The San Francisco call., 1904-12-01
MEET TO HONOR
PATRON SAINT
The st. Andrews Society of
This City Enjoys Banquet
and Oratory and Song
MANY LADIES PRESENT
Families of Members and
Their Friends Welcome
Guests at the Celebration
MANY LADIES PRESENT

UUcSUS dU t1lC AOlCUl dUlOll
In honor of st. Andrews day the
members of the society that bears his
name and keeps his faith assembled
with their families and friends at the
Palace Hotel last evening. After an
excellent dinner, prepared to please the
fancy of the truest Scot, had been dis
cussed, the gathering. feasted of elo-
quence and music and then danced to
the piper's drone and again to the
strains of an orchestra hidden by
bank of greens.
The occasion was picturesque. In the
hall where, as a rule, men in the SOM
J ber garb of evening sit in unbroken,
monotonous rows, there was a welcome
relief of color last evening. All the
ladies were in evening dress and, in
Difference to them, the cigars were
gently puffed and a clear and whole
some atmosphere told that a restrain
Ing influence was there. Red and yell
low shaded. candelebra added the only
color to the table decorations, hut they
We're sufficient and did not permit the
throning of any flower where the thistle
should have been.
! Y. C. Lawson, president of the ST
Andrews Society, acted as POSTMASTER
and to his call eloquent stories of Scot
( land and of California were told First
! the president called for a toast to the
President of the United States and,
while they. held aIoft their glasses. the
diners sang The Star-Spangled Ban
per," then drank to the chief executive
of. the nation.
Il will. now call upon Mr. James D.
Phelan to- respond to the toast, Cali
fornia, the Land of our Adoption, E"
said President Lawson. This is the
land of our choice that has received us
with. open arms and that has offered
us glorious opportunities which, i am
glad to say; most of us have taken ad-
vantage of.
CALIFORNIA IN HISTORY.
Mr.. Phelan said that when California
was mentioned mo. man could keep
silent. He said that in his opinion
there is no equal territory in the whole
+ world that is so productive as Cali
fornia. Remote as is the State il has
played a remarkable. part in the his
tory of the United States and its in
fluence had been recorded in the politi-
cal and commercial history of the
whole world.
But" he continued, what always
holds the most attention is the roman
! tic charm that attaches to the. State.
This charm comes with it's climate. and
here man can enjoy more days of every
year that he may work in comfort than
in anv other land and in consequence
enjoys. greater return than all the
civilizations OF the Old World can con-
fer"
In conclusion Mr.. Phelan said that he
wanted. to thank the Scotch people of
this city for what they had done to con-
tribute to it's progress and prosperity,
but. they. had been repaid, he added,
. because their endeavors were in this
land. which Is the first on the earth in
everything that makes life worth the
living. -.
At:the conclusion of Mr. Phelan's ad-
dress Alfred c. Read sang My Own
United States" in splendid voice. A
. toast to the King was. then. drunk and
then another to Scotland the land of
our. BIRTH; which: was greeted with
hearty cheers.
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toast Scotland. the land of our. BIRTH!
and: eloquently told the story Of the
rugged land to which the minds of all
his listeners were turneo- There is no
crag in all that land. D = said, nor
through its valleys does a river flow,
that is unnoted in either song or poem.
The love of the Scotchman for his coun-
try is ever manifest in its literature, he
racy exists, for in that land all men
share in the wealth Of common hu-
manity.
LAND WITH A SOUL.
Into that land, said Mr. Mcknight.
in conclusion, there was born a soul, and
nothing can shake it's steadfast faith
Through that soul the genius of her
people prevailed and it steeled the
hearts of her men in battle, ever fight
ing for the right.
Miss A. Fletcher who recently ar
rived in this city from the land of
the heather sang two songs of Scot
land that were much appreciated At
their conclusion President Lawson
said the wires had carried greetings
to the society from their brothers in
Albany, ST. Paul, Victoria, B. c.. Mon
treaI, Canada, Tacoma, New York and
Vancouver, 2. c. The reading of the
kilograms was greeted with cheers,
and then all rose and drank to the
toast, est. Andrews day"
Hon. Lucien Shaw, Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court was the
last speaker of the evening. He re-
sponded to the toast, "St. Andrews
day and what it brings to u.s."
Justice Shaw said that only the recol-
lection of the good time he had had
as a guest of the society at its last
picnic could tempt him to attempt to
make an after-dinner speech for
after-dinner speaking to all men is
sometimes difficult, but to him was an
absolutely lost art.
However" he said. Il have been
called upon to speak to st. Andrew,
and L must confess that I know very
littla of him 1t is certain that he