The morning call., 1894-04-17

Under a beautiful floral heart, the fitting
emblem of an organization of which the
sole aim is to do good, the members of the
Catholic Ladies' Aid Society held morning
and afternoon sessions in Festival Hall
yesterday.
The ladies took the initiative in the
matter of early meetings. the exercises
being the first of the kind TO be held in
Festival Hall before noon. To the credit
OF the es;imable ladies who comprise the
mem bership of this excellent and truly
charitable society be it recorded that there
was a large attendance when the presiding
officer called the convention to order The
audience increased in size rapidly, and at
the afternoon session here were few
vacant chairs in the large auditorium.
Mrs. NJ. Deane, the grand president of
the organization, gave the opening address,
welcoming her co-workers and introducing
Miss Nellie Barrett, who rendered piano
solo very accepta bly,.
Miss Maggie Woods contributed paper.
read by NJ SIS May Code. on ''The Work
Done for Humanity by Cath Ollie Women" :"
Il might be called a rollcall OF the nnbe
women of the Catholic church who have
ity. The paper first reverted TO four names
which stand out most prominently in the
first century of the church-D rcss, Eu-
nice, Lydia and Priscilla, four women
whom the writer of the paper referred to
as mothers Of distintiYe branch OF
Christian charity"
Coming down to our ewn time ard our
own country Mother Seton of Baltimore,
Mother Katherine Drexel and Miss Cald-
we'll were ment toned among others. Last,
but not least the writer Of the paper paid
a glowing tribute to the Ladies' Aid So
cietv, and concluded her essay IS follows:
death may rob US OF our benefactors,
but ( is pOwerless to destroy the noble
work of their hands, and the multiplied
motive of different Catholic women has
made that work so vast and Indefinite that
it embraces every feature OF Christian
Charity and allies the name OF Catholic
with that of benefactor."
Miss May Dow followed with sweetly
rendered vocal solo and Mr.. South recited
an original poem.
Miss Lily ToomeF's address upon "The
ADos cate of Temperance" was a very
able essay. Il combined a great many sta
ti>tics of the raYages of intemDerance with
the best sugge>ti tons that have been made
Tor their remedy. Miss TOomey's paper
was received with generous applause.
A vocal solo by Miss Frost and a piano
Sel6ctlOD DN mis-
the morning programme.
The afternoon session. which began at 2
o'clock, opened with an overture by the
Midwinter Exposition band. This was
FOLLOWED Gy paper on Organization foT
Catholic Women" by Mrs. Paul Lohse.
Other iapers read during the afternoon
were "The Catholic Wnman's Sphere" by
Miss Mary Lambert; Complete Educa-
ton for the Girl" by Miss Agnes Man
ming.
The director-general welcomed the la
dies to the grounds and praised them for
the noble work they are doing. He
thought it was matter OF congTatulatioD
Catholic Ladies' AID Society to ameliorate
the sufferiDgs of the poor.
At the conclusion Of Directories eDeral
de Young's address the Right Rev. Bishop
MONTGOMERY was asked 10 sep upon the
platform. As be did SO he was greeted
with q round Of applause. which. Mrs.
Deane remarked. saved her the necessity
of introducing him.
The Bishop began bis remarks with the
feiicitous statement that the last speech
be made in public had been credited with
causing dire disaster.
81 went down to Santa Cruz few days
ago and talked on temperance" he said.
''They say that my speech had such an
effect that every body drank so much water
qnench the flames when the big FIRE broke
out in the CITY,"
This remark was received with mingled
laughter and applause. Bishop Mont
gomery went on 10 say that, taking warn
ing by his Santa Cruz experience, he would
avoid the subject of temperance here. He
took I'D. however, a subject which he said
was close akin to it that of ''doing good"
The Bishop made q very Interesting ad-
dress. His great familiarity with the
work Of the Catholic Ladies' Aid Society
permitted him to talk understandingly.
He called attention to the fact that this
was not mutual benefit organization, but
that the ladies of the organization spent
their time in doing good to others without
reaping any benefit to themselves beyond
the satisfaction of doing good.
TIVE poems were also read. One of
these, California" by Miss Marcella
Fitzgerald, read by Miss Kate Srhafer.
The other poem was. behold the Hand
maid Of the Lord" by Miss Harriet Skid
more. Another feature Of The afternoon
was q soprano solo by Miss Mary Sullivan
of ihe ST. Francis de Sales Church of Oak
land, with eornet obligato by Mr.. Crab
tree.
The attendance at the afternoon session
was very large, and all EXPRESSED them
selves as highly delighted with the enter
tainmeni which had been furnished on the
part OF THIS energetic organlZaHOD.
Count Z. Valcourt de Vermont has paci-
bed bis turbulent tenants for time at
least. After many conferences and many
.invocatons to Allah and Mohammed the
Oriental rioters agreed to reimburse Count
Vermont for the gate charge. a sum was
agreed upon based on two-thiTds OF the
average receipts.
The streets or Cairo will be open to all
visitors this morning without charge and
all the shops will be open. Count Yer
mont agrees to relinquish the entrance fee,
the agreement to continue as long as the
OT entail sub-concessionaires pay their
rent. Judging from previous experience
thls VIII last about seventy-twn hours.
Eugene Sandow, the perfect man. made
MS initial appeai ance al the Vienna Prater
last night before a large audience. The
champion athlete of the world was given
perfect ovation when be made his bow
and he applause was frequently repeated
during bis wonderful performances.
TIE manner IN which this muscle riant
juggIed with huge weights, caught cannon
balls, and lifted, apparently without An
effort. huge blocks Of solid iron. eyoked
continual wonder and dmiraiion from the
audience He will apl ear nightly at Franz
Joseph Hall.
The marvellous Jordan family also ap-
peared 10 their refined vaudeville per-
f0rmance. Their acts were excellent, and