The San Francisco call., 1910-10-15

that number the women or San Fran
cisco celebrating women's postcard day
yesterday distributed 222.s50. Their de-
mand destroyed the supply. Twenty
thousand cards had been set apart for
the, mass meeting of Native Sons of
the Golden West and Native Daughters
OF the Golden West held at the Central
theater last night, These cards were
grabbed up and sent out in record time,
and the Native Sons and Daughters or
the state pledged themselves to work
increasingly to secure congressional ap-
proval of the plan to celebrate the
opening of the Panama canal with an
exposition at San Francisco.
or all the days of postcard week yes
terday was the queen. 1t was the day
of the women.
In hotels and shops,> in the streets
and in the lobbies of office buildings, in
hobble skirts and in tailor suits, the
women of San Francisco distributed
cards for the success of the Panama
Pacific exposition.
The successful elimination of post
card week is due largely to the efforts
of Frank L. Brown and Charles de
Young of the exposition committee.
Every prominent man in the United
States will receive a card mailed in
San Francisco yesterday, a card which
said.
Get your congressman to vote for the Panama
PEE al af +ha
City-san Franciseo-1el5. california guaran-
tees an exposition that will be credit to the
nation.
President Taft will receive score.
If he doesn't receive 100. Colonel
Roosevelt will receive them. Uncle"
Joe Cannon will receive them.
Congressman Julius Kahn sent card
to every colleague in the house of rep
resentatives.
SENT TO NEW ORLEANS
Even New Orleans people sojourning
in San Francisco fell under the witch
cry Of bewitching cards distributors in
hobble skirts, and at the st. Francis
hotel took the postals and bravely ad-
dressed them to their congressional and
President wehrlein Of the New Orleans
fair proposition was not neglected He,
too, will receive card from San Fran
cisco urging him to use his influence
for the cause of the Panama-Paciffc.
The sender of the missive figured that
it was not yet too late for the New
Orleans people to forget their little af-
fair and make the San Francisco in
dorsement unanimous.
One guest at the st. Francis took
some cards and sent them to congress-
men from the state of New York. An
other sent a card to Charles Murphy,
the democratic leader in New York.
The card said:
Boost the exposition. From good
Tammany man."
others bought the stamped cards,
which sold at the face value of the
stamp, and asked the girls who were
selling them to address them for the
good of the exposition.
OFFER TO PAY
Many, ignorant of the spirit of post
At the Stewart hotel there was such a
stranger. 1t was explained to him that
there was no charge for the cards
themselves.
But how do the publishers of the
cards make their living?" he asked.
sympathetically.
The women in charge of the work
at the st. Francis disposed of 5000 dur
ing the day. The captain OF the dis
trict there was Mrs. John Metcalfe.
Her lieutenants were Mrs. William
Matson, Mrs NJ K. Wallis, Mrs. Charles
Slack, Mrs. Mcdonald and Mrs. George
Cooper. The society girls who assisted
were Miss Edith Metcaife, Miss Lurline
Matson, Miss Edna Faye, Miss Grace
Gibson, Miss Florence Arthur, Miss
Eiysse Schultz, Mrs. Nell Roche, Miss
Marie Margo. Miss Estell Lahman, Miss
jeanette Hooper and Miss F. d. Turner.
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