Saturday, June 20, 2020

PANORAMA RANCH 1885


Panorama for a Small City                                                                                                                            Histories of a Mass Medium:                                                                                                                            Panorama Ranch 1899                                                                                                                                          Presented by Gene Meier
May 21, 2020                               
UNDER CONSTRUCTION                                                                                                                                            pending input from the F.W. Heine diaries
Special Thanks to Karen Curran, D.A.R.
Special thanks to Suzanne Wray, I.P.C.
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January
SAN JOSE MERCURY, Wednesday, January 4,1899                                     Personalities                                                                                           []          William Wehner of Evergreen was in San Francisco yesterday
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Saturday, January 14,1899                                                      Around the Corridors                                                                           []          William Wehner of Evergreen arrived at The California yesterday
SAN FRANCISCO CALL Tuesday, January 17,1899                                                       Degrees Confirmed                                                                                      []          A Number of Stanford Graduates Created Bachelor of Arts                                      Germanic languages: Hedwig B. Buss Ida Wehner
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, Friday, January 20,1899                                                      Mr. Heine Returns in February                                                                              [] F.W. Heine, the Milwaukee artist, is still at Evergreen, California, where he                              and his colleagues are painting a panorama representing the BATTLE OF MANILA [BAY].                  The local artists associated with him in the work are Messrs. Rohrbeck, Peter, Biberstein and Lohr. Mr. Heine’s portion of the work will be completed next month, when he will return to Milwaukee. The other artists will remain for some weeks thereafter.
February
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Saturday, February 4,1899                                                             In A Serious Condition                                                                                        William Wehner Confined to His Bed the Result of a Fall                                                 []            William Wehner, who is interested in the panorama of the BATTLE OF MANILA[BAY], now being built at Central Park, is at present confined to his ranch in (sic) Napa County, where he lies abed in a serious condition. Some days ago Mr. Wehner was at Central Park watching the work of the artists, who were painting the panorama. The scaffold on which he was standing at the time suddenly broke, precipitating him to the ground. A serious rupture was the result of his accident. He was taken to his apartments at The California Hotel, where he was confined to his bed for some time. A few days ago he attempted the trip to his ranch, but the jolting of the conveyance which met him at the depot reopened his wound and for a time he was in danger of bleeding to death. When he finally reached his home Mr. Wehner was in a serious condition. He is somewhat improved at present, but his friends are much alarmed about him
SAN JOSE MERCURY, Sunday, February 5,1899                                                 Evergreen Notes                                                                                            []          Evergreen, February 4:William Wehner of  Lomas Azules ranch is reported as improving and as out of danger
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE                                                               Howard H. Gross, of Chicago, Illinois                                                                              Panorama                                                                                       Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.624,479, dated May 9,1899                           Application filed February 10,1899.Serial No. 705,170 (no model)
March
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, Thursday, March 2,1899                                                Commissions for F.W. Heine                                                                       The Milwaukee Artist to Be Busy on Smaller Pictures at San Francisco                            [] F.W. Heine, the artist who for some time has been in San Francisco engaged in painting                    a panorama BATTLE OF MANILA BAY, is not expected back before the middle of the month, for upon the conclusion of his panoramic work he is to paint a number of smaller pictures on commission. No sketches or photographs of the panoramic paintings have been received at his studio here as yet.
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, Friday, March 24,1899                                                       BATTLE OF MANILA BAY                                                                          Milwaukee Artists Have About Completed the Big Panorama of Dewey’s Victory                        []      The panorama painting of Dewey’s great fight, the BATTLE OF MANILA BAY, on which several Milwaukee artists have been engaged for some months past, is to be placed before the public in San Francisco this month. With the first steamer that left San Francisco after the battle, William Wehner, under whose management the work is being done, sent an artist,               Pierre N. Boeringer, to Manila to sketch the country all about, study the light and gather the necessary material and  information. He return in the fall and, with Lieutenant W.T. Elliott, who was in command of the McCOLLOCH during the battle, assisted the artists, A. Lohr and F.W. Heine of this city, in the preliminary work. Early in November Mr. Wehner let a contract for a building to be put up on Market Street in San Francisco and by the middle of December it was complete and the main work begun there, the Messrs Biberstein, Rohrbeck and Peter of Milwaukee joining the other artists in the work.                                                      []          The preliminary work was done at the home of Mr. Wehner, who lives at Villa Lomas Azules, ten miles from San Jose. Mr. Lohr came there from the City of Mexico, where he now lives. He and Mr. Heine were the chief artists of the Milwaukee studio several years ago, when Mr.  Wehner placed before the public his BATTLE OF [ATLANTA] ,BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE, etc. The new panorama will…be historically and geographically accurate.
