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The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-04-14


1521-Magelan discovered the Philippine
Islands.
1549-Thomas, Lord Seymour, beheaded
1566-David Rizzio murdered.
1569-Battle of Jarnac.
15S9-Walter Raleigh made an assign
ment of his patent to Thomas Smith
and others.
1624-England declared war against
Spain.
165S-Treaty of Roeskild signed.
1669-Memorable eruption of Mt. Etna.
1676-Attack on Groton, Mass, by In
dams.
167S-Ghent surrendered to Louis XIV.
1IO2-William III. of England died. Sue
ceeded by Queen Anne.
1709-First London daily paper APP
peared.
171O-Danes driven out OF Sweden.
1732-Kouli Khan usurped the Persian
throne.
1750-City of London shaken by an
earthquake.
AtCo really between ltuSSld anu OWL
den for neutrality of the Baltic.
1765-Stamp Act passed by British
House of Lords.
1768-Six students at Oxford expelled for
Methodism.
1793-French National convention abol
ished Imprisonment for debt.
1I96-Napoleon Bonaparte married to
Josephine Beauharnais.
1799-Massacre of Jaffa.
| 1S01-Aboukir surrendered after san
culinary conflict with the French.
1S12-JOhn Henry's plot to dismember
the Union discovered.
1S14-Lord Wellington coptured Bor-
| deaux.
1925 Pasturing cows on Boston COM
mon forbidden.
1S30-Petroleum discovered in Kan
lucky. Bottled and sold as a med
icine. First gold from Georgia mines
received at the mint.
1S41-Steamer President wrecked; 100
lives lost
1S47-Battle of Vera Cruz.
1848-Revolution in Vienna. Flight Of
Prince Metternich.
1S5O-Party professions in Ireland pro-
hibited.
1S54-Alliance of England, France and
Turkey against Russia.
185S-Siege of Lucknow began.
1861-Confederate constitution adopted.
1S62-Battle of the Monitor and Merri-
mac in the James River. Generals
McCulloch and Mcintosh killed In
battle at Pea Ridge, Ark.
1863-Prince of Wales married Alexan-
dra of Denmark.
1S64-General Grant appointed comman-
der-in-chef of forces of the United
States.
| 1S67-Steamer Mercury sunk In Arkan-
sas River; % lives lost.
1S7O-First woman jury In America as
sembled in Wyoming Territory.
1S71-Rise of the Commune in Paris.
1S75-Moody and Sankey began series OF
notable revival meetings in London.
1S18-Outbreak of cholera in Arabia.
SS1-Assassination of Alexander II. OF
Russia.
18S3-Ship Navarro foundered off Spurm
Head, England; 60 lives lost
1SS4-COal mine explosion at Pocahon-
tas, Va: 80 miners killed.
1SS4-Osman Digna defeated by General
Graham at Tamasi, Egypt.
1SS5-Coal discovered in Dakota.
1SS5-United States hotel burned at
Steubenville, Ohio.
1SS6-Knights of Labor strike on Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad.
1886 Anti Chinese convention in San
Francisco.
1SS9-Party of French tourists murdered
in Yellowstone Park.
1S92-Business suspended In Northwest
by violent blizzard.
1S95-Harry Hayward convicted of muir
der of Catherine Cling in Minneap-
oils. Queen Liloukalani of Hawaii
sentenced to five years imprisonment.
1S95-Chinese asked Japan for peace.
1904-Lynching of Richard Dickerson at
Springfield, Ohio. Mob burned me-
gro quarters.
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20
THE NATURALIZATION OF BELL GR-A

