The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1905. 'ELKS PAY LOVING TRIBUTE TO:. MEMORY/PRUSE FOR ACT [TELLER'S VIEWS ~ OF THEIR DEPARTED BROTHERS. THIS CITY | SEES LARGE | GATHERING| Services Held Before Great Crowd at |, the Tivoli. Programme of Un- usual Merit Is Arranged. ks stage and the rest of lience that s were s as trib- know full s and ben- ceremonies e | TBUT TWO ABSOLUT this w 3 ‘God made than the angels | honor and with crowned him wit glor Though separated by immeasurable ove and - immo; ven ar together by en of divinecst influences, and tenderest and most potent 1s memor 5, by remind { dearness of love lost ever, rouses in the S0 a life whe aspiration for DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. THE REAL QUESTION. The real qnesfion of disease is *Can I be cured?” If you or snyone dear o you I8 | losing strength, flesh, ever; and vitality, if you are wise ou will not spend time try- to figure out just what nnxme o cll” the disease ll)y | t is_almost e to ) araw the Hne where debilisy | mY wn‘.k’ne-m merge ln& | sonsumption. Your trouble may not be | ounsuxinguon mdny. but you dort know what It ma b?omc morrow, dun reds of people have been re- stored to robust health by Dr. Pierce’s marvelous =Golden Medical Discovery " n!mr reputable cfans h nounced th em consumptive be- yond hope. Were 3 they in consump- tlon? .‘1};— body can ¥rr know. \ - 'he im nt nt is that bopales H)ORTI b&dtbls matcl and saved them. ] was 0! nblemdohlfll WMM all” 'lil mnmun. of Vanburen, fettor 1 D mhmc" T had pun’?n ot m side and back. and had head: Il{ th time. I tried your med ST Tt 15a o be T bed i 1o pmgs . |0 = Bie wanied me bo et s doctor baLT 4618 BiE it nwu the not help bm'n me. We thought we mfi‘ Yur 1 were *Dis- covery " restored Golden Medlcubhm ke ope botdle the cough was butfhl medicine is Write to Dr. R. V. Pierce. He will send m good, fatherl fessional advice, {xflx ain r kJ Wl nhly tx;e." is neuly Johyuu exp’ed In Falide Hor "‘h” oo, N, ‘3. . kim an expu-tu n chronfc }M on cayses serious disoases. 1t ts m m&“’m'-m l | high ‘znn in an endless vista until earth and | landscape so vast and so majestic the . |and with sea, | brain searches vainly | massive mountain ranges, with their pre- | cipitous | tar’ happy smile, the. llluminating eve, the trank, clear voice, the cordial hand- | clasp, the loving words of the lost ity and memory—form the trinity of spiritual essences that inspires such services as this. To him who knows th not, who has not love, who has not faith, who has not memory, the whole of this ceremony will be but an empty show and an idle ritual, mean- ingless and vain; but to all who love, who have faith and who remember, there shall come out of the beauty pf e ritual and out of the sweethess of the music an influence that shall de- scend upon the heart with a benedic- tion and a consecration. “It is a surpassing mystery that love, which is the origin and essence of life, and immortality, which knows not death, should have a memory of death as & bond between them, and find a meeting place in & grave: and yet it is a mystery which all men and women sooner or later learn through that ex- perience with death which is common to the race. No voice of the living cau teach the truth of immortality so po- tently as the dumb lips of the dead ‘he words of the highest, the wises and the most eloquent cannot affect the heart of the mourner half so deeply as can the intimations which come up si- trom the flower-strewn grav where lie even the humblest and ob- scurest of the children of love. THE GRAVE THAT LOVE FINDS. The whole round of the living world powerless to teach what -death even as reason it powerless to as faith ¢ v in- learn much and de- deed AND OAKLAND ZS IN CIM JURIST WHO ATI YESTERI RFR\I mn\s WHO TOOK PART IN THE ELKS' TY, B DORSHZ Prosy v MEMORIAL SERVICES IN THIS DEVLIVERLD THE ORATION AT THE 3 A A G SIS rive from her ministrations lessons.that are full of beauty and of sublimity, but no: 1 her Leauties and sublimities can cal the inner secret of life as the grave reveals it, nor so impress the soul with a consciousness of the essen- tial 1 ness of material things and of | the supreme value of the spiritual. “Stand upon the summit of Tamalpais and look about you, and there will glad- den exalt your vision one of the most marvelous landscapes on the globe. | Mountain and valley, the ocean stretch- ing to the western sky, the peninsula 11ft- ing to the sun the splendors of its proud the far sweep of the bay amid en- hills, the tracery of silver creeks through green marshes, the course of . gr rivers flowing to the sea