The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-18
SOLDIERS AT CHURCH.
listen 70 Sermons and Reports Of the
Christian Endeayor Convention

,oAhLAND, July ia quartet of SOL
rom company B. Eighth California
furnished some fine music for
1,.e evening services of the BROOKLYN
Itespyterlan Church this evening. The
,1asaNt, rev. .. 5. Palmer, preached a
S i49'tc sermon on Endure Hardness as
,oou SoIolers, and was listened to by a
large number Of the soldier bovs of the
'ISft h NJ now in camp at Sather station.
I,inhee Cnrlstlan EndeaVor Society of the
at III TTSeglment was largely represented
a. ene Ienth-avenue Baptist Church to-
So 70 near the report of the delegates
%ho attended the State Convention in
anS angeles last month. The business
ailu various sessions of the gathering
Yer Mere reported. after which Captain Waite,
oise SHurch treasurer, gave his impressions
Nv CIV. ona yoong peoples gathering, as viewed
neV, y: 3 Chapman. superintendent e
me Anti-Saloon League for the Pacilc
0oast, dellVered stirring and patriotic
appear IN the First Presbyterian Church
ee ms morning, which won many friends
for his work.
Rev. Charles r. Brown of the First Con-
gregational Church presented the plans
OF the Christian Commission of the army
ana navy to his congregation tonight.
The National Council was his evening
Elder James NJ. Wishart occupied the
pulpit of the Central Christian Church
tonight, recently vacated by Rev. f. H.
Sawyer, and spoke on THE Church Chris
tlan Endeavorer."
Rev. Payson ]. L. Young, State mission
airy OF the English Lutheran Church is
supplying the church here in the absence
OF Rev. J; E. Bushnell, and spoke to-
night on the UNIQUE subject, The King
Who Took Bath
Business Before the City Council.
OAKLAND, July 1.-THE City Council
VIII meet TOMORROW evening and act upon
the proposed liquor license reduction or
dinance, the prohibitive cigarette ordi-
nance an the application of the Lake Mer-
rltt Sanitary Improvement Club for the
dredging of Lake Merritt and changing of
the cltyS sewer system so that 1t may not
befoul the lake. 1t is believed that Coun-
Gilman Woodward has the deciding vote
depend largely upon the first, although
the author of 1t could cause 1t to become
a law by voting with those who could kin
There seems little doubt that prompt ac
ton will be taken in the Lake Merritt
proposition.
Salvation Camp-M Meeting.
OAKLAND, July 17,-Three thousand
noon at Trestle Glen while the band
played THE Star Spangled Banner.
From the same number Of threats ascend
ed cheers when the flag of the late Ha-
waian republic was displayed, to the ac-
compartment of Yankee Doodle"
The annual State camp-meeting of the
Salvation Army, which has been in ses-
sion for three weeks. held its closing ex-
ercises at Trestle Glen to-day. This af-
ternoon there was a carnival of nations,
and II proved to be one of the most pa
triotic demonstrations ever seen in this
city.
INDUCED in Free Fight.
OAKLAND, July T.-Policemen Pardee
and Kyle arrested George O'Brien and
William Rogers early this morning and
lodged them in the City Prison on a
charge of drunkenness and disturbing the
peace. The trouble occurred when the
Market street crowd met the Center
street fellows. A free fight ensued but
so far as known no blood was shed. The
police scared the gathering away, but the
two named were overhauled and locked
up.
Curtis Fell From a Train.
OAKLAND, July 17-Richard Curtis of
San Francisco, who spent yesterday at
Mare Island Navy Yard in vain attempt
to secure a position aboard of man-of
war, is in the Receiving Hospital, where
he will remain for the next month or
more. On the way home last evening he
fell from the train at Vallejo Junction
and broke his thigh, his nose and BACKED
his eyes. He was brought here and taken
to the Receiving Hospital about 10 o'clock.
Johnson May Survive Morphine.
OAKLAND, July IA man named
Johnson applied at the Receiving Hospi-
tai about II o'clock this morning for
treatment for morphine poison. He claim
ed to be a resident of San Francisco, but
nothing further could be learned Of him.
He is conscious tonight and that is
about ALL Every effort is being made to
keep the man awake until antidotes over
come the poison.