Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1883, Part 16

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SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION .- Incorporated June 18, 1862. Office 532 Californis street, corner of Webb. This incorporation now holds deposits to the amount of $11,261,406, and hss a paid-up guarantee capital and reserve fund of $461,909, which sum is Increased each half year. The guarantee capital and reserve fund cannot be withdrawn, nor can they be diminished, except in payment of losses, and they form sn absolute security to depositors for their de- posits and declared dividends.


Officers. - Albert Miller, President ; Alexander Csinpbell, Sr., Vice President ; Lovell White, Cashier snd Secretary.


LOUIS BRAVERMAN & CO Manufacturers of fine JEWELRY and DIAMOND Work 119 Montgomery Street.


Whether you travel or not, insure against accidents in The Travelers.


LA GRANDE LAUNDRY


ORDERS FOR WASHING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO OFFICE, 648 MARKET STREET.


SOCIETIES.


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SAN FRANCISCO SHIP CALKERS' ASSOCIATION. -Organized October 23, 1878. Number of members two hundred and thirteen. Meets first Wednesday of every month at 44 Spear street.


Officers .- William H. Miller, President; Joseph Eviston, Vice-President ; James E. Connolly, Secre- tary ; Thomas F. Mangan, Treasurer.


SAN FRANCISCO STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD .- Organized September 11, 1862. Meetings held daily at eleven o'clock, A. M., and three o'clock P. M., at 333 Pine, between Montgomery and Sansome streets.


Officers .- George T. Marye, Jr., President ; S. B. Wakefield, Vice-President; B. H. Coit, Chairman ; J. M. Shotwell, Treasurer; Charles S. Neal, Secretary.


SAN FRANCISCO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO. 21 .- Organized 1868. Number of members, four hun- dred and fifty. Meets on the last Sunday of every month.


Officers .- William Black, President ; J. K. Phillips, First Vice-President ; Edmund Yerworth. Second Vice- President ; J. D. Harvey, Recording and Correspond- ing Secretary ; L. P. Ward, Financial Secretary ; S. H. Jenner, Treasurer.


SAVINGS AND LOAN SOCIETY .- Incorporated July 23, 1857; re-incorporated December 12, 1865. Office, 619 Clay street.


The object for which this society is formed, is, that by means of it depositors may find a secure and profit- able investment for small savings. Deposits received from $2 50 up to any amount. Reserve fund, $218,- 823 35. Capital paid in, $500,000.


Officers .- Horace Davis, President ; S. E. Bigelow, Vice-President ; Cyrus W. Carmany, Cashier and Sec- retary.


SCAVENGERS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized August 17, 1879. Meets first Saturday of each month at their rooms 429 Broadway. Number of members one hundred and fifty. Objects; To amel- iorate the individual and social condition of its mem- bers through union and mutual protection in their trade ; to seek with honest and legal means to facili- itate and ameliorate their business, in order to ob- tain their principal object, the welfare and prosperity of its members.


Officers .- Giovanni Devincenze, President; Joseph Sbarboro, Vice-President ; S.Deneri, Secretary; Pietro Canepa, Treasurer.


SEAMEN'S PROTECTIVE UNION OF SAN FRAN- CISCO .- Organized February 1, 1878. Incorporated May 11, 1878. Number of members, nine hundred. Meets every other Friday evening at 54 Sacramento street.


Officers .- James Carr, President ; John Lamb, Vice- President ; J. D. Griffiths, Recording Secretary; James Carr, Treasurer.


SECURITY SAVINGS BANK .- Incorporated March, 1871. Capital stock, $300,000. Office, 215 Sansome street.


Officers .- (Vacant), President ; Jerome Lincoln, Vice-President ; Winfield S. Jones, Secretary.


SHIP AND STEAMBOAT JOINERS' PROTEC- TIVE ASSOCIATION. - Organized February, 1881. Meets first Friday of each month in Sanders' Hall, 71 New Montgomery street.


