The San Francisco call., 1905-08-12
CLUB WOMAN'S :.
HAND IN CITY
IMPROVEMENT
BY ZOE GREEN RADCLIFFE.

OAKLAND Aug. u.-''Every time the women
are given a chance to clean a dirty city. carry
on a crusade against public dIsgraces and i'm
moralties, they are successful, and there is at
once new order Of things, says the Ameri-
can Magazine. and in no city has that fact
been better demonstrated than in Oakland 1t
is the women of this city that started the
movement for clean streets and directly and
indirectly they are responsible for many i'm
proVements that have set the last five years
apart from the preceding sluggish half cen
tury- The Oakland Club has done more per-
haps, than any other organization to start the
ball OF Improvement rolling, standing as ii has
from the very beginning, for the city's good
and the welfare of its people Inspired bv its
success along civic well philanthropic
lines the Woman's Civic Improvement club
sprang into being and in the short two years
OF It's existence has done much toward arousng
municipal patriotism. Jokes anent the wom-
en- clubs have lost their point There IS
work Tor the club woman TO do, and, regard
less OF masculine sneers, she has done and is
doing il well
In a few weeks activity in club life will be
resumed. Ebell begins another season the first
Tuesday in September, and the following day
the Oakland Club will resume active work.
Both clubs have planned interesting pro-
grammes for the coming year. A new presd-
ing officer Will greet the members of the Oak
land Club when they again convene, Mrs.
Frances ID. Gray having been compelled to re-
sign on account OF i'll health. Mrs. Cora z.
Jones, one of the clubs most enthusiastic
workers has been elected TO I'LL the vacancy.
Mrs. Charles Woodbury. has charge of the
programme for California day at Ebell. which
Will be celebrated September 10. The musical
numbers will be by California composers and
one or two talks on the making of a great
State by prominent men will form part of the
entertainment offered.
Mrs. Mary 2. Benton, one Of EbeITs most
loved charter members, is also member of
Oakland Chapter Of the Daughters Of the
Revolution, and yesterday being her ninetieth
birthday II was made the occasion of great
rejoicing by the order.
For thirty years Mrs. Benton made her home
533 Sixteenth street, where James Finney
now resides, and that gentleman graciously
made il the scene of the birthday reception.
Flags and flowers beautified the house and
many callers paid their respects to the ven
cradle guest OF honor. Many Ebell women
Sixteenth-street house, then Mrs. Benton S
home. that the club formed over a quar-
ter Of century ago.
Mrs NJ l.. Broadwell is camping at the
Humboldt place, near Lake Chabot. Yesterday
she and Mrs. Henry Pummer enjoyed a
pleasant trip TO Camp Bonita where Mrs AL
fred Seal and her daughter, Miss Isabelle
Seal, the young violinist, are spending the
summer Next week Mrs. Cara Van Vleet of
san Francisco and Mrs. Lestretto will be Mrs.
Broadwelrs guests for few days.
Frank Carroll GiTen. the welI-known Santa
Rosa singer, is visiting friends in Oakland.
General and Mrs. Oscar F. Long are still at
Carmel, where they recently visited by
Bishop and Mrs. Whitaker:
Miss De Neal Morgan. who has been sum-
mering at Carmel; has returned to Oakland.
Mr. and Mrs E G. Lukens are on their way
home, after years travel in Europe