Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1888, Part 15

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Publication date: 1880
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
Number of Pages: 1468


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Officers .- W. A. Knowles, President : T. N. Ingle- hart, Vice-President ; S. E. Knowles, Corresponding Secretary : Thomas Morffew, Recording Secretary ; J. J. Birge, Treasurer and Librarian.


SAN FRANCISCO MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION. -Incorporated October 28, 1882. Office, 307 Sansome street. Object: To make losns to its members for the improvement of real estate. Capital stock, $1,000,000 divided into five thousand shares of $200 each.


Officers .- Thomas J. Welsh, President; Charles A. Malm, Vice-President ; William Wagner, Treasurer;


Officers .- A. H. Kress, President ; C. C. Lacy, Vice- | A. Sbarboro, Secretary ; Ed. J. Mccutchen, Attorney.


AUXILLIARY PRINTERS, PALMER & REY. 405-407 Sansome St.


ELECTRIC AND POISON OAK BATHS AT MEDICAL SUPPLY HEADQUARTERS, 427 Sutter St.


PERRIER-JOUËT & CO. CHAMPAGNE


FINEST EXTRA QUALITIES, EXTRA DRY "SPECIAL," "CREMANT ROYAL " and "BRUT."


SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.


OFFICE, 33 GEARY STREET.


Prompt Attention to Orders for Washing.


SAN FRANCISCO LAUNDRY.


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SAN FRANCISCO PRESSMENS' UNION .- Objects: Protective and beneficial. Organized March, 1886. Danton Doggett, President; W. Barry, Vice-Presl- deut ; George A. Orr, Secretary ; L. A. Robinet, Finan- cial Secretary : E. McGeeney, Treasurer. Meet at 538 California on the first and third Monday of each month.


SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE EXCHANGE .- Orga- nlzed September 15, 1867. Number of members two hundred. Meets daily at half past ten o'clock A. M .. in rooms in Merchants Exchange, 425 California street, between Montgomery and Ssnsome. Object: To promote the interest and convenience of deslers in domestic produce.


Officers .- Frank Dalton, President; E. Ransom Vice-President ; T. C. Friedlander, Secretary pro tem. ; H. Dutard, Treasurer. Secretary's office, 24 Mer- chants' Exchange.


SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE EXCHANGE CALL BOARD ASSOCIATION .- Organized August 3. 1882. Number of members. two hundred. Daily sessions, 11:15 A. M. and 2 P. M.


Officers .- Frank Dalton, President; E. Ransom, Vice-President ; H. Dutard, Treasurer ; T. C. Fried- lander, Secretary. Secretsry's office, 24 Merchants' Exchange.


" SAN FRANCISCO REBATE ALLIANCE .- Object: Any person becoming a member, by paying a small annual subscription fee is entitled to a drawback (& rebate of from three per cent. to ten per cent., ac- cording to the line of goods) on all purchases made from specified retail dealers of the Alliance. Lists of dealers and certificates of membership furnished upon application.


Emil Cohn, general manager. Office, History Building, 723 Market street.


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 .- James E. Conuelly, Preslaent ; Joseph Smith, Vice-President ; John Berry, Secretary ; Wil- liam Jones, Treasurer.


SAN FRANCISCO STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD .- Organized September 11, 1862. Meetings held daily at 9:30 and 11 A. M., snd 2:30 P. M., at 333 Pine street.


Officers .- Jeremiah Lynch. President ; W. E. Nor- wond, Vice-President ; O. V. Walker, Chairman ; Geo. T. Marye, Jr., Treasurer: Fred. W. Hadley, Secretary.


SAN FRANCISCO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO. 21 .- Organized 1868. Number of members. seven hundred. Meets on the last Sunday of every month.


Officers. - E. T. Plank, President ; Andrew F. Smith, First Vice-President : W. W. Shannon, Second Vice-President ; Thos. P. Baker, Secretary : J. P. O1- well, Treasurer ; Wm. A. Simpson, Sergeant-at-Arms ; Harry Rogers, Walking Delegate.


