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its kind (as it went into the salary schedules of all of the large
cities of the country and to some extent in Europe) and was rather
well presented. The one office that men always hand to women on
a silver salver was given me by the men of the Commission—namely
the office of Secretary of the Commission. However that office
meant a necessary amount of knowledge of detail that the others did
not have and I have no doubt that that served to offset the handicap
that I might otherwise have had, being the "one lone woman." I t is
to Grace Stracham—the President of the Interborough Association
of Women Teachers—to whom is due all honor and glory and praise
and for whose ability, perseverance and disinterestedness we women
all over the country who stand for Justice have reason to be truly
thankful.

Fraternally.

( M R S . F R A N K H.) MARION B, COTTEREN.

THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO

To Porfota and yesterday in thought
With us today do kings and nations turn ;
Today on Memory's shrine the lights we burn
The while to read the brave deeds men have wrought.

A land to rule for far-off Spain he sought;
A way through trackless Blue he had to learn;
But a h ! this Present he could not discern,
Nor chart the ways of Fate that thither brought—

The brown-clad F r i a r s ; the Mission bells; the place
That most the sun and love and song do grace;
The gold; the grain; the grapes; and far away
The building of a State, and by this Bay
A City that knows not nor recks defeat,
Where Then and Now, and East and West do meet.

MURIEL EASTMAN MARTIN, Sigma, U . C , 1901.