ton sentinels { while far thystine sky the lofty heights of Mount Hamil- Diablo and Loma Prieta standing as around, are all before you, to the east against an ame- the snow-clad slopes of the stretch, a broad, serrated extending along the hori- | Sierras band of pearl, | sky, thyst, the infinite blue of the distance. mountain and cloud, pearl and ame- meet and mingle and blend into Before a aspiring mind of man soars aloft in exul- tation; he claims kinship with mountain listens with poetic ear to volces of the deeps and of the heights, and in his joyous mood finds rapture in them; but when the innermost secret of this unintelligible world presses upon the mind for solution, when the heart feels the emptiness of earthly joy, when the for the reason of things, when to the soul itself despair begins to chant the dreary ‘vanitds vani- tatum,’ then man turns to voices of the earth, only to find that the sea is inartic- ulate, the mountains are dumb; the very stars give no sign. Then all -earthly pomps and majesties are as nothing; the heights and crowning peaks robed in the splendor of eternal snow and glowing with the gorgeous purples and crimsons of the setting sun, cannot speak to the heart of man with the ef- fectiveness of a little mound of clay be- neath whose turf love hath laid its dead, for it {8 an unconditioned truth that wherever love finds a grave faith per- ceives a revelation and pointing heaven- ward whispers to love, “Thou art fmmor- “Shining in the light of that faith comes memory with its recollections of the dead. It Is true-that memory is sometimes sad, that it often comes with sighs and not infrequently with tears; but even at the saddest, the most grief- stricken mourner feels that it is bet- ter to remember than to forget. Mem- ory brings back to consciousness the friend, and cheers with recollections of the thousapd little unrecorded acts of kindness.that made up the tenor of his life. It is an ennobling faculty, and when it leads our thoughts away from the pre of activities around us ‘to recollections of things past it enables us in a measure to annihilate time and space and live over again the glad days of old in the same dear companionship that' made them glad. RAISED TO HIGHER LEVELI. “Moreover, there is in memory a power that. tends to the consecration of the heart, for it not only follows every love, attends every grief and gives radiance to every faith, but it draws something of blessing from them all, and glows in the mind with a certain fllumination of its own. “After a great storm, when the heavy clouds break and drift away before the winds, you have seen alofig the dc-olv- ing array of black and gloomy masses a rainbow gleam across the heavens and overarch the earth, and you have noticed how 1its loveliness brightened the rain- swept fields and lightened 'the darkened sky; so when storms of grief for the dead mre over and clouds of sorrow are passing heavily away, memory shines out i like a rainbow, as beautiful as love itself. It overarches every grave in the whole world, it lightens.the helghts of faith, and we may even say of it in the words | of Job: ‘Very beautiful gjt is in the brightness thereof: it enc8npasseth the heavens in a glorious bow and the hand of the Most High hath bended it.’ ‘“Most fitting is it that this great fra- ternal order, with principles and practices of friendship, with fts mutuality of love and its faith | in the immortality of the soul, should dedicate this day to memory, and that it should mark the ceremony with all stately observances and consecrate it with the | lofty and sonorous strains of sacred | music. ¢“Let us not forget that the influence of | these memorial services goes out from us to all the living with whom we come into contact. A memory of the dead, nour- ishes the noblest facultles of the heart, for no one can recall the kindly words and - helpful deeds of departed friends without a growing se of loyalty to those who are still alive, and a deepened sense of gratefulness for all kindly acts from whatsoever source they come. More- over there grows up out of our tender- ness toward the dead a broader and a more generous liberality toward all men, and a truer and fuller charity in judg- ing the actions of those who differ from us. There is no fine nature that is not finely touched by memorles of past issues sanctified by death; so are we now by these ceremonial observances raised to higher levels of aspiration and resolve. Out of the coarse materialities of the world the heart exalts itself and rising to realms of spiritual aspiration feels a glow of divinity within it, as the memory of gome one loved and lost shines through the night of death and “‘like a star, * Beacons to the abodes where the mortals are.’ EULOGY OF THE DEPARTED. Charles N. Post delivered the eulogy. Mr. Post spoke:In beautiful language of the sacred memory of those brothers who had been called by their Maker and of the tributes of love the survivors were ever ready to pay them. He touchingly took up the name of each Elk of No, 3 that had passed away during the last year and told of the at- tributes that had made him beloved of his fellows. Their names would ever be held in esteem by those they had left behind, he said, and memory of them would never fade but would be- come more hallowed each succeeding year. The names he read were: A, Gutsch, John Gildea, Russell J. Wilson, Thomas D. Riordan, Herman Kohlmoos, Alfred Perfler, Frank Bettman, Charles H. Robinson, O. M./Brennan and Thomas F. Curley. Two prominent singers had been ob- tained by the committee, Arthur Cun- ningham being on the programme for “From Fleeting Hours” and MacKenzie Gordon for “The Resurrection.” Their vocal efforts were leading features of the service. . Paul Gerson read from Tennyson's “In-Memorium.” Bishop Hamilton pro- nounced the benediction and the ser- vices closed with the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by the or- chestra. i The memorial committee and —sub- committees that arranged the pro- gramme follow: Elks' 1905 memorial committea—J. J. Lermen, chairman; Walter J.. Wolf, sec- retary; W. H. Leahy, Joseph E. O'Don- nell, Leo J. McMahon, Fred H. Zumwalt, C. W. Nevin, J. R. Pringle, J. H." Cole- man, E. C. Clark, B. R., ex-officlo. Sub- committees: Programme — Joseph E. | O’'Donnell, chairman; Leo J. McMahon, H. Leahy. Theater—W. H. Leahy, ch;lrmln C. W. Nevin, W, J. Wolf. Music—Fred H. Zumwalt, chairman; J. R. Pringle, J. H. Coleman. Printing— C. W. Nevin, chairman; W. J. Wolf, J. H. Coleman. Decoration—Leo J. Mc- Mahon, chairman; Joseph E.,O'Donnell, 'Fred H. Innvun. ress—J. Pringle,’ chairman; J. H. Coleman, C. W. Nevin. im- its devotion to the | Lodge of Cincinnai ' Hears Fine Oration . by Judge Melvin. P Bl Californian at Times Moves His Audience to Tears. LAl Special Dispatch to The Call. CINCINNATI, Dec. 3.—The Lodge of Sorrow, or annual memorial service of | the Cincinnati Elks for their honored |"dead, took place in Music Hall this after- noon. An elaborate programme of ora- 1 tory and music had been prepared and | those who attended declared that the | ceremonies were the most elaborate and | at the same time the most impressive ever conducted by the local lodge. The principal speaker of the day was Judge Henry A. Melvin of Californla. He is a member of the Oakland lodge and | probably will be the next grand exalted | ruler of the order. i Eyery seat in the immense hall, which seats more than 4000 persons, was taken, | and Judge Melvin's address was listened to with tense interest. Judge Melvin | | | | | | | i i EXPRESSES BEAUTIFUL OF CORTELYOU Civil Lauds Order Eliminating Politics - From Postoffice PG A b 3 SENTIMENT FEE FOR EXAMINATIONS Oukland Lodge Holds Services Over De- parted Brethren. Annual Exercises Are Impressive and Well Attended. OAKLAND, Dec. 3. ‘The ‘members of Oakland Lodge No. 171, Benevolent ‘and Protective Order of Elks, held the annual memorial services for the members of the lodge who have answered the call of death during the year just closed this afternoon at the First Congregational Church. The services were conducted under di- rection of Exalted Ruler George W. Frick and the officers of Oakland Lodge, and the music for the exercises was furnished by Mrs. E. W. Crellin, E. James Finney, G. B. Nevin, Arthur Weiss, Miss Mabel Hill and -Walter Handel Thorley, assisted by a male chorus of twenty voices, under the direction of E. D. Crandall. The opening ceremonies, by the ex- alted ruler, officers and members of the lodge, were followed by prayer by the acting chaplain, the Rev. Charles R. Brown, pastor of the First Congrega- tional Church, and a selection by the male chorus. Judge Joseph R. Patton de- livered the oration of the day, saying in the course of his address: It seems pecullarly fitting that on this. day set apart by our order for the remem brance of our honored dead, that mot only the members of our order, but also the people of the community in which we live should gather, to pay an effectionate tribute to the memorles of those members of the wrder who have an- swered the call of the Exalted Ruler of the universe. The Benevolent ard Protective Order of Elks is an American Order born In the early spring- time of our republic. -We