The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1899, Page 12

2 k| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 28 1899. C. P. HUNTINGTON IS FEASTED AND EXALTED BY HIS ASSOCIATES Vice President Stubbs Displays Rare Genius and Diplomacy in Seat- ing the Guests. George Crocker, as the Leader of the Fourteen Banquet-Givers, Occupies the High Posi- tion of Host—Speech of the Guest of Honor. miration The Call that Mills represe the aggregate resentment simply calculates fourteenth of entertained ts one ace Hotel last evening t nt Gene represented much of the wealth and en- ving general offi- | terprise of San Francisco. The ban- G Crock quet was a success, and when the credit tubbs, | of the achievement belongs to fourtee; Julius Krutt- men it n 2m a little invidiou & vice president; W. F. | not ungr s, to single mnl one rail- | T 3 e law department | roader for special praise. t is emi diof ithe law departmentifd s ol B Tt terly genius of Stubbs should rec ing recognition. corded with single laurel Vice ive more than pa: recognition ign to detract a that accomplished freight traf manager; | some aa officers of the Sout for this paper in the vellow building, \ 1 affair worth and his one-fourteenth is duly recorded r 1 aristocracy. A The merchants invited to meet Mr nformation obtained | Huntington gracefully accepted the in- | the dir vitation. The company at dinner num- S5 e - bered one hundred and fifty-four and if | President J. C. | said Mills, “to inaugurate our literary exercises by a patriotic song.” The national anthem was then sung by the guests. Mr. Mills paid tribute to the great protector of liberty in his many protean Shapes, Collis P. Hunt- ington. Before the chief had an oppor- | tunity to rise the literary light of the Central Pacific asked for a song, and while the pre as standing the hall echoed with “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow” until tears of joy began to course the cheeks of the well-dined. When the health of the chief guest of the evening was proposed C. P. Euntington, president of the Southern Pacific Company, responded, speaking as follows: Gentlemen of the Southern Pacific Com- | would do the work, should find shiploads | 1and blossom like the I think I am not an Great grown up from through the force of can hardly overestimal party of emigrants—w now looking _wistfully of liberty, right here. mone; | dered into this land of milk and honey T s e R s up our beautiful valleys and make this consider this an extravagant picture, but man, and I look at a question of this kind in the light of what history teaches us. communities — nations — have small beginnings and tance and value of securing whose richest The people who come here, to settle among us do not ask the gift : nor do they need it. entitled, though, to fair and liberal treat- and I believe we and carloads land- rose. You may over-enthusfastic example, and we te the vital impor- the first 0se eyes are even toward this land promises lie of They are the Phxhpph}xr it Regiment, lectured (‘ufht‘drul Council, Y entertair business and wound up ‘with an exor- dium whose burden was that there should be a community of interests be- ween business men and the railroad ith and his ;'eople. Wild apWause trailed General | their movements from Hubbard's ecstatic conelusion and then Dr. Horatio Stebbina took the floor. A strain or two of the good old Southern Pacific hymn, “He's a Jolly | Good Fellow,” followed the general to his chair and amid great hand exer- here until their succ the Philippi D ¥ er Mc. 3 ilz:(‘]h;«.\‘ the two real hi roes of t the former for his heroic self- organizing the smallpox hospit latter for his devotion to duty | cise Rev. Horatlo Stebbins was intro- |ing the wounded and dying, Guced. “I esteem it a great pleasure | was loudly applauded at th to be in such compan the divine | of his addre ai “What we need a communica- | 3 o 1‘;;1:5 to associate from !iAmy]Atful MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED i vith men whose planes of life dif- ; ;‘Q*Tea:d whose daily thoughts diverge. | No Clew to C. B. Chase, Suppose When I look up and down this board |~ grave Jumped From a Ferry Boat I ‘notice the different vocations repre - pany and of San F' sco: I feel most ment and the hand of good-fellowship; | : feol @ little concelt | The mystery : pecially honored this evening, not PRl e sented here and I‘:Pil']; lttle concel® | pearance of Ch 1 by vour invitation but by thé cha good wishes: for “one little word in kind- | Of personal advantass £° . FHCL P | soldier, who is st w of the gentlemen whom, through YOUr |yees spoken” is often worth far more | you would feel if you hac bl courtesy, I have the pleasure to meet— | than dollars. }sermon, My friend Fillmore would bl some for the first time. L have not been T was'in the mercantile business for | sweat more than when he quelled the |Oakia 1 h sked to respond to any toast except the | feey uight vears, and through many of | mop in Sacramento. J. C. Stubbs would | unsolved. The no Soaet ip my wool h;z}llh. and 1(;’;”_{ 1[“:“.