captain Ca woman in touch with girl
life) they soon learn the necessity and
the pleasure of -well-kept hands, faces
and coiffure. Daily contact with women
of the world not only robs them quickly
of the awkwardness of the tenement en-
vironed child. but they quickly pick up
little turns of speech, tricks of manner
that make their presence and service a
joy. From the bench. as they reveal
capacity for larger responsibilities. they
are advanced TO the telephone room,
package desk or mail service.
That poys WIN be boys Is equally ap-
plicable to girls In the bell girls tenta-
tive day there were elevator boys In the
woman's hotel. They were as new to
the industrial world. the cut and dried
hours of service, as the bell girls. 1t was
such a lark for Ribbons and the boy to
shoot to the twelfth story and forget to
come down promptly on the press OF a
button. OF course. there was no harm in
these little detours from terra frma. but
in the interest Of increased dividends II
was found profitable to dispense with the
service of the boy in favor OF the gentle
man of color.
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those who most urgently needed shelter.
Several thousand families were housed
and a great deal of suffering averted.
This plan was carried out In very
thorough manner in Oakland, where a
Central Catholic Relief Bureau was es-
tablished by the pastors and the active
workers among their congregations.
don't know how many people were shell
tered nor how many meals were provided.
The charity that measures itself in fig
ures is very cold. But ! do know that
the committees worked day and night.
that no applicant was turned away, that
refugees were sought out without ques-
tion of creed
Archbishop Montgomery sent word to
every Catholic institution IN the city to
relieve the needy and to cooperate in
every way with the Citizens Committee
appointed by Mayor Schmitz. Those in
charge had already done so. Archbishop
Riordan was in Chicago when he received
the news and he fastened back to help
in every way. / shall give few instances
of Catholic Relief Work performed by the
various communities of Sisters in the
city.
Among the first to respond on the morn
ing of the earthquake were the Sisters OF
the Holy Family. Word was sent to them
that the Pavilion was converted into an
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20
COMFORTING AGED AND INFTRM DURING FIRE

Mayor Schmitz since the fire and l would
advise the Mayor, II he wishes to assert
his authority on the Hill, to visit IL as
soon as possible.
st. Mary's Hospital on Rincon Hill is
gone. 1t was surrounded by a circle of
fire which drew nearer and nearer hour
by hour until 1t was seen that that noble
institution was doomed. There was no
escape for the sick and the aged by land
and the Sisters performed heroic work In
removing the entire community to a ship
which lay close by. The patients, nurses.
aged and infirm were taken safely to Oak
land and Immediately a band of Sisters
returned to the city before the fires were
extinguished to establish the new ST.
Marys Hospital. True, IL was but a
tented hospital. but ii served its purposes
until a suitable building was leased. Such
Is the spirit that will build IT, New San
Francisco.
st. Joseph's Hospital was crowded with
patients who were taken in free of charge
during and after the fire.
Many refugees found their way towards
South San Francisco where the Sisters
of Charity, who conduct the two large
Orphan Asylums, attended to their needs
The Sisters also sheltered the boys of the
Youths Directory and the girls of the
Technical School
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BY REV. PHILIP o'RYAN.

One can give but a very poor idea Of
the charity that was poured out so Law
ishly during the great catastrophe. Much
Of IL was done without ostentation and il
Will 90 unrecorded- The first few days
when we had TO depend on our own re-
sources were trying times. Families were
fleeing in thousands from the devourinS
flames Shelter and food were needed TO
save the old and infrm. the women and
the children. California hospitality was
put to the test and was not found want
ing AS long as provisions lasted they
were shared with the refugee. That phi
vste relief enabled US to tide over the
days until help reached us from abroad
II is very difficult therefore TO write OF
Catholic Relief Work. The better portion
Of IL was done in this way. Every Cath
Ole home IN the unburnt district was a
shelter for those fleeing from their burn
INK roofs. The pastors in the outlying
ps dishes knew how many each family in
the parishes could accommodate and
formed committees TO go amongst the
refugees and place in comfortable homes
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mates and the millionaries Of yesterday
slept soundly under the same roof. On
the other hand the Academy of the Sa-
cred Heart at Ellis and Franklin streets
educated the children of the wealthy. Just
as soon as 1t was safe from the fire it
was converted into an emergency hospital
Many a man and woman who did not lose
much in the fire because they did not
possess 1t slept soundly in the class halls
and music rooms.
The Dominican Sisters did noble work
In the parochial school of Sacred Heart
parish, which was converted into a hos
pital and refuge.
The Relief Station Telegraph Hill
was unique. About two thousand people
found refuge on the Hill. The Presenta-
ton Sisters who were driven by fire from
their two great convent schools at Taylor
and Ellis and at Powell and Lombard
streets took charge of the Relief Work.
The refugees were cut off from communi-
cation on all sides. But In few days
the Sisters had everything running
smoothly They had converted a store in
to a school; a hall had been fitted up as
a church and the distribution of food was
perfect. Uncle Sam sent plenty of pro-
visions and don't think that the Sisters
cached any of 1t. The inhabitants had
not heard from General Funston or
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20
'FRONT.'

