The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1896 THE HOTEL MEN ROYALLY FETED, Brilliant Banquet Tendered the Bonifaces in the Palace. GASTRONOMIC TRIUMPH. Fully Five Hundred Delighted Guests Gather Round the Board. TOASTS TO THE GOLDEN STATE Californian Wines Flow With West. ern Hospitality—Welcomes and Good Tidings. The visiting hotel men and their ladies were tendered a banquet last night by the California Hotel Association in the Palace Hotel. e festive event took place in American Hall, one of the largest apartments in the Palace, though not quite large enough to accommodate the 500 guests. On this particular occasion the Palace 1 felt very proud of itself, for an ordinary effort had been made to ce the guests that San Francisco vie with any Eastern City as an cntertainer. The test was a critical one. Nearly cvery male guest was a critic, and, to judge from their expressicns of satis- faction and surprise, the banquet was a brilliant success. American hall, with its classic outlines, its thousands of lights and its imposi beauty, was decorated with tree palms between the great double columns round the walls. Again behind these graceful evergreens drapery of soit-hued velvets arranged with good taste added to the effectiveness of the whole interior. At one end among palms an orchestra was placed in a niche from whence strains of inspiring masic spread over the scene. The tables, arranged in rows across the floor to meet one long board that stretched full along the side, received the best ef- forts of decorators and of an artist in his way—the pastry chef. Violets and sprays of maidenhair ferns were strewn upon the tabies, and at inter- vals were wonderful creations in glace, sugar and pastry for mounted center pieces. These included paniers of flowers, a Swiss let, a Chinese pavilion, “the umbrella of Mlle. Marie,” salmon, fowl, pryamids of jelly, lobsters, etc., all fash- ioned in sugar or jellies. The menu was as follows: Huitres de Californie. Consomme de Volaille, Classique. Caviar au Citron. Anchois. Olives. Salees. Radis. Creve:tes Mayonnaise. Concombres. Filet de Baeuf Pique Majordone. » de Grenouilles a I'Epicurienne. e de Ris d’Agnean a la Lucullus. en Cerises. Pigeonneaux s pes a la Perigueux. Salade Renaissance. Fonds d Artichauts & la Reine. Petits Pois & la Francaise. Polres an Riz ala Richelien. Biscuit Glace Favori. Marrons Glaces. Gauftrettes. Fruits Assortis. Fro . Cate Noir au Cognac. WINES. California White Wines Ben Lomond Gray Relsling. Linda Vista Moselle. Sherry. Asti Chablis. Gutedel. Cresta Blanca Sauterne. Napa Valley El Cerito. Napa Valley Vine Clift. Calitornia Red Wines: Csbernet. Caiwa. Madrons. Sequoia. La Loma. Claret (private stocl Burgundy, Army Special. Schram's Burgundy. Burgundy. Tipo Chiantt. Pommery Sec. Johannis Water. Petits Fours. Massepins et Amandes | A Glimpse of Hotel Men of America as They Feasted Last Night at the Palace Hotel. | troducing Mr. Ford, the jolly man of the hotel people. 8. Ford, proprietor of the Grand Union otel, New York, replied in an eloquent strain, aithough his humor kept the large | party langhinz from beginning to end of his speech. He said: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Such has been the warmth of our welcome that it is difficult for us to realize that we are pilgrims from & far country, and that 3000 miles away our boarders are shifting for tnemselves and our creditors fruitlessly knocking at our outer gates, ‘‘unwept, unnumbered and unsung.” We who come from the cold, effete and clammy East, filled as we are with pride and codfish, pie and self. been touc! electrified and courte has been so prodigally bestowed upon us from noment we “entered the portals of this lovely la California is well named the “Golden State,” for though the precious metal has well nigh’disappeared from your streams and hills, there is a stock of pure gold in your hearts which seems inexhaustible, Since deciding to make this trip I have been reading up the history of the forty-niners and what they went through to get out here. Some of our paTty went through & good deal to get here. Some of them went through_ everything 1 had, except my return ticket, and now I find | it so'lovely here I almost wish that they’d got that too. This delicious, languid climate just suits my dolce far niente style of architect- ure. I'd like to get some not too arduous posi- tion out here, like picking blossoms off a | century plant. My willing soul would stay, In such a frame as this; And sit and sing herself away, To everlasting bliss. That is from one of Watts’ hymns, and I have always noticed that Watts knew what's what. Come wnat may we will never forget the gorgeous time we have had on this yisit and the boundless hospitality of you wild and wooily Westerners and the glories of this land of sunshine and of flowers and of the wonders of this climate. We are going to have some of this climate canned to take home with us. Already we have forgotten the fatigues and privations of our trip across the continent; of ow, when erossing the desert, no water passed our parched lips for many moons; ht has of how our een