SCAVENGERS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized Angust 17, 1879. Meets first Saturday of esch month at their rooms 423 Broadway. Number of members about two hundred.


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


SPORTSMAN'S CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. - Organ- ized February, 1876. Incorporated August, 1876. Num- ber of members, sixty. Objects, preservation of fish and game, and retention of fishing preserves, etc. Office, 109 California street.


Officers .- John M. Adams, President ; J. C. Mitchell, Secretary.


STEAMSHIP SAILORS' PROTECTIVE UNION OF THE PACIFIC COAST .- Organized April 21, 1886. Object, mutual protection. Number of members. 1.100. Meets every Tuesday at 12%% Washington street. David McDonald, President; Ernest Lee, Secretary and Treasurer.


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


Officers .- A. H. McNutt, President ; A. S. Price, Vice-President ; E. H. Gilberts, Financial Secretary ; J. Mahoney, Recording Secretary: B. W. Dineen, Treasurer ; M. F. O'Reilly, Sergeant-at- Arms.


TAILORS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized Sep- tember 29, 1873. Number of members, two hundred and seventy-eight. Meets secondand 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.


THE COMPANY OF ASSOCIATED STOCK BRO- KERS .- Officers : Homer S. King, President ; J. M. Shotwell, Vice-President; H. L. Van Wyck, Treasurer ; H. P. Landon, Secretary.


THE STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE .- Officers- John Perry, Jr., President ; Aug. Helbing, Vice-Pres- ident; R. G. Brown, Chairman ; J. R. K. Nuttall, Secretsry ; 22 Merchants' Exchange.


. 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. Office of Secretary, 423 California 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; M. Meyer, Tressurer; L. L. Dennery, Secretary.


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, 513 Market street.


Officers .-- J. D. Sullivan, President ; John D.O'Brien, Vice-President; Walter Rosie, Secretary; James Butler, Tressurer.


WEST OAKLAND MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION. -Incorporated July 21, 1875. Capital, $600,000 (3000 shares of $200 each). Object: Loans to members to enable them to secure homes on easy payments.


Officers-A. Merle. President ; Wm. Wagner, Treas- urer; A. Sbarboro, Secretary; D. Freidenrich, Attor- ney. Office, 307 Sansome.


WHITE COOKS' WAITERS' AND EMPLOYEES' PROTECTIVE AND BENEVOLENT UNION OF THE PACIFIC COAST .- Organized June 12th, 1883, and incorporated November 30th, 1883. Meets every Sat- urday evening at Alcazar Building.


Officers-C. D. Laughlin, President; Stephen A. Born, Recording Secretary; S. L. Bray, Treasurer.


Headquarters and business office, 124 Geary street.


Literary, Historical, Etc.


CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES .- Organ- ized April 4, 1853. Number of members, three hun- dred and twenty-five. Academy Building, southwest corner of Californis and Dupont streets.


Board of Trustees .- J. Z. Davis, Chairman ; E. J. Molera, Secretary; Charles F. Crocker, D. E. Hayes, E. L. G. Steele, S. W. Holladay and George C. Perkins.


Officers and Council .- H. W. Harkness, M.D , Pres- ident (residence Grand Hotel); H. H. Behr, First Vice-President; George Hewston, Second Vice-Presi- dent; H. Ferre, Corresponding Secretary; W. T. Smith, 206 Sansome, Recording Secretary; J. E. Thayer, Treasurer; C. Troyer, Librarian; J. G. Cooper. Director of Museum.


Curators-Adiey H. Cummins and T. H. Hittel, Ethnology ; Ernest F. Lorquin and Walter E. Bryant, Mammals and Birds; Mrs. Ross Smith Eigenmann, Fish ; W. F. Nolte. Reptiles; H. F. Lorquin. Ra- diates; Dr. F. V. Hopkins. Conchology ; Dr. E. S. Clark, Entomology : Mrs. Mary K. Curran and Has- brouck Davis, Botany; Carleton H. Clark. Paleon- tology: John Hewston, Geology; J. R. Scupham and Melville Atwood, Mineralogy.


