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Selections from the James D. Phelan Papers: Committees, Clubs and Organizations; 1906 - 1910: Bohemian Club, San Francisco Annual Reports

Annual Report
1906-1907
Bohemian Club

Bohemian Club, San Francisco Annual Reports 1906-1907

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To the Members of the Bohemian Club:

Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report of the Club's affairs for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1907:

Loss and Insurance

The San Francisco fire, April 18th to 20th, 1907, was a disastrous one to the Club. The only property saved consisted of forty-five pictures and the Club albums and records, with a few other old articles. Many of the pictures saved were selected for their associations and historical value, and make our temporary quarters seem something like home. The rest of the pictures, including many favorites, the rare and valuable Club library, the numerous bronzes, statues and vases, and all the furniture and stock of supplies, were lost.

The adjustment made by the Underwriters' Committee was as follows:

	Loss.	Insurance.
Pictures and Furniture	$ 82,013.22	$27,400.00
Library	21,173.50	14,600.00
Supplies	14,782.16	13,000.00
Leasehold interest in Jinks Room	5,617.50	5,000.00
Pictures in Jinks Room	4,425.00	2,000.00
Jinks Room furniture	2,666.00	1,500.00
Frames of pictures "Return of the Flock" and "Unceasing Round"	400.00	400.00
Building on Post and Taylor Street property	20,000.00	6,500.00
	$151,077.38	$70,400.00

The insurance companies, as a rule, were exceedingly fair in their treatment of the Club, several making an exception in its favor in their settlements.

Twenty-four solvent companies (aside from earthquake clause companies) paid the Club $51,850.00 on policies of $52,400.00, an average of about 99%. The most of these paid in full, dollar for dollar. Of the remaining companies, the Dutchess paid $300.00 on a policy for $1,000.00; the Hamburg-Bremen, $1,500.00 on a policy for $2,000.00; the Palatine, Commercial Union and Norwich Union (companies having the earthquake clause in their policies), $3,000.00 on policies amounting to $6,000.00. The Fireman's Fund paid $1,500.00 and three shares of stock in the Fireman's Fund Insurance Corporation of the par value of $300.00 on a policy for $3,000.00; and since March 31st has paid another cash dividend of $195.00. On the Traders policy for $2,000.00 and the Transatlantic policies for $4,000.00, nothing has been paid. Aside from the Traders and Transatlantic, the Club has received in cash $58,345.00 on policies amounting to $64,400.00, or a little over 90%. It is thought at the present time that the Traders will pay about 70% and the Transatlantic about 40%.

The Club is now carrying $13,750.00 insurance on its personal property in San Francisco.

Temporary Club Home

The home of the Club at Post Street and Grant Avenue was burned on the night of April 18th-19th, 1906, at about one o'clock A. M. For a few days the members were wanderers on the face of the earth. On April 24th a meeting of Club members was held at the Athenian Club in Oakland, which was generously housing many Bohemians, at which meeting Mr. J. C. Wilson offered the use of his residence, No. 2171 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, as the temporary headquarters of the Club, which offer was accepted. The next day, April 25th, the headquarters of the Club were formally established at that place. A committee from the Board of Directors was then appointed to find a house which could be rented for the Club, and made a careful examination of the portion of San Francisco which remained standing. On receiving the assurance of the officials of the United Railroads that the Sacramento Street line would be in operation by the middle of July, 1906, the Williams residence, the present location of the Club, at No. 1925 Octavia Street, corner Sacramento, was selected, and possession was taken June 1st, 1906. The Sacramento Street cable has not yet commenced to move, and, as a consequence, our members have been put to considerable inconvenience in climbing the steep hill to Lafayette Square. Some work is now being done on Sacramento Street, and it is expected that this line will soon be in operation. The lease of the Williams house expires May 31st, 1909, but the Club has the right to terminate the lease at any time before that date on giving sixty days' notice.

Club Membership

The members of the Club have remained most loyal to it, and since the fire the number of resignations has not been up to the average, notwithstanding quite a number of members have removed from San Francisco. The membership remains substantially the same as before the disaster and is set out in detail elsewhere in this report.

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Under the present rules, the qualifications of candidates are thoroughly investigated before the names are placed on the waiting list; consequently the number of candidates appears much smaller than it really is The applications for membership are coming in at about the same rate as before the fire. During the past year Joseph N. H. Irwin has been elected to honorary membership.

The following members have died: H. C. Tilden, C. H. Stoutenborough, S. D. Brastow, Thos. Newcomb, J. G. Mossin, Geo. F. Grant, L. N. Garrett, James E. Bell, E. C. Bailey, Geo. H. Evans, F. M. Cartan and Theo. F. Payne.

Finances

Immediately after the fire, the Board of Directors temporarily remitted all monthly dues over two dollars for regular members and proportionately for other members, and at the same time temporarily suspended the payment of the Club House Site Assessment (four dollars per month) and Grove Assessment (fifty cents per month). This action was deemed advisable under the then existing conditions. Later the dues were doubled. The payment of the assessments has not yet been resumed, but it is expected this will be done shortly. The amount remaining to be collected on the Club House Site Assessment is $52,988.00. The price of dinner has been reduced from one dollar to seventy-five cents, and of lunch from sixty cents to fifty cents. Notwithstanding these reductions, the Club has been considerably more than self-sustaining.

In addition to the regular income of the Club, there was received from the insurance companies in the last fiscal year the sum of $58,150.00, as already stated, and from the Lambs Club of New York the sum of $5,000.00, as a gift to be applied, in the construction of the new Club House, to some purpose commemorative of the friendship between the two Clubs. This fund of $5,000.00 and the larger part of the insurance money have been temporarily applied, together with money received from initiations, towards the reduction of the indebtedness for Club House Site to the First National Bank, and have reduced that indebtedness $59,000.00. The balance has been applied towards the purchase of new furniture, linen, cutlery, dishes, and the necessary stock of supplies which we carry on hand, the sum of $16,424.76 having been expended for said purposes. Of the insurance money received $850 was paid to the tenants of the Post and Taylor Street property under the terms of their lease, making our net insurance $57,300.

On April 1st, 1906, the indebtedness of the Club was:

First National Bank, balance due on Club House Site purchase
$ 79,000.00
Due on Grove Bonds
2,865.00

On April 1st, 1907, the indebtedness of the Club was:

First National Bank, balance due on Club House Site purchase
$20,000.00
Due on Grove Bonds
2,865.00

The remaining indebtedness is only the current indebtedness, which is paid monthly. The Club has during the past year continued to discount its bills for cash and at the present time has on hand a balance of $5,005.94.

The receipts from initiations have been $10,194.00, as against $25,396.00 last year, and from dues $33,298.00, as against $58,250.75 last year. The large reduction in the amount received from dues is explained above. The receipts from initiations in the year 1905-6 was far above the normal, owing to the fact that a large number of absentee and cartoon members went on the associate list, leaving an unusually large number of vacancies to fill. The amount received from initiations the past year is somewhat below the normal income from this source.

The full details of the financial condition of the Club appear in the Treasurer's report.

Restaurant and Wine Room

The loss for the year in the restaurant was $3080.43, and the profit in the wine room $5619.61, These figures cannot be properly compared with the figures of previous years, as these departments were not in full operation from April 18th until late in June, so they only represent about ten months' business. The loss of the restaurant in the fiscal year 1905-6 was $8,538.61, and in the fiscal year 1904-5, $5,397.26. The wine room profit in the fiscal year 1905-6 was $10,521.58, and in the fiscal year 1904-5, $8,792.00. The most of the restaurant loss in the year 1905-6 was made in the first part of the year, the loss under the present Club Manager being practically the same per month as in the present fiscal year.

Library

Many donations of books have been made to start the new Club library. The principal donation is that of General L. H. Foote, who has contributed over two hundred volumes. The most of the donations have been books of a high standard and many of them rare and valuable. An excellent beginning has been made on the restoration of that library which was one of the most prized possessions of the Club. The total number of volumes is now 776.

The Grove

During the fiscal year 1905-6, eighty acres of land adjoining the Grove were acquired in the name of Frank P. Deering. During the past fiscal year Mr. Deering has deeded this land to the Club.

The bridge and trestle across the Russian River, over which the trains have heretofore entered the Grove,

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were washed out by the heavy floods in March of the present year. A committee from the Board of Directors, together with the Grove Committee, have in hand the task of devising some scheme of reaching the Grove during the present summer, and this problem will be solved in ample time for the Midsummer Encampment.

New Club House

In the spring of 1904 the Club purchased for $125,000.00, for a Club House Site, the lot at the Northeast corner of Post and Taylor Streets, fronting 105 feet on Post Street by 97½ feet on Taylor Street. All of this $125,000.00 has been paid except $20,000.00.

During the past winter a change of location has been suggested and two Club meetings held for the purpose of considering other sites. After a full discussion of the matter, the Building Committee has been instructed to proceed with the erection of a Club House at Post and Taylor Streets, acquiring in addition, if it can be obtained for a satisfactory price, the adjoining property, having a frontage of 85 feet 10 inches on Taylor Street and extending to Hobart Place. This adjoining property (the Westgate site) is of irregular depth, the southern 40 feet being 105 feet deep, the northern 45 feet 10 inches being 91 feet 8 inches deep. With the present building conditions, it is the opinion of the Building Committee that it will be more economical to purchase the additional lot, if it can be obtained at a reasonable figure, and erect on the entire property a building of about four stories, than to erect a seven or eight-story building on the present lot. The Building Committee is of the opinion that the scheme for building a new Club House can be financed without serious difficulty and that the financial condition of the Club warrants the undertaking.

It is expected that the negotiations for the Westgate property will be completed in time to enable the committee to present a report and plan of financing at the annual meeting April 16th.

General

Notwithstanding the troubles of the past year, no Club function has been omitted and all have been well attended and highly successful.

The elaborate Midsummer Jinks prepared by George Sterling and E. F. Schneider, and which would have been presented in 1906, was postponed to 1907, owing to insufficient time for rehearsal. In its place a briefer Jinks, elaborating the ceremony of the Burial of Care, was prepared by Charles K. Field, with music by H. J. Stewart, and made an acceptable substitute. The Christmas Jinks, written by Porter Garnett, with music by Wallace Sabin, was most enjoyable. The success of the Club entertainments has been largely due to the activity of the sub-committees, which have worked zealously to present these entertainments and keep things moving. The parts in the different Jinks have been cheerfully taken, and the participants, at much inconvenience to themselves, have attended rehearsals and well and conscientiously performed their parts.

Numerous public and private dinners have been given during the year, the same as of old.

The destruction of the Club scattered the employes to a considerable extent and resulted in many changes in the organization. The efficient office force has remained with us, together with several of our oldest employes, and the Club's affairs have run remarkably well, everything considered.

The members of the directory have devoted a large amount of time to the affairs of the Club at the expense of their own business and are deserving of the thanks of the entire Club for their work.

I thank the Club for the honor conferred upon me in electing me to the office of President.

Respectfully submitted,

FREDERIC W. HALL,
President.

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Donations of Pictures, etc.

May 6, 1906	Cartoon	Gordon Ross
May 6, 1906	Pen and Ink Sketch	Allan Dunn
June 6, 1906	Ink Stand—Two Owls	Louis Lisser
June 14, 1906	Old Jinks Pictures	R. H. Patterson
June 28, 1906	Burning of San Francisco	G. T. Marsh
July 30, 1906	Picture of Ex-Presidents	Mrs. E. Gerberding
August 16, 1906	Picture of Harry Edwards	W. D. Armes
August 23, 1906	Jinks Notices and Programmes from 1886 to 1906	E. P. Murphy & Newton J. Tharp
August 23, 1906	Live Owl	G. F. Richardson
September 13, 1906	Stuffed Owl	Calvert Meade
November 17, 1906	Theater Programme	Bruce Porter
December 20, 1906	Old Jinks Pictures	Mrs. R. H. Howland
December 20, 1906	Two Jinks Pictures	W. G. Stafford
December 20, 1906	Picture of Owl	W. D. Armes
January 22, 1907	Pair Caribou Horns	Captain Sidney Cloman
February 14, 1907	Frame	Jas. D. Phelan
February 14, 1907	Oil Painting by H. R. Bloomer	Raphael Weill
March 12, 1907	The Four Queens	T. W. M. Draper
	Two Bookcases	L. H. Foote
March 28, 1907	Picture—Let Me Do Your Press-Work	T. W. M. Draper
	High Jinks Stage
	Pipe and Pewter Club Donation	$ 100
	Lambs Club Donation	5000
April 1, 1907	Poetry and Jinks Picture 1880	Raphael Weill

Jinks, Dinners, etc.

