The San Francisco call., 1898-04-28
MANY STREWED
 ACACIA LEAVES Largely Attended Funeral Of the Late Frederick
 Delger. Rev. pr. Mclean Speaks of the Value of Progressive Men to
 Community.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

c Oakland Office San Francisco Call, Q sos Broadway, April 27. c I am able in my own mental rec
 c ord to accord MT. Delger a good c place among the benefactors of our
 Q city. There are different kinds of . benefactors and benefactions. One 6 kind of benefactor is to be found in c the man possessed of great material 0 wealth in a community, and of that c kind was MT. Delger, who lived a c life of influence among us here in c Oakland.
 c Ut is a good thing to be able to c contribute among the sorrowing, . the helpless and the orphan, c but is 1t not a good thing c to make it possible that others c shall not enter the ranks of the suf- c fering? To relieve the suffering is . a great and beneficent thing, but
 6 to prevent suffering is even a c greater thing, to my mind.
 0 Among this kind of benefactors c I would rate MT. Delger. For more
 c than thirty-seven years has MT. e Delger been here and been such . contributor to this fair city of Oak c land. -
 . ''Thirty-seven years in Oakland. c That covers mostly all Of it's his
 c tory. It covers the lifetime of e generation. During those years |. Q the entire population of the place e has changed more than twice. In
 . 1861, when MT. Delger first came 6 here, there were only 1500 inhabi- e tants in Oakland and Berkeley, and . the center of business was Fourth 6 street and Broadway. He has seen c the school system rise from obscur- e ity to be one of the best in the Q United States; has seen the develop e ment of banks, of institutions of 6 charity and churches and all things z that make a fair city.
 @ And now it is said of him that c he was the largest individual owner 6 of improved real estate. That man @ man in righteous ways accumylates . largely of material wealth is of H more importance in the beginning S of a small city than almost any q other factor. He is the man who . puts up substantial improvements, ss and their taxation contributes di- c rectly to every good thing in that c city.
 Q "I say 1t Is money just as we'll e spent as money contributed to u DSutNOlSllCS' SbSAi eN NAiAiis, AiihhOS @ possible the safety of the city, for c the safety of person and property @ comes through taxation. The ex- e ample of such man in the com (, munity is worth much, and to MT. e3 Deiger the citizens of Oakland owe @ a debt of gratitude.
 Such were the words of the venerab J. K. Mclean, DID,, as he stood at u head of the bier of the late Frederic Deleer in the First Congregational Churc this afternoon. Around the casket, full regalia, was Live Oak Lodge, which the deceased was a member. and large number of visiting brethren fro all the lodges around the pay. The churc was filled with prominent citizens ar friends who had been acquainted with u deceased for years. Members of u household bore the casket to the hears and the honorary pall-bearers were: Wi liam R. Davis. w. Frank Pierce, Wallat H c. Taft, C. H. Smith, H. A. Powel
 Thomas Crelin, E. c. Sessions, Victor l Metcalf and William Rutherford.
 Many ladies of the Fabiola Associate attended as a delegation from the inst tuition toward which the deceased hs been so generous.
 At the Delger vault in Mountain Vie Cemetery Live Oak Lodge conducted u The lodge was in charge Master George H. Smith, Senior Wardt I. c. Dunne, Junior Warden T. F. Moe Deacons John A. Britton and c. T. Bur chaeu. Stewards J. $. Corrigan and E Pierce. Marshal D. ". Standeford al Tyler b. H. Mathiesen.