have no musty rec- ords of centuries passed away, we have no key to the mysteries of other ‘ages, but the principles of our order are as old as the earllest memory of man. The eulogy was delivered by Past Ex- alted Ruler H. C. Capwell, who said: Tn harmony with the established rule of our order that the first Sun in December of each yvear be dedicated as a day in which shall be commemorated by every lodge of Elks the memory of our departed brothers, to-day throughout this broad lahd there are assem- bled brothers of this great American fratern- ity. They, as we, have met to pay a tribute of love*and respect to the memory of honored dead. # There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there: There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. ke dedication of this: day who, obedient to the call of the Grand Ex- alted Ruler of the universe,shave passed to the great beyond. is to us, still in the land of the ifving, a day of holy privilege. We for the time withdraw from a world of strife and to our brothers Continued on Page 4, Column 4. the Board Proposes That Small Charge Be Made to Keep Applicants Within Limits WABSHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The twenty- second annual report of the United States Civil Service Commission, made public to-day, contains a recommenda- tion that Congress should authorize the collection of a fee from applicants for examination for the Government ser- vice. Should this authority be given, the report states, the commission will issue a manual glving such detatled in- formation regarding the ekamination as will make it unnecessary for the ap- plicant to make special preparation for these examination In some civil service school or institution. The amount of the fee, it is -ug gested, should be a small one. ° | argument In its favor is that it would eliminate from the examinations the large number o: persons who take them out of curiosity or to secure a higher rating on ‘the eligible list through re- | examination. It is-Stated that 150,000 persons were examined last year, 40,000 of whom secured positions. ‘Dur- ing the year the number of competitive positions increased from 154,093 to 171,807 Touching on the order of President Roosevelt' of November 17 last, giving authority to heads of departments to dismiss an. employe from the service without notice for delinquency or mis- conduct, the report says: The new. rule meither changes the authority to make removals which existed as fully under the former as under the present practice, ROr affects the jurisdiction of the Civil co Commission, “merely making some chang the proeedure in the case of removal. The order of Postmaster General Cor- telyou providing for the retention of fourth-class postmasters during satls- factory service is regarded by the com- mission as “distinotly the most im- portant administrative reform effected within the past year. The fourth- class postmasters constitute the largest class of employes selected without ex- amination of any kind. For many years these positions have been treated as political spoils and appointments made to them with slight regard to the best interests of the service.” Regarding appointments to the P rama Canal service, the report states, the commiission has experienced com- i | siderable difficulty in securing eligibles for positions included in the outdoor | service on the isthmus. As to the| Philippine service, little difficulty has been experienced in providing sufficient ; eligibles. ) FRES Death Calls Somoma Woman: SANTA ROSA, Dec. 3.—Mrs. T. L. Orr, wife of a well-known wine maker of Ocldental, passed away at an early | hour this morning after a month’s ill- ness due to blood poisoning. Besides a husband she leaves an infant a month old. Her condition was very serious up to a week ago, at which time she began to improve and was supposed to be well on the road to recovery when she | suffered a relapse. Chief Executives for the natlon,” clared United States Semator Henry M. Teller of Colorado to-day. boarded a train for W a stop-over in Chicago for a few hours His criticism of Presidential possidil- N CANDIDATES Service Commnsswn ‘Coloradan Has Poor Opinion of Men Now Being Men- tioned for the Presidency SORT S{NOT THE RIGHT They Might Do, He Says, for Magistrates, but White House Timber Is Lacking Special Dispaich to. The Call. CHIOAGO, Dec. 3.