The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28

business and wound up with an exor-
dunn whose burden was that there
should be a community of interests be-
tween business men and the railroad
neople. Wild applause trailed General
Hubbard'S ecStatic conclusion ana tnen
DR.. Horatio StebbiTN took the floor
"a strain or two of the good old
Southern Pacific hymn, He's a Jolly
Good Fellow" followed the general to
his chair and amid great hand exer-
else Rev, Horatio Stebbins was intro
duced. 81 esteem it great pleasure
to be in such company, the dlVlne
said What we need is communlca-
ton of ideas, to associate from time TO
time with men whose planes of life diff
fer and whose daily thoughts diverge.
When l look up and down this board
I notice the different VocationS repre-
sented here and / feel little concert
of personal advantage as l thlnk now
you would feel if you had to write a
sermon. My friend Fillmore would
sweat more than when he quelled the
mob in Sacramento. j. c. StubbS would
dissolve and eVaneSce. L Would give
Coils P. Huntington the text: Ihe
petty king gave him land grant; the
petty king said to him, What roau
have you built to-day Let me LOT
a moment strike a nobler strain. IL Is
common to say that men Of substance
of sense that no great prosperity can
attend human effort unless capacity
meets with opportunity. Man creates
nothing; merely avails himself OF Ihose
things already made.
A tribute to Huntington and Hup-
bard and some more sacred music py
the orchestra and then Colonel Henry
Weinstock was allowed a few brief mo
ments on the post-prandial stage
Rev DR.. Mackenzie was called upon
and said: Il have heard many Things
of the railroad, but never before to-
night did 1 hear the threat that the
railroad thought of establishing the
exalted in the fact that so many good
men of such various tastes should be
congregated and interchange thoughts
With a bunch of flowers to General
Hubbard Rev Mackenzie gave way 10
Toastmaster w. II. Mills.
Commodore Watson was toasted ris-
ing and the orchestra played some
thing patriotic, in harmony with the
toast and the man who fought for his
country in Cuban waters.
Grant Carpenter, president of the
Press Club, next entertained the guests
by a story or two and a halcyOn pic
ture of the newspaper mans life.
The next on the list was Rabbi VOor-
sanger, who spoke on a historical sub
ject, 1.-THE Close of Spanish Rule in the
Western Hemisphere" 1t was an elo-
quent and stirring tribute to the man
hood of young America. With an ex-
hortation to Americans to let their
trinity be equity, justice and righteous
ness in their teachings to other nations
he closed amid great applause.
The remaining toasts were The Sta
bility of American Institutions" by
Van R. Paterson; THE Most Auspi-
cious Tendency of the Time" by Rev.
Charles Edward Locke, and the Ar
tistic Development of Our State" by
Irving NJ. Scott.
A standing toast, mutual Fluctuations
and a grand patriarchal, benefcent
smile for his children from Uncle him
self and the annual dinner by heads of
departments to the head of all became
matter Of history.
Invitations are out for the return
banquet by Coils P. Huntington at his
residence, 1920 California street, on Sat
urday evening, May 13.
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