“_ [ the earlier vears, during the gold excite | gissolve and evanesce. I would give | man. in \\‘!\\‘n\ll e . can afford to be most warmly congratu- | trade almost unique in the bistory of com: | jo¢ty ying gave him a land grant; the | EStReR Wik B8 655000 a lated, o he sure, the mewspapers have | pisiness was never to sell a man any- | petty king said to him, “What road |fered e siip on this side of the by, is e Practically “knocked out” every £IMe | thing at a price which I thought pre-|have you built to-day Let me £or | the only evidence thus far obtaina HoA SR | cluded him from getting his profit, for I|a moment strike a nobler sUaIncEin | ateonn s fon miE R eoa Chase 1 my sojourn among you here | would rather send an artlcle to the auc-| common to say that men of substance | At 227 M “the only i 3 of letters from New York asking anxious- | tion-rooms and sell it for whatever it|are men of sense. We know a A B Lt . f et er T am “seriously ill"" as the | might bring than to have the customer | o se that'no great prosperit & Lt = ly whether 1 am ‘“seri il as t 3 O Tl of sense tha £ g 1 been 1 newspaper dispatches state it; but I|buy and lose, for such is the better mer-| . o0 a5y ot Teffort unless capac ot little money. th: m > manage generally to put in a full day's|cantile policy, to say nothing of the] B CRF NEREE i " Man create posses at the Cafe 1 p and retire at night happy in the | Tight or wrong of the matier. [ ave| S et merely avails himself of those His only source of 2 Gf T in Gere sy O never wished for the reputation of being | nothing; merely 8 fo have. hoer, a=well-ty rela th the added gratification |a liberal man, but I have always given | things already made.” 1 Eoub Gt who cecasionally nt I g ave been able, wifhout effort on | weight and measure, not believing that| A tribute to Huntington and Hub- SR Chase's infatuation my own part, to furnish the newspapers | a man when he has paid his legal taxes | pard and some more sacred music by Tl e of your eity with a news item of more or | has given all he should give. the orchestra and then Colonel Henry bed his entire d he mada | Tess interest, according to the way one | The poor we always uave with us and I | (3¢ OXEReSUEe ane O Bl G L oetm : ts to se- looks at it. 1 feel sometimes that I have | have endeavored in a way to look out for | Welnstock was allowes € (AW PP 5 ! ess- been unduly favored by the press and | their interest, knowing that the rich and | ments on - post-p = alled upon | ful. Tt is ver became received much more than my fair share | forehanded can take care of themselves. | Rev. Dr. Mackenzie was called upon | ful % inability to of attention. But I do not see how it can | I have given money where I thought it | and said: “I have heard many thir Sl i 2 be avoided, and now that the anti-car- | would do the most good, but giving work | of the railroad, but never befor e carrie 8 toon law has gone into effect 1 suppose |is the best of all, for labor, in my opinion, | piop¢“qiq T hear the threat that ety the attentions will be redoubled. But I | dignifies, while the acceptance of charity | 78R GIG © VO SR i ne e the- nown. the note and cs shall not make any denials, for 1 have |tends to lower self-respect. A dollar le: logical departrent.”. Dr. 'Mackenzie | round yoat being not the time to waste. In the Fremont-|literally tonathing, but work may mean | 0'0B cal CERartment, oo ol ooy | Lo Buchanan Presidential campaign 1 recol- | all things. From Small beginnings may | exalted in the fact that so many ood | blnd, lect that one of the charges made against | Tow the sreatest results. men of such ous tastes should be | Mrs b Fremont was that he was a Catholic, | I recollect, when ne National Park | congregated and interchange thoughts. e > reporters. and one of the opposing newspapers re- | Bank building was in process of constru With a bunch of flowers to General "\'lr; Gt land yesterday Iterated ‘thte teharg And Eald e O I L meoch b h D& | Fubhgrd Revi-Mackenale gave way: t0 [ endbav me clew of not a Catholic, why doesn't he come out | in front of St. Paul's Church to watch for | ;"0 000 0O Moo o ERBaRA O on his death, but jiover his own signatureiand denyitt2iThe [lafmoment the workimenion ithejtawering | QROERENSE Nelogs Do S oo loe o D O D e eebseal. be made of the function, to beware of | Rochester Democrat—which, by the way, | chimney which T had seen steadily ris- . i v e e S tampering with the chart. The genius | Was a Republi 2t that time—|Ing In the aifiday after day until it fh':ul ing and the f'}"‘.“""}ff‘, b Ao M SR S Piano in perfect order OF i Stibbs, wHiH Chsaren s e | e ponded : talned a great height. My eve was fas- | thing patriotic, in harmony wi 2 [ Atue Newliall s, 769 Market . o) " o pronounce Jam k If | cinated by the carele confident way in | {545t and the man who fought for his | for $130 to-day at Mauvais’, 760 Ma e Crocker to the nephew’s position, may | §’i5n't an ass let him come out over his | which the workmen waiked about at that street. put the throne. | first tide. Governor Gage s D. M. 