The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-06
TRAINING HOME
IS DEDICATED
lFabiOla Ladies' Hold EXer-
cises at the Opening of
Another New Building
CHARITY NOT RELIGION
New Institution Is Open
to Rich and Poor and Is
Entirely Non Sectarian
CHARITY NOT RELIGION

OAKLAND. May 5.--In the dedica-
ton to-day of the new Nurses Train
ing Home a long cherished dream of
the Fabiola Hospital management has
at last been realized. The occasion
was one of widespread interest, for the
benefits of such an institution are far
reaching. Non-sectarian in character
and open to rich and poor alike,
Fabiola is famed from one end of the
i State to the other and the new Nurses
Home, the most complete of its kind
on the coast, will enlarge the field for
good.
The annex just completed is built
around three sides of a quadrangle,
and the forty or more rooms insures
Tor each nurse the privacy that is
, SO necessary for rest or for study.
The dedicatory exercises took place
In the quadrangle in the open air,
where chairs were placed for the many
interested visitors. Senator George
Z. Perkins was chairman. After
| short speech of congratulation to the
Fabiola women Senator Perkins intro
duced the other speakers, Rabbi Fried
lander, I. L. Barker Rev. Charles
Walkley, Father +. X. Morrison and
Rev. J. K. Mclean all of whom spoke
in terms of highest praise for the
splendid work inaugurated over TWEEN
ty years ago by the noble women who
have devoted not only hours but
weeks and months to the cause of suf-
fering humanity. In his reminiscent
talk DR.. Mclean told how the hos
pftal association. now one of the big
organizations OF the West, began its
existence in two small rooms. Among
the women who have done much to
bring the institution to its present
prosperous condition are the ex-presi-
dents, Mrs. r. W. Kirham, Mrs. Will
liam c. Little, Mrs. J. f. Houghton,
Mrs. D. B. Hinkley. Mrs. w. w. Stande-
ford and the present presiding officer,
Mrs. John Yuie.
| 1t is Mrs. Isaac Requa, however, to
whom Fabiola is much indebted for
! the Nurses Home. She has spent not
only money but time in the supervision
of the building and from early morn
ing until late in the evening she has
watched and worked and planned that
the nurses might be comfortably
housed.
The only thing that marred the gem
eral rejoicing to-day was the fact that
Mrs. Requa was unable to be present.
The woman who has given every
thought to the welfare of others was
prevented from participating in the
fruition of her hopes by the great sor-
row that has recently come to her in
the death of her husband, Isaac Requa.
The speeches, all OF them short,
were interspersed with musical num-
| bers, song by Miss May Coogan, two
comic ditties by Willard Barton and
two ballads by Clement Milward, and
the days programme concluded with
chocolate and cakes being served.
Some of the guests at the exercises
to-day were Judge f. B. Ogden. Cen
eral Long. Mrs. Maxwell Taft. Mrs.
Henry Buffers, Mrs. Oscar Luning,
Miss Charlotte Elsey, Mrs. Charles Eg
bert, Mrs c. S. Chamberlain. Mrs.
Brace Hayden. Miss L. Hayden,
Mrs. r. w. Gorrill Mrs. Robert
knight. Mrs. j. P. H. Dunn. Mrs.
Henry Dieckmann, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs.
George H. Wheaton, Mrs. Edison
Adams, Mrs. S. A. O'Neill, Mrs. Nc
Chesney, Mrs. Oscar Long, Mrs. John
Connors, Miss Connors. Mrs. A. D.
Thomson. Mrs. @. A. Chase, Mrs.
George Dornin, Mrs. Charles Buffers,
Mrs. Ralph Kinney, Mrs. w. I. Veitch,
Mrs. Gordon Stop, Miss Helen Chase,
Mr.. Talbot. Mrs. c. w Kinsey, Mrs.
Cal Ewing, Mrs. w. W. Standeford,
Miss Bates, Mrs. w. w. kergan. Mrs.
George Humphreys.