The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07

Davis. San Francisco, c. T. Ryland, San Jose
T. L. Barker, Oakland Howard Havens, Ala
media; treasurer, John d. Tallaut; marshal
| John f. Pinkham; directors, H. N Tilden
| Charles NJ. Plum, j. II. Jewett, Aylett r. Cot
| ton, II. B. Russ, +. T. Kruse, Wakefield Baker
Leon Sloss c. j. King
H. n. Tilden, the retiring president, in
his annual report. SAYS: Harmony and
good fellowship, so essential to the pros
perity of all societies, prevail among us;
! kindly attention and generous assistance
is being rendered to our ec I'd and infirm
mem bers who require a helping hand 10
smooth the pathway of life which still
lies before them.
1.-The sum of $40, sos so has been expended
for relief purposes during the past year, 1t
being the largest amount in any one year
since e organization of the society.
''On the 18th day of Decem Der, 1889,
$500, 900 was borrowed by the society from
the trustees OF the James Lick estate tor
the purpose of erecting the building we
now occupy. The note of the society was
given for that amount, drawing interest at
5 per cent per annum, secured by mort
gage on the Fourth street lot and improve
ment, the Lick trustees paying the taxes
on the property Interest on the note
was regularly charged to the society, but
not paid, and at the time the final settle
ment was made amounted to $50, 99l 43.
with the kindly .co-operation and as
sistance of the Lick trustees the matter
was pushed through the Probate Court and
a final decree obtained.
although the annual income of the So
ciety has been increased some $4,000 year
by the closing up of the Lick trust, yet in
the coming year the expenditures will
probably exceed the income by some
$4,000.
Taxes on the new hall and lot amount
ing to about $500, which we're formerly
paid by the Lick trustees, will have TO be
paid now by the society, and unless fur
ther donations to the relief fund are made
by our well-to-do members, from $40, 600
to $12, 200 year will be required for that
purpose.
ITO provide for the feeble and needy
senior members of the society is our first
and most sacred duty, and so much of the
principal OF the trust fund placed in our
hands by our great benefactor, James
Lick, as is required for their proper main
tenance may, and | think should be, used
for that purpose ! believe, however, that
this fund should be preserved as far as
possible for revenue purposes, thus insur-
ing the perpetuation of the society for al
time to come, which evidently was the in
tention of its founders, as expressed in
Article | of the constitutions: in all ap-
propriate matter to advance the interest
and perpetuate the memory of those
whose sagacity, energy and enterprise in
duced them to settle in the wilderness and
become the founders of a new State
at was for.tA effectual carrying out of
this and other objects that the descend
ants OF Pioneers were made eligible to
membership"
"On the first of june" says Marshal j.
F. Pinkham, in his report, II received an
invitation from the executive committee
of the semi-centenniaI celebration at So
noma of the hoisting of the Bear Flag in
viting me to be present at such cels-
bration with as many Pioneers
as could go. There was quite a
large delegation present. Under the
direction of our president, II. n. Tilden,
| had an exact copy made of the original
Bear Flag, now in possession of the So
ciety, and presented it to The committee
at Sonoma. / also at their request read
the proclamation of Captain William B.
Ide, issued at the time of the capture of
that town. Altogether the celebration was
a success"
Elliot NJ. Root, the president, who will
be elected to-day, is the surviving partner
of the wholesale grocery firm of Root 81
Sanderson and now the president of the
Atlantic Dynamite Company, and is well
known in social and business circles He
is native of New York and has resided
in San Francisco for the last thirty-two
wears