The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-23
gram from Mayor Effey was read as fol-

! to the Native Sons and wants to see them mere
in September. Will do ali in our power to
make the occasion a big success, and would
like chance to Guido the good old times
Another from j. r. Chace of the Pacific
Ocean House was also read. 1t said:
SANTA CRUZ, April %, 1895.
j. p Dockertg Chafran Ninth Of S tps com
mittee $4,000, now making $4,000.
Passenger Agent Goodman's letter as
published in Sundays CALL was also read
to the convention.
The whole matter was then made
special order for IL A. NJ Wednesday.
If the character and volume of applause
that greeted the mention OF these respec-
tive cities was any criterion OF what the
result is to be Sacramento will carry OH
the honor. Had vote been taken yeSter-
day Santa Cruz would apparently have
had less than one-third of the votes OF the
delegates But forty-eight hours will pass
before the vote will be taken, and within
that time a change of sentiment may be
worked. 1t is expected that one or the
greatest fights ever seen on the floor OF the
convention will evolve from this matter,
as the celebration will be of more than
ordinary interest. 1t will not only be the
regular triennial Admission-day festival OF
the order, but will celebrate the twentieth
anniversary of the birth of the Native Sons
of the Golden West.
Next came resolution signed by Charles
M. Cassin and Edward McCabe, members
of the jacksonville parlor, committing the
Grand Parlor to the holding of the next
convention in jacksonville. This was FOL
lowed by one presented by j. b. Blake
and c.. a. Thompson of San Luis Oblspo,
resolving that the next meeting be held In
that city, Their consideration was made
special order for P. NJ Wednesday.
1t is probable that before any discussion
&c hoA fp ha these
two towns, action will have been taken on
the proposition of locating the Grand Par
lor permanently in San Francisco. Should
San Francisco fail to win lively contest
will result between the adherents of Wat
sonville and San Luis Obispo
Eight O'Clock was the hour set for the
formal welcome of the Native Sons to the
city OF Oakland by Mayor Davie, but long
before that hour the streets debouching
into the grounds surrounding the City
Hall became streams of human beings,
and when the exercises began one of the
largest gatherings ever assembled for an
occasion OF this kind filled the ample
widths of Washington and Fourteenth
streets and the lawns of the City Hall
grounds. The number present was not
less than 10000
After the rendering of a brief musical
selection by Cassasa' s Band, Chairman Rod.
w. Church, chairman of the committee of
arrangements, extended q welcome to the
visitors on behalf of the local parlors, and
then, in few well selected words, intro
duced Mayor Davie, who, in his address of
welcome, expressed regret that he was not
a native son of California. but thought he
was next door to it in being a native son of
New York. "But," he continued, 81 have
done the best | could under the circum-
stances l am the father of three native
sons" The remainder of his speech was
as follows:
Native Sons of the Golden West: From all
over the West you. have come to our city TO
hold your annual reunion. In the name of
Oakland welcome you; as a citizen welcome
you, and as chief executive OF our municipality
/ bid you hearty and earnest welcome. May
your stay among us create impressions that
win be reviewed and remembered with pleas
ure in days to come.
You are sons of argonauts-of Jasons who
came in search of the golden fleece that many
of them did not find; but they found golden
west, q glorious country, and they left their
sons in the garden of the world" They left
them a land in which every man may sit under
his own vine and fig tree-the land of the
orange and the grape, the yellow wheat and
the bough-laden orchard. You are truly sons
of the golden west-the only golden west on
the face of Gods earth.
The name "Native Sons" inspires the thought
of patriotism. You are the sons of patriots-of
men whose adventurous spirit and tireless
energy carried them over thousands of miles of
deserts drear, through wild tribes of merciless
Indians and across cloud-piercing ranges of
mountains, white with eternal SHOWS, to the
land of the Golden West. The sons of patriots,
YOU are patriots. Should occasion demand, no
State in the Union would send forth Drawer
and more unflinching defenders OF their coun-
try's flag than would the land of the argonauts
the Golden West. While we read the pages
which are the record of the brave deeds and
Hercules-like labors of the argonauts, your
fathers you will feel the inspiration that makes
men brave and energetic, confident of success
and ever ready to struggle for the right.
Young men, the blood OF the pioneers flows
in YOUR veins, the world is before you, and
your home-your native land-is the Golden
West. Prove yourself worthy of the heritage
bequeathed by your fathers.
Once more, gentlemen, bid you welcome to
Oakland.
At this point the Mayor introduced
President 10 ID. Sproul of the Grand Par
lor to the assemblage and presented him
with the key of the city, intended to be
EN- blematic of the whole-souled hospitality
to be extended to the delegates and their
friends by the entire body of residents of
the city of Oakland.
The gilded emblem rested on a huge
velvet cushion and measured about three
feet in length the handle being decorated
with streamers of red, white and blue rib
bons. On it was the following inscription
key to the gate of the Athens of the Pa
cifc. Presented to CALIFORNIA; noble
sons" In handing it to President Sproul
would be enjoyed to the fullest extent.
President Sproul in accepting the en-
blem remarked jocularly that it was rather
more than the usual size and would need
a large keyhole. The latter, however, he
continued, was a common want. 1t was
frequently matter of little difficulty to
find ones latchkey when returning home
late of an evening, but trouble often arose
in finding keyhole large enough to fit it.
He then returned thanks on behalf of the
Native Sons for the cordial welcome ex-
tended them by the people of Oakland and
he felt confident that they would always
look back to the visit of the Grand Parlor
with memories filled only with pleasant
thoughts.
This concluded the formal exercises and
the vast throng dispersed to enjoy the
music of the grand open-air concert in the
City Hall park dispensed by Charles H.
Casassa's orchestra of thirty instruments,
the following selections being rendered:
Grand overture "Macbeth" ............... Hatton
Operate selection Faust. Gounod
Fantasia, American airs, "Lustiger Bruder'...
Concert waltz (by requost). Vollsteat
Overture, civilian Tell". Rossini
Sextet, Lucia. .Donnlzetti
Gems from the admired works OF Tosti Godfrey
Excerpts from "a Gaiety Grip .......Jo Jones
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