Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1895, Part 16

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Publication date: 1880
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
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N. GRAY & CO., UNDERTAKERS, 641-643-645 Sacramento Street.

Protective.

AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS .- Meets every first Saturday in Drews Hall.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASTERS AND PILOTS OF STEAM VESSELS .- California Harbor No. 15. L. P. Harvey, Worthy Captain ; M. A. Lloyd, 1st Pilot ; office 9 Mission street.

BARBERS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized Jan- uary 13, 1878. Number of members, one hundred and thirty. Meets first and third Thursdays of each month at 320 Post street. Objects-Protective and benevolent.

BOARD OF TRADE OF SAN FRANCISCO .- Or- ganized April, 1877. Number of members, 220. Office, Union Block, 202 Market street, upper floor. Objects-To protect the interests of its members, prevent settlements without full investigation, resist inequitable and fraudulent settlements, and bring about joint action in the collection of debts (other than in the ordinary course of business).

Officers .- A. A. Watkins, President; Jules Cerf, First Vice-President; S. Nickelsburg, Second Vice-President; E. W. Newhall, Treasurer ; Joseph Kirk, Attorney ; H. L. Smith, Secretary.

BOOKBINDERS' PROTECTIVE AND BENEFI- CIAL ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO .- Local Union No. 31, I. B. of B .- Organized August 15, 1875. Meets second Tuesday of each month, at 539 Califor- nia street.

Officers. - Edward Connolly. President; Theo. Fluhr, Vice-President; William B. Curtis, 1817 Twenty-fourth, Secretary ; Thos. B. Gould, Treas- urer.

BREWERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. - Or- ganized in 1874. Objects: Protection of mutual in- terests and promotion of harmony among brewers. Meets at 40 Flood Building, every Friday at two P. M.

Officers .- W. A. Frederick, President; C. B. Stone, Vice-President ; R. Mohr, Secretary ; Geo. F. Volz, Treasurer.

BOILERMAKERS' AND IRON SHIPBUILDERS' UNION .- Meets first and third Tuesdays in Drews' Hall, 121 New Montgomery street.

ELECTRIC LAUNDRY CO.

215 VALENCIA ST. TELEPHONE MISSION 40

HERCULES

GAS AND GASOLINE ENGINES PALMER & REY, 405 SANSOME ST.

SOCIETIES-PROTECTIVE.

BRICKHANDLERS' PROTECTIVE AND BENEV- OLENT UNION OF CALIFORNIA .- Meels first and third Saturday of each month in Drews' Hall, 121 New Montgomery street.

BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA- 16 Post street. S. R. Doyle, President.

CALIFORNIA STATE HOMEOPATHIC MEDI- CAL SOCIETY .- Incorporated January, 1878. Annu- al meeting on second Wednesday of May, in the City of San Francisco. Object: The advancement of the science of medicine and surgery.

Officers .- Wm. Simpson, M.D., President; C. B. Currier, M.D., First Vice-President; Dorothea Lum- mis, M. D., Second Vice-President ; Eleanor F. Mar- tin. M.D., 921 Polk street, Secretary ; C. L. Tisdale, M.D., Tressurer.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE .- Rooms, Merchants' Exchange Bldg, California street, room 58. Organized April, 1850. Present membership 308. Regular meetings, third Tuesdays in January, April, July and October. Annual meeting, third Tuesday in January; election of officers, second Tuesday in January.

Officers .- W. H. Dimond, President ; Hugh Craig, First Vice-President; W. T. Y. Schenck, Second Vice-President ; L. H. Clement, Secretary, Treasurer and Librarisu.

CIGARMAKERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION, No. 228 .- Organized in 1885. Number of members, 300. Meets first and third Tuesday of each month at Metro- politan Hall. Objects-To improve the condition of its members and protect them against the encroach- ments of Chinese cheap labor. Officers .- Jacob Gaasner, President; G. W. Van Gulpen, Secretary.

CIGARPACKERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION. - Meets every Tuesday at 539 California street.

DRAYMEN AND TEAMSTERS' UNION OF SAN FRANCISCO .- Organized August 26, 1876. Meets second and fourth Saturday evenings of each month at B'nai B'rith Hall, 121 Eddy street. J. B. Niderost, Secretary.

