The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 9, 1897, Page 17

U —— SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1897. Goldsmit School BRAHAM LINCOLN, THE NATION'S MARTYR. t we join with our fathers in erecting at| Golden Gate & fitting monument of A d to aid the way possible, and hat we recommend to ail brothers 7 become members of D . sion Co: 1: Fraxx R. HANDLEY, Adj thing that tends (0 exalt the name of Lincoln. | Of all our public men, irom first to last, he is | nearest to the people, sud t truly represents the true | r of these regardsin | n or any one eise. Lincoln | iest and most unselfish of | But perbaps the very fact ily recognized by our | d in the wayof building & His monument wiil al be in of men, and Do amount of stone | would be more og. | " With the fur seals and the university I have far too much on hand now to Write anything for | you for publication s week—unless out of | said you can uses mething. Very truly your DAVID S. JomDAN. | GHTS. Lincoln is the kindliest and most un- | The more the young people of this country study the character of Abraham | Lincoln the more they will appreciate the ! heritage of America for a home. RusseLy A. ALGER. Secretary of War. Good. JoaquiN MILLER. The savior of his country shounid be honored by the chiidren and youth of the | land. A. E.Wixsre, | President Eiucationa! Society, Boston, Mass. Mr. Lincoln’s fame is the heritage of his countrymen. No honors too great can be paid to his memory. Cuavxcey F. Brack, President Association of Democratic Clubs of the United States. | | jHG | White, T. J. ] | black mud bottom of our ponds till you | What if the ships go down in me? ) know the grandeur of our flat country till | he Sons of Vet ¥ every camp of the orc llew. Iam pleased cisco camp jomed with g this movem s pave been deemed wortiy ction to fill important positions in the ive couneil of eacampme: as oy resoiution se and recommi anddo sll they ca monument to the great commander Quartermagier: Llease pay to Dz ~ # /ot Frezz Longfellow | nie Smith Senool, Frank on s Anuie M. Haga: School, Mrs. gan prineipal Waliter N. Bush prineip. iss Ids E. Coles principa mmar School, Silas A. White nford Primary School, Miss | rowley principal; Starr King Pri- | Miss Kate Conkin principal; School, Miss C. K. Riordan princi- . R. F. Greenan Washington Grammer | as B. White principal; Webster | ol. Miss Agnes M. Manaing prin- | Letters From Sympathizers. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFOR: 8y | AND NEVADA, G. A. R., 6 EDDY STR E4X FRANCISCO, Csl., Mey 4, 1897. The foregoing circular of the Lincoln Monu- ment League is approved by the department commander, as it is in line with action upon the subject taken by the Thirtieth Encamp- | ment recently held atSslinas. Posts are urged 10 take hold of the project in their respective localities, and by vigorous prosecution of the ‘work help 10 make it & speedy success. N. P. CHIPXAN, Department Commander. T. C. MASTELLER, Assistant Adjutant-General. | SAN FrANCISCO, Cal., May 4, 1897. | W. W. Stome Esq., President Lincoln Monument | League, San Francisco, Cal.—DEAR SIE: At the | eucsmpment of the Sous of Veterans, recently | neld st Salinas, the following resolutions were unsnimously sdopted : SALINAS, Cal., April 23, 1897. Eesoled, By the Division of California and of the armies and navies in which our fathers | fought. You can command me and through me the division of California and Hawaiian Islands, Sons of Veterans, in any and every way. If you so desire my adjutant ean furnish you with the addresses of the captains of all our | camps. Piease send me one book of certificates for | my pessonsl use. YoursinF.,C.and L., CEARLES L. PiERce, Division Commander. NEW YORE, May 1, 1897, W. W. Stome Esq, 3% Haight street, San Francisco, Cal.