The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-11
A YOUNG EASTERN CLERGYMAN
LABORING FOR THE WELFARE
OF THE POOR.
BEGGARS CAPTURE A CITY.
GENERAL KELLEY OF THE INDUS
TRIAL ARMY BIDS FAREWELL
TO THE Town.


gational minister of Chicago, has located
in West Oakland. He brought with
him Hull House methods of social
reform and is making rapid strides
in his work. He has secured COM
modious quarters in a roomy house at
Eighth and Wood streets, and calls his
place the Manse. 1t combines all the fea-
lures of school and home for entertain
ment and education. There is polytechnic
school auxiliary to the Manse for those
who seek improvement.
The young minister who presides over
the destinies of the Second Congregational
Church, near the Manse, is very enthusi-
astic in his work. He said on the subject:
1--WE have been some time and to great
expense in getting our Manse to its pres
ent footing. Before the project could be
established on an intelligent basis it was
necessary to prepare maps of the district
and to make thorough Investigations.
1.-The Manse is in no sense social senti-
ment or purely charitable organization.
We do not infringe on the work of the
Associated Charities, but conduct our af-
fairs Independent of any other gathering.
''Thls is in every way a workingmen's
home. We have a kindergarten for the
benefit of INDECENT children, classes in in
tellectual topics, which are conducted with
every regard to increasing the mental ca
pacity of the pupil, and from time to time
we give lectures on common topics.
Recently we had series of talks on
Manufacturing Industries and Money dur
ing Washington's Administration Our
relations with the Associated Charities are
amicable. Mrs. Cushing and Mrs. Red
dington, leaders in the latter, are among
our best workers, while Miss Norton, my
colleague, is a good worker in the Asso
ciated Charities.
There is a class on American poets
under the supervision of Miss Farnham, a
junior in the State University. We are
preparing an exhibition of pre-Raphaelite
pictures, the same as was recently given in
San Francisco"
In speaking of the locality Mr.. Hinckley
said: "West Oakland, socially, is almost
city by itself. According to the census of
1890 there were IL, $50 people in the First
Ward, whereas there is no other ward in
Oakland that can show over $3.50. We are,
in a sense, removed from close social in
tercourse with the rest OF the city, and
have felt the need of an institution which
would have for its object the ameioration
of the workingman. There was bad ele-
ment here during the late strike, which
has, in measure, been removed, and we
are pleased to see the standard OF society
here rapidly improving
Manse on the east has been secured and
will be occupied by the school of poly
clinics. DR.. Medros, resident physician of
the Manse, will occupy the front room,
servant the back. and the other three
rooms will be devoted to the use of the
Cynical board, of which DR.. Card is the
president. The staff is complete except as
to dental surgery. We will also have an
auxiliary board on hygiene and nursing.
eve do not give out medicine, but do
give free treatment to the INDECENT when
necessary. There is no money making
feature in our work. Our object is the up
iftment, socially, of the workingman."
The Race for Mayor.
Oakland will hold most important
election to-day and politics is the only
| topic that interests. A full line of city
officials, from Mayor down, is to be
| chosen.
| The interest seems to center in the two
| leading men for Mayor. W. Nelson,
who has nominations from three parties,
Republican, Democratic and bipartisan,
and John L. Davie, who is the candidate of
a strong wing of the Populists. Davie has
| opponents in the ranks of the Populists,
but he is said to have gathered strength
| sufficient from other sources to overcome
the detection, notably among G. A R.
veterans, of whom there are many in Oak
land. Davie speakers are making an issue
of the waterfront fight and say that the
city under Non-Partisan rule wasted
$40 900 in trying to regain the water front
They point to Davie and say He would
! have taken the front. What is the need of
paying for that which already belongs
| to us?'
The Nelson people, on the other hand.
| say that Davie did not take care of his own
business affairs and should not be trusted
with the city's; that the money paid out
in the waterfront fight was for legitimate
expenses, and that the fight is in better
shape and the prospects for the city secur-
! ing its own have not been so near fulfill
ment in the city's history. One of the spe-
cial attorneys for the city, William Lair
Hill, has addressed a large meeting defn-
ing the position of the city in the case
The Nelsonites say that Davie made his
| best showing in the last campaign, when
he was beaten by Pardee. The vote at that
time was $500 for Pardee, 2700 for Dayie,
1900 for Fitzgerald, $50 for Barker and Al
for Dr. Woolsey. Davies opponents say
| this vote and that Nelson will beat him to
1. The figures of elson's friends are 5000 for
their favorite and 5000 for Davie. This is
the most, they say, that he can possibly get.
Davie people, however, pooh-pooh this
assertion. They say that their favorite
was beaten last election by a trick, and
that had not Fitzgerald been run in as an
afterthought he would have secured all
the Democratic votes that went to him,
and that with clear field this time he will
get nearly all this vote. The Davie people
make no figures on their man, but insist
that he will be elected. Conservative peo-
pie estimate that if he gets in it will be by
a very close vote.
Beggars Take the Town.
Oakland is overrnn with crippled and
deformed beggars, black and white, and
! they have become so bold that if refused
aims by the passer-by they become insult
ing and brutal. The end of it is that a citi-
zen would sooner give than submit to their
| insults.
They have rendezvous in shanty on
Ninth street, between Franklin and Web
ster, erected by Ambrose Sanders for a
cheap eating house. And in this place
five or six cripples and a number OF tramps
hold forth and terrorize the neighborhood.
Their orgies and carousals are said to be
| something fearful. Among them are two
legless negroes, both said to have bank ac-
counts.
They, with their crippled white COM
panions, waylay citizens men and
wonderland have made themselves a
nuisance in the town. The police have ar