impaired looking for the ce-0f-a-kind that never came - of how night after night our rest has been t ambient air rudely shattered by the sterterous breathing of our plump contingent, and the conversational powers of our sisters and our cousins and our aunts; of how Brother Brock- way’s whiskers “trimmed to every favoring gale” created such enthusiasm smong the squaws along the line that we feared we would never be able to get him across the desert un. scathed; of how we came flying across the con- tinent, the Chicago landlords in front of us, the Boston landiords behind us—there we were like Mahomet’s coffin, suspended between heaven and earth, or, perhaps, it would be sea.” And we have almost forgotten the awiul for once New York had to take Chicago's dust, but we passed it along o Boston. And the changes of climate. got on our linen dusters and palm-leaf fans mittens the mercury went up to 120 deg. in the shade. Really some one ought to inventa Naps a and Barlett Springs Waters. John C. Kirkpatrick, manager of the Palace Hotel, presided. der after the black coffee he read a letter from 8. F. Thorn, president of the San Francisco Hotel Association, announcing Mr. Thorn’s regrets at not being able to attend. The guests cheered loudly and then all arose and the president’s health | was drunk amid cheers. The vand plaved “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,” and when the singing had ceased | Mr. Kirkpatrick bade the visitors welcome. He said the latchstring hung out, as on the menu card, and all present were heart- ily weicome. He then introduced George A. Knight. “I wish I knew the hotel men,” said Mr. Knight. “f have not known them long enough to know them well enough. Why ¥ should be called upon to speak words of welcome, coming from the people of Cali- fornia to you visitors, is something I can’t account for.” He said funny things about hotel men, | and told the visitors if they would find *‘God’s nobleman,” the hotel man, in his true state, they should go upin the Sierras, where he attends his own bar and cleans out his own house in the morning. It never occurred to him (the speaker) what the hotel man’s station in life was. They were the entertainers of the great common- wealth, they were the men who dirsct the strangers or travelers, who took them by the hand and guided them. g0 intoa town and find & hotel man with dyspepsia, the town has the disease,” re- marked Colonel Knight. Alf Knight were a hotel man he would #ive his guest a cup of coffee, with cream in it, in the morning, it he had to starve him the rest of the day. First impressions were most powerful. The speaker explained he was in the habit of speaking at banquets where the male element predominatea; where often coffee and champagne tasted alike in the early morning hours, when the banquet- ers sang “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” He felt the influence of the ladies last night, and spoke eloquently and ina delightful vein about them. He said that San Francisco, “the Queen of the Pacific,” had a right to speak for California, and he hoped that the hotel men would go home “thinking that Cali- fornia was at least in it with the East.” Colonel Knight took his seat while the whole festive party applauded. At last, when something like silence returned, Mr. Kirkpatrick started the fun again by in- In calling for or- | “If you | petent, sutomatic, self-regulating, backaction, all-bearing, self-adjusting style of underwear | for transcontinental travelers. All these privations and hardships we have | forgotien since we entered California, and | could the X-rays be turned upon us the fact | would be ¢ sed that we are filled (o over- flowing with kindly feelings toward you, our hosts, as well as of prunesand fruit, canned | goods, native wines, evaporated peaches, liver pillsand gratitude. | © Joking aside, we are a fat crowd. Iam not a ample. Iam here as a horrible exampie. Well { might the assembled multitudes along the line 587, Yiih Jaques in Shakespeare’s “As You ike It.” { Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens. | To see the gentlemen] have mentioned at | night, dressed up in their blue cute little baby | | blue Lord Fauntleroy pejamas, frisking and i gamboling (especially gamboling) about the car, like captive balloons in a gale of wind,was | = sight calculated to freeze the blood and make Teason t r in her throne. But, Mr. Chairman, I have already used up fifteen minutes of the ten allotted and I will conclude this eloquent and impressive address by again remarking that we are overrowered | by your prodigsl and delightful hospitality. We have all 50 fallen in love with your beauti- | ful land of sunskine and of flowers that were [ it not for the fact that our butchers are fever- ishly awaiting our return, and are even now nervously sliding down our cellar doors sing- ing, “Father, dear father,come home to me now,” we would be tempted to settle down in your midst and open anti-fat sanitariums and raise oranges and mortgages and other varie- ties of Cahifornia fruit. Alfred Bouvier, who recently returred from the East, “extended the glad hand,” as he