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Thursday, March 30,1899                                                BATTLE OF MANILA BAY                                                                                       A Magnificent Panoramic View of the Grat Fight Now in Course of Construction
April
THE SUN, New York , Saturday, April 1,1899,p.1                                                    []        That so useful a compilation as the AMERICAN ART ANNUAL, edited by Florence              N. Levy, Macmillan, should not have been attempted before seems strange, considering how many persons are in search of the information it contains…

SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL April 1,1899                                                                         BATTLE OF MANILA BAY                                                                                        A Magnificent Panoramic View of the Great Fight Now in Course of Construction                           [per SAN FRANCISCO CALL]                                                                        []          The following European artists are engaged in painting the splendid production:               A. Lohr,  F.W. Heine, Franz Biberstein, and George Peters. W.A. Coulter, the well known marine artist, has lent his services as has also Sol N. Sheridan, Pierce N. Boeringer, Douglas White and others
[]          Michael Kutzer to Gene Meier 11-25-2009 vz F.W. Heine diary project:                          ”There are so many (painters) In San Francisco Heine is also meeting other artists                                I never heard of: Welch, Coulter, Otto, Kuhnau, etc.
Tuesday, April 11,1899                                                                                []            THE TREATY OF PARIS was signed by Spain and the United States on December 10,1898 that ended the Spanish-American War. Effective April 11,1899
THE EVENING NEWS, Friday, April 14,1899/San Jose                                                      How Dewey Fought At Manila                                                                          The May Day Battle in Panorama                                                                                 A Santa Clara County Man Backs the Project                                                                 Correctness of the Details
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Saturday, April 15,1899
INTERSTATE PANORAMA CO.                                                                          Market Street near Eighth                                                                                 THE GREAT HISTORICAL PANORAMA                                                        BATTLE OF                                                                                      MANILA                                                                                              BAY                                                                                                    Will Open TO-DAY                                                                         (SATURDAY) at 4 P.M.                                                                      THEREAFTER DAILY from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.                                                                 Music by Blanchard’s Military Band
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Sunday, April 16,1899 p.21                                     BATTLE OF MANILA [BAY]                                                                                          The Big Panorama Now Open for the Public
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Sunday, April 16,1899                                                History and Art Beautiful in Combination                                                                Realistic Panorama of BATTLE OF MANILA[BAY]                                                             Perfection in Detail                                                                                       Entertainment Appeals to All Americans                                                                 Central Park the Scene of a Great Sea Fight                                                                           That Borders So Closely on Realism as to Almost Deceive
[7]        For the purpose of preparing the panorama Pierre N. Boeringer went as a special artist and commissioner to Manila, made a number of elaborate water colors of the landscape and took a series of photographs covering the whole sweep around the bay. From these views and sketches the panorama was painted mainly by August Lohr and Franz Biberstein of Munich, F.W. Heine of Dresden and George Peter of Vienna. […]Much of the success of the marine portion of the panorama is due to W.A. Coulter, the well known marine artist of THE CALL, who gave valuable advice in the accomplishment of some of the technical difficulties of the drawing of ships, and to the officers of the Union Iron Works, who, being builders of the OLYMPIA, assisted by furnishing plans of that model ship.                                                     [9]        The artists had the further advantage during their work of frequent consultations with naval officers who were present at the battle. All the officers of the McCULLOCH aided in making the design correct by their criticisms and by information freely given, and among others who have been equally helpful ware Captain Frank Wildes of the BOSTON and Lieutenant                 C. Calkins, who was the navigator of the OLYMPIA during the engagement, and Sol Sheridan, the war correspondent of THE CALL.
