Odd Fellows were the social safety net
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Maguire tells his Opera house to local
Thomas Maguire can’t collect the $10,000 he paid Forrest for his aborted tour as Othello, Maguire is forced to bring SF minstrel shows to fill dates at the large house. He gradually sells shares to the next-door saloon owner John Piper, who changed the name to Piper’s Opera House. Maguire leaves.
Orion writes an attack on Sam
published in the San Francisco Time he referred to “the wretched reptiles who slunk through the war, trailing their slimy tracks in crooked lines through the edges of both parties — at first giving hearty assistance to the rebel side, then deserting it to render lukewarm aid to the Government…”