The Barbary Coast

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.