1906
June 22	Main Dining Room	Opening dinner at new home and informal house warming— F. W. Hall, presiding; music by Dr. Humphrey J. Stewart.
Aug. 4	Midsummer Jinks	"Burial of Care" at Grove, text by Charles K. Field; Dr. Humphrey J. Stewart, musical director.
Oct. 2	Concert Greek Theater, Berkeley	"The Man in the Forest," Joseph D. Redding. (Arrangement in symphonic form for orchestra by W. J. McCoy.) Song—"The Two Ships," Wallace A. Sabin. Solo by H. L. Perry. Scene—Aria, Chorus and Storm Music from opera "Cleopatra," W. J. McCoy. (Libretto by Charles K. Field.) Christmas Ode—Theodore Vogt. (Words by Peter Robertson, solo by Frank Onslow.) Gavotte Bohemienne—Joseph D. Redding (1890). Orchestration by Dr. Humphrey J. Stewart. Selection from "The Quest of the Gorgon," Theodor Vogt. (Solos by L. A. Larsen—Libretto by Newton J. Tharp.) Part Songs—Wallace A. Sabin. Selections from "A Christmas Pantomime," H. J. Stewart (1905).
Oct. 3	Main Dining Room	Dinner to James H. Graham (Presentation of Silver Service by Bohemians).
Oct. 22	Main Dining Room	Dinner of the Scouts.
Dec. 15	Leather Room	Luncheon to Mr. James B. Reynolds, U. S. Treasury, given by F. S. Stratton.
Dec 22	City of Paris Tea Garden	Christmas High Jinks, Frederic W. Hall; Sire, Libretto by Porter Garnett; music by Wallace A. Sabin.
Jan. 5	Nordhoff Cafe	Christmas Dinner, Frederic W. Hall, Presiding.
Feb. 23	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Lincoln Steffens and Jules Pages.
Mar. 6	Private Dining Room	Dinner of the Scouts.
Mar 27	Private Dining Room	Dinner to Dr. William Stephenson.
		Forty luncheons and dinners given by members of the Club during the year.

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To the Members:

I have the honor to present herewith a report of the finances of the Club for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1907

F. G. SANBORN, Treasurer.

BALANCE SHEET MARCH 31, 1907

Dr.	RESOURCES	LIABILITIES	Cr.
Cash in Office	$ 1,588 57	Dues Prepaid	$ 748 00
Cash in First National Bank	3,417 37	Assessment Prepaid	95 50
Cash in Savings Banks	2,789 38	McDonald Fund	35 87
Merchandise on hand—Restaurant	880 54	Sundry Creditors	5,003 68
Merchandise on hand—Wine-room	4,899 28	Bohemian Grove Bonds Unredeemed	2,865 00
Members' merchandise account (cards)	8,411 36	Bills Payable April 1, 1906 $79,000 00	20,000 00
Members' merchandise Bills Receivable	1,020 05	Club House Site Less pd, dur. yr. 59,000 00	20,000 00
Members' Dues	1,650 00	Bret Harte Monument Fund	1,138 00
Members' Assessments	39 00	Bromley Bust Fund	180 95
Furniture	5,820 02	Concert Fund	4,154 80
Restaurant Equipment	3,270 11	Balance (stock account)—
Wine Room Equipment	501 52	Balance (stock account)—
Rooms Equipment	115 44	Balance April 1st, 1906 $176,719 65
Library	600 00	DEDUCT, Fire Loss, Book Values, subject to insurance still outstanding
Works of Art	13,756 70
Club House Site, April 1st, 1906 $131,163 24
Taxes and interest for year 3,037 54
			$161,996 78
$134,200 78
Less insurance received 5,650 00	ADD Grove Equipment, previously written off as expense 5,528 59
	$128,550 78	Adjustments 1,069 00
Bohemian Grove $31,700 00		Club Site Assessments 3,812 00
Bohemian Improvements 11,260 93		Grove Bond Assessments 430 50
Equipment 6,968 98		Gifts 6,225 00
		Balance, Profit and Loss Acct. 14,295 66
	$49,929 91
Suspense	339 30		$193,357 53
	$227,579 33		$227,579 33

PROFIT AND LOSS MARCH 31, 1907

Dr.			Cr.
Members' dues remitted	$ 583 00	Wine-room (gain for year)	$ 5,619 61
Members' merchandise remitted	98 90	Dues, total for year	33,881 00
Furniture (off account of depreciation)	646 66	Rooms (rent)	3,132 42
Rooms Equipment (off account of depreciation)	57 72	Discount	614 50
Restaurant Equipment (off account of depreciation)	619 18	Interest	107 59
Wine Room Equipment (off account of depreciation)	81 70
Restaurant (loss for year)	3,080 43
Salaries (exclusive of restaurant, wine-room and bed-rooms)	11,423 05
Rent	3,920 00
Insurance and Surety Bonds	585 30
Lights	831 85
Water	225 25
Renovation—Furniture	10 25
Improvements to premises, including plumbing, carpentry, etc.	2,188 28
Telephone	439 76
Postage	793 85
Printing	707 40
Stationery	755 76
Paper and Periodicals	762 33
Uniforms	344 90
High Jinks $2,687 31
Midsummer Jinks 976 78
	$3,664 09
Bohemian Grove	1,734 19
General Expense	3,003 46
General Expense Allowances *. Allowance to Restaurant Department for board of house employees general cleaning done by waiters.	2,474 00
Barber Shop Expense	80 60
Messenger Service	9 85
Elevator	24 75
Library	2 00
Memorial Account	53 95
Annals of Bohemian Club	51 00
	39,253 46
Balance, profit in operation, carried down	4,101 66		$43,355 12
	43,355 12
		Balance, Profit brought down	4,101 66
Balance, carried to stock account	14,295 66	Initiations	10,194 00
	$14,295 66		$14,295 66

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APRIL 1, 1906, TO MARCH 31, 1907

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS.
Stock on hand March 31, 1906	$12,820 94	Stock on hand March 31, 1907	$ 4,899 28
Merchandise purchased, 1906-07	26,558 44	Merchandise receipts, 1906-07	33,610 99
Gross Gain	12,130 89	Fire Loss	13,000 00
	$51,510 27		$51,510 27

PROFIT AND LOSS

Total Expense	$ 6,511 28	Gross Gain	$12,130 89
Net Gain	5,619 61
	$12,130 89		$12,130 89

RESTAURANT APRIL 1, 1906, TO MARCH 31, 1907

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS
Stock on hand March 31, 1906	$ 1,972 45	Stock on hand March 31, 1907	$ 880 54
Merchandise purchased, 1906-07	21,030 18	Merchandise receipts, 1906-07	31,379 37
Gross Gain	11,057 28	Fire Loss	1,800 00
	$34,059 91		$ 34,059 91

PROFIT AND LOSS

Total Expense	$ 14,137 71	Gross Gain	$ 11,057 28
		Net Loss	3,080 43
	$ 14,137 71		$ 14,137 71

RECAPITULATION

NET GAIN—Wine and Pool Rooms	$ 5,619 61
NET LOSS—Restaurant		$ 3,080 43
NET GAIN—		2,539 18
	$ 5,619 61	$ 5,619 61

I certify that I have examined the accounts of the Bohemian Club for the year ending March 31, 1907, with the vouchers relating to the same. I find that all moneys received from members have been duly accounted for as set forth in the above accounts and that vouchers are on file for all payments.

San Francisco, April 1, 1907.

A. C. HOPKINSON,

Auditor.

MEMBERSHIP

Total membership March 31, 1906:					Total membership March 31, 1907, together with gains during year ending March 31, 1907:			1160
Regular members—					Losses during the year;
Resident		721			Regular members—
Non-resident		134			Resigned	24
			855		To Honorary (Transferred)	1
Transient members		91			Dropped	5
Life members, old	14				Died—Regular	9
Life members, new	14				Died—Life, new	1
		28			Died—Honorary	1
Honorary members		27			To Associate (Transferred)	3
Associate Members		72					44
			218		Transient members—
				1073	Resigned	40
					Died	1
Gains during the year ending March 31, 1907:							41
Regular members—					Associate members—
Elected, Regular		45			Resigned	3
Reinstated Regular		6			Dropped	4
Elected, Honorary		1					7
Elected, New Non-Resident		13						92
			65					1068
					Total membership March 31, 1907, as follows:
Transient members—					Regular members—
Elected		18			Resident	733
			18		Non-resident	144
							877
Associate members—					Transient members		68
Elected		1			Life members Old		13
From Regular (Transferred)		3	4		Life members New		14
				87	Honorary		27
					Associate		69
				1160				1068

INSURANCE is carried on Club property as follows:
Furniture and Paintings, Wines and Groceries	$13,750 00
Buildings and Camp Furniture at Grove	9,575 00
Total	$ 23,325 00

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DONORS OF BOOKS

	Number of Vols.
H. Altemas Co.	1
W. D. Armes	4
Gertrude Atherton	2
W. B. Bancroft	2
Dr. Wm. Boericke	10
Geo. Bromley	1
W. M. Bunker	61
C. L. Canfield	2
Barry Coleman	36
Chester Deering	26
Chas. De Young	28
P. C. Du Bois	136
L. H. Foote	331
Porter Garnett	1
H. C. B. Gill	1
W. F. Goad & L. Scrutton	1
F. W. Grimwood	6
J. M. Hamilton	4
Curtis Hillyer	2
W. Irwin	1
Chas. Jocelyn	2
A. F. Jones	1
P. M. Jones	8
Chas. Keeler	5
L. Lisser	5
Jeremiah Lynch	1
G. H. Malter	1
Geo. Marsh	1
C. Meade (unbound Vols. of Black Cat)
R. W. Osborn	41
Senator Geo. C. Perkins	1
Theo. Poindexter	2
Bruce Porter	1
A. M. Robertson	12
P. Robertson	1
F. G. Sanborn	3
Dr. M. Soule	4
S. Steinhart	1
J. M. Stillman	4
Elizabeth Sonntag	1
E. R. Taylor	19
Geo. Turner	2
J. G. Walker	1
J. P. Whitney	1
G. W. Wilson	2

Annual Report
1907-1908
Bohemian Club

Bohemian Club, San Francisco Annual Reports 1907-1908

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To the Members of the Bohemian Club:

Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report of the Club's affairs for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1908:

Temporary Club Home

During the past year the Club has changed its temporary home. The Williams residence at 1925 Octavia Street being difficult to reach, a committee was appointed to look for more accessible quarters down town, and in July, 1907, a lease was taken of the Little Palace Hotel, at the northwest corner of Post and Leavenworth Streets, for a term beginning August 1st, 1907, and ending November 15th, 1910, at a rental of one thousand dollars a month. Under the terms of this lease, the lessor keeps the sidewalks and roof in repair, and the Club attends to all other repairs. The Club moved in August, 1907, and has found the building well suited to its purposes. The large dining room and kitchen have enabled the Club to accommodate the increased attendance. The great living room, forty by one hundred feet, has been a most attractive place for general assemblage; and, with the temporary stage recently erected at the east end, it also serves as a jinks room. On the second floor are twenty-two bedrooms, besides the office. While the building is not suited for the permanent home of the Club, lacking an independent jinks room where exhibitions may be held without interfering with the regular life of the Club, a private dining room where ladies may be entertained as in the old red room, a billiard room, and a large library, yet the Club has found these temporary quarters very comfortable and accessible, and the change has given general satisfaction, although the expense of maintaining the Club in the new quarters is a great deal more than at Octavia Street.

