The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14
A PICTURESQUE GATHERING
DELEGATES FROM MANY PARTS
OF THE WORLD.
Dedication Ceremonies at the Site Of
the School for the Revival of
Lost Mysteries of An
tiquity.
BY MRS. II. III. SOMERS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch to The Call
SAN DIEGO, April 13.-Crowds of en-
thusiaStic people are now flocking to San
Diego from all parts of the world to at
tend the great Congress of the Universal
Brotherhood, which began its first ses-
sion to-day. The hotels are all filed with
visitors. The grounds at Point Iona are
dotted with tents, presenting an interest
ing and picturesque scene. A large amphi-
theater has been erected to accommodate
the thousands who will attend the con-
gress. This is situated on the site of the
school, commanding an imposing and
magnificent view of the unrivaled scenery
at Point Iona.
Hundreds of delegates from all over
the United States and other countries
have arrived. On Saturday Katherine A.
Tingley, the leader and official head of
the Universal Brotherhood arrived, ac-
companied by several members of her
cabinet. The cabinet officials now pres
ent on the grounds are: Z. A. Nereshei-
mer, chairman; F. NJ. Pierce, secretary
general of the Universal Brotherhood and
special representative of the school for
the revival of lost mysteries of antiquity;
II. T. Patterson, superintendent of the
International Brotherhood League; a. A.
Purman, Fort Wayne; Walter Hansen
and Iverson L. Harris of Macon. Ga;
Clark Thurston, president of the Provi-
dence Universal Brotherhood; Robert
Crosby, president of the Boston Universal
Brotherhood, and d. n. Dunlop, Ireland.
Other arrivals are: Mrs. II. X. Rich
mond Green of Easthampton, Mass. who
was one of the Cuban relief party and
who accompanied Mrs. Tingley on her re-
cent visit to Santiago de Cuba; Mrs. +.
Z. Mayer president of the Isis League of
Music and Drama and superintendent of
the children's work throughout the world;
Dr. }. A. Anderson of San Francisco
president of the lodge in that city; DR..
Allen Grifftths, Professor Julius Oette of
Alameda, and Professor f. c. Plummer of
Tacoma, Wash.
Among the prominent arrivals yesterday
were Colonel Coronel Barclay Cleather
and Mrs. Alice L. Cleather of London,
England; Basil Crump of the London
Wagner Society OF Music and secretary
Of the Universal Brotherhood in England;
Nine. de Nuflle, president of the Uni
Yersal Brotherhood lodge in Holland; B.
Jasnk, vice president; DR.. kelljberg Mrs.
Torsten Hedlund and Miss SonnesOn
prominent members of the Universal
brotherhood in Sweden: F. j. Dick of
Dublin, president Of the Universal Broth
erhood in ireland; Miss Atkinson, Miss
townsend of Newcastle, England DR.. Fl.
A w. Coryn. secretary of the Interna-
tlonal Brotherhood League; w. A. Stew
ems president of Buffalo lodge. and Mrs
Stevenson of the directors of the Lotus
Home for Destitute and Homeless Chill
dren in Buffalo, which is one of the prac-
hood organization; Miss A. G. Herring
president of the Denver Universal Broth
erhood; Nine. Peterson of Boston; Mrs.
Gawthorpe~ of Sydney, Australia; Rev
New Zealand; NJ. A. E. S. Smythe Of To-
ronto, Canada, special lecturer of the Uni
versal Brotherhood; Ampeus Smith, presi-
dent of the Chicago Lodge; ". s. Wing,
president of the Esoteric School, and
hundreds of others.
The train from the East carrying the
delegates to the congress was the largest
special on record arriving in San Diego
This great gathering of international
representatives will be unique in char
acter. While American in heart and
spirit, it viii not be bound by any limi-
tations of race or nationality. Here will
be assembled men and women inspired
by the sublime idea of bringing into act
ual realization a universal brotherhood of
humanity. The various exercises will rep
resent every department of the brother
hood, which includes every aspect of
thought and life-the work of philan-
thropy, the world of literature. art and
the drama and everything which tends
to uplft humanity to a higher life Cali
fornia, land of flowers and sunshine, is
pre-eminently the State for such mag
nificent epoch-making assembly, repre-
senting as it does the forward spirit in
science, education. art and philosophy.
Point Iona is an ideal spot to estab-
lish everything that forwards perfect hu-
man life, outstripping all purely material
achievement. Here will be seen in time
IN HOWlnS operation everything winch
makes mans life great and noble; here
shall be found Americas temple at Oym-
pia. No pandering to the many crankisms
of the age shall here be found, no dab
bling in spookology, no communications
with the dead, no bats held out for the
idle and the curious, no salaried officials,
no political schemes, no mercenary condi-
tions nor a theoretc study of the mystic
rious and occult. No. none of these, in
deed, but the practical cooperation of a
practical people in all that enables and
develops the higher life by an unselfsh
devotion to the service of the race. There
is no room here for self-seekers
The delegates are not scattered, hare
Drained individuals, but afford a striking
illustration of being common sense bust
ness people. who know what they are
about, brotherhood being their first and
foremost idea.
The American flag with it's glorious
stars and stripes will wave over The am
phitheater erected on the site of the
school for the revival of the lost mys-
teries of antiquity Truly d fitting symbol
of the return OF old glory to this ancient
land of America.
The flags of every land will also find
fitting places beside this emblem of free
dom, emphasizing the international char
acter of the congress.
The following was the programme of
to-dayS proceedings:
Jupiter day-Between high noon and sunset
the opening of the Universal Brotherhood Con-
gress will be heralded from the heights, of the
point by fanfares to the four corners OF the
earth.
Inaugural music.
Chanting fsl of the "Gayatri'' by cabinet officers
Welcome by DR.. j. a. Anderson.
Silent invocation.
speeches-Mrs. Elizabeth Mayer, H. T. Pat
terson, NJ a. E. S. Smythe
Midway between sunset and midnight-Re-
dedication of the school for the revival of the
lost mysteries of antiquity with torchlight
procession and ceremonies.