—DEAR SIE: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of she 21st ult. and to say that anything I can do in the way of fos- tering patriotic sentiments among our school- children I shouid be very gisd to do. We are constantly keeping the matter in mind in the management of our scnoo's in this city. Yours very truly, HENRY W. TaPr. May 5, 1897. W. W. Stone, 522 Haight street, San Franciseo— End School, Miss Ella L. McCar- | Hawaiian lslands Sons of Veterans, U.S. A., | Dearsi: 1'am deeply interested in every- eifish of all our public men. Very truly | ours, DavID S. JORDAN. oln was & man, oppressed by the cares, d by the environment, beset by the s common to al men are best seen in per<pect ve. JoHN P. IRISH. 1g that on the Pacific Coast, which | was true to the cause of freedom and of union, | & monument should be erected to the memory of the greatest leader of that noble cause. . 8. SENATOR MCBRIDE. | Indorsement. When W. W. Stome, president of the Lincoln Monument League, first proposed | the idea of raising funds for a monument | Abraham Lincoln by popular subserip- ns, be wrote to the leading men cf the ! Nation, inviting from them an expression | of their opinion of the great war Presi- | | dent. The followine are & few of the many eplies that came pouring back in every | mail: | I am in hearty sympathy with the | patriotic undertaking of the Lincoin Mon- ment League to erect 8 memorial to the | | “Great Liberator” in your Golden Gate | | rark. PresipENT McKINLEY. Abraham Lincoln is my beau ideal of an | American patriot and statesman. GEoReE C. PERKINS. 1 sympathize most | purpose of your league. JaMES G. MAGUIRE: beartily with the I want to see a monument erected in Golden Gate Park especially asa patri- otic lesson to the children and to visitors | from other countries. | GexeRaL CLARKSON, | Commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. | Distance cannot lessen the interest of | the people in the greatest American that ver lived. Cuarues R. SKINNER, | State Superintendent of N. Y. Schools. T hove that you will be successful in your efforts to increase the feeling of Fatriotism in pupils and patriots. W. T. Hazas, U. 8. Commissioner of Education. The idea is & most happy one. Rev. De. £. R. Druie 1 sympathize greatly with the object of | your work. FrepERICK D. GRANT. A good thing. GexerarL T. H. GoopuMax. I beg leave to express my appreciation ! of the sentiment which prompts the move- ment you mention. Rorert T. LiNcoLs. I indorse the plsn to do honor to the large-minded patriot. Abraham Lincoln. CarDINAL James Gissons (Baltimors). | ment, | General | to you and your associates. | Abraham Lincoln | patron saint. I am heartily infavor of your move- | Lewis MILLER, | President Chautauqua System. | You may rely on me to give the matter | | such encouragement as my limitea time and my ability will permit. J. R. SovEREIGN, Master Workman, Knights of Labor. | I should be very happy to be of service | J. C. Stusss. | I wish you success in your undertaking. | E. F. Lowp. | Iam in hearty sympathy with the pat- riotic movement. Sauver T. Brack, | State Superintendent California Schools. | Before all other names the name of | hearts of the Sons of Veterans. He is our | Cuarres L. PIERCE, Division Commander Sons of Veterans. | It is certainly fitting that there should | be a monument to the martyred Lincoln in your Golden Gate Park. I wish you much success. E. A. Joxzs, State Superintendent Schools Ohio. The name of Lincoln is everywhere re- vered. CoroxEr C. Masox KIsse In this age of devotion to money the | character of Lincoln, with its rugged | honesty, poetic strength and warm | bumanity, stands steady and _serene, our | “El Capitan” among men. Yours in the | sacred bonds of patriotism. FraxcEs E. WILLARD. Asa typical American Lincoln’s career | and character should be constantly pre- | sented to the attention of all-of our peo- | ple. Yours ruly, Jaxss B. Buoo. | 1am in the fullest symoathy with your | suggestion. Very truly yours, | Divip S. Jormax. | I will take pleasure in doing what I can | for you in your enterprise. Yours very truly, C. H. MrsANs, State Superintendent of North Carolina. Abraham Lincoln is big enough for the whole people, irrespective of race, creed or | politics. C. H. BarmiveroN, | President S. F. Board of Education. You are engaged in a noble work. Marmiy KELLOGG, President University