The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1895, Page 4

_ solic o 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1895. GENERAL MILES' CAREER, False Statements Regarding His Arizona Campaign Refuted. WHY HE RELIEVED CROOKS, He Won His Stars With His Sword. Colonel Kimball Sends a Statement. Acccrding to the dispatches General Nel- #on A. Miles is to fill the vacany caused by the retirement yesterday of the general commanding the United States Army, John M. Schofield. In view of various contradictory rumors concerning the new commander, the following facts regarding his career were furnished by an officer who nows him intimately : «When General Miles was fighting Ger- onimo and his murderous Apaches in the liot sun-blistered ravines of Arizona he was carrying on a far more desperate war- fare with a faction hovering around the ‘War Department at Washington Even here in _the Division of the Pacific the brave volunteer officer had his foes whose arm and enmity were ionger snd stronger than those of the tireless savage skulking among the desert cacti of the New Mexi- can mesa. “General Crook, against whose skill and ‘bravery no line may be written, had been chasing Geronimo, Natchez and the other ‘warlike Indians without success. It has been said that this was because he refused to grant anything but an unconditional sur- render, and so the Apache taciicians kept up the fight. Whatutter nonsense. Crook failed because his methods were inefficient against a foe more wily, crafty, better armed than any hostile Indians he had ever fought with, and over a country wilder, rougher and more inaccessible than any locality he had ever operated upon. He hammered away in an unsuccessful campaign of four years and completely wore himself out. Then he telegraphed to Washington that he was discouraged and disheartened. : i “The department was_evidently in the same frame of mind, for in a few hours he was notified that General Miles would re- | lieve him, and that officer somewhere in the Northwest was directed to proceed im- amediately to Arizona. “‘General Miles obeyed the order and took the command which he had never ited and Crook’s friends never forgave him., The new department commander | was soon pressing the Apache chiefs hard | end Geronimo was trying to make terms. All answers to his offers were an absolute end unconditional surrender. _The shoulder-strap enemies of General Miles have stated that he held oat inducements to Geronimo, making promises of mild treatment if they would surrender. “That was not Miles’ way, and moreover the Apaches were completely starved out and utterly unable to continue the war, and no one knew that better than the man who had routed them from every hiding | lace. Nothing but overwhelming defeat could rid the Arizona settlers of the blood- thirsty red devils that could not be con- trolled by treaty or beef. | “For want of better terms Geronimo sur- rendered unconditionally five months after | Miles superceded Crook, and the disposal | of the prisoners was an opportunity for the | origin of the reports of disobedience of | orders and deceiving the President as to the real condition of affairs. This was in | September, 1886, and there is no doubt that Cleveland would have cited to a court- inartial the officer guilty of such flagrant yiolation of military law as this. : “It ischarged that the President in- | tended to turn the captives over to the civil authorities of Arizona, to be tried for | their crimes, but Miles’ offer to spare their lives defeated those intentions. The Gov- ernment had no such intention and soon after the surrender orders were telegraphed to Miles to send the captives then at Fort Bowie to Fort Marion, Fla. There were no other directions—only the plainly- worded order contained in a few lines. The prisoners were loaded on cars and sent to their place of exile, and they were heard of no more. “‘Not so the traducers of General Miles. They denied that orders were ever 1ssued directing the removal of the captives to Florida. Then they, or somebody, made the remarkable statement that President Cleveland, unable to learn from Miles just on what terms the Indians surrendered, had to send to Florida and ask !hefrrison- ers themselves. A loose state of affairs in the machinery of the military department, truly. The assertion is too nidiculous for a gerious denial. +It has also been_stated that Miles’ mar- riage to a niece of John Sherman was the means of advancing him over the heads of older and abler officers, etc. He was a full major-general when he first met his wife, and could not have had her political in- fluence in moving up the grades. “This is the record of General Miles: A volunteer captain in 1861, lieutenant-colo- nel in 1862, brigadier-general 1n 1864 and a major-general in 1865. All these promo- tions took place on the field of battle and the - man who had never been educated at Goy- ernment expense at West Point won his stars with his sword. “Lieutenant J. A. Dupray, the ‘news- paper officer’ whom Miles has been ac- cused of keeping on his staff for journal- istic purposes, was a young man of excep- tional ability, a stenographer who was