The San Francisco call., 1904-08-20
LEAGUE WORK
ON LANDMARKS
Joseph r. KnOwIand Tells
in Detail of What Has
Been Done for Preservation
MANY REPAIRS MADE
Oakland Club InaugurateS
Its Fall Season With
a Fashionable Audience
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1016 Broadway, Aug. 19.
The beginning OF activities at the
New Century Club this afternoon was
a brilliant event and augurs well for
the seasons success. An air of COM
fort and wellbeing always hovers over
this little club and its tone of seeming
prosperity was accentuated to-day by
the soft frou-frou of silken garments,
as scores of fashionably dressed
women took their places in the Ii
brary, which was, for the time being,
the reception hall. Joseph r. Know
land, Republican nominee for Con-
gress and president of the Landmarks
League, gave an instructive and in
teresting talk on the landmarks Of
California and their preservation.
The young legislator was at his best
to-day and never was audience more
attentive. as he told, briefly as pos
sible, how many landmarks had re-
ceived the leagues attention and
what had been done to preserve them.
Suffers Fort in Sacramento, he said,
that mecca of pioneer travellers across
the continent, was the first to be re-
habilitated. which was done at a cost
of considerably more than $4,000, that
sum alone being expended for the land
surrounding the old fort.
Attention was next directed" said
Senator Knowland, Ito the point where
Marshall first discovered gold, a dis
covery that made its mark on the his
tory of the worlds currency. A fitting
monument now stands near the old
Suffers mill, in FL Dorado County.
The leagues next important move"
continued the speaker, was to repair
the old Custom-house at Monterey. 1t
was from this building that John
Drake first unfurled the flag of the
United States Of America.
In Northern California is an old
and interesting landmark of the States
early history-Old Fort Ross, in So
nOma County. Near by is the old
two blockhouses, still in a fair state
of preservation. This landmark was
recently purchased by the league and
we hope to be able soon to restore il
as it was in 1912.
Cotton Hall at Monterey, where the
first convention was held and for the
preservation of which the last Legisla-
ture appropriated $500, is on the
leagues list; so are all the old mis-
sions, about nineteen in number"
In alluding to the San Antonio mis-
sion. Senator Knowland said: 1T
looks as if it had just been deserted.
1t is surrounded by acres of ruins of
Indian huts and for miles about it are
to be seen the remains Of old water
courses, for the padres were the pio-
neer irrigationists of California The
Landmarks League has expended 1890
in rebuilding the walls Of the chapel.
During this work of repairing, the in
terest of the Indians was remarkab bic,
fully 80 Of them volunteering a weeks
labor toward repairing the old mis-
sion where many of them had first re-
ceived religious instruction. Their zeal
might well be emulated by the citizens
of this State"
Senator Knowland was followed by
Miss Catherine Hittell in poetical, if
somewhat lengthy appeal for Mount
Tamalpais as a national park
THE States and Dynamics of
Household Economy" was the some
what formidable title of talk by Mrs.
Jean Sinclaire, a visitor in Oakland
from Montreal, Canada.
The entire programme for the after
noon was as follows:
Piano solo, Miss Julia Thorpe; Education
and the Oakland New Century Club" Mrs.
Landmarks 'the Landmarks Of California and
Their Preservation" ]. n. Knowland:
songs Ca). Love IS But Vision" CHope
Greenleaf Kruger; Federation topic: Forestry.
Mrs. John Jay scoville chairman committee
pals as a National Park" Miss Catherine H
Httell Federation topic: Household Econom
ics. Mrs. ]. N Chapman committee Alameda
District: ''The Statistics and Dynamics of
Household Economy" Mrs. Jean Sinclaire.
Montreal Canada; sixteenth century songs, (a)
Phyllis" (b) My True Love Hath Ny
Heart" Mrs. Greenleaf Kruger: Federation
topic: Libraries and Portfolios, Miss Suzanne
r. Patch, chairman committee libraries and
portfolios California Federation; Federation
topic: Reciprocity bureau. Miss NJ. r. Mason,
chairman committee reciprocity bureau. Cali
fornia Federation.
At the close of the programme tea
was served in the clubs pretty delft
ssIxitchen"