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Officers .- Jacob Tautphaus, President; H. Pfers- dorff, Secretary; A. Haferkorn, Treasurer.
SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL SOCIETY .- Organ- ized February 4, 1868. Number of members, sixty- tive. Meetings held at 114 Stockton Street, on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at half past seven o'clock p.M. Objects of this society:
First. The cultivation and advancement of the science, by united exertions for mutual improvement and contributions to medical literature.
Second. The promotion of the character, interests, and honor of the fraternity, by maintaining the union and harmony of the regular profession of the city and its vicinity, and aiming to elevate the standard of medical education.
Third. The separation of regular from irregular practitioners.
Fourth. The association of the profession proper for purposes of mutual recognition and fellowship.
Officers .- William A. Grover, M.D., President; C. B. Holbrook, M.D., First Vice-President; E. Bent- ley, M.D., Second Vice-President; W. T. Wythe, M. D., Recording Secretary; J. R. Prevost, M.D., Cor- responding Secretary; H. S. Baldwin, M.D., Treas- urer; B. D. Dean, M.D., Librarian.
SAN FRANCISCO MUSICAL MUTUAL PRO- TECTIVE UNION .- Incorporated July 14, 1869. Number of members, two hundred and fourteen. (No meeting place at present.)
Officers .- H. M. Balch, President; A. Rusteberg, Vice-President; J. T. Colby, Secretary; J. Muller, Treasurer.
SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE EXCHANGE .- Organized September 15, 1867. Number of members, one hundred and ten. Meets daily at half past ten o'clock A.M., northeast corner of Davis and Clay streets. Object: To promote the interest and conve- nience of dealers in domestic produce.
Officers .- Horace Davis, President; E. G. Mathews, Vice-President; W. H. Walker, Secretary; E. Ran- som, Treasurer: F. H. Hammer, D. Ballard, P. A. Campbell, Wilfred Page, H. C. Sommers, and Adam Booth, Directors.
SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION .- Incorpo- rated June 18, 1862. Office, 532 California Street, corner of Webb. This incorporation now holds de- posits to the amount of $5,430,132.77, and has a paid- up guarantee capital and reserve fund of $218,804.63, which sum is increased each half year. The guar- antoe capital and reserve fund cannot be withdrawn, por can they be diminished, except in payment of losses, and they form an absolute security to depos- itors foz their deposits and declared dividends.
Officers .- James DeFremery, President ; Albert Miller, Vice-President; Lovell White, Cashier and Secretary.
SAN FRANCISCO STOCK AND EXCHANGE BOARD .- Organized September 11, 1862. Meetings held daily at eleven o'clock A.M. and three P.M., at 4111% California Street.
Officers .- William Burling, President; Coll Deane, Vice - President ; B. H. Coit, Chairman ; Henry Schmiedell, Treasurer; Franklin Lawton, Secretary; T. M. Blair, Sergeant-at-Arms; B. F. Hillard, Roll Keeper.
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 the members may be entitled to find a secure and profitable investment for small savings. Deposits received from two and a half dollars up to any amount. For the term ending December 31, 1873, deposits to the amount of $9,321,949 were invested in first loans on real estate. Reserve fund, $339,478.
Officers .- E. W. Burr, President; Cyrus W. Car- many, Cashier; A. R. Rutherford, Auditor pro tem .; Benjamin O. Devoe, Surveyor.
SEAMEN'S BOARDING MASTERS' ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized January 1, 1873. Objects: Mutual protection and support, and to sustain the United States Shipping Law, approved June 7, 1872. All sailor boarding-house keepers, duly licensed under the laws of the State of California, may become mem- bers. The society now numbers twenty-eight. Meets first Monday of each month at 610 Front Street, cor- ner of Clark.
Officers .- Thomas Chandler, President; John P. Saunders and John C. Price, Vice-Presidents; Rich- ard Chute, Secretary; E. W. Casey, Treasurer.
SECURITY SAVINGS BANK. - Incorporated March, 1871. Capital stock, $300,000. Office, 304 San- som Street.
