The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1899, Page 26

26 THE SUNDAY CALL. - Patroness of the University oF Qalifornia. EPISCoPAL ScrooL Rom SIRLS ing and planning and helping here and there she was discussing with elf tr estion how best to us are fortune to furthe interests? It came at la California’s sons and daug beginr ni showed da ganized the i w And now to 5 . We have the Teport ns from this California woman are art the great project on its road to pletion. s in memory of and defc has cho building for the who will come Berkeley for the they are better Hearst was, they may t the fact. st has long admire¢ the Berkel ings now ter aried been en Wi own strong This same the way. It is woman, who 100 to sta of a wir rather than the body expression and manr cation of the hig thermore, her femini in dress and spee Eue: that the firmly executive within_would do credit to a_man of Mrs. Hearst erty almost entirely. est Insight into busir is never timid, althoug 3 Chat little h of sweetness mth that i smile and_ her 8 e her Southern hem were Virginia he old school. Her nt in Missouri, spirit ling- i own early lif where much of the ered a few years and her life in Washington has fostere@ this element in her nature. Southerners do_ not break ly from old customs. I thought of this as a very brown face above a : white apron met me at th Tearst's apartments, and the tone, at once rever- ential and protective, in which Mrs, i mentioned had the METHEE SSEL® T is worth noting what a front rank women's club .hat looks to her—never in ess R woman I held in the educatior vain—for 2 f“‘lmnlz!lm:ul. There are ane Fitty man three kinc tens which < 7 > A TaNE 5 and the chief one of these is A training school where struggling young ship still intact. s may be helped to help them- hough her work empty boxes in a room by the old brought her Clara Misslon, and rang her clanking selyes, much before the public te years, she bell to call together the. first American ~_ Neither has she neglected the Washing- has an _instinctive shr g from tur- school in our State. The puplls who were ton boys. pohore is a bovs’ home there mofl. This led her to efuge in her Sl 3 o ed by the copal church which country home last wee r the excite- SE AT rd destiny of the forthcoming sat on the empty boxes and = i DI C h wh e ome lant e exet 7T is of more than passing interest that the paths and destiny BT s e e has furnished with her own good ment of banqueting w and before the final decis Across the bay, del Poso de Vero || two California women who have taken up the work of lifting Califor- L ria higher than its materialities, lofty though they be, have met, front of them. There was a hole in the Qearer to M ccillng where the smoke had leave to all of t heart than crtained the 3 escape, and where it avafled itself or not i tt Viato! s e eled, during their career. x & Pt e birth glimps crossed and paralleled, during of its permission as it and the weather gourian. rm moun- California Leland Stanford was Governor of the State. George Hearst as- pired to be, and in the pursuit and defeat of his ambition was the provocation for the conditions which deprived Governor Stanford of tk‘xe university regency and compelled the completion of his intention in the founding of a rival institution. Both men became Senators, sat together in that great chamber and there rencwcd a friendship that had grown cold under the vexations of politics. Senator Hearst was 2 man of gualities. No one can read his description of his weary march to the new gold fields we now call the Comstock without receiving a pro- found impression of his descriptive powers. He trudged over the moyn- chose. But in spite of what some might have thought inconvenlences, Mrs. Isbell from had been back to their labor and left th in quiet. She did not return to town until : e, West that he chose to the great Thursday. She fled from the : : v ran golden land. It was in the West crowd of the hotel where she has aparte ]"l““ went at her wark as if she didn't labored and hoped and despaired ments and went to retired rooms mind, which Is the best way in the world. ana finally found. In a high sunny corner of her Market: lo embarrass inconveniences. Without The mining country was thercfore sa- Street building. adjustable desks or spring-roller maps or crcd to S mightiest hedged about b much be-patented felt erasers, she never- Strugales. rediio his, caretakoni St in e theless taught. She stands in the records “AdOW s : . by to-day as the founder and teacher of the pinh vety carpets. first American School of California “education tic sense is evi- It is not with so different a spirit, s shown th her homes. She all, although with such widely diffe of the el 4 at up there, nd the flowers cens that zig- lines she has - it be the teaching youngsters or the reverence famous univers| of goodrnes: beauty 2 : P means, that Mrs. Hears Mrs. Stan- : Her E home tains on & doubtful quest. His fortunes were at the lowest ebb, and . part of education which is absorbed from daily contact with the best joca are ahairs Hearst and Mes. stan Ation, I the dingy of rich hangings and pictures and when, in his own language, worn out, he sat down by the trail, “turned and most beautiful in art should be no longer denied to the sons and Isbell began. Both of them have had pereh on. the sides of beown ' aemmthat which she et e T weak and human,” and debated a retreat, to rise strengthened by the daughters of the State who get their training at Berkeley. much to struggle with as did she. Both e ”}:"“:r L ‘n,m{r?