The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1904, Page 4

k THE SA 1904 GOCDEN JUBILEE OF GHE SISBERS OF MERQY|CAR OBSERVED WIGH IMPOSING QEREMONY. Rev. FEFE Doule Extols Work of Good Women. et | Devotion. at the Cathedral Most Impressive, e The golden jubilee of the Sisters of Mercy was oObserved yesterday autiful religious exercises and social celebration, and the presentation to the & w of innumerable valuable | presents and even gifts of money from | voted friends. the morning Arch- Archbishop Mont- ary's Cathedral and acolytes. his seat on Archbishop Montgom- | e celebrant of solemn ponti- he Very Rev. Father Pren- Vicar General d the F Father J. J. Cant- The Rev, | | with | ¥ | d men w ter of ceremonies. Father John Nugent acted as deacon | and the Rev, P. Casey as subdeacon. The deacons of honor attending Arch- | bish the " Very Rev, F and the Rev. F wctuary rails were: The P. Cummins, chancellor; Doyle; Rey. Father H. H. P.; Rev. Father Peter D. Father P. E. Mulligan, M. Connolly, Rev. Father Rev. Father J. McGinty, Piperni, Rev Father Rev. Father H. L. being assistant | | v. Father Jerome B. Father P. R. Lynch; zia, 8. J.; Rev. Father nn, O. F. M.; Rev. S J Rev. Father J. her P. J. Keane, Rev. Father Joseph Sa- Father Santandreau; ich, O. P.; Rev. Father Father John Rog- hilip O'Ryan, Rev. ay s of golden color,and ¥ Rev. Father M, P.; Rev. Father M. | ¥ Father W. Butler, Rev. | Butler and Rev. Father | ns were beautiful nnd‘ 2 profusion of chrysanthe- | | { music was magnificently nder the direction of R. J. The Rev. Father Alexander P. Do t of the Apostolic Missionary | Washington, D. C., preached | n and Archbishop Riordan is felicitations to the Sisters Dc sermon said: A DAY OF REJOICING. “ people were joyful in the sight | e xvi:24 ‘ ¥ t em joyful with a their children salem was heard | | | the people of Western sea, irrespective of ffiliation, gathering together he golden jubilee of the Mercy among them. pe- to forget larly is this true when ked by ageous ors. _And it is | generation to he noble men San Prancisco's member their struggles and | arduous labors lh-')': er that we may enjoy th and_worthy praise. There is ur hearts the fullest | like the working out of 6t of human sacrifices nedding of human blood. even t Vieweq in light the history of the colo- nizat the Pacific slops is a history of which any peoy ay well be proud. The great moveme led to the peopling of California by the ploneer of forty-nine fitties is the and the ea one of the most mem iopmens of our coun- ok part in that mi- o as sturdy a fiber, | physicall; as ever la any country’s greatness. the moment the re- that the dominant the Argonauts was fleece, yet neverthe- | those days and it n dey the sear less they - were in was a gigantic pose that nerved the race ? strong men and women to leave behind the comferts of homes in the East finements of settled dusty, dangerous irie, wit tiful peril, né to keep | tout hearts for months urtil the vision of,the Golden Gate met their gaze. And we chiliren of that older gen- ération may well be proud of the fact that we are descended from the loins of a race of men whe One of the & ? ours has ginnings were laid were built on @ herole moid. gest claims this dear old city affection js that its be- by the strong arms and the stout hearis of the noblest race of people that ever biessed this country of ours. POWER OF RELIGION. There may be found scoffer. who will fafl to eppreciate the mighty work of the Argonauts, who will speak of lawlessness and licentiousness of the carly days and thereby make it eppear that the coming of the first | settiers was the inrushing of & mob trampling the earth the weak and the heipless in ite | REV.A P.DOYLE, WHO PREACHED - | AN ELOQUENT SERMON AT | SISTERS OF MERCY JUBILEE. ¢ - —fe | cager, avarice for gold and leaving behind them all respect for law and morality, but In their ignorance of early conditions they have not kmown the love of justice and right and the desire to organize a stable, comservative commonwealth that dominated the hearts of the majority of this community in the early da hile we praise the men and women whose beroic virtues, personal bravery and Geaseless toll handed down to us all that we enjoy of clvic blessing, there Is another olass. of heroes among us whose m search for gold and yet ives were not the whose coming was an event of no little importance in the. his- tory of our o it is the golden jubilee. of this event that we are gathered ‘here 1o cele- brate to-day. N ommonwealth can hope to attain an rganization nor can it rise to any eatness without the” element of " religion eligion the basls " 6f- il respect for law. It is the