The San Francisco call., 1896-11-02
WEE TOTS RALLY
FOR TEMPERANCE
Enthusiastic Meeting of Bay
County Bands of
Hope.
Golden Gate Carried Off the
Prize Banner for Mem.
bership.
THE ORGANIZATION rs GROWING
Steadily Recovering From the Defiec.
tion From Its Ranks to Kin.
dred Organizations.
THE ORGANIZATION IsGRoW1NG

A roomfuI of bright-eyed children
eagerly participating in exercises calcu-
lated to awaken their enthusiasm is
pleasing sight and in the beautifully dec
Grated auditorium of the Unlon-square
Baptist Church yesterday afternoon all
the elements were present to make such a
picture particularly attractive. The oc-
casion was the quarterly rally OF the
Bands OF Hope belonging to District No.
3, l. o. G. T., comprising San Francisco,
Alameda. Contra Costa and Solano coun-
ties. The bands in tnis division are:
Golden Gate, First Baptist Church, Jens
Nielsen superintendent; Western Star,
First Presbyterian Church of San Fran
cisco, Miss Lottle Graeber superintendent;
Epworth, corner Church and Twenty
sixth streets, San Francisco; Winchester,
Protestant Orphan Asylum, Hal ht street;
Our Hope. corner Pacific and Polk streets;
Myrtle, Livermore; Crystal, Oakland; ;
Fitc hburg, Elmhurst, Alameda County;
New York. Black Diamond, Contra Costa
County; Wide Awake, $50 Mission street;
Victory, Elmhurst, Alameda County;
Home, Vallejo.
Sarah w. Kerrgan, district superinten-
dent of District No. 5, presided. She
opened the rally with remarks on the ma
then, at their own request, sang heartily
| their favorite song, Temperance Boys
and Girls Are We" Then, after PRAYER,
they sang America" just as Justify. Will
lie Laring of Western Star Band delivered
an grafton on Good Citizenship" 1t
was vigorous arraignment of the liquor
industry. Miss Ida Nj. Collins of Inter
national Lodge sang "Unfurl the Temper
ance Banner
Mrs. E. NJ. North, State superintendent
of juvenile WORK. made brief address to
the children. Mrs. North has the rare
faculty of entertaining and instructing
little ones at the same time, and in the
ten minutes allotted to her succeeded in
getting her hearers thoroughly enthusi-
astic.
Robert Newton of Home Band, Vallejo,
recited Only Penny Box" Miss Irene
Trask sang Touch Not the Cum" and
Frank Willard OF Golden Gate Band re-
cited THE Wonderful RIVER Miss Sarah
Dodds cited Ragged Jim"
Silas w. White spoke briefly OF the good
influence of Bends of Hope and the evils
which they opposed. In behalf of the dis
trict organization he then presented
Golden Gate Band with the prize banner
for having received the greatest percentage
| increase in mem bership during the quar-
ter just past. Jens Nielsen, superintend-
ent of the band, responded. Rev. William
Meserve, pastor of the Uniou-squre
Church, spike briefly. The rally closed
with benediction.
| The Bands of Hope in California now
number about 200, com prised in nine dis
tricts. Although the membership of the
order as been largely sapped by kindred
organizations which have sprung up un-
der the direction of tue Woman's Chris
| tian Temperance Union and the churches,
during the last two years the bands have
been growing at an encouraging rate. The
| purpose OF the bands is educational and is
in no way eciarian. Mrs. North, the State
superintendent, explaining that it carries
| out the same idea expressed by the stat
ute, which provides that every teacher
shall explain to her Gle ess the moral and
physiological results following alcoholic
indulgence.