The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-07
MOURhED FOR
DEPARTED ELKS
Impressive Memorial Ser
vices at Native Sons
Hall.
Wilton Lackaye Reads Tenny.
sons Beautiful Poem,
Memoriam."
E cquent Eulogy by Judge TIM and
an Excellent Musical
Programme.

Right loyalty and lovingly the local
Lode of Elks paid tribute to their de-
parted mem bers yesterday afternoon.
Native Sons Hall was beautifully deco
rated, the orders insignia, an elk's head.
being prominent feature, and lending a
pleasing and romantic touch TO the more
conventional .adornments. Two stuffed
elks occupied positions on the stage and
wreaths of evergreen denoted the sad pur-
port of the occasion.
The programme prepared by the lodge
was very fine. San Francisco's choicest
musical talent had been procured for the
occasion. r. Fletcher Tilton presided at
the organ. The Press Club Quartet, con-
sisting of Frank NJ. Coffin, R. Fletcher Til
ton. S. E. Tucker and d. M. Warde and
the Colonial Quartet, composed of Misses
Florence Doane, Ivy Gardner, Mary Mann
and Clara Heyman, each rendered seec-
tons. In addition to this solos were fur
nished by Miss Florence Doane, Miss Elvia
Cox Seabrooke, Rhys Thomas, Mile. Flor
ence Garrissere and Miss Mary Mann.
A portion of the impressive memorial
service of the order was read by ]. r.
Howell, exalted ruler, with responses by
the invocation. The opening ode of the
service of sorrow was sung by the MEM
bers who occupied seats In the front part
OF the hall.
The eulogy was delivered by Judge j. H.
Tam, member of the order. He ex-
planned that while San Francisco Lodge
No. would have particularly in mind it's
own mem bers who had departed during
the year, Ernest Thevnet, John ]. DON
nelly and Alfred Bechstein, the service
was also in commemoration of ali the
members of the brotherhood who had
passed away. In part he said:
Brother Elks. ladies' and gentlemen ::
With us the brotherhood of man is not
alone theory. We seek to make it a
practice. The primary objects of the or
der of Elks are to aid the sick and dis
tressed, cheer the weak and despondent.
and make of its memb ers better fathers
brothers and sons. 1t makes no noisy
proclamation of its kindly deeds upon tn e
street corners, neither does the blare Of
trumpets announce that wound has been
healed or fallen brother raised We do
not discourage industry and attention
of our members to business, but we would
teach that wealth is not the chief aim Of
life.
To-day all over this land the Elks are
met together 10 do honor to our dear de-
parted. We gather not to weep, but
rather 10 touch the heart strings with
tender mention OF those who were our
affee tionate friends and brothers. We
came with joyful confidence that with
them all is WELL They have gone where
there is no death and where darkness is
no more.
ION this solemn day we write the faults
OF our departed comrades upon the sand,
their virtues upon the i'm perishable tai
let's of love. He that lives in life so as to
be RENE m bered after death in the love of
friends has erected a monument more
lasting than stone. We come and go
hence, we know not whittier. We are
ike the decayed leaves borne on the
wind, fulfilling the divine plan of our
maker"
The speaker closed his eulogy with a
quotation from "Thanatopsis."
An appreciated number of the pro-
gramme was the reading by Wilton
Lackaye OF Tennys som s "Memoriam." All
the latent beauty and tenderness of the
poem was effectively brought out by Mr..
Lackaye's rendition, and the solemn
silence that pervaded the congregation
signiied the impressiveness of the solemn
sentiments.
After closing ceremonies by the lodge,
Rev. J. A. Emery, rector of the Church of
the Advent. dismissed the congregation
with q benediction