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Book Title: History Of Santa Clara County

CHAPTER XVII.

San Jose and Santa Clara Activities During the Great European War-Liberty Loan,
Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Belgian Relief and Other Noteworthy Drives-The Men and
Women Who Did the Work.

  The part played by San Jose and the other towns in Santa Clara County in the
Great European War was both patriotic and self-sacrificing. During the hurry and
stress of the grave and arduous responsibilities of the occasion, when even the
average, easy-going citizen was called upon to bear unusual burdens, no one
realized that the activities in which they were engaged constituted the making
of history. What the city and county did is realistically and finely told by
Mrs. Edith Daley in her pamphlet written for the Santa Clara County Historical
Society. From that labor of love the historian has compiled the following
interesting facts:

  On April 6, 1917, President Wilson signed the resolution of Congress declaring
the "existence of a state of war" and asking that all the resources of the
United States be "directed to prosecute hostilities against the German
Government to a successful conclusion." On April 12, 1917, San Jose inaugurated
the loyalty movement in California. On that day more than 10,000 loyal citizens
led by City Manager Thomas H. Reed, marched through the city's streets while the
Stars and Stripes waved above them and the bands played "Dixie" and
"America"-and the thrilling "Marseillaise." That night in a great mass meeting
in the high school auditorium hundreds unanimously pledged hearts and hands to
the country's cause.

  On May 3, 1917, the announcement was made that the first offering of bonds
under the finance law would be $2,000,000,000. Liberty Loan issue, open to
popular subscription at par; subscriptions to be received until June 5; bonds to
be dated July 1 and ready for delivery then. Santa Clara County's quota was
about $2,000,000.

  On May 14, 1917, the details of the Liberty Loan were telegraphed all over the
country. Officers' training camps opened. Men flocked to fill them. Pacifists
were abroad in the land, their voices raised in protest against the country's
war policy. The espionage measure was passed May 14. One began to hear the
ominous words "slacker," "disloyalty," and "sedition." The old easy settled
routine of things was sadly disturbed at the time of the beginning of the first
Liberty Loan drive.

  California was divided into two districts with the Tehachapi the dividing line
and Los Angeles and San Francisco headquarters. The northern district was
divided into sixteen sub-districts with a competent bond seller in charge of
each. Before the real campaign started voluntary local bond subscriptions began
to come in. The Knights Templar and Observatory Parlor of the Native Sons were
the first fraternal organizations to buy bonds. Senator Frank H. Benson and
Judge Urban A. Sontheimer are on record as having advocated the early purchase
of Liberty Bonds by the Native Sons.

  May 23, 1917, by telegraphic designation, the Secretary of the Treasury and A.
Kains, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, appointed a local
committee for handling the campaign in Santa Clara County, particularly to
receive bond subscriptions. The following men were named: John Brooke,
vice-president Safe Deposit Bank, chairman; W. K. Beans, president of Bank of
San Jose; W. E. Blauer, manager local branch of Bank of Italy; W. S. Clayton,
president First National Bank; T. S. Montgomery, president Garden City Bank and
Trust Company; Wilbur Edwards, president Security Savings Bank.

  The opening of the Second Officers' Training Camp preceded the first bond
drive. Very few San Joseans ever knew that the work of interviewing and
examining all the applicants for shoulder straps and military titles was done by
a working volunteer committee of three, W. S. Clayton, A. B. Post and V. J.
LaMotte did this patriotic service, rejecting the men they considered unfit and
sending the others to San Francisco for acceptance or rejection by the "higher
powers."

  The little old oak table in room 401 in the First National Bank building could
unfold an interesting tale if it had a voice. Beside it the committee of three
met the embryo officers and here also the real work of the first Liberty Bond
drive had its beginning. On the evening of May 24, 1917, a few San Jose men
gathered in this room to talk over the task that confronted the nation and the
task that awaited them.

  It was a poorly attended meeting. No extra chairs had to be brought in. Around
the worn old table were W. S. Clayton, Dr. W. C. Bailey, John Kuster, E. K.
Johnston, H. L. Baggerly, J. D. Farwell and perhaps one or two others whose
names are forgotten. No records were kept. Only the little room and the oak
table can tell the whole story. It was an earnest gathering and the power
generated here won a smashing victory in bonds with which to back up the boys.

  This office had no telephone so on May 26 these volunteers moved into rooms
701-702. This was E. N. Richmond's office and he donated its use during the
entire period of the first and second bond drives. In the new headquarters there
was another small but significant meeting on the evening of "moving day," May
26, 1917. At this memorable time a complete working committee was named. John D.
Kuster, manager of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company was made county chairman
and Dr. W. C. Bailey secretary. The bank committee previously named by Beans and
McAdoo was supplemented by other appointments, making the personnel of the
original bond workers as follows: John D. Kuster, Dr. W. C. Bailey, John F.
Brooks, E. N. Richmond, J. D. Farwell, Howell D. Melvin, H. L. Baggerly, Elton
R. Shaw, Geo. N. Herbert, Alfred B'. Post, Wm. E. Blauer, E. K. Johnston, Walter
Mathewson, V. J. La Motte, W. S. Clayton, G. R. Parkinson, Herbert Robinson, H.
G. Coykendall, Chas. R. Parkinson and 'Wilbur J. Edwards.

  Work began in earnest. Telephones and automobiles were requisitioned. The
committee forgot to look at the clock. On May 25, Senator James D. Phelan
telegraphed from Washington "We are fighting for our liberty with the weapon
nearest our hand. The Liberty Bond is such a weapon." Sunday, May 27,
congregations in San Jose churches, listened to eloquent appeals to their
loyalty and patriotism. In one church the pastor changed "Jerusalem" to
"America" with telling effect, his text reading: "If I forget thee, O America,
let my right hand forget its cunning."

  The committee on public meetings consisted of Elton R. Shaw, E. K. Johnston
and E. N. Richmond. On May 29, the first big luncheon was held at the St. James
hotel. The speech of the hour was made by Max Kuhl and the spirit of the
gathering was President Wilson's message: "The supreme test of the nation has
come. We must all act and serve together."

  On Decoration Day hundreds gathered in St. James Park to hear Rev. J. W.
Kramer's wonderful tribute to his country and his dramatic appeal for every
loyal citizen's loyal support in the hour of America's need. "Old Glory," said
the speaker, "May it wave and wave and never be furled until it is folded over
the grave of dethroned Prussianism! May it wave and wave until war shall only be
a fit inscription for the gates of hell! And wave and wave until all suffering
humanity shall feel the warmth of its loving embrace!" On this Decoration Day,
C. E. Kratt, the first pharmacist to enlist, left San Jose to join the colors,
and J. D. Chase, Jr., secretary of the County Council of Defense since its
organization, enlisted as a private in the National Guard.

  Every bank in the county was alive to the need and subscribing liberally. On
the night of June 6, City Manager Thomas H. Reed and Cyrus Peirce, of San
Francisco, addressed a mass meeting at the Victory Theater at which Judge W. A.
Beasly presided. E. N. Richmond acted as bond seller and $44,650 was subscribed
on the spot. Only about 1000 attended this first mass meeting, but each of the
1000 men and women went away fully determined that San Jose should do its full
duty.

  Music for this meeting was furnished by W. E. Johnson, assisted by Dr. Charles
M. Richards and the following quartet: Mrs. Charles Braslan, Mrs. J. C. Elder,
Roy Thompson and Warren French. When W. E. Johnson sang "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic," and "The Star Spangled Banner" that night in June he little thought
how many times his appealing voice would wake San Jose audiences to heights of
patriotism in the days to come-days that were to bring him heart-breaking news
in the casualty lists from his "Mother England."

  On June 8, 1917, led by Charles R. Parkinson, the Rotarians started a "Shoe
Leather Campaign" of the residential and business districts with an accompanying
"boost" program of patriotic mass meetings. That evening at the high school
members of the committee addressed the student body numbering 1500. Louis,
Campiglia. Rotarian president, heartily sanctioned the "Shoe Leather Campaign."
Following the meeting 100 high school boys under the direction of John Lynch,
president of the student body, formed a special committee to canvass the
residential district. There were committees appointed to interview all lawyers
and, indirectly, their clients. This committee consisted of F. H. Bloomingdale,
David M. Burnett, L. Petree and L. B. Archer. All lines of business were
segregated and a committee appointed for each list. No business house was
forgotten. For instance: Elmer E. Chase was given canneries; Dr. David A.
Beattie, doctors and nurses: A. G. DuBrutz, plumbers: Ferdinand G. Canelo,
dry-goods and department stores; Robert F. Benson, automobiles and accessories.
Barber shops fell to the lot of Wm. L. Prussia. Jay McCabe, being known for his
versatility, was handed a list which designated priests, and Chinese and
Japanese settlements. For Jay's assistance leaflets were printed in Japanese,
Chinese and Italian.

  The speed was increased and nobody shirked. In competition with the high
school solicitors Capt. Charles Parkinson of the Rotarians worked his bunch of
live business men to the limit. Among the speakers at the meetings held in the
various schoolhouses were D. M. Burnett, Judge Urban A. Sontheimer, E. N.
Richmond, Chas. M. O'Brien, Chauncey F. Tramatolo, Dr. F. H. Patterson, George
N. Herbert, Arthur M. Free, A. G. DuBrutz, W. L. Atkinson, Elton R. Shaw, W. S.
Clayton and City Manager Thomas H. Reed. Everybody was working and working hard.
The office of secretary was no sinecure. Dr. W. C. Bailey was a whole battery of
big guns, and Chairman John D. Kuster a regular vitalizing current of energy.

  About this time the "four minute men" made their entrance, speaking in the
theaters. The men who won applause and bond subscriptions in four minutes were
City Manager Reed, Councilman W. L. Atkinson and Deputy District Attorney Fred
L. Thomas.

  A unique break in the routine of probate proceeding occurred in Judge P. F.
Gosbey's court room when he gave permission to trustees of various estates to
use funds for the purchase of Liberty bonds. Thousands of dollars, otherwise
unavailable, were loaned to Uncle Sam by this order which the Judge expressed
himself as "glad to make."

  By Wednesday, June 13, 1917, the San Josean who appeared without a Liberty
Loan button was not popular. Banks remained open in the evening from seven to
eight for the benefit of subscribers. Up to this time only 361 out of 1628
subscribers had bought bonds directly from the banks. The banks were subscribing
heavily, a large percentage of the entire loan being taken by them. Many
significant subscriptions were made. The scholarship fund at the high school
purchased a $1000 bond. The First Methodist Church purchased bonds after hearing
an address by Rev. W. L. Stidger, the pastor, in which he said: "We are fighting
today for the same thing that Jesus Christ died for-the conservation of human
liberty and freedom."

  Little Chester Olson, a twelve-year-old newsboy, read a flaming poster that
said: "Those that stay at home must feed the boys at the front." Chester was
patriotic-he had $10 in the bank. He asked father and mother for something. They
agreed to help him. Proudly Chester went to the First National Bank and
negotiated for the purchase of a $50 bond-$10 down and $2.50 a month. He made
$1.43 in three days. Business was good and Uncle Sam needed the money. Later
Chester's older brother donned a uniform and the little newsie was gladder than
ever to be a bond owner!

  The first Liberty loan went through with a whoop. For San Jose the number of
subscribers was 4774; for the county 2228, making a total of 7002. The amount of
the loan subscribed by San Jose was $1,611,300, averaging per capita $337. For
the county the subscription was $707,050; per capita average, $317. The total
bond subscription for the city and county was $2,318,350, with a per capita
average of $331, and only six and one half per cent of the entire population
subscribing. Invaluable aid during this and the second Liberty Loan drive was
given by Fred Lewis Foster, the able and patriotic assistant secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce. He was combination patriotic assistant secretary,
counselor, solicitor and publicity man and working quietly but efficiently he
did a tremendous service.