ap- yointed in the army in 1850 and assigned 1o duty as aid to General Hancock at Goy- emor’s Island. Afterward at Hancock’s earnest request Miles placed Dupray upon his staff. The young officer was finally sent to Washington City for special duty in the War Department. : “Miles is also reported to have disobeyed | General 8beridan’s orders to hold Geronimo at Fort Bowie. No such order was ever received, nor did General Miles ever state ! that he did not consider General Sheridan’s order not binding, as has been reported. “Another false and ridiculous charge is that General Miles, finding himself unable to capture the Apaches, sent out Lieuten- ent Gatewood and two friendly Indians, who brought about the surrender of the hostiles. This was after Geronimo had been penned up and literally starved out 4n a five months’ vigorous campaign. “8o the malicious attempt to cast obloguy upon the. brave, broad-minded soldier who was not at West Point, runs on down the scale from falsehood to false- hood. He is charged with acts which would have procured himself a general court-martial long ago—acts so flagrant that his superior officers might be held amenable to charges of willful neglect of duty in not punishing him if he is guilty. “But all this will not retard his promo- tion to the chief of the army. San Fran- cisco and the Presidio will gain a warm friend in General Miles. He aiways held that this point was the most imvortant on the Pacific slope and should be the rendez- vous for all the forces of this seaboard. For their accommodation ‘more quarters will be built, and a system of extensive im- provement inaugurated. General Miles is as much a Srogresaive man as he isa true soldier, and at the head of the National forces will bring them up to the highest state of efficiency.” S P Y MILES DEFENDED. Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Writes a Correc- tion. The following letter is self-explanatory: HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, OFFICE OF CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, ; FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 29, 1895, To the Editor San Francisco Cail: Referring to article published in the San Franeisco Chron- icle of this date headed, “Our Army Officers and General Miles,” I wish to make this state- ment and juest that it be given the same publicity as the article pubiished. Bo much of the article as states that “Genersl Kimball L Miles disobeyed the orders of the President in makiog conditional terms of surrender; that he falsified in stating that he had received or- ders to send Geronimo to Florida,” is not sus- tained by the facts, and is absolutely false. 1 eat by General Miles at Fort Bowie, Ariz. when the telegram directing the_shipment of the Indian prisoner was received by him. He handed the telegram to me te read, and in ac- cordance with that telegram I wired Superin- tendent Noble of the Southern Pacific Railroad &t Tucson to arrange transportation at Bowie station for Geronimo's band to Florida, which he did, and at sbout 12 o'clock next day the Indian prisoners were shipped from Bowie station, and I accompanied them as far as El Paso, where I left the train for Holbrook, to superintend the shipment oi_the remaining p?souern from that station to Florida. was chief quartermaster, Department of Arizona, during General Miles' campaign against Geronimo and Natches. General Miles’ orders to his troops in every instance were to capture or destroy Geronimo and his band. The campaign ended by the absolute and unconditional surrender of Geronimo and his band to General Miles, which brought peace to the suffering people of Arizona and New Mexico. Sineerely yours, A. S. KIMBALL, Deputy Quartermaster- General, U. 8. Army, Chief Quartermaster. FATAL FAST DRIVING. Death of John Young Who Was Run Over by Unknown and Reck- less Men. John Young, the man who was knocked down and run over by careless drivers Saturday night died at the Receiving Hos- pital yesterday morning at 6:30 o’clock. It was at first reported that Young had fallen out of his buggy. This, it was found, was not the case. He was crossing Mis- sion street near Thirteenth at the time of the accident. The street curves sharply there and several streets enter it. As he stepped off the sidewalk a heavy business buggy in which were three men dashed up the street. The buggy was drawn by a big bay horse which was being driven at a high rate of speed. A number of people on lie sidewalk saw the danger :\ng shouted at Young, but it was dusk and he evidently did not see the buggy. A moment later he was struck and knocked down on the cobbles, the buggy passing over him. The men_in the buggy made no attempt to ascertain the extent of their victim's injuries. Instead, they drove on at even greater speed. Their identity 1s not known. Young was a native of Ireland and 54 years of age. He was a boilermaker and lived with his family at 1149 Stevenson street. The police are looking for the men who ran Young down. They bad found no trace of them wp to a late hour last night. FATHER FERGUSIN TALKS, The Pastor of St. Patrick’s Church Makes Reply to A. P. A. Charges. Says the Stabllity of the