FRANKLIN SPAR AND BAU VEREIN .- Organized December 6, 1875. Office, 413 Bush street.

Objects-To raise funds, and make loans among its members, thus enabling them to acquire and improve real estate.

Officers .- F. Ludemann, President ; William Hatje, 515 Market street, Secretary ; Otto Fauas, Treasurer.

GARDENERS' AND RANCHERS' ASSOCIATION .- Organized August 15, 1874. Number of members, eighty-eight. Meets last Saturday of each month, at 519 Davis street. Domenico Gianni, Secretary, residence, 6 Filbert Place.

GLASS BLOWERS UNION No. 3 .- Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at Academy Hall, 927 Mission street.

INDEPENDENT LONGSHOREMEN'S PROTECT- IVE ASSOCIATION .- Meets at 121 New Montgomery street, second and fourth Thursdays.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHIN- ISTS .- San Francisco Lodge, No. 68. Meets first and third Wednesdays of each month at 32 O'Farrell street. W. Ayling, Recording Secretary.

ITALIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE .- Organized in 1886. Number of members seventy-five. Meets st 506 Battery street.

Officers .- Giuseppe Calegaris, President; Charles Dondero, Secretary ; P. C. Rossi, Tressurer.

LABOR COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO .- M. MeGlynn, President; E. P. Burman, Recording Sec- retary. Meets every Friday evening at 1159 Mission street.

The following San Francisco Labor Unions are rep- resented in the Council:

BOOK BINDERS' UNION .- Meets st 539 California street.

BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS' AND JOINERS,' NO. 483-Meets every Monday evening at 121 Eddy street. No. 707 meets every Monday evening at 1153 Mission street.

CIGAR MAKERS' UNION, NO. 228 .- Meets first and third Tuesday of every month at 368 Jessie street.

SAILORS' UNION .- Meets at the corner of Mission and East streets every Monday evening.

CORE MAKERS' UNION, No. 1 .- Meets first and third Monday of each month in Drews' Hall.

FRAME MAKERS' AND GILDERS' UNION. - Meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 737 Mission street.

FURNITURE WORKERS' UNION, NO. 15 .- Meets every Tuesday evening at 1153 Mission street.

GERMAN AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHIA, No. 22 .- Meets at 539 California street.

HARNESS MAKERS' UNION, NO. 927 .- Meets every Wednesday at 927 Mission street.

IRON MOLDERS' UNION, NO. 164 .- Meets every Mon- day evening at 121 Eddy street.

JOURNEYMEN BAKERS' UNION, NO. 51 .- Meets at Federation Hall, 816 Howard street.

JOURNEYMEN BARRERS' LEAGUE. - Meets at 46 O'Farrell atreet.

JOURNEYMEN HORSESHOERS' UNION .- Meets every Monday evening at 927 Mission street.

MUSICIANS' MUTUAL PROTECTIVE UNION, No. 10 .- Meets 39 Fourth street.

PATTERN MAKERS' UNION .- Meets st 121 New Mont- gomery street.

TANNERS' AND CURRIERS' UNION .- Meets every Wednesday evening at cor of Twenty-fourth and Folsom streets.

TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. 21 .- Meets last Sunday of each month at 2 P. M. at Shiels Building, 32 O'Farrell street.

UNITED BREWERY WORKMEN OF THE P. C .- Meets at 1153 Mission street.

UPHOLSTERERS' UNION .- Meets at Forresters' Hall, Eddy street.

WHITE COOKS' AND WAITERS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Meets every Tuesday evening at 410 Kesrny street.

JEWELERS' MUTUAL AID SOCIETY .- Meets sec- ond and fourth Friday in each month at A. O. F. Hall, 102 O'Farrell street.

Officers. - Gustave Pohlmann, President ; Wm. Donahue, Vice-President ; Henry Blundel, Recording Secretary; C. Rudolph, Financial Secretary; Ferdi- nand Heiduska, Treasurer.

LONGSHORE LUMBERMEN'S PROTECTIVE AS- SOCIATION .- Meets first and third Friday of each month in Drews' Hall, 121 New Montgomery street. Objects-Protective and Benevolent.