Officers .- John Parrott, President; Jerome Lin- coln, Vice-President; T. F. Bacon, Secretary.
SHIP AND STEAMBOAT JOINERS' ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized March 21, 1857. Re-organized June 3, 1864. Meets second Friday of each month at Dashaway Hall, 139 Post Street.
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Officers .- Peter R. Black, President; Thomas Nash, Vice-President; James D. Galloway, Secretary; L. H. Laughton, Treasurer; Thomas Daniels, Sergeant- at-Arms ; J. M. Sabin, N. D. Claffey, and William Morris, Trustees.
SHIPCALKERS' ASSOCIATION .- Organized 1861; reorganized March 21, 1801; revised November 11, 1870. Number of members, two hundred and sev- enty-five. Meets second Tuesday of each month at Excelsior Hall, 713 Mission Street.
Officers .- James E. Connolly, President ; John White, Vice-President ; W. H. Miller, Secretary ; John Dolan, Treasurer.
SHIPWRIGHTS' (JOURNEYMEN) ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized April 1, 1857. Reorganized April 23, 1803. Number of members, three hundred and eighty. Meets in Sanders' Hall, 71 New Montgom- ery Street, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. The object of this association is to procure a fair and uniform rate of wages for the trade.
Officers .- Petor Beaton, President; J. W. Denny, Vice-President ; Murdock Campbell, Secretary ; E. Doyle, Treasurer; D. Driscoll, Sergeant-at-Arms.
STONE MASONS' (JOURNEYMEN) ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized April 1, 1865. Number of mem- bers, twenty-three. Meets first Friday of each month at northeast corner of Bush and Kearny streets.
Officers .- John Kelly, President; Matthew Kil- lian, Vice-President; Cornelius Riordan, Secretary; Michael Mccarthy, Sergeant-at-Arms.
TAILORS' PROTECTIVE UNION. - Organized September 29, 1873. Number of members, two hun- dred and fifty. Meets second and fourth Mondays of each month at 771 Market Street.
Officers .- John M. Days, President; James Mc- Court, Vice-President; Eric Westine, Secretary; J. Otto, Financial Secretary; J. Kinney, Treasurer.
TRADERS' ASSOCIATION .- Organized May 13, 1862. Meets quarterly.
Officers .- Charles Kohler, President; Fabian Joost, First Vice-President ; John Doyle, Second Vice- President ; A. A. Hobe, Secretary ; Otto Kloppen- burg, Treasurer; Aaron Meyer, Sergeant-at-Arms.
UNITED WORKINGMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURING CO .- In- corporated January 13, 1868. Number of members, thirty. Capital, $50,000. Number of shares, one thousand. Factory, 422 Sacramento Street.
Officers .- James Butler, President; John D. Sul- livan, Vice-President; Thomas J. Cunningham, Sec- rotary; Dennis Mccarthy, Treasurer.
WESTERN SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY. -Incorporated May 2, 1873. Capital $1,000,000. Of- fice, 213 Sansom Street.
Officers .- H. J. Booth, President; Frederick Clay, Vice-President and Manager; J. H. Grittiths, Secre- tary.
WHOLESALE BUTCHERS' LEAGUE .- Organ- ized January 8, 1873. Meets the first Monday of each month at the office of M. Selig & Co., 331 Kearny Street. Object : To protect the interest of its mem- bers.
Officers .- Charles Lux, President; George D. Bliss, Vice-President; Albert Schoenfeld, Secretary.
WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS' ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized April 27, 1854. Number of mem- bers, about one hundred. Meets at 312 California Street. Objects: To protect the interests of the mem- bers of the Association, and take such action from time to time as the commercial welfare of the Asso- ciation may require.
Officers .- David Porter, President; E. B. Pond and Charles Meinecke, Vice-Presidents ; M. H. Myers, Secretary; Michael Kane, Treasurer.
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND MUTUAL AID SO- CIETY .- Organized April, 1873 .- Number of mem- bers, twenty-five. Meets every Wednesday afternoon at 417 Bush Street.