Committee on Publication-H. W. Harkness, Wm. F. Smith, E. L. Greene, George Hewston and O. T. Troyer.


The regular stated meetings of the Academy are


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WM. SEXTON, Asst. Manager.


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SOCIETIES.


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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 twice a month, as notified.


CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. - Incorpo- rated July 14, 1870. Reincorporsted February, 1886. Objects: Cultivation of the history, antiquities, and ethnography of the west coast of America, and the publication of early relations and documents con- nected therewith. Meetings on the third Tuesday of each month.


Officers .- John T. Doyle, President ; J. R. Jarboe, Wm. Norris and Rev. A. Varsie, Vice-Presidents ; Ww. Carey Jones, Secretary; Joseph A. Donohoe, Treasurer.


CALIFORNIA PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY AND COLLEGE OF PHARMACY .- The society was incor- porated December 10, 1871. The college was iucorpo- rated August 7, 1872, and affiliated with the Univer- sity of California June 18, 1873. The society and college were consolidated January, 1878. Lectures given at the Hall of the College of Pharmacy, 113 Fulton street, between Polk and Van Ness avenue, for a term of six months.


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. The society meets quarterly or oftener for the discus- sion of topics of scientific and practical interest to the pharmacist.


Officers .- Fred. C. Keil, President ; H. H. Behr. M. D., First Vice-President ; W. T. Wenzell, Second Vice-President ; Charles M. Troppniann, Correspond. ing and Recording Secretary ; Henry Michaels. Treas- urer, Misa Josephine Barbat, Librarian and Curator ; W. T. Wenzell, M.D., Editor; E. W. Runyon, Dean.


CALIFORNIA RIFLE ASSOCIATION. - Incorpor- aled June, 1875. Objects : To encourage rifle prac- tice; to promote a system of armory drill and target Aring among the National Guard; and to provide a suitable range for the use of the members of the As- sociation. Office, 402 Montgomery street.


Officers .- Colonel John H. Dickinson, President ; Captain T. Sime, Vice-President ; Major E. G. Sprowl, Treasurer ; Sergeant P. E. Vander, Secretary.


CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS .- Incorporated in 1885. Objects: To educate Cali- fornia boys and girls in the mechanical arts and trades. Has an endowment of $540,000, left by James Liek, which has not yet been paid over.


Officers-Horace Davis, President; A. S. Hallidie, Vice-President; John H. Boalt, Secretary; Horace Davis, A. S. Hallidie, J. O. Earl, Horatio Stebbins, D. D., and John H. Boalt, Trustees.


CALIFORNIA STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION .- W. F. Griswold, President ; W. De Crow, Vice-Presi- dent; W. A. Knowles, Recording Secretary ; W. Z. King, Corresponding Secretary ; S. E. Knowles, Treas- urer ; T. N. Iglehart, Librarian.


CALIFORNIA STATE HORTICULTURAL SO- · CIETY .- Organized September. 1879. Number of members, one hundred. Objects: To promote the science and practice of horticulture in all its branches. Secretary's office, 220 Market street.


Officers .- E. W. Hilgard, Berkeley, President; A. T. Hatch, Suisun, Solano Co., Vice-President; R. J. Trumbull, 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." The Bureau is now lo- cated in Pioneers' Building, west side Fourth street, between Market and Mission, where spacious rooms, filled with specimens, are open daily to visitors, free from ten A. M. to five P. M. The museum will be found very interesting and instructive to tourists as well as our own citizens.


J. B. Davis, S. Heydenfeldt Jr., G. W. Grayson, George Hearst and W. S. Keyes, Trustees; William Irelan, Jr., State Mineralogist.


FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC .- Organized February, 1876. Meets at 307 Sansome street, room 6. Object: Mutual improve- ment in Insurance matters.


Officers .- W. L. Chalmers, President ; L.B. Edwards, Vice-President; Bernard Faymonville, Secretary and Treasurer.


FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE .- Organized 1879. Location north side of Bush street, between Kearny and Dupont streets. Will be in New City Hall about June, 1888.