LUMBER SURVEYORS' ASSOCIATION .- Organ- ized February, 1884. Number of members, thirty- six. Meet first Monday in each month at their rooms, 9 Mission street. Object-Mutual protection and the concentration of its members for uniformity of action. W. G. Whidden, Secretary.

MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION OF CALIFOR- NIA .- Incorporated November 13, 1883. This Asso- cistion has no capital stoek.

Geo. C. Hickox Secretary, Mutual Life Building.

MARINE ENGINEERS' BENEFICIAL ASSOCIA- TION, NO. 35,-Organized August, 1882. Number of members, stx hundred and twenty-five. Meets weekly at Alcazar Building, 114 O'Farrell street. Li- brary and reading-room, 9 Mission street.

Officers .-- John J. Leary, President ; Frank Bragg, Financial Secretary and Manager ; Charles 8. True, Recording and Corresponding Secretary.

MASTER PLUMBERS' ASSOCIATION .- Organized for the protection of the trade and to secure a higher standard of work. John L. E. Firmin, Correspond- ing Secretary, 1244 Valencia street ; J. B. Butterworth, Recording and Financial Secretary, 1809 Polk street. Meets on the first and third Fridays of each month at NE corner O'Farrell and Stockton.

PASTEUR FILTERS

Rented $1.00 per Month or Sold Outright C. Brown & Son Ag'ts, 823 Market St.

Send the WEEKLY CHRONICLE to Your Friends. $1.50 a Year Postage Paid.

PERRIER - JOUET & CO. CHAPIPAGNE

W. B. CHAPMAN, 123 CALIFORNIA STREET SOLE AGENT FOR THE PACIFIC COAST ( See Page opp. name of W. B. Chapman.)

SOCIETIES-PROTECTIVE.

MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION .- Incor- porated June 1, 1868. Capital, $250,000. Office, Mer- chant's Exchange Building, California street, between Montgomery and Sansome. The object of this corpor- ation is the promotion of the interest of trade and commerce.

Officers .- W. A. Holcomb, President; A. Gerber- ding, Vice-President ; J. M. Shotwell, Manager; H. T. Emery, Secretary.

MILLMEN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION .- Com. prising the planing mill proprietors of San Fran- cisco, Oakland, Alameda and East and West Berkeley, 16 Post street, entrance 7 Lick alley. Regular meet- ings, first Tuesday in every month.

NATIONAL RESERVE ASSOCIATION .- Organized in Kansas City, Mo., May 8, 1891. Objects, a fraternal order with insurance from $500 to $2000. One-half amount of certificate in case of permanent total disa- bility. Paid up certificate after twenty years' contin- uons, membership. San Francisco Lodge, No. 57, meets first Saturday night in each month at Oriental Hall. 120 O'Farrell street.

Officers .-- G. E. Bendle, President ; C. W. Coffin, Treasurer ; H. G. Watrous, Treasurer. R. H. Flagg, American Exchange Hotel, General Agent for Oali- fornia.

OCCIDENTAL TROTTING AND PACING ASSO- CIATION .- F. W. Kelley, Secretary, 313 Bush street.

PACIFIC COAST TROTTING HORSE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION .- F. W. Kelley, secretary, 313 Bush street.

PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE .- Meetings held daily, morning and afternoon, at 316 Montgomery street, between California and Pine streets.

Officers .- Robert G. Horn, President; Stephen Otis, Vic-President; E. Moran, Secretary; J.B. Bourue, Chairman.

PORTUGUESE PROTECTIVE AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION .- Incorporated August, 1868. Meets the second and last Thursdays of each mouth, at 8 P. M., at 510 Bush street.

RETAIL GROCERS' COLLECTION BUREAU .- E. I. Flieger, Manager, 121 Post street, rooms 9-11.

This is an association of retail grocers, organized for the purpose of protecting its members against bad debtors and all general abuses in the grocery trade.

Officers .- John C. Nobmann, President; C. Meier, Vice-President : E. I. Flieger, Secretary ; John E. A. Helms, Treasurer.

RETAIL GROCERS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized April 1, 1871. Meets second and fourth Wednesday of every month, at 121 Post street, rooms 9-11.

