The San Francisco call., 1898-05-14
: -%@+%%@**@%%*ff r r Y F f YACHT SEASON
 OPENS
 AT ALAMEDA.

The Enoinal Yacht Club opens the sea son of 1898 to-day at its handsome quar- ters in Alameda. The evening entertain ment will begin at s o'clock and will con- sist of songs, recitations and stereopucon views 10 be followed by dance. Ihe en- tertainment committee, consisting or pr. C. l.. Tisdale, F. s. Teller and G. T. Wright. has secured some good per- formers, and promises pleasant evening. As it is the aim of the board of directors to make the Encinal Club house pleas ant place for both sexes, the sisters, cous- ins, aunts and wives of the members VII be present in force. Membership carhs of any of the recognized yacht cluOS on the bay or of the Oakland Canoe Cluo will admit their holders to the club house. Visitors from San Francisco will find the z p. m. broad gauge boat the most conVe- nient one to take. Tomorrow the open ing cruise of the season will be helo.
 The opening reception and dance of the Pacific Yacht Club at Old Sausal1to last Saturday were very pleasant and success ful. The following were guests on board Commodore E. A. Wiltsee's yacht Agsle during the afternoon: Captain Jonn Lee' Messrs. k. D. Peixotto, Northrup SoMleS, Charles RolIo Peters. George E. F. Hal. Ogden Hoffman, Captain w, l.. Holms and MT Haralamb- In addition 70 ats, these were present at the dance the following: General J. H. Dickinson. MT; and MrS; |. F. James Mrs. G. E. James, MT. and Mrs. d. Edith Cook, Miss Ethel Cook, MT; and Mrs. L. A. Kelly, MT. and Mrs. Edward Head, MT. and Mrs. Paul Nippert Cap tain A. z. and Mrs. Freese, MT; and Mrs. w. s. GoodtellOw, MT. and Mrs. R. K. IHommedieu, MT. and Mrs. Frank Bow CTS, MT. and Mrs. Ellis Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. Hinkle, MT. and Mrs. Bering MT. and Mrs. Anderson, Mir. and Mrs. Frank Bartlett MT. and Mrs. James Hawkins, Spangler, Harndon, Stone. Coral Goodwin and Mary Davidson. and Messrs. c. H. Crocker, Edward .spangler. George T. Roberts Jr. John T. Dare, J. A. Parsons, A B. Costigan, A. M. Clay, I; Gutte, No ble Eaton. Ralph Henricis, I'd Landis, E. D. Duke F. Runyon, J. T. Terry and Will liam Cunningham, and Mrs. Charles E. A Wiltsee hoisted the signal Captains report on board flagship, at Il :45 the pre- garatory gun was fired a6or and at noon otin the Chispa, and La Paloma, the & pi5ot nto, boat zoe, ward the city front round Mission Rock and the United States ship Monterey; then toward Alcatraz, where the signal,
 Several of the Corinthian boats went up to McNears landing on Saturday night or Sunday morning The ya%i Pinta was was the following yachts were cruising in the upper bay: Ella, Nixie, Amigo, Pride, Queen, Haicyon and Fruant- Commodore nc ore,
 
 Pacific Club opening, and on her return the pin of the goose-neck on the main boom broke, compelling her to drop Ter anchor while temporary repairs were made. F.. Donoboe's sloop Speedwen went up to Vallejo on Saturday. Engel- brecht, the North Beach shipbuilder, Is building a boat for P. w. Hurndall, who recently joined the Corinthians.
 There will be a general meeting of the members of the San Francisco Yacht Club on Monday next, at D. m, at the Mer- chants Exchange, when the question of the club joining the Pacific Inter-club Yacht Association will be discussed and decided. ". G. Morrow, financial secre- tary of the San Francisco Yacht Club, of several weeks in New York
 Commodore c. J. Lancaster, of the Call ifornia Yacht Club, started from the clubhouse on Saturday night In Secretary G. F. Gathers U and I, followed by L. S. Sherman in the sloop Royal; they lay at Long wharf all night, and on Sunday were joined by the sloop Bachelor; the three sailed to Paradise Cove.
 To-day the California fleet will start cruise to Vallejo. The sloop U and I will not sail, but will go upon the ways" to te scraped, painted and generally over hauled. On the 18th the Californias will hold their club regatta for class flags.
 The cruise to Vallejo will doubtless at- tract a large number of yachts, as all except the Encinal and South Bay clubs A careful lookout should be kept for the dredgers working off the Mare Island shore; having a line of pipes running from tEem to the shore, and a long wire rope leading to the water, they are dall- gerous things to get foul of.