The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-29
The Society in Flourishing
Condition.
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL DETAILS.
President Milton s. Eisner Recon-.
mends a Change in the Dis.
triCt Legislation.


of the order at 121 EDDY street yesterday
morning. There were present in all 1872
delegates from the subordinate lodges
within its jurisdiction in all the States
aud Territories of the Pacific coast. Dur
ing the evening session reports were read
from the grand secretary, grand treasurer,
board of trustees, finance committee, chief
medical examiner. library committee. free
religious school committee, committee on
laws. district court committee and intel
lectual improvement committee, and were
referred to the various committees tor re-
port.
The session was opened with PRAYER,
after which President Milton S. Eisner de-
livered his annual address. After well
coming the delegates he reviewed the con-
dition Of the order, which he said was in
much more satisfactory condition than
during the previous years. But twenty
two members had died since the lodge last
convened. which was the smallest percen-
tage OF death in many years. In conse-
quence of this larger surplus yet re-
NAMED in the endowment fund than ever
before. Among the subordinate lodges,
he said, some had found it difficult to
maintain their standing in the order owing
to hard times, and particularly was this
the case among the younger lodges and
those throughout the North west.
he then called the attention Of the dele
gates to specific matters of the order. In
the free library many new. useful and
necessary books had been added and the
number of readers had trauscended the
limits of any previous year. The reference
department had been greatly strength
ened, and had proved of material use to
the children of The members.
The feature OF the district, he said, was
the free religious school, which had re-
ceiyed widespread recognition. The at
tendance of pupils during the year had
been uniformly large. and scholars,
parents aad friends had taken a lively in
terest in it. The teachers were painstak-
ing and devoted to their work The only
thing to be spoken of as inefficient, he
said. was the capacity, owing to the lin
Tied appropriation at the command of the
board of trustees.
In calling the attention of the delegates
to the application of the Home for the
Aged Disabled for aid from the Grand
Lodge al last session, he said that the
report of the committee appointed at the
last session to investigate had been placed
in his hands. and that the committee was
deeply impressed with the good results
achieved by the home, considering its lin
tied means. He recommended that at this
session the Grand Lodge consider how far
the home was entitled to aid from the
GrandLodge.
He urged the adoption at this session
Ofs complete system of optional endow-
ment, by means of which it would be pos
sble FOR married as we'll as unmarried
men to ally themselves with the or
der. lie said that his experience had
demonstrated to his satisfaction the exDe-
diency OF this step, and expressed the
hope that before adj0urning the body
would incorporate this change in the Iegis-
lation OF the district. The establis hment
OF juvenile auxiliary lodges, composed of
young men VINO had not reached the age
of eligibility to the order, was urged to a
fuller degree than it lad yet attained
During the year that has just closed In
his official capacity the president said he
had visited all the subordinate lodges in
the district. In the northw west they were
found to be suffering from the financial
crisis that was hanging over them and in
need. In reference to the call for aid that
they had issued he expressed the hope
that it would be promptly answered.
The report of Grand Secretary Louis
Blank showed that in the district there are
now "a lodges, with total mem bership
on December 81, 1898, of 253O. of whom
1884 are beneficiary members and 246 non-
beneficiary members. The amount eX-
pended for benefits by the subordinate
lodges Of the district during the year was
$50, $40
The financial statement showed the total
receipts for the year as $751; 1T "A; dis
bursements, S75,326 60; leaving a balance
In the hands of the treasurer of $3.50 50.
From the widows and orphan fund during
the year was disbursed $780, which left
balance on hand Of S23,622 40
The report of the trustees of the Free
Religious School reviewed the good work
baing done detail and asked the grand
lodge TO make an appropriation Of $500 to
pay the current expenses during the
coming year. The report of the superin
tendent sh owed that at the present time
there was in the school 307 children that
had been recommended by the various
lodges in the district. The receipts for the
year were Sl4S3 35 and the disbursements
SAT-, leaving balance IN hand of S6635 to
begin the new year with.
Daring the afternoon the delegates nv
Invitation in body sttended the third an
nual commencement exercises of the Free
Religious School.
The following programme was rem
dered throughout:
Overture, orchestra; march. orchestra; omen.
ing prayer, Becky Cohen; opening song school:
recitation, "The Banner OF the Jrw,, Harry
Amsel; song. Praise the Lord" school: reel
tation, "a Little Bird Tells" Milton de Roos;
reci alton, The Two Brothers." Clara Hyman:
music music onchs o notices pupils of Hebrew
Cohen; Ten commandments, English, Annie
Green; Hineni, Hebrew and English, Nettie
Robitcher; Borachu Hebrew and English.
Gussie Gre en-: Ahvas, Olom, Hebrew
aud English Lillian Friedberg; Shema
ID vid Moses; Emes Ray Jacobs; Pc.
ros, Hattie Bielsky; ShemOno Esreb, He
brew, Morris Wolfsonn; violin solo, l.. Marcus;
memorial address, Bertha MendeIsohn; Kadish,
Max Cohen; concluding remarks. Bertha Mem
delsohn;, Olenu, Hebrew, Arthur Roth; Olenu
! English, Bessie Goodman ;sawarding OF prizes;
! hymn. "En KeIohenu," school; closing prayer
| My Lewis; song, ''Our Native Land" school;
priestly benediction. Hebrew, Able Blum
priestly benediction, English, Kats GutsIadt
| At last nights session of the Grand
Lodge the order of business was the COM
ihencement OF taking up the various re-
! ports that had been presented during the
morning and had been reported back DIV
| the committee to which they had been re-
ferred. The first taken up was that of the
board Of trustees of the Free Religious
School asking for an appropriation of $500
to meet the expenses incurred in obsery-
ing two festivals each year at the school.
Heretofore this expense has been borne
by the board of trustees and some
few OF the members of the society.
but bad become such drain that they had
decided to ask the Grand Lodge to bear it.