Republic Is Menaced by Religious Intolerance. B Rev. Father James P. Ferguson deliyered asermon at BSt. Patrick’s Church yester- day morning in which he responded to some accusations recently made against the Catholic church by speakers at Metro- politan Temple. “The evils which menace the stability | of the Republic from intolerance,” said ather Ferguson, ‘‘are becoming more and more appearent. Conservative men of all shades of belief are awakening to the danger. National prosperity is threatened when intolerance is introduced. The mar- velous advance which America has made along all the lines of progress in the short space of a hundred years is avowedly due to the absence of religious discord. “President Eliot of Harvard in a late issue of the Forum asserts that while the beneficent principle of toleration continues in force we may look for the Republic to attain a permanency never before attained. The A. P. A. would put the dial of time back two hundred years. It would set citizen against citizen and remew once more the religious wars and persecutions from which the race has been happily de- livered. “Bryce, in his great work, the ‘American Commionwealth,” says that Catholics and Protestants in America have agreed better than the Episcopalians and non-con- formists in Eagland. The A, P. A, would change all this, These conspirators against the public peace have contrived to enkindle hate, passion and discord in com- munities where, formerly, only good will, mutual respect and friendly intercourse prevailed. Already they have almost de- populated whole towns by the antago- nisms they arouse, real estate has depre- ciated and embarm:sing religious distinc- tions have been created.” Continuing in this review of what he considers an unhappy state of affairs the speaker said: The harmony which should exist between citizens is jeopardized. This is not patriotism, for it violates the first principles of patriotism. It is neither manly nor American. The relig- ious bigot has no place under the flag of free- dom. Tike the anarchist, he plots to ruin men who have earned their right to citizenship on every field of battle and in every avenue of human endeavor. What is their object? To raise race and religious feuds that the mon- eyed power may wosk its will. The organizers of this society are nearly all from Canada and the north of Ireland. There monopoly enjoys full swing. Religious dissensions, kept alive by bigots, render concerted action’ for redress of grievances impossible. A short time ago, in their own land, these men were the most fran- tic adherents of British and Canadian Tory- ism, They were shouting themselves hoarse in favor of seal smuggling and cursing the Paris Court of Arbitration for its decision in favor of the United States. Now, on this side of the line, they are howling, ‘‘America for Americans!” Few of them value American citizenship enough to cast off their foreign allegiance. Father Ferguson intimated his belief that the majority of those on the other side are descendants of United Empire Loyalists, who something over a century ago found the air of Boston harbor too hot for them. He said: These men, whose only argument is unquali- fied abuse and monstrous lies, owe it to Catho- lics that they have a country. “I always voted against you, general,” said & person on being introduced to old General Jackson when he was ex-President. The only reply the old hero of New Orleans made to this person, who thought his brutal bluffness was commendable candor, was, “And I, sir, fought the battles of my country that you might enjoy that privilege.” We Catholics might say we discovered this country; seitled the greater part of it; strove in common with our fellow-citizens to build up and develop its resources; first proclaimed religious liberty to the persecuted of all sects; shed our blood in revolutionary ‘days to up- hold aud defena its liberties against foreign domination. We did this thata gorde of howl- ing Dervishes might have the privilege of turl- ing, in dheir own peculiar billingsgate, dia- tribes and false accusations against an old his- toric church which,in the wordsot Macaulay, “saw the commencement of all the Govern- ments and all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world,” and which, he felt every assurance, was destined to see the end of them all. THE OLYMPIAN ATHLETES. A Lot of Them Rode Bicycles to a Great Time at Souther Farm, The Qlympic Cyclers took a cross-country run yesterday from Fruitvale to Souther Farm, where they had luncheon and spent part of the day in athletic games. Forty members of the club’s new wheel- ing org;niznion. together with about fif- teen other members-of the club, took part in the outing. It was the initial appear- ance of the Olympic Cyclers in their pretty new suits, the most attractive features of which are maroon sweaters, with big sailor collars and with O. C. in white on the breast, and white caps with the monogram in maroon silk. The forenoon was devoted to an im- promptu football game and to several foot- races and to a bicycle race. At noon the; had luncheon under the trees and som: the members of the club made apt little speeches