The Little Palace is a wooden building, erected within the fire limits, and since it was leased to us, the Board of Supervisors have passed a general ordinance requiring all wooden buildings within the fire limits to be removed by May 1st, 1910. Our lease provides that if the buildings shall be taken down by order of the authorities, our lease thereupon terminates. It is hoped that this building, being removed from the business district, may be allowed to stand to the termination of our lease.

Finances.

During the year immediately following the fire, all Club assessments were suspended and Club dues were reduced. Beginning with May 1st, 1907, the dues were restored to their full figure and the assessments were again commenced.

All the remaining Grove bonds, amounting to $2, 715.00, have been paid. When the additional eighty acres of land were purchased for the Grove in 1906, the money received from the club concerts, then amounting to $4,154.80, was used for the purpose, and the board of directors at the time resolved that the Grove assessment should continue until this amount had been replaced. For that reason the assessment is still being continued, but will terminate in about two months. It is the intention to use this money to clear the Grove of fallen bark and rubbish.

The club site assessment, since April 1st, 1907, amounts to $33,260.00, and the initiation fees to $13,277.00. The larger part of this we have not been able to apply towards the reduction of the debt. The most of the money received from insurance on furniture and club supplies, instead of being placed in a separate fund and reserved for the purchase of new furniture and supplies, was, during the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1907, applied on the club site indebtedness, the debt that year being reduced $59,000.00 although no club site assessments were collected. On moving into the Little Palace, a very large amount of money was required for new furniture and extra supplies, and this amount was taken from the club site assessments. This was done with the consent of the bank. The receipts from club site assessments and initiation fees, totaling $46,537.00, have gone substantially to the following purposes:

New furniture (including dining room, wine room and bedroom)	$19,259.00
Additional supplies carried	4,926.00
Fitting up Little Palace	3,622.00
Grove equipment (principally tents, cots and mattresses)	3,436.00
Payment on Westgate lot	2,500.00
Payment on club site indebtedness	7,500.00
Increase in cash on hand	4,857.00
	$46,100.00

The expense of maintaining the Club in its present quarters has been about $3,100.00 per month more than in the Williams house. This extra expense has been met partly by the additional room rent, partly by the increased patronage of members, and partly by the increased dues. The ordinary income of the Club, including dues, more than meets the ordinary expenses, leaving the club site assessments clear to be applied on the debt and the initiation fees clear to be applied on the club debt and for extraordinary expenses. The dues the past year amounted to $58,402.00.

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During the year, the Club has purchased the Westgate property on Taylor Street, adjoining the club site, for $72,500.00. There was a mortgage upon the property to the Hibernia Bank of $50,000.00 which the Club assumed. The remaining $22,500.00 was paid by taking $2,500.00 from the club treasury and borrowing $20,000.00 from the First National Bank on the note of the Club. This purchase raised the club site debt in May, 1907, to $90,000.00, segregated as follows:

First National Bank, secured by trust deed on original club site	$20,000.00
First National Bank, unsecured note	$20,000.00
Hibernia Bank, mortgage on Westgate property	50,000.00
Total,	$90,000.00

Upon this $90,000.00, the sum of $7,500.00 has been paid during the past year, as above stated, reducing the debt to $82,500.00 on March 31st, 1908. Since March 31st an additional $5,000.00 has been paid, reducing it to $77,500.00.

The remaining indebtedness is only the current indebtedness which is paid monthly. The Club has during the past year continued to discount its bills for cash, and on March 31st, 1908, had a cash balance on hand of $9,862.82.

The full details of the financial condition of the Club appear in the treasurer's report.

New Club House.

Acting on the resolution adopted at the annual meeting in April, 1907, the Club has purchased the Westgate property on Taylor Street, lying immediately north of the original club site and having a frontage of 85 feet 10 inches on Taylor Street with a depth on the southern line of 105 feet and a depth on Hobart Place of 91 feet 8 inches. This gives us a very large lot with three frontages: 105 feet on Post Street, 183 feet 4 inches on Taylor Street, and 91 feet 8 inches on Hobart Place. The depth of the southerly 137½ feet of the Taylor Street frontage is 105 feet and of the northerly 45 feet 10 inches is 91 feet 8 inches. Upon this entire property the present indebtedness is $77,500.00. The property is considered well fitted for the purpose for which it has been purchased, and the additional Westgate property enables the Club to build a building of moderate height at moderate expense, with a jinks room on the back part of the lot on the first floor. Without the additional lot it would have been necessary to build a tall building with a jinks room on the top floor. This would have required a heavy steel frame and been very costly. It is considered that the Club can save more than the price of the Westgate lot in- the reduced cost of the building and still have a building more satisfactory in every way than could have been erected on the original lot. Owing to the necessity of using a large portion of the club site assessments for furnishing the present club house and putting it into proper working condition and the consequent small reduction in the club indebtedness, and also owing to the financial stringency, it has not been practicable during the past year to attempt to finance the building of a new club house. With economy during the coming year the debt should be reduced to a figure which will enable the Club to actively take up the question of building a permanent club house. The estimates made a year or more ago on a new club building ran as high as $450,000.00. With the additional lot, it is probable that one could be erected for $250,000.00, or less, if necessary. As we are obliged to keep our present quarters until May 1st, 1910, in any case, and probably until November 15th, 1910, there will apparently be no necessity of commencing work for a year. In the meantime, the cost of building is decreasing rapidly and prices are getting settled. Within the next year we will be able to figure closely on the actual cost of any building we may plan—which we could not do during the past two years.

Club Membership.

By an amendment adopted at the annual meeting in April, 1907, the limit of regular membership was increased fifty, the fifty members to be selected from those distinguished in the arts of science, such members to have their dues and assessments remitted. During the past year the board has placed on this list nineteen members, who have earned the honor by distinguished services rendered the Club.

The total regular membership, aside from the above fifty, was, on March 31st, 1908, seven hundred and twenty-nine. The total membership of all classes is now eleven hundred and eight, which is the largest in the history of the Club. Many former members are applying for re-instatement, and the applications for membership are coming in as rapidly as they did prior to the fire.

Mr. Charles J. Dickman has been elected to honorary life membership.

During the past year the following members have died: George F. Chapman, James M. McDonald, Henry K. Field, Karl Howard, George T. Myers, Barry Coleman, George D. Dornin, Sherman P. Stow, Richard Mansfield, Aurelius E. Buckingham, George Leviston, William J. Landers, Edward B. Haldan, Isidore Gutte, Wm. H. Wassell and Albert G. Wieland.

Restaurant and Wine Room.

The loss for the year in the restaurant was $6,330.89, and the profit in the wine room $8,713.88. These figures cannot be properly compared with the figures of the previous year, the conditions being so different. The dining room loss is unusually large, due to some very heavy losses made in the months immediately after moving into the Little Palace and before the present system was inaugurated. At the present time the loss runs about $450.00 a month.

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Library.

Since moving into the present quarters, two large bookcases have been put in, which have been rapidly filled with books donated by the members. The most of these books are of a high standard, and a good start has been made towards restoring the very valuable library the Club formerly possessed. The total number of volumes at the present time is one thousand and forty-five. Nearly all of the periodicals formerly taken can again be found in the library.

The Grove.

During the past year a house for the forester has been built on the low ground on the Monte Rio road, thus more fully protecting the Grove from trespassers. The bridge across the Russian River, which was washed out in the spring of 1907, has not been replaced and is not likely to be. Visitors to the Grove will be obliged to travel by the way of Monte Rio, the same as last year. During the year the Club has purchased a complete equipment of tents, which will save it the heavy expense of annual hiring.

General.

The Club entertainments of the year have been highly successful. The Midsummer Grove play, with libretto by George Sterling and music by E. F. Schneider, ranks as one of the notable productions of the Club, and attracted to the Grove the largest number of people who ever attended there. The Neophyte Jinks, sired by Charles G. Norris and produced by men who had not theretofore taken part in a jinks, disclosed the fact that the Club was rich in latent talent. The "Redivivus Jinks," sired by Allan Dunn and held at Lane Hall, was an excellent performance. The Christmas Jinks crowded the room to the limit and entertained a delighted audience until two o'clock the next morning.

Great interest has been shown in all these affairs, the attendance has been large, and the work has been up to the old-time standard.

The principal employes have been efficient and the much abused directors have devoted a large amount of valuable time to the affairs of the Club.

I thank the Club for the honor bestowed on me by electing me president, and thank the officers, members and employes for their loyal support.

Respectfully submitted,

FREDERIC W. HALL,
President.

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Donations of Pictures, etc.

April 11, 1907	Christmas Jinks Copy 1898-1897	Raphael Weill.
April 12, 1907	Picture of George Bromley	Arnold Genthe.
April 21, 1907	Cartoon, 1878	A. McF. Davis.
June 3, 1907	Photograph of Abraham Lincoln	T. W. Huntington
June 30, 1907	Picture Round Table dinner	Arnold Genthe.
July 16, 1907	Jinks picture of old members, 1880	Miss R. Cashman.
July 23, 1907	Photo Round Table dinner, 1902	C. L. Leonard.
August 17, 1907	Painting	James D. Phelan.
August 19, 1907	Two microscope glasses	W. D. Fennimore.
August 22, 1907	Club Flag	W. G. Stafford.
August 22, 1907	Photograph of F. Somers	R. Thomas.
August 22, 1907	Photograph of Pope Pius X	H. Thaddeus.
August 31, 1907	Cancelled check signed by Sam'l F. B. Morse	W. G. Morse
September 10, 1907	Two small Engravings	W. D. Armes.
September 10, 1907	Cartoon by Traveniere	Emma Chismore.
September 10, 1907	Group of Midsummer Photographs	M. Hall McAllister.
September 10, 1907	Cartoon of Jinks, 1906	C. J. Dickman.
September 14, 1907	Picture of old Club House	E. S. Simpson.
September 14, 1907	Cartoon of Montezuma Jinks	X. T. Martinez.
October 1, 1907	Photographs	G. W. Phelps.
October 14, 1907	Owl Painted on Silk	G. A. E. Muecke.
October 14, 1907	Two framed Photographs	F. C. Drew.
November 9, 1907	Photograph of old time Bohemians	W. M. Bunker.
November 26, 1907	Set of Andirons	Emma Shafter Howard.
November 23, 1907	Cartoon Neophyte Jinks	Gordon Coutts.
November 27, 1907	Picture St. John of Neopmuck	T. S. Wilson.
November 27, 1907	Cartoon Christmas Jinks, 1906	X. T. Martinez.
December 13, 1907	Painting, "The Trail to the Ford"	J. M. Gamble.
December 14, 1907	Dickman Bust	C. J. Dickman.
December 16, 1907	Photograph of the Ruins	E. N. Sewall.
January 4, 1908	Owl Resting on Skull	E. C. Ford.
January 10, 1908	Cartoon Hamydryads Jinks, 1904	Maynard Dixon.
January 10, 1908	Cartoon Jinks, 1881	Chas. Josselyn.
February 11, 1908	Cartoon Jinks, 1874	L. C. Deane.
March 2, 1908	Painting by Geo. Lyon	By Members of the Club.
March 23, 1908	Dictionary Stand	A. P. Redding.
March 31, 1908	Cartoon—At Home. Sat. Eve. Mar. 5, 1892	V. Stow.
March 31, 1908	Gift of Grove Bond	Douglas Tilden.

Jinks Dinners, etc.

