The society is under obligations to the Citizens' Executive Committee for many courtesies, not the least of which was the erection of a Red Cross stand at Sansome and Market Streets for use of officers and members to witness the parade on the occasion of the return of California's heroes from active service in the Philippines. To Mrs. Hearst we owe our thanks for the illuminated Red Cross placed on the Examiner Building on the night of the parade. To the Southern Pacific Company, the Santa Fé and all connecting lines, and to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the society is deeply indebted for special rates of transportation granted for discharged men. Colonel Long very kindly placed the transport City of Puebla at the disposal of the society on the occasion of the return of the First California Regiment, thus making it possible for us to be among the first to welcome them home. Our thanks are due to the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for franks to the amount of twenty-five dollars. To Drs. Regensberger, Carolan, Dorr. Lorini, and Worth, we are under very great obligations for the care of sick men under our charge, and to the Polyclinic we are deeply indebted for many prescriptions gratuitously filled. The society desires to thank the press of the city for supplying daily papers for the reading-tent. They have added greatly to the interest of the place. To all the willing workers who have in any measure contributed to the success of the past year's work and the glorious results achieved we are truly grateful. Respectfully submitted, MRS. W. R. ECKART, Secretary. San Francisco, October 7, 1899. Groceries, canned goods, provisions, etc...... 1,783 89 Hospitality Committee.. 1,105 33 Hardware, wooden ware, etc. 92 44 Milk 283 80 Post Street Tent.. 438 00 Red Cross Diet and $19,157 83 Reading Tents, Presidio 1,635 66 Red Cross Society, Los Angeles Rev. O. C. Miller.. 219 18 275 00 18,974 81 Oct. 1, 1899 Balance Cash....... .$ 4,165 73 Respectfully submitted, WILLARD B. HARRINGTON, Treasurer. ETC. has a significant sociological bearing. In other times wealth has been subject to no end of appeals for miscellaneous charities, and has often responded with indiscriminate alms-giving. The claims of the poor upon the generosities of the rich have been popularly adjudged sound and just. Accordingly. the man or the woman who gave bounteously to relieve the hungry, the unclad, and the shelterless have been praised while living and eulogized after death. Their numerous and scattered beneficiaries have been supposed to build shrines for them in their hearts and to cherish their memories with loving gratitude. fornia, and the generosities of Mr. Carnegie in behalf of some of our public libraries. All these bestowments aim at one and the same thing-the intellectual development and dis cipline of the whole people. They are not strictly in the nature of charities, but expressions rather of a magnanimous public spirit. They mean, first and foremost, that if humanity is really to be lifted up, the primary condition is general enlightenment. It is quite clearly seen and acknowledged that alms-giving, on the old plan, will not work social regeneration. If this is to come at all, it will be by the increase and dissemination of verified knowledge, and by that liberation of thought, that tempering of the passions, and that harmonization of wills that may come from the disciplines of education and the earnest, conscientious and untiring pursuit of truth. It is immeasurably better that our millionaires should rear such institutions as they are to-day everywhere founding and espousing than that they should sell all that they have and scatter gold coins among the poor. In the latter case they would but throw their money into the sea. But by doing as they are moved to do to-day, they are opening wide doors to all the people and are thus hopefully laying the conditions which promise to lead to an intelligent and rational solution of all our sociological problems. To-day, the successful builders of fortunes are less susceptible to appeals for eleemosynary gifts, and are far more disposed to bestow their wealth for general and public benefactions. This is a hopeful sign of the times. The traditional system of charities has been practically a failure. That is, while relieving immediate distresses, it has not fostered the growth of sturdy, provident, reliant humanity. Its principle is wrong, its results consequently disappointing and baffling. The new order of princely generosity aims at a wise administration of its surplus wealth in the interests of public and impartial good. It seeks to provide open opportunities for the whole people, with no bar against any comer. It is singularly and sig. nificantly democratic in its spirit, with no apparent prejudice in favor of its own class, the rich, and with no patronizing condescension, in most instances, toward the poor. This is proved with special force, in America, by the fact that the munificent benefactions of our time are so generally devoted to some form of education. Perhaps the most conspicuous examples of late years are seen in California with its Lick, Cogswell and Wilmerding schools, the founding and endowment of Stanford, Mrs. Hearst's and Miss Flood's gifts to the University of Cali- now raging in South Africa. The well-worn The Muse THE Muse, peaceful forsooth in times of peace, never fails to impart mar tial inspirations to the sing ers of the world in a day of war. From many a poet, doubtless, we shall hear the wild note of conflict while the blood of Englishman and Boer reddens the River Vaal. With the first strokes of the war, Swinburne in England and Joaquin Miller in California have promptly volunteered on opposite sides. They carry no military rifles, have no sabers strapped to their sides, and are separated by an ocean and a continent; but nevertheless they are face to face with each other in the conflict adage is that the pen is mightier than the sword;" but so far as reported, the conference at The Hague did not discuss the feasibility of an international injunction against the pen as a weapon of modern warfare. Hence this championship of the mighty, with steel of Gillott's and of Esterbrook's fashioning. That we may compare their blades and the manner in which they severally flash them aloft, we give below the war sonnet of Swinburne and the last two verses of Miller's poem, as published in the San Francisco Call: Patience, long sick to death, is dead. Too long Have sloth and doubt and treason bidden us be What Cromwell's England was not when the sea to him Bore witness, given of Blake, how strong She stood; a commonweal that brooked no wrong From foes less vile than men, like wolves set free; Whose war is waged, where none may fight or flee, With women and with weanlings. Speech and song Lack utterance now for loathing since we hear Foul tongues that blacken God's dishonored name, With prayers turned curses and with praise found shame, Deny the truth whose witness now draws near. To scourge these dogs, agape with jaws afoam, Down out of life, strike England, and strike home. -Swinburne. Defend God's house! Let fall the crook. The sword of Gideon and of God:- Her gold, her grace, how stanch she fares!