  On June 20, 1917, after the "smoke of battle" had cleared away, Dr. W. C.
Bailey, president of the Chamber of Commerce and secretary of the Liberty Loan
committee, issued the following letter, addressing it to "The Citizens:" "Now
that the first installment of the Liberty loan has passed into history," wrote
Dr. Bailey, "as Secretary of the Liberty Loan Committee, and in behalf of the
committee, I wish to congratulate you upon the wonderful success of the issue
and to rejoice with you in this great exhibition of solid financial assistance
to the government in time of need. We simply could not fail. Returns are
sufficient to show that this loan knew no territorial divisions, no financial
cliques, no racial factions, but that it was a grand outpouring of the gold of
the whole country by the rich and poor for united American democracy. We are
proud of our local participation and we take this opportunity to congratulate
all those who helped in any way to make this first installment of the Liberty
Loan so splendidly successful.

              "W. C. BAILEY,
       "Secretary Liberty Loan Committee."

  Senator Frank H. Benson is the man who introduced the original state council
of defense emergency measure requested by Governor William D. Stephens, to the
senate. This was done on March 28, 1917, the measure passing without a
dissenting vote. This proposed state council of defense, to be composed of three
members appointed by the governor, was to be empowered to investigate and report
on all of California's resources and military needs.

  Local members of the council appointed by the governor were Judge P. F.
Gosbey, chairman; Henry M. Aver, chairman board of supervisors; Arthur B.
Langford, sheriff, Arthur M. Free, district attorney. Later Derol J. Chase was
made secretary, and George E. Hamilton, of Santa Clara, and H. L. Haehl, of Palo
Alto, were added to the council's membership.

  Derol Chace made an unselfishly patriotic secretary, giving not only his
entire time, but the use of his automobile to the work of the council. Not every
one was quite clear just what duties belonged to this body of men, for the
reason that their work was of such a nature that much of it was a secret shared
only with their Uncle Sam. The objects for which the nation-wide councils were
formed were to safeguard the welfare of the people during the war, to increase
food production and promote conservation; to co-operate in carrying on business
and industrial pursuits in a manner as near normal as possible; to classify all
unofficial military organizations and supervise their activities. In short, this
council was to co-ordinate patriotic effort. There was one camp at Sixth and
Santa Clara Streets, where companies B and M and a sanitary detachment were
awaiting orders. Lieut. L. M. Farrell commanded the real fighting contingents.
Maj. F. H. Paterson headed the sanitary detachment and called for volunteers.
Telegraphic reports grew disquieting and the Sixth Street camp was very real. It
began to disturb mothers and sisters, sweethearts and wives. Then, unexpectedly,
that corner lot camp was broken up. Companies B and M left April 2, 1917, under
orders.

  Dominic DiFiore. University of Santa Clara graduate, enlisted in the aviation
corps and said goodbye. Local regiments were forming. Maj. Herbert L. Partridge,
retired, was acting colonel of one regiment. Capt. Russell B. Tripp, N. G. C,
retired, acted as adjutant, and Capt. R. B. Leland, formerly of the National
Guard of Iowa, served as quartermaster. Four local companies were headed
respectively by Lieut. Argyll Campbell. Lieut. William L. Howe, Lieut. Byron W.
Gray, all formerly of the N. G. C, and Capt. Clyde A. Bostwick, formerly of the
Missouri National Guard.

  Then City Manager Reed began the organization of the Home Guard which was to
take the place of departed companies B and M. A committee of patriotic citizens
met at the chamber of commerce-just eleven men-and decided to have a city
Loyalty Demonstration. Ten Spanish War veterans, led by Capt. B. B. Kavanaugh,
presented themselves at this meeting and offered themselves as a nucleus for the
Home Guard.

  San Jose's part in the great World War was really started at this meeting. The
following Tuesday there was a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. W. W.
Campbell came down from Mt. Hamilton to tell about the stars. There came a time
when three blue stars shone in the window of his mountain home-Kenneth, driving
an ambulance on the fighting line in Italy; Douglas, Captain Douglas Campbell,
later with the Aviation Corps in France; and Wallace, with the fighting
engineers. The local Knights of Columbus and many other organizations adopted
patriotic resolutions and the Sons of Veterans offered their loyal services.

  Not everyone knew there were two Councils of Defense in the city. On Saturday,
April 7, the North Ninth Street Council paraded. Led by Capt. Harry Vance, aged
thirteen, came a guard of fourteen. The contingent consisted of a hospital corps
of Red Cross nurses. Capt. Claire Declaire, seven years old, led them. The
fighting squad, besides the captain, was officered by three first sergeants,
Ernest Declaire, Ralph Guther and Milton Dampier.

  At the time of the first registration, County Clerk H. A. Pfister took his
place on the Council with a plan for handling the big task. "It's a big job," he
said, "but I can do it and want to do it for the cause." June 17 was named by
the President as Registration Day, for all men between the ages of 21 and 31.
Foreign speaking residents were reached through the officers of their societies
and a speaking committee. Sheriff Langford, assisted by Dan J. Flannery, covered
Chinatown.

  Finally a halt came. Postage stamps cost money. Down in their pockets went the
members of the Council to the depth of $5 per member. Derol Chace was elected
treasurer by acclamation. On May 31, 1917, he resigned from the Council,
shouldered a real gun and marched away.

  W. C. Short, of the firm of Short & Ryan, was appointed to fill the vacancy
left by Derol Chace's enlistment. The Council almost went down for the third
time in the struggle over registration and naming exemption boards and war
gardens and so forth. Plans changed. It was decided that County Clerk Prister
should have charge of all registration outside of San Jose and City Manager Reed
and City Clerk Louis Bailey all that within the city limits.

  One patriotic endeavor for which great credit is due the Council was the
launching and helping to bring to success the 1917 war garden campaign. The
Council's efforts were successful in obtaining lower water rates and free water
for many vacant lot gardens in order to promote food production. Meetings were
held from time to time whenever matters of grave importance had to be discussed,
new members were added until at the November 16th meeting the personnel of the
Council' was as follows: Mrs. J. P. Shambau, chairman of the Women's Committee;
Mrs. W. H. Shockley, chairman of women's committee on food conservation; Mrs.
John G. Jury, chairman largest group of women's activities; George E. Hamilton,
chairman committee on commercial economy; Miss Stella Huntington, chairman
collection of books and periodicals; H. M. Aver, chairman fire protection; H. B.
Martin, food administrator; H. W. McComas, four-minute men; Byron Millard, city
fuel administrator; E. A. Wilcox, county food administrator; D. J. Flannery,
general speakers' bureau; J. M.. Parker, Liberty loans; Judge H. D. Tuttle,
non-war construction; E. A. Richmond, chairman Red Cross; Fred L. Fehren,
Stanislaus plan; W. S. Clayton, chairman war donations; Joseph E. Hancock, war
gardens; Prof. H. B. Leland, chairman war history; Dr. James B. Bullitt,
chairman war savings stamps; C. S. Allen, war service league, and Mrs. L. T.
Smith, women's mobilized army. The name of the Council was now changed to the
Santa Clara County Division of the State Council of Defense.

  On May 5, 1917, the Young Men's Christian Association started work on a
national campaign for $3,000,000 for war work. Of this amount, Santa Clara's
quota was $5000. This fund was raised at the request of Uncle Sam and was to be
used for work among the soldiers and sailors of the United States. The request
included a call for 1000 of the Association's best trained secretaries to work
with the soldiers. For this drive California was divided into nine sections with
nine executive secretaries in full charge of the financial features. The Santa
Clara County division, with San Jose as headquarters, included Santa Clara,
Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties.

  R. H. Gossom, a well known "Y." worker, had complete charge of the district,
and John R. Mott, General Secretary, was at the head of the National Campaign.
The San Jose campaign received the hearty endorsement of the local "Y."
directors on May 9, 1917, at which time R. H. Gossom was present at the meeting.
Hiram A. Blanchard, president of the San Jose Association, was delegated to
select a district committee to operate the "drive," with the able assistance of
John D. Crummey, vice-president, and Geo. C. Wilson, secretary. At a dinner on
May 11, State Senator Herbert C. Jones explained the Association's objective. It
was stated that the plan of mobilizing 1000 secretaries included extra
equipment, educational and for amusements, for the benefit of the soldiers at
every army post. This equipment was to include 200 pianos, 200 buildings, 200
moving-picture machines, 200 phonographs, 40,000 pounds of ice per day, 1000
pens and barrels of ink for the home letters. There were to be added 95 trucks
and tons and tons of reading matter. Plans were completed and at a "Y." dinner
on May 22, Senator Herbert C. Jones presiding, two "Generals" were chosen to
head friendly opposing teams in the campaign for the $5000. These generals were
District Attorney Arthur M. Free and Senator Frank H. Benson, who was also
general chairman.

  At Grace Baptist Church on Sunday, May 20, Frank D. Keene, who had left the
College of the Pacific to join the colors under the standard of the Marines, and
Hector Sawyer, local high school boy, also a "soldier of the sea," told an
interested congregation of what the "Y." means to the enlisted men. These San
Jose boys were home on their first shore leave and gladly enlisted their time in
the cause of the "Y."
  On the evening of May 22, the generals, captains and enthusiastic workers
gathered for dinner at the Y. M. C. A. and the following morning, May 23, the
campaign for "$5000 in two days" began with a rush. The two teams, headed
respectively by District Attorney Arthur M. Free and Senator Frank H. Benson,
had ten sub-teams, each with a captain and two workers. Others were to be added
as needed. The captains of the Free team  were: E. N. Richmond, Judge F. B.
Brown, A. S. Bacon, Rev. J. A. Sutherland, L. D. Bohnett, J. D. Crider, C. E.
Kelsey, Prof. C. M. Osenbaugh and W. G. Rambo. Benson's team was captained as
follows: E. R. Wagner, D. J. Denhart, H. M. Barngrover, L. P. Edwards, Rev.
George I. Long, J. D. Crummey, W. L. Atkinson, H. A. Blanchard, A. G. Wilkins,
and C. F. Crothers.

  The dollars rolled into headquarters in a steady steady stream and in two days
San Jose went "over the top." This did not end San Jose's gift to the Y. M. C.
A. During the dark days overseas and the time of dread and waiting here eight Y.
M. C. A. secretaries left San Jose to minister to their soldier brothers. They
were George C. Wilson, local Y. M. C. A. secretary; Rev. William L. Stidger,
pastor of the First Methodist Church; Rev. O. P. Bell, former pastor of the
United Presbyterian Church; Senator Frank H. Benson, John H. Tupper, Jesse H.
Hedger, Fred Evans, Charles A. Miller, and Rev. E. A. King. The intimate
experiences of these unarmed crusaders for human liberty are chapters of history
written by the white light of unselfish service.

  Other men came into the work particularly for overseas service, but in the
person of George C. Wilson, San Jose's Y. M. C. A. sent a real secretary to the
front. This was his life work, the great endeavor that held his heart in its
keeping and to him came the gravest experience. For more than seven months in
the St. Mihiel and other salients, he was constantly under airplane and shell
fire. One night on an errand of mercy to the boys at the front, the truck in
which he was riding through the blackness of the unlighted night along a
perilously shell-pitted road, collided with another machine. In the terrific
smash Wilson was very seriously injured. Wandering away in a delirious condition
he stumbled and fell into a shell hole and was gassed. Some time passed before
he was rescued. Invalided to the south of France he refused to be an invalid and
soon returned to the horror of actual fighting scenes to minister to "his boys."

  Jesse Hedger, previously in active "Y." service at home, just "had to go."
When the call came, Rev. O. P. Bell went to France and found his work among the
Russian soldiers. Rev. E. A. King went to France after the signing of the
Armistice to carry out an educational campaign among the soldiers. Karl Kennedy,
a former San Jose lawyer, went from San Francsco as athletic instructor about
the same time.