‘”‘;;“l g l‘"’“{f a of the beautiful might learn and enjoy. : R 3 3 el A A 2 = sty breath of the great world beyond. Many vn educati as bee: determination to finish the march and make one more throw for fortune, Her bold plans involved the razing of every building on the State V% had one purpose and have heid to of Y2 Gicary Sones who stol aud Tans s lieation has beart exténsl made it and won, there is presented a picture worthy to stand with the campus, and the effective grouping of the best structures known to the civilizaiion ot Colitimis, ~ P finddralgieond ol forothe B ch scholar. Her breadth of legrn career of Robert Bruce. resources of architecture. From the application of landscape engineer- Mra. Hearst's work has been just as the cozy library Tooms, where a careft] Loy Snen (i Tgidth of opinign that Like Stanford’s his life came to a close while he was yet a Senator ing to the fine grounds, heretofore untcuched by any artistic hand, to ;ngcn her (l:" ('n‘nc:mlnn as W M at l;(]«fl‘.thlwflipld .:m for ;-\:l 5 ti ns of more than of the United States. the finial of the last necessary structure, she built the great plan in =°(0° 1 U Enofl"'o;r;;,‘;;g j{]’;fl::‘a:h:" e et et B oie religlons denomitiation. - Her pasiti n When his large estate came within control there began to develop her mind and then called into action the architects of the world to work (ages fn an educational way that its Ioje “m"‘lp‘l_’,fi:“l"l‘"‘”:‘l"i ‘;ff‘:g“*;‘ s Um(‘d way that no other w ever been, one of those compensations, those restorations, so rare in the history of out its details. young people deserved. Hence she would the writing room, and they began to Wit i l’;:;\h':(“' &S s o g Al a State. As influences emanating from his newspaper had influenced the When the great work is finished the highest interests of the State take the matter in hand. i Hhpnelied letters to Mrs. Hearst. girt 'who h a hard loss to the State University of Stanford’s fortune, his wife taking on will be enthroned upon the purpose formed and executed by a woman. hn: m‘:iha:(whegnflqu S;;xfi: u;:.r:‘:fi.h by the lett ind Seeing that her “‘“fkl 2)13 ‘ha:‘ & high purposc and deciding that her property should go for the good of The rugged men of California have done much for the State. They have thing which needed sttosary “oy 219 Cagy done. Shadged fo what she education and.the Htie she had o mankind and the ennobling of her State, developed a way to devote it to scaled frowning summits to carry commerce over mountain heights and promptly attended. She has wanted o musicale given every week by manC o bread i h\»-; joher ion. As her friendly rival in a similar purpose, she was i 5 things well done and has known that she ¢ians whom she hired for the purp one year of the coveted coilege li Then 1;..,)_;.x education. 3 i iY S Thl nasey e have gone into the depths to drag out gold to build ships and cltigs. must therefore 4o thesh horenis ‘é{n:‘: The men and the women both "r“nily‘” 4 the money gave out an the mother of one child, happier in his survival. There was nothing Forests have fallen before them and strange waters and far shores her hushand's death she hon little by them. They broke the monotony. It was Dack to fight again. v in the way but to find the way to do the most good with her riches, That kave yielded their treasures of commerce to the profit of adventure. But, little grown Jotd. the Plcoguition .ot tns & Title mdre liKe living, : ‘[f,“"’rgm 2 e i wey she found herself. after all, it may be well questioned whether all the men together have fiv hecoms & p:‘r,‘f‘er;i?!,’,’, ‘,h,} h'fl,l "“,’)‘[“»‘[ a libr: g = '(.‘([,]',‘;,',":,,l;"'h': “You a ill at worl Rei Mrs. Hearst is not lacking in high ideals, nor does she lack in wrought as much for the everlasti interests that are - greater than there are all sorts and conditions of its proudg It 1s ogla- S Pt A Ul S e applying them practically. She found the State University meanly gold, more immortal than commerce, as have these two women. Prficanam Snels ,',’,"e,f(’."g,l}!i';::; that is not coming E . throughont In fa . it just happened tha housed. Its ignoble architectural sguipmint was brought into more ve- When their work is done and the two universities are in full action, ~ but must needs give of personality along “PPOIN{Mments. Anaconda is a little place s ving over there I met Mrs i he well designed beauties and fitness of the struct ied i i i i ’ with it. ' ®6 fthat Is seen now and then only because He ind somehow—well, Mrs. Hea pulsive relief by the well designed beautic e structures panoplied in the glories their genius has created, the names of Mrs. In the East, Washington has profited by Hyste of o i sq But it can brag to even Is putting me through colieze. And my of Stanford University. Hearst and Mrs. Stanford will becherished in every happy house more of her charities than any ohe et e o little sister is living with me. And we : ‘ ear: ity LiTer: intereas T anr atyey And so it goes that from coast to coast are well and so happ Possessing excellent taste, rzfreshed by personal knowlcdge of the within our borders, and no matter what -mofftuments may: aftempt to - {0 2ok fcror 0 &l i the enqent Mrs. Phebe Hearst's hand and mind have 1f Mrs. Hearst could have been there best European models, she dstermined that the architecture of the Stats perpetuate their memory, those built by themselves will the longest en- ments she has chosen to make. There i Reen Teaay to recoenize the need and fill to see she wouldn't have needed any moro nory e , X Schools and libraries and clubs every- thanks. University should be expressive of its intellectual purpose, and that the dure and be the inspiration of the remotest generations. o 11_‘["’5“’““(‘1 S(‘h‘flf'i for &irls that is where owe her debts of gratitude. Byt = i.tr;;q Is only ome little scrap of a stor: » riving under her care.” There is a through all the years that she was wosk. They are legion. =