The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-17
.FEASTED IN BEAR VALLEY
Country Club Men Royalty
Entertain Pacific Union
Members.
Besides the Toros and TrInnn,Ipoe
There Was Much to
Enjoy.

The Country Clubs invitation to ths
members of the Pacific Union Club and
some friends outside of that organiza-
ton to feast on the head of the bull with
them on their preserves in Marin County
yesterday was literally accepted. About
10 tourists boarded special train at Sau-
salito at $50 A. NJ. and were carried to the
Point Reyes station, where coaches, rock
aways and vehicles of every description
were In waiting to transport them to the
clubhouse at the head of Bear Valley.
Throughout the week Will Kittle, Fred
Tallant and Fred Webster had been busy
preparing for the fifth annual bullshead
breakfast of the club. A circular tent
ninety feet in diameter was pitched on the
slope below the club buildings and under
this canvas the tables were laid. A few
yards to the southwark Senior Valencia, a
veteran high priest at the bullshead shrine,
had dug his pits the day before-one for
the heads OF the toros and the other for
the asado or roasted beef. Beans, salsa
and the other accompaniment of this
characteristic California banquet were pre-
pared SO as to escort the main features of
the feast to the tables.
AT noon the bulls heads were done, and
to the music of an excellent band brought
~.
They were cooked in the highest style of
the art and washed down with generous
goblets OF still and sparkling wines
When the clatter of the knives and forks
| indicated lull in the important business
of the day, Alick Hamilton, the presi-
dent OF the Country Club, was honored by
an enthusiastic toast. Mr.. Hamilton
made modest but eloquent response aX
mentioned the names of his co-workeS,
Fred Tallant, Will Kittle and Fred
Webster in terms of praise for their in
dustry and taste, They had devoted
days to this entertainment, and every
thing had been done under their imme-
date supervision. Mr.. Webster had
camped all of Saturday night alongside
the pit where the bulls heads lay, and
Will Kittle had taken his life in his hands
in pitching the big circular tent in gale
of wind.
Mr.. Cheesebrough, who is an after
dinner speaker of no mediocre talent,
proposed the health of Dick Sprague,
responded to by William Berg. Many
toasts were drunk when the members and
their guests adjourned to the grounds
where an impromptu clay-pigeon shooting
tournament was inaugurated. A portion
of the guests, who were not interested in
this sport, were driven about the clubs
preserves and driven to the ocean, return
ing in time for a second collation. before
the cornet sounded the return.
1ue county CluD is a most UNIQUE Or
ganization. 1t leases 10000 acres and has
within its confines deer shooting, quail
shooting, brook and lake fishing. The
clubhouse is not alone a comfortable but
an artistic building. The cuisine is beyond
reproach and the wine cellars are not per-
mitted to languish. And all this within
two hours of San Francisco. There is not
country in the world that can produce it's
parallel.
The membership of the club is now
comparatively small list is remarkable
The dog kennels, the stables, the coach
houses, the broad lawns andIfoWer beds all
display the utmost industry and taste.
The culture of fish and the protection and
propagation of game, not alone on their
own grounds, but throughout the State,
are the component parts of the creed the
members believe in and practice. 1t is an
organization of sportsmen who do every
thing on their part to make the honest
pursuit OF field sports popular. Among
those who breakfaSted in the shade of the
great tent were:
A. E. Magill, A. G. Edwards, Max Sloss, ]. A.
Cadmon, j. B. Leighton, w. H. Martin, L. J.
Vassanet, A. Gerberding, Dan O'Connell. A.
Cheesbourgh, Z. NJ. Crawford, f. T. B. Mills,
Arthur Page, w. B. Chapman, H. H. Sherwood,
Lewis Ncinmann, II. K. Pichon, w. T. Hale,
James Rowe, Edgar B. Carroll, w. W. Worden,
Z: Z. Hutchins, Osgood Hooker, James A.
White, George Meyer, Abraham Halsey, II.
Dayton Jr., r. G. Ash, Reel Terry, Ned Hamil-
ton, Edwin B. Holden, W. f. Goad, A. G.
PIatt. Thomas ?. Hawley, j. W. Keeney, NJ. D.,
Chauncy r. Winslow, James Hamilton, John
Sperry, George d. Boyd, Donald de V. Graham
and others.