Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1891, Part 16

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Publication date: 1880
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
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Officers and Council .- H. W. Harkness, Pres- ident; H. H. Behr, First Vice-President; George Hewston, Second Vice-President; J. R. Scupbam, Frederick Gutzkow, Corresponding Secretaries; L. H. Foot, Treasurer; Carlos Troyer, Librarian; J. G. Cooper, Director of Museum.


Board of Trustees .- Charles F. Crocker, Chairman ; D. E. Hayes, W. C. Burnett, George C. Perkins, E. J. Molera, Irving M. Scott and John Taylor.


Curators .- T. H. Hittell, Ethnology ; Walter E. Bry- ant and L. Belding, Mammals and Birds ; J. J. Rivers, Reptiles ; H. F. Lorquin, Radiates; Charles Fuchs, Entomology ; Katharine Brandegee, Botany ; Dr. E. S. Clark. Paleontology ; Charles A. Keeler, Comparative Osteology; Melville Atwood and H. C. Behr, Mineral- ogy.


Committee on Publication. - H. W. Harkness, H. H. Behr, George Hewston and T. S. Brandegee.


The regular stated meetings of the Academy are held on the first and third Monday evenings of each month.


CALIFORNIA ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY .- Alexander Craw, Secretary. Meets at rooms of Cal- ifornia State Horticultural Society, 220 Sutter street.


CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. - Incorpo- rated as the Historical Society of the State of Cali- fornia, April 29, 1852. Reorganized in 1878. Reincor- porated March 5, 1886. Objects-To collect, preserve and diffuse information relating to history. Meetings on the second Tuesday evening of each month. Rooms, 819 Market street.


Jno. R. Jarboe, President ; A. S. Hubbard, Secretary and Librarian.


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- sity of California June 18, 1873. The society and


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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 .- S. H. Melvin, Oakland, President ; I. D. Holden, First Vice-President ; John Devine Second Vice-President ; D. D. Hunt, Corresponding and Re- cording Secretary ; Adolph Mack, Treasurer ; Williain M. Searby, Dean, and Professor of Materia Medica ; Henry F. Meier, Professor of Theory and Practice of Pharmacy ; W. T. Wenzell, Professor of Chemistry ; H. Herman Behr, Professor of Botany ; J. J. B. Ar- genti. Professor of Microscopy and Pharmacognosy.


CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS .- Incorporated in 1885. Objects: To educate Call- 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 by the Lick Trustees.


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


CALIFORNIA STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION .- F. W. Bliss, President; W. A. Knowles, Recording Secretary ; L. Van Orden, Corresponding Secretary ; J. J. Birge, Treasurer.


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 branchen. Meets at 220 Sutter street at 12:30 A. M. on last Friday of each month. E. J. Wiekson, San Francisco, Secre- tary. Office, 220 Market street.


CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU .- Organ- ized under an Act of the Legislature entitled " An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of & 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 & 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 st all reasonable hours be open to public inspec- tion, examination and study." The Bureau is now lo- cated in Pioneera' Building, west side Fourth street, between Market and Mission, where spacious rooms, filled with specimens, are open daily to visitors, free from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. The museum will be found very interesting and instructive to tourists as well as our own citizens.


J. Z. Davis, Geo. C. Perkins, W. S. Wood, W. S. Keyes and Thos. B. Bishop, Trusteca ; 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. H. Lowden, President; H. M. Grant, Vice-President; George H. Tyson, Secretary and Treasurer.


FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE .- Organized 1879. Location New City Hall, second floor. Branches : No. 1, corner Twenty-second and Valencia streets ; No. 2, Kentucky street near Butte, Potrero; No. 3, 1801 Stockton street.


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 one 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- eluded), together with a newspaper department. At this time there are nearly 70,000 volumes in the Library. Between 25,000 and 28,000 are circulated each month. Number of Home Cards issued, 12,000. The library is open ou secular days from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. On Sundays from 1 P. M. to 5 P. M.


Officers .- P. N. Lilenthal, President; Charles Stevens, Secretary ; J. V. Cheney, Librarian.


GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC .- Office, 430 Pine street. Objects-To encourage Geo- graphical exploration and 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 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, M. D., Foreign Secretary ; Hon. Jere- iniah Lynch, Home Corresponding Secretary; Harry Durbrow, Treasurer ; C. Mitchell Grant, Secretary.


Meets each month in the Art Association Building, 430 Pine street.


HASTINGS' DEBATING SOCIETY. - Organized September 1, 1878. Number of members, about twenty-five. Meets in Old Pioneer Hall, 808 Mont- gomery street, every Friday evening from September to July. J. T. York, President ; Bion S. Gregory, Sec- retary.