cement that’bihds:| together the various elements of the soclal tobri It was a strange sight that met the eyes of the sturdy oneer this day fifty years ago, when there stepped ashore the littfe band of ed women who had left their distant in the old land in order to devote their lives to the service of the poor and the ‘sick &nd the sinful in the land of their adgption. EARLY MISSIONARY HEROES. It is true that this Western world has had its religious heroes in the person of the early missionaries, who brought the knowledge of Christ to the Indians, wonderful chain of missions from San Diego to the Mission Dolores, but the avaricious hand of the despoiler had done its full work of de- | struction and at the time of the coming of these new religious workers the missions had become but a thing of historical record. An- other race of people with entirely different ideals occupled the fields sanctified by the Pa- dres, and the social conditions that had been created by the influx of the sturdy men from 1} parts of the world knew little of the uplift- ing sweetness of a woman's influence and less of the cultured refinements of a well estab- lished home. There was something of . the scramble for the first places and the desife to make a fortune In the quickest way that for the iime being obscured the higher and better ving The Sisters came into the unpaved streets of sn unformed frontier town, and Jnto a com- munity of hardy pioneers and into an atmos- phere of unsettied social conditions, and their coming was as the visitation from the world of angels. The natural chivalry of strong men's hearts recefved them with open arms because | they came not for gold of the earth, but for the alleviation of human misery and the & vation of souls. They brought with them mot the desire to accumulate wealth, but the pur- pose to dispense with a davish hand heaven's own treasure. It does not take the shrewd men of the world long to discern the higher things of life and living in an environment where it was every one’s duty to look out for the main chance; the pioneers were keenly ap- preciative of the higher motives that Inspired the coming of the Sisters and from the very beginning they gave them a royal welcome. Who were these Sisters of Mercy? DAUGHTERS OF THE PEOPLE. They were the daughters of the people in closest touch with the diocesan and parochial authorities. As the throngs of emigrants sailed away from .poor, unhappy Ireland be- Chuse the aiternative was placed before them either of a-lifetime of starvation and ‘misery in their own land. or to seek thé necessities of adequate living in the land of the stranger, they were not forsaken by their spiritual, lead. ers. God raised up a vallant woman—Cath- erine McAuley—who gathered into religion the chojcest and the best of the young women of the land and consecrated them under the veil of a devoted life, and she sent them with the people ds they salled away, =0 that in their moments of weakness and despair there might ADVERTISEMENTS. SUGGESTI ONS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS Silk Comforters - $8.75 to $26.00 Filled with hygienic lamb’s wool, also down. Sofa Pillows Covered with finest Dam Z5¢c to $5.00 ask, Brocade, Plain and Figured Velours. Panel Screens -- - - - - $5.50 to $60.00 Three and four fold; Weathered Oak, Golden Qak and Mahogany frames with Tapestry Panels; also covered with Art Burlap. W.&J.SLOANE & CO. -FURNITURE - CARPETS - RUGS - DRAPERIES: 114-122 POST STREET and had bullf up that | { | | cipjes of morality. | of poverty is stalking be consecrated hands to alleviate their misery In the wandering of the emigrant in a strange land gome would of a necessity fall by the wayside. There was need then of the-conse- | crated nun, who would stand by the sick in the | fevered hospital wards to raise the cooling | draught to the parched lips of the dying, to wipe away the cold mists of death and to speak the cheering word of salvation that the doors of the better life may be opened to them. So when Father Hugh Gallagher presented himself at the chapel of the Convent of Kin- sale and asked for volunteers to come Wwith him to far off California to carry out the great mission of mercy on the Pacific Slope Alm: st the entire A few were he found a ready resy E community offered themselv selected, and at their head was placed the youngest. Mother Baptist Russel, a_woman of extraordinary gifts of mind and heart. The special providences of God safeguarded them in thelr journeyings. An apparent accident kept them from salling on the Hi-fated Arctic. They landed in New York. They were cheered in a special way by our own saintly founder, Father Hecker. He bade them