The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10
HONOR WHERE
HONOR IS DUE
reception rendered Mrs.
Hearst at the Art
Institute.
A Distinguished Company to
Welcome the First Woman
Regent.
Society, Art and Science Ably Rep
resented in Brief and Pithy
Addresses.

nlnc50t TeCepllOu gwen IN uoHOE Oh mTS.
Phebe Hearst, the first woman regent of
the University of California at Berkeley.
The gathering partook both of the ma
ture of a social and educational Assem- bly,.
Leaders of fashion, devotees of art, bene-
factors OF the university and friends of
the higher education met TO do honor to
the lady whose name is so widely known,
Nloved and respected.
The elegant art mansion on the hill
never appeared to better advantage than
it did last night with its wealth of floral
adornment. Artist Matthews assisted by
Mrs. Matthews and Miss c. Vivian, had
charge of the decorations and used with
rare taste and discretion the many b'auti-
ful flowers sent by Mrs. a. Parrott,
Mrs. NJ. B. Kellogg, DR.. Adelaide Brown
and Mrs. Apheus Bull. The Conserya-
tories of the park were levied upon and
sent many exquisite blossoms and stately
palms.
The crowd came early and remained
late. In the large reception-room to the
night of the main corridor Mrs. Hearst,
surrounded by the reception committee
greeted her friends and listened with evt-
dent pleasure to their kind words Of well
come. She was elegantly dressed in
rose colored silk gown claborately en-
b.oidered N silver. In the soft coils of
her iron gray hair nestled two immense
pear-shapei pearls. About her neck she
wore necklace OF many strings of paris,
banded with blazing bars OF brilliants.
The many elegant gowns OF the ladies
added not Il little to The wealth and
beauty OF the scene. The jority wore
handsome reception gowns, but here an
there snowy shoulders cleaned above the
rounded decol letage of an evenin gown.
Hats were in the minority.
Ii WAS long mast hOnr originally in.
tended for the programme before the first
speaker addressed the audience.
Mrs. a. +. Morrison, president of the
Collegiate AlumnR was the first speaker
of the evening. In a clear voice she called
the vast audience together and spoke as
follows:
We meet here tonight, friends, to cele-
bTate one OF the most auspicious events
connected with the welfare of the Univer-
slty of California. 1t is to express our
glsdsome feeling over the return to the
Golden State of Mrs. Hearst, whose enthu-
slasm in the cause of education has caused
the wheels OF learning 10 buzz 20 merrily
in California.
1.-The placing of a woman on the govern
ing board of the university is event of
nationa! importance. Happily for this
S ate and he cause of education when
the time came for that honor to be con-
ferred on woman the regents found an
ideal one at hand willing 10 undertake
the trust She it is who has rem
dered the Advancement of that institution
possible and the building of magnificent
structures to grace its grounds a DO ibil-
lily Of the near future. All orr thanks are
due TO Mrs. Hearst"
NJ IS Caroline Jackson, a graduate Of
Cornell University, followed in a speech
which dwelt upon the advancement made
by woman in the educational forum in a
quarter OF a century.
Mrs. Hearst is righ fully regarded as
among the greatest of the benefaetors of
the university. He referred to her as ''the
fairy who pledged her word to help out,
and the Legislature had TO make an an
swering gift"
William r Davis, president OF the
United Alumni, said that IAN honest
man might be the noblest work of God,
but IN the case of an honest woman like
Mrs. Hearst he has outdone himself
MRS. Hearst, Ill whose honor the vast
multitude mad assembled, was next intro
duced by Mrs. Morrison. AS the ladv
rose the orchestra burst forth in a wild,
piercing and triumpnal strain that rose
clearly above The tumultuous applause
oententiously she expressed her senli-
nents, speaking as follows:
FRIENDS, l am deeply moved by this
)ubIic expression of your interest and
;mdness, and OF your sympathy in the
90 costly n estimate.
In assum ing an official relatio to the
niVersiiy L am painfully aware OF per-
onaI limitations, ana | can only promise
- 1at as lar as my iuds ment goes [ shall
orK out the problems of is present
eeds and its future growth"
At the conclusion OF Mrs Hearst's brief
MARKS another triumphant strain burst
rth, and after congratulations the most
taple gatherlng ever assem- bied under
roof IN the history of the CITY dis.
rsed.
Governor Budd, who was down on the
cgfam me on behalf of the State was
4VolaaOiy detained and telegram from
chief executive was read, CONVEYING
deep regret that he might not be
fsent
among the invited guests were:
oveTnor James H. Budd. Lieutenant.Gov.
cor William I; Jeter, Frank L. Coombs
bicke, J. West Martin, Andrew ait HaIitd;a a
Iliam T. Wallace, Timothy GUY PhaIne
has william Heliman, George Thomas
lrye Jr.,- Arthur Rodgers, Albert MiiIar
eumbus Bartlett, James Franklin Honoh,
., chester Rowell, James A. VA
re. Henry Henry s. toote, Charles wiliiaI In
eeph Le Conte, STEPHEN Johnson Field
torge Davidson, Richard Beverley coia'
lard Bredley Rising, Frank souie''
muel Benedict Christy George AugustnS,
urtief, George Herman Powers Luis Isne
lnbar, Arnold Abraham d'Ancona. Fdtra1S
1gleton Holden, William Watt Kerr, nonS
IS William Montgomery, Charles Mills CA
=, John Marshall Williamson, Frederic,
ate, John Wooster Robertson. Ma
Regensburger, Henry Joseph KreuIz-
ann, Charles August Won Hoffman
iLiam Arthur Martin, Charles Wllifsm,
ack, William Carey Jones, Cornelius Beach
'aoley, Feiicien Victor PAget, William
ngustus Merrill, Washington Dodge, Alex
lder Anchie Cunningham. w. f. Egan
ancls William Skaife s. J. Frazier
A Nie1 William Evelyn Hopkins
Gorge Franklin Shiels, Beverly Macmon
,le, William Albert Setchell, John Fryer.
lexis Frederick Lange Wiliiam joseph
ussey, Robert Hills 1oughrIdge, Charles
ilham Woodwork, Hermann Kower Joachim
enry Senger, Carl Copping Piehn, William
merson Ritter, Armin Otto Leuschner, Clar-
nee Linus Cory. Herbert Parlin Johnson,
homas Pearee Bailey Jr., Walter Edmund
> agee, William Dallam Armes, Louis
heodore Hengstler, Henry Irwin randall
homas Frederick Sanford. Oscar Kunath
-rthur Frank Mathews. John A. Stanton, Ray
iond ID. YeIland, Charles Harold Howard
,rnest Albion Hersham, Bernard Ralph Nav.
eek, Eysnder Bradley McGfvary, Levi Fred
rick Chesebrough, Ernest Henry Simond S,
ohm. Campbell Merriam, Walter Charles
aasdale. Gusiave Faucheux, Arthur Per-
nneau Hayne, William Morris Hart