  With its members numbering 100, the first Red Cross membership drive in April,
1917, was conducted by Mrs. A. A. Fowler. The Red Cross Christmas Roll Call that
commenced December 11, 1917, under the direction of the Woman's Army added more
than 17,300 names. Early in April came the plea for funds with which to purchase
material for the making of hospital garments. These appeals alternated with the
ones for old linen, old muslin, bedspreads, and turkish towels. Three rooms in
the New Century building at the corner of Second and Santa Clara streets, were
donated by the De Saisset estate for the surgical dressing department of the Red
Cross.

  On June 12 the garment rooms opened at 41 South Second street, their use being
kindly donated by the Phelan estate through Mr. A. C. Darby.

  On June 19 came the first call for comfort bags for the boys of Companies H
and M, then stationed in Nevada. The W. C. T. U. assisted in preparing 125
comfort bags. Though shipped immediately through some inadvertence they failed
to reach the boys until almost a year later when a letter of thanks arrived. It
came from Captain L. La Hue, and was written before sailing for France.

  The first work under the direction of Mrs. Hobson was prepared bv Mrs. David
Burnett, Mrs. S. Van Dalsem, Mrs. W. R. Wilson. Mrs Fillipello, Mrs. R. Syer,
Mrs. A. D. DuBrutz. the Misses Dorothy White, Ida Wehner, Sybil Hayes, Miriam
Hayes, Cecille Brooke and Miss Chapman. The first cutting of garments was done
by Mesdames W. Gross, W. Van Dalsem, P. F. Gosbey, S. W. Gilchrist. Arthur
Langford, Charles Wayland, Walter Murray, W. G. Alexander, George Muirson,
Ernest Conant, L. Blackford and other willing volunteers whose names failed to
be recorded.

  The first society to volunteer as a society was the P. E. O. organization.
These ladies offered their services through Mrs. W. C. Bailey and worked through
the entire war period later taking charge of the knitting rooms at the Theatre
building. Late in the fall of 1917 the production and garment rooms were moved
from South Second street to a suite of five rooms in the Theatre building.

  San Jose had many busy Red Cross circles, each doing its best under a capable
chairman to keep us up with the quotas alloted. Among those circles were St.
Vincent's circle, Mrs. W. P. Dougherty, chairman; Eastern Star circle, Mrs. A.
B. Langford, chairman; College Park circle, Mrs. M. Candee, chairman; Moreland
circle, Mrs. LeRoy Anderson, chairman; Hester circle, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith,
chairman; Y. W. C. A. circle, Mrs. Mary Bolan, chairman; Normal Training school.
Miss Margaret Glea-son, chairman; School Women's club. Miss Edith O'Brien,
chairman; Ladies of Maccabees, Mrs. Nellie Thompson, chairman; Rachael Fox Union
circle at Burbank, Mrs. Maude P. Boynton, chairman; Glen Eyrie W. C. T. U.
circle, Mrs. A. C. Saunders, chairman.

  This pioneer year in war work was filled with difficulties, but it perfected
an organization. and when the report came in for the first year's work, under
the guidance of Mrs. W. B. Hobson, it was a document to be proud of. In 1917 the
total receipts, $20,401.65; disbursements. $926.30. Total number of articles
completed by San Jose Chapter, 22.287. From May, 1917, to May, 1918, the sewing
rooms completed 8133 pairs of pajamas; knitted garments, 190,025. For the same
period the production in the surgical dressing rooms amounted to 228,264
articles. Refugee work comprised 3032 garments. For local use the production
rooms completed 266 pneumonia jackets and 2800 masks. From May, l917, to May,
1918, the garments and surgical dressings numbered 152,487. From May, 1918, to
May, 1919, the production totaled 153,338. For the entire period the dressings
and garments numbered 287,825. The Junior Red Cross produced 2316 garments.

  The Home Service Department of the Red Cross assisted 1452 families from May
18, 1918, to April 30, 1919. The money expended amounted to $6,488.88, and of
this disbursement, $2,178.33 came back.

  From May, 1917, to May, 1918, the sewing rooms completed 8133 pairs of
pajamas. Of knitted garments: socks, sweaters, wristlets, helmets, mufflers,
shawls and stockings-a total of 190,025. There were in this quota 12,806 socks
and 3662 sweaters. For the same period the production of the surgical dressing
rooms amounted to 228,264 articles, including 5-yard rolls, pads, pneumonia
jackets, masks, compresses, drains, tampons, bandages, front line parcels, heel
rings and sponges. Of compresses alone there were 183,723 made. Refugee work
comprised 3032 garments. Of miscellaneous garments there were 26,305 completed.
This list included aviators jackets, pillow cases, bed socks, helpless case
shirts, pajama trousers, boys' suit, boys' trousers, drawers, undershirts,
underdrawers, bed shirts, ambulance covers, ambulance pillows, ice bag covers,
convalescent covers, bed jackets, hot water bag covers, girls' petticoats,
girls' dresses, napkins, scrub cloths, wash cloths, handkerchiefs, tray cloths,
quilts, comfort bags, operating leggins, sheets, unhemmed squares.

  From May, 1917, to May, 1918, the garments and surgical dressings numbered
152,487. From May, 1918, to May, 1919, the production totaled 153,338. For the
entire period dressings and garments numbered 287,825. Nor was the Junior Red
Cross doing "junior" work along the lines of production. With a junior
membership of 13,120 the garments produced were 2316.

  By the President's proclamation June 18-25, 1917, was Red Cross week, and a
nation-wide campaign opened. San Jose did her part nobly. At the time of the
opening of the Red Cross campaign the officers of the local Chapter were Dr. M.
E. Dailey (since deceased), chairman; Mrs. W. P. Dougherty, vice-chairman; W. T.
Rambo, secretary; V. J. LaMotte, treasurer. One of the first Red Cross benefits
was a dance and Red Cross drill given May 24 by the G. C. Review, No. 4, Ladies
of the Maccabees, Captain Amy Thompson. A. D. Ferrari, of the Italian-American
Progressive club, came forward with a suggestion for cooperation.

  On May 27 Dr. M. E. Dailey received a telegram from John J. Clymer, director
of the Pacific Division of the Red Cross, appointing a meeting in San Francisco.
Dr. Dailey, Dr. W. C. Bailey, J. O. Hayes and W. C. Andrews attended this
meeting. The result of this conference was a meeting of the local chapter on
June 6. At this time Samuel G. Tompkins was appointed chairman for the Santa
Clara County campaign and Arthur M. Free was made campaign manager. Karl Stull
as chairman headed the activities of the following publicity committee: Alvin
Long, J. O. Hayes, Jay McCabe, H. L. Baggerly, W.* L. Prussia, S. R. Walls, R.
O. Bell, Judge W. A. Beasly, E. M. Rosenthal, J. E. Hancock, Alexander Sheriffs,
C. M. Osenbaugh, Dr. M. E. Dailey and John D. Kuster.

  The executive committee included Samuel G. Tompkins, chairman; Arthur M. Free,
campaign manager; S. W. Waterhouse, Henry M. Ayer, D. J. Flannery, Karl Stull.
W. T. Rambo, Alexander Sheriffs, Judge W. A. Beasly and A. P. Murgotten, secretary.

  On May 9, 1917, the San Jose chapter of the Red Cross met at the Chamber of
Commerce to arrange for the coming drive. The Chamber of Commerce, by Joseph T.
Brooks, secretary, offered the use of a room in the building for headquarters
and the services of the office force

  Hiram A. Blanchard, with the assistance of 150 girls, compiled a roster of
10,000 names for the assistance of the campaigners. A club women's committee
under the direction of Mrs. W. B. Irish was appointed and Mrs. Stull, publicity;
Arthur Holmes, round up; Mrs. W. B. Irish, musical entertainment; D. J.
Flannery, waste paper; H. A. Blanchard, cards, etc.; L. M. Simonson, treasurer
and cashier; committee on lodges and societies, W. G. Alexander, W. F. Curry, Ed
Distel; newspapers, Sheldon Wills, J. O. Hayes, H. L. Baggerly, Buel Anderson;
stunts, Jay McCabe, R. O. Bell, Alvin Long; outside press, Alvin Long; pulpits,
Arthur M. Free; theaters, Gene Rosenthal; schools, J. E. Hancock, C. M.
Osenbaugh, M. E. Dailey, Alexander Sheriffs.

  Then the publicity committee worked overtime. Full page ads appeared in all
the papers. No one will ever forget the immense Red Cross poster that lifted
against the sky on top of the First National Bank Building. With its statue of
Liberty and pertinent question "Will you fight or give?" no one could escape it.
It veritably "shouted from the housetops!" Then team captains were chosen. Those
selected for the work of raising the mercy fund were D. M. Burnett, Henry G.
Hill, John P. Fitzgerald, Dr. Charles M. Richards, Charles M. O'Brien, S. W.
Waterhouse, Richard Bressani, John J. Jones, Judge F. B. Brown and Herbert Jones.

  San Jose had $100,000 to raise and 200 workers for the job. Karl Stull chalked
returns on his blackboard and the first day's effort went down as $14,600. Just
then Jack Graham's war song, "We'll Fight for Yankee Doodle," made its
appearance and became a feature during the Red Cross drive, being used by
theater orchestras and bands all over the country. Lodges contributed liberally;
there were all kinds of benefits for the Red Cross. Mrs. B. E. Laughlin wrote
and personally supervised the beautiful presentation of a children's cantata,
"An Evening in Dreamland." The charms of the dreamland were enhanced by pupils
of Miss Hughes and Helbert Hitching, who gave a program of dances, and the
pupils of Mrs. Theresa Parker and Prof. De Lorenzo, who gave voices of song to
fairyland.

  The never-to-be forgotten pageant was a gigantic Red Cross benefit, staged by
1500 performers and witnessed by more than 5000 people on June 1. The pageant of
history and allegory was written by Miss Helen Stocking, with music by Miss Ruth
Cornell and song verse by Clarence Urmy. Joseph E. Hancock, president of the
Drama Association, was responsible for the pageant, which was given under the
directing genius of Garnet Holme.

  Alexander P. Murgotten, secretary of the committee, donated needed office
supplies and the Argall brothers quartet volunteered their services for the
entire Red Cross campaign. Frank Sabatelli's gift for the cause of humanity
should not be forgotten. His subscription was $100, and he was only earning $2 a
day as a common laborer. The largest single contribution was secured by D. M.
Burnett's team-$2500 given by the estate of E. McLaughlin. The waste paper
campaign, engineered by Dan Flannery, was a valuable asset in the final
computation of funds. The women's team under Mrs. Lilian Arnold turned in over
$2000. Hundreds of dollars were given at a mass meeting at the Victory Theater.
The speaker was Lieutenant Goldsworthy, a wounded soldier.

  On the night of June 27, San Joseans were astonished to see the lights in the
cross on the tower of the First Methodist Church turn from white to red. Rev. W.
L. Stidger, the pastor, gave the following explanation: "I consider that lighted
cross turning its face north, east, south and west as the symbol not only of
that Christ who died for liberty and freedom, but I also feel that it symbolizes
in an especial way the light that the whole Red Cross movement is; spreading in
the dark places of the earth in these cruel war times." Paul D. Cambino, whose
services for the changing of these lights were lent by the Blake Electrical
Company, did his "bit" in this unique transformation. Cambino had never climbed
a tower. The wind was blowing, too, but he swallowed his fear, climbed to the
top and made the change.