JERSEY CATTLE CLUB .- Pacific Coast Jersey Cattle Club, office 316 California street, basement. Number of members, eighty.


LIGUE NATIONALE FRANCAISE .- Organized Au- gust 4, 1871. Meets third Monday of each month, at 305 Larkin 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 .- E. Raas, President; E. Marque, First Vice- President; A. Goustiaux, Second Vice-President ; E. Meyer, Treasurer; Ed. Godchaux and A. Lemardelay, Secretaries ; A. Masson, Librarian and Secretary.


The library belonging to the society contains about fourteen thousand volumes, partly voluntary dona- tions. Any person may have access to the reading roomn, 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 12 to 6 p. M., and from 7:30 to 10 p. M., except Sundays and legal holidays.


MARINERS' FREE READING ROOM .- Northeast corner of Sacramento and Drumin 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 over a thousand volumes. 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 har & Reading Room well supplied with the leading scientifle and literary periodicals of the day,and a valuable library containing Afty thousand volumes, including many rare scientifie 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 " Mechanics' Pavilion," lu- cated on the southwest corner of Grove and Larkin


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streets, in which, under the auspices of the Insti- tute, the Annual Industrial Expositions are held.


Officers .- David Kerr, President : I. C. Stump, Vice- President ; A. W. Starbird, Treasurer ; Geo. E. Dow, Recording Secretary ; J. K. Firth, Corresponding Secretary ; J. H. Culver, Assistant Secretary ; Horsce Wilson, Librarian.


MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF CALI- FORNIA .- Officers .- O. O. Burgess, San Francisco, President ; P. C. Remondius, San Diego, First Vice- President; W. J. G. Dawson, St. Helens, Second Vice- President ; W. Watt Kerr, San Francisco, Secretary ; James H. Parkinson, Sacramento, Tressurer ; office 606 Sutter street.


MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION .- Organ- ized January 24, 1853. Mercantile Library Build- ing, Northeast corner of Van Ness Avenue and Golden Gate Avenue.


The rooms of the association are commodious and well arranged. The library contains about sixty-two thousand volumes, and the reading rooms are amply supplied with papers and magazines from the Esstern States and Europe. The terms of membership are one dollar and a half per quarter in advance.


Officers .- E. J. Molera, President ; Camilo Martin, Vice-President ; Bert McNulty, Recording Secretary; E. Tauszky, Corresponding Secretary; G. H. Kellogg, 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 ; H. P. Bush, Secretary and Libra- rian ; W. H. Dimond, W. R. Smedberg, G. W. Gran- niss, A. S. Hubbard, H. D. Ranlett, J. C. Robinson, H. P. Bush, Hans H. Kohler, Trustees. Office, 402 Montgomery street, room 18, office hours, 3 to 4 P. M.


PACIFIC COAST AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION .- Meets the first Thursday after first Mondsy in each month, at 92 Flood Building.


PHILHISTORIAN DEBATING SOCIETY,-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 .- R. E. Kenna, S. J., President; James F. Smith, Vice-President; John N. Power, Recording Secretary ; John A. Lenahan, Corresponding Secre- tary ; Richard V. Curtis, Treasurer ; David M. Bur- nett, Librarian ; Edward J. Banning, Assistant Librs- rian; Andrew C. Burnett, Censor.


Philhistorian Jr. Debating Society .- Composed of members of grammar classes.


Officers .- R. A. Gleeson, S. J., President ; Benj. L. Mckinley, Vice-President ; C. A. Buckley, Recording Secretary ; Gerald I. O'Brien, Corresponding Secre- tary ; Alexander Keenan, Treasurer; Edward J. Cooney, Librarian, Charles J. Welch, Censor.


SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION .- Organized March 28, 1871. Incorporated July 30, 1889, as The San Francisco Art Association. Objects-The pro- motion of painting, sculpture, and fine arts skin thereto, the


diffusion


of 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 four 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-Frederick W. Zeile, President ; Jas. D. Phelan snd Louis Sloss, Jr., Vice-Presidents ; E. E. Potter, Secretary ; J. R. Martin, Assistant Secretary ; Geo. H. Hopps, 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. R. D. Yelland, Arthur F. Mathews, Amedee Joullin, Oscar


Kunath and Lee Lssh, teachers; J. R. Martin, Secre- tary.


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 .- E. R. Taylor, President ; E. W. McKins- try, Senior Vice-President; W. H. Fifield, Vice- President ; F. P. Deering, Secretary ; Brewton Hayne, Corresponding Secretary; John M. Burnett, Treas- urer.


SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY SOCIETY OF PHYSI- CIANS AND SURGEONS .- J. W. Hamilton, M. D., President ; Jesse C. Farmer, M. D. Secretary. Office, 921 Larkin street.


SAN FRANCISCO CREMATION COMPANY .- In- corporated September 5, 1885. The Society intends to erect a cremstary on a lot of ground situated on the northeast corner of Californis and Laurel streets. Capital stock, $25,000 ; divided into 500 shares. Office, 413 Bush street.


Officers .- M. Greenblatt, President; Max Popper, Vice-President; Max Levy, Secretary ; German Sav- ings and Loan Society, Tressurer.


SAN FRANCISCO LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. -Organized 1865. Library contains about thirty thousand volumes. Rooms, New City Hall. J. H. Deering, Jr., Secretary and Librarian.


SAN FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY .- Organized April 5, 1872. Incorporated August 30, 1872. Number of active members, forty. Meets first and third Wednesdays of each month at 432 Mont- gomery street, rooms 9 and 10.


Officers .- E. J. Wickson, President; Dr. J. W. Self- ridge, Vice-President; Willism E. Loy, Recording Secretary; A. H. Breckenfeld, Corresponding Secre- tary; Charles C. Riedy, Tressurer.


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 ssgs- 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 members. All who were in California prior to the first day of January, 1850, are eligible to mem- bership. Any who have rendered distinguished or important services to the society or State, may be admitted as honorary members. Regular meetings of the society take place on the first Mon- day 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 possessed of a library, an excellent cabinet of minerals, relics of early times, and various other objects of interest.


Officers .-- Alexander Montgomery, President ; Liv- ingston L. Baker, San Francisco; Frederick Lux, Ssn Francisco ; Henry Mathews, Oakland; Caius T. Ry- land, San Jose; George F. Hooper, Sonoma, Vice- Presidents; Howard Havens, Treasurer ; E. P. Mar- cellus, Secretary ; Ezekiel B. Vreelan, Marshal.


STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE .- Office, 220 Sutter street


Officers .- Hon. Elwood Cooper, President, Santa Barbara, Commissioner for the Los Angeles Dis- trict ; Fred C. Miles, Penryn, Commissioner for the El Dorado District; B. M. Lelong, Secretary, 220 Sut- ter street, San Francisco; Sol Runyon, Treasurer, Courtland, Commissioner for the Sacramento Dis- trict ; J. L. Mosher, Auditor, San Francisco, Commis- sioner for the State at Large ; L. W. Buck, Vice-Presi- dent, Vacaville, Commissoner for the Napa District ; Dr. A. F. White, Santa Rosa, Commissioner for the Sonoma District ; Frank A. Kimball, National City, Commissioner for the State at Large; I. H. Thomas, Visalia, Commissioner for the San Joaquin District ; A. Block, Commissioner for the San Francisco Dis-


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trict; Alexander Craw, Ex-officio Entomologist ; Miss Ella Hailahan, clerk.


STATE BOARD OF VITICULTURE. - Officers and members of the Board .- Isaac De Turk, Presi- dent, Santa Rosa, Commissioner for the Sonoma Dis- triet ; J. De Barth Shorb, Vice-President, Sau Gsb- riel. Commissioner for the State at Large ; John T. Doyle, Treasurer, San Francisco, Commissioner for the State at Large ; Charles Bundsebu, San Francisco, Commissioner for the San Francisco District; George West, Stockton, Commissioner for the San Joaquin District; R. D. Stephens, Sacramento, Commissioner for the Sacramento District; E. C. Priber, Napa, Com- missioner for the Napa District; L. J. Rose, Los An- geles, Commissioner for the Los Angeles District; G. G. Blanchard, Placerville, Commissioner for the Ei Dorado District ; Winfield Scott, Secretary; Clarence J. Wetmore, Manager of Hall and Experimental Cel- lar; Charles A. Wetmore, Chief Executive, Viticul- tural aud Health Officer. Office of the Board, 317 Pine street.


STATE FLORAL SOCIETY .- Organized October, 1888. Object : Promotion of the science and prac- tice of Floriculture in all its branches.


Officers .- E. J. Wiekson, President, Berkeley ; Em- ory E.Smith, Secretary ; Mrs. M. A. Sperry, Treasurer. Meets at 2 P. M. second Friday of each month at 220 Sutter street, San Francisco.


SWEDENBORG LIBRARY AND TRACT SOCIETY. -Incorporated April, 1881. Meets on the second Wednesday of January, April, July and October, in the Library of the First New Jerusalem Church, O'Farrell between Webster and Fillmore streets. Objects : To maintain s library and reading room of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, and to dissemi- nate books and tracts in harmony therewith.