RIGGERS' AND STEVEDORES' UNION ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized July 25, 1853, for the regulation of wages and the protection of each other. Number of members two hundred. Meets every Monday evening at 808 Montgomery street.

RIGGERS PROTECTIVE UNION OF SAN FRAN- CISCO .- Organized in 1874. reorganized in 1886, 207 Steuart street, first Wednesday of the month. T. H. Sillers. President; John Holland, Vice-President; John Rockert, Secretary; Lewis Arvin, Treasurer.

SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF PROVISION PACK- ERS .- Organized September 1, 1874. Meets at call of the President. Objects-Mutual benefit of the members, and to promote the interests of the trade generally. Frank Rossbach, Secretary. Office of Secretary, 7 Washington market.

SAN FRANCISCO CLEARING HOUSE .- Office 211 Sansome street.

Officers .- Thomas Brown, President; John D. McKee, Secretary ; Charles Sleeper, Manager.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY .- Organized February 4, 1868. Meetings held at 32 O'Farrell street, on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30 P. M.

Officers .- C. C. Wadsworth. M. D., President ; Chas. G. Kuhlman, M. D., First Vice-President : Frank B. Carpenter.M. D., Second Vice-President ; A. P. Wood-

ward, M. D .. Recording Secretary ; L. M. F. Wanzer. M. D., Assistant Recording Secretary : L. M. F. Wanzer, M.D., Corresponding Secretary ; W. S. Whitwell, M.D., Treasurer ; D. W. Montgomery. M. D., Librarian and Curator ; Henry Gibbons, Jr., M. D., Wm. F. McNutt, M. D., and Jas. Simpson, M. D., Trustees.

SAN FRANCISCO DENTAL ASSOCIATION .- Or- ganized October 5,1869. Number of members about fifty. Meets at Union Square Hall, 421 Post street, the second Monday evening in each month.

Officers .- E. C. Post, President ; F. C. Pague, Vice- President ; H. G. Richards, Corresponding Secretary ; G. N. Van Orden, Recording Secretary ; W. A. Knowles, Treasurer.

SAN FRANCISCO PRINTING PRESSMEN'S UNION .- Established in March, 1886. Number of members, 175, apprentices 40. Meets at 620 Bush street. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month.

Officers .- Jas. T. Golton, President ; Chas. H. Long. Vice-President; J. H. Roxburgh, Recording Secre- tary ; F. Caler, Financial Secretary ; Wm. Griswold, Treasurer.

SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE EXCHANGE .- Orga- nized 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 aud Sansome streets. Object-To promote the interest and convenience of dealers in domestic produce.

Officers .- W. A. Holcomb, President; A. Gerber- ding, Vice-President; T. C. Friedlander. Secretary ; Jas. W. Sperry, Treasurer. Secretary's office, 433 Cali- fornia street.

SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE EXCHANGE CALL BOARD ASSOCIATION .- Organized Angust 3. 1882. Number of members, two hundred. Daily sessions, 10 and 11:15 A. M. and 2 P. M.

Officers .- W. A. Holcomb. President; A. Gerber- ding. Vice-President; J. W. Sperry, Treasurer ; T. C. Friedlander, Secretary. Secretary's office, 433 Cali- fornia street.

SAN FRANCISCO RETAIL DRUGGISTS' ASSO- CIATION .- Joseph Calegaria, President; Otto A. Weihe. secretary, 640 Post street.

SAN FRANCISCO SHIP CALKERS' ASSOCIATION. -Organized October 23, 1878. Number of members one hundred and sixty-four. Meets third Tuesday of each month in Drews' Hall. T. F. Mangan, Sec- retary.

Officers .- George E. Connolly, President; John Comyns, Vice-President ; Thomas F. Mangan, Secre- tary; Lawrence Comyns, Treasurer.

SAN FRANCISCO STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD .- Organized September 11, 1862. Meetings held daily at 9:30 A. M., and 2:30 P. M., at 331 Pine street.

Officers .- Geo. I. Ives, President; A. B. Ruggles, Vice-President ; O. V. Walker, Chairman; Geo. T. Marye, Jr., Treasurer: Fred. W. Hadley, Secretary.