had been requested to do, although after summing up the expense bill of his trip he kissed the rod that smote him. Ha said that all California had was the | visitors. They were welcome to it all. { _W. L. Fanning, attorney for the New York Hotel Association, responded in a brief speech as follows; One year ago to-night, in that far-famed ban- quet hall, Delmonico’s of New York, I had the honor and vleasure of expressing on behalf of the Hotel Association of New York City a few words of grecting and of welcome to the mem- bers of the H. M. M. B. A. of the United States. Meny who are present here to-night will re- call that interesting occasion, which formed the chiei feature of the three days of enter- tainment arranged by the local committee for the pleasure of the visiting delegates, and I am free to say that the members of the New York Association felt weli satisfied with the success which attended iheir efforis to make the brief stay of the visitors a happy end agreeable one: e felt that the metropolis of the Nation en- joved facilities for the entertainment of the stranger within her gates which were superior tothose of any other city or State in the Union, and when we exhibited to the admir- gaze of our visitors our magnificent and superb driveways, the beauties of our splendid harbor and noble river; when we opened up to them our museums of art and our great libraries, and when we entertained them at our palatial hotels and gorgecus theaters, we felt, I repeat, a glow of pride in the resources of our great city, and fully pe- lieved that nowhere else in this broad land conld such entertainment be provided the members of the H. M. M. B. A. The experience of the past few days, how- ken and the | better to say, ‘“’twixt the devil and the deep | As soon as we | weran into fourteen ieet of snow, and by the | time we had donned our fur overcoats and red i ever, has caused us to change our minds in this regard, end I know that I voice the senti- ments of the New York delegation and, I be- lieve, of every delegation present to-night, in according to the Hotel Association of Southern California the paim for having outdone any- thing heretofore attempted for the pleasure of | the hotel men of the United States. There is not perhaps & lady or gentleman among the visitors present who has not looked | forward to this visit to Southern California as | the fulfillment of a dream—the realization of & hope and the gratification of a desire which nothing else could satisfy. We who dwell | within the sound of the rush and roar of the Atlantic, and whose lives partake of the stormy nature of that ever surging and restless ocean, have longed to gaze upon the placid waters and breathe the balmy breezes of your Pacific sea. Accustomed to the extremes of heat and cold which characterize our Eastern | climate, e have listened with envious ear to | the equable temperature which prevails along your coast, and of the semi-tropical products of your country. : In accepting the invitation of your commit- tee to visit these golden shores, and witness with our own eyes that fairy land which was so_graphically described to us by your inimi- table Professor James, we did so 'in the ex- ectation of seeing the gardenspot of America. | We were prepared to gaze upon a veritable paradise. It is, therefore, with intense pleasure that I say to you to-night that the realization Las for surpassed our anticipations, and Lam | sure that henceforth every one of us will feel a | dee,er pride in our country for having within | our'own territory such scenes as we have wit- | nessed during the week that has just passed; | and so long as memory lasts it will be a per- | petual delight to each and ail to recall the | names of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Redlands, | Riverside, San Diego and Coronado. The | charm which nature hasshed over these scenes | is of itself sufficient to fill the mind of the traveler with wonder and delight, but to those | who listen to me to-night nature’s claim upon | our admiration will hold a secondary place. | When in the future we look back upon these | golden days, it will not be the balmy atmos- phere, the orange groves, not the fragrant | flowers that will appeal to us so much as the | generous hospitality that has been extended everywhere. t anticipa- ¥ ess of your | gs, the royalty of your welcome and the bounteous nature of your hospitality, have filled our hearts with etérnal gratitude. This is especially true of the ladies of Southern California, and I am glad toavail myself of this opportunity to expresson behalf of the New York delegation their appreciation of the uni- form kindness received by them at the hands of these fair women who have literally strewn our path with flowers. | | i Mr. Fannina] closed by reading a poem, | | | | “The Boys We Left Behind Us,” from A. C. Foster of Hotel 8t. Andrew, New York City. The poem pleased all intensely, and yet, in one particular line where it related of | pledging the “boys” in bumpers of | “France’s vineyards’ best,” its effect upon the Californians present was not altogether agreeable. The trouble was that the