of California. I want to help you out in your nobie work. HeLes H. GARDENER. I will gladly co-operate with Senmator Perkins. StepHEN M. WHITE Grand Army posts on the Pacific Coast are urged to take hold of this matter in | man, Superintend, their respective localities and by vigorous prosecution of the work help to make it a speedy success. N. P. CHIPMAN, Department Commander G. A. B. (In General Orders.) Anything I can do to forward the pur- pose of your leazue will be cheerfully done. S. G. HiLs Lam in favor of the move. of Schools of Santa Ciara County; E. W. Davis, Sonoma County; Rol Cubbere, A. Foshay County; Cla intendent Yolo County; City Superintendent, Alameda; Webster, City Superintendent, San Fran- cisco. Roll of Membership and Gon- tributors. Tre Cart wili publish from time to time tbe roli of membership in the Lin- coln Monument Leag The following names have aiready been handed in President of the United States William E. Mc 1 United States Senatar George C. Perkins, United States Senator White, United States Senator Geoi w. McBride, E. F. Loud, James G. Maguire, Governor James H. Budd, George Wash- ton Cox, L. Wadham, Silas A. White, H. E. Huntington, J. C. Stubbs, T. H. Goodman, R. H. Webster, Colonel C. Ma- son Kinne, Elisha Brooks, Joseph Steele, J. Murray Bailey, C. W. Goraon, F. R. Handley, J. A. Whiteside, L. E. Peck, F. J. Peck, W. F. Howe, W. E. Lawrence, A. M. Ashemielter, H. F. Kuhn, P. R. Lund, El:izabeth d’Arcy Kinne, Miss A. G. Cat- lin, Colonel George Stone, A. Mautner, J. H. Care's, P. H. Sol Caben, Mrs. J. Morray Bailey, T. C. Masteller, J. H. Banfeld, J. Karminsky . H. Mass, Charles Edelman, Mrs. Charles Edeiman, Jennie E. Stoue, Loaisa J. Ma- gaire, W J. Maguire, Harold Ma- guire, Colonel W. R. Smedberg, Henry Schaefer, M. F. Bowers, Victor R. Ulman, Colonei Henry C. Dibble, Mra. ble, Harry Dibble, Warren Otiver Dibb Peter Kelly, perintendent San Diego; J. uperintendent Los Angeles Dibble, .. B. Jerome, W.J. Coey, Eugene Beauce, | W. Ford Thomas, William D. English, J. 2. Fulton, J. J. Chappell, F. J. Fulton, | George H. Fletcher, J. J. Hardy, C.B. McCreazh, Fred F. G. Harper, J. S. Mattoon, J. Dan- glada, L M. Mattoon, Cnarles C. Leavitt, W. H. Boden, Colonel J. J. Tobin, W. P. Wand, W. W. Stone, Eugene Wiegand, Hon. Russell A. Aiger, Joaquin Miller. C. C. Bush, a March Armstrong, Professor Eimer E. Brown, P. F. Walsh, H. E. Badger, E. P. Edsall, J. C. Skelly. W. H. Webber, B. L. Har- A. L McCulloagn, in Walsh, Kathleen b, D. D. McK W. E. Wals sfford W tate encampment at Salinas orsed coin the organiz Enown 8 Monument League, purpose of nce in the comrades who 1fy our sincere love and admiration for the great snd good man whose name we bea Passedbys Bbraham Lincoln as a Man. You do not know the quality of the lily which it You do not have scen the white water sends up Into the light. towering oak or guess the hidden it lifts its head in som elm. And you cann | strength of our democracy till you see it | rise pure and majestic in the person of | Abrabam Lincoln. THE GREAT EMANGIPATOR. ‘ | nois shunned the prairie lands and chose The early settlers of Indiana and 1lli- the woods for their homes. They would not trust the fertility of soil thatdid not bear tall trees. But later settlers found that the prairies were as rich as the wooded lands. So the nations of Europe bad no faitn in democrac; Bat those who knew our American peop'e best guessed at the greatness hid in its broad stretctes of monotonous commonplace. Abraham Lin- | coln appeared, coming from those prairies of the Wesz, and the world learned at last what our democracy means. There bave been kings snd queens whose position was 50 exalted that eti- quette forbade them to speak to trad men whose goods they bought. Such majesty exists even down to this present day. But the time came when those same | exalted monarchs found one lower than a tradesman, a day laborer, in fact, taking his place among the rulers of the earth. Their great Embassadors were accredited | hali of one of the greatest powers. When his course wasrun they awoke at lastto the fact