1907
April 18	Main Dining Room	Farewell dinner to Raphael Weill by Reuben H. Lloyd.
April 27	Redivivus Jinks (Lane Hall)	(Mid-Term Jinks (Allan Dunn, Sire; Emile Bruguiere, Musical Sire; "Hartmann & Son," a Dramatic Episode by J. Wilson Shiels; Frank Mathieu, Stage Director, and Scenery by George Lyon.
May 11	Main Dining Room	Benedict Dinner to Charles J. Dickman.
May 15	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Philip M. Jones and Paul Cowles by the Scouts.
May 27	Main Dining Room	Benedict Dinner to Porter Garnett.
July 27	Midsummer Jinks	"The Triumph of Bohemia" at the Grove. A Forest Play by George Sterling; music by Edward F. Schneider; produced under the direction of Porter Garnett.
July 28	Sunday Morning Concert	At the Grove, H. J. Stewart, Conductor.
Aug. 20	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Elmer H. Depue.
Aug. 24	Main Dining Room	After Glow Dinner and Formal House Warming, Frederic W. Hall presiding.
Sept. 14	Private Dining Room	Farewell Dinner to Thomas S. Wilson.
Sept. 30	At Club House	Musical Evening, Orpheus Club; E. D. Crandall, leader and Robert C. Newell, accompanist.
Oct. 2	Private Dining Room	Farewell Dinner to H. C. Fassett.
Oct. 3	Private Dining Room	Dinner to H. Morse Stephens by University Members.
Oct. 11	Concert Van Ness Theatre	Prelude—Moonlight in the Grove. Song of Defiance—"Like Elder Gods," by Chorus; Dance of the Saplings; The Appearance of the Elements; The Conflict; Woodmen's March and Care Song; Recitative and Aria by T. Vail Bakewell; Grand March and Finale by Chorus and Orchestra. Edward Faber Schneider, Director; E. D. Crandall, Chorus Master. W. H. Smith, Jr., read the story of the Play during the progress of the Concert.
Oct. 24	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Noble H. Eaton by the Scouts.
Nov. 11	Main Dining Room	"Home Welcome" dinner to Raphael Weill by Eugene Gallois.
Nov. 16	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Joseph D. Redding by Bohemians.
Nov. 23	Neophyte Jinks	"The Triumph of Booze," Charles G. Norris, Sire; Frank Mathieu, Stage Director; George Lyon, Sceneries and Properties; J. R. Hamilton, Dances.
Dec. 7	Main Dining Room	"Hard Luck Dinner," by Bohemians.
Dec. 14	Music Room	Supper to Eugene Cowles.
Dec. 28	Social Room	"Christmas Dinner," Frederic W. Hall, presiding.
1908
Jan. 4	Christmas High Jinks	Frederic W. Hall, Sire; W. J. McCoy, Musical Director.
	Juvenile Jinks	Pete Sloan, Sire; Humphrey J. Stewart, Musical Director.
Feb. 21	Private Dining Room	Birthday Dinner to Col. A. G. Hawes by Raphael Weill.
Feb. 22	Main Dining Room	Mid-night Supper to DeWolf Hopper and other Lambs.
Feb. 27	Private Dining Room	Luncheon to Fleet Reception Committee by James D. Phelan.
March 4	Music Room	Supper to Harry M. Gillig.
March 7	Private Dining Room	Dinner to R. W. Campbell.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., April 1, 1908.

To the Members:

I have the honor to present herewith a report of the finances of the Club for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1908.

F. G. SANBORN, Treasurer.

BALANCE SHEET MARCH 31, 1908

Dr.			Cr.
RESOURCES.		LIABILITIES
Cash in Office	$ 2,873 99	Dues Prepaid	$ 447 00
Cash in First National Bank	6,988 83	Assessment Prepaid	69 50
Cash in Savings Banks	2,730 93	McDonald Fund	10 87
Merchandise on hand—Restaurant	1,523 67	Sundry Creditors	7,923 02
Merchandise on hand—Wine-room	9,182 31	Bills Payable Club House Site	82,500 00
Merchandise on hand—Annals of Bohemian Club	428 25	Bret Harte Monument Fund	2,514 16
Members' merchandise account (cards)	13,254 26	Bromley Bust Fund	180 95
Members' merchandise Bills Receivable	2,127 85	Concert Fund	4,300 54
Members' Dues	2,912 00	Balance (stock account)—Balance April 1st, 1907 $193,357 53
Members' Assessments	2,003.50
Furniture	16,457 07	Deduct Accounts Receivable (old) written off $ 891 00
Restaurant Equipment	7,086 25
Wine Room Equipment	610 50
Rooms Equipment	644 65	Sundry adjustments 111 63
Library	1,000 00	1,002 63
Works of Art	14,253 29
Club House Site, April 1st, 1907 $128,550 78		$192,354 90
Purchase of additional property 72,500 00		Add Club Site Assessments 33,260 00
Taxes and interest for year 6,328 67		Grove Bond Assessments 4,799 00
		Gifts 600 00
	$207,379 45	Insurance Recovered 1,960 00
Bohemian Grove $ 31,700 00		Balance, Profit & Loss Acct. 13,410 15
Bohemian Improvements 12,328 40			246,384 05
Equipment 8,844 89
	52,873 29
	$344,330 09		$344,330 09

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PROFIT AND LOSS MARCH 31, 1908

Dr.			Cr.
Members' dues remitted	$ 733 00	Wine-room (gain for year)	$ 8,713 88
Members' merchandise remitted	143 45	Dues, total for year	58,402 00
Furniture (off account of depreciation)	1,828 56	Rooms (Rent)	7,149 07
Rooms Equipment (off account of depreciation)	214 88	Discount	757.53
Restaurant Equipment (off account of depreciation)	1,766 36
Wine Room Equipment (off account of depreciation)	359 07
Restaurant (loss for year)	6,330 89
Salaries (exclusive of restaurant, wine-room and bed-rooms)	15,500 65
Rent	10,500 00
Insurance and Surety Bonds	1,499 18
Lights	2,169 45
Water	868 10
Engine Room	2,737 76
Improvements to premises, including plumbing carpentry, etc	3,622 22
Telephone	838 13
Postage	744 88
Printing	907 55
Stationery	670 24
Paper and Periodicals	625 15
Uniforms	554 95
High Jinks $ 3,966 06
Midsummer Jinks 4,042 52
	8,008 58
Bohemian Grove	2,067 28
General Expense	5,220 50
General Expense Allowances *. Allowance to Restaurant Department for board of house employees—general cleaning done by waiters.	5,234 50
Messenger Service	7 00
Library	56 15
Memorial Account	120 00
	73,328 48
Balance, profit in operation, carried down	1,694 00
	$75,022 48		$75,022 48
Depreciation and Equipment Bohemian Grove	1,560 85	Balance; Profit brought down	1,694 00
Balance, carried to stock account	13,410 15	Initiations	13,277 00
	$ 14,971 00		$ 14,971 00

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WINE ROOM APRIL 1, 1907 TO MARCH 31, 1908

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS
Stock on hand March 31, 1907	$ 4,899 28
Merchandise purchased, 1907-08	32,251 08	Stock on hand March 31, 1908	$ 9,182 31
Gross Gain	18,354 06	Merchandise receipts, 1907-08	46,322 11
	$ 55,504 42		$ 55,504 42

PROFIT AND LOSS

Total Expense	$ 9,640 18	Gross Gain	$ 18,354 06
Net Gain	8,713 88
	$ 18,354 06		$ 18,354 06

RESTAURANT APRIL 1, 1907, TO MARCH 31, 1908

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS
Stock on hand March 31, 1907	$ 880 54	Stock on hand March 31, 1908	$ 1,523 67
Merchandise purchased, 1907-08	34,477 17	Merchandise receipts, 1907-08	51,020 86
Gross Gain	17,186 82
	$ 52,544 53		$ 52,544 53

PROFIT AND LOSS

Total Expense	$ 23,517 71	Gross Gain	$ 17,186 82
		Net Loss	6,330 89
	$ 23,517 71		$ 23,517 71

RECAPITULATION

Net Gain—Wine Room	$ 8,713 88
Net Loss—Restaurant		$ 6,330 89
Net Gain		2,382 99
	$ 8,713 88	$ 8,713 88

I certify that I have examined the accounts of the Bohemian Club for the year ending March 31, 1908, with the vouchers relating to the same. I find that all moneys received from members have been duly accounted for as set forth in the above accounts and that vouchers are on file for all payments.

San Francisco, April 15, 1908.

A. C. HOPKINSON,

Auditor.

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MEMBERSHIP

Total membership March 31, 1907:—				Total membership March 31, 1908, together with gains during year ending March 31, 1908			1247
Regular Members—
Resident	733
Non-resident	144			Losses during the year:
		877		Regular Members—
Transient members	91			Resigned	60
Life members, old 13				To list of Fifty	5
Life members, new 14				To Honorary Life (Transferred)	1
	27			Dropped	5
Honorary members	27			Died—Regular	9
Associate members	69			Died—New Non-resident	3
				Died—Honorary	1
		191		Died—Life, Old	1
				To Associate (Transferred)	2
			1068
Gains during the year ending March 31, 1908:						87
Regular Members—				Transient Members—
Elected, Regular	63			Resigned	33
Reinstated, Regular	6
Elected, List of Fifty	19					33
Elected Life, new	1			Associate Members—
Elected, New, Non-resident	10			Resigned	2
				To list of Fifty (Transferred)	14
		99		Dropped	3
Transient Members—
Elected	50					19
							139
		50
Associate Members—				Total membership March 31, 1908, as follows			1108
Elected	28
From Regular (Transferred)	2			Regular Members—
				Resident	729
		30		List of Fifty	19
				Non-Resident	142
			179			890
				Transient members		85
			1247	Life Members—Old		12
				Life Members—New		15
				Honorary		26
				Associate		80
							1108

INSURANCE is carried on Club property as follows:
Furniture and Paintings, Wines and Groceries	$20,600 00
Buildings and Camp Furniture at Grove	9,575 00
Total	$30,175 00

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Donors of Books

	Number of Vols.
Appleton & Company	1
Bancroft & Co.	1
Bunten, L.	3
Burdell, J. B.	1
Clark, W. B.	29
Coleman, Barry	1
Drake, George	2
Ellis, H. B.	7
Farish, J. B.	2
Farrand, Max	16
Francis, Harry	5
Herrin, Wm. F.	8
Holman, F. V.	1
Jennings, Rufus P.	4
Josselyn, C. M.	73
Lathrop, B.	1
Lockwood, J. A.	1
Lukens, G. R.	7
Mailliard, Jos	4
Meade, Calvert	1
Perkins, George C.	5
Phelan, J. D.	7
Reed, C. J.	17
Redding, A. P.	24
Richardson, L. J.	1
Robertson, A. M.	2
Rolph, George M.	1
Schmidt, A. H. R.	2
Scotchler, J. L.	14
Slade, S. E.	22
Smithsonian Institute	2
Turner, George W.	3
Winship, G. P.	1

Annual Report
1908-1909
Bohemian Club

Bohemian Club, San Francisco Annual Reports 1908-1909

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To the Members of the Bohemian Club:

Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report of the Club's affairs for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1909:

New Club Home

It is fervently hoped that this past year will be the last full year in a temporary Club Home. To the preceding President and his Board we owe a debt of gratitude for homing us so well. Had it not been for them the present administration could not have given as many entertainments, or have so successfully cared for the comfort of its members. This temporary home of ours is a wooden building erected within the fire limits. Since it was leased to us the Board of Supervisors have passed a general ordinance, requiring all wooden buildings within the fire limits to be removed by May 1, 1910. Our lease provides that if the building shall be taken down by order of the authorities, it thereupon terminates. It is hoped that this building, being removed from the business district, may be allowed to stand to the termination of the lease. Whatever may be the outcome of this, the time is all too short and it behooves every member to do his utmost to show a keen, undivided interest in the furtherance of the building and the financing of our permanent home. The present administration has reached almost the point of letting the contracts; in fact the first one, that of clearing the lot, has already been signed. Had it not been for the high standard of Club spirit set by many of the influential business members, this administration could not, at this time, have reported so favorably upon this important matter. As an example of this, I feel impelled to inform the Club at large that a certain member, who, I am confident would not desire his name mentioned, stated at a Board meeting, that knowing he could not class himself among the so-called "active members," who had in past years given him so many pleasant Club hours, he desired to evidence his appreciation and to show his love of the principles of Bohemianism by placing his business abilities (well known to the Board) at the service and disposal of the Club. Again this outgoing administration wishes to thank the previous Building Committee, whose chairman at all times stands for the ideal in Club life, and who, in truth, during the Barton administration, originated the activity in this movement. This standard so set has been maintained by every one so situated until at last the following is the financial condition of the building project.