SAN FRANCISCO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO. 21 .- Organized 1872. Number of members, twelve hundred and fifty. W. B. Benoist, Secretary. Meets on the last Sunday of every month, at 32 O'Farrell street. Rooms 606 Montgomery street.

Officers .- A. C. Schwatka, President ; W. B. Benoist, Secretary.

SCAVENGERS' PROTECTIVE UNION .- Organized August 17, 1879. Meets every Saturday evening at 1628 Powell street. Number of members about two hundred.

SHIP AND STEAMBOAT JOINERS' ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized February 1881. Richard Atepbens. President; Charles Meanwell, Secretary, 14 Folsom street.

STEVEDORE ENGINEERS' PROTECTIVE ASSO- CIATION .- Meets first and third Friday of every month at St. George's Hall.

BONESTELL & CO. KINDS ALL OF

401 Sansome St.

FLAT PAPER

HARDING'S GAS, GASOLINE and COAL OIL ENGINES for STATIONARY Sole Agents I. S. Thompson's Slide Valve Corliss Engine and Governor and MARINE PURPUSES.

THE BEATS WORLD

a 0 Golden State & Miners' Iron Works 231 to 251 FIRST STREET, SAN FRANCISCO.

ADKINS MFG. CO. AIDION 640 FIFTH STREET

ANTI-FRICTION METAL LUBRICATING OILS AND ENGINEERS' SUPPLIES

SOCIETIES-LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, ETC.

THE STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE .- Officers- John Perry, Jr., President ; Aug. Helbing, Vice-Pres- ident; R. G. Brown, Chairman; Edward Barry. Secretary ; Daniel Meyer, Treasurer; 22 Merchants' Exchange.

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N. GRAY & CO., UNDERTAKERS, 641-643-645 Sacramento Street.

Literary, Scientific, Etc.

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC. THE-(Incorporated.) Rooms at 819 Market street, San Francisco.

Correspondence should be addressed to either of the Secretaries as below. O. D. Perrine, Lick Observa- tory, Mount Hamilton; F. R. Ziel, Secretary and Treasurer, 410 California street, San Francisco.

BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO .- 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, 530 California street.

Officers .- Euward R. Taylor, President; R. G. Hayne, Senior Vice-President ; W. H. Fifield, Junior Vice-President; E. B. Holladay, Secretary ; C. E. A. Foerster. Corresponding Secretary; John M. Burnett, Treasurer.

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES .- Organ- ized April 4, 1853. Number of members, two hun- dred and forty. Academy of Sciences Building, 819 Market street.

H. W. Harkness, President; H. H. Behr, First Vice- President; J. G. Cooper, Second Vice-President; George A. Moore, Corresponding Secretary; G. P. Rixford, Recording Secretary; L. H. Foote, Treasurer; Carlos Troyer, Librarian ; J. Z. Davis, Director of Museum.

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

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

CALIFORNIA ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY .- Meets at rooms of California State Board of Horti- culture, 220 Sutter street. Ed. M. Ehrhorn, Presi- dent ; Alexander Craw, Secretary.

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.

Hon. James V. Coffey, 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- aity 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- aion of topica of scientific and practical interest to the pharmacist.

Officers .- S. H. Melvin, President; Charles A. Bayly, First Vice-President ; Val. Schmidt, Second Vice-President ; Geo. J. Harvey, Corresponding and Recording Secretary ; R. E. White, Treasurer ; F. A. Beckett, John Caivert, E. P. Gates, O. A. Weihe. Edward A. Bagot, Jos. S. Warren, Board of Trustees

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS THE .- Incorporated 1885. The School was founded by James Lick and endowed with $540,000, its object being-" To educate males and females in the prac- tical arta of life, such as workers in wood, iron and stone, or any of the metals, and in whatever industry intelligent mechanical skill now is or can hereafter be applied, such institution to be open to all youths born in California."

The Academic buildings and shops are located at the corner of Sixteenth (Center street) and Utah streets, about one mile south of the New City Hall and one block east of Potrero avenue, accessible by Ninth street. Tenth street and Potrero avenue.

Officers .- Horace Davis, President; A. S. Hallidie, Vice-President; Jas. S. Bunnell, Secretary; Horace Davis, A. S. Hallidie, John O. Earl, Horatio Stebbins, D. D., and James Spiera, Trustees. Geo. A. Merrill, Principal.