  Sunday morning, June 24, the final appeal of the campaign was made.
Spontaneously, patriotically, whole-heartedly, the appeal was answered and all
day Monday the dollars rolled in. Monday afternoon and evening Manager Clover,
of the T. & D. Theater, gave the entire proceeds to the Red Cross. W. E. Johnson
and the Argalls sang; Helbert Hitching presented an attractive program of
dances; an orchestra composed of members of local union No. 153, under the
direction of Carl Fitzgerald, volunteered their services; Joseph Blum, manager
of the Jose Theater, lent two of his best acts: Judge E. M. Rosenthal acted as
stage director. Jay McCabe's able committee sold candy. The only thing they were
not able to do was to make change! These patriotically energetic salesmen who
forgot their arithmetic under Jay's direction were: W. L. Prussia, Ernest Lion,
Henry Hirsch, Leroy Parkinson, Dr. James Kramer, Dan Flannery, R. O. Stewart, F.
O. Reed, Karl Stull and Arthur Holmes. The drive was a success. Chas. M.
O'Brien's team led with $15,229.61, and the sought for $100,000 became $135,000.
Generous assistance was given by Nellie Farliepp, Belle Gallagher and Mrs. Floy
Johnson, of the court house. One of the heaviest burdens fell upon Louis
Simonson, expert accountant and under sheriff. He devoted all his time to the
work and the sheriff's office was transformed into a Red Cross headquarters. His
assistants were Eleanor Brown, Dicey Baugh, Marguerite Vella and Mrs. J. F.
Charles.

  The next was the book drive, started in the War Service Committee of the
American Library Association. Not with howitzers and shrapnel was the tedium of
camp life to be destroyed, but by books, papers and magazines. The call was for
$1,000,000 for reading matter, the biggest movement of the kind ever
contemplated. At five cents per capita, San Jose's quota was $1750. Mrs. John E.
Richards, president of the board of library trustees, presided at a preliminary
meeting held at the city library to arrange the campaign. Senator Frank H.
Benson drew the secretaryship. Charles F. Woods, recently appointed librarian,
explained the purposes of the drive. The active campaign commenced September 24,
1917, with Librarian Woods in charge. He was ably assisted by Miss Stella
Huntington, county librarian.

  Over 200 posters in red, white and blue placarded the town. Each donation of
$1.00 or more entitled the giver to an engraved name plate in one of the books
purchased. "Send your name to the front if you can't go" was a drive slogan. Day
by day the amount increased. Then came Saturday, September 27, 1917,-the last
day of the week's drive. It was a great "Tag Day." A bevy of San Jose's pretty
girls, under the direction of a committee headed by Mrs. A. A. Fowler, played
"tag" all day. The members of this committee were Mrs. A. A. Fowler, Mrs. J. E.
Richards, Mrs. Chas. F. Woods, Mrs. G. W. Hommedieu and Mrs. Nina Moon. Tag Day
brought $300 and the end of the drive for funds. Librarians Woods and Huntington
with the assistance of the interested committees and volunteer workers had "put
it across." Other book drives followed. The cry from overseas was answered by
San Jose.

  On May 1, 1917, San Jose high school students heard the war garden program
outlined by Prof. H. B. Crocheron, of the Department of Agriculture, University
of California. He held the official appointment made by Dean Hunt, of the
College of Agriculture, to enlist the help of boys too young to enlist for other
service. At the time of his visit to San Jose he found that the high school
agricultural department had 114 pupils interested in practical farm production.
These student-farmers constituted an agricultural club, under the direction of
Prof. J. R. Case, Jr. This first meeting resulted in the enlistment of 350 high
school boys who pledged themselves to crop production and to assist with the
year's harvest.

  Food production plans occupied the earnest attention of the council of
defense. A citizen's committee under the leadership of E. E. Chase became
interested. The Rotary Club stood solidly behind the campaign. By May 2, 1917,
plans were well under way to supervise intensive gardening. Every man, woman and
child who owned or could borrow a bit of land made up a committee "of the
whole." Campiglia advised the Rotarians of the campaign progress in other
sections-and San Jose just rolled up its sleeves and went to farming.

  The response to the appeal for vacant lots was an avalanche! All schools
received visits from the committee: By May 3 the Horace Mann children had taken
30 lots, each having more than 4000 square feet. The Grant and Longfellow
children planned to cultivate their own back yards. School heads agreed to farm
lots themselves or in co-operation with the children. Rotarians grabbed a piece
of land some distance from town and planted 50 acres of corn. They also offered
special inducements to school children in the form of prizes. Then work began in
earnest. Weeds and dry grass trembled and tin cans knew their hour of doom had
come. First of all, the vacant lots must be well "soaked" or the ground would be
lumpy at the plowing. This watering was undertaken by the Rotarians. The council
of defense and other interested organizations found the San Jose Water Company
eager to help by reducing rates for home gardens and donating water for vacant
lots. The San Jose fire department, under Chief Edward Haley and Assistant Chief
Herman Hobson, volunteered to do the flooding of the lots. The street
department, directed by Chief Engineer Walter H. Hunt, were to furnish teams and
a plow and do the needed work on as many lots as possible. The Bean Spray
company offered a tractor for plowing the larger lots and groups of lots.

  Then the 100 Boy Scouts of the First Methodist Church, under the leadership of
Rev. Frank McLain, each pledged himself to "feed a soldier." They promised to
forget vacation -and they kept that promise. They put on an unexpected and novel
program. One evening in May, headed by two stalwart policemen and armed with
rakes and hoes for, weapons, they marched through the down town streets. The
Scouts bubbled over with patriotism. One little laddie said: "Maybe I'm too
little to carry a gun, but I can make a garden!" For months Rev. Frank McLain,
Mr. Farrier, of the First National Bank, George Norris and Donald Arguello had
worked on the Boy Scout movement in San Jose and their efforts found recognition
in the cheers that greeted this patriotic parade of volunteer food producers.

  The Rotarians did more than make speeches and cheer. They dug in their
individual gardens and they dug down deep in their pockets and put up several
hundreds of dollars to finance the work of getting the vacant lot gardens ready
to plant. They secured the services of C. H. Waterman, who took charge of their
planting campaign for 30 days. It was a unique campaign, for it was the first
time in the history of the city that its government turned gardener! Firemen to
do the flooding, police department volunteering to transport the hose from place
to place, and the city's teams to do the plowing!

  The firemen had the worst of it. Their work was done between the hours of
eight in the evening and four the next morning-but not one of them complained.
There was difficulty in finding the lots. Frequently instead of one vacant lot
they found four and the middle of the night was a mighty inconvenient time to
find out which lot to flood! All night, night after night, the fire boys worked.
They "dyked" the lots until each one looked like a miniature Holland-then turned
on the water.

  A conference of all the local food production experts was held at the high
school cafeteria on May 10, 1917, E. E. Chase, chairman of the original food
supply committee, presiding. Earl Morris, county horticultural commissioner, was
made chairman of the campaign committee and the personnel of those attending the
conference were: E. E. Chase, W. L. Atkinson, representing the Rotary Club;
Alexander Sheriffs, city superintendent of schools; Arthur M. Free and J. D.
Chace, Jr., of the Council of Defense; Prof. J. R. Case, Jr., of high school
agricultural department; C. H. Waterman, general campaign supervisor; Karl
Hazeltine and Ernst L. Conant. Arthur Free toured the schools of the county, J.
J. McDonald donated a plow, teams were loaned by John R. Chace and the Standard
Oil Company, and over 500 high school and normal school students enlisted for
the work. Over 200 lots were cultivated. Andrew P. Hill's back yard was an
incentive for greater garden effort, for nothing was wasted there, not even space.

  The winners of the first and second prizes offered by the Rotary Club in the
schools were: Gardner School-Herbert Hyer, Jack Hewitt. Lowell School-Willie
Jury, Harris Willson. Washington School-Frank Guerra, Emilio Gagliardo.
Hawthorne School- Mario and Frank Duino, first, and George Straight, second.
Grant School-Louis Arnone, first, and Denward and Fred Davis, second. Horace
Mann School-Albert Hachlen and George Bliss, first and Vivian Thornton, Thelma
Lanz, Alvis Davis, Ruby Withers, Thelma McGary, Carol Ames, second. Longfellow
School-Byron and Thelma Hunt, first, and Walter Donley, Emile Ricca and Cecil
Morehead, second. Lincoln School-Ray Nicholas and Jack Gilleran.

  No story of this 1917 garden activity would be complete without special
mention of Rev. J. H. Wythe, who, during the entire period, was deeply
interested in the movement and who aided its success in every way, not only
because of his government appointment on this commission but because of his love
of gardens. During 1918 Prof. Joseph E. Hancock was given the chairmanship of
war garden activities by C. C. Moore, chairman of the state council of defense.
Professor Hancock had an extensive campaign planned when the armistice removed
the pressing necessity for increased food production.

  Wednesday, September 26, 1917, San Jose bade goodbye to Companies B and M,
California volunteers, trained at Fort Mason, who passed through on their way to
"somewhere in France." That same day J. D. Kuster, W. S. Clayton, V. J. LaMotte,
Victor Palmer and Dr. W. C. Bailey went to San Francisco to consult with the
general executive committee. Friday the local meeting was held to arrange for
the opening of the loan campaign October 1. The committee personnel remained the
same as in the first loan, John D. Kuster, chairman, and Dr. W. C. Bailey,
secretary.

  The city was divided into four districts, each with well defined street
boundaries, and a competent executive head named for each district. Joseph M.
Parker was made chairman of ward one; Arthur M. Free, ward two; A. L. Hubbard,
ward three; and H. A. Harms, ward four. Each chairman appointed a working
committee of from 50 to 100 in his district with captains and lieutenants so as
to quickly organize effective work.

  At this time the Eighth regiment, comprising over a thousand men, Colonel
George M. Weeks commanding, arrived at Camp Fremont after a two months' trip
from the Philippine Islands. The famous California Grizzlies were forming and
camped at Tanforan, prominent among them being Major Robert I. Bentley, Captain
Cedric R. Richmond, Captain Ellsworth E. Chase and Lieutenant Wilmer Gross. The
cross above the hallowed grave of Lieutenant Wilmer Gross "somewhere in France"
casts its shadow on the hearts of the home-folks for the continuance of whose
liberty he made the supreme sacrifice.

  Sunday, September 30, 1917, the Argall Brothers quartet made their last,
appearance as a singing group at the Methodist Church. Charles was soon to leave
for France.

  Joseph M. Parker's committee met Sunday at the Vendome Hotel and for each of
the six precincts in the first ward a chairman and his aids were named. Precinct
No. 1-Henry Ayer, chairman; William Watson, Joseph Hartman, William I. Geoffroy,
W. F. Curry, and Dr. A. A. Cavagnara. Precinct No. 2- Joseph Magistretti,
chairman; D. M. Denegri, J. Cailleau, Eugene Pezolo, F. W. Hogan. Precinct No.
3-John V. Slavich, chairman; A. P. Lepesh, August P. Minjoulet, Gus Wendt, N. A.
Pellerano. Precinct No. 4- J. J. McLaurin, chairman; Matt Glennon, W. P. Isham,
A. R. Kennedy. Precinct No. 5- W. L. Atkinson, chairman; Dan J. Flannery, George
H. Anderson, George McDonald, J. R. Kocher. James Gillon, A. N. Losse. Precinct
No. 6-Alexander Sheriffs, chairman; Harry Morris, J. F. O'Keefe, Miss Lynch,
Mrs. Fred Keller, Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. J. J. Conniff, Mrs. Baggott.