Officers. - Mrs. Dr. White, President; Mrs. Cal- houn, Secretary ; Mrs. G. W. Anthony, Treasurer.
Literary, Historical, Etc.
BAY DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIA- TION .- Organized April 9, 1870, under the Presiden- cy of Captain E. J. Weeks; reorganized October 15, 1870, in accordance with the rules of the American Trotting Turf Congress. Number of members, fifty. Objects: To maintain Agricultural Fair Grounds in the County of San Francisco, and for improving the breeding and raising of horses and all other kinds of stock. An annual fair is held, and weekly exhibi- tion given'at Agricultural Park, at stated periods throughout the year. Office, 605 Clay Street, room 10.
Officers .- T. J. Edmondson, President; Hon. John Boggs, Vice-President; A. D. Carpenter, Secretary; R. F. Morrow, Treasurer.
BAY DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA .- Organized October 8, 1870. Ob- jects: To collect and distribute information in regard to horticulture, hold exhibitions, and award premi- ums for the best productions. Office and reading room, 622 Clay Street, room 9.
Officers .- Albert Kellogg, M.D., President ; Chas. Stevens, Vice-President ; F. A. Miller, Secretary ; E. C. Morton, Treasurer ; Charles W. Banks, Thos. Bennett, M.D., and E. L. Reimer, Trustees.
BIJOU LITERARY SOCIETY .- Organized July 31, 1871. Number of members, twenty-five. Meets every alternate Wednesday evening for literary pur- poses. Regular meetings every Wednesday evening in Mechanics' Institute Building, 27 Post Street. Ob- ject: Literary culture.
Officers .- H. A. Reiman, President; T. W. Ander- son, Vice-President; John W. Newcomb, Recording Secretary; J. S. Cronk, Corresponding Secretary; J. C. Metzner, Treasurer.
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES .- Organized April 22, 1853.
The regular stated meetings of the academy are held on the first and third Mondays of each month. The regular stated meetings of the Board of Trustees take place January 12, April 13, July 13, and Veto- ber 12, 1874. Hall of the Academy, southwest corner of California and Dupont streets.
Officers .- Prof. George Davidson, President; John Hewston, Jr., Vice-President; R. E. C. Stearns, Cor- responding Secretary; Charles G. Yale, Recording Secretary; Elisha Brooks, Treasurer; Herman Behr, M.D., Librarian; H. G. Bloomer, Director of the Museum.
Curators .- George Hewston, M.D., General Zoölo- gy; W. H. Dall, Ichthyology; W. G. W. Harford, Conchology; Henry Edwards, Entomology; W. A. Goodyear, Palaeontology; Theodore A. Blake, Min- eralogy.
CALIFORNIA ACCLIMATIZING SOCIETY .- This society was incorporated May 1, 1871, for the purpose of introducing, propagating, acclimatizing, buying, and selling game birds and fish; also, buying, improving, holding, or selling real estate, for the purposes above indicated, and building ponds, races, hatching and spawning boxes, for the propagation and protection of fish, and for the protection of game, both native and imported. Meets first Wednesday of each month, at rooms of Academy of Sciences, southwest corner of California and Dupont streets. Office of Secretary, 630 Howard Street.
Officers .- W. A. Newell, President; John William- son, Secretary and General Superintendent; A. Gib- bons, Treasurer.
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY .- Incorporated August 7, 1872. Lectures given at the rooms, 728 Montgomery Street, for a term of five months in the year, commencing about April 1, 1874.
'The aim of the institution is to unite the Pharma- cists and Druggists of the Pacific States in organized efforts to elevate the special educational standard of the business of the Apothecary, by cultivating, im- proving, and diffusing the principles and practice of legitimate pharmacy; its collateral branches of science and the arts; the best modes of rendering available medicinal agents, by giving instructions in the same and in the art of dispensing, by a series of lectures and practical demonstrations.
