Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1882, Part 17

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Publication date: 1882
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SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.


Dixon, Bernstein & Co., Show Case Manufacturers, 250 Market St.


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Board of Trustees .- B. B. Redding, President, Geo. E. Gray, Vice-President ; Thomas P. Madden, Robert E. C. Stearns, Ralph C. Harrison, James M. McDon- ald and William Ashburner; Charles Wolcott Brooks, Secretary.


Officers and Council. - Prof. George Davidson, President; J. P. Moore, First Vice-President; H. Her- mann Behr, Second Vice-President; S.B. Christy, Corre- sponding Secretary; Charles G. Yale, Recording Sec- retary; Elisha Brooks, Treasurer; C. Troyer, Libra- rian ; W. G. W. Harford, Director of Museum


Curators-Justin P. Moore, Botany; Dr. A. B. Stout, Ethnology and Osteology; E. F. Lorquin, Mammals and Birds; C. G. Yale, Fishes; H. Herman Behr, En- tomology; Josiah Keep, Conchology ; Edward T. Cox, Geology and Paleontology; C. D. Gibbes, Mineral- ogy.


Committee on Publication-Robert E. C. Stearns, George Davidson, Charles G. Yale, Justin P. Moore and John M. Stillman.


The regular stated meetings of the Academy are held on the first and third Monday evenings of each month. The regular stated meetings of the Board of Trustees and meetings of the Council take place twic a month, as notified.


CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. - Incorpo- rated July 14, 1870. Number of members, fifty. An- nual meeting at College of Santa Clara, on day of commencement. Objects: Cultivation of the history, antiquities, and ethnography of the west coast of America, and the publication of early relations and documenta connected therewith. Rooms, 323 Cali- fornia street.


Officers .- Rev. A. Varsi, Charles H. Sawyer, Tibur- cio Parrott, and John T. Doyle, Trustees ; Ralph C. Harrison, secretary.


CALIFORNIA PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY AND COLLEGE OF PHARMACY .- The society was incor- porated December 10, 1871. The college was iucorpo- rated Auguat 7, 1872, and affiliated with the Univer- aity of California June 18, 1873. The society and college were consolidated January, 1878. Lectures given at the Hall of Academy of Sciences, southwest corner of California and Dupont streets, for a term of six months, commencing Tuesday, May 3d, 1882.


The main object of the institution is to unite the apothecaries of this State in organized efforts to ele- vate the standing of those engaged in the profession, by raising the qualification of its members. This is sought to be accomplished by giving instruction, by lectures and otherwise, in those branches of science on which depend the practice of pharmacy. Four chairs have been established in the College, viz., Chemistry, Botany, Materia Medica and Pharmacy. The society meets quarterly or oftener for the discus- sion of topics of scientific and practical interest to the pharmacist.


Officers .- Emlen Painter, President; W. M. Searby, First .Vice-President; James Topley. Second Vice- President ; Fred. Grazer, Recording and Correspond- ing Secretary; William J. Bryan, Treasurer; William M. Searby, Editor; P. L. Vreeland, Librarian and Cu- rator ; Emlen Painter, S. A. McDonnell, John Cal- vert, J. H. Dawson, Fred. Grazer, Fred. C. Keil and D. W. Kirkland, Trustees.


CALIFORNIA RIFLE ASSOCIATION. - Incorpor- ated June, 1875. Objects : To encourage rifle prac- tice ; to promote a system of armory drill and target firing among the National Guard; and to provide a suitable range for the use of the members of the As- sociation. Office, 523 Pine street .:


Officers .- Col. J. H. Dickinson, President; Major A. F. Klose, Vice-President; Sergeant H. T. Sime, Secretary : Colonel A. Andrews, Treasurer; Col. W. R. Smedberg, Col. J. H. Dickinson, Col. S. I. Sheldon Jr., Col. A. Andrews, Capt. S. S. Templeton, Capt, M. N. Laufenberg, Lieut. J. E. Klein, Sergeant Nash, Sergeant H. T. Sime, Directors.


CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS .- Incorporated March, 1876. Objects: To educate Cali- fornia boya and girls in the mechanical arts and trades. Has an endowment of $475,000, left by James Lick, which has not yet been paid over.


Officers-Horace Davis, William Ashburner, Lor- enzo Sawyer, J. D. B. Stillman, and A. S. Hallidie, Trustees.


CALIFORNIA STATE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY- Incorporated December 27, 1876. Number of mem-


bers, sixty. Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month, at rooms of State Mining Bureau, 212 Suttter street. Object: To make a Pacific Coast geological collection, and to encourage the study of geology in all its branches.


Officers .- Henry G. Hanks, President; F. Vassault, Vice-President; S. Heydenfeldt, Jr., Secretary.


CALIFORNIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SO- CIETY .- Organized September. 1879. Number of members, one hundred. Meetings held the last Fri- day of each month at rooms of the Academy of Sci- ences, southwest corner of California and Dupont. Objects: To promote the science and practice of hor- ticulture in all its branches. Secretary's office, 414 Clay street.


Officers .- E. W. Hilgard, Berkeley, President; J. V. Webster, Fruit Vale, Vice-President ; R. R. Turnbull, San Rafael, Treasurer; E. J. Wickson, San Francisco, Secretary.


CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU .- Organ- ized under an Act of the Legislature entitled " An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. The ob- jects of the Bureau, as set forth in the first section of the Act, are as follows: " There shall be and is hereby established in this State, a Mining Bureau, the prin- cipal office of which shall be maintained in the City of San Francisco, at which place there shall be col- lected by the State Mineralogist, and preserved for study and reference, specimens of all the geological and mineralogical substances, including mineral waters, found in this State, especially those possess- ing economic or commercial value, which specimens shall be marked, arranged, classified and described, and a record thereof preserved, showing the character thereof, and the place from whence obtained. The State Mineralogist shall also, as he has opportunity and means, collect, and in like manner preserve at said office, minerals, rocks, and fossils of other States, Territories and countries, and the collections so made shall at all reasonable hours be open to public inspec- tion, examination and study." On May 15, 1880, the Governor appointed, in accordance with the Act, as State Mineralogist, Henry G. Hanks, well-known throughout the State as a gentleman of large practical and scientific knowledge of mining and mineralogy. He at once procured rooms at No. 619 Montgomery street, but soon found they were inadequate for the purpose, and therefore removed to No. 313 Pine street temporarily, as the building was soon to be torn down. The Bureau is now located at No. 212 Sutter street, where spacious rooms have been fitted up for the reception and preservation of specimens and a public museum, which are open daily to visitors, free, from ten A. M. to three P. M. The museum will be found very interesting and instructive to tourists as well as our own citizens.


CALIFORNIA WING SHOOTING CLUB .- Organ- ized 1871. Number of members, twenty-five. Meets monthly at the law office of Crittenden Robinson, 310 Pine street.


Officers .- Crittenden Robinson, President ; Robert Ellon, Vice-President; Samuel E. Knowles, Secretary ; H. J. Brand, Treasurer.


FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC .- Organized February, 1876. Mects third Tuesday of February, May, August and November, at rooms 216 Sansome street. Object: Mutual improve- ment.


Officers .- George F. Grant, President ; E. W. Car- penter, Vice-President; James W. Staples, Secretary and Treasurer; T. E. Pope, A. D. Smith and T. A. Mitchell, Executive Committee.


GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC .- Office, 317 Powell street. Objects: To encourage Geo- graphical exploration and discovery ; to investigate and disseminate Geographical information by discus- sion, lectures and publications ; to establish in thia, the chief city of the Pacific States, for the benefit of commerce, navigation and the industrial and material interests of the Pacific Slope, a place where the means will be afforded of obtaining accurate information, not only of the countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean, but of every part of the habitable globe: to accumulate a library of the best books on Geography, History and Statistics; to make a collection of the most recent Maps and Charts-especially those which


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relate to the Pacific Coast, the Islands of the Pacific, and the Pacific Ocean ; and to enter into correspon- dence with scientific and learned societies whose ob- jects Include or sympathize with Geography.