  Other war leaders hastened to perfect their working force. Free learned that
Al Hubbard was coming over in his ward to appropriate some of the best workers.
Hubbard made approaches to Billy Prussia, who was counted on by Free as a
soliciting prize winner. That would never do. Free called a meeting at the
Chamber of Commerce. Hubbard called a meeting at the same time and place! They
compromised! It was the best compromise in the world. They simply agreed to
combine forces and fight side by side to a victorious finish with the following
committeemen:

  Free's workers-S. W. Waterhouse, James Finley, C. A. Hall, Walter Lillick,
Juanita Halsey, Jennie Sheriffs, R. R. Syer, E. M. Rosenthal, S. Trapani, Jese
Levy, Alexander Hart, Joe Millard, Bert Gassett, Judge P. F. Gosbey, Elmer E.
Chase, Tom Bodley, Fannie Morrison, Mrs. C. A. Wayland, Dr. William Simpson, Dr.
J. J. Miller, Gus Lion, Frank O'Connell, Alfred Madsen, Karl Stull, Mrs.
Fosgate, Dr. David A. Beattie, Tom Watson. Mrs. T. L. Blanchard, Walter
Chrisman, L. Maggini, Sam E. Smith, Samuel Tompkins, R. C. McComish, Captain
Bailey, Captain Campbell, Mrs. Mae Faull, Mrs. Henry Lion, Mrs. S. Ogier, Robert
Borchers, A. C. Kuhns, Ralph Lowe.

  In ward four H. A. Harms, chairman, put his sign and seal on the following
gentlemanly solicitors, each to name other able assistants : C. W. Davison,
Judge Urban A. Sontheimer, E. P. Bonar, J. B. Chiappe, F. A. Gunn. J. M.
McKiernan, C. H. James, Mrs. D. H. Roberts.

  Word came that on the following Friday, October 5, more than 700 boys would
pass through San Jose on their way to Camp Lewis. The reception and supper given
them in St. James Street next to the Park, followed the city's goodbye to 126 of
the local boys, who left that day for army camps.

  October 6, John D. Kuster received a telegram from Mrs. E. R. Brainard,
chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan committee for California, asking that women
be appointed for county work. Mrs. C. A. Wayland was given the honor of the
first appointment as chairman and immediately began to perfect an organization.
The women entered into the campaign with as much fervor as the men.

  Mrs. Charles C. Wayland's committee of women was co-operating with the men's
liberty loan committee and the women's council of defense.

  Judge William A. Beasly headed the speakers' committee and secured Charles K.
Field, editor of the Sunset Magazine, who addressed an immense audience in the
First Baptist Church the next Sunday evening. Other speakers who gave their
services during the campaign under Judge Beasly's direction were J. S. Williams,
Dr. J. W Dinsmore, Arthur Free, Victor LaMotte, Senator Herbert H. Tones, A. C.
Kuhn, Fred L. Thomas, M. E. Griffiths, Victor Palmer, F. M. Coleman and Senator
Frank H. Benson.

  H. W. McComas was made chairman of the four minute men-Arthur M. Free, Senator
Jones, Grant Bennett, Dr. James B. Bullitt.

  Friday, October 19, 1917, saw a wonderfully inspiring parade of school
children. More than 5000 were in line. The parade, fifteen blocks long, was led
by City Manager Reed and Charles Parkinson. Much of its success was due to the
efforts of Dr. M. E. Dailey, Agnes E. Howe and Alexander Sheriffs.

  The President's proclamation had designated October 24 as Liberty Day, and
Joseph M. Parker, Chas. R. Parkinson, Henry Aver and Joseph T. Brooks went to
Camp Fremont to confer with the officers there about having the troops take part
in the day's demonstration. Dr. James B. Bullitt, J. S. Williams and Victor
Palmer did valiant work and so did Billy Emerson, San Jose's veteran newsie.

  On Liberty Day with its jostling crowds lining the streets, there passed such
a spectacular parade numbering more than 15,000 persons as had never before
thrilled the hearts of San Joseans. The Eighth Regiment came from Camp Fremont,
800 strong. . There were seven Bands, besides numerous drum corps, all the
schools, and fraternal and civic organizations. Chief of Police Black led the
parade with City Manager Reed as grand marshal and Sheriff Arthur B. Langford as
chief aid. At St. James Park, following the parade, refreshments were served to
the Eighth Regiment, after which Arthur M. Free delivered an eloquent and
stirring address. Deputy District Attorney Griffith addressed the crowd from an
auto near the Park, again from the steps .of the Garden City Bank, and a third
time at the corner of St. James and First Streets.

  The men who gave their time and energy to make this parade an unforgettable
event were Joseph M. Parker, Chas. R. Parkinson, Thomas H. Reed, John D. Kuster,
A. E. Holmes, Karl Stull, Howell D. Melvin, Dr. W. C. Bailey, Henry M. Ayer and
Arthur B. Langford.

  At the last moment the Boy Scouts were called upon and they enlisted full of
enthusiasm. The second Liberty loan campaign ended Saturday night, October 27,
with a subscription of $3,365,100-another over subscription. San Jose's number
of subscribers was 4722; county subscribers, 3250, making a total of 7972, an
increase of 970 over the first loan. San Jose's subscription was $2,305,650. The
average subscription per capita was $488.

  Now came the second Y. M. C. A. drive. The National War Council recommended
the raising of a fund of $35,000,000, to serve the soldiers and sailors of the
allies and all prisoners of war. The plan for Santa Clara County was outlined in
San Jose on November 19, 1917, at a dinner in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. The
speakers were Senator Herbert C. Jones and Judge W. A. Beasly. Then church
meetings and school meetings, the high school boys being enthusiastic workers.
They subscribed $970. Nine San Jose girls, Malva Beatty, Grace Limerick, Julia
Holdridge, Hazel Dickinson, Georgine Fink, Beth Crummey, Lilah Seiley and Lola
Burdick, made "earn and give" pledges of $10 each. The children in the
kindergarten wanted to help, and a special fund took care of their pennies and
dimes. More than 350 committeemen helped to carry on the second "Y." drive.
These men constituted more than twenty teams. On November 20, Senator Jones
announced that the drive was "over the top," having $5000 more than the $25,000
quota.

  The Women's Mobilized Army proved its ability as a power for accomplishment
through campaign after campaign for war funds and strenuous bond drives. Mrs. L.
T. Smith became colonel for the Santa Clara County Army, and Mrs. D. A. Beattie,
as lieutenant-colonel, looked after San Jose. Eleven other workers were
appointed to lead the activities of the various districts of the county. These
were: Mrs. W. B. Allen, Palo Alto; Mrs. S. L. Berry, Mountain View; Mrs. James
Glendenning, Santa Clara; Mrs. A. A. Halsey, Cupertino; Mrs. Geo. Parso,
Campbell; Mrs. W. G. Tomlinson, Saratoga; Mrs. Z. L. Riggs, Los Gatos; Mrs. O.
H. Barnhart, Morgan Hill; Mrs. W. B. Holschaw, Gilroy; Mrs. J. P. Shambo,
Evergreen, and Miss Nellie Evans, Milpitas. This permanent organization effected
for the period of the war, included beside the colonel and twelve
lieutenant-colonels, a major for each school district. Each major appointed
captains and under each captain were several lieutenants. In San Jose the majors
named by Mrs. D. A. Beattie were Mrs. P. F. Gosbey, Mrs. N. H. Booker, Mrs. J.
J. Byl, Mrs. J. E. Hancock, Mrs. F. A. Von Dorston, Mrs. C. C. Little, Miss
Wehner, Mrs. Nicholas Bowden, Mrs. Willis Clayton, Mrs. A. B. Brown, Mrs. George
B. Seeley, Mrs. Charles Parkinson and Mrs. S. D. Farrington.

  This magnificent organization, perfected in a short time, numbered 1400 women
banded together to answer with unselfish service every appeal made to them. Nine
tremendous war activities called for their best endeavor. The December, 1917,
Red Cross membership drive was the Mobilized Army's initial service. Mrs. A. A.
Fowler was chairman of this activity. The second campaign came in 1918, when
they helped to carry out the successful Thrift and War Savings Stamp drive under
the chairmanship of Mrs. F. M. Eley.

  The third Liberty loan, April, 1918, proved the quality of women's service
under the guidance of Mrs. C. A. Wayland, chairman. The Red Cross campaign in
May, 1918, War Savings Stamp drive in June, 1918, and the registration of all
children under six years of age, also in June, were directed by members of the
Women's Army. In October, 1918, came the fourth Liberty loan, and no one will
ever forget the Volunteer Day preceding it on September 7. On this day members
of the Women's Mobilized Army served in the regular polling places throughout
the country, more than 850 volunteering for this work in San Jose. The result of
efficient organization became apparent when a "check up" of the day's returns
showed that about 65 per cent of Santa Clara county's quota had been volunteered
in one day. The United War Work campaign in November, 1918, and the Liberty loan
drive closed the book of the Women's Mobilized Arm}* history. No tabulation of
campaign returns or bare record of work can ever tell the story in its entirety.
The members of this army made every sacrifice, some of them even the sacrifice
of health in the patriotic endeavor to leave nothing undone that would speed the
coming of the day when peace should dawn on a war-worn world.

  Among the thousands of appealing incidents during the work of the Women's Army
are two particularly worthy of special mention. In San Jose Precinct No. 10,
Mrs. E. H. Baker made no changes in the personnel of her workers during the
entire war period. The faithful coterie of women were: Mrs. E. H. Baker, Mrs. L.
L. Lamar, Mrs. C. E. Parsons, Miss M. Blomdohl, Mrs. C. O. Neale and Mrs. E.
Perkins. The other instance of valiant service was that of Mrs. J. M. Church
Walker, in charge of the mountain district above Los Gatos. This little woman
having no other way to do her work walked every step of the necessary sixteen
miles to organize her district.

  The latter part of 1917 was a great succession of drives. The first week in
December the National War Council of the Young Women's Christian Association
issued a call for $4,000,000 for the purpose of establishing social and rest
centers for heroic nurses at the front. Santa Clara County's quota was $16,000.
At a meeting on December 5, Mrs. L. T. Smith made her appointments for the
county, and Airs. D. A. Beattie named the following team captains for San Jose:
Mrs. Robert Syer, Miss Maud Blackford, Mrs Peter Dunn, Miss Bertha Fair, Mrs. C.
C. Little, Mrs. Stephen Maynard. Each captain selected ten to twelve women for
patriotic service. San Jose responded, as it always did, with an
oversubscription. Not only San Jose but the County. The quota was reached with
$4000 to spare.

  During the summer of 1918 the local Y. W. C. A. made a gift beyond price to
the cause of suffering humanity when Miss Mary Helen Post offered herself
through the Association for overseas work.

  The Knights of Columbus and the Y. M. C. A. received appointments at the same
time from President Wilson. The big task before these organizations was to raise
funds for the special needs of the soldiers. The Knights undertook to raise
$50,000 for the entire county, San Jose's share being $10,000. It was to be a
fund for all, a work for all, regardless of creed or fraternal affiliation.
Plans for the campaign were made in December, 1917, at a luncheon at the Hotel
Vendome, at which time Rev. Edward J. Hanna, the guest of honor, expressed his
pleasure in the co-operation of different organizations. "For the first time in
its history," said Bishop Hanna, "the country has placed its moral and physical
welfare in the hands of the religious men of the nation. The best way to make
good soldiers is to educate men to high ideals."

  The drive, scheduled originally for December 19, opened at that time in the
residential districts only, the business district not to be canvassed until
after Christmas. Charles M. O'Brien led the K. of C. forces as chairman of a
committee consisting of J. F. Brooke, D. M. Burnett, Jay McCabe, F. G. Canelo,
F. J. Somers, Robert Benson, W. F. Benson, J. S. Williams, John J. Jones, Dr. B.
L. Wise, Frank Martin, F. J. Reidy, R. Bressani, N. A. Pellerano, M. E. Griffith
and D. J. Flannery. Peter Dunne was assigned to the Alameda; Joseph A. Bihn and
James Hancock led the campaigners in the Willows; J. S. Cunan, E. S., San Jose.
Joseph Solari and C. O. Wendt were committeemen to cover "the city."

