The San Francisco call., 1904-08-22
Senator Perkins
Will Address
Guests.
BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS.

Women or California, that numbers
among its members women who
struck camp in San Francisco be-
fore SO and who forthwith became
citizens by setting up tents on the
sand dunes on Market street-not too
far from the water front on Mont
gomery street, lest the bars ID get
! 'em-and who have stood at the helm
of the city's growth since those wild,
tumultuous days?
Lured by the lust for gold, moral
/ degenerates from the worlds ends had
found their way to San Francisco, en-
route to the diggings; gamblers, cut
throats and paroled criminals fiocked
to the town for a respite from the
mines when they'd made their pile.
Dance halls lined the streets and
alleys and bacchanalian orgies filled
| the air by day and by night 1t was
these things that brought the vigil
ance committee of 5000 respectable
men into existence-that the COM
munity be purged of the parasites,
that the women and children might
! breathe a cleaner air and be free to
wander abroad without fear.
This was the atmosphere that these
pioneer women helped to cleanse.
Standing side by side with their men
| folk-Whom the whole world honorS
to-day as the pioneers of California
they organized churches, schools and
relief societies and by their earnest
ministrations brought out of chaos
the elements of a civilized commu-
nifty.
Hardship? Well, we women of the
present day would call them by
harsher term. Just ask few of those
| white-haired women next Saturday.
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| iZation-how they managed to wash,
cook and scrub the children's faces
out of a single bucket of water per
day. And that bucketful had to be
| bought from the water-cart man each
| day as the donkey trudged along from
house to house.
At the same time ask them how
they had to create styles-purely local
in conformity with the amount of
/ dry goods on hand-before the ship
was sighted from Telegraph Hill. Ask
them how they had to nurse the sick
and minister to the dying-in this
| faraway land of the West. And how
! they put good cheer into the hearts
of their men-foIk-as women will.
even though their own hearts were
| longing for home and the folks; for
! conditions were hard for the men of
those days, even as they were for the
women.
Why is not honor due these women,
who stood side by side with the men?
Why have we waited the coming of
a new century to give honor to these
women-no less brave, no less~Xalua-
BILE to the communal development than
| the men-the pioneers of California
whom the whole world honors?
Then here's to the Pioneer Women!
Long may they live, and may their
heroisms be sung in song and story.
low NFeTz aINoY.
white haired heroines, daintily bon
neted and pompadoured and gowned
debonair and chatty, will hold re-
ception in Golden Gate Hail. between
. and o'clock, when the following pro-
gramme will be presented:
Address by the president, Mrs. Anna E.
! McIntyre; instrumental solo, Mrs. c. e.
| Thompson; prison scene from III Trovatore.'
| Eric and Elizabeth Davis, accompanied by
Nine RoAckel: cornet solo. Sounds from the
| Alps" Carl Reitz; address by Senator George
! Perkins; recitation, Mrs George Crittenden;
song Arthur Morganthal. accompanied by Mr..
Cassanetti: Early days in California Mrs.
| Z. NJ North: song, Miss Viola Van Orden, ac-
ton, comedy monologue. Miss Mildred Lud-
| lum: instrumental solos, Il Love Thee,
Spring song Miss Hlida Kozminski: song
| by the audience, Days of 49,
Let it be noted that none of them is
equity, that they are clipper and light
of heart and of foot and get down to
| their monthly meetings as speedily as
they stepped into the first bob-tailed
horse cars that ran in San Francisco
away back in the 70's.
The Year Book Of the California
| Club is now in course of compilation.
and the members are earnestly urged
to send their addresses, if different
from that of last year, to the treasurer,
| Mrs Swain, or the financial secretary,
Miss Susanne Patch, 1921 Clay street.
The California Club women are now
gathering UP the threads of last year 3
activities, and it would seem that the
year will open auspiciously, with Mrs.
Aylett r. Cotton in the chair.
For so large a club, and with so
many members Of strong personalities,
with very definite ideas upon the issues
of the day, the amalgamation is really
an achievement. 1t certainly speaks
we'll for the clubable qualities of
women, which have for so long fur
nished copy for the humorist.
But 1t is no idle jest that the club
is rubbing off the rough edge from
| feminine personalities fact that
make women better compa Mons at the
fireside, for they are acquiring toler-
ance of the opinions of others, control
of tongue and temper-at least, so the
men say, whose wives have joined a
club or two-and the ability of getting
''the other woman's view," all of which
are constructive agencies toward de-
velopment.
But ladies, have we yet grown accus-
toned to thinking logically? Try II
when your club resumes activities. Try
it when the next opportunity arises fol
legislation, and when you. are casting
your vote ask yourself whether the rea-
son for that yea or nay is for the goo6
of the club or because of some persona
grudge or favoritism.
On Friday night the Woman's Auxil
iary of the British and American I'm.
ion was rendered a reception at Stein.
way Hall by the main body, when a de-
lightful evening was spent, welding to-
gether the friendships of the Britishers
who have learned to love the Stars anC
Stripes by living under them. Dr. F
w d'Evelyn, the president of the union
welcomed the guests, and the following
contributed to the programme: Mis-.
Veaco, Mrs. Walter Longbothom, Rob
ert Campbell, Charles HiIdersley, J. F
Veaco, Master James Trevetheck anC
Master and Miss Dougherty. Mrs