The Board of Directors has arranged for a loan of $200,000.00 to erect a new Club building and to float second mortgage bonds of $150,000.00. Fifty thousand dollars of these bonds will be used to take up the mortgage which the Hibernia Savings & Loan Society holds on the Westgate property, the balance of $100,000.00 to be used in furnishing the new Club House. The Club Site assessment ended in November. The last of the notes to the First National Bank for money borrowed to purchase the lot at Post and Taylor Streets was paid in November, leaving a mortgage of $50,000.00 to the Hibernia Savings & Loan Society on the Westgate property.

Grove

During the year many Grove improvements have been made. Smith Creek has been added to our water supply and that from the kitchen creek greatly improved, consequently no scarcity of water need be feared during our Midsummer High Jinks and by well placed tanks, we are able to say that there will be no waste of water, therefore the Grovekeeper is in a position to care for the Grove in a proper manner and at the same time we are better insured against fire.

A new warehouse has been built and the bunk houses so renovated that they are attractive and comfortable. A great amount of underbrush has been cleared away and fire trails made, thus lessening still more the danger of fire.

The above improvements were rendered possible by the Concert Fund.

The Grove Bond assessment of fifty cents a month ended in May, but the present administration recommend that it should be reinstated for the very good reason that at all times this beautiful Grove of ours should be cared for in a proper manner, and we feel that under the able, conservative, and economical direction of the Grove Committee, the fund accruing from such an assessment would be wisely expended.

The further details of the financial conditions of the Club appear in the Treasurer's report.

Club Membership

During the past year the Board has placed on the List of Fifty—a list created at the annual meeting of April, 1907, for the purpose of showing honor to members distinguished in Art and Science—the following names: Mr. R. I. Aitken, Mr. William Irwin, Mr. A. Joullin, Mr. E. C. Peixotto, Mr. Gordon Ross, Mr. Allan Dunn, Mr. S. D. Mayer and Mr. Crittenden Thornton.

During the past year the following members have died: A. G. Wieland, Thomas Hill, Warren R. Payne, W. G. Stafford, Brainard F. Smith, P. N. Lilienthal, H. A. Butters, H. de H. Waite, G. W. Fletcher, Daniel C. Gillman, E. A. Denicke, Reuben H. Lloyd, E. R. Thompson.

The Library

During the year the Library has been increased by many hundreds of volumes through the generosity of the members. Many of these are reference works of great value in carrying out the purposes of the Club.

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The most remarkable addition was a valuable collection of manuscripts and first editions of Bret Harte's works, which were presented by the members resident in Alameda County.

General

The loyal support given this administration; the large and sympathetic attendance given its productions; the never failing and willing response given by all when asked to assist; the fine spirit of good fellowship; the strong undercurrent of interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the Club, has been most truly appreciated by the Board of Directors and myself.

To the Board of Directors I desire to take the liberty on your behalf of extending sincere thanks for their devotion to the Club; for the many hours of valuable time devoted to its affairs, and personally thank them for their advice in matters of great moment, and their ever ready help in all things.

The principal employes have been most efficient.

I thank the Club for the honor bestowed on me by my election to the office of President.

Respectfuly submitted,

J. WILSON SHIELS,
President.

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Donations of Pictures, etc.

May 15, 1908	(Song) Heathen Chinese	W. J. McCoy.
May 21, 1908	Cartoon	Barbour Lathrop.
May 27, 1908	Painting, "Under Shadow"	G. Cadenasso.
May 27, 1908	Portrait Alex. G. Hawes	Alex. G. Hawes.
June 4, 1908	Sombrero	F. B. Turpin.
July 6, 1908	Three Grove Maps	Wm. Letts Oilver.
July 8, 1908	Ten Drawings in Chinatown	F. W. Sumner.
July 11, 1908	Seven Old Jinks Photographs	Leonard Chenery.
July 14, 1908	Painting	Carry Callahan.
July 20, 1908	Stuffed Owl	J. D. McKee.
July 30, 1908	View in Grove	I. Moullin.
August 12, 1908	Oil Sketch of Jules Tavernier	E. Gallois.
August 12, 1908	President's Report of 1899	J. A. Artigues.
August 27, 1908	Photograph of Grove Under Snow	Vanderlyn Stow.
August 27, 1908	Three photographs	S. E. Slade.
September 1, 1908	Two photographs of the Late John McCullough	S. Steinhart.
September 7, 1908	Two Jinks Programmes	V. Stow.
September 7, 1908	Framed Photograph of Grove	W. F. Southard.
September 18, 1908	Bust of David Warfield	R. I. Aitken.
September 22, 1908	Enlarged Photograph of High Jinks Stage	I. Moullin.
September 23, 1908	Midsummer High Jinks Notice Painted on Silk	Maxwell L. Crowe.
September 25, 1908	Twenty-two Pieces of Music	W. B. Clark.
September 27, 1908	Plaster Cast of Owl and Lamb	Haig Patigan.
September 28, 1908	Framed Photograph of Grove	Mrs. W. G. Stafford.
September 28, 1908	Framed Photograph of Club House at Post Street and Grant Avenue	Mrs. W. G. Stafford.
September 28, 1908	Small Painting by Tavernier	Mrs. W. G. Stafford.
October 14, 1908	Picture of University of Chicago	University of Chicago.
October 30, 1908	Cartoon and Programmes	J. Scott Wilson.
November 4, 1908	Three Jinks Photographs	F. G. Berry.
November 6, 1908	Framed Jinks Programme	J. O. Harron.
November 6, 1908	Cypress Point, by C. J. Dickman	Presented by the members of the Club.
November 12, 1908	Eleven Old Engravings	J. Scott Wilson.
November 12, 1908	Philippine Carnival Album	G. W. O'Reilly.
November 19, 1908	Six Large Engravings	J. A. Lowell.
November 28, 1908	Portrait of Denis O'Sullivan	Mary Sutro.
December 5, 1908	Bronze Bust of Denis O'Sullivan	By the members of the Bohemian Club.
December 8, 1908	Photograph of Horace G. Platt	Horace G. Platt.
December 12, 1908	Framed Grove Photograph	Chas. Bundschu.
December 21, 1908	Billiken Statue	W. J. Wayte.
December 21, 1908	Small Statue	V. C. Driffield.
December 24, 1908	Large Bronze Owl Lamp	E. H. Parish.
December 30, 1908	Cartoon—Christmas Jinks, 1908; J. Wilson Shiels, Sire	Haig Patigan.
January 12, 1909	Plaster Cast of California Lion	Arthur Putnam.
January 14, 1909	Two Sketches by Theo. Nast	John B. Farish.
January 18, 1909	Six Small Australian photographs	D. M. Dow.
January 18, 1909	Tin Whistle	Mrs. Denis O'Sullivan.
January 18, 1909	Thirty-three Pieces of Music	L. S. Sherman.
January 18, 1909	Four Folios and Seven Music Books	L. S. Sherman.
January 19, 1909	Piece of Music	Kirk Donovan.
February 6, 1909	Order for Steinway Grand Piano	L. S. Sherman.
February 19, 1909	Jinks Programmes and Papers	Pauline Payne.
February 19, 1909	Complete Score of "Pagliacci," "La Boheme" and "Mlle. Butterfly"	F. A. Greenwood.
February 25, 1909	Book of Cartoons	Leonard G. Coop.
March 4, 1909	Scrap Book of Programmes, etc	R. I. Longabough.
March 18, 1909	Engraving of Westminster Abbey	Jas. McNab.
March 23, 1909	Painting by F. J. McComas	F. J. McComas.
March 29, 1909	Statue—Art lured to Bohemia	J. B. Landfield.
March 29, 1909	Thirty-three Pieces of Music	L. S. Sherman.
March 31, 1909	Several Jinks Photographs	Mrs. A. Gerberding.
March 31, 1909	Cartoon by Patigan	J. Wilson Shiels.

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Jinks, Dinners. etc.

1908.
April 14	Private Dining Room	Birthday Dinner to Uncle George Bromley by Raphael Weill.
May 8	Main Dining Room	Farewell Dinner to Thomas S. Wilson.
May 13	Days of '49 Jinks—Held in a large tent opposite the Club	Mid-Term Jinks, Charles S. Aitken, Sire, given in honor of the Officers of the Fleet, anchored at that time in San Francisco Harbor.
June 5	Private Dining Room	Dinner to Eastern Bankers by Cyrus Peirce.
July 18	Main Dining Room	Farewell Dinner to General Funston and an entertainment accompanying the dinner, of a musical and dramatic nature.
Aug. 8	Midsummer Jinks	"The Sons of Baldur" at the Grove. A Forest Music Drama by Herman Scheffauer; music by Arthur Weiss; produced under the direction of Frank Mathieu.
Aug. 9	Sunday morning concert	At the Grove, under the direction of Paul Steindorff, assisted by Arthur Weiss, Edward Schneider, Theodore Vogt, Emile Bruguiere, Joseph D. Redding and W. J. McCoy. Solos by McKenzie Gordon and Vail Bakewell.
Aug. 21	Concert Van Ness Theater	Introduction, "Dance of the Saplings," from the Triumph of Bohemia; conducted by the composer, Edward Faber Schneider. Quartette from male voices, "My Sweetheart Long Ago"; solo and chorus with orchestra, "Welcome Home," words and music by Joseph D. Redding; Paul Steindorff conducting; (a) Nocturne, "Under the Redwoods," (b) "Before the Gringo Came"; ("La Fieste")—1. Spanish Dance; 2. Tarantelle; from the orchestral suite "Scene in California," conducted by the composer, H. J. Stewart, (a) Song, "Allah"; (b) ballad, "Jane Grey," conducted by Theodor Vogt. (a) Introduction and Prayer; (b) Anthony's Song from the opera "Cleopatra," conducted by the composer, W. J. McCoy. "The Sons of Baldur," conducted by the composer, Arthur Weiss. Chorus Master, E. D. Crandall.
Sept. 7	Private Dining Room	Benedict Dinner by J. Paulding Edwards.
Sept. 19	Main Dining Room	After Glow Dinner, J. Wilson Shiels presiding, followed by a travesty, by Allan Dunn. Musical sire, Paul J. Steindorff, and Master of Scenery and Properties, Will Sparks.
Sept. 26	Main Dining Room	Supper to David Warfield, by Bohemians.
Oct. 3	Main Dining Room	A Club Dinner with various interesting stunts, music, papers and songs, under the direction of Louis Lisser.
Nov. 7	Social Room	A Club Dinner with various interesting stunts, music, papers and songs, under the direction of John B. Leighton.
Nov. 28	Music Room	Supper to Hall McAllister and George Leslie.
Dec. 5	Social Room	Monthly Club Dinner with various interesting stunts, etc., under the direction of J. B. Murphy. During the evening's programme the bust of Denis O'Sullivan was unveiled.
Dec. 26	Social Room	"Christmas Dinner," John Landers presiding.
1909.
Jan. 2	Christmas Jinks	J. Wilson Shiels, Sire; W. H. Smith Jr., Director. "The Ogre's Christmas Dinner," a musical fantasy by Rufus M. Steele and H. J. Stewart.
Jan. 16	Private Dining Room	Congratulatory Dinner to W. H. Smith Jr. by Bohemians.
Jan. 31	Social Room	Breakfast to E. H. Sothern, J. Wilson Shiels presiding.
Feb. 6	Social Room	Pop Concert.
Feb. 6	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Leander S. Sherman, J. Wilson Shiels presiding. At this dinner Mr. Sherman presented to the Club an order for a Steinway Piano, to be delivered to the Club upon the completion of its new home.
Feb. 13	Social Room	Concert devoted to Chamber Music.
Feb. 20	Social Room	Pop Concert.
Feb. 20	Private Dining Room	Birthday Dinner to Colonel Hawes by Raphael Weill.
Feb. 27	Social Room	Dinner to David Belasco, followed by an Amateur Night. Charles J. Dickman, Sire. "The Doo Rock," written for Charles J. Dickman by J. Wilson Shiels.
March 6	Social Room	Pop Concert.
March 3 to 13	Club Rooms	Art Exhibit.
March 13	Social Room	Orchestral Concert under the direction of Theodor Vogt.
March 13	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Richard M. Hotaling by Bohemians, J. Wilson Shiels presiding.
March 24	Private Dining Room	Dinner to Frank Unger by Raphael Weill.
March 27	Social Room	Monthly Dinner and Evening under the direction of W. J. McCoy. Mr. David Bispham was the guest of the evening.
March 31	Private Dining Room	Luncheon in honor of Count Charles de Polignac by John J. Caffrey.