godspeed. Again they started out to_cross the isthmus, and so they came to San Franclsco. FOUND PLENTY OF WORK. When they came they found plenty of work %0 do. The exigencies of life in the raw ana unformed city opened a large fleld of useful- ness 1o the consecrated social worker. In the rush of life there was little time to care for the weak and the dependent classes. There were few if any hospitals for the sick. The ignorant had tb be instructed in Christian doc- trine, and the waifs had to be gathered up into‘protecting asylums. Right royally did they go to work and right earnestly did they keep it‘up in season and out of season, for these fifty years. It s not,my duty to-day to tefl of their trials and their triumphs, of their herole work for the sick in the hospital and for children in the schools. It is not mine to follow them into the loathsome dwelling of degraded mis ery and- (o see them brighten up by their presence the dark places of destitution, like the incoming of a gleam of sunshine. it is not mine to go with them into the barred dun- geon where the condemned criminal is se gated from his race, forsaken by friend scorned by society and plunged into despair, and bear them tell how the Savior of the world dled as a criminal and an outcast from soclety and that it is needful to have gooa cheer, to look beyond the grave for that gloricus resurrection when this poor body, though it be sown in corruption, will rise in incorruption, though it be sown in dishonor will rise in'glory, and though sown in weak- ness will rise in power that it may walk and wear not, that it may run and faint not. It 1s ot mine to tell how they gathered t them the poor walfs of humanity and led into their young minds the love of God_and tenderly and carefully entwined the tendrils of ‘their heart about the great prin- Nor is it mine to tell how the weary hours were spent at the bedside of the sick in the hospital on the hill, and how when the cholera broke out and thé smallpox was a piague it was the white angel of merey that hovered about the sick bed. Over and over again they voluntesred for this service in the emallpox hospital when the plague-stricken people were carried to their graves by hun. dreds. It is not mine to tell of thelr glorious deaths from Mother de Sales In 1857 %o the spotless soul that passed away but last week. DIED LIKE BRAVE SOLDIERS. They died like brave soldiers at their post of duty, never fiinching day nor night. These fifty years of work and trial have built up & splendid community here in this diocese, but they have formed a_more glorious community beyond the stars. As we look back we have seen the flower of San Francisco's maidenhood assumo the habit of the Sister of Mercy plunge with o whole heartedness into the work that was before them, sicken one after the other and fall in the 'trenches. All this ‘heroism, thes sacrifices for God and the salvation of gouls nced a more eloguent tongue than mine o Eing its praise. The recording angel has written it all down in the book of life in let- ters of gold To-day is the day of jubilation. will have entered into the land that I shall give you. Thou shalt number the seven weeks of years, that fs to say, 7x7, which maketh 49. Thou shalt sound tne trumpet in the seventh month and the tenth day of the month. Thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year and shall proclaim remission to ail the = habitants of the land, for it is the year of jubilee. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come in before His presence with exceeding great jov. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Go ye Into His gates with praise and | His courte with hymns. Praise ve His name, for the Lord s great and His mercy en- dureth forever, and’ His truth from generation to _generation.” Jubllees are always times for refolcing and measure of our joy is the greatness of the blsssings conferred. * A~ glimpse at the books of the recording anzel will reveal to the oitie zens of this beautiful city by the western sea how very great are the claims that the Sisters of Mercy have on our hearts. If .we could but ‘nember ‘the’ thousands saved from ship- wreck, the last that have been gathered up, the orphans that have heen mothered, the naked that have been clothed and the failen restored o -decent and- respectable lives, we would then see 1eason why they have been enshrined in the sanctuary of the hearts of the peosple.” The old hospital on the hill has | been a beacon light to many a wayfarer who has strayed away from the paths of pectitude | to lead him back to his old home in the chvich. The Magdalen Asylum has its long bead-roll of penitents who have been washe white (n the blood of the lamb and who have taken their places again In sanctified homes. WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. You ask again what claim have they on | our gratitude. See the schoois*that they have | taught freely, devotedly and religiously, The mamy young hearts that they have filled with the, Bpirit. of God and who .are better citizens for' the reverence for God, and the sanctities of law they have learned under this con- secrated rtuition, who are eleaner men and | purer women .tdiday on account of the early lessons of piety received from the Sisters of Mercy. 