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Officers .- William T. Wenzell, President; J. G. Steele, Vice-President; J. Winchell Forbes, Secreta- ry; William Geary, Treasurer; William T. Wenzell, J. G. Steelo, W. M. Searby, John Calvert, J. Win- chell Forbes, and William Geary, Trustees.
CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY .- Incor- porated July 14, 1870. Number of members, thirty- nine. Annual meeting at College of Santa Clara, on day of commencement. Object: Cultivation of the history, antiquities, and ethnography of the west coast of America, and the publication of early rela- tions and documents connected therewith. Rooms 323 California Stroet.
Officers .- Kov. A. Varsi, John W. Dwinelle, Chas. H. Sawyer, Tiburcio Parrott, and John T. Doyle, Trustees; Ralph C. Harrison, Secretary.
CENTRAL LITERARY SOCIETY. - Organized October, 1869. Number of members, sixty - tive. Meets every Saturday evening in the lecture room of the Central M. E. Church. Object: Social, moral, and intellectual improvement of its members.
Officers .-- C. H. Holt, President; W. T. Bonstel, Vice- President; Helen M. Davis, Secretary; H. Clark, Treasurer; Rev. T. S. Dunn, Chaplain.
IGNATIAN LITERARY SOCIETY. - Reorgan- ized September 14, 1871. Number of members, twen- ty-one. . Meets every Tuesday evening at St. Igna- tius College.
Officers. - E. M. Nattini, S.J. President; C. A. Dunn, Vice-President; A. Campbell, Jr., Recording Secretary; I. H. Clark, Corresponding Secretary; J. F. Sullivan, Treasurer.
IRISH LITERARY AND SOCIAL CLUB .- Or- ganized February, 1870. Number of members, two hundred. Board of Directors meets every Monday evening. Club meetings first Monday evening of each month. Singing Class meets every Tuesday evening at the rooms, 638 Market Street. Object: Social reunion of Irishmen and their descendants, irrespective of religion. The rooms of the Club are commodious and well arranged, containing two bil- liard tables and a library of about two thousand vol- umes.
Officers .- Robert Mitchell, President; Jeremiah O'Mahoney, Vice-President; R. C. Tobin, Treasurer; C. E. McCusker, Secretary.
JUSTINIAN LITERARY SOCIETY .- Organized 1872. Number of members, twenty. Meets every Wednesday at St. Mary's College. Object: To pro- mote literary and musical talent.
Officers .- W. Taffee, President; John I. McCourt- ney, Vice-President; Robert P. Sullivan, Recording Secretary; James King, Corresponding Secretary; James T. Murphy, Treasurer.
LOYOLA SCIENTIFIC ACADEMY .- Organized May, 1873. Number of members, twenty, Meets first and third Mondays of each month at St. Igna- tius College.
Officers .- Bev. J. M. Neri, S.J., President; J. F. Sullivan, A.M., Vice-President; Thomas D. Rior- dan, A.B., Recording Secretary.
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE .- Organized March :9, 1855. New building, 27 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 twenty-one thousand volumes, including many rare, scientific works. Among these is a com- plete set of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Any person may become a member, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees, and pay- ing an initiation fee of one dollar, and one dollar and fifty cents quarterly dues in advance.
Officers .- A. S. Hallidie, President; James C. Pat- rick, Vice-President; H. L. Davis, Treasurer; S. H. Wheeler, Recording Secretary; H. W. Jones, Corre- sponding Secretary; George C. Hurlbut, Librarian; George P. Coleman, Assistant Librarian.
MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION .- Or-
ganized January 24, 1853. New Mercantile Library Building, north side of Bush Street, between Sansom and Montgomery.
The rooms of the association are commodious and well arranged. The library contains about thirty thousand volumes, and the reading rooms are amply supplied with papers and magazines from the East- ern States and Europe. The terms of membership are two dollars initiation fee and one dollar per month-dues payable quarterly in advance.
