The Bohemian Club Annals Volume 1 Chapter 5
The Bohemian Club Annals Volume 1 Chapter 5
The Bohemian Club Annals Volume 1 Chapter 5
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HENRY EDWARDS.
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Owen
Marlowe
well-liked member of the Bohemians, left California
leaves for his home in England. Prior to his departure
Bohemia.
the Club, through private subscription, presented
him with a gold watch and chain,' in appreciation
of his talent as an actor and noble qualities as a
gentleman.' "
In addition to these admirable qualities, Marlowe
also possessed the true spirit of Bohemianism, for
he afterward had to pawn the watch in order that
he might eventually arrive at his destination.
And now the infant Club, having cut its eye
The Club
teeth, went on a picnic. This precocious affair is
goes on a doubly interesting in view of the subsequently
pz·cmc.
famous mid-summer Jinks, to which it bears about
as much resemblance as a Dutch cheese to an eight-
day clock. The way the business came about was
through an invitation sent to the Club by a repre-
sentative of the Sausalito Land and Ferry Company.
Going on a picnic being a weighty matter, not to
be lightly undertaken, a special meeting of the Club
was called to consider the proposition. Finally the
Club concluded to accept the invitation and sent out
a circular requesting the members· to congregate at
Meiggs' Wharf on Saturday, July 30th, at 8:30 A. M.,
with their ladies, and take the boat for Sausalito.
Those who possessed a "matrimonial cooking stove"
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llfr.Bromley public appearance before the Club. Mr. Bromley
makes his
first appear- had entered the society of the Bohemians the
ance before
the Club. preceding April, a young man of fifty-six, or there-
abouts. And that knowing bird which presides
over the destinies of Bohemia immediately took him
under her venerable wing. Previous to joining the
Bohemian Club, Mr. Bromley was born in Norwich,
Connecticut, and went to sea at the tender age of
twelve. He says his going to sea was a remarkable
instance of filial thoughtfulness, inasmuch as his
mother was somewhat anxious about his habit of
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going out at night, so he went to sea in order
that when she woke up at any hour she might
know exactly where he was. So Mr. Bromley's
first Jinks naturally takes for its subject "Poets
who Have Sung of the Sea," for which the combined
talent of Mr. Bosqui and Mr. Newcomb furnished
a pen and ink cartoon of wrecks and sea serpents
and desert islands.
Inspired, no doubt, by Mr. Bromley's e.ffort, that
"Poets who eminent lawyer, orator and ex-soldier of the Rebellion,
have sung of
the battle- General W. H. L. Barnes, issued a special order for
field. "
a Jinks on November 29th, which dealt with "The
Poets who Have Sung of the Battle-field." Virgil
Williams painted the cartoon.
;,\ J. G. Eastman issued the call for the Christmas
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