East- ern hotel men should have known that California’s best ought to be good enough for Americans. It was hinted—yuietly to- besure—that the genial guesis on their return home might make the change in fayor of the native article. | . Mr. Lapoint of Boston was called upon | to speak in behalf of the New England | delegation, and he respdnded as follows: | In rising to respondto your call, T want at once to renew my acknowlédgment of this re- | peated courtesy, and to exprees in behal of the | New England delegation my sense of our obli- | gations to the iriends in California for a mag- nificent trip. It has been one grand ovation | from start 10 finish, and will remain in our :ng\mories as the delightful experience in our ives. To one reared in far off New England, to one broughtup amid the harsh rigors of her eli. mate and familiar with her barren hills and waste places, the balmy breezes and productive s0il of this Pacific Slope are not only a revela. tion but an enchantment. I do not wonder at your greatness of charac- ter—at the big men you exhibit in all the ac- tivities of life, in the departments of trade, in the fields of enterprise, in the tealms’ of finance, in all the arts of peace—when I see tho T00m in which they are permitted to grow snd broaden. Noraml surprised &t your wealth, evident notmore in your mighty produets than | in your bounteous hospitality. Perhaps 1o calling in all the range of busi. ness activities has 60 intimate a relation to the comfort of the community as ours, Cer. tainly none comes into closer touch with the traveling public. And to the men and women who travel, if they travel intelligently, the world owes the largest part of its rapid prog- ress in the things that improve human condi. tions, To these itinerants we upply a substi- tute for home—the ‘best substitute the world | canoffer. At a nominal cost we give safety | and comfort, rest and recuperation, the quiet for which the weary long and the rest that re- | stores their wasted energies and force. We have to gratify every whim, answer every need, meet every want, satisfy every taste and deal with every variety of disposition. Wo are blamed for others’ mistakes and bear other people’s burdens, have to smile with the heart- ache, and if smitten on one cheek have to turn the other also—in fact, to act as if we wished | we had a third. We are the guardians of fools and the defense against knaves, the butt of the joker and the victims of the law. And yet, gentlemen, we have & right to be roud of our position, and to yield to no men n our regard for our honorable calling. Ihave no doubt that weshall return from this outing invigorated in body, stimulated in spiritand improved in'all respects. The dis- tance that divided us will seem lessened; time and space will be diminished, if not destroyed, and our brethren of California will not only be countrymen, but neighbors and friends, We tender you our parting thanks for all the courtesies we have received, forall the benefits we have experienced, for all the memories we shail carry away to keep' green forever. In return I ask for them every blessing a kind Providence can vouchsafe to an intellgent ang enterprising people. Acting upon the invitation of Mayor Sutro about 200 members of the party, accompanied by their wives, children and friends, who swelled the number to about 500, went out to the Cliff House at 11 o'clock and enjoyed the sights, They intended to drive out in carriages, but the storm prevented this and ‘they were obliged to ride out on the Mayor's electric line, There were about 175 in the main | while in the water. body; as many went before, and others followed after. Many of them entered the baths and lashed around to their heart’s content. or the edification of the guests an exhi- bition of trapeze and high diving, and springboard diving and somersaults was given by the life-savers. They are four in number and all celebrities in their way. Danny Green holds the world’s swimming record for 1000 yards and Dana Thompson for a half mile. Ed Rosenbaum is well known as a high diver and Mat Gay swims round and imitates a cornet to perfection The young fellows’ endeavors to please the assemblage were greeted with lusty cheering. Mayor Sutro himself took about 150 of the guests under his wing and showed them the engineer’s room, the apparatus used to pump water into the baths and various other points of attraction. All then adjourned to_the Cliff House for luncheon except the Mayor, who was unavoidably detained. Here a dainty re- past had been prepared for the guests. All fell to with a will and enjoyed the products of California soil. . At the close several of the guests arose in renlé; to toasts and expressed their gratitude for the kindly treatment the: had received, thanked the Mayor for his hospitality and spoke eulogistically of California and 1ts people generally. At mention of his name the Mayor was heartily cheered. Mayor Davie of Oakland briefly replied in behalf of the host, taking occasion to mention the seng:in ly prosperous future of the land by the vfiemm sea, the feel- ing of zood will Western people entertain for