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Report of Treasurer

To the Members:

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 1, 1909.

I have the honor to present herewith a report of the finances of the Club for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1909: WM. LETTS OLIVER, Treasurer.

BALANCE SHEET March 31, 1909

*Dr.*		*Cr.*
RESOURCES.		LIABILITIES.
Cash in Office	$ 2,036 87	Dues prepaid	$ 671 50
Cash in First National Bank	5,697 96	McDonald Fund	1 87
Cash in Mutual Savings Bank	2,831 23	Brete Harte Monument Fund	2,614 46
Merchandise on hand—Restaurant	2,038 46
Merchandise on hand—Wine Room	9,962 40	Bromley Bust Fund	180 95
Merchandise on hand—Annals of Bohemian Club.	433 45	Organ Fund	165.00
Members' Merchandise Account—		Library Fund	49 50
Current month $8,946 05		Limb's Club Fund	5,000 00
Previous months 5,633 55	14,579 60	Sundry Creditors	9,575 30
Members' Merchandise—Bills receivable	1,211 20	Bills payable (mortgage Hibernia Savings and Loan Society)	50,000 00
Members' Dues	3,819 00
Members' Assessments	1,057 00	Balance (capital account)—
Postage	212 00
Furniture	16,198 37	Balance April 1, 1908 $ 246,384 05
Restaurant Equipment	7,820 97	Lamb's Club Fund transferred, etc. 5,140 00
Wine Room Equipment	722 92
Rooms Equipment	577 27	$ 241,244 05
Library	1,894.80	Add Club Site Assessment 24,992 00
Works of Art	17,080 52
Club House Site, April 1, 1908 $207,379 45		Grove Bond Assessment 1,042 00
Taxes and interest for year 5,161 12		Gifts 3,435 00
Club Building (architect prizes) 1,511 00	214,051 57	Insurance recovered 1,334 00
Bohemian Grove—		Concert Fund (transferred to grove improvements) 5,469 65
Original cost $ 31,700 00
Improvements to March 1, 1908 12,328 40		Balance Profit and Loss account. 14,924 89	292,441 59
Improvements current year 5,818 96
$49,847 36
Equipment 8,625 22	58,472 58
	$360,700 17		$360,700 17

PROFIT AND LOSS March 31, 1909

*Dr.*		*Cr.*
Members' dues remitted	$ 497 00	Wine room, gain for year	10,946 44
Members' merchandise remitted	435 70	Dues, total for year	60,737 50
Furniture (off account of depreciation)	1,799 82	Rooms rent	8,458 73
Rooms equipment (off account of depreciation)	192 43	Discount	476 83
Restaurant (off account of depreciation)	2,141 08	Letter Boxes	63 00
Wine room (off accountof depreciation)	268 04
Restaurant (loss for year)	$ 6,411 89
Salaries (exclusive of restaurant, wine room, engine room and bedrooms)	15,413 45
Rent	12,000 00
Insurance and surety bonds	1,190 10
Lights	2,528 73
Water	970 95
Engine room	3,724 79
Improvement to premises, including plumbing, carpentry, etc.	914 02
Telephone	1,122 25
Postage	1,078 86
Printing	928 20
Stationery	702 09
Paper and periodicals	775 90
Uniforms	696 85
High Jinks $ 4,756 55
Midsummer jinks $ 4,002 63
Depreciation of equipment 2,156 31
$6,158 94
Credit jinks assessment 1,800 00
4,358 94	9,115 49
Bohemian Grove—Maintenance, including fire engine and telephone line	2,474 08
General expenses	6,603 49
*General expenses allowances	6,236 70
Messenger service	7 25
Library	122 45
Memorial account	100 00
	$78,451 61
Balance, profit in operation, carried down	2,230 89
	$80,682 50		$ 80,682 50
		Balance, profit brought down	$ 2,230 89
Balance, carried to the stock account	$ 14,924 89	Initiations	12,694 00
	$14,924 89		$14,924 89
*Allowance to Restaurant Department for board of house

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WINE ROOM April 1, 1908, to March 31, 1909

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS.
Stock on hand March 31, 1908	$ 9,182 31
Merchandise purchased, 1908-9	31,610 98	Stock on hand March 31, 1909	$ 9,962 40
Gross gain	22,481 63	Merchandise receipts 1908-9	53,312 52
	$63,274 92		$63,274 92

PROFIT AND LOSS

Total expense	$ 11,535 19	Gross gain	$ 22,481 63
Net gain	10,946 44
	$ 22,481 63		$22,481 63

RESTAURANT April 1, 1908, to March 31, 1909

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS.
Stock on hand March 31, 1908	$ 1,523 67	Stock on hand March 31, 1909	$ 2,038 46
Merchandise purchased 1908-9	41,173 49	Merchandise receipts 1908-9	63,066 69
Gross gain	22,407 99
	$ 65,105 15		$ 65,105 15

PROFIT AND LOSS.

Total expense	$ 28,819 88	Gross gain	$ 22,407 99
		Net loss	6,411 89
	$28,819 88		$28,819 88

RECAPITULATION

Net Gain—Wine Room	$ 10,946 44
Net Loss—Restaurant	$	6,411 89
Net Gain		4,534 55
	$10,946 44	$10,946 44

I certify that I have examined the accounts of the Bohemian Club for the year ended March 31, 1909, with the vouchers relating thereto. All moneys received from members have been duly accounted for, and vouchers are on file for all payments made.

San Francisco, April 20, 1909. A. C. HOPKINSON, Auditor.

MEMBERSHIP

Total membership March 31, 1908—				Total membership March 31, 1909, together with gains during year ending March 31, 1909			1290
Regular members—
Resident	729
List of fifty	19			Losses during the year:
Non-resident	142			Regular members—
		890		Resigned	41
Transient members		85		To associate (transferred)	1
Life members—old		12		Dropped—regular	1
Life members—new		15		Dropped—non-resident	2
Honorary		26		Died—regular	7
Associate		80		Died—non-resident	2
				Died—life, old	2
			1108	Died—Honorary	2
Gains during the year ending March 31, 1909:						58
Regular members—				Transient Members—
Elected, regular	43			Resigned	41
Reinstated, regular	10			Dropped	2
From associate (transferred)	9			To Associate (transferred)	1
Elected, new non-resident	18			To Regular (transferred)	1
Reinstated, new non-resident	3
Elected, list of fity	1					45
From associate to list of fifty (transferred)	7			Associate Members—
				Resigned	2
				Dropped	22
		91		To Regular (transferred)	9
Transient members—				To List of Fifty (transferred)	7
Elected	50			To Transient (transferred)	1
From associate (transferred)	1
		51				41
Associate members—							144
Elected	38
From regular (transferred)	1			Total membership March 31, 1909, as follows:			1146
From transient (transferred)	1			Regular Members—
				Resident	743
		40		List of Fifty	27
				Non-resident	157
			182			927
			1290	Transient members		91
				Life members, old		10
				Life members, new		15
				Honorary		24
				Associate		79
							1146

INSURANCE is carried on Club property as follows:
Furniture and Paintings, Wines and Groceries	$22,250 00
Buildings and Camp Furniture at Grove	10,775 00

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Donors of Books

	Number of Vols.
Ayer, N. W., & Son	1
Board of Supervisors	6
Brady, H. J.	5
Brown, Roland G.	2
Chadbourne, F. S.	1
Chace, W. B. M.	2
Davidson, George	2
Doble, W. A.	22
Drew, F. C.	2
Eldredge, Z. S.	1
Gamble, J. M.	1
Hall, Frederic W.	10
Harron, J. O.	25
Henshaw, Julia	1
Hilborn, L. A.	8
Johnstone, Dr. E. K.	1
Jones, P. M.	4
Josselyn, Chas.	100
Leighton, J. B.	1
Lowenberg, Mrs. L.	1
Lynch, Jeremiah	27
Marshall, Benj.	1
McCarthy, E. Avery	11
McDougall, C. C.	3
McLaren, Norman	1
Meade, Calvert	1
Payne, W. H.	1
Platt, Horace G.	1
Porter, W. S.	19
Powers, Geo. H.	4
Raymond, Geo. L.	3
Redding, A. P.	1
Round the Bay Members of the Club	70
Samuels, Maurice V.	1
Scheffauer, Herman	1
Seawell, H. W.	2
Shiels, Wm. C. E.	2
Smith, Brainard F.	16
Smithsonian Institution	1
Steinhart, S.	6
Symmonds, J. W.	1
Tillmann, F., Jr.	6
Waite, H. de H.	43
Weill, Raphael	50
Mr. J. S. McCandless and Mr. Wm. Letts Oliver have donated $25.00 each to the Library for the purchase of any necessary books.

Annual Report
1909-1910
Bohemian Club

Bohemian Club, San Francisco Annual Reports 1909-1910

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To the Members of the Bohemian Club:

Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report of the Club's affairs for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1910:

Not merely in conformity with custom and tradition, but as expressing a sincere and earnest conviction, I congratulate the members of the Bohemian Club upon the splendid loyalty to the Club and to its ideals displayed by them during the year now drawing to a close. The Directors have been given full credit by the members for an honest desire to serve the best interests of the Club, and this has been shown by the prompt and cheerful response to every call made by the Board, either for money or service. While there has been much work for the Board, it has been most pleasurable service because of the appreciation and co-operation—in short, the true Bohemianism of the members.

New Club House

In spite of many unforeseen obstacles and of an unusually severe rainy season, the new home of the Club has progressed well under the careful supervision of the Building Committee. To Mr. James McNab, chairman of that Committee and to his competent and enthusiastic associates, this Club indeed owes a debt of gratitude. Patience, intelligent effort, devotion to the Club's best interests and courteous consideration of all offered suggestions have attended the activities of this Committee, and the work of the furnishing committee may be similarly characterized. The cost of the new Club House will be approximately $305,000.00 and we expect to spend $60,000.00 on furnishings, making a total of $365,000.00. The original estimate of the cost of the new Club House was $275,000.00; the extra amount is explained by the following contracts which were not included in the original estimate:

Lighting Fixtures	$10,000.00
Decorations	8,380.00
Library	6,500.00
Bath Room Fittings	1,000.00
Architects Commission on above	1,300.00
	$27,180.00

The Club has given a first mortgage to the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California for an amount not to exceed $250,000.00. Second mortgage bonds for $150,000.00 have been subscribed by members. Upon the sum secured by the first mortgage we have as yet drawn but $50,000.00 which was used to pay the amount due upon our property at the corner of Post and Taylor Streets, thereby satisfying the mortgage of the Hibernia Savings and Loan Socieey.