'ns | 0 _many of San ~Franc prominent | contracto e S O e e e ek prosent d the Governor| .0 0t trade and labor, T should stultify | though it was on the grounc been there he could have responded | myeelt if I did not y that I am a|sald he, “they are not carele: with his usual eloquence to the toas thorough believer in such men. I like to hey simply sure, and ar “One Might as Well Be L S o S S SO S 2ot e et e political manager, W. F. Herrin, the Ll e D e \fetit GEThE v AopTiobnC Benh it | s achievement of the banquet was the skillful ma general pas- | Stubbs clas Pacific | ified the attendants. The R R e e e o e <) HOWELL,J R, HO0D, ¥iw CUTHBER. FULLER, HH. TOWNE, AG. | crocken, 1, w000, w.§ HOW THE GUESTS WERE SEATED. Mail general agent; Jerome Madden,, genius. Gaze upon it from any point land agent. nr;f \"jn‘\vf and the masterly hand and i ik v | D€3A Of the third vice president may W. H. Mills of the land and literary | ha recognized, When “the oo iy department maintains that the function was private, and therefore resents press comment on the “social event.” He goes so far in the expression of hi displea to threaten the aggre- | gate resentment of the fourteen rail- | roaders who conceived and executed the scheme for an expanded feast. It is| worth passing comment here to ob- | gerve that Mills was discovered by the late Leland Stanford and for many | years basked in the sunshine of Stan-| ford’s favor. When the Huntington regime came into power Mills readily | transferred his allegiance to the new|{ king and excluded thf.-“nrd ‘gratitude Stublis hes @ood Fisht tosbe: Pretia e from his lexicon. Without golng into | g work, Yesterday he admonished the detalls concerning the story of lost ad-' press, no matter what comment might placed on an even that George Crocker is at the head of the table. Counting the number, fif- teen, seated in the- high official zone seven will be found to the right and even to the left of Second Vice Presi- dent Crocker. C. P. Huntington is the first to Mr. Crocker's right. Seven is the divine number, and Mr. Hunting- ton is first of the seven, to the right, recollect. Veer the chart around a Jit- tle bit and Huntington is made to ap- pear at the head of the table. Now, as George Crocker was the chief of ‘the fourteen tendering the banquet, he oc- cupied as host the head of the table. 1 it is observed on his left General Hubbard. Mr. On his right sat C. P. Huntington and | S I O e e | st nner in which Vice President | ¢ chart itself is a living example of his ! ¢ T — ) Bheep as a Lam And Mills will float in on the same George on the | dizzy often piece of 1 sidewalk height, W own signature and deny it. i 1 am very glad to meet you here this evening and to become acquainted witn Killed for | talk with them, for they are up to date | ihere as at the curb. e o T SCENE AT THE BANQUET AT THE PALACE. b.” The absence of | in those things which round out charac- | “they have gone up of anking between them and the 200 feet below, a i DDl D s e ith only a single id to the You see,” said he, country in Cuban waters. Grant Carpenter, president of the Press Club, next entertained the guests by a story or two and a halcyon pic- ture of the newspaper man’s life. The next on the list was Rabbi Voor- e ON OUR SHOULDERS. Professor Bacon Delivers a Strong Lecture on “The White Man’s sanger, who spoke on a historical sub- +Heni?? ject, “The Close of Spanish Rule in the | MB“’W e e Western Hemisphere.” It was an elo- | The fourth of the Channing Auxiilary quent and stirring tribute to the man- hood of young America. With an ex- | noon in the ‘ixrlo ot the Fir ]x{ = /,m hortation to Americans to let their | Church vh Pr h‘w:_u lv)x«rnn Hmiv‘\\‘n v be equity, justice and righteous- | of the Un y of Californ: el «‘I s in their teachings to other nations | Ject was * White Man's Burc e he closed amid' great applause. in its application he dealt with the pres- The remaining toasts were “The Sta- | ent situation in the Philippines. Professor Institutions.” by | Bacon has given much study and th bility of American 4 e 3 spi- | t e complicated question with wh Van R. Paterson; “The Most Auspi- | to the complicated ¢ il v it cious Tendency of the Time.” by Rev. (rhw ';]»:r-‘\\"n‘;}{v?}_’{f'?]