- Rimmed round by steel-built battle-ships! And yet meanwhiles ten thousand miles She seeks ye out. Well, welcome her! Give her such welcome with such will As Boston gave in battle's whir That red, dread day at Bunker Hill. -Joaquin Miller. Whatever may be the outcome of the South African struggle, California can easily claim a triumph for its poet in the matter of war-inspired verse. She wants to be Let no relics of We have cast We have donned San Francisco is young. progressive. She is eager. the past stand in her way. off our swaddling clothes. a new dress. Let us not be like the miser who starves beside his treasure. Let us have the courage and confidence of a young city, to work and go ahead, and, secure in our future, we are bound to succeed. The Republican candidate, Mr. Davis, is of a like hopefulness as regards the prospects of this western metropolis. He says: Trade is destined to increase to an amount we can have to-day no imagination of, and with it our city will grow, and if we are wise and if under this new charter we are able to provide just and economical and wise government, I think the wildest imagination of any man here will fail to realize the possibilities of the future of San Francisco. Let us then be up and doing. Let us provide wise government and sound laws. Let us see that the city is kept in the right and the sound course; and with an honest primary and good citizens taking an interest in the new charter and a sound and economical government, the increasing foreign trade bringing millions of wealth into our coffers, I see in the future San Francisco marching forward with the front rank of modern great municipalities. This confidence in the future of the Pacific Coast and its cities seems to be shared by nearly all our prominent men-in both political and business circles. Indeed, the conviction is very general among the people that this Sierra slope is destined to be a new center of world-trade and of unique and triumphant realizations of civilized progress. If these expectations are not cast beyond the lines of probability, we shall be able to make a new try, under advantageous conditions not hitherto enjoyed, for human results worthy of the setting in which Nature has placed us. We shall not be so hampered by the traditional drifts of human movement as a long-established community would be in endeavoring to revive its fortunes and outdo its past. We stand in a commanding place between the backbone of the American continent and the shore-lines of Asia. What lies between is as a whole a practically undeveloped world. Somewhere in this unexploited world is the probable modern meeting-place of all the great nations. Africa and Asia may be the continental fields for their diplomatic struggles or armed conflicts; but the sea-power of the world is most likely to be determined in the waters of the Pacific. We shall find ourselves in the midst of a splendid series of international movements and maneuvers for supremacy, political and commercial. It is an outlook big with possibilities for the development of a hardy, keen-sighted, alert and enterprising race of men on this coast who shall play a world-part in the developments of the fast-approaching new century. It behooves us therefore to encourage in ourselves very broad views as regards measures and procedures both in the control of our municipalities and the conduct of our Pacific States. What we do here may yet have a determining influence far beyond our border lines, and contribute to a human story such as has never heretofore been told. THE OVERLAND has The Reviv- shared in the universal ining of terest attaching to the Architecture project for a consistent, harmonious and magnificent architectural home for California's chief educational institution-the University at Berkeley. We ought not to miss one great thought in connection with this matter; namely, that we have an opportunity to serve not merely our own esthetic delectation and the fame of the State, in carrying out the project, but the greater cause of architecture as an art in the modern world. If we may trust some of the more competent critics this supreme art has lost its vitality in late centuries, and languishes now for want of an adequate inspiration. The mind of the world has changed its.attitude in the modern era, and misses from its horizon those motives which operated from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries to cover Europe with architectural glories. There is no better statement of the facts, perhaps, and of the philosophy of them, than that given by Clarence Cook, as follows: Times are changed, and the zeal that once burned to build churches for the glory of God, the love of art that delighted to adorn them, are grown cold and stir not men any more. For nearly three hundred years not a single building has been erected in Europe or anywhere that has a single claim to admiration, or would occasion the least regret by its loss except on grounds of convenience or utility. This could not have been said of any three centuries, nor of any one century, that elapsed between the building of the pyramids and the close of the sixteenth century of our era. During all that unrolling of centuries architecture was a living art, employing man's highest skill and covering the earth with beautiful and stately buildings. It is often brought as a reproach that man has long ceased to take delight in architecture. But while we may regret the fact, it is useless to mourn over it, and infidelity