Officers .- R. R. Provines, President ; A. W. Man- ning, Vice-President; Benjamin Shellard, Treasurer ; Rev. John Doughty, Secretary ; Dr. W. H. Wright, Erle Ekelund, C. E. Doughty, George H. Sanders, Dr. K. Favor, John Doughty and R. R. Provines, with the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treas- urer, Directors.


TECHNICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC COAST. -Organized April, 1884. Meets in the Society's rooms, Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market street, on the first Friday of each month. Rooms open to members every day and evening. Number of members, one hundred and sixty. Objects: The advancement of the technical professions by means of the reading of papers and discussion of ques- tions pertaining thereto, and the establishment of a central point of reference.


Otheers .- John Richards, President ; Luther Wag- oner, Vice-President ; Otto vou Geldern, Secretary ; Geo. F. Schild, Treasurer.


TERRITORIAL PIONEERS OF CALIFORNIA .- IL- corporated November 10, 1874. Rooms, 325 Montgom- ery street. The objects of this association are to forni a more perfect union of the Pioneers of California in the bonda of friendship, and to cultivate social inter- course between them ; to collect and preserve histor- ical facts and information in connection with the early and subsequent history of the settlement of the Pa- cific Coast ; to form a library for the diffusion of use- ful knowledge among its members ; to form a cabinet of such minerals, geological, and other natural sub- stances as can be obtained by the association ; to pur- sue Buch literary and scientific objects, by means of lectures or otherwise, as shall be deemed expedient by the Board of Directors, and to perpetuste the mem- ory of those whose wisdom, valor, and enterprise ad- vanced civilization to the shores of the Pacific. All white malea who were in California prior to the ninth day of September, 1850, and the male descendants of all such, of lawful age, are eligible to membership. Officers .- Charles Nelson, President ; Wm. McAfee, Firat Vice-President ; O. J. Preston, Second Vice- President ; Lowell J. Hardy, Jr., Secretary ; Samuel Figel, Treasurer ; ]]. F. W. Hoffman, Marshal.


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Social.


ALPINE AMATEUR ATHLETIC CLUB .- Organ- ized December, 1889. Object-To foster all kinds cf


out door sports. Meets 11 Montgomery street, twice a month. Membership one hundred and twenty- five. Philip N. Gaffney, President ; A. M. King, Secretary ; Mark Lang, Treasurer; Sol. Choynski, Field Captain.


ARION VEREIN .- Meets on the first and third Monday evenings of each month, at the club rooms, 414 Pine street. Number of members, about three hundred.


Otheers .- J. H. Slevers, President ; C. Chlig, Vice- President ; G. Trittenbach, Recording Secretary ; G. Lindenau, Financial Secretary; C. Herrmann, Treas- urer : C. A. Reise, Librarian.


ARIEL ROWING CLUB .- Boat House, Long Bridge. Organized, April 17, 1877. Incorporated, February 15th, 1889. Membership, fifty-uine. John B. Muir- head, President; J. D. Batteaux, Vice-President ; Eugene Fianders, Secretary: John J. Larkey, Treas- urer ; Geo. W. Phelan, Captain; S. W. Creigh, Lleut .- Captain. Meets first Sunday in each month.


ASSOCIATED VETERANS OF THE MEXICAN WAR .- Organized July 2, 1866. Number of members, ninety-five. Meet second Thursday of each month at their ball, 22 O'Farrell street.


Officers .- Col. A. Andrews, President ; S. J. Loop, Secretary.


AUSTRALIAN CLUB .- Organized December 12, 1889. Number of members, eighty. Object, social. Rooms of Society, 1320 Market street. Dr. W. R. G. Samuels, President, Room 13. Academy of Sciences Building : R. Cox, Secretary; A. Neustadt, Treasurer.


BOHEMIAN CLUB. - Incorporated April 9, 1872. Number of members, five hundred and fifty. Busi- nessmeetings held second Tuesday in January, April, July, and October. Literary and musical meetings last Saturday evening of each month, at the rooms, 130 Post street.


Officers .- James D. Phelan, President ; E. W. Town- send, Vice-President; S. D. Brastow, Treasurer ; Mountford S. Wilson, Secretary.


CALEDONIAN CLUB .- Organized November 24, 1866. Number of members, six hundred and fifty. Meets the first and third Fridays of each month, at Scottish Hall, I11 Larkin street. Objects: Perpetuating the ancient customs, costumes and games of Scot- land, and the encouragement and diffusion of Scottish literature, music, etc.




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