Officers .- Andrew McF. Davis, President; Edward F. Hall, Jr., Vice-President; T. H. Rearden, Record- ing Secretary ; George C. Hickox, Corresponding Secretary; Wilfred W. Wiggins, Treasurer; A. E. Whitaker, Librarian; Darwin Carr and H. K. God- dard, Assistant Librarians; J. J. Tayker, Collector.
MILITARY LIBRARY .- Incorporated January 3, 1873, for the purpose of acquiring, preserving, and conducting a public library, to consist chiefly of books, magazines, and newspapers of a military character.
Officers .- John Howston, Jr., W. H. L. Barnes, Archibald Wason, George W. Granniss, Oscar Wood- hams, Fred. W. Peirce, David Wilder, Hyman P. Bush, and Walter Turnbull, Trustees; David Wilder, Secretary and Librarian. Office, 28 Merchants' Ex- change.
ODD FELLOWS' LIBRARY ASSOCIATION .- Organized December 30, 1854. Rooms, 325 Montgom- ery Street.
The Library now contains over twenty-five thou- sand volumes in the various departments of litera- ture, including 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 .- George Hewston, President; Colin M. Boyd, Vice-President; Henry C. Squire, Recording Secretary; Leon L. Dennery, Corresponding Secre- tary; William H. Watson, Treasurer; George A. Carnes, Librarian; A. HI. Grayson, Ass't Librarian.
ORIENTAL LITERARY AND SOCIAL CLUB. -Organized June, 1871. Meets every alternato Sun- day, at Druids' Hall, 413 Sutter Street.
Officers. - G. M. Berry, President; M. Brandt, Vice-President; B. Levy, Secretary; J. Witt, Treas- urer.
PHILHISTORIAN DEBATING SOCIETY .- Or- ganized October, 1853. Number of members, twenty. Meets every Wednesday afternoon, at St. Ignatius College.
Officers .- Thomas J. Sasia, S.J., President; James J. Bowland, Vice-President; J. F. Fogarty, Recording Secretary; A. R. Tobin, Corresponding Secretary; E. T. O'Day, Treasurer; J. J. O'Connor, Librarian.
SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION .- Organ- ized March 28, 1871. Objects : The promotion of Painting, Sculpture, and Fine Arts akin thereto, the diffusion of a cultivated taste for art in the commu- nity at large, and the establishment of an Academy or School of Design. Membership in this society, which has now five hundred and ninety-six ordinary, one hundred and eight life, and six honorary mem- bers, is open to all lovers of art. Regular members' meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of March, June, September, and December, in the rooms of the soci- ety, 313 Pine Street.
Officers .- William Alvord, President; Thomas Hill and Edward Bosqui, Vice-Presidents ; B. P. Avery, Secretary; Ford H. Rodgers, Treasurer; Pietro Mez- zara, Harry Edwards, J. C. Duncan, W. C. Ralston, W. L. Marple, and Chas. Kohlor, Directors.
The School of Design, connected with the Associa- tion, was organized December 31, 1873. The school has sixty pupils. Its affairs are managed by a com- mittec of the members of the Art Association.
The Graphic Club, numbering thirty-five members, an offshoot of the Art Association, organized June 1, 1873, meets every Thursday evening at the rooms, 313 Pine Street. Object : Improvement in the art of im- promptu sketching.
Officers .- Thos. Hill, President; Virgil Williams, Vice-President ; J. R. Martin, Secretary ; William L. Marple, Treasurer.
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SAN FRANCISCO BAR ASSOCIATION .- Or- | Jennings, Vice-President ; W. G. Cue, Secretary ; ganized April 20, 1872. Number of members, one Wm. Mails, Treasurer. hundred and fifty. Object: To maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to increase THE MINERVA CLUB. - Organized March 15, 1872. Meets every Monday evening at 533 Kearny Street. Object : The literary improvement of its members. its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice, and to cultivate social intercourse among its members. Rooms, 631 Sacramento Street and 633 Commercial Street.
Officers .- J. P. Hoge, President; Hall McAllister and S. M. Wilson, Vice - Presidents; Thomas B. Bishop. Secretary; J. R. Jarboe, Corresponding Sec- retary; R. C. Harrison, Treasurer.
