Corinthians Hold Their Annual Meeting and Election.

January 27, 1899 – The annual meeting of the Corinthian Yacht Club (San Francisco) was held, Wednesday night in Red Men’s Hall, sixty or seventy members being present. Commodore Carl Westerfeld read his annual j report, In which he detailed the principal events of the yachting season of 1898, and set forth the present condition of the club. Treasurer C. L. Barrett’s report showed that the club Is In a healthy financial condition, having 168 / members (four of whom are honorary) on Its list and three applications for membership on file. . The fleet consists of thirty-three sloops, nine yawls, one schooner and five launches. There are also about seventy small boats, such as yachts’ tenders, rowboats and canoes. Several new yachts are being built. After the acting secretary. Orlo Eastwood, had read his report the ticket submitted by T. F. Tracy. A. J. Young and J. Short, the nominating committee, was put before the meeting. The following will serve the club during 1899: Commodore. Carl Westerfeld; vice commodore; W. H. Toepke; port captain. J. H. Keefe; Directors—T. L. Miller. C. L. Barrett. E. F. Sagar and A. I. Lyons; regatta committee—H. Hopps, T. J. Kavanaugh and Douglas Ersklnc. \ An amendment to the effect that the treasurer shall be elected at the annual meeting instead of being as at present • appointed by the directors was lost, as were certain other amendments proposed in a jocular spirit by one of the members. After the. meeting the newly elected officers made the members their guests at an informal reunion.

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1980 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.