This institution was provided for in the Act passed by the Legislature in April, 1880, authorizing the crea- tion and maintenance of free libraries, and empower- ing the Supervisors to levy a tax of not exceeding ons mill on the dollar for their support. The library was formally opened June 7, 1879, with about 6,162 volumes, (magazines and periodicals not in- cluded), together with a newspaper department. At this time there are nearly 71,700 volumes iu the Library. Between 25,000 and 28,000 are circulated each month. Number of Home Cards issued, 33,750. The library is open on secular days from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Ou Sundays from I P. M. to 5 P. M.


Board of Trustees .- John H. Wise, President ; Thos, B. Bishop, A. L. Mana.P. N. Lilienthal, William Nor- ris. E. R. Taylor, E. D. Sawyer, Chas. C. Terrill, R. C. Harrison, Jos. O'Connor and the Mayor, ex-officio; Secretary, Charles Stevens : Librarian, J. V. Cheney.


GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC .- Office, 513 Post street. Objects: To encourage Geo- graphical exploration and discovery ; to investigate and disseminate Geographical information by discus- sion, lectures and publications ; to establish iu 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 a 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 .- George Davidson, President ; Ogden Hoff- man, John Curry and T. E. Slevin, Vice-Presidents : P.W. Poulson, Foreign Secretary ; Gerrit L. Lansing. Home Corresponding Secretary ; J. P. Cox, Treasurer ; C. Mitchell Grant, Secretary.


Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at 413 Sutter street.


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


Officers .- A. L. Frick. President; V. A. Scheller, Vice-President : S. M. Van Wyck, Secretary ; S. R. O'Keefe, Treasurer.


JERSEY CATTLE CLUB .- Pacific Coast Jersey Cattle Club, office 405 California street. Number of membera, eighty.


Officers .- John W. Coleman, President : A.Mailliard, Secretary and Treasurer; James M. McShafter, A. Mailliard, R. G. Sneath, John W. Coleman and J. D. Fry, Executive Committee.


LIGUE NATIONALE FRANCAISE .- Organized Au- gust 4, 1871. Meets third Monday of each month, at 120 Sutter street. Objects: To promote friendship,


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SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.


harmony, and intelligence among the French resi- dents of California, and enable them to co-operate in enterprises of general importance.


Officers .- E. Raas, President; H. Weill, First Vice- President; A. Goustiaux, Second Vice-President ; E. Meyer, Treasurer; L. Saclier and H. Clerc de Laud- resse, Secretaries ; A. Masson, Librarian and Secre- tary.


The library belonging to the society contains about fourteen thousand volumes, partly voluntary dona- tions. 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 holi- days.


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. The library contains eight hundred volumes.


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 arethe 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 forty thousand volumes, including many rare scientific works. Any person may become a member, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees, by paying an initiation fee of one dollar, and one dol- lar and fifty cents quarterly dues in advance. The Institute also owns the magnificent " Mechanics' Pa- vilion," located on the southwest corner of Grove and Larkin streets, in which, under the auspices of the Institute, the Annual Industrial Expositions are held.


Officers .- P. B. Cornwall, President ; David Kerr, Vice-President ; J. A. Bauer, Treasurer; A. W. Star- bird, Recording Secretary ; I. C. Stump, Correspond- ing Secretary ; J. H. Culver, Assistant Secretary ; Hor- ace Wilson, Librarian ; A. M. Jellison, Assistant Li- brarian.


MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION .- Organ- ized January 24, 1853. 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, aud the reading rooms are amply supplied with papers and magazines from the Eastern States and Europe. The terms of membership are one dollar and a half per quarter in advance.


Officers .- O. V. Walker, President ; E. J. Molera, Vice-President ; Bert McNulty, Recording Secret try; E. Tausky, Corresponding Secretary; Henry Molin- eux, Treasurer ; A. E. Whitaker, Librarian.


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 twelve hundred and fifty volumes and two hundred maps.


Officers .- W. H. Dimond, President; W. R. Smed- berg, Treasurer ; David Wilder, Secretary and Libra- rian ; W. H. Dimond, W. R. Smedberg, Robert Tobin, G. W. Granniss, A. S. Hubbard, H. D. Ranlett, J. C. Robinson, H. P. Bush, Hans H. Kohler, Trustees. Office Phelan Building, room 306; office hours, 3 to 4 o'clock P. M.