their' Eaetern brethren, and what | Mayor Sutro had done in the philanthropic line. Many of the guests lingered round the heights until late in the afternoon, as if loth to tear themselves away. The Pacific Swimming Club has taken rooms at the baths and hereafter will be known as the official club. Some members of the Hotel Men’s Association have sig- nified their intention of remaining in this City to-morrow to see their exhibition Saiurday and Sunday afternoons. MY SERVE 1S SECOR Brown Might Resign if He Were Appointed Assistant Pastor. The Doctor May Read the Opposition’s Document To-Day, as It Will B= Filed. The partial list of Dr. C. O. Brown’s op- ponents, as published in Tu CALL of yes- terday, created considerable comment among all the members of the First Con- gregational Church. It seems that three names of persons dead were published. In addition to this the Misses Hall and Mrs, Carlton wish it understood that they never signed the list. They fail to say, however, that they are not opposed to Dr. Brown. George T. Gaden and Dr. Jonathan T. McDonald claimed that nearly a score of names were on the list which should nou have been given out for publication. When pressed, however, to point them out they curtly refnsed to do so, alleging as a reason that it would display their strength to the other side. The opponents of Brown held an en- thusiastic meeting in the Columbia build- ing last. night. The several committees out canvassing for names filed their final reports, the total actual signatures now be- ing 206. In addition to this there are ninety others who will vote against Brown if given the opportunity. It was agreed to formally file the list with the trustees to-day, a special com- mittee being appointed for that purpose. Yesterday the Bay Conference officially notified the First Church of the action taken by them last Tuesday. The notice, however, had not been received by Deacon Morse atalate hour last night. It was stated yesterday, on what appears to be good authority, that Dr. Brown had finally concluded to resign. There is, however, a string attached to such a move. The pas- tor is said to have consuited a well-known atiorney, who advised him to tender his resignation, as his present position was not tenable. The lawyer made the ad- ditional suggestion that the Kirst Church could then hire the unfrocked pastor as an extra. Brown stated last night that he had not resigned as yet, and tiat_he cer- tainly would occupy the pulpit gn Sunday. At the Chutes. Owing to the unsettled state of the weather the display ofeireworks announced for this evening at the Chutes has been itponed until Saturday evening, May 2. To-morrow afternoon Elsie Viola, the intrepid and pzetty young seronsnt, will make another bailooh ascension and parachute drop. ———— An Old Man’s Death, The body of an old inmate of the Almshouse, whose name is unknown, was found yesterday afternoon lying on an unfrequented of I street. The old man had evidently wandered away from the institution and was stricken Wwith heart disease. The body was removed to the Morgue. BRAVE: KNIGHTS AND LADIES They Made Odd Fellows’ Hall a Dream of Courtly Grace. TEMPLARS ON GUARD. Reception Given by California Commandery to the Grand Commandery. WITH CALIFORNIAN GREETING. A Splendid Drill by the Corps and a Banquet With Appropriate entiments. Banners and pennants of carmine and crimson, symbols of war; shields of azure, the outward and visible sign of inward knightly true blueness; fronds of green- ery, ferns, palms and blooming roses; the white shoulders of fair women flashing and whirling under the incandescent lights; brave Sir Knights with mantles of costly velvet plush and downy ostrich plumes of sable, gallant in siiver and gold bullion and jewel-hilted rapiers, and above all the sweet strains of music filling the air with that which is more than mere melody when heard by Knights within and with- out the order—these were the pictures that made Odd Fellows’ Hall a dream of beauty last evening. The Grand Commandery Knights Temp- lar of the State of California was received 1n right courtly style. In right Californian style would be the proper synonym, for the hospitality was not confined to bows and soft words, but was gilded with the choicest treasures of the heart, and with that nor- mal, natural and spontaneous generosity and ingenuousness thatv is nothing if not Californian. ‘When the last strident note of the as- sembly call on the bugle had melted away the drill corps marched in and formed an arch of Templars’ swords, under which walked on their way to the platform the officers of the Grand Commandery of Cali- fornia. 