The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1896. 9 WORK OF THE Y. M. I. COMPLETED. Santa Rosa Chosen as the Site for the Next| Grand Council, Which Will Meet in August. NEW GRAND OFFICERS CHOSEN. Sentiment of the Order An- nounced on the Question of Temperance. AGREED THAT POLITICS MUST BE IGNORED. Persons Engaged in the Sale of Liquor Not Eligible to Office in the Institute. Grand President, James Gallagher of: Fresno. Grand Secretary, San Francisco. George Stanley of and the following resolution was unani- mously adopted as presented by A. R. Denicke of San Jose: _ Resolved, That any member using or claim- ing to use the name of the Y. M. I for political purposes, directly or indirectly, and being found guilty thereof after a fair and impartial trial by an arbitration committee, shall be ex- pelled from the order forever. Another resolution introduced by J. R. Dowdall was adopted providing that the district deputy grand presidents shall form district councils within their re- spective districts where feasible, and that such councils be organized on the lines of the present Fourth District council. It was decided that at all future meet- ings of the Grand Council three members of the Grand Council shall be appointed by the chair to act in conjunction with the local committees on arrangements. PSR | FATHER YORKE’S LECTURE. A Clear Exposition of the Catholic Sentiment. HAYWARDS, Ca May 22.—Every seat in Native Sons’ Hali was filled this evening to hear Rev. P. C. Yorke speak on a subject of much interest to Catholics and tend to show that they were enemies of the constitution. “Is it not a glorious record that the Cathbolics bave? They are the founders of religious liberty on this soil, and the red of the flag is as dear to their blood as to the blood of any other man of any class or creed.” The speaker then quoted several con- spicuous examples in which Catholics had proved their loyalty, and in which they had been entrusted with delicate and im- portant missives on behalf of the young Republic. “When the Catholics of America pre- sented an address to George WasMngton and spoke to him of religious liberty and expressed the hope that the country which granted it would never regret it. Washington in reply said that he believed that as America became more liberal there would be less danger of a return to intol- erance, and he added that America would never forget that the chief assistance which she had received in her glorious struggle for independence had come from aland in which the Catholic religion was professed as the religion of the people— the land of France. “In these lstter days wken we are a great Nation, greater than any other Na- tion in the world in material resources, when we are able to defend our own shores from foreign aggression, it is not easy to understand what was the condition of the thirteen colonies when they gained their struggle for independence. In Canada was a body of men professing the Catholic religion, alien to them in blood and in the British House of Commons as to the constituency of the American armies at the time of the Revolution, wherein it was reported that one-fourth of the American army was made up of native-born Ameri- cans, one-fourth of English and Scoteh and one-half of those men who in these days are proclaimed to be unfit for office because of their birthplace and because of the blood that flows in their veins—one- half of that army was made up of natives of Ireland. At this stage of the lecture a man in the audience exclaimed, *‘That'sa liel” put he was drunk and thought that he was cor- roborating the speaker, as was afterward gscertained. Father Yorke misunderstood the remark of the inebriated individual and declared that he was willing to lay $100 on the table in proof of his assertion that such a report was made to the House of Commons. The inebriate in the meantime had fallen asleep and snored approval of the subse- quent proceedings. The next subject touched upon by Father Yorke was that of the present talk about coast defenses. ‘‘Against a nation whose red and bloody flag has scared the world we are building a steel-clad navy and erecting coast defenses; not against poor Catholic Spain, not against Catholic France, but against that Protestant coun- try, England. “When we see a battle-ship like the Oregon enter our beautiful bay, with our glorious old flag floating from her mast- head, after having beaten in speed every- thing on the sea, we feel the greater pride that American genius could conceive such a work; that American skill could com- plete it, and that she is devoted to the defense of American interests, And when we look upon such splendid battle-ships let us ask who wasthe father of the Ameri- plained, being confined to matters of scripture and revelation. Father Yorke was obliged to cut his lec- ture short, because he had to take the last car, at 10 o'clock, for San Francisco. He was liberally applauded throughout and made a marked impression upon his hearers. — e