and sapg several solos. | Burns made the opening address. KEIR HARDIE'S SERMON. Assumes the Role of a Preacher at Metropolitan Temple. HIS REASONS FOR SOCIALISM. A Text Chosen From the Words of Christ — Heard by a Blg Audlence. Metropolitan Temple was filled last night—even the galleries were crowded until hardly standing-room was left—to hear James Keir Hardie, the English Socialist, speak. The ex-Member of Par- liament and present president of the Inde- pendent Labor party of Great Britain, chose for his subject, as a sort of text, the words of Christ, “‘Consider the Lilies, How They Grow.” T. J. Burns, the president of the Cigar- makers’ Union, was the ehairman, an the platform was a large number of repre- sentatives of labor organizations, including Harry A. Knox of the A. R. U., who led the Sacramento strike, Secretary A. Furuseth of the Coast Seamen’s Union, Secretary James H. Rose of the National Labor Army, President Windser of the recently organized Painters’ Union, Mrs. Anna F. Smith and others prominently identified with labor reform movements. There was quite a select musical pro- gramme with some choral singing by the audience besides the addresses, and the organ of the temple was put to effective use. The programme opened with the ““Marseillaise’’ as an organ solo, by Mrs. M. ‘W. Fairweather. The Bel Canto quartet followed and was encored, and Chairman In Mr. Burns’ opinion a change in present social conditions is needed, considering the way machinery is supplanting hand labor and the ability of capital to control the machinery. The large audience present, he said, justified him in the belief that the people were desirous of a change. After some singing by H. W. Fairweather Mr. Hardie spoke. Near him stood a large crayon portrait of himself facing the audi- ence. His accent was broad, as might be expected of a Scotchman. The application of his text came quickly. He alluded to the great agitator of 1860 years ago, in Judea, and his dootrines of “taking no thought for the morrow,’”’ and the address assumed the nature of a ser- mon in its way. His point was that humanity had departed from nature and He observed with a rising inflection, in connection with a fitting anecdote: gone over to a stupid worship of Mammon. We expect men and women to grow up and live beautiful lives under surroundings which kill the plant. The similitude of a sickly, thorn-pierced, weed-robbed flower he made to suit the struggling worker of to-day, observing: And so we stand to protest against a system which makes life and conditions unnatural. He proceeded in the following strain: ‘We are told that competition and natural se- lection are the order of the life of plants and animals. That is so, but it is a competition and selection under natural laws. Upon our iyflcm' however, have been imposed unnatural aws. What is the type of a man who survivesin the employ of say, the Southern Pacific? Is it the strong, sturdy, self-reliant man who has courage of his convictions; who stands up for his manhood and_insists upon living s full, round life? No. Isit not rather the mean, craven-spirited, cownrdl{ tale-bearer—the lick- spittle—who survives? Is it notsuch who be- come the superintendents and are held u models to be followed? Is such your ideal of aman? Why, aman to survive properly must be surrounded with natural conditions. Then as to the text again, the spesker thought that to apply its words ‘‘to the million and & quarter of men out of work in Great Britain and the several millions of unemployed in this country—the great mass of workless, starving men, women and children who do not know from where the next day’s food is to come from—is to add insultto their misery.” And for any preacher who would tell them to take no thought of the mor- row, in Mr. Harrison’s apinion, would be “simply to play the fool.” The conflict between the theories of the schools, respectively, of individualism and collectivism, in the controversy of political economy, next engaged his atten- tion. This gave him occasion to refer to the debate some time ago between Congressman Maguire, single-taxer, and Job Harriman, Socialist, reports of which he had read. He constracted an argument in javor of socialism and against the theory of individualistic effort. A caustic allusion to the millionaires of this country and their alliances with the ““titled nobodies’’ abroad he indulged in as showing what individualistic effort in the financial, commercial and industrial “survival of the fittest” system of America had rroduced. Socialism, he explained, was a system of rand co-operation of all the individuals or their welfare as a whole, and he ad- vocated socialism in its entirety and its most extreme sense. He believed in ‘“work- ing for it free from complications with any other question under the sun.” He con- tinued: There 18 & great outcry against the eports and ?lcnsurcs of the masses; against sensa- tional newspapers and amusements, demoral- izing literature and vice, but nothing is said of the canse—that no right and proper vent is given to humenity’s surplus energy, and it thire(ore finds its outlet in questionable chan- nels. We hear much said about