that he not only had been one with them, but the greatest of them all. But this is not the best we may say of him. His hich position did not make him great. He was greater than his posi- tion. Weak men are made proud by pro- motion. He was made humble. Cheap men stop to admire themselves and think how great they are. He thought of the creat mew duties leid on him and sought how he might discharge them faifhfully and well. 1fueshowed the world the grea ness of the common peoble, it was that his virtnes were the virtues of common lile. Honesty, faithiulness and common- sense; kindness, good-humor, readiness to learn; trust in Goa and in his fellow- men, without over-confidence in himselt, these are qualities the common people know and love. Having these he had the people with hirm. They followed him as if obeying the voice of their own con- science. Other nations may tell us of heroes who | were great 1n wars of conquest, masters of diplomacy, creators of new parties and policies. We will join with them in hon- oring whatever is truly grest in thoss | heroes of theirs. We will rejoice in great ness and goodness wherever it may be found. But we hold our land to be thrice biessea in that its beroes bave been men | | who were great because they carried com- mon virtues into great affairs and used great abilities for the common good. Such was the glory of our great commoner, our emancipator and martyr, Abraham Lin- coln. A Local Lincoln Incident. W. E. Bartholow is an enthusiastic officer of the Lincoln Monument League. | He nas a book of certificates of member- ship always with him, and when he goes L. J. Chip- | rt Furlong, Marin County; | | J. W. McClymonds, Oakland; Eiwood P. | Mrs. C. H. Maas, | J. W. Callahan, | out to ordera bill of goods he draws his certificate-book out very insinuatingly toward the close of proceedings, and no jone 1s able to stana the look of utter horror that com-s likea blizhting cloud over his face at any sign of hesitation in indorsing the plan. The other day Mr. Bartholow was paying a bili of groceries, and as he. folded up his receipt he took his certificate-book out and opened it to the admiring guze of the grocer. The grocer is a man of family and took six cer- tificates, one for eyery member of his family. While this was going on s Mr. Kelly | came in and became interested in the con- | versation, and said: *Just give me four of those; here's $1. 1 want to belong to the Lincoln League; so do my wife and girls.” Mr. Bartholow took the money snd | wrote the names of Mr. Kealiy and his family on the certificates, and then went | bome. About an hour afterward he was seated at his table, dining and telling his wife of is recruiting experience. In the midst the meal the dcorbell rang suddenly y imperative sort of way, and Mr. Bartholow hastened to tme door, expecting to hear that the big brick build- ing down at Fourth and Townsend streets bad fallen cdown and buried his spring overcoat. He opened the door and there stood Mr. Kelly with a flushed face. “Mrs. Keily | made me come down and tell you that I bad forgotten the baby! There! here's your two bits. Make me out a certificate for Miss Marguerite J. Kelly, so that I can 20 back and get my dinner! And Marguerite, God bles her little heart! has a certificate of membership in the Liricoln Monument League, and may she live to take her little ones on a basket picnic with their grandma on the green grass of the park. When that day comes | it will be a pleasant thought to look up at the white shaft as it towers toward heaven, and musingly say: “Well, well! think of it; we're just about the same age.” 1 | | | | | Lam the rea. As one nolds an apple in his hand. with sleepless eyes, Watching the continents sink and rise. Ouatof my bosom the mountains grow, | Back to my deptns they crumote slow; The eartn is & heipless child to me— Iam thesea. Iam the sea. When I draw back Blossoms and verdure follow my track, And the land I ieave grows proud and falr, rful race of man is there; ds of heaven wail and ery the nations rise and reign and die— ng and dring in foily and paln, e