It is not known when she left the Boas household , but at some stage she became a dance hall girl and had earned the reputation of having been a hard drinker . She allegedly outdrank boxer John L. Sullivan . In 1898 , she opened her first brothel-ostensibly a " boarding-house " - at 211 O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin district , according to 1900 US Census , San Francisco , district 257 . In 1906 , after the devastating fire which followed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake had destroyed her first brothel , she opened her second establishment on the same street at 337 O'Farrell ( the current site of the San Francisco Hilton hotel ) . In the same year , she married Frank Daroux , a political boss who also owned pool halls and gambling dens in the city
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
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