1t is the eminent sociologist Lecky Who reproaches the modern historian for un. derrating fhe civilizing and moralizing 1 fluence of these quiet and unostentatious re- liglous _ forces that operate quietly though effectively in our soclal organization. He says that the simple and unselfish zeal with which fhey educate the ignorant, guide the erring, comfort the sotrowing, brave the hor- rors of pestilence and shed 'a hallowing in. fluence over ‘he Gying, working as it does in | countless ways to allay human passions, soft- | en monners, elevate and purify ideals of con duct, is ome of the most potent factors in 1_evolution: “When you divoted people overlaps {ts bounds and must of a necessity find expression in this glorious mmmm;j‘?n %t.th:flrmnl:p.txae on this the go) jubilee day of their advent among us. But what of the years to come? A new era is at hand. These are the when theologian and _moralist economist can my raise When will it end? W‘.lfl:“ln the M.h' P s effect of reducing the muititude to —— \Valuable Gifts Are Presented by Frends. - . y Archbish ps Take Part in Grand Exercises. turn is stretched out to us the withered hand of beggary. Everywhere we look we see the pinched face of want. The great engine of modern civilization like the Indian Juggernaut moves on slowly and surely, and thousands go down beneath its crushing power. The era | of great cities is at hand, when thousands are leaving the quiet, healthy fields of the coun- try and are plunging Into the seething vortex | of the great city where a terrific strugsle for | life is going on STRUGGLES OF THE WEAK. In this strife for pre-eminence the strong cope with the strong, and the weak are thrown down and trampled on, and a bitter cry that plerces the heavens goes up from the dust of the struggle. In this city to-day, with all Its wealth ,and splendor, there are thousands of God's creatures to whom life is but a damning fate; there are thousands more of whom it might well be said it were better that they had never been born The slums of this great city is like a_huge morass inhabited by noisome reptiles whose lives begin in vice and end in a curse; to whom 1ife s but a Dante's hell, over the door of which is written: ' “All who enter here leave all hope behind.” = Often have you and I seen the young and the innocent and the beau- tiful go'down fnto the dreadful mire and are £0on lost to all sense of decency and virtue, trampled under foot by the fron hoof of stern alternative: starve or sin. Young and beauti- ful girls, whose souls washed white in the purifying Awaters of baptism, made whiter still as they fed on the bread of angels; girls who have struggled for a- decent livelihood in our | stores, factories and sweatshops, contending | day By day against the grasping avarice of mammon until, overworked and underfed, thelr weakened bodies can stand the struggle no longer; until, with one despairing cry, they plunge into the dark ravine, and all is lost Oh, who is there who will stand by with warning voice, tell them of the danger, or with consecrated hands snatch them from the brink before the plunge Is made? Who is there who | has the devoted heart that beats in sympathy | for weak, poor, frail human nature will pour out the Wwealth of love that only a woman's heart is big enough to hold, and lead them back to the path of rectitude? Oh, devoted Sisters of Mercy, I preach you a new crusade, or rather I restate for you your old vocation’ and, under altered condltions and | other circumstances, point out to you the du- | ties that are nearer to vour hand. If religion | will ever more thoroughly commend itself to the masses of the people, while it saves souls from that hell beyond the grave, it must make | the world this side of the grave little less of a | hell to live in. While it Iifts humanity up to heaven, with strong, powerful arms, it must | bring some of heaven down to earth. GREAT WORK WORTHILY DONE. | Right worthy has your work of fitty years | been done. This city is all the better because | devoted women as you are have lived in it | and have been