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(BURLINGAME COUNTRY CLUB) By-Laws, Officers and Members of the Burlingame Country Club / Club House, Hillsborough, California / May 1, 1913San Francisco: Press of Dixon, Fish & Company, 1913. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, as issued) [moderately worn, light dampstaining to pages in about the first one-third of the book (not visible externally), faint pencil numbers next to some names in the membership list]. (2 black & white photographs) Basic membership data for this club, founded in 1893 and still operating today. At the time, the officers were: President, George A. Pope; Vice-President, Samuel Knight; Vice-President, Albert H. Payson; Secretary and Treasurer, Alfred B. Ford. The book is 71 pages, plus a 3-page un-numbered index. The By-Laws take up a little more than half the book, and include such things as rules on tipping the staff (don't!), limitations on wagering (nothing over $10), and useful advisories such as that "all automobiles left standing in front of the Club House shall be parked backing near the North Hedge." 418 total members were claimed at the time, with five being Life Members (dating from 1893): William B. Bourn, William H. Crocker (founder of the Crocker National Bank), Joseph D. Grant, George A. Newhall (of Newhall Land and Farming Company) and George A. Pope.. Good+ .
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