—"Good local mag- be made out of some of idential timber, but not de- He had just hington, after ities came In response to a query as to his opinion of the political outlook. “I don’t want {o say anything about that,” he satd. “There are a lot of men talking about running for President who haven’t the remotest chance. Some of them might make good Justices of the Peace, but as to their being Presi- dents"—Senator Teller stroked his beard reflectively—"1 don’t think they m not going to mention any he added, when he saw the ural question coming. “I think the railroads are very fool- ish to oppose rate regulation,” sald Senator Teller, in discussing the Presi- dent's attitude on that question. <If their opposition keeps up it may leaa to something worse for them than regulgtion. “I do not think there is much senti- ment in faver of Government owner- ship now, but if the railroads succeed in preventing what is reasonable over- sight of their affairs for the benefit of the public the people will say: If we cannot regulate these things under pri- vate ownership we will take the roads into our own hands. RAILROAD OFFICIALS AND POLICE TO ACT ‘Will Stop the Hurling of Mis- siles at Trains in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Deo. 3.—As a result f the casting of an iron plump bob into esident Roosevelt's train as it was passing through the northern part of this cuy last night, the Pennsylvania Rallroad officlals and the - ..ladelphia police offi- clals have united into a determined ef- fort to break up the practice of throwing missiles at trains. A thoro investi- in prog- gation of last night's incident said a Pennsylvania Railroad offictal !o- day, “by the throwing of stomes and bricks through car windows by miscre- ants. They occur usually in outlying parts of the city. The oply thing that will break up the practice is a heavy fine and imprisonment for the offenders when caught.” —————————— MBXICO CITY, Dec. 3.—Vice President Cor- ral continues grayely ill with typhus fever. There {3 much public anxiety on sccount of his congitlon. spoke for nearly a half hour. He de- livered an impressive and eloquent trib- ute to the departed brothers, and many in the audience were at times moved to tears. After the meeting Judge Meivin spoke enthusiastically of his reception here yes- terday and to-day and at the same time paid @ glowing compliment to the Cin- cinnati lodge and to the order of Elks in general. An informal reception was tendered the Judge to-night, many of the leading lights of the Cincinnati bar be- ing present. Judge Melvin will start for home to-morrow. < di s SEATTLE LODGE MOURNS. Oakland Man Delivers Eulogy at North- ern Elks Memorial Service. SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—John J. Allen of Oakland, Cal, delivered the eulogy to- day at the Seattle Elks annual lodge of sorrow, or memorial service. Mr, Allen paid a glowing tribute to the de- mands made by the Elks upon the moral qualifications of .members of the order,. and tenderly referred to the brothers on the roll of departed. He was invited to come from Oakland for the services and made his first trip to Seattle for the eulogy. The local lodge is' entertaining him at the Butler, a special committee providing entertain- ment. * The Elks' annual session was the most elaborate and impressive the order has ever held here. ' The theater was handsomely decorated and crowded by spectators. SINGS MEMORIAL ODE. Sorrow Is the Music. BANTA ROSA, Dec. 8.—Former Sen- ator John F. Davis of $an Francisco delivered the oration at the annual me- morial services of Santa Rosa Lodge of Elks this afternoon. The eulogy was Fentures of Santa Rosa Elks Lodge of || clothes. ment is conducted. experts. pronounced by Willlam F. Cowan of this city. The elaborate musical pro- gramme was arranged by Mrs. J. P. Berry. A feature of the programme was the rendition of a memorial ode, | composed and dedicated to Santa Rosa Lodge of Elks by Frank Carroll Giffen, by a quartet consisting of Miss Isabel Heidenreich, Miss Nelle Burger, Frank Carroll ' Giffen and C. *E.. Wingate. Exalted Ruler W. 8. Davis was master ot ceremonies. ARSI REMEMBER ABSENT ONES. Elks Ql Salinas ll“ Memorial Services . im City of Monterey. MONTEREY, Dec. 3.—Salinas l’ndso f of Fiks, No. 614, held its, annual lodge || of sorrow here this afternoon in Bag- by's Opera-house. The services were very impressive. The list of absent ones contains the names of Charles Un- derwood, Larkin G: Smith and Willlam R. Johnston, all charter members of tho lodge. Exalted Ruler F. E. McCollu: presided. J. H. Andresen delivered Q‘. -address, ukln‘ “vlrtcfiul ehgty .:, hi“ m-m ‘The eulogy was given X C. A fine musical llhul‘y programme was lh-. { Now, straight from the shoulder, workmanship and a perfect fit for less money than any other tailor— (. 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