‘n» toidcalse .IA s Charles Bdward Locke, and the “Ar- | {00 Codi "t ention of his audi tistic Development of Our State.” by Irving M. Scott. A standing toast, mutual felicitations and a grand patriarchal, beneficent smile for his children from Uncle him- self and the annual dinner by heads departments to the head of all bec a matter of history. [ Invitations are out for the return| In brief Profe Bac trated | by a logical anal ling gencies that we have already on o not a question whether w Having it, he said th to govern the Philippir f the inhabita of the islands a He declar n’'s Burde d the e Ma shoulders, : f me > Collis s As to the d of gove banquet by Collis P. Huntington at his | cost. AS to the kind of gove residence, 1020 California street, on Sat- | he favored, Professor Bacon urday evening, May 13. | proclamation —_—————— Lectured on the First California. Dr. P. J. H. Farrell, who left here for | paint; aronicle bldg.® “Pegamold” sample bottle ne brick at a time, Colonel Burns must have been deeply | ter and the Dbest energies of | and they are as much at home on the regretted, He could have elucidated | Dumanity. It is with the go-ahead busi- | topmost course as on the first.” It struck Sttt X 3 s of the | N°SS men of San Francisco that the fu- | me then that this was a valuable lesson, to the assembled company many | ture and fortune of the city, as a city, | applled to our daily life. We must build terms employed on the racetrack and | must alw rest. It depends upon them | slowly if we would be sure. We must rise explained to Dr, Mackenzie and Rabbi | whether neisco shall be an sraduall ep by step, if we would keep Voor! r the differenc between a | ample of enlightenment and prog for | our heads, “ovg Bnot? and odds ooiv | the people of the whole State or whether | So, too, In our treatment of others, if No one can dispute the fact that the banquet was a great succ vate function, yet | plorable that Rallroad Commissloners | | Laumeister and Blackstock were con- iined to remain away. ble of versatile and & on the proc Either could tell how it is po: a candidate to change his denly after he is The Stubbs chart, which nobody has | & right to menkey with, shows Rev, Rabbi Voorsanger and . Dr, Mackenzie all placed within zone of the gri ptain Nelson intervened between P. Huntington and Dr. Mackenzie. close as the eminent clergyman was to the president of the company he was not o far away from others as to fail Dr, Stebbins, to keep an eye on closely watched at banquets Mr. Platt will drift away from his early ortho- doxy. The fourteen acted wisely and well in asking three eloguent preachers to the feast, and Vice President Stubbs again displayed a rare fitness of things near the president unkind suggestion that many shippers meet Mr. Huntington in order to an- there shall be brighter lights for them to follow. 1 believe in the future of San Fr: co. | that we owe a duty tc She has a magnificent harbor near the | who are mounting as p center of our coast line and Is right at | we have’ fortunately an fora Bt | plane ourselves, let us it 1s regarded as de- the v of the cpen s It IS a question of Tach one is | €Vl and_comm race nor creed can’ be it 2 ¢ and ater she our indifference or ne, .‘L’“‘,]l‘q’ At f}““h‘_‘ BNt | Whether she will or not; patent of nobility s ghtning change.” | (iices in your which do not help | ness to do & sible for mind sud- elected to office, which rend ate and interests which o you; a mation aps hed rising - so we do not tk It has b bids us travel. On g of the 50 bound up with that of the whole State that what affe perity of the one must refle upon’ the welfare of the other. fornia to-day accommodated all the pop- ulation which she is able to support, and support generously, the beginning 'of a splendid era would eat and gifted. policy, and I propose, citizen, to uphold tha late now, it seems to progress’of events in | 1s dreadful to read d vapers of the spilling As | Horace Platt. If not | can There is nothing I so long to see in Cal- ifornia as the logical development of the State; and, though I know this rightful development would redound also to my personal benefit, I can say this without a ]rur!lclx-r uflrsl'l';()m(‘as and without the Z » | Spirit of self-seeking in any respect. In Dacing all three | ™} have lately had brought to my notice g ¢ company. Ihe | 4nq have urged the attention of my peo- has been thrown out | ple here to the recent action of the Czar were invited to | of ssia, which is likely to result in a emigration of Finns to other and Suip of their campaign hostile shore. e Our California boys, sense of the eternal vain, for the stars an icipate the competition promised by | more liberal countries. These thrifty peo- D e SoraDE o e by | Dle: dught to find. ini Calltorntsta banehe imagine that the clergymen were | Sht harbor of refuse. 1 wish we could | ple who took the flag sought to increase the worldly busi- | &iould we do with thems What have W6 | ot thes of the company. The desire for | to offer them? Land? Yes; but can we | \hc United States is in another s; At the Ueihars favir ds e wih gt at which they can afford to acqure it?