PACIFIC COAST AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION .- Meets the first Thursday after first Monday in each month, at 605 Merchant street.


Officers .- A. J. Treat, President ; George W. Reed, Vice-President ; H. S. Herrick, Secretary and Treas- urer ; S. A. Brooks, Corresponding Secretary.


PHILHISTORIAN DEBATING SOCIETY .- Organ- ized October, 1863. Meets every Wednesday afternoon in the College Debating Hall. It is composed of the highest classes of St. Ignatius' College, the graduates and under-graduates; it receives also as members, other educated young men who are not students of this College, provided they possess the required qualifications.


Officers .- Rev. P. Mans, S. J., President; Oscar Rouleau, Vice-President; Louis Bartlett, Recording Secretary ; Frederick Cusack, Corresponding. Secre- tary ; Henry Phelan, Treasurer ; Francis Francoeur, Librarian ; Joseph Hughes, Censor.


SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION .- Organized, March 28, 1871. Objects: 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 an 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 .- Joseph D. Redding, President; John A. Stanton and J. B. Crockett, Vice-Presidents; E. E. Potter, Secretary: J. R. Martin, Assistant Secre- tary ; James D. Phelan. Treasurer.


The School of Design connected with the associa- tion was organized December 31, 1873. The school has ninety pupils. Its affairs are managed by a committee of members of the Art Association. Emil Carlsen, Director of School; A. Joullin, Assistant Director.


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, 121 Post street.


Officers .- S. M. Wilson, President; T. P. Stoney and E. B. Mastick, Vice-Presidents; Ramon E. Wilson, Secretary : Harold Wheeler, Corresponding Secretary; John M. Burnett, Treasurer.


SAN FRANCISCO CREMATION COMPANY .- In- corporated September 5, 1885. The Society intends to erect a crematary on a lot of ground situated on the northeast corner of California and Laurel streets. Capital stock, $25,000 ; divided into 500 shares. Office, 331 Keirny street, room 1.


Officers. - Isidore Gutte, President; S. Greenblatt, Vice-President ; D. Hirshfeld, Recording Secretary; George E. Voelkel, Corresponding Secretary ; Fred. Roeding, Treasurer.


SAN FRANCISCO LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. -Organized 1865. Library contains about twenty- six thousand volumes. Rooms, New City Hall.


Officers-J. P. Hoge, President ; Ralph C. Harrison, Treasurer ; F. P. Deering, Secretary and Librarian. Directors, J. P. Hoge, J. T. Doyle, S. M. Wilson, Judges Coffey, Toohey and Levy


SAN FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY .- Organized April 5, 1872. Incorporated August 30, 1872. Number of active members, thirty-five. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 120 Sutter street, room 21.


Officers .- Dr. H. Ferrer, President ; W. Payzant, Vice-President ; E. J. Wickson, Recording Secretary ; C. P. Bates, Corresponding Secretary ; O. C. Riedy, Treasurer.


SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS .- Organ- ized August, 1850. Rooms, Pioneers' Building, west side of Fourth street. between Market and Mission streets: Entrance 5 Pioneer Place.


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 and also the male decendants of membera. All who were in California prior to the first day of January, 1850, are eligible to mem-


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Manufacturers of Show Cases and Store Fixtures,


37 Market St.


J. UTSCHIG, PRIZE BOOT AND SHOEMAKER, 322 BUSH STREET.


RPAD HARASZTHY & CO.


530 WASHINGTON ST.


) Producers of the only NATURAL CHAMPAGNE.


SOCIETIES,


101


Dership. Any who have rendered distinguished or important services to the society or State, may be admitted as honorary membera. Reguiar meetings of the society take place on the first Mon- siay 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 tbe American flag on its soil. Annual celebration on the ninth of September, the anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. The Society ia pos- sessed of a library, an excellent cabinet of minerals, elice of early times, and various other objects of nterest.




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