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Thursday, April 20,1899, p.7
MARKET STREET, NEAR EIGHTH                                                                          THE GREAT HISTORICAL PANORAMA                                                        BATTLE                                                                                               OF                                                                                                     MANILA                                                                                              BAY                                                                                              ENTRANCE OF AMERICAN FLEET,                                                                SPANIARDS ON GUARD, DEWEY ON THE                                                         BRIDGE, SPANISH SHIPS IN FLAMES,                                                             FIRST CALIFORNIA REGIMENT STORMING                                                         FORT SAN ANTONIO,MANILA,CAVITE                                                            Open Daily 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.                                                              ADMISSIONm,50c, CHILDREN 25c                                                                   Opera Glasses                                                                                              H. GILMOUR, Manager
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
SAN FRANCISCO CALL Friday April 21,1899                                                          Piggott’s “Pal” Convicted                                                                            []          paragraph 2: thumbnail review of BATTLE OF MANILA BAY
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, Sunday, April 23,1899,p.2                                           Mayville                                                                                          []          Miss Ida Wehner of Villa Lomas Azules, near San Jose , California, is visiting at the home of her relatives, A. Theodore Zilisch and family.
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Sunday, April 23,1899                                                        Class of 1899 Bids Farewell to Alma Mater                                                            Stanford Men and Women Who Go Forth to Fight Life’s Battles                                              []            Ida Wehner, Germanic languages
OAKLAND TRIBUNE, Wednesday, April 26,1899                                                     MANILA PANORAMA                                                                           [4]        Aside from the great realism of the exhibition there is a living interest centered in the battle itself because of the number of people from this section who took part in it. All of these have friends and these friends take pride in gazing upon the achievements of a navy which has now become famous among the greatest sea fighters of the world.
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL Thursday, April 27,1899                                                         Artists Home This Week                                                                             Messrs Heine, Biberstein and Peter Are Glad to Get Back                                                     []        F.W. Heine, who assisted by George Peter and F. Biberstein of this city, painted the BATTLE OF MANILA BAY panorama recently placed on exhibition in San Francisco, writes to a Milwaukee friend that the three will probably be home at the end of the week.”Half a year in the beautiful land of California, the land of flowers and sunshine,” writes Mr. Heine, ”and the hour of departure is reached at last. We three jolly artists, Peter, Biberstein and I, are on the way home. Los Angeles, Mount Lowe,6,000 feet high, upon which we made a delightful excursion with cable and electric cars, are parted from with some regret, and yet here is a strong attraction towards our dear, comfortable home, where our families are anxiously awaiting us. We hope to arrive there by the end of April.”
MAYVILE NEWS, Thursday, April 27,1899 / Wisconsin                                                                 []        Miss Ida Wehner of San Jose, California, who visited with her uncle A.T. Zilisch,                  left for Chicago Monday, where she will visit a few weeks with relatives before returning home
HEALDSBURG TRIBUNE, ENTERPRISE AND SCIMITAR, Thursday, April 27,1899 Reorganization of Wine Makers                                                                        Santa Clara County Appoints Delegates to a General Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday, April 27,1899              Boycott and Blackmail                                                        TO: Mr. Harry Gilmour, Interstate Panorama Co.                                                     FROM: P.H. McCarthy, W.M. Page, Secretary, Building Trades Council                                    Dear Sir: In regard to the request as presented by Mr. Wehner, relative to a settlement of boycott on the Panorama BATTLE OF MANILA BAY, we have unanimously decided that we will, upon the consideration of having published in the DAILY PRESS OF SAN FRANCISCO, for the period of thirty (30) days, the following:                                                                []            I., Mr. Wehner, do hereby acknowledge that I have committed a serious and grave            error in antagonizing the unions affiliated with Building Trades Council and organized labor in San Francisco, admit my defeat in the premises, publically apologize therefore attempting to erect and run a place of public amusement in San Francisco. And further I. Mr. Wehner, do hereby agree to pay to charitable institutions, to be named by Council, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) Upon fulfillment of the foregoing, we will settle amicably, the existing difficulty between Mr. Wehner and organized labor of this city and county.
PRESS DEMOCRAT, Saturday, April 29,1899                                                             What Will the Wine Men Do?