In tofich with all its uplifting forces. Many a girl has bade good-by to friends and home with a stouter heart and | has braved the, dangers of city life because | mercy hath sefip her throne here and opened | wide the * door hge .heart. For the years | that arelto come it beeds no prophetic voice | to tell of triumphs vet to be and of victorles yet to be won. - You are just about to break | ground “for your new hospital, and when | finished it will be ome of the great buildings that the people of San Francisco will point to with pride. Tt will enshrine in its archi | tecture all the glorious memories of the padres | and bring into our modern life the symbols of their heroic endeavors. It will carry to the highest perfection the sacred art of healing the body, and there will be no methods of modern surgery that will not recefve their highest exemplification. The work is at your | hand and you afe better equipped to do it | to-day than were the little band of fifty years | ago. With schools and homes and hospitals, with riper experience .and with many more devoted hearts and, what is far more important than everything else, with a spirft of zeal and devotion and an inheritance of saintly | memories from two brave women who have | gone before you, with the sign of the faith. | These are your treasures and with them you | will march on to greater victories. t Fifty years have not traced on your cheek | the lines of age nor is there any mark of | decreptitude in your gait. The first flush of youth is in thy face and there is vigor and ! strength in thy right hand. As Longfeliow | 80 beautifully expresses it: Oh, what a glory doth the heavens put on | For him who with fervent heart goes forth | Under the bright and glorious sky, And looks on duty well performed And days well spent.” A reception was held at St. Mary‘u‘. Hospital by the sisters in the after- noon from 2 till 4, at which hour Arch- | bishop Riordan gave the benediction of | the blessed sacrament in the chapel of | the passion. —————— AFFLICTED PUPILS TO GIVE CONCERT. | The annual sacred concert given by the blind | pupHls of the Institution for the Deaf and the | Blind will take place next Sunday afternoon in the assembly hall of the school at Berkeley. | | Claus. ‘were filled with | sewing schools. AND AUTO |COURT DECIDES | IN_COLLISION| AGAINST EMERY Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Robertson of Alameda Narrowly Es- cape Injury at San Jose MACHINE IS WRECKED Accident Due to Carelessness of Motorman, Who Did Not Apply Brakes in Time Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Dec. 15.—Mr. and Mrs. ‘W. T. Robertson of Alameda, while on | their way to Del Monte in an automo- bile, had a narrow escape frem serious injury this afterncon in a eollision with a street car. They had just started from this city for Del Monte, and when at the junction of Market and First streets a First-street electric car ran them flown. them and struck the machine. The car carried the auto along for about fifty | feet, throwing it over on the tracks, badly wrecking it. Three wheels The car came up behind | and | the axles of the machine were broken | and the woodwork on the sides smash- ed into kindling. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson occupied the front seats and the hind ones were fill- ed with baggage. Neither of the occu- pants received any injury. * TO ADVERTISERS. Owing to the large amount of work incident to the issue of THE CALL HOLIDAY EDITION, SUNDAY, DEC. 18, NO DISPLAY ADVERTIS- ING copy will be accepted for that edition after 6 P. M. Saturday, and NO CLASSIFIED Ads after g P. M. GET YOUR COPY IN EARLY . d | SISTERS OF HOLY FAMILY MAKE CHILDREN HAPPY Christmas Tree Festival Is Given at Alhambra Theater to Hundreds of Little Ones. A multitude of little children were made happy at the Christmas tree festival given at the Alhambra Theater | yesterday under the auspices of the Sisters of the Holy Family. A number of priests acted in the role of Santa Not one of the little ones went away empty handed. Their arms toys, candies and books and they trooped out of the theater thoroughly happy. Most of the little folks were from the day homes, sisted in giving out the toys are Father | J. B. Hannigan, Father W. P. Sullivan, Father E. A. Kenedy and Father Stark of the Paulist Order.. An excellent en~ tertainment preceded the distribution of gifts. The stage contained a large Christmas tree. ——— Christmas Leather Goods. No charge for lettering your name in gold on pocketbooks, card cases, wrist bags, traveling sets, trunks, valises and | dress suit cases or any other fine leather goods purchased at our store. Open eVen. ings. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market st.* ———— Christmas Season Is On. Christmas festivals are being given at the various kindergarten schools in the city under the auspices of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Associa- tion. The children are with Christmas trees, gifts are distributed. festivals were held yesterday. The yuletide season will be observed in day: 477 Ninth street, 10 a. m.; 3238 | Mission street, 10 a. m.; 2880 Six-| teenth street, 10:30 a. m.; 106 West Mission street, 11 a. m.; Seventeenth and Noe streets, 1:30 p. m.; 4252 Twenty-fourth street, 2 m. e — WANTED IN MONTEREY COUNTY.—w. J. Copeland was arrested last night at Co mercial and Montgomery streets and taken to the City Prison, where he will be held pending orders from Sheriff Nesbitt of Monterey County, who yesterday afternoon telegraphed a descrip. tion of the man and said that he was wanted for burglary in Monterey. Nesbitt requested that the local police keep a lookout for Cope- land. - holiday season than at any o Men's $i5.00 Business Suits . ... .$10.00 ier's $12.50 Long Overcoats. .....$8.50 $2.50 Raefer Overcoats...... $2.50 Cheviot Suits....... Boys’ Eoys’ Boys’ Boys’ Children's $2.00 Buster Brow) Sweaters . . . . Children's 50¢ Wool Tem o'Shanters, ai S e e e s s s N e $3.50 Kixed Suits. . .......$2.45 5.c and 75¢ Mothers’ Friend Walsts ani ADVERTISEMENTS. ther time. $1.65 $1.95 45¢ $1.50 Il colors . 45¢ stitched H—_—’—* i kindergartens and | The priests who as- | | | entertained | eye hurt and a badly bruised body. | | the schools at the following places to- | | \ \ | Usetyl Gifts for Come, Let Us Show You How Quickly We Can Solve that Perplexing Problem “WHAT SHALL 1 GIVE HIM?” Our great big store is filled to the brim with the practical and useful things that men and boys would like to find in their Xmas stockings. always the lowest in the city—are more conspicuously reasonable during the Judge all our other values by these— Men's $1.25 Fancy Vests...... Men's $6.50 Smokin3 Jackets. . .. ..$4.95 Men's $1.50 White Pleated Shirts. . . . $1.00 Men's 25¢ Sitk Neckwear. ..........19¢ Boys’ 75¢ All-Wool Knee Pants . . . . Boys' 25¢ and 35¢ Fancy Flannelette and Per- cale Waists and Blouses. . . ... ... .19¢ Men's 75¢ Suste:ders, each pair in a box. 50¢ en's $.25 exira large Slik Resfers, hem- SidaGs SRR FRANK BROS. Corner Kearny and Sacramento Streets And our prices— ThaGrnt_l_lgSt.on With the Little Rent Patient in Stockton Asylum Tries to Prove That He Was “Railroaded” There READY WITH ANSWERS “ | Freedom Is Denied Him on Testimony of Physicians/ of the State Institution Special Dispatch to The Call. | BTOCKTON, Dec. 15.—A. R. Emery, formerly of Oakland, now an inmate of the State Insane Asylum, was before Judge Smith to-day on habeas corpus proceedings. He claimed to be sane. and to have been “railroaded” to the asylum. Attorney Stetson appeared on behalf of the State Lunacy Board. Emery’s petition set forth that he had been adjudged a lunatic upon the testi- | mony of his wife and children. who wished to get him out of the way. O. W. Jaycox, a friend of the Oakland man, instituted the proceedings to se- cure Emery’'s freedom. At no time while under the fire of Stetson’s search- ing cross-questions did Emery appear at a loss for an answer. Stetson questioned Emery about his actions while in Denver a few months ago, and Emery stated that he had made considerable money by establish- ing a school for teaching bricklaying. He_testified that he took seven pupils | and guaranteed to teach them how to lay brick for the sum of $100 each. He | said that the pupils learned in ‘hmi weeks. “You say you charged $700 for three | weeks’' work?” asked the attorney. “I said I got that much; I didn’t say I earned it,” replied Emery. ‘“Wasn’'t $100 apiece an exorbitant price to charge them?’ queried Mr Stetson. | ‘“Well, I don’t know,” retorted the al- leged lunatic. “You sometimes get lots more than that just for working your mouth a few hours in court.” Emety was on the stand two hours and proved to be a sharp witness. but on the testimony of the asylum physi- clans touching his history and habits he was remanded. | ——————— MORE YOUNG TEACHERS TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS Class of Twenty-Nine to Be Graduated From Normal School at | San Jose. | SAN JOSE, Dec. 15.—Twenty-nine | young teachers will graduate from the | State Normal School here to-morrow. | There will be no programme of exer- | cises, owing to the fact that gradua- | tion exercises are held but once a| year. The following will be presented | with diplomas by Professor M. E.