The San Francisco call., 1895-11-13
FRIEND OF FRATERN|T|ES,
What the Improved Order Of
Red Men Say of "The
Call"
Novel Entertainment Under the Aus.
piees of the Order at Growers
Alcazar.

A number of members of the Improved
Order of Red Men, with their sisters and
their cousins and their aunts, as well as
sweethearts and wives, visited Grover s
Alcazar last night to combine amusement
with instruction, by seeing the play and
learning something about the history of
their order. They also emphasized the
fact-which, however, they probably knew
that the San Francisco CALL is great
friend to fraternal organizations.
The dramatic performance was given as
usual, but between the acts the audience
was treated to views, illustrative of the
origin and history of the Improved Order
of Red Men. DR.. Benjamin f. Josselyn
was the lecturer and while the first view,
'The Landing of Columbus" was on the
screen, he explained that the origin of the
society had been patriotic one, and that
the history of the country had peculiar
significance for Red Men. 1.-THE society in
its spirit and its purposes had its germ
coeval with the foundation of our country.
1t was developed through the political to
the social and fraternal Development
The local tribes of the Improved Order
of Red Men have for some time entertained
the idea OF stirring up patriotism and also
improving their knowledge of the history
of their order by lectures with stereopticon
illustrations. The great chief of records
Z. f. Burgman, sent out few days ago to
all the local secretaries asking them to
notify their members of last nights special
performance at Grover Alcazar, and last
nights large showing of Red Men was the
result.
Dir. Josselyn's pictures were principally
historical, though he showed few Cali
fornla speclalties, among them tie picture
of the big CALL building, the foundations
for which are being laid at the corner of
Market and Third streets. There was
warm applause when this illustration was
shown, and as IL subsidized the doctor said ::
''This represents great power of our
land, the power of the press. THE CALL is
particularly friendly to the fraternal or
ganiZations of this City, There was
more applause in Endorsement of this
statement.
The historical pictures gave a brief re-
view of American history from the land
ing of Columbus to the present day. The
picture portraying the throwing of the his
torical tea into Boston harbor evidently
touched responsive chord in the Red
Mems sympathies; so did the view of the
signing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. 1.-The Council Fire. was another
plause was given the only authentic por-
trait of Pocohontas, the original of which
is preserved in the archives of the I'm
proved Order of Red Men.
The whole stereopticon entertainment
gave the audience good idea of how the
political society of the Sons of Liberty
had gradually grown into the fraternal
organization OF Red Men. The later
views showed California councils; photo
graphs of representatives were also thrown
on the screen. About two dozen pic
lures were shown between each
act. The performance of The Pri-
vate Secretary" by Growers company
was a good one, and was received with
| hearty laughter by the audience, who
were not by any means oppressed by the
amount of historical information that was
| being impaired so pleasantly and artistic
| ally between the acts.
| Tonight the Red Men will again attend
the Alcazar and be entertained with
| stereopticon views between the acts
There will be number of new pictures
representing scenes and incidents from the
Great Council at Redwood City. The
| great CALL building will also be shown.