front.
Ribbons" slipped~eff the bench and
presented pompadour 10 the desk.
SHOW the lady to us"
With the dexterity of lightweight
practice suit case and golf bag were
picked UP and with Follow me- out
of the corner of her right eye Ribbons
made for the elevator.
"sir, Go you mean to tell me that
child is TO carry my lugga sc?"
IT'S the duty of bell girls, madam
"Prcposterous. She's not bigger than
a minnow / wouldn't let my Nell carry
zach load. and she's not an inch taller,
an ounce heavier or whit stronger than
that child. And this is woman's hotel
built by God-fearing women for the ac-
commodation of their kind! Well, well.
Give me my traps; III carry them my
self"
She was a replica of Mrs. Gryce in
THE House of Mirth"-a monumental
woman with the voice of a pulpit orator
and mind preoccupied with the iniqui-
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20

The Sisters of Mercy of ST. Peters
School, assisted by the Sisters who taught
ST. Joseph's School. have done and are
doing noble service In distributing cloth
ing and supplies and In visiting the destt-
tute. So did the Sisters of ST. Charles
School at Eighteenth and ShotwelE MIR.
Richard Queen gave his beautiful mansion
to the Little Helpers who were burned
out. They are familiar figures in all the
camps. The Sisters Of St. Brigid's School
received hospitality from Chaplain Hart
at the Preside and have devoted their
time to the immense camp on the reser-
walton.
am only giving some instances &C what
Peters. ST Paufs. and Others were con-
Catholic Sisters did. / don't think that
men are entitled to any special credit
Most of our churches. the Cathedral. ST.
verted into Relief Stations
The clergy on the Sunday following to
fre celebrated mass in every camp whc
Catholics were gathered. We might t.
we have lost great structures. hut ' =
shall not lose the people who built al
crowded them In the Old San Fr., rcisc.-
And when theNew San Francisco Sprin-
from the ashes of the Old. the faith th
builded what the fire destroyed VIII bui {
greater temples devoted to religion, G,
education and to charity
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emergency hospital and thither they
rushed their bedding and supplies for the
injured. The Sisters attended to the pa
tents. bound up their wounds and COM
forted them in their suffering. Who that
Witnessed the scene IN the Pavilion on
that morning will ever forget 1t? Here
lay the victims of earthquake and fire,
crushed and broken. And I hope that
San Francisco will never forget that
brave army of nurses and doctors and the
devoted Sisters who remained at their post
until the last sufferer was borne from the
burning Pavilion. This same community
of Sisters gave up their convent at Hayes
and Fillmore streets as a ward for those
rendered temporarily insane. The Sisters
have devoted themselves since the fire to
the work of visiting the camps and pro-
viding food and clothing for those who
cannot help themselves. If there be a
few who have overstocked themselves
with provisions. there are the thousands
who would die Of cold and hunger rather
than stand in line These must be
sought out quietly by ministering angels
and to this work the Sisters have applied
themselves. One of the tragedies of the
fire was the destruction of the three Day
Homes of these Sisters In which thousands
of infants and children were cared for
and fed whilst their mothers went out to
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20

gentleman caller gave note to deliver
to a patron, slipping at the same time
into the little outstretched hand q
quarter.
1.-The lady kept the note. sir but she
said she didn't want the money" said
Ribbons. presenting to the gentleman a
tray upon which shone the rejected
quarter.
The evolution of the woman's hotel
from semi -philanthropic experiment.
into dividend paying enterprise is no
less interesting study than its normal
school for the training of bell girls. FROM
all parts of the city, chiefly the east
side, come the twenty-six girls who
make up the corps. Their ages range
from the law limit to Is. Direct from
parochial schools and private homes they
come, and the ease and speed with which
they acquire the manners of polite sery-
ice. initiate the people they come in con-
tact with, which is necessarily much
higher class than they would encounter
in department stores. shops or factories.
bespeak their intelligence and adapt
ability.
Under the surveillance Of a well-bred
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20