Officera .- George Davidson, President ; Ogden Hoff- man, Wm. Lane Booker and Johu R. Jarboe, Vice- Presidents ; Francis Berton, Foreign Corresponding Secretary ; James P. Cox, Home Corresponding Secre- tary; C. I. Hutchinson, Treasurer ; C. Mitchell Grant, Secretary.


GOLDEN GATE RIFLE CLUB .- Organized Jan- uary 18, 1882. Meet on the second Tuesday of every month. Objects: To skill the members thereof in the use of the rifle, and to cultivate and strengthen the bonds of friendship among them.


Officers .- J. A. Bauer, President; S. E. Beaver, Vice- President; Wm. Ehrenpfort, Treasurer; J. D. Tallant, Secretary; James Stanton, A. Rahwyler, Fr. Boeck- mann, Shooting Masters.


HASTINGS' DEBATING SOCIETY. -- Organized September 1, 1878. Number of members, about sey- enty. Meets in Pioneer Hall, 808 Montgomery street, every Thursday evening.


Officers .- J. V. Hitchcock, President ; J. Cavagnaro, Vice-President ; W. Jacobs, Recording Secretary ; I. Burnett, Corresponding Secretary ; H. Price, Treasu- rer.


ITALIAN-SWISS AGRICULTURAL COLONY .- In- corporated March 12, 1881. Capital, $300,000; 5,000 shares at $60 each. Office, 531 Washington street. The objecta of this corporation is the promotion of co-operative farming.


Officers .- M. J. Fontana, President; B. Frapoli, Vice-President; Henry Cassanova, Treasurer; A. Sbar- boro, Secretary ; D. Freidenrich, Attorney; A. Daneri, S. Campodonico, G. B. Cevasco, N. Giamboni and V. Ravenna, Directors.


KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. -Rooma, 913 Market street. This library contains nearly thirty-two hundred volumes in the various departmenta of literature.


Officera .- C. W. Nevin, President; L. S. Kincaid, Vice-President ; T. S. Milton, Secretary. George Can- tus, Treasurer; James Patterson, Librarian.


LIGUE NATIONALE FRANCAISE .- Organized Au- gust 4, 1871. Meets third Monday of each month, at 120 Sutter street. Objects: To promote friendship, harmony, and intelligence among the French resi- dents of California, and enable them to co-operate in enterprises of general importance.


Officers .- Daniel Levy, President; E. Raas, First Vice-President; Henry Weill, Second Vice-President ; Paul Husson, Treasurer ; Henry Payot and A. Gous- tiaux, Secretaries.


The library belonging to the society contains about eleven thousand volumes, all voluntary donations. Any person may have access to the reading room, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees and paying an initiatory fee of one dollar, and fifty cents monthly, due in advance. Open every day from twelve to six o'clock P.M., and from half-past seven to ten o'clock P. M., except Sunday's and legal holidays.


Officers .- E. Raas, President ; Henry Weill and M. Kahn, Vice-Presidents ; E. Larthe, Librarian and Sec- retary.


MARINERS' FREE READING ROOM .- Northeast corner of Sacramento and Drumm streets. Estab- lished March 21, 1876, for the purpose of affording mariners visiting this port, and others, opportunity of reading the local, Eastern, and foreign newspapers, and periodicals, free of charge. A library is also in course of formation, towards which already over five hundred volumes have been donated.


Officers .- Henry Chester, President; Charles Ferris, Treasurer: W. D. Bishop, Secretary and Librarian.


MECHANICS' INSTITUTE .- Organized March 29, 1855. Location, 27 Post atreet.