CALIFORNIA STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION .--- C. E. Post, President ; Gro. N. Van Orden, Recording Secretary ; H. G. Richards, Corresponding Secretary. Meets second Monday evening each month at 235 Post street.

CALIFORNIA STATE HORTICULTURAL so- CIETY .- Organized September. 1879. Number of mem- bers, one hundred and fifty. Objects-To promote the science and practice of horticulture in all its branches. Meets at 220 Sutter street at 1:30 P. M. on last Friday of each month. B. M. Lelong, President, San Fran- cisco ; E. J. Wickson, Berkeley, Secretary. Office, 220 Sutter.

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 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. The museum will be found very interesting and instructive to tourists as well as our own citizena.

J. Z. Davis, President ; W. S. Keyes, Thos. B. Bishop, J. E. Doolittle and W. S. Lyle, Trustees ; J. J. Craw- ford, State Mineralogist.

CALIFORNIA STATE RETAIL DRUGGISTS' AS- SOCIATION .- For protection in trade interests. John Calvert (San Francisco) President ; C. F. Heinze- man (Los Angeles) Firat Vice-President ; W. C. Smith (Oakland) Second Vice-President ; S. A. McDonnell. Treasurer ; Richard E. White, Secretary, 400 Hayes street.

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU- TION .- Sequoia Chapter organized Dec. 10, 1891. Meets second Monday of every month at 2 P. M., Occidental Hotel. Object-To perpetuate patriotism.

Officers - Mrs. Henry Wetherbee, Regent ; Mrs. Joseph L. Moody, Vice-Regent; Mrs. C. Elwood Brown, Recording Secretary ; Mrs. J. M. Chretien, Corresponding Secretary ; Mrs. E. M. Jones, Treas- urer.

FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC .- Organized February, 1876. Meets at 303 California street. Object: Mutual improvement in Insurance matters.

Officers .- Rollo V. Watt. President: V. C. Drif- field, Vice-President; R. W. Osborn, Secretary and Treasurer.

DIXON, BORGESON & CO. SHOW CASES 37 MARKET ST., S. F.

JOHN REID, TAILOR, 907 MARKET ST.

5th NEAR

(Fot particulars see page opp. name Highland Springs) HIGHLAND SPRINGS WATERS

ARE A SURE CURE FOR MALARIA. A Boating, Bathing and Fishing Lake just completed,

SOCIETIES-LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC,ETC.

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, 180I Stockton street; No. 4, 809 Point Lobos Av.

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- cluded), together with a newspaper department. At this time there are nearly 78,000 volumes in the Library. Between 25,000 and 28,000 are circulated each month. Number of Home Cards issued, 15,000. The library is open on secular days from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. On Sundays from 1:30 P. M. to 5 P. M.

Officers .- Jos. O'Connor, President; Geo. T. Clark, Secretary and Librarian.

HERBALINE!

GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA .- Incorporated December 11th, 1891. Academy of Sciences Building. First-Lectures are given monthly and occasionally bi-monthly, either by native or foreign travelers or by qualified scie tists. Second-Aid will be given, when the society has sufficient funds in hind. to exploring expeditions on this coast or elsewhere. Third-The society re- ceives information from naval officers with regard to points of geographical interest, changes of currents, climatic variations or other phenomena, and keeps a record of them for consultation. Fourth-A library of books of travel and other kindred subjects, together with inaps, is being rapidly accumulated. Fifth-One bulletin has already been published for home dis- tribution and interchange with scientific societies thr mghout the world, and will be followed period- ically by others. Sixth-Conversaziones will take place at stated periods, at which members of the society will have the privilege of introducing their friends. The initiation fee for "Fellows". (F. G. S. C.) is ten dollars, and monthly dues one dollar. Life membership, one hundred dollars; no dues. Associate members, not taking part in the manage- ment, five dollars per annum ; no dues. Ladies ad- mitted as members of either of the above classes. Library and rooms open from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M.

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Langley's San Francisco directory for the year commencing 1895, Part 16

Author: Publication date: 1880 Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co. Number of Pages: 1862

Author:
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
Number of Pages: 1862