hundred thousand San Francisco people
shelterless and in want cf food Can
your city send supplies? Need Is great
and urgent Answer Oakland.
GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor"
"The Governor, Salt Lake City, Utah
Have asked Mayors of Ogden and Salt
Lake City to send provisions for the
three hundred thousand shelterless and
foodless San Francisco people Need is
GEORGE C. PARDEE. Governor"
"To the Mayor, Reno New: Three hun
dred thousand San Francisco people
shelterless and in want of food. Can your
city send supplies? f.eed great and i'm
mediate. Answer Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARDEE, Governor"
"The Mayor. Seattle, Wash: Three
hundred thousand Sal Francisco people
shelterless and in want of supplies. Can
your city send food? Need is great and
immediate.
GEORGE C. PARDEE. Governor"
Governor Mead. olympia, Wash. ::
Have wired Mayor of Seattle for supplies
for 100000 shelterless and foodless San
Francisco people. Answer Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARDEE, Governor
The Mayor. Denver, Colo: Three hun
dred thousand of San Francisco people
in want of food Can your city send sup
plies? Need is great and immediate. An
swer Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARoEE, Governor
"The Governor. Denver. Colo: Have
wired Mayor of Denver that 100000
shelterless San Francisco people need
supplies. Need is great and immediate.
Answer Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARDEE, Governor
Governor Sparks, Reno, New: Have
wired Mayor of Reno asking supplies for
100000 shelterless and foodlcss San Fran
ciscans. Need is great and immediate
GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor
THE Mayor. Portland. Or: Three hum
dred thousand San Francisco people
shelterless and without food. Can your
city send supplies? Need great and i'm
mediate. Answer Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARDEE, Governor"
Governor Chamberlain, Salem, Or:
Have wired Mayor of Portland that 300,
900 San Francisco people are shelterless
and without food and asked for assist
ance. Answer Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARDEE, Governor
'The Governor of Nebraska, Lincoln,
Neb.: Many thousands of San Francisco
in urgent need of food. Can you not
aid in getting trainload of provisions
started? Have wired Governor of Mis-
souri, and Mayors of Omaha and Kansas
City to same effect Need is immediate
and great.
GEORGE c. PARDEE, Governor"
The following messages show the
hearty response that greeted these ap-
peals:
Olympia. Wash, April 19, 1906.
Hon. George C. Pardee, Governor,
Sacramento. CaL Your wire received.
Seattle has raised $4,000 and will begin
shipping provisions tomorrow. Tacoma
started first shipment of $4,000 worth
of cooked provisions tonight by steamer
Charles Nelson. Due San Francisco Sun
day night. Has $4,000 worth more ready
and will make further shipments. Bell
ingham today shipped s1000 worth of pro-
visions, will send more and is raising
cash subscriptions. Spokane raised $1,000
today, will increase to $4,000 tomorrow
and begin shipping. Everett has $4,000
worth provisions ready to ship tomorrow.
Other cities and towns taking up the
work. State shipping tomorrow all avail
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20

work. The people whose nickels and
dimes builded these Day Homes are
themselves homeless today. Who will re-
build them in the New and Greater San
Francisco?
The Sisters of Charity conducted a
Technical School at Cough and Geary
streets. You never read of it in the
papers 1t was not paraded as great
charity. But 1t was the best and the
most worthy institution in the United
States. Over one hundred girls, princi-
pally orphans. were given a thorough
training in sewing and dressmaking. The
institution was absolutely self-supporting
and these girls were sent out into the
world trained to earn their own living.
But in one day 1t is utterly transformed.
The children are sent temporarily to the
Orphan Asylum and here in the parlor
where Madame So-and- So ordered a
fashionable trousseau last week. l find
simple colored woman sitting on her
bed. A hundred and fifty deserving old
people are gathered under that hospitable
roof and five times that number sit down
to meals The Sisters were ably assisted
by the League of the Cross Cadets.
Out in the Richmond District is the
Home for the Aged conducted by the
Little Sisters Of the Poor. They threw
open their doors to refugees. and the In
The San Francisco call., 1906-05-20