5 The corps, under command of Sir C. H. Wilson, commandant, Sir John P. Fraser, senior warden, and 8ir James A. Christie, junior warden, performed & series of mili- tary evolutions, forming triangles, crosses, stars ana circles that were bewildering in their complexity and mechanical preci- sion. Every figure wasgreeted with con- tinuous and well-deserved applause. After the drill, Commander Sir Martin Jones delivered the address of welcome to the ‘Grand Commandery, in which he spoke of the royal preparations that had been made for the occasion, regretting the rainy weather which had prevented all the invited guests, particularly those from distant counties, from attending, and in which he promised that the entertain- ment should be rushed through in time for the guests to catch the first car and boat for home—the first car in the morn- ing. ! The orchestra, George W. Bennett con- ductor, played a selection from De Koven'’s “Robin Hood,” after which the grand march was given, and gallant knights and fair ladies engaged in the dizzy pleasures of the dance. At midnight the guests repaired to the lower hall, where plates had been laid for 600 persons, and amid the clinking of champagne glasses the toasts and responses were made. Between toasts—the wet and tne dry—songs were sung by the Knicker- bocker Male Quartet, consisting of D. M, Lawrence, first tenor; R.P. Evans, second tenor; Douglas B. Crane, first bass, and L. A. Larsen. The menn was generous. The viands were of the best and the wines were, with the exception of the champagne, of the Californian vintage. MENT. Relsling. Oysters a la Poulette, Salads. Shrimps Mayonaise. Chicken Mayonaise. Relishes. Olives. Gherkins. Celery. Vienna Rolls. Meats. Zinfandel. Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce. Botled Ham. Dessert. Roast Chicken. Smoked Tongue. Grand Vin Sec. Ice Cream and Strawberry Water Ices Assc-ted Cakes. Gateau de Soiree. Charlotte Russe Cakes. Tourte a la Duchesse. Candies. Fruit. Macaroons. Cate. The following is a list of tossts and re- sponses: “The Grand Encampment of the United States.” Response, V. E. Sir Reuben H. Lloyd, deputy grand mester of the Grand Encamp- ment. “The Grand Commandery of California.” Response, R. E. 8ir Edward 8. Lippitt, grand commander of the Grand Commandery. ‘Calitornia Commandery No. 1. Response, E. Sir W. H. L. Barnes, past commander Cali- fornia Commandery. “Our Flag.” Response, E. 8ir Eugene N. Deuprey, past commander California Com- mandery. “The Cross, the Symbol of Knighthood.” Response, Sir George E. Walk, prelate Califor- nia Commandery. “The Ladies.”” Response, Sir Samuel M. Short- ridge. “Things Unknown.” Response, E. 8ir George T. Bromley, past commander California Com- mandery. And the nights shall be filled with wine, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. The officers of California Commandery for 1896 are: Commander, E. Sir Martin Jones; generalis- simo, Sir John P. Fraser; captain-general, Sir Charles H. Wilson; prelate, 8ir George E. Walk; senior warden, 8ir Curtis H. Lindley; junior warden, Sit Edwxrd P. Cole; guards—Sir Jumes McCrosson, Sir J. Stanley Ewing, Sir Paul Boettches; nuditing committee—Sir George Haas, Sir Tliomas Kyle, Sir John F. Kennedy; committee on uniform—8ir John 0. Doane, Sir Adoiph G. Schetzel, Sir Gus E. Dorn; treasurer, Sir Asa R. Wells; recorder, Sir Hiram T. Graves; stendard bearer, 8ir George M. Pe- rine; sword bearer, Sir Orson J. Huested; warder, Sir James F. Logan; sentinel, Sir James Oglesby: organist, Sir Leon I. Stanton; trustees—Sir Reuben P, Hurlbut, Sir Brilsford P. Flint, 8ir Montgomery Godley; purveying committee—Sir William R. Jones, Sir William R. Jost, Sir Thomas L. Hill. The committees to whom the credit is due for the suce ss of the reception are as follows: 4 Executive—Em. 8ir Martin Jones, 8ir John P. Fraser, Sir Charles H. Wilsan, 8ir Curtis H. Lindley, Sir Edward P. Cole. Reception—Sir Asa R. Wells (chairman), 8ir Charles F. Crocker (vice-chairman), Sir WilHam W. Morrow, Sir Charles W, 8lack, 5ir Russell J. Wilson, Em. 8ir W. H. L. Barnes, Em. Sir George T. Bromley, Em. Sir Franklin H. Day, Em. Sir Joseph M. Litchfield, Sir William F. McNutt, Sir Samuel! G. Murphy, Sir Henry E. Highton, Sir John G. Conrad, Sir George John- son, Sir Richard P. Hammond Jr., Sir William S. Barnes, Sir Frederick W. Van Sicklen, Sir Alexey W. von Schmidt, Sir Charles E. Green, Sir James W. Burnham, Sir Arthur S. Lovelace, Sir Charles Jost, Sir William Ede, Em. Sir Brilsiord P.Flint, Em. Sir Peter Dean, Em. Sir R. Beverly Cole, Em. Sir Eugene N. Deuprey, Sir George A. Knight, Sir George E. Walk, Sir John §. Young, Sir Henry Bohls, Sir George E. Ames, Sir Hiram Tubbs, Sir Charles S. Tilton, Sir John F. Morse, Sir Thomas V. O'Brien, Sir John A. Russell, Sir Abraham Halsey, Sir Anton F. Korbel. Sir George Levis- ton, Sir Milton A. Wheaton, Sir Walter E. Dean, Sir James Simpson, Sir Samuel A. Me- Donnell. Entertainment—Sir Curtis G. Kenyon (chair- man), Sir Timothy Hopkins (vice-chairman), Sir Benjamin F. Garratt, Sir George W, Baker, Sir Thomas D. Riordan, Sir Thomas R. Horton, Sir Frank W. Marvin, Sir Alexander McNee, Sir James McNab. Sir Henry B. Russ, Sir William McCormick, Sir Charles P. Chesley, Sir John M. Curtis, Sir John L. M. Shetterly, Sir Thomas L. Hill. Music—Sir Ludwig M. Hoefler (chairman), Sir Walter C. Campbell (vice-chairman), Sir George W. Bennett, Sir Louis A. Larsen, Sir James F. Logan, Sir John C. Hughes, Sir Alfred A. Batkin, Sir Gustav Kartschoke, Sir Julius W. Lowe, Sir Leon I. Stanton. Hall and decorations—Eminent Sir Reuben P. Hurlbut (chairman), Sir Charles . Plum (vice- chairman). Sir Charles W. Decker, Sir William H. Lillie, Sir Henry J. Smith, Sir Gustay H. Umbsen, Sir Milo 8. Jeffers, Sir William H. Davis, Sir Andrew McElroy, Sir Andrew Wilkie, Sir Henry Williamson, Sir John O. Moraghan. Floor—Sir Samuel Shortridge (chairman), Sir | William H. Snedaker (vice-chairman), Sir | Richard S. Polastri, Sir Otto F. Westphal, Sir Arthur L. Piper, Sir William E. Miles, Sir Fred- erick C. Morgan, Sir John H. Brunings, Sir | Thomas H. Browne, Sir Robert J. Tyson, Sir Samuel C. Hammond, Sir Moubray R. Dundas, Bir Edward B. Hindes, Sir Willlam H. Ed- wards, Purveying—Sir William R. Jones (chairman), Sir George Haas (vice-chairman), Sir Thomas Morton, Sir Christopher C. Morehouse, Sir | Henry Kohler, Sir William R. Jost, Sir Henry | E. Mathews, Sir James Oglesby. | Press and printing — Right Eminent Sir | Hiram T. Graves (chairman),Sir Edward B Church (vice-chairman), Sir Henry L. Davis, Sir Jobn H. Mentz, Sir Charles 8. Neal, Sir | Emile Woenne, Sir William ‘A. Halstead, Sir | Charles W. Iredale. Finance—Sir George M. Perine (chairman), Sir Colin M. Boyd (vice-chairman), Eminent Sir Thomas Kyle, Sir John F. Kennedy, Sir Henry W. Westphal, Sir C. H. F. Neuhaus, Sir Charles M. Chase, Sir W. H. Frank Titus. S The invited guests of the Grand Com- | mandery were: James Ogelsby, Gale Lathrop, James B. Mer- ritt, Charles W. Hewes, William F. Pierce, George Patterson, C. E. Gillett, A. Burrell, C. Waterhouse, William C. Gould, J. Hatch, F. Dalton, F.J. French, A.G. Booth, C. G. Young, William Edwards, A. B. von Wefels- burg, C. L. Field, J. K. Firth, George H. Win- terburn, George D. Clark, William M. Kevdall, F. F, Baris, William A. Davis, H. S. Orme, H. T. Graves, A. A. Redington, E. R. Hedges, C. F. Lott, W. M. Petrie. S. H. Wagner J. H. Neff, Mr. Vanderhurst, P. W. Sumner, C. Hills (deputy grand commander of Mich! gan), G. M. Railton, C. N. Nelson, T W. Heintzleman, J. W. Rock, C. M. Conlan, E. Glover,W. D. Knights, J. E. F. Pike, R. P. Burr, R. J. Van Voorhees, S. Keil, R. P, Patterson W. Mountain, J. J. Crawford, W. Sexton, G. Graham, P. W. Serviss, F. Soer, 8. J. Rolfe, | | i | Coleman, D. E. Morgan, C. H. Wilson, C. H. Murphy, J. M. Peel, C. L. Paf ton, R. Ash, John Gillson, B. McMillan, H. J. Sadler, William F. Fonda, E. H. Morgan, Robert Smilie, Joseph F. Chandler, Wiliiam E. | Price, James N. Todd, Frank W. Cushing, Zachary T. Gilpin, Charles F. Burnham, E. 8. Tibbitts, T. H. Ward, George D. Metcalf, R. M, Powers, Charles E. Stone, R. H. Blossom, John | Garwood, John F. Merrill, Thomas H. Caswell, | D. E. Collins, F. M. Miller, George B. McKee, F. L. Jones, G. R. Eckeart, George Holland, A. M. Noble, H. N. Bsggs, George Lineabaugh, W.Downie, J. B. Coolidge, H. Lindley,W. F. Par- | ker, W.Simpson, W. L. Woodson,W. A. January, J. W.Cook, W. W. Blanchard, R. Mengel, A. | Evans, J. D. March, William Brockman, A. B. Lemmon, W. J. Daggett, M. S. Davis, E. D. Gardner, N. Blackstock, George Rounds, M. D. Goshen, A. Roseburg, L. B. Adams, Thomas Flint Jr., Thomas Flint Sr., M. B, Ferrars, J. F. Drake, J. B. Cooke, J. B, de Jarnatt, C. B. Humphrey, W. G. Dozier, W. Whicher, J. T. Jarvis, J. A. Webster, D. D. Allison, J. N. Mil- ler, E. C. Griffith, H. B. Gillis, L. F. Coburn, J. R. Tapscott, J. H. Barker, J. M. Mannon, H. H. Knapp, T. B. Cutler, B. F. Nauer, 8. D. Mayer, D. E. Norton, George J. Graham, George F. Geibner, J. H. Hall. The heaviest man whose weight is re- coraed authentically was Miles Darden of Tennessee. He weighed a little less than 1000 pounds. MR. WILLIAM MYCROFT, 546 Minna Street. 8 STRAIGHT AS A STRING,” *“AS bright as a dollar,”” ‘“‘as strong as an ox,” is William Mycroft of 546 Minna street. In the parlance of his trade he “glings the hammer,” and right merrily does the anvil resound as the sparks sput- ter and fly and the great big beads of hon- est toil fall down around and about the cheerful, healthful face of William My- croft. Isawhim yesterday. He stopped for a few momentis and told me what he thought of t.s great California herb remedy, JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSA- PARILLA. He told me how he had been suffering from a liver trouble, then pains in his back, how hie kept awake at night scratching, scratching—always scratching; how he took a medicine with iodide of potash; how the scratching became worse; then he used the California herb remedy, JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA. He mended from the first week. He got better and better; was now well. He said: “Iam glad I insisted on getting JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA. You know some druggists always try to make you take just what you doa’t want. When Iwentin for my second bottle I had to talk an hour before I got it. You bet, I get JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPA- RILLA when I want a good blood purifier. See—look at my hands and face. They are not filled with blood blotches, are they ? ‘Well, they were six weeks ago; that's be- fore I began to use JOY'S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA.” As I lett I could hear the good man beat out on his anvil— JOY'S, JOY'S, JOY’S