The San Francisco call., 1897-01-23
SPECIAL TALKS
BY SPECIAL men
Jordan, Wendte, Gayley
and Mage to Be En-
tertainerS.
Thursday Night Lectures to
Raise Funds to Purchase
Books.
Ladies of the Mercantile Library
Auxiliary Are in Charge of
the Affair.

Professor David Starr Jordan, president
of Stanford University and president OF
the Academy of Sciences; Rev. Charles
W. Wendte, pastor of the Oakland Uni
tartan church; Professor Charles Mills
Gayley, head of the English department
of the University OF California; and
Thomas Magee, a well-known business
man of this City, are the drawing cards
for a course of three popular lectures,
to be given in Golden Gate Hall,
Thursday nights. by the ladies of the Mer-
camille Library Auxiliary, for the purpose
of raising library funds, some of which
shall be used to buy new books.
The first entertainment will be given
next Thursday evening, when DR.. Jordan
will describe, in an easy, picturesque way,
'The Fur Seal or Seal Bear of Alaska" a
subject of which he made a special study
only a few months since during pro-
longed visit in the Bering Sea, as head of
the international sealing investigation.
His lecture will be illustrated by fifty
stereopticon views. He will talk not only
OF seal life on the great breeding grounds,
but of Alaska its extent, its discovery, its
exploration and its purchase, OF the de-
struction of the valuable seal herds and Of
the International reforms now deemed
necessary to preserve the fur bearing ami
mails.
That will be the first lecture. But the
others promise TO be equally as interest
ing while being out OF the ordinary run.
The second lecture will be given on the
following Thursday, February 4. 1t will
be illustrated by 100 stereopticon views of
quaint and picturesque Holland, with its
peculiar windmills, It's dykes, its gabled
houses and its distinct types of character
Rev. Charles W. Wendte will describe the
scenes, and will tell interesting little
things about the different subjects illus
trated. And with it all he will talk of
Holland, her people, her peculiarites and
her architecture and art.
The last evenings entertainment of the
series will be on February Ii. 1t will be a
symposium on Shakespeare from the
point of view of a university professor OF
English literature and from the point of
view OF business man of commons hool
education. Professor Gayley and Thomas
Magee will be the speakers
For three years now the ladies of the
auxiliary have been giving entertain
ments to raise funds to- increase the USE
fulness and popularity of the big Mercan-
tile Library. on the corner of Golden Gate
and Van Ness avenues, and they have
been successful, not alone in the money
actually raised by such means, but by the
influence they have exerted in encourag-
ing large gifts from benevolent persons OF
wealth, During the first year the aux
iliary raised over $500 by entertainments
the second year $500, and last year $3.50,
making a total of about $1,000 in cash.
The officers of the auxiliary are:
President, Mrs. Frances B. Edgerton; first
vice-pTesident, Mrs. Henry Gibbons; second
vice-president, Mrs. Mary Prag; third vice.
president Mrs. Lowell White; fourth vice
president, Mrs. Ferdinand Vassault; recording
secret tary, Mrs. Robert Collier; corresponding
secretary, Miss Isabel Lowry; treasurer, Mrs.
Thurlow McMullen; associate directors-Miss
Semple, Mrs. Montgomery Cooley, Mrs. Thomas
Woodward. Mrs. Edward May. Mrs. George j.
Bucknall, Mrs. Eva NJ. Cook.