May
SAN FRANISCO CALL, Tuesday, May 2,1899                                                             BATTLE OF MANILA BAY                                                                          []           Several thousand admirers of America’s great naval hero visited the panorama of the BATTLE OF MANILA BAY at Central Park yesterday to view the lifelike presentation of the destruction of the Spanish fleet by the vessels under the command of the immortal Dewey just a year ago, the news of which electrified the world and marked the beginning of a new epoch in the United States. The remarkable fidelity with which the memorable engagement off Cavite is depicted is a subject of enthusiastic comment by all who have paid a visit to the panorama. To the spectator the battle appears as though the battle, which destroyed Spain’s power in the Far East, was being fought before his eyes, and the longer the scene is studied the more fascinating this becomes, until one can almost hear the booming of the big guns and the screeching of the storm of shot from the rapid-fire cannon that tore the Spanish warships to shreds and sent hundreds of Mentojo’s sailors to their eternal rest. The panorama is deservedly popular, whose popularity is increasing daily
SAN FRANCISCO CALL Friday, May 5,1899                                                     Mechanics and Contractors                                                                     Harmonious Condition of Affairs Existing Between the Two Bodies                                 [4]         Attorney C.G. Nagle appeared before the council on behalf of the proprietor of the BATTLE OF MANILA BAY Panorama, with which the council has had some misunderstanding over union carpenters during the construction of the building
BATTLE OF MANILA by Howard H. Gross, Chicago: PANORAMA; Letters Patent No.624,479, dated May 9,1899
NEW YORK CLIPPER, Saturday, May 13,1899                                                          Latest By Telegraph                                                                                     San Francisco p.204                                                                                       Notes: A very poor panorama of the BATTLE OF MANILA, in which much is left                             to the imagination, has been unrolled on Market Street “far from the maddening crowd.”
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, Sunday, May 14,1899 p.6                                                 Painting a Panorama                                                                                        Work Done By Milwaukeeans in San Francisco                                                            Artist Were Aided by the McCULLOCH’s Officers Dispatch Boat Which Shared in Dewey’s Victory Arrives at the Golden Gate While Messrs Heine, Lohr, Peter and Biberstein Were Engaged at the Painting, and Rendered Great Assistance                                               BATTLE OF MANILA BAY Accurately Depicted                                                            [1]         Four Milwaukee artists stood with folded arms on a central view point in a spacious building in Central Park, San Francisco, late April last, gazing upon a panorama of                      THE BATTLE OF MANILA[BAY], painted by their own hands, and heard  the verdict of critics that it was good. The artists were Frederick Wilhelm Heine, August Lohr, George Peter and Franz Biberstein, who had but recently returned to their Milwaukee studio                               [2]            The theme of the panorama is alone sufficient to make it one of the greater attractions of San Francisco. The point from which the battle is viewed is the center of the circle in which the American ships traveled as they bombarded the Spanish fleet. The time is the beginning of the second circuit, shortly after break of day. Manila lies to the right and Cavite to the left. The impression upon the visitor is that of being out at sea. Water surrounds him on all sides. Directly in front is the OLYMPIA, the flagship of the American fleet. The signal has just been given to ‘close on’, and the steamer is just being hauled down on the OLYMPIA. Dewey is distantly visible upon the bridge, for the OLYMPIA is over thirty feet in height, and Dewey and some of his officers are three-quarters life size. The OLYMPIA is being followed by the BALTIMORE, RALEIGH, PETREL, CONCORD and BOSTON. The McCULLOCH, the dispatch boat, is also visible in the wake. The signal flags on the vessels raised in answer to those of the flagship are still aloft.                                                                                              [3]   To the right is the Spanish fleet, led by the REINA CHRISTINA, which is already in flames. Officers and men can be seen in the act of leaving the burning ship, some in small boats, others swimming in the water among floating ammunition boxes and other debris. Shot and shell are in the air; the REINA CHRISTINA is sinking.                                                        [4]        On the RALEIGH the men can be seen cheering at the effect of a good shot. The forts on shore are supplementing the fire of the Spanish fleet with a lively bombardment of their own. The scene is a stirring one, and there is much in the now familiar story of the battle that becomes newly interesting as the spectator sees it before him. Many points of interest are to be discerned only with the aid of magnifying glasses.                                                               [5]        The panorama is the property of William Wehner (1847-1928) , a Santa Clara wine producer, who is said to have expended $100,000 upon it.