| Dailey: ! Martha Anderson, Ethel Baird, Julia Boyd, | Hannah Buckley, Victoria Downey, Edwina Frary, Helen Franks, Hester Hulst, Virginia Kelley, Mirth Kennedy, Alva Lad¢ Beulah Lanyon, Joseph Malloy, ‘Barbara McCune, Isa- bells McClelland, Josephine Morrison, Charlotte Pelegrini, Nicholas Prusch, Louise Roselip, Margaret Roberts, Marie Leibe, Martha Smith, Gladys Smythe, Luella Sweitzer, Saylor Van Hagen, Herbert ~Wardrip, Grace Walton, Vivian' White and Mabel William: —_————— { OFFICERS DOUBT STORY | TOLD BY INJURED MAN Peter Springmore, Who Says He a Resident of San" Francisco, Is Badly Hurt. SALINAS, Dec. 15.—A man giving the name of Peter Springmore and claiming to.be a resident of San Fran- | cisco was taken to the County Hos- | pital here this afternoon from Wat- sonville, having been severely injured Tuesday near Pajaro in this county. He says he was knocked down near the latter place by a team and run over. At the hospital he was found to have a fractured rib, a broken nose, from which | The officers believe he is not telling | A number of the truth as to how he received the injuries and will investigate the ca Pyrography Outfits And all manner of wooden things and sheepskins to burn. Hundreds of designs not shown elsewhere. Artist Material Department. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street . —————— PRESENTS FOR THE POOR.—The appeal of the Health Department for Christmas gifts for the unfortunate inmates of city institu- tions caused some charitable people to respond yesterday. Neustadter Bros. sent a lot of un- derwear and a prominent physician has agr to deliver a stereopticon lecture at the Alms. house t§ help the Christmas cheer. | —_—————— s A dream of pleasure, the new two for | quarter size American, $2 7 box 2. . | | X .95¢ ' .45¢ | | Al other payments and the World we ave gathered /o the largest, finest and most elaborate ; selection o7 Colds La Grippe Catarrh Positively cured with Dr. Hal- pruner’s Wonderful Medicine, or your money returned, Price, 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. For | sale by all dealers and at office of Halpruner Medical Mfg. Co., 28 California St., S. F., sent by mail or express. People cured free of charge from 1 to 4 p. m. visit DR. JORDAN'S ancar MUSEUM OF AHATOMY 1051 XAZZET ST. bet. 2 a7, 8.7.0al, The Larges: Aastomical Museum 1 ihe Worl or any contracted disease positively cured by the sidest Speciaiist on the Comst. Est. 36 years. OR. JORDAN—DISEASES OF MEN Consuitation free and private. Treatment personally or by letter. A Positivs Owrs in avery case unds Write for Book, PEIL O MARRIAGE, wALzD vaiuable beok for men) 1081 Market (=i Cures aColdinOneDay, 2 Days E Bz STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS PELIGAN ASSURANGE COMPANY () T NEW YORK. IN. THE STATH OF N=W York, on the Jist day of December, A. D. 1003, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provistons of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Com- missioner. CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Stock, pald in cash - - $200, ABSETS. Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company..$437.808 55 Cash In Banks .. 16.226 33 Interest due and, accrued on all Stocks and Loans . 4091 58 Premiums in due Course tion 25,400 13 Due from other Companies for Re- insurance on losses aiready paid.. 273 Total Assets LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid..... Losses in orocess of Adjustment w‘ i by in Suspense . 17,350 Losses resisted. including expenses. 500 o8 Gross Premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $232,967 1 reinsurance 50 per cent 116,483 53 Gross Premiums on Fire Risks run- ning _more than one year, $97, 311 56; reinsurance pro rata. All other Liabilities ... Total Liabilities INCOME. | Net cash actually received for Fire Premmms .. . Received for interest and dividends on Bonds. Stocks, Loans and from all Other SOUFCES eevveruesvesens Total Income EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for Fire Losses (Including $23,808 17, losses of previous years) $140,527 1 Pald or allowed for Commissio Brokerage .......... Paid for Salaries, Fees and other 100 ¥ charges for officers, clerks, etc.. 24,783 37 Paid for State, National and Loc Taxes Total Expenditures ... Net amount of Risk expired during thy Net amount in December 31, A. D. IRVING. President. LOUIS P. BAYARD, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to befors me, this 20th day of January, 1904 GEO. 0. RUGER, Notary Publie. PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT. 200 PINE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. IRVIRG, General Agant. R. GALLEGOS, Assistant Genoral Agant. W. T. HESS, TR g ammmteen | Residence Teleobose Page’ it