWO TRAGEDIES
50. JACK BLACK

CONCLUSION


Source: Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 194. [database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 2000. Older, Fremont. My Own Story. San Francisco, CA: The Call Publishing Co., 1919.
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