  Christmas time, several other drives in progress-and $10,000 to raise! That
meant $1000 every day for ten days! The vaudeville show for the Camp Fremont
boys had just been given by the Knights of Columbus and stimulated interest in
the drive. Then the war fund received a Christmas gift from Manager James Beatty
of the Liberty Theater. This gift was 2000 theater tickets to be sold for the
benefit of the campaign.

  The day after Christmas the drive began in earnest. Judge W. A. Beasly, C. C.
Coolidge and John J. Jones called upon all the attorneys. Doctors and dentists
received visits from Drs. Philip Wise, Arthur T. McGinty and Dr. Murray. John F.
Brooke, J. R. Ryland and David Burnett visited all fruit canners. Frank J.
Somers, Will Prussia and F. J. McHenry claimed the territory on the east side of
First Street from Santa Clara. The west side of the street was canvassed by F.
G. Canelo, Jay McCabe and Henry Hoff. Santa Clara Street was assigned to Charles
L. Barrington, P. J. Foley and H. J. Dougherty; Second Street between San
Antonio and San Fernando was claimed by Joe Solari, Frank Reidy and W. J.
Benson. John S. Williams, N. A. Pellerano and Richard Bressani covered Market
Street.

  Daily luncheons with encouraging reports spurred to greater endeavor and on
December 30, when Chairman Charles M. O'Brien announced that the quota had been
reached with a generous margin there was a burst of enthusiasm.

  The gift of $10,000 to the war fund did not end the local offer of Catholic
helpfulness. Father Walsh and Father Cox, of Santa Clara College, followed the
flag overseas, and Father T. C. O'Connell, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, spent
more than a year on the fighting front, offering his chaplaincy in the service
of the boys.

  The first idea of Christmas cheer came to Eleanor A. Brown, and she talked it
over with five other San Jose girls-Marion Goldsmith, Marion Cassin, Maud
Thomas, Evelyn Johnson and Luita Arnold.

  At the Chamber of Commerce on November 1, 1917, there was a meeting. Eleanor
Brown and her five girl friends met with representatives of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Red Cross, Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A., and the
Woman's Club and other organizations to make plans and perfect some kind of
working committee. J. J. McDonald was made chairman and Luita Arnold secretary.
Other present were Mrs. Charles Osenbaugh, Brownie Schillingsburg, Mrs. W. B.
Irish, Mrs. Arthur Langford, Mrs. Claude Winans, Dr. M. E. Dailey, Charles R.
Parkinson, W. T. Rambo, and Joseph T. Brooks. The intention was just to lovingly
send to each boy in trench or camp, a Christmas remembrance "from the folks at
home." Committee leaders were quickly selected. Finance, Eleanor Brown;
publicity, Mrs. A. B. Langford; to secure the names of the boys, Mrs. W. B.
Irish; supplies, Mrs. Claude A. Winans; box packing committee, Mrs. N. J. Gray.
Later Mrs. F. J. Loel, Mrs. S. L. Cunningham, Mrs. W. M. Beggs, Mrs. J. J.
McDonald, Judge W. A. Beasly and Jay McCabe were added to the general committee.
More and more were added until San Jose simply became a committee of the whole
to see to it that not one boy from home was forgotten. Mrs. Claude A. Winans
shared her committeeship with Mrs. Bert Goldsmith, Mrs. J. E. Hancock, Mrs. D.
L. Smith and Mrs. A. D. Grant. That gave the Woman's Club a place of prominence
in the supply department and the club recognized its Christmas honors by
offering to pack the boxes.

  The Boy Scouts accomplished wonders raising in one day $1175.80. The original
plan called for 500 boxes. There were at least 900 that went as Christmas cheer
to the boys at the front. In addition to the box 300 pounds of candy were sent.
The boxes contained raisins, prunes, nuts, candy, cakes, toilet articles, local
papers, Jack Graham's songs and San Jose's Christmas greeting. The first thing
to catch the recipient's attention would be the city's greeting. Its
warm-heartedness must have seemed like a handclasp across the distance-the
handclasp of a friend!

  "San Jose bids her soldier boys, wherever they may be, a Merry Christmas. We
would like to have you think of San Jose not as a collection of houses and
stores, a mere hive of busy people, but as a living personality whose heart
warms to you who have left home to defend our beloved country in this time of
danger. We would convey to you a bright reflection of our Christmas cheer. We
miss you from our firesides and amid the rejoicing of the holiday season we are
at once sad and proud that you are absent. We call upon you the blessing of Him
in whose name the Christmas feast is spread. Christ was born to bring peace and
goodwill unto all the world. You have given yourselves to the same cause; for
peace and goodwill cannot thrive in the same world with Kaiserism. As on
Christmas day your thoughts turn lovingly toward home, our hearts' best wishes
go forth to you. Thomas H. Reed, City Manager of San Jose."

  In preparation for the third Liberty loan, Dr. W. C. Bailey was made chairman
for Santa Clara County, John D. Kuster declining to serve again. Dr. Bullitt,
Judge Gosbey and Joe Brooks, a chorus of Normal School girls, forty voices
strong, and numbers of patriotic citizens carried out an educational campaign
that covered the county. H. D. Melvin visited all lodges and patriotic pledges
were secured with the assistance of J. E. Hancock, Judge Gosbey, S. G. Tompkins,
Arthur M. Free and Alexander Sheriffs, speakers of powerful conviction. Dan J.
Flannery's Speakers' Committee consisted of A. V. Shubert, Victor Challen,
Arthur Curtner and Judge Urban A. Sontheimer.

  H. W. McComas, chairman of the Four Minute Men marshaled his force of
twenty-five speakers early in the campaign. The Woman's Mobilized Army, with its
powerful organization of more than 1400 under the colonel, Mrs. L. T. Smith, the
lieut.-colonel, Mrs. D. A. Beattie and Liberty loan chairman Mrs. C. A. Wayland
combined with the War Work Council.

  Saturday, April 6, 1918, designated "Liberty Day," opened the third Liberty
Loan drive with one of the grandest educational military demonstrations in Luna
Park ever staged in Santa Clara County. As a result almost $1,-000,000 of Santa
Clara County's quota of $2,-605,000 was raised. The committee in charge of the
Luna Park spectacle was a bank committee, consisting of Geo. B. Campbell,
cashier of the Security State Bank, chairman; J. H. Russell, R. D. Pearce, D. S.
Glendenning, C. A. Baronne, Bank of Italy; A. D. Baker, W. E. Drew, First
National Bank; Waldo E. Lowe and M. B. Davis, Bank of San Jose; Lester Hyde and
Percy Thompson, Garden City Bank; Harold Ahlman, George Pierson, Security State
Bank.

  The burden of the campaign fell to the lot of the ten committeemen under the
Liberty loan leaders. These committeemen were John D. Crummey, Alexander
Sheriffs, A. D. Curtner, Louis Campiglia, Henry M. Ayer, Chas. M. O'Brien, Chas.
R. Parkinson, Elton R. Shaw, E. A. Richmond, Alexander Hart, Walter G.
Matthewson, Howell D. Melvin. Henry Hirsch became special inspector for the San
Jose district to see that the plans were carried out.

  Not every one purchased bonds voluntarily. Everywhere workers met concrete
evidence of insidious German propaganda. The list of those refusing to buy bonds
increased to such an extent that the Santa Clara County investigating and
educational committee, with John D. Kuster as chairman, came into the campaign.
Other members of this organization were J. W. Grimes, Albert Kayser, V. H.
Wylie, A. A. Halsey, A. M. Free, F. J. McHenry, Fred L. Fehren, A. G. Du Brutz,
Judge P. F. Gosbey, Sam G. Tompkins, Herbert C. Jones. These men did not shirk
their unwelcome task. Over 900 cases were investigated and the members' services
were invaluable.

  On April 16, 1918, San Jose was electrified by the news that Lieut. Douglas
Campbell had won the French War Cross by bringing down a German plane and
capturing the pilot.

  Shortly before noon on Liberty Day, April 26, the message came that San Jose
and the county had gone "over the top." It was a great campaign that ended
officially on May 4, 1918, with not only the full quota of bonds subscribed and
the population requirements met, but an amount credited to Santa Clara County
for more than $800,000 above the allotment and 12,136 more investors than during
the second loan. The most sanguine hopes that came into existence with the
organization of the War Work Council in March, 1918, had been realized. Each
member of the Council gave to the members of the Women's Mobilized Army the
fullest credit for the splendid results.

  During the strenuous campaign an advisory committee met every day at the War
Work Council headquarters to "talk things over and devise ways and means." Of
the following faithful members of this committee many gave at least fifty per
cent of their time to the work and others, finding that business interfered with
their patriotism simply gave up their business, devoting all their time and
energy to the interests of "backing up the bovs": Byron Millard, A. B. Post,
Judge W. A. Beasly, Dr. James B. Bullitt, S. G. Tompkins, W. S. Clayton, W. E.
Bauer, V. J. La Motte, Louis Campiglia, Arthur M. Free, H. L. Baggerly, Wilbur
J. Edwards, E. K. Johnston, H. G. Coykendall, W. G. Alexander, Frank J. Somers,
George N. Herbert, John D. Kuster and D. T. Bateman.

  Special committeemen were Thomas H. Reed, Karl M. Stull, Victor Palmer, Alvin
Long, Sheldon R. Wills, F. A. Nikirk, Frank L. Baker, D. J. Flannery, Victor
Challen, Judge Urban A. Sontheimer, Arthur B. Langford, Brooks Tompkins, F. E.
Chapin and Wilson E. Albee.

  Preparations were now made for the fourth Liberty loan drive. One or two
changes altered the war work council chart. Dr. W. C. Bailey became chairman of
the Santa Clara County War Work council; Joseph M. Parker, chairman of the Santa
Clara County fourth Liberty loan committee; Louis Campiglia, chairman San Jose
War Work council; E. H. Foster, secretary; Arthur H. Curtner, treasurer; Dr.
James B. Bullitt, statistician.

  The campaign did not open officially until September 28, 1918, but long before
the "big day" everyone was at work. The 750 men of the war work council and the
1400 workers of the women's army comprised the Volunteer day force to take
charge of the "voting booths" in every precinct and polling place throughout the
county. Arthur Curtner gave a "get acquainted" dinner to all district leaders at
the Montgomery Hotel on the evening of September 20th, J. M. Parker making the
principal speech. Blind Al Herr, newsboy, bought the first bond on Monday,
September 23. His cane guided him to headquarters. Some throats choked a bit
when Blind Al held out fifty dollars for some unseen hand to take.

  Volunteer day, September 27, 1918, will go down in history as one of the
greatest days in the chronicles of the county. On that day, practically without
any solicitation, the county subscribed $3,258,650 to the fourth Liberty loan
bonds, $1,701,250 of that amount belonging to San Jose. The honor flag offered
for the largest number of subscriptions in a precinct in proportion to the
population went to precinct No. 37 in charge of F. A. Van Dorsten, director, and
Charles M. O'Brien, vice chairman. Out of 373 registered voters 62 per cent made
bond subscriptions. This precinct at Wilson's garage, 899 South Fifteenth
street, listed among its workers Joseph T. Brooks, Edward Johnson, Ben Brown, H.
Trephagen, Mrs. W. G. Alexander, May Hoffman, Hattie Hoffman, Miss Jones, Mrs.
H. H. Madsen, Mrs. L. P. Edwards, Mrs. P. D. During, Mrs. C. B. Mason and Mrs.
J. R. Bailey.