We have expended upon the construction of the new building a total of $103,953.98, and of this amount $102,690.00 was paid from amounts received from the sale of second mortgage bonds. I cannot forbear to comment upon the generous promptitude with which the members subscribed for these bonds. The members of the building committee inform me that they expect all the subscriptions to the bonds to be taken up before September 1st, 1910.

Bohemian Grove

At the Club's annual meeting held April 20, 1909, a resolution was adopted whereby an assessment of fifty cents a month was levied on all regular and non-resident members. The money realized from this assessment (approximately $460.00 a month) is to be used exclusively for the purpose of keeping the Grove in the best of order. It is expended under the careful and experienced supervision of the Grove Committee.

During the year we have secured forty additional acres in Westover Canyon. The price was $7,500.00, of which the sum of $2,500.00 has been paid. Of the amount paid, the profit from the Annual Club Concert furnished $2,168.84, and it is expected that the money which will be realized from future concerts will discharge the balance of the debt.

Never in the history of the Club has the Grove afforded so great pleasure to the members as during the past twelve months. The attendance at the Mid-summer Encampment exceeded that of any other year; the Club House in the Grove has been so greatly in demand that those who secured it during the season were the members who made application months in advance; and many members have occupied their tents long before the usual Midsummer outing. Each year an increasing number of Bohemia's Sons hear the impelling call of our enchanted forest, and as the multitude of pilgrims to our sylvan shrines increases, so, better and better the forest fulfills its noble destiny.

Our High Priest

Full of years and blessed with the tender love of legions of friends, dear old "Uncle George" Bromley, "Bohemia's High Priest", passed from us during this Club year to serve at other altars. Reverently we have laid him in a temporary resting place, but soon his form shall be couched in fitting shrine and marked with suitable monument to give outward expression to Bohemia's cherishing remembrance.

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Club Membership

During the past year the Board of Directors has placed on the List of Fifty the following names: James M. Hamilton, Mackenzie Gordon, Laurie Bunten, Frank Mathieu, F. Gelett Burgess, Thaddeus Welch and H. J. Breuer.

Mr. David Bispham has been added to the roster of Honorary Members.

The number of members has for some time been the maximum permitted by our constitution and laws, and we now have a waiting list of twenty-two names.

The following members have died: H. M. Gillig, Geo. C. Boardman, Chas. W. Stoddard, Newton J. Tharp, C. A. Hug, W. H. Hodgkin, Wm. T. Wallace, M. H. Hecht, Geo. T. Bromley, Warren Sexton, Wm. E. Marsh, S. B. Cushing, I. Stringham, Edwin Tyson Dow, C. L. Canfield and John B. Luther.

Library

During the year many volumes have been added to our collection of books by generous members and many other donations have been promised for the library in the new Club House.

Presents

The various presents to the Club have been formally acknowledged elsewhere, but I want to make special and grateful mention of the portrait of Bohemian Harry Francis, painted and presented to the Club by Bohemian Theodore Wores. It is a graceful gift embodying the artist's loyalty to the Club and adding to our gallery the face of a well beloved member, but to me it marks the closing days of the Club year with a reminder of a splendid service, the cordial co-operation and the unselfish hard work with which Harry Francis has aided the members of the Board, and particularly the President, in the various activities of the year.

Grove Play

"St. Patrick at Tara," the Grove Play, added another chapter to the glory of Bohemia and to the development of the distinctive Art-form of Music-Drama which our Club has created. Although Professor H. Morse Stephens affirms that he is an historian and not a poet, his text proves him both, while his equally modest colleague Wallace Sabin, who says he has hoped to help the Club a little, has helped the Club immeasurably by composing great music which thrills the listener by the depth and majestic dignity of its religious quality or sets his pulses jumping to the mad, merry magic of its Celtic melodies. Truly these Bohemians have taken well-earned places in the Club's academy of immortals.

The Old Spirit

Ordinarily it might not be appropriate to mention specially any of the entertainments given during the year, where all have been so excellent, but in view of the sometimes expressed conviction that we have outgrown the attic simplicity of the Club's earlier years and that our taste now runs to vaudeville, or to spectacular drama, I venture to recall a few recent noctes ambrosianae that refute this heterodoxy to Bohemia's creed in which simplicity is the first tenet.

The "Bon Voyage Dinner" to Raphael Weill was an old fashioned fervent tribute to one of our best beloved Bohemians and the spirit of the "Old Guard" was indeed a joint guest of honor with Mr. Weill at that banquet board. The "Smoker" to the officers of the visiting ships and to those of the Pacific Fleet was worthy of the Bohemia that has its home beside the bay upon which Portola gazed in wondering admiration.

The laying of the cornerstone of the new building, though our torches spluttered in the driving rain, was as simply typical as the puff of smoke with which Peter Robertson breathed the "atmosphere of Bohemia" into the casket of mementoes deposited in the "Chief Stone of the building."

George Richardson's "Autumn Jinks" was a feast of wit, wisdom and fun, redolent of the days of yore.

The dinner to the "Neapolitan Trio," Bohemians Gordon, Dickman and Hopkins, was in my humble opinion, more truly and characteristically illustrative of the essential genius of the Club than anything else I have ever attended. As a tribute to men who have given generously of their best for our delight; as a simple outpouring of the finest, manliest sentiments of good fellowship, and as an occasion that called forth the best efforts of our most gifted members, this dinner was truly notable. While events like these recur to prove the healthy vitality of those traditional qualities inherited from our founders, we may confidently report that all is well in Bohemia.

With deepest gratitude for the honor you have bestowed upon me by electing me to the Presidency of Bohemia, and with most enthusiastic belief in the future greatness of this Club, to be fostered then as aforetime by your fervor and loyalty, I am, most faithfully,

Your obedient Servant,

HENRY A. MELVIN,
President.

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Donation of Pictures, etc.

		DONORS
April 27, 1909	Ulster County Gazette, published January 4, 1800	W. H. Davis.
April 29, 1909	Sculpture	M. Earl Cummings.
May 14, 1909	Poem by Frank Unger	Joaquin Miller.
May 14, 1909	Cheerful Workers' Certificate and an illumination of the refrain of Towsee-Mongalay	Frank Unger.
May 27, 1909	Photograph of Chas. Warren Stoddard	Frank Davey.
May 28, 1909	Photograph of Dan O'Connell's seat in Sausalito	Augusta Reinstein.
June 3, 1909	Magazine "Chic," with song and sketches	J. M. Hamilton.
June 4, 1909	Album of photographs of Budda Jinks	H. Durbrow.
June 4, 1909	Sires' Invitations (extending over many years)	John Scott Wilson and H. Durbrow.
June 9, 1909	Raphael Santi, with steel engravings	C. F. Humphreys.
June 24, 1909	Cartoon by C. J. Dickman after Joe Strong	B. Lathrop.
June 24, 1909	Photograph of Medal presented by France to San Francisco	Raphael Weill.
July 21, 1909	Cartoon of Sterling Jinks	Ernest Peixotto.
August 10, 1909	"Gaudiamus" Song for Colleges and Schools	R. B. Merriman.
August 16, 1909	Enlarged Grove Picture	Moullin.
August 24, 1909	Carved Owl	H. S. Van Dyke and E. A. McCarthy.
September 7, 1909	Photograph of invitation of High Jinks, October 17, 1873, R. Beverly Cole, Sire	Benj. Clark.
September 17, 1909	Cartoon of prominent citizens of Pasadena	L. G. Coop.
September 18, 1909	Photograph of Jules Tavernier's Grave	C. J. Hutchins.
September 18, 1909	Cartridge Cases and Shells	R. H. Henderson.
September 29, 1909	Six Songs by E. A. Bruguiere	E. A. Bruguiere.
September 29, 1909	Ten Dollars for Library	J. O. Harron.
October 9, 1909	Old Parchment	C. F. Sloane.
October 11, 1909	Two Stuffed Owls	J. C. Campbell.
October 11, 1909	One Mountain Sheep	J. C. Campbell.
October 11, 1909	One Idol	J. C. Campbell.
November 2, 1909	Old Engraving of the City of San Francisco	J. B. Landfield.
November 4, 1909	Photograph of the Officers of "H. M. S. Bedford"	Harry Francis.
November 15, 1909	Collection of Jinks photographs	Spencer Grant.
November 18, 1909	Several Jinks photographs	Spencer Slade.
January 4, 1910	Bronze cornerstone plate	W. H. Metson.
January 6, 1910	Two photographs	H. A. Russell.
January 24, 1910	Photograph of Wm. Crane	Wm. Crane.
March 12, 1910	Reproduction of cartoon of Dr. Martin	Dr. Wm. Martin.
March 24, 1910	Bronze placque of Frank Unger	By Members of the Club.
February 26, 1910	Photograph of Dago Trio	Messrs. Dickman, Hopkins and Gordon.
February 28, 1910	Stuffed Owl	F. B. Turpin.
January 1, 1910	Cartoon of After Glow Jinks	Will Sparks.
December 21, 1909	Cartoon of Christmas Jinks	Haig Patigian.
March 27, 1910	Cartoon of Will Irwin	Will Irwin.
March 31, 1910	Painting of Henry Francis	Theodore Wores.

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Jinks, Dinners, etc.

1909.
April 15	Private Dining Room	Dinner to Uncle George Bromley by Raphael Weill.
April 24	Main Dining Room	Fourth Final Farewell Dinner to Paul Cowles.
April 26	Social Room	"Orpheus" Evening—Concert by the Orpheus Club.
May 9	Private Dining Room	Informal Breakfast to Ben Greet and Modest Atschuler.
May 26	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Marshall Darrach by members of the Club.
June 1	Main Dining Room	Bon Voyage Dinner to Raphael Weill, President Melvin presiding.
June 8	Private Dining Room	Dinner by the Medical Officers and National Guard of California to General George H. Torney.
August 7	Midsummer Jinks	"St. Patrick at Tara," Thirty-second Annual Midsummer High Jinks of the Bohemian Club, H. Morse Stephens, Sire, music by Wallace A. Sabin.
August 8	Sunday morning concert	At the Grove, under the direction of W. J. McCoy, assisted by Wallace A. Sabin; Concert Master, J. E. Josephs.
August 26	Concert Van Ness Theatre	Music of Bohemia, under the direction of Paul Steindorff; "Montezuma" (Bohemian Grove Play, 1903), H. J. Stewart; Music of "St. Patrick at Tara" (Bohemian Grove Play, 1909); Wallace A. Sabin; "Aria-Bizet", tenor solo and orchestra, conducted by Paul Steindorff, soloist, Mackenzie Gordon; Bohemian Christmas Ode, Theo. Vogt, tenor solo, male chorus and orchestra, conducted by the composer, soloist, E. H. McCandlish; Music of "St. Patrick at Tara," Wallace A. Sabin; (a) "March of the Irish Kings," orchestra and chorus, (b) "Song of Connaught," orchestra and baritone solo, soloist, Lowell Redfield, (c) "Monks' Processional Pange Lingua, orchestra and chorus, (d) "The Song of Ulster," orchestra and baritone solo, soloist, Oscar Frank, (e) Intermezzo, Orchestral, (f) Introduction and Jig, Orchestral, (g) Drinking Song, orchestra and baritone solo with chorus, soloist, H. L. Perry, (h) "Song of Erin," tenor solo, male chorus and orchestra, soloist, Vail Bakewell, (i) Chant "Veni Creator," (j) Finale, conducted by the composer.
September 20	Main Dining Room	Bon Voyage Dinner to H. Morse Stephens by members of the Bohemian Club.
September 25	Social Room	"The Flicker, an Afterglow Play," by Waldemar Young, followed by the ceremony of laying the Cornerstone of the new Club House.
October 7	Music Room	Farewell Supper to Waldemar Young by members of the Club.
October 22	Social Room	"Smoker," given by the members to meet the Officers of the visiting ships in the harbor and the Officers of the Pacific Fleet.
November 21	Main Dining Room	Dinner to members of the Bohemian Club, by Ed Bishop, Frank Bishop, J. H. Bishop, T. P. Bishop, W. E. Dennison, Knox Maddox and J. W. McDonald, Jr.
November 22	Autumn Jinks	George F. Richardson, Sire.
December 6	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Emil Bruguiere by members of the Club.
December 7	Main Dining Room	Dinner to George Hamlin by members of the Club.
December 21	Social Room	"Christmas Dinner," Henry A. Melvin presiding.
December 29	Christmas Jinks	Henry A. Melvin, Sire, "The Triumph of Love," a pantomine by Porter Garnett, music by Herman Perlet.
1910.
January 10	Main Dining Room	Farewell Dinner to Dr. H. I. Wiel by members of the Club.
January 23	Social Room	Breakfast to Wm. Crane by members of the Club.
February 12	Social Room	First Popular Orchestral Concert, Henry Heyman, conductor.
February 19	Social Room	Second Orchestral Concert, Henry Heyman, conductor.
February 21	Private Dining Room	Dinner to Colonel Hawes by Raphael Weill.
February 26	Social Room	Third Orchestral Concert, Henry Heyman, conductor.
February 26	Social Room	Complimentary Dinner by the members of the Bohemian Club to the Neapolitan Trio—Mackenzie Gordon, Wm. B. Hopkins and Charles J. Dickman.
March 5	Social Room	Fourth Orchestral Concert, Henry Heyman, conductor.
March 15	Main Dining Room	Dinner to Will Irwin by members of the Club.
March 31	Music Room	Supper to Macklyn Arbuckle by members of the Club.

