The morning call., 1892-05-15
SAUSALITO'S GALA DAY.
Ablaze With COiared Lights and
Brilliant Bunting.
The Pacific and San Francisco Ya'ht Clubs
Make Marin's Hills Resound With Their
Merry Markings.
Yesterday was a gala day on sausalito

Yesterday was a gala day on Sausalito
Bay.
You could tell that from the holiday at
tire of the trim little craft which bobbed up
and down on the blue waters and Haunted
flags of every nation all day and lights of
every color almost all night. Even the town
Itself donned its best clothes in the day
time and hung out Chinese lanterns in the
evening.
And the reason for all this was the oeca-
sion Of the opening day of the season of
both the Pacific and the San Francisco
Yacht clubs
The beautiful grounds Of the Pacific Club
were lastly decorated. The clubhouse
itself, besides being the scene of throng
of beautiful ladies and well-dressed men all
day. was decorated and appointed as it will
not be again for year at least. During
the winter many costly alterations and adj
ditions have been made to the clubhouse,
not the least of which is the electric-light
equipment The grounds have been beauti-
fed in many ways. the yachts and launches
have been overhauled in every possible
way, the fleet has been added to by more
yachts and launches, and all in all. the
quarters of the Pacific Yacht Club, from
stem to STERN as it were. have been I'M
proved to point beyond any of those on
the Pacific Coast and abreast OF the best
Atlantic and lake clubs.
So the wonder is small that opening day
this season was brilliant affair. The club
and its guests will remember the event as
red-letter day.
THE LURLINE.
John D. Spreckels' yacht, the Lurllne,
was aglow with cOlored bunting all day,
and the broad white hull of Captain Whites
Aggie was the groundwork for mass OF
waving flags and numerous little parties OF
guests who trod her shining decks long
enough to break the necks'of good many
long bottles.
The yachts Chispa, Jesse, Ramona. Sappho,
Frolc, Seven Bells ana numerous fleet OIL
steam and electric launches and smaller
boats of every description all had their hol-
iday dresses on, and altogether made brill
liant scene that has never before been
equaled in the placid waters OF Sausalito
Bay.
Everybody was there. You doubt it?
Then Tead the list Of guests. The militia
and the local, State and Federal governments
were all represented, Ofthe former General
Dickinson, president Of the CLUB, was the
leader. The Federal delegation was headed
by Varney Gaskill and Paris kilburn.
HarboT Commissioner 5. *. Thornton led
the State officials. From the new City Hall
there came also a delegation and OF the
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active and entertaining
Guns doomed all day, and the tugs Fearless
and Governor Perkins were duly salGted as
they brought their gay carg0es OF merry
makers to the grounds all afternoon and
evening.
And while the guns were booming and the
flags flying and the boats bObbing on the
ebbing tide strains of sweet music fiOated
from the dancing-hal of the clubhouse,
while within a myriad of glancing feet
triuped through the maze of the giddy waltz
and the mysteries Of the german.
THE DINNER
Then the dinner-fOr the festivities began
almost with the afternoon. 1t was as salts
flying to the palate as the other features TO
the less grosser senses. What more could
be said of a dinner?
Then with darkness came the illumina-
tions and the fireworks; came also the rain
clouds, but they dampened not the pleas
ures nor the ardOr of the merry-makeTs.
You should have seen the Aggie. A
thousand electric lights shone from her deck
and rigging, and glistened and scintillated
in the darkness aud made scene that
women went in raptures over and staid
prOsaic business men said of;
Isn't that beautiful
And they we're right.
Charlie Wieland's little electric launch
shone out OF the black night in many colors.
1t fitted over the dark waters about the
beautiful Aggie and added not little to the
brilliant scene.
SAN FRANCISCO CLUB.
Much the same state Of affairs prevailed
at the San Francisco Yacht CLUB little
farther up the bay. Here a gay throng
danced and sailed and lunched all day and
danced and laughed and lunched all even
ing. The boats of the two clubs could
hardly be separated, and there was but one
big display so far as bunting and booming
guns and Illuminated bowsprits went.
Commodore Gutte's Chspa and all the
other boats mentioned, and a lot not men
toned, besides fleet of eight yachts from
the COrinthian Club at Tiburon, dotted
the bay in front of the San Fran
cisc0s' clubhouse, reaching down to the
Pacific Club. The Corinthiau fleet was
headed by Commodore w. A. Strin ger,
John W. Pew came down with crew In
the Truant, Captain G.. j. Okell in the Lap
wing, Captain Peat in the Fawn, Captain
Mckee in the Linda, Captain Thornton in
the Ceres and CAPTAIN Anes in the Ella.
The visiting fleet remained over night,
and to-day there will be a squadron sail
under Commodore Cutie.
Ii was nearly midnight when the two
tugs steamed away from Sausalito-the
Fearless from the Pacific Club and the Gov
ernor Perkins from the San Francisco
turning their pr0ws toward the metropolis,
THE PACIFIC's GUESTS.
Among those who enjoyed the festivities
at the Pacific Yacht Club were:
Major George r. BurGIek George s. Mearns.
Grove +. Ayers, W L. Fisher, Charles A. Hug.
Leon ID. Smith, Frank ID. Wiley, Charles H.
Croker. Hugo Kell, George S. Kinglet. Frank
ID. Wiley, Frank A, VAIL Miss Mcdonald, Mrs.
and Miss Peck, Miss Russell w. j. l.. KIeruln
Mr. and Mrs Varney Gaskill, Miss Lolita SWEET
Miss Minnie Stewart Miss Jessie Mccormick
Mr.. and Mrs. win Chipman. Miss Belle Crellin
Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Kilburn. Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Ingram, Con 0'COnnOr, Miss COptiZe w. II.
StnsOn, Miss Fannie StinsOn, Miss Ada Stinson
Miss Mabel Love, Miss Lily Hageman, the
Misses Leavltts, Mrs. Mary w. Williams MIR.
and Mrs. j. d. Maxwell, Mr. and Mrs. Clement
Bennett, Miss Adele Martill, Miss Mccormick,
MIR. and Mrs. Mcguire. MIR. and Mrs. Rothwell,
Mr. and Mrs Jardine Miss Carrie Platt,
Fred Steele, Mr. and Mrs. o. +. Wiley, Mrs. j.
b. Poultray, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Ruddeli Miss
McGoverin, Wallace +. Hyde, Phil ReinIand,
Robert Fitzgerald, Charles Wieland, A q. VIE.
land, Mr. aud Mrs. r. Z. Wieland, VIII Knuse
Pbi Caduc, Adoph SpTeckels, Fulton Berry, j.
&. Kelly Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Murphy, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nat Messer. Mr.. and Mrs p. DUNLAP III.
ID. Coriette, j. j. O'Farrell, George s. Knight, S.
X. Thornton.
THE SAN FRANCIsCos' GUESTS.
Those present at the San Francisco Club
opening were:
Frank n. Smith and Miss EugenIe Lamory,
DIR. and Mrs. Platr, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Palmer,