Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-20
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
ECHOES PROM THE SWEET WORKS OF
CHARITY.
Movements, Past and Present for the
Relief Of the Eeedy-Personal
Eention.
SAN FRANCISCO, October II, 1888.

SAN FRANCISCO, October II, 1888.
Charity rules the hour. The people
about whom one likes to hear are nothing
If not charitable this autumn. 1 wrote
you about the California Association for
the tending of feeble.minded children, in
explanation of which DR.. Stratton delivered
an interesting lecture in Oakland last
night. Saturday the Old Ladies' Home
gave sort of tea or kettledrum from 2
o'clock till 9, utilizing their grounds for
sroquet and tennis, and netting more than
81 600 from the entertainment That is a
charity in which Mrs. Benjamin Baboock
is a prime mover. Then yesterdaY-Tues-
day-and this evening the fete for the
benefit of the Homeopathic Hospital was
held at Mrs. George Hearst's beautiful
house on Van Ness avenue. These two
charities Old Ladies' Home and the
Homeopathic Hospital-have their head
quarters in the Mills building and the
K eene building, of what was formerly st.
Luke's Hospital. Once upon time it
occurred to organizing
LADIRs OF TIE EPISCOPAL PERSUASION
That there was no free hospital in San
Francisco, save only the City and County
Hospital, and that, seeing this deficiency,
it were well to found such an institution,
to be supported by monthly subscriptions.
A good deal of the real work concentrated
in Trinity Church. st. Luke's Hospitals
IN London and New York, being of world
wide reputation, and as there is much in a
name, Mile Cspulet to the contrary not
withstanding, and as st. Luke the evan
gelist is popularity known as the beloved
physician, the new hospital accordingly
began it's career as st. Luke's. The chief
of staff, DR.. Brotherton, formerly in charge
of hospital in Baltimore, as soon as he
was chosen to this new position, went East
and investigated, and made his own the
latest good things in hospital management,
and, returning was duly installed for &C.
tive duty. St. LuEe's had numerous gen.
erous friends. 1t was generally said that
the
HOSPITAL WAS NOT sECTARIAN,
Bnt generally understood that it was Pro-
testant in spirit, and perhaps Episcopally
given. D. 0. Mills and Keene, of Foxhall
fame, each gave the hospital $40, 900, but
with the proviso that the money should be
spent in erecting buildings for the accom-
mediation of patients. 1t is always easy
for the penniless outsider to criticise mu-
nifcent gifts. and the penniless outsider is
given to wondering why munifcent donors
always provide that buildings shall be the
end of their bestowal-t -tombs, as it were,
in which the money seems buried, with no
funds left to run the expensive structure.
SO bequeathers are constantly providing
that new colleges, libraries and observato-
ries shall be built, when those already ex-
tant are tottering for the want of the very
coin that has gone to create new unsup.
portable fabric. Bat this is carping di-
gression. The buildings were erected,
more people gave beds and provisions, and
the hospital struggled along. Then came
an hour when DR.. Brotherton became ex-
tremely i'll and resigned, and another ruled
in his stead, the time of that sewing circle
whose
MEMBERS sHoNE MORE AT BALLS
Than at "bees," and of whom it was
beautifully true that you can lead girl
TO the machine, but yeu can't make her
sew, and the weirdness of the garments
produced by the maidens as they talked Of
their conquests gave the finishing blow to
the hospital, which, with a gasp and
gurgle, quite gave up the ghost and was no
more heard of. Then when the managers
of the Old Ladies' Home and the Homeo-
pathic Hospital perceived that two ten
th9.N - ollar buildings for the accommo-
datN Ssstk people were closed for lack
of tenants, they promptly engaged the
same for their use. and there they are even
unto this day, giving teas and fairs and
otherwise making that bid for heavens
help which the proverb says ensues on that
course of conduct. Mrs. Hearst's fair, or
fete it was called, was charming and very
successful. Her house is the Graves
house, and it is large and richly fitted up.
The carpets were canvased, the flower
counter loaded with blossoms and made as
dangerous as a Fair Manager could devise by
EXTREMELY PRETTY YOUNG GIRLS
To effect sales of bouquets. In parlors on
the other side of the hall were tables with
knick-k -knaoks for sale, screens and ban
ners and pen-wipers, vases, card.receivers,
and decorated apprenticeship usual
bazaar stock. There was a refreshment-
room, where the chandelier with its opal
tinted globes and large red-glass center
piece, in a network of carved bronze and
lighted up within, and the heavy and rich
wood.w work, made a civilized setting for
supper. Sitting at the little Japanese
tables scattered about the room, the guests
enjoyed a pretty effect from the distant
clspping of hands over the tableaux.
These, with the music-Miss Ferrer and Mrs.
Carmichael Carr played this evening, Mr..
Kelley and Mr.. Zech Tuesday-were per-
haps the most attractive part of the affair
With bountiful supply of some dark red
curtains, picture frame and some classical
faces, and with the aid of some msgni6-
cent costumes, Mr.. Wores, who had the
tableaux in charge, made some beautiful
effects. The wskening of the sleeping
beauty, Faust's Margaret at her wheel, a
oloistered student, a Japanese girl-very
we'll done-and a praying nun, occupied
the large gold picture frame by turns. All
the world was at the house this evening,
notably
THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF R0SEBERY.
The latter, in white costume, was some
what, as one would expect to see an Eng
ish Countess, commanding in figure, serene
In countenance. Lord Rosebery, rather
boyish in appearance, has the wide blue
eyes and clear complexion we associate
with his countrymen by reading about it
in books, yet when we see it we involun-
tarily say, "0h, that's what novelists mean
when they talk about frank blue English
eyes" G. Il. Miller, Jr., and his dang ghter
have returned from the East, and the
Miller house is rented to George CAdwal.
Ader, of Sacramento. Carter Pomeroy has