e highest attainments can
only be gained by careful, conscientious and intelligent study in the
different departments undertaken. Students must remember, "those who
go slowly go safely, and those who go safely go far."

[Illustration:

Rev. Dr. A.M. Anderson
Stockton, 1852

Rev. Dr. Scudder
San Francisco

Rev. Dr. Eells
San Francisco and Oakland

Rev. Dr. A.L. Stone
San Francisco

The Right Rev. Ingraham Kip
Stockton, Benicia, Santa Cruz
and San Francisco

Rev. John Hemphill
San Francisco

Rev. H.D. Lathrop
San Francisco and Oakland

Rev. Dr. Bellows
San Francisco

EMINENT DIVINES FOR WHOM MRS. BLAKE-ALVERSON HAS SUNG]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

GREAT MUSICAL FESTIVAL IN AID OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY, 1878. AT
GILROY SPRINGS.

The grand musical festival given in the Mechanics pavilion, San
Francisco, May 28, 29 and 30, 1878, was the second largest undertaking
since the one given in 1873 under the supervision of the Mechanics'
Library association with Camilla Urso, virtuoso, and R.H. Herold,
conductor, with 12,000 voices.

The general committee of this grand festival was composed of musicians
and singers and directors of various musical organizations. They were
as follows:

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

A.M. Benham, Samuel D. Mayer, Wendell Eastern, Sumner W.
Bugbee, manager.

GENERAL COMMITTEE

Business Men--Geo. E. Barnes, Geo. Brown, Wm. G. Badger,
Quincy A. Chase, John T. Coe, James Denman, W.P. Edwards,
Jr., Samuel C. Gray, Jas. E. Gordon, M. Gray, Robt. T.
Harrison, F.A. Harnden, L.K. Hammer, August Hunme, Col. J.P.
Jackson, G.S. Johnson, M.A. Kennedy, Andrew Kohler, Warren
Leland, S.H. Long.

Musicians--H.M. Bosworth, C.L. Crabtree, John P. Morgan, Wm.
Fletcher, Geo. J. Gee, Ernest Hartmann, H. Heyman, R.
Herold, H.O. Hunt, W.H. Kinross, D.W. Loring, Fred Lyster,
W.J. McDougal, Charles McCurrie, H.L. Mansfeldt, E. Pique,
Geo. H. Powers, Martin Schultz, Prof. Sleanter, Charles
Schultz, G.A. Scott.

Singers--W.C. Campbell, Chas. Dugan, Wash. Elliott, D.P.
Hughes, F.A. Hyde, Alf. Kelleher, S.W. Leach, Carl Formes,
G. Mancusi, D.W.C. Nesfield, I. Stadtfeldt, M.S. Stimson,
J.E. Tippett, Jos. Trenkle, Wm. Toepke, H.T. Todd, John
Trehane, David Wilder, D.L. Wetherbee, Jas. L. Wilson, Asa
R. Wells, R.L. Thurston, D. Van Vleck, E.C. Mastin, Gen.
John McComb, D.W. Murphy, Jos. O'Co