AFTERNOON CONCERT. The Oakland Band Discoursed Cholce Selectlons. ‘While the delegates were in session the Oakland Concert band of sixteen pieces, under the direction of Georze H. Richard- son, discoursed sweet music from the grand stand on B street. The sidewalks were lined with people and the street was cov- ered with country teams and vehicles from the neighboring orchards and ranches. ° At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a free dance until 5:15 was given in the large hall of the Native Sons. After Father Yorke's lecture there was another dance, lasting till niidnight. The following was the programme of the afternoon concert: Grand mareh, from “Tannhauser” (Wagner); overture, ‘Barber of Seville” (Rossini); grand polonaise for clarionet (Beissig), played by Messrs. Ernst and Keogh; concert waltz, “Pline Q'0r”’(Waldtufel) ; selection from “Robin Hood" (De Koven); overture, *‘Village Life in ye Olden Time” (Le Thiere); “Mill in the Forest” (Bilenberg); grand fantasia, from “Il Trova- tor,” for cornet and barytone, (Verdi); inter- mezzo, “Bal @'Infant” (Jaxone); concert galop; “Frolic” (George Blake). HOW “OLD BETS" DIED. She Was the First Elephant to Be Brought to This Country.j It would take a pretty ancient showman I Me (flmug R DRECTO Twos B T.H.MORRIS o TG RAND DiRECTOR Tortraits of the Leading Officers of the Grand Council, Y. M. L, elected at Haywards Yesterday. Grand President James Gallagher Is a Leading Attorney in the City of Fresno; First Vice-President George D. Pyne is a Prominent Citizen of Virginia City, Nev.; John O'Donnell, Grand Treasurer, Is a Popular Business Man of Oak- land ; George A. Stanley, Grand Secretary, Is One of the Best Known of San Francisco’s Y. M. L; Grand Directors McGinnis, Morris, O’Brien and Dockweiler Arc of San Francisco, and Judge St. Sure Is a Prominent Attorney of Alameda. [dketched from life by a *“Call”’ artist.] First Vice-President, George D. Pyne of Virginia City. Second Vice-President, ©0’Donnell of San Francisco. Chaplain, Bishop Montgomery of Los Angeles. Grand Treasurer, John O’Donuell of Oskiand. Inside Sentinel, BL. J. Calaghan of Livermore. Outside Sentinel, F. Ocean View. Grand Marshal, F. J. C. McHenry of San Luis Obispo. . Board of Directors—Presldent, A. F. St. Sure of Alameda; Secretary, Gebrge Stanley of San Francisco; Frank B. Hoo- son of Haywards, Dr. H. T. Morris of San Francisco, T. B. McGinnis of San Francisco, C. T. Healy of San Fran- clsco, J. J. O’Brien of San Franciseo, James C. A. SBullivan of L. E. Mahan of Eureka, J. K. Dock- weiler of Los Angeles. HAYWARDS, Can, May 22—The twelfth session of the Grand Council, Y. M. L, came to an end this afternoon after having scored a victory for u.xs temper- ance element of the order. The election of grand officers and their installation and the debate on three amendments to the constitution con- sumed the whole of the day. The temperance question was brought into the council by the introduction of a resolution by Father McKenna as follows: Resolved, That no person engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquor will be eligible to any office in‘the gift of the grand or subordinate councils of the Y. M. I, After considerable discussion for the purpose of testing the sense of the con- vention the resolution was adopted. Following on the heels of this camea resolution to the effect that hereafter no person engaged in the manufacturé or sale of spirituous liquors should be eligible to membership in the order. This provoked a debute in which the temper- ance sentiment had full sway which was ended by the author of the resolution withdrawing it. ‘The next subject of importance was that of the order in politics. The sentiment of the council was unequivocally to the effect that politics should not be introduced into the order either directly or indirectly, others, namely, the relations of the mem- bers of thatchurch to the American Re- ‘panblic in general and the State in particu- . The speaker was introduced by Past President John Lynch, and was most en- _thu.mucnlly rect "ed. He began by say- ing: ‘“When the founders of this Republic es- tablished it in the beginning they estab- lished it upon the broad basis of civil and religious liberty. They knew that they were building up a great nation, and therefore they laid the foundstions broad and deep. Now, after 120 years of expe- rience, during which time this Republic has grown to be a mighty nation, we have learned that the foundations which the fathers laid were none too broad and nene too deep. “We have learned that it is a safe thing to trust the common Jpeople, that itis a safe thing to give a large and rational liberty, and we have learned above all things that it is a safe thing to allow to every man and every woman the privilege of worshiping God asevery man’s and woman's conscience shall dictate. And it 1s strange that after these 120 years we should find on the scit of this Republic an attempt made to narrow the old foun- dations and to