Officers,-J. J. D. Price, President ; B. A. Rawle, Secretary ; John Dougherty, Treasurer.


SOCIETE CULINAIRE COSMOPOLITE DE SE- COURS MUTUEL .- Organized Sept. 4, 1876. Num- ber of members, fifty-eight. Meets first Monday of every month at 508 Bush street.


Officers .- August Portal, President ; Henry Le Clair, Vice-President ; Henry F. Tyson, Secretary ; Joseph Mouthon, Treasurer.


SOCIETY OF GERMAN PHYSICIANS .- Organized 1869. Number of members, eighteen. Meets second Tuesday of each month at eight o'clock P. M., at 29 Kearny street.


Object: Advancement of medical science.


Officers .- C.Von Hoffmann, M.D,, President ; Joseph Bayer, M. D., Secretary: Adolph Aronstein, M. D., Treasurer and Librarian.


SPORTSMAN'S CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. - Organ- ized February, 1876. Incorporated August, 1876. Num-


ber of members, one hundred. Objects, preservation of fish and game, and retention of fishing preserves, etc. Office, 320 Sansome street.


Officers .- C. A. Morse, P'resident : John F. Lohse, Vice-President ; William Stuart, Secretary.


STONE CUTTERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION .- Organized May, 1863. Meets first Wednesday of each month, at Irish-American Hall, 818 Howard street.


Officers .- Peter Hopkins, President ; William Lewis, Vice-President ; Francis MeLaughlin, Financial Sec- retary ; James McFarland, Treasurer.


TAILORS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized Sep- tember 29, 1873. Number of members, one hundred. Meets second and fourth Mondays of each month at Eintracht Hall. 316 Post street. Objects: The better protection of the trade and to promote the interests of its members.


Officers .- Andrew O.Thulin, President ; C. Bauman, Vice-President; F. Ahlberg, Recording Secretary ; Ernest Dressler, Financial Secretary ; A. Mcitsch, Treasurer.


TRADERS' ASSOCIATION .- Organized May 13, 1862. Meets quarterly.


Officers .- Charles Kohler, President ; Fabian Joost and Nicholas Bruns, Vice-Presidents ; A. A. Hobe, Secretary : John Wieland, Treasurer.


UNION LOAN ASSOCIATION,-Incorporated May 3, 1881. Capital Stock $1,000,000, in five thousand shares of $200 each. Meets second Tuesday in each month in B'nai B'rith Hall, 121 Eddy- street.


Objects: To raise funds in shares payable in peri- odical installments, and to make loans to its members for the purpose of aiding them in acquiring and im- proving real estate.


Officers,-Isaac Upham, President; R. F. Osborn, Vice-President; Mathias Meyer, Treasurer; L. L. Dennery, Secretary. Office, 729 Montgomery street.


UNITED WORKINGMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURING CO .-- Incorporated January 13, 1868. Number of members, twenty.one. Capital, $80,000. Office and depot, 416 Market street.


Officers .-- J. D. Sullivan, President ; John Markham, Vice-President; Walter Rosie, Secretary ; Dennis McCarthy, Treasurer.


WAITERS' COSMOPOLITAN SOCIETY OF CALI- FORNIA .- Meets first Tuesday of each month at San Francisco office, 508 Bush street (Café Lafayette). Number of members twenty-five.


Officers .- Charles Pinot, President ; A. Jourdain, Vice-President ; Jean L. Bordes, Treasurer ; Henry F. Tyson, Secretary.


Literary, Historical, Etc.


ADELPHI SOCIETY .- Organized June 30, 1874. Number of members, about sixty. Meets every Fri- day evening during the term of college, at Academy of Sciences Hall, southwest corner California and Du- pont streets.


This society was organized by the students of the California College of Pharmacy, for the especial pur- pose of discussing the lectures of the faculty, and their mutual improvement in matters appertaining to pharmacy.


Officers .- Isaac Jacobs, President ; George Cabaniss, Vice-President ; Joseph Kelly, Secretary ; Abraham Williams, Treasurer.


CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES .- Organ- ized April 4, 1853. Number of members, four hun- dred. Academy Building, southwest corner of Cali- fornia and Dupont streets.


Board of Trustees. - George E. Gray, President ; Thomas P. Madden, Vice-President ; James Simpson, Ralph C. Harrison, James M. McDonald 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


G. W. CLARK & CO. S


645 Market St., INTERIOR DECORATORS, Shade Materials and Fixtures.


Wholesale and Retail dealers In Paper Hangings, and all kinds of Window


D. HICKS & CO., 508 Montgomery St., cor. Commercial, Leading Bookbinders of San Francisco.


HINCKLEY, SPIERS & HAYES,


FULTON IRON WORKS, 213 Fremont Street, Manufacturers of Amalgaminting Paus and Settlers.


SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.


Factory, cor. Fifth and Brannan.


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


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Curators-Justin P. Moore and Dr. Mary K. Curran, Botany; Dr. A. B. Stout, Ethnology and Osteology; E. F. Lorquin; Mammals and Birds; C. G. Yale. Fishes; | J. J. Rivers, Reptiles and Radiates ; H. Herman Behr, Entomology; Josiah Keep, Conchology; Edward Booth, Geology and Paleontology; C. D. Gibbes and J. T. Evans, Mineralogy.


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 cach month. The regular stated meetings of the Board of Trustees, first and third Mondays, and meetings of the Council, last Saturday of each month,


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 documents 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 incorpo- rated August 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 the College of Pharmacy, Fulton street, between Polk and Van Ness Avenue, for a term of six months, commencing Tuesday, April 3, 1883.


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; F. C. Keil, First Vice-President; E. W. Runyan. Second Vice- President ; Fred. Grazer, Recording and Correspond- ing Secretary; E. A. Schreck, Treasurer; John Calvert, Editor; E. Happersberger, Librarian and Curator; Emlen Paiuter, S. A. McDonnell, John Calvert, J. H. Dawson, Fred. Grazer, Fred. C. Keil and D. W. Kirk- land, 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; Lieut. H. T. Sime, Secretary : Col. A. Andrews, Treasurer; Col. W. R. Smedberg, Col. J. H. Dickinson, Col. A. Andrews, Capt. S. S. Templeton, Capt. M. N. Laufen- berg, Lieut. J. E. Klein, Sergeant Nash, Capt. J. J. Murphy, Lieut. H. Huber, Directors.


CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS .- Incorporated March, 1876. Objects: To educate Call- fornia boys 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 branchea.


members, one hundred. Meetings held the last Fri- day of each month at Grangers' Hall, 40 California street. Objects: To promote the science and practice of horticulture in all its branches. Secretary's office, 414 Clay street.


Officers .- E. W. Hilgard, Berkeley, President; A. T. Hatch, Cordelia, Solano Co., Vice-President; R. J. 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 & public museum, which are open daily to visitora, 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 .- Organs ized 1871. Number of members, twenty-five. Meets monthly at the law office of Crittenden Robinson, 339 Kearny street.


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


FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC .- Organized February, 1876. Meets 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 aud Treasurer; T. E. Pope, A. D. Smith and T. A. Mitchell, Executive Committee.


GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC .- Office, 411 Post street. Objects: To encourageGeo- graphical exploration aud discovery ; to investigate and disseminate Geographical information by discus- sion, lectures and publications ; to establish in this, 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 & collection of the most recent Maps and Charts-especially those which 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.


Officers .- Henry G. Hanks, President; Melville Att- wood, Vice-President; S. Heydenfeldt, Jr., Secretary. Officers .- George Davidson, President ; Ogden Hoff- man, Wm. Lane Booker and T. E. Slevin, Vice-Presi- CALIFORNIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SO- deuts : F. Lambertenghi, Foreign Secretary : James P. Cox, Home Corresponding Seretary ; O. I. Hutchin- CIETY .- Organized September, 1879. Number of | son, Treasurer ; C. Mitchell Grant, Secretary.