  The honor flag for the largest amount of subscriptions totaling $68,850, was
proudly carried away by Crandallville precinct No. 2 in charge of Alexander
Sherriffs, vice chairman, and W. J. Lean, director. Other workers were W. B.
Irish, Daisy Cozzens, Reta Angus, Hattie Prindiville, Mrs. R. H. Topham, Anna
Mathews and Bessie Crowfoot. D. M. Denegri did yeoman service among the
Italian-speaking population, obtaining notable results from the employees of the
Greco cannery. All canners and their hundreds of workers stood solidly behind
the loan. William Halla covered Chinatown and found bond subscriptions piling up
after the news came that young Sing Kee, son of Chung Kee, had been awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross. Sing Kee, the only Chinese soldier in Company G,
Three Hundred and Sixth Infantry, deserved that decoration and the Croix de
Guerre which came to him later. He stood for 48 hours at an advance post with
wireless apparatus sending messages back to his commander after the post had
been abandoned by the entire company. Sing Kee fought in many battles and spent
a month in the hospital at Tours following a severe experience with mustard gas
during a Hun attack. A letter of congratulation went to Sing Kee from his fellow
townsmen of the War Work Council. The Japanese subscribed $50,000. The service
flag dedicated at St. Joseph's on Oct. 6, 1918, held almost one-third of the San
Jose stars. On Saturday, Oct. 19, 1918, bells, horns and whistles announced
victory. Santa Clara County was credited with an oversubscription of $826,650.

  Judge P. F. Gosbey of the Council of Defense made the following acknowledgment
of Parker's able leadership: "I wish to express the appreciation of the Santa
Clara county division of the Council of Defense for the excellent work done by
J. M. Parker during the fourth Liberty loan campaign. It was largely due to his
efforts and to those of his able assistants that the campaign was carried
through in this city and county to such great success. The result will always
stand as a monument to Joseph M. Parker's ability and loyalty." In the fourth
loan San Jose had 20,-075 subscribers. The total bond subscription was
$3,595,000, per capita average of $179. For the county, subscribers 11,662,
amount $1,899,700, per capita $163. City and county subscribers, 31,735; amount
$5,494,700, per capita $173. In this loan 29.4 per cent of the population
subscribed as against 19 per cent subscribing for the third loan.

  While priest and Protestant clergymen ministered to the men of all
nationalities and creeds on the battlefields where all differences were
forgotten in a common cause, in the homeland there developed a new bond of
brotherhood. A splendid demonstration of this broader understanding was the
"Seven in One" campaign in November, 1918, when seven great war work
organizations united under one banner. Santa Clara County sounded an unanimous
call for Arthur D. Curtner to be its drive leader. This intensely patriotic
American was an outstanding figure because of his magnificent service in all war
work undertaken by the community. The assisting committee represented each local
organization. Y. M. C. A., Herbert C. Jones; National Catholic War Council,
including Knights of Columbus, M. E. Griffith; War Camp Community Service, E. N.
Richmond; Y. W. C. A., Mrs. L. T. Smith; Jewish Welfare Board, U. S. army and
navy, J. H. Levy; Salvation Army, J. M. Parker; American Library Association,
Stella Huntington. Santa Clara County's quota was raised with an
oversubscription of $25,000.

  The fifth Victory loan drive was carried to success against great handicaps.
The war was over and there was indifference in the public mind. J. M. Parker was
the drive leader par excellence. He stirred up the workers and all went well. W.
S. Clayton and John R. Chace broke their own records by securing $318,000 in
bond subscriptions in four days. A unique stunt was the Volunteer Day air circus
staged by James B. Leaman, F. E. Chapin and A. E. Holmes. Airplanes from Mather
Field circled above the county, dropping 15,000 Victory loan dodgers. On May
Day, 1919, came the big reception and parade to honor the boys who had gone to
the front and had come back heroes. On the night of May 10, 1919, the drive
passed into history—an oversubscription, as usual.

  With the establishment of Camp Fremont only twenty miles away, and soldiers
coming to San Jose by hundreds, a place had to be provided where they might
rest, read and write and eat. The Chamber of Commerce lost no time. Its
president. Dr. W. C. Bailey, immediately appointed Chas. R. Parkinson chairman
of a committee to provide a soldiers' recreation fund. An old fund left over
from a rose carnival amounting to several hundred dollars, with accrued
interest, was in the hands of Alexander Hart, the carnival treasurer. This
amount was turned over to the committee as a starter and made possible the
opening of rooms in the Chamber of Commerce building. Help was needed, as the
boys kept coming, and accordingly a committee of eight was appointed by the
Women's National Council of Defense to co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce.
The members were Mrs. Nicholas Bowden, Mrs. D. A. Beattie, Mrs. Lester Morse,
Mrs. J. W. Davy, .Mrs. W. L. Wood-row, Mrs. J. E. Hancock, Mrs. Louis Sonniksen,
Mrs. R. R. Johnston and Mrs. C. R. Parkinson, chairman. There was a reception
and 200 soldiers attended. Forty women made themselves responsible for the club.
Mrs. W. L. Woodrow was appointed chairman of the canteen; Mrs. Frank Leib,
secretary; Mrs. S. A. Appleton, treasurer; Mrs. C. R. Parkinson, director of
service. Upon the abandoning of Camp Fremont the club was closed. The dishes and
furnishings were given to worthy charities and to the center for women in
industry established by the Y. W. C. A.

  To help the Belgians San Jose did her part from first to last. In January,
1915, at the call of Herbert Hoover, Dr. W. C. Bailey, president of the Chamber
of Commerce, called an important meeting, which resulted in $2,600 worth of
foodstuffs being sent to Belgium. The drive for funds was engineered entirely by
the Chamber of Commerce with Fred L. Foster as the capable and energetic
publicity-agent. The real organization was perfected in the fall of 1915, and
headquarters established in a room in the Chamber of Commerce building.

  The first work under the new organization, with Mrs. J. W. Davy chairman, was
the raising of a voluntary subscription of $2400 for the purchase of new
clothing. After the big mass meeting which resulted in the shipment of warm new
clothing, the monthly pledges became a feature of the relief. These pledges,
voluntarily signed, were the means of sending from San Jose $400 a month in the
beginning; that increased to $600 and the last month's gift amounted to $1300.
Approximately $15,000 totaled the local subscriptions to this relief fund and
that amount does not include the first funds of $2600 for foodstuffs and $2400
for new clothing, which were forwarded through the Stanford Fund before the San
Jose organization was complete.

  In all there were four drives for clothing. Two of them were made in
conjunction with the National Red Cross. More than 25 tons of clothing were
shipped overseas as the result of appeals made during these four drives. One
remarkable record of helpfulness was made by the Comforts Forwarding Committee
of the Christian Science Church, who gathered at their North First street
headquarters one-tenth of all the clothing sent to Belgium during the last
drive. From the Home of Truth on North Fifth street there has been issued no
record of the unlimited amount of money and clothing they have sent across the
sea. Working independently they forwarded hundreds of dollars and box after box
of clothing directly to Madame de Hemptine, a Belgian woman who conducted a
refugee house at Calais. From first to last no money was used for administration
of this great mercy fund. Every cent collected for Belgian Relief went to
Belgium, sent by Jack Russell, of the Bank of Italy, who acted as treasurer.

  The committee who served with Mrs. J. W. Davy in this great humanitarian work
were Miss Ida Wehner, Mrs. W. A. Beasly, Mrs. S. G. Tompkins, Mrs. Charles R.
Parkinson, Mrs. Thomas Blanchard. Mrs. Edwin A. Wilcox, Mrs. Everett Bailey,
Mrs. D. A. Beattie, Mrs. J. E. Bell, Mrs. W. A. Johnson, Mrs. A. P. Post, Mrs.
W. P. Lyon, Mrs. H. L. Baggerly. Mrs. George Herbert, Mrs. Nicholas Bowden, Mrs.
David Burnett, Mrs. Edward Sterling, Mrs. Paul Clark, Mrs. Louis Sonniksen, Mrs.
Wlllard C. Bailey, Mrs. Leonard Stocking, Mrs. Robert Syer, Mrs. E. C.
Singletary, Mrs. George B. McKee, Mrs. Glendenning, Mrs. E. C. Richmond, Mrs.
Jay Elder, Mrs. M. E. Faull, Mrs. Charles R. Wayland, Mrs. Arthur Field, Mrs. T.
H. Reed, Mrs. W. L. Woodrow, Mrs. W. P. Dougherty, Mrs. W. A. Waterhouse and
Mrs. W. W. Campbell. In the schools Miss Mary Helen Post was in charge of the
work at the Normal, Mrs. Mary Smith, Washington School, and Miss Elizabeth
McSwain at the high school.

  Thousands of dollars went from San Jose for Armenian and Serbian Relief.
During two intensive drives for the suffering and starving people across the sea
the local response amounted to more than $38,000.00.

  When the appealing needs of the Armenians became urgent, a meeting at the Y.
W. C. A., on March 11, 1918, started the first big drive. Judge F. B. Brown led
this campaign and J. D. Crummey took the treasurership. The amount apportioned
locally was $12,000 with $3000 to come from the county outside of San Jose. The
one fact of this relief fund being administered by a New York man who paid all
expense so that every cent collected might go to Armenia was a feature of the
drive. The entire quota was met under the efficient leadership of Judge Brown
and Mr. Crummey aided by the following executive committee, Captains and
assistants at headquarters:

  Executive committee: Judge F. B. Brown, Mrs. W. A. Alexander, Rev. R. S.
Emrich, Rev. E. A. King, Hon. H. Jones and Mrs. D. A. Beattie. At headquarters:
Mrs. Flickinger, Mrs. Hull and Miss Bishop who represented Mr. Crummey.
Captains: Mrs. F. M. Eley, Mrs. D. W. Gilchrist, Mrs. J. W. Lewis, Mrs. M. V.
McCurdy, Mrs. Charles Crothers, Mrs. A. T. Hermann, Mrs. E. A. Wilcox, Mrs. L.
Richards, E. V. Busch, A. G. Wilkins and George N. Herbert.

  James Beatty, manager of the Liberty Theater, presented the committee through
George N. Herbert's team with 200 theater tickets for each month of the year, a
gift that supported 10 children for the entire period. The crest of giving came
on Saturday, March 6, 1918, with a response of $4,222.00 San Jose's entire
Armenian subscription during this "Judge Brown drive" took care of 1598
children, 1000 men and 1000 women in the destitute country that looked to
California for help and did not look in vain.

  The second drive for allied relief, headed by Charles M. O'Brien, chairman,
and carried out with the machinery of the War Work Council, began January 14,
1919. With a quota of $22,000, asked over $23,000 was given. The armistice
silenced the guns and out of that silence the cry for help came. From the
beginning the Joffre Club, Club La France, the San Jose branch of civil and
military relief under the direction of Mrs. Victor Cauhape sent hundreds of
dollars and tons and tons of supplies, while societies and individuals adopted
French orphans.

  The county members of the War Work Council did their part nobly during the
war. They were:

  Alviso—Geo. E. Nicholson, chairman; W. F. Robideaux, D. B. Wade, W. F.
Zankors, A. Standish, J. M. Fords, Geo. T. Gallagher, H. J. Richards, committeemen.

  Cupertino—W. B. Calvert, chairman; John Ludy, Paul Goodhue, Chas. Lowe, Dr. A.
M. Coleman, Anton Pichetti, C. L. Rich, vice-chairman. Committeemen—G. A. Blair,
C. D Bambauer, W. A. Buick, Grant Barton, A. McDonald, I. A. Ball, F. A. Ball,
Paul Coolidge, M. L. Dow, K. A. Friedrich, C. R. Forge, E. H. Freeman, J. Frost,
Paul Jones, W. Jellyman, H. H. Mosher, E. J. Parrish, W. Pasly, Jas. Patterson,
E. N. Pettit, F. M. Pfeifer, Chas. Rostand, F. A. Taft, O. B. Woods, C E. Warren.