abridge the liberties which the fathers gave. ‘It seems strange that any man or body of men would, in the light of this ad- vanced age, seriously pretend or seriously intend to break down that religious lib- erty which has proved the safegnard of this Republic, or to try to establish in its stead the doctrine of bigotry and intoler- ance which has soaked the soil of this world 1n tears and blood. Yetthe attempt is making and every one knowsit. Our papers reek with the doings of those who try to refuse to a certain religious body in this country the guarantees of the consti- tution. “Politicians are compeiled to dicker and to bargain with them, and men who are called statesmen go on iheir knees to the representatives of secret societies, to the bats and the owls that come out of their caves and affront with their presence tne god of day. “Imight ask what is the reason that this should be so, or when in their long history Catholics have ever been guilty of word or deed or policy or fact that would language, and it was absolutely necessary that the neutrality of the French Cana- dians should be secured. : “Whom did Washington, Jefferson and the rest pick out for this irission?”’ asked Father Yorke. ‘“Were they afraid that a Catbolic would not serve liberty? Were they afrald of the Roman collar and the habit of the priest? No. Their minds ‘were too broad and liberal for that. They picked out a Catholic who was a priest, and a Jesuit at that—John Carroll, who was Bishop of Baltimore, and sent him to Canada to negotiate with the French- Canadians, and those negotiations were successful. ‘‘Again at the critical period of our Civil ‘War, when it was feared that the Govern- ments of Europe might recognize the Confederate States as belligerentsand that the revolution would act disastrously to the cause of the Union, do you think that Beward and Lincoln were afraid of the priests? When tbe French Emperor Napolean III was ready and anxious to recognize the South in order that he might be able to set up an empire in Mexico, when his message recognizing the South was already set up in type in the office of the London Times ready to be published as soon as the news should be received that he had delivered it, who was it that stopped his hena? Lincoln and Seward had sent over from New York not some of the patriots who are to-day going around pro- tecting this country for a salary, not some of those Orange and Canadian patriots who have left their country for their country’s good and for this country sor- row—no; they chose to go to the front on that important diplomatic mission that great and good man, the Archbishop of New York, John Hughes. “Whenever you examine the patriotsin their patriotic garb you may see the orange sticking out in the rents of the red, white and blue, and when you hear them accuse the priests and bishops and Jesuits roll and John Hughes. “Those men who make the charge of disloyalty against Catholics forget the ser- vices which the Catholic laity rendered to this country during her wars.”” Here the speaker told of the result of an investigation by a committee appointed by Y can navy? / Geo A STAnLEY GRan 0 SECRETARY -AF S dune Grano Ditie’y Tom The first man who swept the seas in American bottoms and vulled down the flag of England, the father and patriarch of that grand squadron which defends our rights was saucy Jack Barry, who, on being asked his name, replied: “I'm Jack Barry; half Yankee, half Irish.” “If Catholics are disloyal,” continued the speaker, it ought to be mighty easy to find it out sfter 120 years. If weare not true to the flag, the lynx eyes of those who hate us ought to be able in that time to spy out some act of disloyalty on our part.” Father Yorke nexttold of the loyalty of Catholics during the Mexican War, when the men of Spanish blood and Cath- olic faith appealed to them not to fight against their brothers in the faith, but in vain. At Cerro Gordo the leader of the charge of American troops, who was struck down by a cannon ball, was Genersl James Shields, the man who, when the American army left the City of Mexico, remained until the last, waving the American flag. “It has been said that during the war Irish Catholics deserted the flag. Even the number of deserters was given, and a man who claims to be a major, but who is no more a major than Iam, professes to have been a witness of it.” Father Yorke then spoke of the report started by enemies of Catholics to the ef- fect that 70 per cent of the Irish soldiers deserted during the war of the rebellion. The persons who started and published the report saia that the figures were taken from a book called “The German.” The speaker obtained a copy of the work at one of the public libraries and found that the book did not contain a word on the subject. The head of the ‘War Department at Washington had time and again announced that the department did not possess and had not kept any record of the nationality or creed of the scldiers of the Civil War. The relation