men not going to church, and I thank God that workingmen are not going to church to-day. The so-called Christians of to-day are the very ones who are driving people from the churches. The work- ingmen of to—dni, ‘who are laboring six days in the week for their oppressors, refuse to be cribbed, cabined and confined by the dogmas, creeds and theologies of the orthodox churches, and to enter and find their oppressors sitting in the front pews. I never feel like worshiping in a city. Why, city life is not human lifel We want to get men out of the sordid rut, in which the com- mereial spirit has crushed them to-day. Your business men—your middle-class men—are en- gaged in the one sordid pursuit of making money, and the workingman's time is all taken up inprocuring bread and butter for his family. ‘e want & system which will allow a man io be free to develop the highest of which he is capable. Idon’t believé in a machine-made humanity. I want men to be free and to de- velop propetly. Socialism, he said, was not a purely materialistic theory—not a mere bread and butter gospel. " In this connection he found opportunity to satirize the fashion- following among the aristocrats of the old country, and fashion-following in general. In his conclusion he said the movement was a class movement, and it remained with the workingmen themselves to have its aims realized. The ultimatum of so- cialism was the ownership and control bg the people of the meansof production an exchange, and love—‘“loving thy neighbor as thyself’—reasoned Mr. Hardie, was the true law of life, instead of competition being the right process. Frank Smith also talked. He was intro- duced as a man who had been elected to the London Town Council on the working- men’s ticketand had done good work In that body. He criticized the churches se- verely and ridiculed the idea that the times were improving. He remarked: Some ot the biggest sweaters in the country belong to the church. Some men think all that is necessary to be a Christian is to preach a creed or a dogma. The old Christians were fighters. We need & new crusade with a fiery cross. ; This meeting was under the auspices of the American section of socialists. The same section will give Messrs. Hardie and Smith a farewell social on Tuesday even- in§ at the Pythian Castle after the trades- unions’ meeting in Metropolitan Temple. l!-.nih Entertained. Afarewell entertainment was given by the San Francisco section at the Turky street Temple in honor of J. Kier Hardie Frank Smith after the Metropolitan Temple gathering, It was of a varied and enjoyable character and lasted till after miduight. The socinfiat Maennerchor gave several vocal numbers that were loudly applanded. There were dancing and instrumental music aud refreshments. P. Ross Martin made the address of the evening. Other short 8 ceé:pes followed, including one from Mr. ardie. RETURN OF LAUGENOUR. The Festive Young Assemblyman of Yolo Is in This City. Henry W. Laugenour has returned from his Eastern trip. He arrived here on the late overland Saturday and went to the California Hotel, but did not register, and cards sent to him yesterday brought the response that he was not at home. His arrival was not unexpected, for a friend re- ceived a letter from him, written in Kan- sas City, in which he stated he was coming back to Califorma. About ten days ago Lloyd Tahler of the Hershy ranch, near Woodland, met the Assemblyman who had disappeared at the station, but Laugenour refused to recog- nize his greeting. In July last, shortly after attending his brother’s wedding in Willows, Laugenour turned over all his property to his mother and came to this City, ostensibly to get some horses at the Bay District track. He had with him a note of his mother’s which he cashed here and went out to the races. This was the last seen of him here by any of his friends. He bad written his family that he would go to Allen Springs, in” which he was interested, and there his wife and mother went to seek him. Not finding him there, and not hearing from him, the K‘ife came to this City to make a search for im. It was learned later that on the evening of July 20 he boarded the overland train, having two first-class tickets 1ssued in the name of Francis. At ‘Sacramento he was joined by a young woman, who asked the conductor for him as Mr. Francis. She re- pented of her escapade soon, and went no farther than Ogden, from which place she returned home. Laugenour’s tickets were good to Chicago. Since that time nothing has been heard from him by the public un- til word came last Tuesday of his inten- tion of returning from Kansas City. Young Laugenour was one of the most popular members of the Assembly, but led the pace that kills. R, 0, M. OSS S Addresses at the Meeting Held in Metropolitan Temple Yesterday. One of the Speakers Declared That He Was Asked Not to Speak. The principal address at the meeting held yesterday afternoon under the aus- pices of the Good Citizenship Committea was that of Donald M. Ross, pastor of the Lebanon Presbyterien: Church, corner of Twenty-third and Sanchez streets. As on preceding Sundays, there was singing of patriotic songs by the Choral Society and the audience. After a few introductory remarks by H. ‘W. Quitzow, chairman of the meeting, the singing of “*America’” and a prayer by M. T. Brewer, Mrs. Agnes Trumpleasure sang “The Holy City,” after which M. T. Brewer delivered a short introductory ad- dress, The Choral Society sang the “Anvil Chorus,” atter which Rev. Donald M. Ross addressed the meeting for an hour and a half upon, as the subject announced, “The Trail of the Jesuits Across the Nations.” At the outset the epeaker said that he wished to be held accountable for every word he spoke, so that if any statement he made was claimed to be falseand he should be prosecuted he would not enter any tech- nical defense, but would simply set up the truth of what he spoke. He said that he had been asked not to speak what he intended to: But if they expect to run the bluff on me they may as well know that they have the last man on earth that they can stir. I will also tell them that I never carry anytbing but a toothpiek and & peneil, and if I were cut into bits not a pisce of me would wince. The speaker in the course of his address said that tMe histories of Spain, Peru, Germany, France, England, Ireland, and Mexico showed how the Catholic church established itself in those countries and charged that with the advent of that church there was a decrease in advance- ment and prosperity. He said: There are many Catholies who are good ple—in fact, I believe that the majority of them are good—but unfortunately they are led by bosses. We have no fight sgainst them be- cause of their religion, or against their alle- glance to priest or religlon. If they under- stood this there would be no use for ige A. P. A.; there would be no need for me to stand here and talk and take up my time and energy. The issue has been thrust upon us. Mr. Ross stated that within two days he { hatt been told of a young man who had been employed in sweeping the streets in this City, but was no longer employed. ‘When a change was made, and when he applied for work under the new manage- ment the first question asked him was, “*Are you a Catholic?’ and when he an- swered that he was not was told that he could not get a job at street-sweeping without a lefter from a priest. He charged that it was the withdra wal of large sums of money from the channels of commerce and hoarded in the Vatican that periodicallg caused hard times. He explained that he did not object to priests accumulating money, but objected to the hoarding of it. He said: Archbishop Riordan in San Francisco has an income of nearly $1.000,000 a year. Go to the City Hall and_ search the records of wills and you will find that in a few years bequests that ;rli‘l; pile up $2,000,000 have been made to _After dwelling at some length on re- ligious disturbances in various countries, he read a Papal bull in which it was as- serted that the Emperor of Germany could not be Emperor without the Pope’s sane- tion and then drew attention to a letter from Bismarck to the Jesuits, saying that after receiving it they left the country. He also spoke of the various countries from which Jesuits had been required to leave, naming France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Great Britain, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, China, India and Japan. fie then said: There is no warmer or better-hearted, more lovlnf or generous person than an Irishman, and if the people of the south of Ireland would as the peopte of the north, say “Keep hands and let us alone!” they would be the happiest people in the world. The trouble is they allow themselves—to be led, but if they were given a thance to act for themselves they wonfd be as "”t}},";;fid grand a race of men as any that can The chairman of the meeting, previous to adjournment, announced that on the 13th of next month there will be a union meeting of councils of A. P, A.and W. A. P. A, in Metropolitan Hall. ————— Santa Fe Earnings. CHICAGO, Iy, Sept. 20.—The approx- imated earnings of all lines of the Santa Fe Railroad system for the third week of September are $768,537; for the same pe- riod last year $750,801; increase $18,345. For the month to date a decrease of $24,373 is shown as compared with the correspond- ing period last ygn. ——————— Cal Owens Very Iil. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 20, — Cal Qwens, an actor, is_seriously ill with con- sumption at the Grand Missouri Hotel. Mr. Owens is 44 ge:n old and a native of New Orleans, He began his theatrical life with Dion Boucicault in New the early '70's. r tri York in TALKED FOR THE ORPHAN, The Pacific Hebrew Asylum and Home Society in An- nual Session. ITS FINANCES AND ITS WORK. Rabbl Voorsanger Makes a Strong Appeal for More Generous Support. A large number of members of the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and JHome Society gathered at the asylum building yesterday and held the twenty- fourth annual meeting of that organiza- tion. The session was almost completely devoted to the presentation of reports by the numerous officers of the institution. The papers submitted from the various representatives of the asylum and home management indicated a very prosperous