The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-16
NEW YEARS GIFT
TO COMPANY A
League Of the Cross Cadets
Presented With Fine
Clubrooms.
The Crack Corps Finds Itself
in Elegantly Furnished
Quarters.
But the Name of the G nervous Donor
Has Been K pit Secret-Renewal
of Pledges.

Somebody of remarkable modesty has
done handsome thing toward the League
of the Cross Cadets of st. Mary's Cathe-
dra parish. but who he is not a boy in
Comps A of the cadet corps can learn,
despite all kind of maneuvering to find
his name.
All that the cadets know, and they have
become satisfied with this rather limited
knowledge, is an adm1rer of the league
presented them with an elegantly
equipped clubhouse and kept himself in
the background.
Company A is made up of Catholic
boys who live in that part of the Western
Addition included in the cathedral parish
and are looked upon by their comrades as
being the representatives. OF the wealthy
and mos: prominent families having sons
in the vigorous temperance organization.
Whatever goes on in Company A is soon
CO N municated to the other companies OF
cadets in San Francisco. and of course the
present of comfortable clubhouse is now
furnishing talk for mem bers of the League
of the Cross in all parts of the City. And
the news has spread among the boys
families, with the result that gu essing is
mixed with curiosity as to the ide nifty OF
the generous donor.
The clubrooms which the cathedral boys
found ready for them at a moments
notice are located at 331 Golden Gate
avenue-a central location just a block
from the City Hal and within a minute s
walk of all parts OF the parish. The rooms
comprise a cardroom, or rather an am USE
ment-room, pool and billiard room,
library, parlors, office ana gymnasium.
The apartment that appeals to those
10 dote wit Ioon rd a n o.
ercises was not fully furnished, but as the
needs of the cadets appear new app iances
will be added, and so in time the gym
nasium will be quite complete. The other
apartments are handsomely furnished and
carpeted in good taste: in fact, everything
that boys could want for their comfort
and delight has been provided, even to a
supply of current literature and stock of
good books in the library.
The clubrooms were given Company A
as New Years gift, and very accept
able one it proved to be. Every evening
sees a gathering of the cadets there, and
they spend the time in amusements that
have a beneficial effect upon character.
AS soon as programme can be arranged
there Will be series of entertainments
| calculated to elevate the intellectual and
moral standard, with other events 10
| make the club life attractive. The COM
! pany is in charge Of Captain Frank s.
| brady, First Lieutenant William g. Hop
per and Second Lieutenant Robert G.
| brady. In all there are about 100 cadets
in the company. which was organized in
1894 as the pioneer uniformed corps OF the
League of the Cross. The Rev. Peter e.
Yorke is the sp ritual director.
A movement has been started to have
| the other companies unite in the armory
on Market street, near Tenth, formerly
occupied by the First n. G. c. Regiment.
| Last week the board OF officers OF The
! league moved into the armory building,
followed by Company H. If enough COM
panies take quarters there it is b. Iieved
that the building will be made the City
| headquarters of the league generally, as it
now is nominally owing to the occupancy
| by the board of officers.
| Colonel w. P. Sullivan, Major William
Mccarthy and T. R. Curtis have been APP
| pointed committee on renewal of
! pledges, to make arrangements for mass
meeting of the League of the Cross in st.
| Mary's Cathedral On the. last Sunday in
| February, which INN diately precedes
| the Lenten season. The officers expect to
| have all the boys from Oakland and San
| Francisco in line on this occasion, and
! the cadet regiment will be out in full force
under command of Colonel Sullivan. The
| services will be of a religious character.
| and his Grace Archbishop Riordan will
| deliver an address to the boys and preside
| at the administration of pled ses. All
mem bers of tae league will there and then
make solemn renewal of their promises
| to abstain from liquor