SAN FRANCISCO LAUNDRY


Prompt Attention to Orders forWashing OFFICE, 33 GEARY ST.


J. MACDONOUGH & CO.


Importers of and Dealers In all kinds of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC COAL, 41 Market Street, corner Spear.


SOCIETIES.


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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 sev- enty. Meets in Pioneer Hall, 808 Montgomery street, every Thursday evening.


Officers .- Isaac Jacobs, President ; Geo. Cabinass, Vice-President ; Joseph Kelly, Recording Secretary ; David Mahoney, Corresponding Secretary ; Abraham Williams, Treasurer.


INVENTORS' INSTITUE .- Incorporated in 1883. Rooms 321 California street. Objects: To sell and dispose of patent inventions of all kinds, in this State and elsewhere; the placing of creditable and useful inventions of all kinds before the public by advertising, etc .; the exhibition in the Exhibition rooms connected with the Institute, models of inven- tions, drawings, etc.


Officers .- N. W. Spaulding, President; First Na- tional Gold Bank, Treasurer; Daniel Buck, Secretary ; A. B. Smith, Manager.


JUNIOR PHILHISTORIAN DEBATING SOCIETY. -Organized in October, 1877. Meets every Monday afternoon in the Debating Hall of St. Ignatius Col- lege.


Officers .- Rev. Joseph Sasia, S. J., President; Joseph McArdle, Vice-President ; John Wolan, Recording Secretary ; Clarence Mckinstry, Corresponding Sec- retary ; Louis Knell, Treasurer ; Wm. Field, Librs- rian ; Chas. Mohun, Censor.


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


Officers .- 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 Payot, Second Vice-President ; E. Meyer, Treasurer ; A. Goustiaux and Raoul Char- trey, 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 Sundays and legal holidays.


, Officers. - Daniel Levy, President ; E. Raas and Henry Payot Vice-Presidents ; John Riehr, Librarian and Secretary.


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, 31 Post street.


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 has a Reading Room well supplied with the leading scientific and literary periodicals of the day, and a valuable library containing thirty-three thousand volumes, including many rare scientific works. Among these is a com- plete set of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the full collection of Annales des


[ Ponts et Chaussees, the full set of British Patent Office Reports (three thousand five hundred volumee) Dingler's Polytechnisches Journal, Poggendorf's An- nalen, Guy's Hospital Reports, etc., etc. Any person may become a member, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees, by paying au initiation fee of one dollar, and one dollar and fifty cents quarterly dues in ad- vance.


Officers .- P. B. Cornwall, President; A. W. Star- bird, Vice-President; J. A. Bauer, Treasurer ; James Spiers, 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 Mercantile 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 three dollars per quarter in advance.


Officers .- George T. Marye Jr., President; J. H. Wilder, Vice-President ; F. T. Cooper, Recording Secretary ; David Wilder, Corresponding Secretary ; T. B. Kent, Treasurer ; A. E. Whitaker, Librarian ; 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, Presi- 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 .- H. Clay Chipman, Past Grand President ; John H. Grady, Grand President; George Hoffmeister, Deputy Grand President; Wm. M. Clark, Grand Treas- urer ; C. L. Weller, Jr., Grand Secretary ; L. C. Branch, Grand Lecturer; C. F. McWilliams, 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. Rooms, 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 .- T. K. Wilson, President; Daniel Mc- Laren, Vice-President ; E. W. Nohl, Recording Secre- tary ; E. F. Adams, Corresponding Secretary ; Henry H. Earle, Treasurer; George A. Carnes, Librarian ; Andrew J. Cleary, Assistant Librarian.


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 substantial basis, and its membership now seek to locate a camp in every town in the United States. It has for its objects the inculcation of pure Ameri- can principles ; the opposition to foreign interference


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TRUMAN, ISHAM & CO., Agents, Wholesale and Retail.


509, 511 MARKET ST. San Francisco.




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