| LB Of Wl : 5 That ig the real question. England will : banguel bourd 0t BEht there | 5ple them treat Indncemesie: and. . oo was a departure from the old order of . The heads of the various departments of the railroad institution did not follow the time-worn practice of exalting each other. special eulogies for the freight depart- ment or glowing tributes to the literary exercises. bureau. While the waiters were passing the cafe noir to the rose from his seat and a painful hush Mr. Stubbs spoke of the necessity for all good workers of the community fell. to uplift the city to a commanding archy of commonwealths. Stubbs relinquished his right as lord high introducer and the pride of the Southern Pacific, William F. Herrin, placing his hands upon the warning Mr. cloth, began his ment. “Let us now to said the legal giant, and then the battle )f tongues and profound thought be- With a befitting sentiment W. H. Mills was introduced. gan. “It is a custom cific Company in phere is implied, and | give them what they will need at a price will other countries. In the United States | Bood but a military g the cold countries of the Northwest will resent flattering inducements. In Cali- ornia we are concerned with the problem of great ranches, the owners of which have been unwilling to divide them up. These people need small farms; and, if they take them, théy will take them only at reasonable prices, for they cannot af- ford to pay more. What California needs to-day is more people. What you merchants neeed to- day is more customers to buy your goods; and the only way you can get them is by having them here. California is a com- munity of large landholders, and a vast region of lands that produce little—not because they are unproductive but because they are held in such large quantities that they —cannot be cultivated as they should be. One little colony of hard-working, eco- be the. determination There were no 3 the people. and commercial condit want to reach, and the help us to attain that uests J. C. § & S .Stubbs £0 there not for what 1 get out of the country can give to it. and raise the State position in the hier- I said before, I am Without a hands, and I wish high and difficult task. Gentlemen, this is as we did the steps tha ould be his 1 honest work, V Se€ | Bood, brave American boys. him a wide subject, but in taking it started afield and am likely reached the higher not fall to recollect o those toiling ones »ainfully and slowl; t we have trod. numanity, Neither scome a reason for and a man's willing- Ve glect, of late that quite clearly at with my who dre present here | the moment; but the glamor will.Soon to-night, , represent, is not one | pass and then, 1 have no doubt, we shall of those | see plainly the path along which duty I am a bellever in President McKinley's as a good, patriotio t policy. ‘It is too me, to cavil at the | the Philippines. It lally in the news- of the blood of our How littls 6 appreclate to the full the terrible be upon us; and by | hnmeslcikness that must hac 500 ““us” I mean the people of the whole State. | panied the physical discomfort ana rori: 1 on a strange and | who are soon to be at home again, wiil tell you about this: but we can imagine that the emotion that Will overpower them when the good ship brings them within sight_of the Golden Gate again will be one life which you and T and all of us would give much to just once experience. labors and_their sacrifices will not be in of the thrills of | Their d stripes are some time ‘going to mean more of good and hap- | piness for the Filipinos than for the Peo- th it e. ands, so far as oncerned, is a prob- lem indeed, but it is a problem the solu- tion of which will lie in the j tration of those islands. we shall want there first will be not state- tness of ‘What overnment, with a | Civil Governor—able, honest and kind— | whose underlying principle of action will to do those things | right to be done in the interest } The betterment of their physical, moral | fon is only point the point we men who can are the men of honest purpose, who are willing g hey themselves but for what lfi%e ‘We have plenty of men, and I am confident that ogr el President will find them. wise Meantime, as | for upholding ' his | godspeed in his interesting anq | up I have | to wander too | nomlcal, virtuous people like these Finns| far. I thank you again for postprandial argu- | would leaven the whole lump, for their | courtesy and honor you have acctr:]r?ie r;.uetl example would be an incitement to thou. | and, again expressing the pleasure 1 fee] | the feast of reason,” | sands of others, who, seelng their good | at meeting you here to-night, I sit deces | works and their good fortune, would | gladly and with pleasant anticipations of strive to share in it. So far as the Finns at their far-away home are concerned, neither you citizens of the State nor we railroad” people would need to advertise | bard, who talked of further, for letters received at home from | He labored sweatingl the kindred who had successfully wan-'and intricacies of what is yet to come. And then came of the Southern Pa- banquet assembled,” General T. H. 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