SAN FRANCISCO LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIA- TION. - Organized 1865. Library contains about thirteen thousand volumes. Rooms 27 and 28 Mont- gomery Block.
Officers .- J. P. Hoge, President; Joseph W. Wi- nans, Treasurer; G. G. W. Hoge, Secretary and Li- brarian: John De Witt. Assistant Librarian.
SAN FRANCISCO LITERARY AND DRA- MATIC SOCIETY. - Organized April 6, 1873. Number of members, thirteen. Meets first and third Sunday afternoons of each month at Irish-American Hall. Object: Improvement of its members in elocu- tion and literature.
SAN FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCI- ETY .- Organized June 4, 1870. Number of mem- bers, twenty. Meets first and third Thursdays of each month at 531 California Street, Room 9. Object: The study of microscopical science on the Pacific Coast.
Officers .- Henry G. Hanks, President; A. B. Stout, M.D., Vice-President; C. Mason Kinne, Recording Secretary; Henry C. Hyde, Corresponding Secretary; D. P. Belknap, Treasurer.
SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ENGINEERS -Or- ganized January, 1874. Number of members, thirty. Meets at Mechanics' Institute, 27 Post Street, on the first Tuesday of each month, and business meetings, third Tuesday of January, April, July, and October. Object: To promote and diffuse engineering science.
Board of Management .- G. H. Mendell, S. S. Montague, G. F. Allardt, G. W. Dickie, I. M. Scott, Melville Atwood, J. D. Hague, W. A. Goodyear, W. W. Hanscom.
SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS .- Or- ganized August, 1850. Rooms northeast corner of Montgomery and Gold streets, near Jackson.
The expressed object 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 sagac- ity, energy, and enterprise induced them to settle in the wilderness and become the founders of a new State. All who were in California prior to the first day of January, 1850, are eligible to membership. Any who have rendered distinguished or important services to the society or State, may be admitted as honorary members. The roll of the society embra- ces the names of over thirteen hundred members. Regular meetings of the society take place on the first Monday of each month. Annual election of officers
on the seventh day of July, the anniversary of the conquest of California, and of the raising of the American flag on its soil. Annual celebration on the ninth of September, the anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. The society is possess- ed of an excellent library, a cabinet of minerals, relics of early times, and various other objects of in- terest.
Officers .- James Lick, President; David J. Staples, Peter Dean, John H. Jewett, Benjamin P. Kooser, and J. Ross Browne, Vice-Presidents; Louis R. Lull, Secretary; Howard Havens, Treasurer; William Huefner, Marshal; Thomas Nelson, Jacob Deeth, Emil B. Butfandeau, James Neall, William C. Ran- dolph, Archibald Wason, C. A. C. Duisenberg, Henry H. Ellis, and Washington Bartlett, Directors.
TEMPERANCE LITERARY CIRCLE. - Organ- ized April 5, 1873. Number of members, twenty-five. Meets every Friday evening at 232 Sutter Street, room 18. Object : Literary advancement among its mem- bers. Officers .- James A. Wilson, President ; Mrs. L. | Long Bridge.
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AMERICAN CELTS .- Organized March 29, 1874. Number of members, four hundred and fifty. Meets at 636 Clay Street, room 18.
Officers .- Robert Ferral, President ; Jas. J. Kon- ney and W. C. Ford, Vice-Presidents ; John J. Cun- ningham, Secretary.
AMERICUS CLUB .- Organized February 1, 1871. Number of members, fifty. Meets every Monday evening, at the southwest corner of Third and How- ard streets.
Officers .- John Noonan, President ; Thomas Fitz- simmons, Recording Secretary ; John J. Dunn, Treasurer.
APOLLO VEREIN .- Organized November 21. 1869. Number of members, two hundred. Meets ev- ery Tuesday evening at Old Turn Verein Hall, 620 Bush Street. Monthly entertainments given second Sunday of each month. Object: To promote music and declamation.
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