condition of affairs, and among other things included comments and suggestions for the improvement of the organization’s several buildings and the extension of its charitable work. T. W. Levy, the president of the society, submitted a very complete report upon the asylum affairs during the past year and the general condition of things with which the organization is concerned. In the matter of financial affairs Mr. Levy announced that during the past year the asylum expenses were $22,326 36. The expenses incurred in maintaining the Home for the Aged were §12,443 69, making the total annual expense $34,770 05. Presi- dent Levy indicated very emphaticaily that the income of the society, while suf- ficient to have permitted a certain degree of prosperous management, is not what it should be. The income of the society for the year aggretgated $28,464 44, and was less the amount of expenditures by somethin over $3000. This condition of affairs, sai Mr. Levy, cannot continue to exist, and strenuous_efforts must be made to remedy the financial evil. He found a reason for the lack of proper support in the fact that interest in the institution is apparently confined to San Francisco. Hesaid during his address: It is strange indeed that such a large propor- tion of our subscribers should be residents of this City. Comparing the population of all the cities and towns of the Pacific Coast with San Francisco, we find that while the outside terri- tory contains & much larger population and sends a much lnrger number of orphans to the asylum, it contributes a very small portion of the funds for carryingiton. Inshort, it makes a very poor showing upon our subscription books of membership. It would seem that our outside neighbors think that because th8 asylum happens to be located in San Francisco this City should support it. This should not be the case. The majority of our present inmates were born outside the City, and judging from our past experience the same rule will apply to future applications. 1 sincerely trust thatour co-religionists throughout the Pacifie Coast generally will seriously consider this matter and come to our rescue at once. Continuing, Mr. Levy said that during the year the society had received dona- tions and bequests amounting to $37,55s 40. The membership rolls showed that of 1435 ersons upon them in 1894 twenty-four had ied during the year and eighiy-one re- signed. Twenty life members had been admiited, besides 688 contributing mem- bers, making a total membership of 2037. This rather surprising and extremely grati- fying increase is credited 1o the excellent recruiting work done by Judah Newman and his assistants upon a committee charged with that particular line of work. Speaking of the condition of the asylum President ?.,avy said: As regards the household of the asylum, and matters connected therewith, it is with pleas- ure that I announce that the health of our lit~ tle ones has been remarkably good—thanks to the attention given by our staff of physicians and the care of the superintendent and ma- tron. We have now under our care sixty-three boys and fiity-nine girls. Of these 109 children make their home in' the asylum, and thirteen children ere placed in comfortable homes, borrding outside. Of these tweclve are learn- ing trades and one is t0o young to be cared for at the asylum. At the last report we had sixty- three boys and sixty-five girls; since then we have admitted eight children and discharged thirteen, and one died, making our present roll of children 122. Cur childrenattend the pub- lic schools, as in ;revlo\u years, and are as- sisted in their studies by our special teachers. Excellent reports are made s to their scholar- ship and deportment. ’Sze various industries now attached to the asylum are progressing very satisfactorily through the efforts and perseverauce of Henry Maauser, our superintendent. The boysin the shoeshop are becoming quite expert in the manufacture and mending of chilcren’s shoes and the boys in the printing office are doin excellent work, They have, fn fact, taken an finished many important jobs, including last year's reports, that reflected great credit on all concerned. With a little encouragement these industries can be made notonly self-support- ing but an item of revenue and profit. ‘When President Levy concluded, the re- ports of other officers were read, the sub- stance of them, however, having been pretty much incorporated in the report of the chief officer. Rabbi Voorsanger, one of the very active members of the organization, had a word to say about finances, and the reprehensi- ble indifference of too many of the members to the serious need of funds to carry on the society’s work. He was particularly Entified at the increase in membership, ut urged upon the committee to work even more vigorously and strive to achieve even greater results.” Dr. Voorsanger spoke eloquently upon the importance and ne- cessity of such an organization. He pointed to the fact that the society has grown im- mensely since its establishment in 1871, and in proportion to its growth its ex- penses have also increased. 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