The San Francisco call., 1898-07-09
WILL CELEBRATE IN
 ROYAL FASHION
FALL OF THE BASTILE TO BE
 COMMEMORATED.
Red Cross Society Receives Gener. ous Donation of Coffee From
 Distant Hawaii.

The celebration of the Fall of the Bas- tile, the great day in the history of the French struggle for liberty, is to be hon. ored this year by the local French soci- ety in royal fashion. A splendid pro- gramme of musical and literary exercises will be rendered on next Thursday after noon at the Chutes, and in the evening a pyrotechnic display and ball will con clude the celebration. As the proceeds of the days pleasure are to be turned over to the Red Cross Society, leading musi- clans throughout the coast have volun- teered.
 It is expected the day will be one long remembered by the French residents The committee In charge has, during the past few months, devoted all its time in preparation for the eventful day. All the workers in the cause of the Red Cross will attend, feeling it their duty to make a partial return for the noble work per formed by the French Hospital in caring for the sick volunteers.
 M. Laurence de Lalande, the local French Consul, will deliver an address in French on the occasion and Judge Trout will address the gathering in English. The Iowa Regimental band will be in at tendance and will discourse music during the afternoon and evening.
 From distant Hawaii comes the cheer 1ul news that liU pounds or cOHee mas been shipped to the Red Cross Society, which proves that the grand work per formed by that organization Is recognized by the people residing in the lately ac- quired territory.
 Yesterday Mrs. W. B. Harrington, pres ident of the State society, received the following communication:
 MAUNA COFFEE PLANTATION,
 P. Peck, Manager.
 OLAA Hawaii, June 23 1898.
 Mrs. ". B. Harrington, President Red Cross Society, San Francisco. Cal, U; $. A,-Dear seven bags containing ITO pounds of green cof- fee grown in the District of Olaa, Island of Hawaii, and shipped per bark Annie Johnson, to sail on or about the 25th inst In order to save expense of consular certificate and other charges this has been shipped to Messrs. Michalitschke Brothers & Co.,, 239 Kearny street who will deliver 1t to you free of all As I read of the noble work being done by your society I conceived the idea that our cof- fee planters would be happy to give their mite for the cause, and I must confess that I was surprised at the readiness with which nearly all responded, irrespective of nationality, in cluding native Hawaiian.
 Permit me to explain that this was virtually the first coffee picked in this district, and from young trees, consequently we have had but a small crop, most of which has been sold or shipPed thus some gave from 5, what they had or borrowed from neighbors who had yet some coffee on hand.
 primitive and for purposes of huliing and cleaning the coffee shipped to you it had to be hauled to Hilo. which. as we'll as the cleaning, was done gratuitously.
 also send by Captain Matson of the Annie Johnson a little coffee in the parchment so the ladies of your society may see how coffee looks before being cleaned
 God bless the Red Cross Society. Respect fully P. PECK.
 As yet the State Society has not agreed on a financial agent at Manila owing to press of other business. Numerous applications have been made for the position. but the matter is still in abeyance For the present one of Hong kong s leading bankers will handle the funds of the society until other arrangements are made
 Dr. Fenn J. Hart, Leon A. Cranford and Oswald H. J. Schlott will leave on the next