[The panorama] is located on market Street, in Central Park. The building is a circular one, about eighty feet in height and about 400 feet in circumference, and is covered on the outside with corrugated iron.                                       [6]   The difficulties in painting this panorama can probably be thoroughly appreciated only by an artist.                                                                                                     [7]    ”Although we had on hand a large number of photographs and sketches of Manila Bay, Cavite and other points of interest in the vicinity of the great battle,” says George Peter, ”it was largely due to the officers of the McCULLOCH, which was then in San Francisco Bay, that we were enabled to reproduce the battleships in ‘fighting trim,’ and to depict faithfully the appearance and positions of the battleships while the fight was on, as well as various bits of minutia about the boats. There were hundreds of details that would never occur to a civilian as part of the arrangements of the battle ships. Sometimes it was the curve and position of a hook, other times it was the observations of the battle by the officers of the McCULLOCH that we sought, and many points were explained to us over and over again with the utmost patience. In fact, the aid of the American marines was of such value to us  that I do not know what we should have done without it. I had an excellent opportunity here to observe the American navy, and I say there is no comparing the German navy with it in respect to the individual intelligence, courtesy and capacity of the officers. And it was fine to see the regard in which they all held Dewey-he was a veritable Herrgott (little God) to them.                                                 [8]        ”I remember that we had depicted him in our preliminary sketches as somewhat excited, as a man might naturally be under the stress of the circumstances surrounding such a momentous occasion; but we changed this. They told us that Dewey was as perfectly calm, upon the bridge of the OLYMPIA, as though he were on a promenade, and so we painted him in the panorama.       [9] With information we gained from the officers of the McCULLOCH we combined early morning studies  upon San Francisco’s beautiful Bay. The photographs in our possession showed the vessels either in sharp profile or perhaps a rear or front view, dead-on, and we wanted them in many other positions. And so we went out to sketch the boats that are constantly coming into the Golden Gate, often early as 8 o’clock in the morning. At this hour the sun had not yet taken the chill off the wind, and often we hopped around with our hands under our armpits, trying to restore the warmth in the stiffening digits                                                       .[10]     ”Several of us arrived in San Francisco December of last year to begin work upon the panorama. Messrs Heine and Lohr, however, had been at San Jose, about sixty miles from              San Francisco, since October, planning a miniature panorama and adjusting sketches in the field.  [11]      “Fitted out with  this material, we now began work upon the panorama. The canvas had to be hung, fastened and weighted, and the scaffolding from which we were to paint placed upon a circular track just inside the canvas. Sizing of glue and paint were placed upon the canvas and diligently sand papered from top-to-bottom and from end-to-end, so as to be perfectly smooth for a final background of paint. The interior of the panorama building became a big artist’s studio. In on of the accompanying illustrations you may see the miniature panorama, one tenth the size of the final one. In this [miniature panorama]the sketches have been adjusted to positions corresponding with those they were to occupy in the larger. You can see, too, the traveling scaffold, and to the left the central platform from which we viewed the work as the scaffold was moved aside from time to time. A little petroleum stove in the foreground was often required for warmth.                                                                                      [12]      ”Another sketch shows the OLYMPIA in the foreground ,and Messrs Lohr and Biberstein at work upon her. In the group of personages is shown Mr. Lohr, Mr. Heine, me[George Peter]and ‘Our Willy” [William Stover, Wehner’s nephew], the-man-of-all-work, who made himself invaluable in a dozen different ways. The charge of the First California regiment of infantry upon Malate, in one of the sketches, is a separate panorama shown as the visitors leave the larger one on their way from the [panorama rotunda]building. This was drawn by Mr. Heine. In addition there is another panorama, of Dewey’s entrance into Manila Bay by moonlight. This is seen as the visitors enter the building, before reaching the larger scene.                 [13]   ”Our live and surroundings in San Francisco interested us as much as the successful completion of the work in which we were engaged. I was astonished at the great shipping trade of San Francisco. To us it had value and attractiveness because of the carried classes and nationalities it brought to the city-Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Italians, natives of the Hawaiian islands. Hardly a day passed that a steamer from some Asiatic port did not come in. The city and its surroundings and social life are not commonplace. I remover that on Sylvester eve nearly everybody in the place seemed to be in the streets, which were so crowded that we could pass along only at the slowest pace. Everyone, from children up, was supplied with tin and paper horns; even the ladies of the wealthier classes were out with them, an the din they made was something terrific. They remained in the streets until 2 o’clock in the morning, and the street cleaners spent all of the next day gathering together the crushed horns and paper debris on the streets.
