In the early 1890s, John Considine operated a box house in Seattle, which was a type of theater that also included a saloon and a brothel. In 1894, the city attempted to crackdown on vice in the areas south of Yesler way, and so the council banned the sale of liquor at box houses. Considine moved to Spokane for a few years but returned in the wake of the Klondike Gold Rush when the economy was booming and some of the restrictions became lax again. In 1900 he was involved in a famous shootout with former friend and police chief William Meredith, which resulted in Meredith’s death. After he was acquitted of murder, he began to cut ties with his previous businesses and invested in more reputable theaters. Eventually he became co-owner of one of the biggest vaudeville circuits in the United States. The donor of this corkscrew said it was given to her father Charles W.W. Field in 1908, and that it was from Considine’s saloon. The initials “JSC” are marked on the silver. Considine’s middle name was William, so the initials do not match exactly.