Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-17
MEET TO HONOR
DR.. BICkNELL
PHYSICIANS GIVE BANQUET AT
CALIFORNIA CLUB
NOTED PRACTITIONER RECEIVES
HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL
Eighty Leaders in the Profession Par
ticipate in Proceedings-Poem
in Honor of Occasion
Read

Dr. Frederick T. Bicknell, for ten
| years president of the California hos
] pital and for a quarter of a century
| an active practitioner in this city, was
rendered a banquet at the California
club last night by eighty Los Angeles
physicians in token Of appreciation Of
/ his services to the community.
An elaborate menu was served, fol-
! lowed by a program Of toasts and pre-
sensations. Everett r. Smith was pres
ident Of the evening and DR.. Walter
Lindley acted as POSTMASTER. "Other
Days" was responded to by DR.. Mel
vim L. Moore; "Why We Love Him So
by w. w. Beckett; "Our Neighbor and
Our Friend" by George l.. Cole; "Dr.
Bicknell as a Consultant," Henry G..
Brainerd; Last Days." William Ed
wards; "Brother-in-Law Partner" w.
w. Hitchcock; "Dr. Bicknell as a Sol
der" J. D. Fredericl1s; "The Physi-
clan True" A. S. Lobinger; "Dr. Bick-
nell and the Young Doctor" Joe C. Fer
bert.
The following poem, composed for
the occasion by John S. McGroarty, ed
itor of the West Coast Magazine, was
read by him:
The son Of old Hippocrates
| The self within himself has slain,
He drank the cup of bitter lees,
! No more to joy may he give heed
While yet another's lips may groan;
While yet there lives one human need,
| Henceforth, he must forget his
The bugle's call shall sound for him
To follow armies in their tread;
But he shall stay, when stars are dim,
To pluck the wounded from the dead.
| Not with the victor in his tent,
| But barred to meet the biting breeze,
Above the fallen shall be bent,
/ The Of old Hippocrates.
And when the field is won or lost,
! The bugles hushed and stilled the drum,
To Peace that counts the bitter cost,
He. with the broken ranks shall come.
For victor brows the laurels fair,
| But none shall think to call for him,
Save Care and Grief and Gaunt Despair
That wait him still in shadows dim.
Though well he love the lure and thran
OF lutte and song and laughing eyes,
| He must away, and leave them all
| When from the darkness Sorrow cries;
For he is bond to them that weep,
And slave to Them the fates deride
For storm fire nor flood shall keep
His soul Of mercy from their side.
Scion Of that old wandering god
| Who soothed the fevered pulse of Greece,
The worlds long highways he has trod
Through blood-cursed war and palsied
His sword alone has fought for life
! Between the cradle ard the grave,
His hands through all the squalid strife
Alone were stretched to heal and save.
He needs no poet to impart
His glory to Fame's fleeing breath,
His song is in the rhythmic heart
That faltered at the door Of death;
His paens are the hurrying feet
Before whose tread the specter fees,
| And lips with gladness warmed to greet
The son Of old Hippocrates
To DR.. Granville MCGOWAN fell the
/ H11tXT of TrnCnntinO RiORnn11 wit h
a gold watch, the cover of which bore
the monogram: "F. T. b. Inside the
cover were engraved the words: "To
Dr. F. Il. Bicknell, Is years President
California Hospital. from his colleagues
1909"
The following physicians of Los An
geles were present: Francis L. Anton,
H G.. Mcneil, w. w. Beckett, E. J.
/ Cook S. J. Quint, George L. Cole, f.
S. Dillingham;, Seman w. Hastings,
Dudley Fulton, John r. Haynes, w. w.
Hitchcock, Walter Lindley, Raymond
G. Taylor p. r. Macarthur, Rea Smith,
E. r. Smith, P. G. Cotter M. L. Moore,
J. r. French, J. ]. O'Brien. D. w.
Edelman, J. H. Davisson, P. o. Sundin,
J. M. Dunsmoor, j. t. Stewart, Gar
rett L. Hogan, G. w. Cook, w. w.
Richardson, Thomas E. Taggart, E. M.
Lazard, A. S. Lobinger, John G. Fer
bert Carl Kurtz, w. r. Molony, Frank
Billiard, A. L. Bryant Granville Mac
Gowan,. E. c. Moore, Joseph M. King,
George w. Lasher, w. T. Macarthur,
H. M VOORHEES,, Guy Cochran, Donald
w. Skeel, A. C. Rogers, Frank W. Mil
Ter, Harris Garcelon, B. Sassella, E. A.
Bryant, e. H. Wiley, c. w. Anderson.
S. S. Salisbury, w. Jarvis Barlow, E.
W. Fleming, R. P. McReynolds, G. w.
Pierce, Gilbert Wing, Lewis S. Thorpe,
A. L. MacLeish, R. w. Miller, William
Duffield, H G. Brainerd, G. S. LAUDER
sheimer, W. S. Philip, H Bert Ellis, A.
G. Thorpe, William A. Edwards J. j.
Choate, w. G. Cochran, Joseph Kurtz,
J. E. Jenkins.