Caption: Interior View of the Panorama                                                                []  Artists at work upon the main painting from traveling scaffold                                   []        Gallery from which to view the panorama at the left                                           []          Miniature panorama model, one tenth the size of the larger, to the right                              []          The RALEIGH Above
Caption: Westerners, led by Colonel Smith, in their advance upon Port Malate, August 13,1898
Caption: On a Cold Morning                                                                             []      Here the artists are shown starting in a winder’s day’s work, with the painting                     half completed, the outlines of the OLYMPIA in the background                                          []         Below is a detached bit of detail, showing the BALTIMORE completed
Caption: Men Who Did the Work                                                                    []        August Lohr, George Peter and F.W. Heine—“Our Willy”[Stover], the “man-of-all work” seated in the foreground
Caption fragment                                                                                   []       Dewey’s Flagship Bearing Upon[…]
SAN JOSE MERCURY, Sunday, May 21,1899                                                            William Wehner: on the demise of the California Wine Makers’ Corporation
PACIFIC RURAL PRESS, Saturday,  May 27, 1899                                                                    Santa Clara :Winemakers Meeting
June
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Sunday, June 25,1899                                                             Wine Growers Oppose the Corporation                                                                       Santa Clara Vineyardists Seem Disposed to Hold Aloof From the Organization
SAN JOSE HERALD, Monday, June 26,1899                                                           The Wine Men                                                                                                  Santa Clara Growers Do Not Favor Cooperation
PACIFIC WINE & SPIRIT REVIEW (SF) Friday, June 30,1899                                       William Wehner: call for industrial unity
July
SAN FRANCISCO CALL Tuesday July 2,1899                                                             Captain Dyer Visits the Panorama
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Sunday, July 16,1899                                                      McKinley Pays A Tribute to the Oregonians                                                         Thanks Brave Volunteers Officially                                                                     Will Give Them A Medal                                                                          Governor Geer and Staff Return to Portland                                                                  Farewell Reception Tendered the Webfoot Executive and Party by Representatives of California
August
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, Sunday, August 6,1899,p.8                                          Mayville                                                                                           []          Miss Ida Wehner of Evergreen, California, and Miss Georgine Rendtorff of Chicago are guess at the home of A.T. Zilisch
SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Sunday, August 27,1899                                                  Provided Work for Soldiers                                                                           []          Morgan F. McCollough, Westport, Indiana; Joseph Whitney, Dallas , Texas; and             Luther Hudson, Hollingsburg, Pennsylvania, all members of the Twenty third Infantry, were given employment yesterday by William Wehner of Evergreen, Santa Clara County. The men had been discharged from the service some time ago. Being unable to secure employment they had spent all their money and for some days had been around the headquarters tent pleading for assistance. That their cases were deserving the Red Cross ladies were thoroughly satisfied and when Mr. Wehner made his offer they were the first to be recommended. He stated that he had been attracted by the appeals of the employment committee and felt that this was his duty to help in the work of providing for the men who had gone to the front to fight for their country. In addition to employing the men mentioned he offered to provide accommodations at his ranch for a couple of convalescents.
September
October
EVENING NEWS Monday October 16,1899/San Jose                                                []     Articles of incorporation of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Hall Association of Stanford University have been filed today with the County Clerk. The purpose is to erect a building for  the sorority at Stanford. The capital stock is $10,000 of which $1,000 has been subscribed.            The Directors for the coming year are Ida Wehner of Evergreen; Carrie A. Goodhue of Oakland; Marie E. Merritte of Woodland; Clara L. Martin of Reno, Nevada, and Edna M. Hobson of Eastland. J.M. Hutchinson is their attorney.
SAN JOSE MERCURY, Wednesday, October 25,1899                                                    Golf Club Has Been Organized                                                                         Board of Trustees Chosen and By-Laws Adopted Last Evening                                              Ownership and Control to Be Vested in the Guarantee Members
SAN JOSE HERALD, Saturday, October 28,1899                                                        In Society                                                                                             []          The following twenty gentlemen have formed an organization, in San Jose to be known as the LINDA VISTA GOLF CLUB, each one putting up $50 to place the association on a sound basis…William Wehner
November
December