  Campbell—J. C. Ainsley, chairman; W. Eckles, J. E. Weisendanger, W. T. Hobson,
John F. Duncan, Geo. L. Parso, Earl Knapp, vice-chairmen; J. L. Hagelin, Hiram
Hutton, A. C. Keesling, W. H. Lloyd, Geo. Payne, S. G. Rodeck, Harry H. Smith,
C. H. Whitman, H. E. Brandenberg, B. O. Curry, Dr. C. M. Cooper, William
Coupland, E. A. Colby, Frank Dunucan, C. E. Hanger.

  Evergreen—J. P. Shambeau, chairman; committeemen—Albert A. Anderson, Peter
Bennett, A. H. Burk, R. H. Beck, H. L. Coates, W. L. Edwards, John A. Fair, I.
Gover, Fred Hassler, Henry 1. Hart, M. J. Haley, John S. Hensell, J. O. Hansen,
Henry Krehe, W. A. Kammerer, Clem A. Kettman, Frank H. Kampfen, Theo. Klein, A.
L. Leal, Fred May, Fred Martin, N. Macher, L. Monferino, A. R. McClay, August
Nelson, F. W. Osterman, Manuel Pereira, Wm. Provan, Francis Smith, Michael
Tierney, Fred Weld, E. B. Williams.

  Gilroy—E. D. Crawford, chairman; committeemen—John Abincino, A. S. Baldwin,
Dan Burr, A. W. Cox, H. Carl, Percy Dexter, C. H. Emlen, W. G. Fitzgerald, H.
Hecker, H. S. Hersman, Chas. Lester, Tracy Learned, A. A. Martin, R. M. Martin,
Fay McQuilkin, H. E. Robinson, Wm. Sawyer, G. A. Wentz.

  Los Gatos—J. D. Farwell, chairman; J. A. Case, J. W. Crider, L. E. Johns, H.
L. Lloyd, Ed Howes, J. C. Walker, C. F. Hamsher, Z. S. Riggo, C. H. Squire, Dr.
H. E. Smith, J. B. Stewart.

  Morgan Hill—C. F. Drewry, chairman; John Acton, Wm. H. Adams, J. C. Ahern,
Robt. Britton, B. Bosqui, Chas. Beck, D. H. Bechis. Luther Cunningham, F. V.
Edwards, E. F. Eastman, R. H. Patchell, Irwin E. Payne, H. A. Pepen, C. P. Simpson.

  Burnett—Peter Raggio, chairman; P. H. Kirby, P. A. Walsh, E. L. Norton.

  Encinal—Frank Stevens, chairman; H. A. Peppin, Burt Stevens, Peter Ramelli.

  Llagas—T. A. Hester, chairman; W. H. Adams, Harry Wright, C. P. Simpson.

  Machado—R. K. Patchell, chairman; Robert Britton, D. W. Strickenberg.

  San Martin—R. S. Robinson, chairman; Chas. Beck, H. Robinson, M. T. Gwinn.

  Uvas—Giles Bradley, chairman; Ben Bosqui, Ed Eastman.

  Milpitas—E. P. Giacomazzi, chairman; G. A. Abell, Lawrena Barker, A. L. Crabb,
Lawrence Hansen, Dr. R. J. Smith, A. M. Silva, Jr.

  Mountain View—W. L. Camp, chairman; Dr. C. E. Adams, F. B. Abbott, W. F. Bubb,
A. M. Crittenden, Geo. Chickorich, C. H. Clark, H. G. Childs, H. G. Copeland, L.
Drake, T. J. Evans, Edwin Earl, Hans Ehlers, M. Farrell, Chas. A. Gray, Fred P.
Hauck, W. F. Hyde, B. W. Hollman, Barney Job, A. Jurian, Frank Jackson, W. N.
Jess, P. Klein. J. E. Johnson, Jas. Logue, Chas. N. Lake, F. Marcov, J. S.
Mockbee, Chas. E. Marcum, P. D. Newman, F. S. Oliver, Geo. S. Parkinson. A. S.
Robinson, H. A. Rengstroff, P. M. Smith, Geo. Swall, Guy Shoup, J. J. Taylor, L.
H. Watson, O. W. Whaley, R. O. Winnegar, S. A. Winnegar, Chas. W. Wright, Wm. P.
Wright, R. H. Walker.

  Berryessa—Harry Curry, chairman: Albert Foster, Floyd Lundy, W. E. Moore, Joe
Rodrigues, J. W. Smith.

  Eagle—L. F. Graham, chairman; C. A. Borchers, James T. Murphy, John P. Vennum.

  Orchard—J. J. O'Brien, chairman; W. B. Clark, Frank A. Leis, Richard McCarthy.

  Mt. Hamilton—Dr. Wm. W. Campbell, chairman; Dr. R. C. Aitken, Mr. Beach, R. H.
Tucker, J. Hoover, Dr. J. H. Moore, E. H. Robinson, Lester Hubbard, Paul Gerber,
F. Knobloch.

  Palo Alto—G. R. Parkinson, chairman; B. G. Allen, W. H. Adams, J. R. Andrus,
L. E. Bassett, Jas. Basve, W. J. Biehl, L. S. Bean, Ira G. Betts, J. H. Borden,
M. A. Buchan, L. L. Burlingame, J. D. Byxbee, Jr., Geo. F. Brown, Geo. J. Carey,
Ed Cashel, A. M. Cathcart. C. E. Childs, A. B. Clark, B. W. Crandall. H. F.
Congdon, C. P. Cooley, W. A. Cooper, D. C. Craig, William Transton, J. L. Dixon,
J. Dudfield, I. J. Dollingo, Rev. David Evans, O. M. Easterday, Chas. Ellett,
Alfred Engle, J. F. Farrell, R. S. Faxson, Mrs. Fred Fowler, Mrs. Marion H.
Fowler, James Frazer, Dr. D. Chas. Gardner, C. H. Gilbert, Rev. J. M. Gleason,
J. E. Greene, R. L. Green, N. W. Gleaser, F. W. Heckett, V. V. Harrier, Theo. T.
Hoover, T. Hopkins, Rev. Walter Hays, E. A. Hettinger, J. E. Hesston, C. A.
Huston, W. O. Horabin, A. M. Hackett, J. Jury, F. K. Kasson, W. H. Kelly, Miss
Mary 1. Lockey, Kee Leung, P. M. Lansdale, Egerton Lakin, J. B. Larkin, G.
Laumeister, George Lillie, R. X. Malone, Miss Maud Manaton, C. D. Marx, W. R.
Mendenhall, G. E. Mercer, F. J. M. Miles, J. P. Mitchell, W. E. Miller, H. J.
Moule, A. L. Murry, A. K. Macoon, J. E. McDowell, W. H. Nichols. Louis Olsen, E.
T. Pennock, Prof. G. F. Pierce, Capt. S. M. Parker, G. C. Price, W. W. Price, J.
F. Pryor, Robt. C. Ray, O. O. Rhodes, Roger M. Roberts, F. Schneider, A. Seale,
H. W. Simkins, J. R. Slonaker, N. B. Smith. J. O. Snyder, W. E. South wood, Mrs.
Maud A. Stratton, R. E. Swain E. C. Thoits, Ray Savior, T. Goshida, J. C.
Thiele, M. H. Tichnor. Monroe Thomas, S. D. Townley, Louis Taylor, T. Uchizono,
S. M. Vandervoort, D. S. Watson, R. J. Wells, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Geo. Williams,
E. I. Irving, Herbert Wilson, Chas. Weeks, W. K. Woolery, A. E. Worthy, R. H.
Wiley.

  Pala—Charles Turner, chairman; J. W. Anderson, Edward I. Field, J. P. Lacerda,
Andrew Patton, J. F. Pyle.

Saratoga—Dr. I. G. Hogg, chairman; Rev. B. Z. Bazata, L. C. Dick, S. P.
Patterson, J. L. Richards.

  Sunnyvale—C. C. Spaulding, chairman; F. X. Boden, J. M. Brown, F. E. Cornell,
Frank Farry, F. B. Hughes, W. A. Larman, Rev. C. G. Marshall, Rev. H. J.
Roberts, W. R. Roberts, C. W. Shepard, C. W. Spalding, Leo. H. Vishoot, J. H.
Hendy, F. C. Wilson, J. C. Sutherland, J. F. Holthouse, A. P. Freeman.

  Valley View—J. L. Mosher, chairman; Nelson Barton, Oscar Benson, Jerry Cannon,
Fred P. Hauck, Harry Johnson, Jack Mayne.

  Santa Clara—Dr. A. E. Osborne, chairman; P. A. Brangier, Alfred L. Brown, W.
T. Brown, Jos. Boschken, Robert Fatjo, Chas. Grimmer, P. Hayes, Geo. Hamilton,
Ralph Martin, J. B. O'Brien, I. A. Pomeroy, Geo. A. Penniman, Robert Porter,
Henry R. Roth, Chas. D. South ,F. R. Shafter, W. S. Sullivan. Dr. L. Stockton,
F. A. Wilcox, B. F. Weston, I. A. Wilcox.

  Franklin—S. W. Pfeifle, chairman; John Barry, F. H. Buck, J. Jepson, Fred G.
Wool.

  Oak Grove—O. Christofer, chairman; C. W. Aby, Chas. Frost, Jr., A. C.
Robertson, J. H. Swickard.

  Santa Clara County sent to the front nearly 3000 soldiers. Following are the
names of our men who made the supreme sacrifice:

  Elias Ananstasion, Joseph F. Andrade, Harvey C. Barnes, Joseph Basseile,
Robert J. Bennett, Barnard M. Bustard, Antonio Camastro, Joseph L. Cancilla,
Louis V. Castro. Hugh L. Carney, Harrison J. Cleaver, Charles C. Crews. Arthur
C. Chiles, Charles C. Cook, William Couch, William F. Covill, Thomas J. Clunie.
William M. de la Rochelle, Frank Devoney, John J. Dorsey, Robbecole Disappa, Ray
F. Dugdale, Norman Dunbar, Elmer H. Flagg, Elmer L. Fresher, James G. Ferguson,
Hiram B. Fisher, Ben Garcia, Toney P. Gomes, Lome A. Goode, Wilmer J. Gross,
Fred A. Hall, Carl J. Hagel, Frank J. Hagen, Jr., Walter Hartman, Walter A.
Hifden, Mervyn J. Hoadley, Maltria Hugeback, Jarvis J. Johnson, Joseph F. Kelly,
Arthur C. Kimber, Ralph V. Leggett, Walter Logan, Leo J. McCauley, Maurice F.
Manha, Lester J. McKinley, David E. McComel, Bruno Montorosso, Frank J. Murrin,
Salvatore Muro, Daniel J. Narvies, Allan H. Nichols, Frank H. Nichols, Frank J.
Nunes, Alervin Neugrass, Charles H. Pappassi, Antone Parades, Joe Prader, John
E. Pashote, Albert G. Perkins, Manuel O. Perry, A. E. Preston, John F. Pereira,
Paul J. Pinnola, Angelo R. Pinto, John Pourroy, John Regan, Ernest R. Rines,
Leon Roberts, Joseph L. Rose, Manuel R. Rose, J. S. Rumsey, Seeley T. Shaw,
Fredrick E. Sanders, Elvyn B. Sedam, Gilbert Spencer, Harry N. Schneider,
Lawrence W. Schrier, Ira M. Smith, Anton Sigurd, Sidney W. Simpson, Thomas
Short, John G. Sturlo, Joseph V. Spingola, Verne I. Taylor, John L. Timosci,
Frank B. Tost, Nick J. Vaccarello, Manuel J. Vargas, John J. Voss, Clark B.
Waterhouse, Harold Woolf, Albert F. Wooley, Earl C. Young.



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HISTORY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
EUGENE T. SAWYER

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
1922


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