of the church to the state, the former dealing with matters concern- ing the soul the latter with the affairs of the body, was explained by the speaker from the Catbolic point of view. They were not in conflict; each had itsinde- pendent sphere of action. The lecture closed with a clear definition of the Catholic idea of the infaliibility of the Pope, that infallibility, it belng ex- GRano Treasuvrer [ Jonn ? Osritin Grano Dikecror to remember ““Old Bets.” She was the first elephant ever brought into this coun- try for exhibition purposes. So far as is known, she was the first elephant ever im- ported here at all. Zachariah Bailey was one of a family of showmen belonging to Danbury, Conn. In later life Zach Bailey settled at Sowers, ‘Westchester County, and about this time made up his mind that it would pay to import an elephant and show it about the country. After some trouble and much expense he succeeded in 1825 in bringing over a female elephant, which he called Betsy. Her keepers always alluded affec- tionately to her as “Old Bets,” and as “Old Bets” showmen of to-day refer to her. Zachariah Bailey traveled all over the country with “Old Bets"—that is, he took her wherever the audience he could collect would pay traveling expenses. No rail- road had accommodations for such an ani- mal, so she had to be walked from town to town, her keepers accompanying her on horseback or on foot. Whenever they struck a town where the show was likely to pay a_balt was called, an old barn in the neighborhood hired for a temporary showroom, and the country folks for miles around crowded to see the wonderful beast. To-day the public appetite is satiated with elephants, but in those primitive days one such animal was enough to col- lect a crowd of gaping spectators, Bailey made a lot of money out of his venture. Betsy came to atragic end. She trav- ersed t{u country for about ten years. In the fall of 1834 she was exhibited in the town of Alford, Me. As she was leaving the place, after the performance, she was shot and killed by a bullet fired from the window of an old mill that stood beside the road where she was passing. It was supposed that some ignorant countryman, alarmed at the sight of the strange beast, fired the shot which killed her. Eha marksman was never discovered, and Bailey lost in “Old Bets” a good source of profit. York Recorder. ———————— Skepticism. “This weather,” said the oldest inhabi- tant, *reminds me of my boyhood days.” *But they say it is the hottest April ever known.” “Who says so?” “The weather officials.” “Well, mebbe ’tis, mebbe ’tis,”" he grumbled. “But if they don’t show that they know any more about the weather we used to have than they do apout the weather we're going to have, I'm blest if I wouldn’t rather depend on my own recol- lection.” PUBLIC SCHOOLS OUT OF POLITICS, Frauds of Former Years Which Have Been Corrected. GLARING CENSUS ERRORS The Way It Was Stuffed by Chief Marshal Hilde- | brand. IT CANNOT BE DONE NOW. Reforms Begun by Superintendent Anderson Continued by Marshal W. W. Bausman. In former years numerous scandals pre- vailed in the Public School Department, especially relative to the annual school census and the appointment of teachers. It was alleged, upon seemingly good grounds, that there was altogether too much politics in the department, and that teachers and census marshals were eelected for political reasons rather than for their £tness to teach or their executive ability to take an accurate census of the children, and so save the department thousands of dollars and the residents and taxpayers of San Francisco from a great deal of unnecessary annoyance. Happily, now the schools seem to be virtually out of politics, and the City government—at least the School Department— is more notable for the vurity than the corruption of its administration. The public, doubtless, has not forgotten | the existence of the so-called “‘tough old | Board of Education,” the disgraceful sales | of teachers’ examination questions and | the gigantic census frauds of 1888. In that | memorable gear E. C. Hildebrand, a Dem- ocrat, was_the Chief Census Mnrsiml, and the record which he made was a most notorious one, necessitating the retakin; of the entire census, at a cost of some $a00§ to the City. The Yesults, though, were well worth the expenditure, for the most glaring frauds were unearthbed by the in- vestigations of J. W. Anderson, who was | then Superintendent of Schools, and if | Hildebrand had not decamped the State before filing and swearing to his report he | surely would have been sent to San Quen- | tin. '1n those aays 1t was the fashion to stuff the returns, so as to secure a big share of money from the State apportion- ment. The post of Census Marshn}’—snlnr 0 $5 a day—was a political sinecure. No| attempt was made by the marshals to fake a correct census, or to swear to their re- turns. All they had to do was to go into a corner grocery and fill up their books with false and fradulent entries. Since