The objects of this institute are the establishment of a library, reading room, collection of a cabinet, scientific apparatus, works of art, and other literary and scientific purposes. The society haa a Reading Room well supplied with the leading scientific and literary periodicals of the day,and a valuable library containing thirty thousand volumes, including many rare scientific works. Among these ia a complete set of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soci- ety, the full collection of Annales des Ponts et Chaus-


sees, the full set of British Patent Office Reports (three thousand five hundred volumea), Dingler's Polytech- nisches Journal, Poggendorf's Annalen, Guy's Hos- pital Reports, etc., etc. Any person may become & member, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees, and paying an initiation fee of one dollar, and one dollar and fifty cents quarterly dues in advance.


Officers .- P. B. Cornwall, President; A. W. Star- bird, Vice-President ; J. A. Bauer, Treasurer ; James Spiera, Corresponding Secretary ; E. Fretwell, Re- cording Secretary ; Horace Wilson, Librarian ; Arthur Jellison and J. S. Harville, Assistant Librarians.


MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION .- Organ- ized January 24, 1853. New Mercautile Library Build- ing, north side of Bush street, between Sansome and Montgomery.


The rooms of the association are commodious and well arranged. The library contains about fifty-two thousand volumes, and the reading rooms are amply supplied with papers and magazines from the Eastern States and Europe. The terms of membership are one dollar initiation fee, and three dollars per quarter in advance.


Officers .- Henry Molineaux, President ; George T. Marye Jr., Vice-President : William Harney, Record- ing Secretary ; John F. Lohse, Corresponding Secre- tary ; T. B. Kent, Treasurer ; A. E. Whitaker, Libra- rian ; L. B. Wetherbee, Assistant Librarian : Edward J. Balley, Collector.


MILITARY LIBRARY .- Incorporated January 3, 1873, for the purpose of acquiring, preserving and con- ducting a public library, to consist chiefly of books, magazines and newspapers of a military character. There are one thousand volumes and two hundred maps.


Officers .- John McComb, Archibald Wason, George W. Granniss, W. R. Smedberg, Sheldon I. Kellogg, Jr., Samuel W. Backus, Charles M. Gilmore, David Wilder and P. R. O'Brien, Directors ; John McComb, Preai- dent ; David Wilder, Secretary and Librarian. Office 328 Montgomery street, room 21.


NATIVE SONS. OF THE GOLDEN WEST .- Or- ganized July 11, 1875. This Society is composed en- tirely of young men native to the State and born since July 7, 1846, the day upon which the American flag was raised at Monterey by Commodore Sloat, and has for its object, aside from its social character, the preservation of the traditions inseparably bound up in the pioneer history of the State.


A Grand Lodge was instituted in December, 1878, which will hereafter meet annually in June.


Officers .- Frank J. Higgins, Past Grand President ; H. Clay Chipman, Grand President; G. B. Baldwin, Deputy Grand President; Joseph Becht, Grand Treas- urer ; H. Lunstedt, Grand Secretary ; A. F. Jones, Grand Lecturer; S. L. Terry, Grand Marshal.


Two subordinate Parlors have been organized in San Francisco, viz :


CALIFORNIA PARLOR No. 1 .- Meets every Thursday evening in Red Men's Hall, 320 Post street. Number of members, one hundred.


PACIFIC PARLOR No. 10 .- Meets every Wednesday evening at 417 Kearny street.


ODD FELLOWS' LIBRARY ASSOCIATION - Organized December 30, 1854. Rooma, 325 Montgom- ery street.


The library contains nearly thirty-nine thousand volumes in the various departments of literature, in- cluding one of the most extensive collections of works on the early history of the Pacific Coast. It also contains what is believed to be the most com- plete and valuable cabinet of minerals, etc., in the State.


Officers .- Colin M. Boyd, President ; Daniel Mc- Laren, Vice-President ; E. W. Nohl, Recording Secre- tary ; Washington Bartlett, Corresponding Secretary ; T. K. Wilson, Treasurer ; George A. Carnes, Libra- rian ; Thomas Cleary, and Andrew J. Cleary, Assist- ant Librarians.


PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA .- This Order was first organized in Philadelphia in 1847. In 1866 the Order was reorganized and placed upon a more substantlal basis, and its membership now seek to locate a camp in every town in the United Statea. It has for its objects the inculcation of pure Ameri- can principles ; the opposition to foreign interference


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with State interests in the United States of America ; the cultivation of a fraternal and brotherly love ; the preservation of the Constitution of the United States, and the propagation of free education.


STATE CAMP .- Was instituted December 15, 1880.


State Officers .- C. L. Weller Past President ; C. K. Robinson, President ; L. A. Norton, Vice-President; J. L. Homer, M. of F. and C .; J. L. Merguire, Treasurer; A. K. Hollis, Secretary. Office, 2208 Mission street.


Five Camps of the Order have been established in this city, viz. :


WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 1 .- Instituted October 7, 1877. Meets every Tuesday evening at Grand Central Hall, 997 Market street.


WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 2 .- Instituted April 11, 1878. Meets every Monday at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.


WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 4 .- Instituted May 30, 1879. Meets every Wednesday at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street,


WASHINGTON CAMP. No. 7 .- Instituted December 18, 1879. Meets every Thursday evening at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.


WASHINGTON CAMP No. 9 .- Instituted May 23, 1880. Meets every Wednesday evening at King's Hall, 2131 Mission street.


WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 12 .- Meets every Monday evening in Fraternal Hall, Mission street.


WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 14 .- Meeta every Saturday evening at 32 O'Farrell street.


DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY.


CIRCLE No. 1 .- Maeta every Wednesday evening in Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.


CIRCLE No. 2 .- Meeta every Friday evening in King's Hall, 2118 Mission street.


GOLDEN GATE COMMANDERY .- Blue Degree, or high- est branch of the Order-was instituted December 14, 1880. Meets every Friday in Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.


PEOPLE'S FREE LIBRARY, THE .- Organized 1879. Location north side of Bush street, between Kearny and Dupont streets.


This institution was provided for in the Act paased by the Legislature of 1877-8, authorizing the creation and maintenance of free libraries, and empowering the Supervisors to levy a tax of not exceeding one mill on the dollar for their support. Pacific Hall, on Bush street, was selected for the library. Albert Hart was appointed Librarian, and on the evening of June 7, 1879, the library was formally opened with about 6,162 volumes, (magazines and periodicals not in- cluded), together with a newspaper department, em- bracing papers from every county of the State, and from all the States and Territories of the Pacific Coast. During the past year, the library has been improved in every department, new books purchased and added, and the facilities for circulating the same greatly improved. At this time there are 35,000 volumes in the Library, and new books are being added at the rate of about 1,000 per month, Between 25,000 and 28,000 are circulated each month. Number of mem- bera (persons entitled to use books at home), 14,000. The library is open for reading from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Officera .- George H. Rodgers, President ; Andrew J. Moulder, Secretary ; F. B. Perkins, Librarian ; T. B. Bishop, John S. Hager, A. S. Hallidie, Charles Kohler, J. M. McDonald, George H. Rogers, E. D. Sawyer, Irving M. Scott, Charles C. Terrill, R. J. Tobin John H. Wise and the Mayor, ex-officio, Trustees.


PHILHISTORIAN DEBATING SOCIETY .- Organ- ized October, 1863. Number of members, tweuty. Meeta every Wednesday afternoon at St. Ignatius Col- lege.


Officers .- M. J. Shallo, S. J., President; James D. Phelan, Vice-President; John J. Montgomery, Seere- tary ; Joseph J. Duune, Treasurer ; Joseph Hughes, Librarian.


SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION .- Organized March 28, 1871. Objecta: The promotion of painting, sculpture, and fine arts akin thereto, the diffusion of a cultivated taste for art in the community at large, and the establishment of au academy or school of de- sign. Membership in this society, which has now


about six hundred contributing, one hundred and fifty life, and nine honorary members, is open to all lovers of art. Regular members' meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of March, June, Septem- ber, and December, in the rooms of the society, 430 Pine street. Annual election of officers last Tuesday in March of each year.


Officers .- A. G. Hawes, President; F. Marion Wells, and Horace P. Fletcher, Vice-Presidents ; D. P. Bel- knap, Secretary : J. R. Martin, Assistant Secretary ; Lovell White, Treasurer ; Gordon Blanding, Charles Josselyn, R. C. Harrison, J. W, Brown, H. N. Clement and Samuel M. Brooks, Board of Directors.


The School of Design connected with the associa- tion was organized December 31, 1873. The school has sixty-one pupils. Its affairs are managed by a committee of members of the Art Association. Virgil Williams, Director of School.


SAN FRANCISCO BAR ASSOCIATION. - Organ- ized April 20, 1872. Number of members, about two hundred. Objects: To maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice, and to cultivate social intercourse among its members. Rooms 634 Sacramento street and 633 Com- mercial street.


Officers .- W. W. Cope. President; W. R. Wheaton, and John A. Stanley, Vice-Presidents; Thomas V. O'Brien, Secretary ; John F. Swift, Corresponding Secretary; A. H. Loughborough, Treasurer.


SAN FRANCISCO LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. -Organized 1865. Library contains about twenty thousand volumes. Rooms 27 and 28 Montgomery Block.


Officers-J. P. Hoge, President; Joseph W.Winans, Treasurer ; F. P. Deering, Secretary and Librarian.


SAN FRANCISCO LONG RANGE RIFLE CLUB (Amateur) .- Organized 1877. Number of members, thirty. Shooting every Saturday at range, Bay View, where the club has their club house.


Fred. G. Blinn, Secretary.


SAN FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY .- Organized April 5, 1872. Incorporated August 30, 1872. Number of active members, thirty. Meets second and fourth Mondays of each month at 120 Sutter street, room 44. Object: The study of microscopical science on the Pacific coast.


Officers .- Wm, Ashburner, President ; William Nor- ris, Vice-President ; E. J. Wickson, Recording Secre- tary ; Charles W. Banks, Corresponding Secre-tary ; Arthur M. Hickox, Treasurer.


SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS .- Organ- ized August, 1850. Rooms, 808 Montgomery street.


The expressed objects of the society are to collect and preserve information connected with the early settlement and subsequent conquest of the country, and to perpetuate the memory of those whose saga- city, energy and enterprise induced them to settle in the wilderness and become the founders of a new State. All who were in California prior to the first day of January, 1850, are eligible to membership. Any who have rendered distinguished or important services to the society or State, may be admitted as honorary members. The roll of the society embraces the names of over twenty-three hundred members. Regular meetings of the society take place on the first Monday of each month. Annual election of officers on the seventh day of July, the anniversary of the conquest of California, and of the raising of the American flag on its soil. Annual celebration on the ninth of September, the anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. The Society is pos- sessed of a library, an excellent cabinet of minerals, relics of early times, and various other objects of interest.


Officers .- Joseph G. Eastland, President ; John F. Lohse, Ethelbert Burke, San Francisco, Lansing B. Mizner, Benicia, Thomas H. Lane, San José, and Chaa. H. Harrison, Oakland, Vice-Presidents ; Ferdinand Vassault, Secretary ; Howard Havens, Treasurer ; Wm. Huefner, Marshal.


SOCIETY OF DECORATIVE ART. - Organized March, 1881. Meets first Friday in every month at 613 Sutter street. The objects of this society are the establishment of rooms for the exhibition and sale of woman's work ; the diffusion of a knowledge of de-


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corative art among women and their training in arti- sts' industries. To maintain a library of hand-booka on subjecta of Decorative Art and Design, for the use of members and pupils.




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