The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-15
Financial Difficulties of the
Exclusive Athenian
Club.
TT MIGHT BE DIsBANDED.
The Police Find No Trace of Reeds
-Rosborough's
Benefit.

members come forward with subscriptions
and pay off the indebtedness, or money is
raised by some other method, the elegant
apartments where the wit and wisdom of
the Athens of the Pacific have been wont
to gather and where wine and good-fellow-
ship have mingled will soon be thing Of
the past.
Whether or not the club should sell its
belongings and go out of existence was
seriously debated at a meeting held on
Saturday night last, and, while several
schemes for putting new life into the club
were propounded by the members present,
the outlook was by all acknowledged TO De
dubious.
The matter first came up when W. w.
Foote, who was, UP to the last election,
president of the club, introduced the IN
coming officers.
In his farewell speech he stated that the
club was heavily in debt, that the member
ship was falling off. ana that unless some
means were devised to get in new members
or raise funds by other means to pay oil
the Indebtedness the club must go to the
wall He stated that the club was in debt
TO an Oakland bank to the extent of $4,000,
which would soon fall due, and that this
must be met at all hazards.
A member suggested that the numerous
bedrooms which had been so elegantly
fitted UP at the time the club had moved
into the present quarters at Alb Fourteenth
street had not paid the club much OF
revenue, and asked if the furniture and
fittings of these apartments would not go
far toward paying the pressing claims
against the club. Others opposed such
measure on the ground that the club could
not afford to go into the secondhand fur
niture business.
Another prominent member thought
that if the lease of the present quarters
was sold and the superhuOus fittings dis
posed of the club could get along very
nicely in cheaper quarters, and that ex
penses might be materially reduced by
discharging some of the colOred walters
and other help who now hardly have
enough work TO keep them busy.
Mr.. FOOte then stated that for one he
did not propose to see the club 60 under.
He said that he was willing to go down
into his pocket and put up his proportion
of the Indebtedness ii others would do the
same. He knew that times were hard, and
that in addition TO losing members many
of those who were left were far behind
with their dues.
In his opinion, however, there were
means by which the few thousands neces-
sary to put the club on its feet could be
raised. One plan which suggested itself
was to bond the Indebtedness and let some
of the mem bers who had ready money
carry the shortage until such time as an
increased membership should bring in
enough money to pay it off.
Another plan he had in mind was to
assess each member $50 and make the same
PAYABLE any time within six months. If
the 1874 active members now remaining on
the books would each put up this amount
the difficulty would be removed,
No action was taken in the matter, but
in order to facilitate the gaining Of new
members a resolution was introduced SuS-
pending the membership committee the
duties of which are to inquire into the elig
Utility OF those proposed for membership
and have all names voted upon at the first
meeting of the club after they are pro-
posed.
prominent business and professional men
of Oakland, none of whom Will talk of its
present difficulties.
ROsborough's Benefit.
Alexander Rosborough's benefit at the
Macdonough Theater on the evening of
the 23d inst. promises to bea success fnan-
Cially and artistically, as a large amount of
the best local talent, including some from
the University of California, has volun-
teered its services.
The programme will include the fol-
lowing: DR.. J. G. HUMPHREYS, Harry Mel
VII, marry ldNItuCe, Ian LdNIcHCe,
Acme quartet-Harry Richards, William
Mcdonald, Charles Hart, a. c. Cliff; Re
lance Glee Club; University Glee Club;
Boulevard Minstrel Troupe of Alameda,
including: Gerald Goggin, w. J. Hines,
Sumner Loop, Ed Jackson, Walter Cog
gin, Harry Sheldon and soprano chorus
of boys; club-swinging, Harry Quinn;
cocOanut dance, Messrs. McCleyerty,
Gregory, Patterson, Davenport, Dean, Ma
gee and Pierce Of the University of Cali
fornia; Banjo Sam" Baldwin and Will
liam Durant; comic posing, MeSSrs.
Healy and Miller; Queer Sayings
Harvey Sloper and Harvey Brown; stump
speech, E. Myron Wolff of the University
OF California.
Lester Herrick Will act as interlocutor of
the minstrel performance.
The Police at Sea.
The police were mpletely at sea yester-
day regarding the identity of the assail-
ants of George Reed, the Twenty-third
avenue horse trader who was so badly
beaten on Seventh and Washington streets
on Saturday night.
DR.. Blood, who attended Reed says that
the blow must have been powerful one,
as the scalp was laid open for two or three
inches and several stitches were necessary
to bring the ragged edges of the wound to-
gether. He thinks that the weapon used
must have been an iron bar or a piece of
stone tied in a handkerchief. Reed was
taken home by his friends yesterday in
very weak state, and it is feared that the
wound may result seriously.
The Marlborough.
The Macdonough Theater viii remain
closed during the present week, but at
fractions will follow that period in rapid
succession.
On Monday, April %, the Whitney
Opera Company will present HThe Bathing
Girl" for one night. During the following
week, beginning Monday evening, "The
Girl l Left Behind Me" will be played
three evenings and Wednesday matinee.
War Among the Veterinaries.
War has been declared among the vet
erinaries over the appointment of a meat
ana milk Inspector for the city OF Oakland.
The California State Veterinary Medical
Association, hearing that DR.. Thomas Car
penter was likely to receive the support of
the Board Of Health, addressed the fol-
lowing resolutions, signed by President G.
y. OrYls and Secretary r. A. Archibald, to
that body at It's last meeting:
WHEREAS, The said Thomas Carpenter is at
the present time endeayoring to gain the posi-
ton OF meat and milk inspector OF the Board
OF Health OF the city of Oakland; therefore be it
Resotued, That We, the members of the Cali
lorna state veterinary Association do hereby