The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-10-11
MAY Be FORCED
To CLOSE HOME
FOR INCURAbLEs
Kings Daughters Circle Is
q Without Funds to Garry
on Its Work
SERIES OF REVERSES
Refused Aid Because Insti-
tuition Is Not Purely
Charitable
BIG BEQUEST LOST
Organization Now Appeals
to the Entire Order
in This State
BIG BEQUEST LOST

Refused aid by two organizations be-
cause it's work was NOT purely charft-
able and assatIed all sides by re-
verses which struck hard and often
after the Gre. the kings Daughters
circle, which maintains the San Fran
cisco home for incurabIes. will appeal
TO the entire order I'm the state TO save
n shelter for the "a aged folk who are
awaiting the last call in the institution
at 1876 Golden Gate avenue.
These crippled, childish and hope
y essly sick dependents of the home can
not go 10 any other institution in the
city. Hospitals are closed to them be-
cause they are incurable. The doors
OF public charity houses likewise are
shut, as they are not destitute. Be
sides. they have paid the Kings Daugh-
ters' circle for care during their re-
naming days. And so, facing this
situation, with funds almost complete
ly exhausted, the managers of the home
have transferred to their state officers
the task OF standing between their
helpless charges and the street.
DECIDE UPON AN APPEAL
Mrs. NJ S. Low. president OF the
home circle, summoned Mrs. Matilda
Brown, the state secretary. to a con-
ference at her home in McAllister
street yesterday. Mrs. Jennie Coop.
the state treasurer, also came over
from Oakland for the meeting, and
with Mrs. E. H. Cofer, vice president
Of the board OF managers. the three
discussed the problem Of preventing
the extinction OF the institution. They
decided finally that an appeal directed
TO all the Kings Daughters in Cali
fornia " as the only means of keeping
the home in existence The order will
hold a convention across the bay two
weeks hence, and then the predicament
~ the institution will be presented to
! ne delegates.
For six months the board of managers
~ the home has been In difficulties.
The fire in April, 1906, destroyed the
building in which the circles aged
dependents were housed in Francisco
street This structure had been the
doniciIe Of the Scandinavian old peo-
ple's home. The Kings Daughters pro-
cured it for their incurables virtually
nee Of charge. but the confagration
came and involved it in the general
ruin.
That was the first disaster. Swiftly
following came one for which King s
Daughters of outsidei circles are
blamed.
PHILANTHROPY DISCOURAGED
Misses Helen and Isabelle Cowell,
daughters of the wealthy cement mer-
chant. had been generous patronesses
OF the home. In memory of their sis
ter, Miss Sarah CowelI. who had been
an ardent worker in the order, they
offered TO build 100000 home for
the patients in the institution. Land
IN Richmond was purchased. Plans
were completed and Miss Isabelle Cow
ell went 20 Portland TO select a par
ticular kind OF ornamental brick which
She fsncied-
Just at this period several daughters,
whom the officers Of the home cali
to know why persons such as the
Cowells, who were not members of the
order, were permitted so much voice
in the management Of the homes af-
fairs
That ended It The Misses CoweiI
went to Europe. They are over there
vet and the offer to build the handsome
and costly structure has been with
drawn.
LOSE A $4,000 BEaUEsT
Then came another blow. After a
legal battle lasting several years the
superior court decided two months ago
that the home sheltering the incur
abies was net entitled to a bequest OF
Sharp originally had made the amount
$4,000. Eighteen days before her
death she cut this in half, writing her
revision into the original will Upon
this technicality, coupled with the fact
that the work OF the institution was
cided against the home.
Throughout this year OF continual
mishaps the managers of the home have
been forced to draw on the meager
funds IL had left after the fire. The
circle received only a small part of the
insurance on the furnishings of the
Francisco street home When this was
used in paying the high rent demanded
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