the laws of the unive:se thunder vain. What is the folly of man to me? Iam the sea. | | 18m the sea. The eartnIsway: ne is potter’s cl 3 0f my careless waves ks in caves: The iron ¢ the land 1 grind to pebbles to sand, And beach grass blowetn and children play In what were the rocks of yesterday; | I my bosom deen © and bezuty sleep; and wonder and beauty rise angiog splendor of sunset skies, omfort the earth with rains and snows, wuves the harvest and laughs the rose. wer and forest and chiid of breath | With me have life, without me death. TTE PERKINS STETSON. The World's Shipping. Truly, it is **Athanasius contra mun- dum’’ in the matter of shipping, and the British empire is the Athanasius. Of all the merchant marine of the world, in ves- sels of 100 tons or more, about one-balf is under the “meteor flag.” The totals are 29,880 vessels and 25,614,089 tons, of which 11,830, or more than one-third of the ves seis, and 13,359,026, or more than one-half of the tonnage, are British. There isno use, therefore, in instituting a comparison between British shipping and that of any other nation. The first place is so indis- putably English thatali competition must e for the second and lower places. In the totais of all kinds of vessels the second piace is at present easily held by the United States. This country has 3215 vessels, of 2.234,725 tons. The nearest com- petitors are Norway, with 2902 vessels of 1,669 468 tons; and Germany, with 1657, ot 1,8 France comes next, with 1157, of ) & 75. Italy, Russia, Sweden and Tur- key have each more than 1000 vessels, in- p eden has more than France, but none of them has nearly 1,000,006 tonnage. Further analysis of the figures gives some interesting results. In the class of wooden and composite steamers the United h : i tesi - | States greatly leads ail, with 222, of 158,000 tands first in the | tohim. He exchanged courtesies and en- | e ) | i, Fete | tered into negotiations with them on be- | tons, sgainst130 of 11,384 tons in Japa tue nearest rival. Indeed in tonnsge of this class the United States outstrips even the 'British empire, the latter having 402 | vessels, but of only 108,036 tons. Of iron steamers we have 249, of 390,794 tons, and are surpassed by France and Germany in both numbers and tonnage, and by Nor- | way, Sweden and Spain in the former but not in the latter respect. Of steel steame; we have 209, of 455,833 tons, and are sur- passed in both respects only by Germany, Norway having more vessels but less | tonnage. The totals of all steam craft in | the United States are, then, 650 vessels of 1,005,459 tons. We are aurpassed only by | Germany, with 984 vessels of 1436.539 tons, and are approached only by Norway | in number of vessels, 633, and by France in tonnage, 930,785. All the rest are far | bebind. | In sailing craft of wood and composite structure the United States leads the | world, surpassing even the British empire. | The figures are: United Siates, 2511 ves- | sels of 1,193,379 tons; British empire (col- onies inciuded), 2314, of 708,550 tons; Norway, 2136, of 1,042,084 tons, snd | the rest nowhere. Iu iron sailing craft our sixteen, of 16,863 tons, are so far behind Germany’s 185, of 199,455 tons, as to be quite out of reckon- ing. We are also sarpaseed in both num- { bers and size by France, Norway, Den- mark and Holland, and by Argentina and italy in numbers, and just equaled by Sweden in numbers. Our eight steel sailing vessels of 19,024 tons, are vastly distanced by Germany’s fleet, | surpassed in numbers and tonnage the fleets of Holland, France, Italy and Norway, and in numbers by those of Argentina and Danmark. In the grand | total of all kinds ef sailing craft the United States teads all the world, excepting the British empire, butit is closely pressed by | Norway, the fignres being: United States, 2535 vessels of 1.229,260 tons, and Norway, 2264 of 1,142984 tons. All the rest are comparatively distanced. — New York Tribune. —_————— Finding Money. All silk-lined stylish suits st $13, worth 5, at the retiring ssle of the Paragon Cloak fig Suit House, 1230 Market street. ®