for the jaded. GOILID MINIE. YOUNG MAN HAVING SOME EXPERI- ence in mining can secure an Interest in a ARE YOU ARE YOU ARE YOU NEW TO-DAY. S o DOCTOR SWEANY No physician in the United States is so thoroughly equipped and well prepared to treat the sick nng afflicted as this world- renowned specialist, who is permanently Jocated at 737 Market street, San Francisco. With a thorough literary and professional education, ana with extensive experience in the practice of Neryous, Chronic and Private diseases of both sexes, he cures every curable case in the catalogue of human ills. He addresses himself i par- ticular to cases that have baffled the skill and science of other doctors. His patients are among the most intelligent citizens of every trade and profession, including mer- chants, manufacturers, mechanics, miners, farmers, laborers, literary and professional gentlemen, many of whom have exhausted the skill of their family physicians with- out obtaining relief. His name 1s a suffi- cient guarantee of a perfect cure of every case Le undertakes. Consult him, either in person or by letter, this day. A confi- dential chat may save you much mental and physical suffering and add golden years to your life. Subject to _fainting spells, dizziness, ——— Dalpitation of the heart, heat flashes, numbness of the hands or feet, or any other symptom indicating a diseased heart or paralysis of the Brain? ————— 0 DAINS about the loins, loss of your natural cheerfulness, and with melancholy thoughts and inclinations to get up and run away ? coated tongue, bad —A—B—E—-—Y—wbremh, élimp]es on your faceand back, and with a dull, lJangunid feeling in every partof your body ? which causes you to M blush with shame should your mother or your sister know of it? every now and then MU— breaks out on differ- ent parts of your body and makes your life a perfect hell? Nervous and run down, with thin Constipated and dys- peptic with headache, The victim of some loathsome disease Troubled with a bad blood disease which The offspring of con- sumptive parents, and is the fatal gift left to youasalegaey? Troubled with pain in the back, night losses, sediment in your urine, weakness of your bladder or kidneys? Losing your mem- ory and do you toss around in your bed and get up tired and despondent and unreireshed ? Afflicted with a pre- mature loss of your youthful vigor, weak- ——— 1155 0f seXU1a] OTgans, and are you a victim of the evil effects of youthful follies and marital excesses? Happily married. or is there some slight defect which tends ——— 0 separate husband and wife? Afflicted with dis- eased eyes, such as inflammation of the e Hds or"globes, dbn- ness of vi n or blindness of one or both eyes, ulceration, abscesses, tumors of lid or globe, cancer of lid or eyeball, paralysis | of nerves of eye, closing of the eye duct, squinting, cross eyes,'sore eyes, feeling of sand in the eyes, or pain on exposure to light? flammation of the Menm. ulceration or catarrh, deafness or paralysis, singing or roaring noises, thickened drum or puru- lent discharging from the eye ? Afflicted with any chronicdisease of the head, heart, throat, — |01 g3, Stomach, liver or bowels? —— {0T€. Diles, hemor- rhoids, fistula, varicocele, hydrocele, swell- ing or tenderness of glands? Afflicted with ear tioubles, such as in- Afflicted with any disease of the kid- If you are troubled with any of theabove symptoms, then, reader, TAKE T:ME BY THE FORELOCK. Never put off a duty you owe to yourselt or another. Half the evils of life come from things deferred. The time to see the doctor is when you realize that you have violated the laws of Nature. Don’t wait tor the penalty to manifest itself. A little medicine now will do more than a whole drugstore by and by. So come to Dr. Sweany at once, and in sacred confidence tell him all. He will do more than help you keep your secret. He will help you forget it. Diseases fully cured soon cease to be even matters of memory. Don’t confess to your family. It will only cause them shame and grief. Don't tell your closest friend. Friend- ships are not always lasting, and the temptation to gossip is great. If you cannot come to San Francisco write Dr. Sweany fully and freely, with the assurance that your letter will be kept carefully concealed from curious eyes. Office hours—9 A. M. to 12M., 2to 5 and 7to8 P. M. Address F. L. SWEANY, M.D., 737 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. 1695-- TATES 1195 HE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF REAL Estate Taxes will be delinquent April 27th, at 6 P. M., after which 5 per cent will be added. The office will be open from 7 t0 9 . M. o0n April 25th. SATURDAY, April 18th, POSITIVELY last BECKS. day for receiving C: JAMES N. BLOCK, Tax Collector. San Francisco, April 16. 1896. BL.OOD POISON L3 A‘!E!fl“ Sore Turoat, Fumpics, Cobp Colored Epots, Aches, Mouth, Failingt Write COORE) 1307 Masonle Temi X 0., 11, for proofs of cures. well devel , thorough! 1) ine, situ- atea 1.’6'5553-. 3 “::,:"n"‘.“ o mo:‘g?m;p:':- Intendent if qualifie rough investigation as to $5000 10 $10,000, Address 0, box 107, Call g‘_;- orst cases cured b