needing food. Can you not rush supplies
by steamer? The immediate need is very
great
GEORGE c. PARDEE. Governor"
ITO the Mayor. Sacramento. Cal !:
Mayor Schmitz informs me that he needs
supplies OF all kinds for his people. Can
you send him food Immediately in charge
OF competent men? Wire me Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARDEE. Governor"
The various towns and communities of
the Safe were quick to respond Com
mittees for relief work were at once or
ganized and within twelve hours replies
were coming in faster than the telegraph
wires in their dilapidated conditions could
accommodate them. One of the first
wires to come was from Hanford, the
county seat of Kings County. 1t brought
the news that a car of provisions was
being started and that other cars would
follow and further that car of dressed
beef could be counted on daily until or
dered to stop shipping.
The following messages are some of
those received at the Governors office in
response to the first kilograms sent out
by him:
Santa Ana, Cal. April 10. 1906.
George c. Pardee, Governor, Oakland
Cal: Would few carloads vegetables be
ping directions.
MACMILLAN, Chairman Board OF Su-
pervisors."
Fresno, April 1s 1906
Fresno citizens are actively raising
supplies and funds to assist sufferers in
San Francisco and elsewhere. We think
committee for general distribution of sup
plies and assistance through the stricken
districts necessary and hope you will act
in that direction.
FRANK H. SHORT, Chairman"
Fresno, Cal, April 1s. 1905
Governor George c. Pardee, Sacra-
mento. CAL: Two cars cooked food leav
ing tonight. Others follow tomorrow.
EARNEST MOSES. Sec. Relief Fund
Los Angeles, Cal, April 1s, 1906.
Frank K. Mott, Mayor, Oakland, Cal:
Rushing special over Southern Pacific
tonight with supplies, likewise shipping
per steamer Roanoke Command US the
limit Citizens Relief Committee.
IF. o. STORY, Chairman,
FRANK WIGGINS, Secretary"
Many Of the California towns did not at
tempt to answer by wire owing to the
difficulty experienced in getting messages
to the bay. but went to work sending
supplies. which were given the right Of
way over railroad lines, and arrived In
time to supply the pressing and immediate
needs.
Sacramento raised $4,000 in an hour
Stockton raised money, sent supplies on
a boat and then loaded the boat with
refugees to take them to Stockton free of
charge.
When the messages to the California
cities and towns had been sent out the
Governor next directed his attention to
the nearer States-Oregon, Washington,
Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Wyo-
ming and Nebraska.
Messages were sent on the night of
April IS to the Governors of the States,
well as the Mayors of the principal
cities within the boundaries of the States
mentioned. The messages that follow
show the nature Of the appeal that went
to these sister States:
The Mayor, Ogden, Utah: Three hun
dred thousand San Francisco people
shelterless and without food. Can your
city send supplies? Need great and i'm
mediate. Answer, Oakland.
GEORGE c. PARDEE. Governor"
THE Mayor. Salt Lake City: Three
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Continued From Page Two.
master builder, distinguished citizen is
asked about it. It was Burnha-n who
made the worlds Fair-at Chicago notable
for the beauty Of its buildings. He showed
what could be done, what marvellous re-
suits won by the use Of certain materials
along certain lines. And IL is those ma
terfsis and those lines that clever archl-
tects are now suggesting for adoption as
the means that will serve 10 keep San
Francisco from resembling shanty town,
vvhfle the great buildings are being
erected.
That Burnham is now in the city. CIV
ing counsel 70 those who are concerned
with the problem OF San. Franciscos re-
building makes IT possible for property
owners who have this plan onereo thelh,
70 have Burnham's opinion upon IT.
which. in the light of his own iatnerlne
81 the plan at the Worlds Fair could
hardly be otherwise than most favorable
There should be no confusion OF ideas
an this point with regard to expense
everybody knows that the Worlds Fair
buildings cost fortunes. II is not pro-
uosed 10 duplicate such gigantic struct-
,ree IL is rather the ioeas those odiio-
ines. in part represented. and inc prin-
rfr,jeS Of their construction that can be
initiated now in San Francisco at this
crisis. with such splendid prospects oi
glorious result
= over fifty years ago the French pro-
fessors and students at the Ecole des
Beaux Arts planned dreams OF buildings
and edifces that seemed at that time to
be among the things that can never be
realized.
Lately. however. in the worlds fairs
pot only were the dreams carried out, but
eur 1ne arts building at Chicago was
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ties OF II cr servants.
In response to the clerks signal OF dis
tress back came Ribbons. Mrs. Gryce
grabbed the lightweight AMI led the
way to the elevator with Ribbons. still
mistress OF the keys, in close pursuit.
'FRONT.'
With afrectionatc soothing of tie huge
.Alsatian bow topping a wealth of carrot
hair. the last on the bench sprang like
jack from the box into the lobby's center
"Oh. the little dear! Too cute for any
thing" chorused a bevy of girls out for
q days "rubbering' and under seal not
TO stray too Iar from the woman's hotel.
Ribbons blushed the tint of her tresscs
and gathered up the varsity teams
toilet receptacles.
This way" said Ribbons, playing n
largo with the keys to the parlor suite
while In her train followed the higher
educated gigglers, with fervid ejacula-
tions of How SWEET How cunning"
Cant we take her back with us?'
There you have it, sighed the mere
man. clerk wearily. There's no count
ing what will please women in or out
of a hotel. Bell girls are bound to be