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Report of Treasurer

To the Members:

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 1, 1910.

I have the honor to present herewith a report of the finances of the Club for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1910:

CHARLES H. CROCKER, Treasurer.

BALANCE SHEET March 31, 1910.

Dr. RESOURCES.		Cr. LIABILITIES.
Cash in Office	$ 2,255 25	Dues prepaid	$ 648 25
Cash in First National Bank	31,700 21	Prepaid Assessment	84 50
Cash in Mutual Savings Bank	2,956 01	Accrued Interest (on Second Mortgage Bonds)	1,102 50
Merchandise on hand—Restaurant	1,545 21	Brete Harte Monument Fund	2,739 24
Merchandise on hand—Wine Room	11,309 05	Bromley Bust Fund	180 95
Merchandise on hand—Annals of Bohemian Club	474 74	Organ Fund	165 00
Members' Merchandise Account—		Library Fund	40 77
Current month $7,429 20		Lamb's Club Fund	5,000 00
Previous months 5,921 35	13,350 55	Sundry Creditors	21,587 53
		Bills payable (Mtge. Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co.)	50,000 00
Members' Merchandise—Bills receivable	1,146 55	Bohemian Club Second Mortgage Bonds	88,200 00
Members' Dues	3,655 00	Subscription to Second Mortgage Bonds (part payments for which bonds have not been delivered)	14,490 00
Members' Assessments	507 00
Furniture	14,695 83	Balance (capital account)—
Restaurant Equipment	7,548 55	Balance April 1, 1909 $292,441 59
Wine Room Equipment	768 68	Bohemian Grove Fund (Appropriation credit) 800 94
Rooms Equipment	457 79
Library	2,734 80
Works of Art	18,704 86	$291,640 65
Club House Site, April 1, 1909 $212,540 57		Add Bohemian Grove Improvements 2,604 98
Taxes and interest for year 4,323 20		Gifts 2,050 00
Club Building(amt. pd.) $103,953 98		Concert Fund (applied on purchase of additional 40 acres at Grove) 2,168 84
Club Accrued Interest. 1,102 50 105,056 48	321,920 25
Bohemian Grove—		Bohemian Grove Fund (balance April 1, 1909 $ 800 94
Original cost $31,700 00
Cost of additional 40 acres 7,500 00		Add Assessment 4,924 50
Improvements to April 1, 1909 18,147 36
Improvements current year 2,604 98		$5,725 44
		Deduct—
$59,952 34		Grove expense $1,896 48
Due D. L. Westover on additional 40 acres 5,000 00		Grove Impts. 2,604 98 4,501 46
		Balance to credit of Bohemian Grove Fund 1,223 98
$54,952 34
Equipment 8,095 57	63,047 91	Balance Profit and Loss Account 14,851 05	314,539 50
	$498,778 24		$498,778 24

PROFIT AND LOSS March 31, 1910

Dr.		Cr.
Members' dues remitted	$ 593 00	Wine room, gain for year	$ 8,392 54
Members' dues marked off (members dropped)	879 00	Dues, total for year	62,510 00
Members' merchandise remitted	736 20	Rooms rent	7,683 88
Members' merchandise (uncollectable—members dropped)	416 40	Discount	454 76
		Interest (on daily bank balance)	385 51
Furniture (off account of depreciation)	1,632 86	Letter Boxes	66 00
Rooms Equipment (off account of depreciation)	151 93
Restaurant Equipment (off account of depreciation)	2,829 10
Wine Room Equipment (off account of depreciation)	49 40
Restaurant (loss for year)	6,303 39
Salaries (exclusive of restaurant, wine room, engine room and bedrooms)	15,954 35
Rent	12,000 00
Insurance and surety bonds	1,937 35
Lights	2,531 29
Water	917 57
Engine Room	3,271 83
Improvement to premises, including plumbing, carpentry, etc	912 01
Telephone	1,159 15
Postage	1,233 15
Printing	1,048 15
Stationery	723 11
Papers and Periodicals	777 25
Uniforms	560 85
High Jinks $4,299 13
Midsummer Jinks $4,652 03
Depreciation of equipment 2,023 89
$6,675 92
Credit Jinks assessment 1,585 00
5,090.92	9,390 05
General expenses	5,837 05
*General expense allowances	6,190 00
Messenger service	14 35
Library expense	603 60
Memorial account	172 25
	$78,824 64
Balance, profit in operation, carried down	668 05		$79,492 69
	$79,492 69
		Balance, profit brought down	$ 668 05
Balance carried to stock account	$14,851 05	Initiations	14,183 00
	$14,851 05		$14,851 05
*Allowance to Restaurant Department for board of house employes—general cleaning done by waiters.				$14,851 05

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WINE ROOM April 1, 1909, to March 31, 1910

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS.
Stock on hand March 31, 1909	$ 9,962 40	Stock on hand March 31, 1910	$11,309 05
Merchandise purchased, 1909-10	30,607 65	Merchandise receipts 1909-10	49,549 97
Gross gain	20,288 97
	$60,859 02		$60,859 02

PROFIT AND LOSS

Total expense	$11,896 43	Gross gain	$20,288 97
Net Gain	8,392 54
	$20,288 97		$20,288 97

RESTAURANT April 1, 1909, to March 31, 1910

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS.		TOTAL RECEIPTS.
Stock on hand March 31, 1909	$ 2,038 46	Stock on hand March 31, 1910	$ 1,545 21
Merchandise purchased 1909-10	37,896 81	Merchandise receipts 1909-10	62,621 48
Gross gain	24,231 42
	$64,166 69		$64,166 69

PROFIT AND LOSS

Total expense	$30,534 81	Gross gain	$24,231 42
		Net loss	6,303 39
	$30,534 81		$30,534 81

RECAPITULATION

Net Gain—Wine Room	$8,392 54
Net Loss—Restaurant		$6,303 39
Net Gain		2,089 15
	$8,392 54	$8,392 54

I certify that I have examined the accounts of the Bohemian Club for the year ended March 31, 1910, with the vouchers relating thereto. All moneys received from members have been duly accounted for, and vouchers are on file for all payments made.

San Francisco, April 19, 1910.

A. WENZELBURGER, Certified Public Accountant Auditor.

MEMBERSHIP

Total membership March 31, 1909—				Total membership March 31, 1910, together with gains during year ending March 31, 1910			1288
Regular members—
Resident	743
List of fifty	27			Losses during the year:
Non-resident	157			Regular members—
		927		Resigned	11
Transient members		91		Dropped—regular	4
Life members—old		10		Died—regular	9
Life members—new		15		Died—non-resident	2
Honorary		24		Died—List of fifty	1
Associate		79		Died—Honorary	3
			1146			30
Gains during the year ending March 31, 1910:
Regular members—				Transient members—
Elected, regular	38			Resigned	53
Reinstated, regular	5
Elected, new non-resident	18					53
Reinstated, new non-resident	1			Associate members—
Elected, honorary	1			Dropped	3
From Associate to list of fifty (transferred)	2			To list of fifty (transferred)	2
						5
		65					88
Transient members—
Elected	65						1200
				Total membership March 31, 1910, as follows:
		65		Regular members—
Associate members—				Resident	750
Elected	12			List of fifty	33
				Non-resident	181
		12
						964
			142	Transient members		103
				Life members, old		10
			1288	Life members, new		15
				Honorary		22
				Associate		86
							1200

INSURANCE is carried on Club property as follows:
Furniture and Paintings, Wines and Groceries	$ 22,250 00
Buildings and Camp Furniture at Grove	11,125 00
New Club Building	85,000 00
Total	$118,375 00

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Donors of Books

	Number of Vols.
Barbour, T. J.	8
Brady, H. J.	2
Bunten, Laurie	3
Chapman, W. B.	30
Clark, Wm. Bradford	10
Constein, E. T.	1
Crocker, H. J.	1
Deane, L. C.	1
De Vecchi, Dr. P.	12
Dibble, H. C.	1
Eldredge, Z. S.	1
Green, E. F.	1
Harrison, Wm. Greer	2
Hilborn, L. A.	2
Jones, P. M.	1
Kellogg, V. L.	1
Knight, L. W.	10
Lathrop, Barbour	2
Leahy, W. H.	22
Lindsay, Lionel	13
London, Jack	20
Martin, Wm.	1
National Prison Association	11
Payne, Wm. H.	3
Perkins, George C.	2
Phelan, J. D.	1
Richardson, Daniel	1
Robertson, Peter	5
San Francisco Architectural Club	1
Scrutton, L.	18
Steinhart, S.	14
Teggart, F. J.	2
Turpin, F. B.	1
Wayte, W. J.	4
Weill, Raphael	21
Purchased by Board of Directors	15
Mr. J. O. Harron donated $10.00 to the Club Library.

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Annual Report 1906-1907 Bohemian Club

Loss and Insurance

Temporary Club Home

Club Membership

Finances

On April 1st, 1906, the indebtedness of the Club was:

On April 1st, 1907, the indebtedness of the Club was:

Restaurant and Wine Room

Library

The Grove

New Club House

General

Donations of Pictures, etc.

Jinks, Dinners, etc.

DONORS OF BOOKS

Annual Report 1907-1908 Bohemian Club

Temporary Club Home

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New Club House.

Club Membership.

Restaurant and Wine Room.

Library.

The Grove.

General.

Donations of Pictures, etc.

Jinks Dinners, etc.

Donors of Books

Annual Report 1908-1909 Bohemian Club

New Club Home

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Club Membership

The Library

General

Donations of Pictures, etc.

Jinks, Dinners. etc.

Report of Treasurer

Donors of Books

Annual Report 1909-1910 Bohemian Club

New Club House

Bohemian Grove

Our High Priest

Club Membership

Library

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Grove Play

The Old Spirit

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Jinks, Dinners, etc.

Report of Treasurer

Donors of Books

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Annual Report
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Bohemian Club

Annual Report
1907-1908
Bohemian Club

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1908-1909
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1909-1910
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