to man to argue from it that he is on the road to hopeless degradation. We are living in an era of revolution as striking and momentous as the race has ever seen, and man's faculties are everywhere busy with the pressing needs of the time. It may be well to remember that the triumphs of architecture have been won in building churches for a worship that was suited to the infancy of our civilization; in building palaces for rulers who subjected their people's bodies as the church subjected their minds; and in other structures suited to social and political conditions that have passed away, apparently forever. The race is everywhere in fermentation, and when it has settled down in the new order which will surely come out of chaos, the building instinct and the delight in building which are a part of the nature of man will once more take up the task, and Architecture will be born again. Now, we venture the affirmation that here on the westernmost shore of the Western World a new and adequate motive for enthusiasm for the old and splendid art has come to light. We do not admit that religion itself is utterly dead or hopelessly enervated; but religion has certainly had its supreme day in the rearing of architectural grandeurs, and can hardly turn again to that occupation, achieving again an equal success. Education, however, has taken mighty hold on the modern mind, and is almost universally in mastery of the thoughts and aspirations of the people of these times. Under the stimulus of the scientific pursuits, and the importunate desire for practical knowledge with a view to the conquest of nature, modern universities are coming to be as crowded as were the ecclesiastic schools of the middle ages; and even the common schools of this time draw to themselves nearly all the children of our populations. Here is a new supreme interest for the mind of man, one out of which motives arise which seem destined to be as forcible and controlling as any that have hitherto appealed to the race. They are beginning to direct the aspirations of a large and enlarging proportion of our youth, to engage the services of a growing army of noble educators, and to command the munificence of wealth to provide for their satisfaction. In what is happening, then, in connection with the University of California, we find a hint as to the future of Architecture. Here, in the paramount interest of education, is to be found that capital inspiration which shall make this glorious art alive again. It behooves California to attain to the distinction of leading the way in this nineteenth century renaissance. Henceforward, in this State, where a school, whether of the university order or of a primary grade, is provided with a home, the aim should be to build a thing of beauty and not of practical utility only. There is far more in this than the mere erection of such and so many walls of wood or brick or stone. We owe, in the circumstances, a debt to that dead Art that lies inert in its old-time glory, and to which we should bring a modern inspiration which shall make it live again. THERE is perhaps no question known to man Free Will and so old, so much mooted, and Foreordination so unsettled as this of free will, and we have no intention of trying our hand at it when the lances of the world's greatest thinkers of all ages lie broken in heaps about the great enigma, as though it were some mountain of stone, or a Don Quixote's windmill, or anything else invulnerable to pricks or blows. A faint suggestion modestly put may, however, not be unacceptable,-one that may even appeal to a few imaginations almost in a helpful way. To the writer it exists as a positive discovery, in a measure explaining this syllogism, the two premises of which-free will and foreordination-seem as incompatible as an immovable and an irresistible body, or as two Napoleons in one country. Nearly every individual of that great army of Americans who, according to the old-time political economists, will some day ruin America on the principle that no country can grow poorer unless some other country is enriched-nearly every individual sees Thorwaldsen's lion at Lucerne the dying colossus, cut from a granite cliff, the essence of art. For this beautifying of a section of the coarse elementary material is a phase of art appreciated by all, though more or less consciously, which makes fan painting so prized and so pleasing, and which even lends an air to a mediocre water-color sketch at the top of a letter-sheet. The allegory of the Swiss guards dying while protecting the shield of Louis is of that delightful standard so admirable in everything, we were going to say; that which is understood by a child. The pain is nobly expressed in the lion's face, and the loving concern for the shield upon which he is dying is worthy of the greatest praise, and while the body might be criticised for a certain woodenness, it was probably Thorwaldsen's intention to design an allegorical figure, not so much a real king of beasts as one that might have stepped from a nobleman's coat of arms. There he lies, to be gazed upon for thousands of years with the same awe which it is impossible not to associate with a Roman Catholic altar, enshrined in his cliff, a cathedral nave of trees before him, the singing of the birds for choir. Fancying that Thorwaldsen himself carved out the lion in the cliff, his resulting work was a figure that had always been in that cliff. It is this point that should be thoroughly understood. Any figure, the work of any sculptor, was once imbedded in the original block of stone or marble from which the figure was cut. We can conceive of the lion as having been closely encased in the stone which Thorwaldsen one day removed. Though the outline did not exist, the stone composing the lion always existed, and in precisely the present position. It of course follows that within the body of the lion there are now an endless number of figures which could be chipped out at any time. The point then is this: Thorwaldsen was at liberty to cut out any figure he pleased from that cliff, but the resulting work, when he chose to abandon it, was something that had always been in the rock; in fact, a figure that Fate had foreseen any number of millions of years ago. The application is simple. The cliff is the world: the lion, Thorwaldsen's completed life. Struggle as he would to assert his free |