the time of Superintendent An- derson, or rather of Marshal Hildebrand, a greatly improved system has prevaiied. For the lust four years, especially, the cen- sus has been taken under the experienced supervision of William W. Bausman with the most satisfactory results. The story of the frauds of 1898 is forcibly told by Superintendent Anderson.. In his annual report for that year he says: ‘We have long been impressed with the fact that for many years nothing even approxi- mating to & correct census of the children of the City has been taken. Last year (1887) when the census was taken we had neither the knowledge nor the experience that was requi- site to pass a correct judgment 83 to the char. acter of the census, and as all the reports of field work and that of the Chief Census Marshal appeared to have been properly made out, we passed the report of the latter to the State sue perintendent. At the proper time this year the Board of Education appointed E. C. Hildebrand as Chiet Census Marshal and forty-one assis‘ant mar- shals. As has been customary in this City, and as we are informed throughout the State, the marshals entered upon the discharge of their duties withoui having taken the oath of office. Itseems to have been the general un- derstanding that it was not necessary for the marshals to take thisoath, * * * Fearing that the regort of Chief Marshal Hil- debrand would not be accepted by the State Superintendent, we conferred with him and through him with the Attorney-General. The opinion of both these officers convinced us that no other course remained but that of re- taking the entire census. * * * We accord- ingly ordered that the census should be again taken throughout the entire City. The utmost care was observed in selecting the chief mar- shal and the assistants. We even went 50 far as to secure the services of one on whose knowledge, experience and integrity we could positively rely. When the reportof Chief Census Marshal Jerome Spaulding was presented,'it was found that a vast disparity existed between it and that presented by Hildebrand. According to thatof the latter the number of children in the City between the ages of 5 and 17 was shown to be 82,963, and the the number below 17, 401. The Spluldms census showed the number between 5 and 17 to be onmly 57,713 and the number below 5 to be 21,458, a de- crease in the number between 5 and 17 of 22,980, and an increase in the number be- low 5 of 4057. Chief Marshal Jerome Spaulding was succeeded by W. J. Keightley, the imme- diate _predecessor of Marshal Bausman. The following retorns made by him for the last four years show a normal but not unreasonable increase in the school census childre: 0.006 3 1,822 The first term of Marshal Bausman was served under Superintendent Bcott, who originated the idea of the census blanks that are now sent to all homes and so se- cure the listing of many children who would otherwise be missed. Experienced and trustworthy men are now preferred in the taking of the census, and to prevent fraud neither the Chief Marshal nor any of his assistants can draw any pay until their reports have been sworn to and ap- proved by the Superintendent of Schools. PERILS OF A JOKE. It Was Only a Little One, but It Cost the Jokers Much Law and $900. This story illustrates the perils of prac- tical joking in Germany. Eighteen months ago four gentlemen of leisure from the Rhine country went to the kirmess in Bullay. 1hey rode about with a cabby and drank wine, and drank wine and rode about with a cabby until they were overtaken by the con- ditions of mind and body which accom- pany these performances at German festi- vals. Then they began to dispute with the cabman as to the weight of his horse and cab. Eventually they offered him 50 pfennigs (or about 12 cents a pound) for the wbole equipage. He acceptea the offer. The horse and cab went on the scales and registered 3000 pounds. The whole outfit was worth about $75, so the cabman hastened to surrender it and demand his 12 cents a pound, or $360 in all. The four men of leisure then pro- tested that it was all 8 mistake—a joke, in fact—and they couldn’t think of paying $360 for a $75 equipage. They went away, but the cabman sent cab and horse after them by express, C. 0. D. When the four gentlemen of leisure refused to follow the practical part of the joke further the cab- man sued them. He carried on the case from court to court, in response to their appeals from each successive decision 1n his favor, and two weeks ago obtained the final judgment in his favor from the High Court of Justice in Coblenz. The costs, meantime, had risen to $540, so the four gentlemen of Jeisure were ordered by the court to pay $900, all told. That is the total cost of the practical joke about the cabman’s $75 outfit, excepting the private retainers, which, for the defense of the four jokers through the steady legal fight of a year and a balf, are said to amount to about $600 more. 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