The record-union., 1894-01-10
A GREAT AUDIENCE
At the Athletic Clubs Entertain
ment,
Which Was Charming One Through
out-About the Club and Its
High Hopes.

More than a thousand people, repre-
sentative of the best element of the COM
munity, were present at the Athletic
Clubs musicale last night.
The auditorium seating provision of
the old Pavilion was exhausted and
something over two hundred people had
to stand up, so that good judges placed
the number present at from 1900 to 500.
1t was a cold atmosphere in the great
hall; but it was tempered somewhat
when the audience had been present half
an hour, bodily heat tending to add to the
comfort of all.
The programme opened with an over
ture under the capital direction of w. FL.
Kinross. Then followed an address by
j. c. Pierson.
1t was compact, well-put exposition
of the affairs and desires of the club,
which is little over five years old. The
club began, i'll 1889, with 30 members; it
now has 300-but it wants 500
1t began without fund; it now has one
of the best equipped gymnasiums in the
country, owns all the property in 1t, is
not in debt one dollar and has money on
hand. That is good showing, one to be
proud OF and the audience thought so ev
identity.
Mr.. Pierson sketched briefly the his
tory of the club, what 1t had done in
stimulating body building among the
youth of Sacramento. and what its hopes
for the future are.
1t has two instructors, second to none
in fitness; it gives especial attention to
the physical training of children and hegs
parents TO bring their boys and girls and
see how it Is done. 1t wants 200 more
mem bers; then it wants a new and mod
ern clubhouse.
1t has now comfortable reading-rooms
well supplied with papers, and a good
library. But it would like larger and
better rooms of that order, and still
larger library. 1t wants a clubhouse
that may be properly warmed, ventilated
and fitted with baths, parlors, halls, etc..
and it means to have it. %
He announced the several characters of
entertainments the club has given to the
people during the past five years and
what it proposes to do III the future. The
next thing it will come before the pc ople
with will be its third annual masquerade,
and then the Pacific Coast amateur box
ing entertainment, which will bring here
from all over the coast people interested
in athletic culture.
Gentlemanly conduct, proper and COM
mendable exercises, genteel boxing, fenc-
ing, wrestling and handball constitute its
indoor sports, and these are such that any
lady or child in the land may witness
them with entire propriety.
Mr.. PIerSon continued In this vein for
some time and closed by referring to the
public spirit Of the club in carving on
the Circus Maximus last fall without fee
or reward except the pride of success, in
order to aid the State Agricultural So
ciety.
Then followed the following exercises:
Song, The Bells of Seville," Il. L. Cohn:
II ,1r lI.x. u
Charles B. Brier; waltz, when tits
Moonlight" Mrs. w. Fl. Kinross; selec
ton, Ideal Mandolin Club, G. g. Stever,
Director; recitation, Dana Perkins. Jr.;
ballad. 'Beauty's Eyes," Mrs. Robert
Hawley; Italian burlesque, John Hanlon
and Emmett Phillips; waltz song, "Fleet-
ing Days" w. Il. Kinross; quartet,
Hawley, Messrs. Conn aud Kinross;
quartet, GOOD Night, Beloved" Mrs.
Kinross, Mrs. Hawley and Messrs. Cohn
and Kinross.
1t would be very pleasant to comment
upon these numbers, for they were all
good, deservedly encored, and a good
many notches above the ordinary-but
exigency of space forb1ds. However, the
special gems of the programme were the
soprano solo by Mrs. kinross, who sur
prised as we'll as pleased; the playing Of
The Mandolin Club, and witty conceit Of
the Italian burlesque.
At the conclusion of the programme
dancing was the order, and the spirit was
lively into which fully 600 OF the 1900
people went into the exercise, testifying
to their anxiety to set the chilled blood
into circulation, and to avail of the excel
lent provision made for a social hop, and
for general enjoyment in keeping time by
graceful bodily motion to the beat and
pulse of music from trained and strong
orchestra.
The Committee of Arrangements of the
entertainment was George Ii. Clark, j.
c. Pierson, w. ii. Kinross, c. E. Bauer,
Ed j. Kay, L. S. Upson. The Floor Di-
rector was f. c. Yoerk, and the Floor
Managers c. F. German, j. G. Berger, Fl.
j. Spanjer, William Donahue, l.. a. Kid
der.