The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-05
CITIZENS WILL
SOLICIT FUNDS
Large Subscriptions Are Sent
in Without Ask
mo.

In response to invitation half a hundred
representative business and professional
men of the city met yesterday afternoon
in Superior Judge Carroll Cooks court
room at the City Hall to organize a citi-
zens' finance committee to operate with
a like body, of which NJ H. de Young is
chairman, appointed by the executive re-
ception committee.
NJ H. de Young called the meeting to
order and stated the purpose to be the or
ganization of a citizen body to collect sub
scriptions to a fund for the reception Of
first, the returning Californians, and then
Of other volunteer soldiers from the Phil
ippines. He said that in addition to the
money the committeeman might subscribe
themselves their time was needed to So
licit. The city was so districted by the
executive committee, he continued, and
all the machinery for collecting was in
such shape that it would not take more
than two or three mornings to clear up
the work.
Organization was perfected by the cleo
ton of Colonel George H. Puppy as secre-
tary, and the meeting proceeded to bust
ness, the following answering rOllcall:
Mayor James D. Phelan. Charles L. Patton.
mann, Rolla V. Watt Congressman julius
Kahn, F. c. Masteler. Rudolph Herold, Chief
Justice Beatty Of the Supreme Court, George
Judge George H. Bahrs, Williams S. Dreypol-
cher, Albert Dernham. William Wolff, william
p Morgan, Brigadier General r. H. Warfed
J: J. Gottlob, ": H. Leahy, Henry T. Scott.
Meyerfeld Jr Marx Tham " schroedeT
=. Stone. John Semen Paris Kilburn R. ].
Tobin. Captain Charles Nelson, Z. a. Denicke
and Major W. B. Hooper.
The edge of the sorrow of the meet
ing at the reading of letters from various
gentlemen regretting their inability to be
present was taken off by the Enclosure
of checks for the cause. c. Altschul
manager of the London. Paris and Amer
Bank. Enclosed a or
the contribution of that institution;
Henry Schwartz. secretary of the San
Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange
made apology for his absence with a
check for a similar amount as the sub
scriptiOn Of the Exchange; Hermann Ep-
pinger, president Of the Merchants Elk
change. inclosed a check for $780, Hugo
.. Keils absence was atoned for by a
letter inclosing Goldberg, Bowen & Co s
check for $50 Ben Cohen, halter at 800
Kearny street, offered to the committee
as his contribution 80 per cent of the
He asked that the committee send a
cashier to look after the sales, he hay-
ing inclosed a check for IS to pay such
cashiers salary. Roche & Hoeber's let
ter informed the committee that the
printing establishment of Francis, Val
entine & Co, of which they are proprie-
ing required free of charge.
The applause that greeted these checks
and offers had hardly died down before
announcement of the chair that c. B.
Stone. on behalf of the San Francisco
Brewers Association, had left with the
committee a check for $1,000. E. A.
Denicke reported that the Loyal Legion
had voted $50 to the reception committee
With regard to the matter of collect
ing funds for the reception, Congressman
Kahn, who was secretary of the finance
committee of Midwinter Fair, said that
the plan inaugurated at that time of
cutting up the city into small collection
districts would suit admirably the pres
ent purpise. With the assurance from
the chair that such was the intention
he offered the following resolution: