PN 4899 C37P7 Press Club Scoop May 25, 1912 M ft iV-"-"* 3 PRESENTED BY THE PRESS CLUB SATURDAYNKHT Ma\j 25,1912 Souwnir DOES YOUR OLD RANGE WASTE GAS? With some old style ranges you can't cook a dinner with less than three to four fires. These are very wasteful compared to the new "Composite" Ranges which cook meat, biscuits, potatoes and a pudding all at once with ONE FIRE. A "COMPOSITE" RANGE ONE OF SO STYLES ON DISPLAY IN OUR SHOWROOMS Before the Summer Rush Is the Time to Make a Change Ask to see the " Composite " Ranges and learn about our monthly - payment-free - installation - selling plan. Call today at our down town or any of our branch stores. CATALOGS ON REQUEST The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company "PRESS CLUB SCOOP" AUDITORIUM THEATER Saturday Night, May 25, 1912 A Night at the Press Club Olio Advance Edition of Republican National Convention PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO 24-26 North Dearborn Street THE PRESS CLUB of Chicago 26 North Dearborn Street ARTICLE I. NAME AND OBJECT. Section i. The name of this organization shall be the Press Club of Chicago. Section 2.. Its object shall be to bring members of the news- paper, literary and publishing callings together in closer personal rela- tions, to further good fellowship, to promote the interests of its mem- bers and to provide them with comfortable club rooms. ARTICLE II. MEMBERS. Section i. There shall be five classes of members: Active, Non- resident, Life, Honorary and Active Retired. Section -2. The following shall be eligible to active and non-resi- dent membership: (a) Persons regularly connected with the press in Chicago or elsewhere, as editors, reporters, artists, proprietors, paid correspond- ents or contributors, general managers, business managers, and proof- readers of the daily press. (b) Persons who can produce indisputable proof of having at some time fulfilled one or more of the above qualifications on the press for a period of five years. (c) Authors of books of original matter and of literary char- acter ; publishers and illustrators of such books, and of periodicals ; li- brarians, and persons whose occupation is chiefly literary. (d) Provided, That the residence or place of business of non- resident members must not be within the limits of Cook County, Illinois. If eligible and interested, write Membership Committee, PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO, 26 North Dearborn Street of Chicago President Douglas MallochV First Vice-President E. J. Baker Second Vice-President William Emmet Moore Treasurer Harry S. Hyman Financial Secretary B. Beecher Osborne Recording Secretary Charles N. Wheeler Librarian Joseph F. Henderson Directors William R. Barnes, Horace M. Ford, Julius Reynolds Kline, Charles Lederer, Edward H. Fox, Stanly H. Twist. The Presidents of the Press Club of Chicago since its organiza- tion have been : 1880 Franc B. Wilkie. 1897 Washington Hesing. 1881 W. K. Sullivan. 1898 William M. Knox. 1882 Samuel J. Medill. 1899 William M. Knox. 1883 William E. Curtis. 1900 John E. Wright. 1884 James B. Bradwell. 1901 William H. Freeman. 1885 Joseph R. Dunlop. 1902 Homer J. Carr. 1886 John F. Ballantyne. 1903 Homer J. Carr. 1887 James W. Scott. 1904 Homer J. Carr. 1888 James W. Scott. 1905 Homer J. Carr. 1890 Stanley Waterloo. 1906 John J. Flinn. 1891 W. A. Taylor. 1907 John J. Flinn. 1892 John E. \Vilkie. 1908 Richard H. Little. 1893 Stanley Waterloo. 1909 Henry B. Chamberlin. 1894 Frank A. Vanderlip. 1910 John C. Shaffer. 1895 A. T. Packard. 1911 Charles H. Sergei. 1896 Joseph Medill. 1912 Douglas Malloch. * The Duntley Mfg Company 6O6 Michigan Avenue Harvester Building CHICAGO Saves Time Many uses and full directions on large sifter-can ICH Let Hartman Feather Your Nest." t* ' Printing KINGSBURY AND SUPERIOR STS. CHICAGO One of the largest printing plants in America, having a capacity of over 100 tons finished product per day. 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NIBLACK V.-P. and Trust Officer JNO. A. RICHARDSON 3rd Vice-President W. R. FOLSOM Treasurer J. M. BALL Secretary OFFICERS GEORGE BIRKHOFF, JR. CHARLES L. BARTLETT IRA M. COBE J. LEWIS COCHRAN BERNARD A. ECKHART JAMES B. FORGAN DAVID B. LYMAN A. R. MARRIOTT WM. C. NIBLACK GEORGE E. RICKCORDS EDWARD A. SHEDD OTTO C. BUTZ E. A. CUMMINGS MARVIN A. FARR NATHAN G. MOORE HARRISON B. RILEY NOBLE B. JUDAH Babcock, & Co. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Provisions, Investment Securities MEMBERS New York Stock Exchange Chicago Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade 7 Wall Street New York /v PLAT OF JOHN A. BROWN'S ADDITION TO GLEN ELLYN, ILL. Home, Sweet Home I shall touch briefly upon a subject enshrined in every heart here. We are soon to return to our homes, and it is of the home that I would speak. The object of all righteous legislation is the preservation of the fireside, the glory of the home. The future of the American Republic rests on the American home. And what grander task could occupy humanity than the consecration of the home? A wanderer in a distant land who felt the loneliness and pain which only those without a home can know, enshrined in deathless melody the truest sentiment that ever dwelt in human heart or rose on mortal lip; ''Home sweet home,' 1 he cried, and immortal- ity echoed the re- frain. I know that Apollo swept such harmony from the lyre that the listening gods were charmed and the world acclaimed him deity of song. I know that Orpheus, with magic strain, led rocks and trees and beasts to fol- low him and so enthrall- ed the underworld that angels gazed thereon with envy. I know that Timotheus, with won- drous melody, subdued the riotous Alexander, awoke within his hauty soul emotions high as heaven. I know that David drew from his entrancing harp a con- cord that dispelled the gloom about the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with the laughter of music and the joy of song. I know that when Cecelia sang angels were fascinated and men enraptured. I know that Eleanor's troubadours at Antioch bewitched the Syrian air with the ballads of the south and lightened the horrors of the second crusade. I know that Palestrina, Handel, Mo- zart, Beethoven, and the rest have vastly elevated man with symphonies sublime. But I know tnat all of these, com- bined by a master, greater than those who as yet have lived, into one gorgeous rhapsody, can equal not the touch- ing cadence and the sim- ple majesty of "Home, sweet home." Permit me to direct your attention to my addition to Glen Ellyn as an ideal lo- cation for your home JOHN A. BROWN KARPEN GUARANTEED UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE Upholstered furniture cannot be made more durable, nor more attractive in design, than Karpen Furniture is made. Nor can you procure more for a given price among unknown makes than is offered in Karpen Furniture, which is guaranteed. No matter what room you wish to furnish nor what price you wish to pay, you will find in our large and varied line just what you wish. Every piece of Karpen Furniture is trade- marked and guaranteed. S. Karpen & Bros. Chicago Boston New York RECORD-HERALD FRIDAY MORNING MAY 3. 1912-SI XTEEN PAGES MAY TELEPHONE TROUBLES CESTRtVU 4f8l c t? IS SMITH THERE'S - Not only in May But every day, The "Girlie" phone is erratic. You can keep your seat Don't have to repeat When using the automatic. THE City Department WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION is a separate and dis- tinct plant organized to handle exclusively trade journals and magazines for the local publishers. The plant comprises eighteen linotype machines, eighteen Miehle presses and bindery and mailing facilities of equal capacity a night and day organization formed with the one prime object in view- SERVICE! Do you get it ? 521 WEST ADAMS STREET Phone Franklin 666 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO By John McGovcrn i. The great chamber in which we gather to- night has been the scene of some of the most distinguished meetings in this world in these times. The President of the United States (its most learned and eloquent Presi- dent, too, Benjamin Harrison) dedicated it; Adelina Patti's thrush-like song was the first to echo out of its increasing arches. This hall, one of a half-dozen first-class places of social rendezvous in civilization, was con- ceived and made by Ferdinand Peck, who has been a member of the Press Club of Chicago for twenty-five years. These increasing arch- es of fire and ivory (as well as the golden portal of the Transportation Building, in 1893) were and are the creation of Louis H. Sullivan, also a member of our Club. Nor has the Press Club, during the his- tory of its younger brother-institution, the Auditorium, failed to bring hither as tribute celebrations of its own no less memorable than the others. On the night of April 27, 1895, under the auspices of the Press Club, a great assem- blage celebrated the birthday of General U. S. Grant in the presence of Julia Dent Grant, his widow. An oration was delivered by Gen- eral O. O. Howard, a comrade of Grant. A cathedral choir sang, the big audience joined heartily in the patriotic airs that were ren- dered, and the great widow's heart was deeply touched, as the Club's archives attest. February 12, 1892, Colonel Ingersoll here first delivered his eulogium of Abraham Lin- coln, and before the Press Club with 6,700 guests. One thousand people were seated on the stage that night. Here Senator Chauncey M. Depew ad- dressed an audience of great size, and most generously and unexpectedly turned the pro- ceds, nearly $3,000 net, into the Club's treas- ury. It was his own club, he said, "Why not?" Here Henry Watterson, Dr. Gunsaulus, De- Witt Talmage and other great men have dwelt, in pleasing periods, on the history and usefulness of the Press Club, and here it is probable the future people of this same Press Club of Chicago will continue to meet to mark the increasing years under the glitter- ing increasing arches. Before the Auditorium was built George Carpenter, one of our members, had erected Central Music Hall. After his death, his noble widow set aside the use of Central Music Hall for the Press Club at least once a year for more than a decade. The Press Club, with Dr. Gunsaulus as orator, cele- brated the very last night of that great land- mark of art and culture, before it gave way to dry-goods. It was through the portals of Central Music Hall that- -James Whitcomb T^iley, Bill Nye, Mark TwairI>-George Ken- nan, Joseph Hatbsu^Jkd* Btirdette and Col. Chaille-Long entered the Press Club. II. I think no man could, can, or will describe the Press Club of Chicago itself, either gen- erally or categorically, or do justice to its membership. It is like going out in the night to describe the stars "the universe." There are in sight more stars than we can ever see, and yet this spectacle as a whole will be presented a little differently every night for a whole year. That misty star yonder in Hercules, this summer night, is itself a sphere of stars 60,000 stars. So, as time has passed with our association, there was a different aspect of the Press Club each month, each year. And no one man could alone see a single one of these great mental spectacles entire. The Press Club is inextricably knitted with TEe~ thirty^two principal years of Chicago's existence with Chicago's geniuses, great- hearts, and goodfellows. The lives of these men have added their influence to the history of the modern world. In this fragment of description I must mainly use mere names (and only a few of the whole number) as symbols of great achievements, of keen enjoyments, of noble <3 emotions. Often there is a book in each name or phrase. Such is that now A ever-living in- choate, past, present and future thing the Press Club of Chicago. It is an important mental phase of that same force, which, in a physical form, is known over the world as the Chicago Construction. Therefore, entirely as symbols and parts of the indescribable whole, accept to their very end these hurried glimpses : In the atmosphere of the Press Club of Chicago there were developed : Qpie Read's, "Jucklins," "Starbucks," "Tennessee Judge'' and a hundred other characters ; Finley Peter Dunne's Irish dialectal philosophy (so truly "greaO ;J^gQrgeAje's fables in slang; Stan- ley Waterloo'sAlT tn"e cave-man (highly ap- preciated By Jack London) ; Melville Stone's newsgathering ideas; Dr. Keeley's gokj, cure (Joseph Medill aidingj"; Chas. Eugene Banks.' Banner of Go/' lyTcPh elim's Art Biff Hall's Labor's ^air^haired chiid" "urnoyer andForty Clubs ; Charlie Lecleres^ )HH!ogTaph-like'~cartoons; Joe Chappie's No,-, Mangasarian's addresses'TlCohlsaat and Henry Wendorff's color-press pioneering ; Gayton Douglas' colored^photography; Earl Marble Tmd Col. Bundy's "spirits" ; Lester Hubbard's [ough, "Corriing Climax^; Emersgn Beach, and McCutcH^oTrTTjest-sellers; Byron Williams' (Uncle By) aiT3 Eugene Hall's philosophy and homely rhymes ; Lyman E. Cooley and Oss+jfn Guthrie's drainage canal ; Stedrpan aij4^L)arrow's Socialism ; Samuel ae'ri^Gross' "Merchant Prince of Corn- Emil Freund's vast mental Bourse; Clinton Furbish's Pan America; that circle of good fellowship where Dr. Frank Reilly, Jack Shea, John Zimmerman, Fred Hild and Frank Morris sat welcome so long before Death called the closing hour ; I must not go on ; I must leave all unbegun. In the empire of Bohemia the actors as well as the newspaper workers have a proucjf realm, and to the generous friendship of the most generous of professions the Press Club owes a big part of its existence. Pictures given by Mr. McVicker were, I believe, the very first to hang on our walls (George and Martha Washington), yet we have no por- trait of the great and modest Mr. McVicker himself. Will Davis and Harry Hamlin were always helpers and Harry Powers (and Richard Hooley before him). The nights when Mr. Booth when Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, Irving, McCullough, Mans- field, Mantell, Warde, Keene, Wyndham, Goodwin, Willard, Tree, Wilson Barrett, Thome, Robson and Crane, Patti, Nilsson, were separately and repeatedly received ; the nights when song was programmed with little Blatchford Kavanaugh, with Tagliapie- tra, Clarence Whitehill, Myron Whitney, Jamet, Plangon, Barnabee, Hugh Williams ; with Johnnie McWade, Hubert Wilkie, Mc- Donald, Knorr, Sweet, Drill ; with Hopper, Cottrelly and Boniface; Jennie Dutton, Lilli Lehman, Litta, Emma Abbott; with Digby Bell, Willie Collier (again I must cease) on these nights Chicago was en soiree at the Press Club Chicago was happy, though the hour might be entirely unsuburban. The educational musicians also were not behind the actors in their generous desire to aid the Club. We always had at call the elite of the elder Florence Ziegfeld's college I especially remember Falk, Hyllested, Gotts- chalk, and the fine string quartette. Eddy, Liebling and Wilde played at the Club's every wish. Earl Drake played for us 25 years before we had the honor to hear his own orchestral symphony rendered. Through the 32 years Mr. and Mrs. Walton Perkins, I think, have been the most generous and faith- ful among a generous all. The Club felt that Fannie Bloomfield (Zeisler) was great before she took rank with or above the great Car- reno. Julia Rive (King) was often at the Club. Carl Hild and his wife (violin and piano) came from a great Berlin orchestra. Would they had prospered in Chicago! They loved the Club. Their rendition of a "Faust" fan- tasia I did not hear Wieniawski and Rubin- stein themselves improve upon or equal ! Perhaps the far-and-away novelties of their ancient time came with the "stags" in which the Midway Plaisance revealed its forthcom- ing panoply of races and oriental music. We shall not soon forget the voo-doo giant from Dahomey, and h'is night at the Club nor the dark Amazon, covered with scars of battle. Our Col. Ayme had been a chum of Capt. Pene. .' Of the editor-publishers, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Stone, Mr. Scott, Mr. Kohlsaat, Mr. Medill, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Nixon, Mr. West, Mr. Hinman, Mr. Shaffer, Mr. East- man, Mr. Hearst, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Hes- ing, Mr. Chaiser, Mr. Raster, Mr. Anderson, aided the Club at all times. In the end con- sidering all things, too absolutely all were and are full-handed friends. It has pleased "the boys" to see William Jennings Bryan (a member) at hand so often. And our Plutarchs have felt that they espy in him a true political parallel to the long- peerless Henry Clay. III. If the printers' union of the long-ago were the first notable symptom of the necessity of trust and merger in the Industrial or Factory Age, then associations like the Press Club of Chicago were the second symptom, and grew out of the first. In civil-war-times, and before, there were usually two newspapers in an American city or four (two morning and two evening). It was newspaper law and doctrine to hate the "crowd" in the other camp, and to lie about them. The two morning papers of each city catered to the two forces in society the so-called "moral" and the so-called "immoral". In Chi- cago, for instance, the Times, edited by Wil- bur F. Storey, was the Barber's Delight; it was the organ of Third avenue, Fourth ave- nue, Jackson street, Quincy street, Conley's Patch, Tilden avenue. The Tribune, on the other hand, was taken in Evanston (then as now a holy city), Hyde Park, Maywood, Oak Park, on Wabash avenue and on Pine street. As a reward of virtue it had the small ads. But the "wicked" paper had the greater cir? culation for the time. Storey as early as the 60's proclaimed Jlim- self a social Ishmael. His Rockford/ libel, and his "Walks Among the Churches/ (week- ly calls of so-called moral sanitation and animadversion in the various religious parishes of Chicago) increased the personal hatreds of the man that had been aroused by his course as a Copperhead during the Civil War. Such was the unpromising social soil in which a Chicago Press Club must begin. It is needless to say that there were several fail- ures. The first old Press Club that I know of occupied rooms in McVicker's Theatre. Elias Colbert, the astronomer, still has a copy of its charter. Its failure led directly to the insti- tution of the Owl Club, in the same central location a bohemian association that offered occasional parties for men and women, and by its partial success gave evidence that the time for a permanent Press Club was near. This time probably depended in the main on the entry of third newspapers into the morn- ing and evening fields. Charles A. Dana came on to Chicago with the (morning) Repub- lican (now the Inter Ocean), and, after the Mail, the News was started by Melville E. Stone and Bill Dougherty, reporters from the Mail and Tribune. The initial movement for the Press Club of Chicago itself came from the Storey camp. Their generalissimo, Frank B. Wilkie (we young fellows called him Mr. Wilkie as we said "Mr. Booth";) consulted with Melville Stone. There was a group of young men on the Inter Ocean with Elwyn A. Barren as their leader or mentor, and they favored the idea. Sam Medill (brother of Joseph), who was city editor of the Tribune, also thought well of it. The owl car was next put on the streets at night, and the night-workers began to ride home together at late hours instead of walk- ing home by themselves, and thus a new modus vivendum was not only possible but necessary. Each side found the devil not nearly so black as he had been painted, and also the incoming men on the new papers were not interested in the hoary resentments arising out of the old "scoops." In the end it came about that we gratefully regarded Mr. Wilkie as "founder of the Press Club." His obsequies, at McVicker's Theatre, conducted by Dr. Thomas under the direction of the Press Club, in 1892, may be named as a historic and a civic event. Mr. Wilkie was the first President ; his son John E. Wilkie, then city editor of the Tribune, now Chief of the United States Secret Service, was also President during the year of the founder's death, and Mr. Wilkie died full of honor. IV. The Press Club was started (January, 1880) in rooms on the third floor of Morrison's building, on the east side of Clark street, a door north of Madison. There it abode for^ eighteen years. It had no elevator; it needed noner Madame Patti climbed the stairs it was easier for her than it was for Jim Scott, and he never complained. Morrison was the ideal bohemian landlord. May the blessings of all the fairies of the wee sma' hours rest upon him ! From memorable old Clark street Billy Knox and J^rank Johnson led~the dub across Madi-, i>OTr Strget^to Mussey's, and there, under the magic touch of our own architect, Henry Lord Gay, (now in San Diego) was set up probably the finest bohemian garret the world has yet known. It was 190 feet in length, 50 feet wide, and part of it was handsomely and cleverly double-decked. Its halls were noble and spacious. About 2,000 of Chicago's elite came to give it the city's blessing, one perfect _night in June, 1898, and Luther Lafflin Mills_ ~Hedicatecl it lor its decade as our~home! The" assemblage of notable people that night filled three floors of the unopened Mussey's below. It was surely a fair start. And it was a good finish. For in ten more years the Club was ready to take the old quarters ot the University Club, paying about $loU,UUU lor the building and lease oi TjJreT maining years, and establishing itself on a very Fifth avenue or Broadway of Bohemia. The Press Club Building now stands eig*n7 stories high at 26 North Dearborn street7"orr trie very loF where our founder. Mr ("Poliuto") wrote his "Walks about q '\ a brilliant series of papers that broug Hundreds of thousands of good persons hith- er, to become residents of the new city. During our temporary stay on Fifth avenue, n l)8,~ while awaiting the vacation of the new quarters, It may be recorded that we buried David Henderson and Harold Vynne with the high honors due to them. Dick Little and Dwight Allyn (President and Financial Secretary that year) attended closely to busi- ness and absolutely cleaned up a great floating debt. Praise could not be greater than that in bohemia ! With our present Press Club Building, prob- ably the majority of this audience are duly familiar. v The Press Club the dove of hope the inspiration of the good, that brings glad- ness this carrier has homed. Its cote is eight stories high, in the center of the Union Loop in Chicago. We have at Mount Hope, also, a tall monu- ment, reaching far up among the trees. There lie, we trust in immortality, some of our best- known dead Canfield, who could write most and best in shortest time; Sam Steele, who gave out all the official newspaper copy of the World's Fair of 1893; David Henderson, who "put on" Janssen, Cottrelly, Hopper, Foy, Yohe, etc. ; Cornelius McAuliff, who swore the Herald and its hyphens to press heroically for twenty-five years, and died for it ; Charlie Almy, our greatest wit; Gentile, who took the fire pictures; James Maitland, who wrote the Slang Dictionary; and Oliver Perry, our most beloved one of all. The monument was placed in position some years before we left Clark street. Under the Greek colonnade, before the park of most various trees at calm Mount Hope, Luther Laflin Mills (that gentle one who was Booth's Hamlet off the stage) delivered the oration, and, with solemn but beautiful eye, dedicated to hopeful sleep our great bohemian dead. V. I have been often asked just how things went en famille in bohemia, where it is sup- posed there are no hours, and can be no fam- ily. Well, speaking of the first quarter-cen- tury, generally, there was always forthcoming some altruistic greatheart who was the Club for the time being that is, the baser practical but most necessary part of the Club. The Club rented rooms (as noted) early in 1880. At that time, Sam Steele, Theodore Geste- feldt, Leo Canman and "Little Dick" (M. E. Dickson) were the true yeomen. They dealt with the colored question, bought fauteuils with the poker-rake, borrowed potted plants for swell receptions, sold tickets, and dragooned new members. Socially, we owed a great deal to Tod Cowles and to John B. Jefery. Then Edgar Wakeman. Then, while Wakeman went to see the Wagnerian Passion Play in Bavaria, Harry Ballard was the Club. Then Judge Bradwell, Kisch and Harry Hunt arrived, the other yeomen remaining no less faithful. George Schneider, the banker, was a fairy godfather of those days. I remember he gave the Club the five-dollar Greenback, S?ries A, No. 1. It was lost along with our first charter, when one of our Treasurer's private papers burned. For many years the Club was so organiz2d that the Financial Secretary had full domestic power while he retained the confidence first of the Club and next of a majority of the Direc- tors. "The Club" was the meeting on the second Sunday afternoon of each month. A better form of government has not been de- vised, where the property interests are less than five or ten thousand dollars. Liberty and Equality triumphed completely as a work- ing principle. After Jim Scott had been President for three terms ending in 1889 Billy Taylor was "exalted," and I recall the dedicatory "stag" that followed as possibly the Club's greatest general jollification, lasting easily till 8 o'clock the next morning. Billy was the night re- porter par excellence, and had been Harry Ballard's right-bower in the Club. Then Ed. Pritchard (now the Board of Health Secretary) took hold, and for a while the picturesque Col. Ayme (who did far more heroically as Consul at wicked Mount Pelee, and afterward at the revolution in Lisbon). Then, in the following or concurrent years, five men grasped the rudder William M. Knox, Frank E. Johnson, John B. Waldo, E. J. Baker and A. T. Packard and these names will be famous in our inner history so long as it shall descend in our records and chat- lore. Through much of the time of his per- sonal hard work and self-denial, William M. Knox was President. I know that Frank E. Johnson, in one year, gathered $5,000 cash at the Auditorium, and brought most of it to the long-trusting but never-famishing Morri- son, our benignant landlord. As to Waldo and Baker, whenever a Financial Secretary fell through the floor or ascended into heaven through the ceiling, what man but Waldo or Baker (perhaps most often Baker) could be expected to sacrifice all and take the Secre- taryship? Whosoever shall in his mind really salute, or thank, or wonder at the Press Club let him salute them ! Through the tedious years, great editors were sometimes teased into a temporary patronage of rival and "only press clubs" ; but these loyal and unheralded work- ers that I have named toiled on at the Press Club of Chicago, kept the faith, and preserved a Press Club for rivals and all. In later years Charles Sergei's name, may, I think, be equit- ably added to this faithful guard. The eighteen years on Clark street seemed to behold the twilight of our close alliance with the actors. Our hours grew less bohe- mian. Yet I think the Club grew more liter- ary. More great and abiding hard workers were with us James J. West, Elton Lower, Col. Jim Davis, Douglas Malloch, Duncan Smith, W. Frederick Nutt, George Wood and the excellent John U. Higinbotham (Allelu! J-U-H!). In Press Club land, as in Buddha land, one must not weary of well-doing! There now came to the forefront a son of Equality Homer J. Carr, a Tribune lad and man. Him the Club kept President four terms four years an unexampled trust, and there was somewhat of sorrow in bohemia (where Sorrow is by no means starred) that he could not be impressed again. But, one of the two charter members remained John J. Flinn (creator of the "uplift", and a hundred other verbal harpoons) and Johnny Flinn was President for two years. During these six ever-memorable and lit- erary years, the noticeable thing that devel- oped was the national nature of the Press Club. We found our elder members in every city our outposts and pro-consuls our apos- tles preaching everywhere. The country press began to consider the Press Club its own af- fair. Invitations poured in upon us, and our EXCURSION AGE had come. At various times the Press Club as a body went to Washington, New York City and West Point ; to Denver ; twice to St. Louis; to Rock Island; to the Illi- nois University (the guests of Professor James, a member); to Fort Sheridan; to Yorktown ; to the Lord knows where else.. An excursion of the Press Club that the men and women spoke most pleasantly of (where all succeeded) was conducted by Douglas Mai- loch, now our President, somewhere on the other side of Lake Michigan. In Billy Freeman's year (1901) James J. West and Henry Barrett Chamberlin (after- ward President) through their loyal efforts, made an end of all but $600 of $6,000 of debt. The membership by this time included 102 writers on local daily papers; 101 others who were authors of books, and over 100 editors of great trade papers. Non-resident members kept in touch with the Club from all over the world. There have been debt-payers or savers even among the Presidents of bohemia Franc Wilkie, W. K. Sullivan, Sam Medill, Curtis, Bradwell, Ballantyne, Dunlop, Packard, Free- man and Little. How many other clubs can count so many? The unparalleled thing that happened over Mussey's was the Kirmess. It lasted three days (in February, 1903). The ladies decoyed $2,700 out of the pockets of the members. The Kirmess broke everybody and for the time ruined the cafe. But the Kirmess was truly great. We were all astonished by the loyalty and sisterhood of the women. I recall George Wiggs, Edgar Blum, Doc Jamieson, Jefferson Jackson, Charlie Hewitt, John Brown, Dr. Fisher, Dr. Williams, and Fred Pelham among the heroes. The cafe when the Club was over Mussey's was a large one. It would seat 250 at table. The dinners and banquets of the ten years were legion mostly of a literary flavor and not one of them failed. Homer Carr always vowed that the beginning and the ending of it all lay in the complimentary banquet given in the name of the Old Guard to Opie Read. John Ritchie was toast-master that night, started early, and got through promptly at 3 in the morning or 4! By the way, he made one of the most eloquent speeches anybody ever heard. But the mood might be otherwise as to time- limits. In one of the finest entertainments ever offered at the Club, eighteen authors and poets presented their own work in one hour and eighteen minutes, Luther Laflin Mills presiding. At the banquet to President Carr, afterward, when he resigned as prince of bohemia, 200 Press Club boeks, with authors' tributes to Homer, were presented in patent book cases. In Judge Bradwell's later years he was as reverend in appearance as King Lear. It was the Club's noble custom to seat the oldest ex- President always at the right of the President, and he often attended the meetings. He did not cut his white hair or beard after the great Myra Bradwell died. The high -jinks when the boys came home from the Orient especially the comings of Dick Little and the Chee-Foo Soothsayer are talked about yet. Even Professor Cho-Yo laughed. This should be said of the great circle (or moving epicycle) of the Press Club: In that circle sat welcome the author, the poet, the humorist, wit, satirist, philosopher, iconoclast; the Republican, Democrat, Prohibitionist, So- cialist; Reactionary, Progressive; the Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Wesleyan, Quaker, Chris- tian Scientist, Agnostic, yes, even the Dowie- ite. Each took what was coming to him in pure reason ; and each gave back, without ethical handicap, in turn to them. It was Mallock's "Is Life Worth Living?" enacted in real life. It was pure intellectual freedom! VI. At the funeral of John F. Ballantyne (Pres- ident in 1886), in a church of the North Side, in 1892, I saw the greatest number of daily newspaper writers together that I have ever beheld on a private (or perhaps a public) occa- sion. A large church was crowded. The funerals of Eugene Field and James W. Scott, at St. James, were highly-distinguished events. Emery Storrs was the Press Club's first acclaimed own orator; his mantle fell on Luther Laflin Mills; his mantle falls on Col- onel James Hamilton Lewis. I really expect great things anon of Frank Comerford. The delightful Tom Fitch of California was with us for over a year. Our great story-tellers were Paul Hull, Opie Read, Clay Clement, "Mons" Flanders, Frank Lincoln, Willie Eaton, Canfield, Amsbury, Col. Visscher, Col. Kellogg, Frank Welch (on the ''Chink"), and J. E. G. Ryan. We were con- tented when Ben King, Paul Sweeney, Harold Vynne, Hiestand, Louis Block or Charles Lur- vey was at the piano. But Kahn young Kahn, old Kahn has gone the whole 32 years. We feel a genuine pride in our present fine singers Alfred Hiles Bergen and Kirk Towns. Perhaps we are luckiest" in Billy Way. What can I say (that would be heard) of Jupiter Tonans Christensen? The big piano that Walton Perkins gave us trembles when the Czar of Rag-time turns into Dearborn street it erupts when he sits at the beyboard. Think of the Autocrat's ten fingers ten several punches each like the 4th-of-July right duke of Lil' Artha! Charlie Perkins, Hugh Blake Williams, and Wilbur D. Nesbit were our champions in ray- pairtay. Burlingame was and is our official necro- mancer. When the Mephistophelian Hermann cast down his rod in our Club, and it turned into a snake, we always relied on Burlingame's rod to turn into a bigger serpent and swallow up Hermann's. When we were old men, we knew he helped along the show. Bramhall and Joe Henderson ran the library. Bramhall is at San Francisco. Joe Henderson was never away, save when he founded the Ladies' Home Companion. When Walter Wright came up from New Orleans, Jo could always get a $100 bookcase for the mere men- tioning. The Powell half-tones and Smith- sonian General Reports are on our shelves. Ed. Pickard has a very long record of use- fulness as Secretary. From the time Manton Marble sold to Pulitzer, John Fay has been the Western end of the New York World. No one could either wean him from the Press Club, or induce him to be President. It was instructive to hear John Fay, John Finerty and Edward Maher (experts and collectors) discuss Napoleon. Our earliest printer was Charlie Blakely. Then H. O. Shepard brought in the Inland Printer (McQuilkin was its spirit) ; then W. F. Hall, James Regan, W. B. Conkey. Conkey was a lad with a bindery of his own in Blake- ly's office when Blakely joined the Club. "Blakely's" is now Oswald's. John Oswald "made up" my first book in 1879. We were all cheered when cold, slow but not-forgetful Ben Harrison made our dear Captain Mere- dith Superintendent of Engraving. Again, it has been a pleasant thing to see the delight with which the Captain has viewed the liter- ary success of his nephew and namesake, Meredith Nicholson. We have sat with Captain, Major, Colonel, General Andy Burt God bless him ! Col. Kel- logg and Col. Reed have been our other two of the Old Guard in the Regular Army. Coi. Jim Davis, ex-Confederate, and John Ritchie, Union Volunteer, formed a true and pic- turesque friendship in their veteran years. Before the Press Club became more than local in its scope and feelings, New York City was a sore enemy. It drafted our great and loved ones in scores. The more clubable he might be the sooner New York called for a favorite member Henry Guy Carleton, Dune- ka, Angus Sinclair, Jim Holland, Van Benthuy- sen, Horatio Seymour, Tod Cowles, Tomo Thompson, Frank Burrelle, Melville Stone, George Martin, Billy Taylor, John Gregg, John N. Reynolds, Capt. Darby, Bill Nye, Bob Ran- som, Dave Sasseen, John Stapleton, Will Nich- olas, Denslow, Fred Cook, Frank Pixley, In- graham, Wilbur Wakeman, Harry B. Smith oh, la, la, it was sad, in those days ! The Club has literally cultivated brotherly love. I can recall the three brothers Friedman and McCutcheon. The brothers Medill were both Presidents. The Club would have been lamentably different without the Kochersper- gers, Ed. and Charles Pickard, John J. and H. J. Bohn, Lyman and E. L. Cooley, John M. and Frank Crane, Louis and Edgar Blum (my own true friends), Trumbull and Harry White, George and Fred Dunham, Chas. Dowst and his brother, and John and Felix Willy. The Club owes very, very much to others of its habitants, not so far named (and not practicably nameable in all), who have been often at the Club, at varying hours, according to the nature of their calling, whether by night or day (or both, they often put it). Some of these members were always on hand to receive the returning ones. There is no key of the Press Club. Monty Gibbs or Newton McMil- lan might call in from Australia, Curtis from Tashkend, Jim Haynie or W. S. Walker, or Frederick Mayer from Paris, Von Schierbrand from Teheran or Berlin, George Miln or Joseph Hatton from London, Boiling Johnson, Arthur Evans or McNair from everywhere it was not like other clubs it was always in session. If you looked into the windows of other clubs in other days, after meal-time, what place could be more vacant? But, at the Press Club, morning or evening, noon or midnight, or third-cock-crow, what wanderer among all our surviving scatterlings cannot re- call the glad handgrasp of Jack Fuller, or Ike Fleming, Elliott Flower, George Babbitt, Hen- ry Heinemann, Benzinger, Benham, Matthias. Granville, Hitchcock, I. J. Bryan, George Jameson, Ray Patterson, Igleheart, Giveen, Warren Bailey, Clarence Hough, Lockwood, Jacobsen, Fred Rae, Hughey Keogh, Papa and Eddie Kim, Dick Murphy, Doc Manning, Owen, Newell, Nate Reed, Earl Shearer (de- scendent of Patrick Henry), Marcus Lane, Dick Murphy, A. F. Shuman, Harry Snyder, Billy Strong, Whitford, big Frank Wyatt; or of Tommy O'Neill (he has greeted the most), Franc Hernon, Hi Fargo, Harry Bunting (re- cruited about as many members as Douglas Malloch), Alex. Johnson, Charlie Gould, A. Milo Bennett, Pendleton, Frank Roderus, A. W. Glessner (his son, like Forrest Crissey's son, grew up to join), Will Ray, Mr. Prindle, Harry Yount, George Sikes, George Wey- mouth, Will Payne, George Cram Cook, Gow- an-Stobo, Prof. Krebs, Devereaux, Otto Hot- tinger, John F. Smulski, Charles Walter Brown and Henry W. Lee (their three wives three beautiful singers), Kennett Harris, W. R. Blake, Harry McMeal, Jim Tom Elliott, E. W. Miller, Allen F. Mclntyre, Peter Olsen, Samuel Sternfeld, Maxwell Edgar, Andy Mowatt, Walter Crosman, Rev. W. H. Car- wardine, Mr. Ulrich (his daughter, Madame Noldi in grand opera), Judge Geeting, Bar- ratt O'Hara, Dangel, Frederick Ward (the artist), W. A. Gray ("Forbes & Co."), Charlie Frizelle, Hansen, Dwight Patterson, Edgar Lee Masters, Eben Norris, Othmer, Philip Ray, Frank Rigler, Ethelbert Stewart, Byron Veatch, Frank Wetherbee, Arthur Wolfe, Chas. Zollars, Chas. Ffrench, Elliott Durand, Senator Noonan, Braslawsky, Strickland Gil- lilan, F. D. Abbott, C. W. Carr, Josiah Cratty, Dr. G. Frank Lydston (learned and free), James Boyd, Karl Harriman, Harry L. Bird, Eddie Davieson, George Washington Weip- pert, Conant, Van Gilder, George Sutherland, T. R. Weddell, Professors Willis Moore, Cox, and Hershey (Federal clerks of the weather), Florence Sullivan (crack reporter of the old days, like John Ehlert), Ollie Moody, J. B. Mansfield, E. A. Taft, J. R. Purchase, Prof. Roberts, R. A. Halley, Harry Bogg, Clark, Hische, Fantus, Mark Hayne, Millar (the stu- dious one), Edward Everett Young, Phil Hol- land (I'll warrant I've missed some of the most hospitable ones from ancient days) surely, through all the years and all the hours, the home-comer would find some seneschal of welcome standing the eternal watch. VII. TO-DAY. Though all of these doings in the foregoing fragments are past and gone, the Greater Press Club of To-day reckons hundreds of the ancient members on hand to witness and to testify to the triumph of our onward march. The roster to-day is twice as full of brilliant names, the rooms are twice as crowded with good fellows I can prophecy we shall soon hive all over the building. In the far more considerable official coun- cils of to-day are Messrs. Douglas Malloch, President, E. J. Baker, B. Beecher Osborne, Harry S. Hyman, Eddie Fox, Theodore Van R. Ashcroft, Otto Kney, Emmett Moore, Hor- ace Ford, W. R. Barnes, Julius R. Kline, Chas. N. Wheeler, and able companions like Lederer and Henderson, who have been already named in this memoir (you see Baker is still there, as a solid guarantee to the Grandfather's Guard). Nothing is missing in the old char- ter of Fraternity, Equality, Humanity. The old Spirit of the Club is more virile, more ad- mirable than ever before. Take the reception to the Milwaukee Press Club, the Burns anni- versary, or the meeting on Saint Patrick's night (all in 1912) what really efficient judge of bohemia could aver that it was not going in the proper great way at the Press Club? And mix into the stir that I have already frag- mentarily named (where I see such good fel- lows as Harry White grow ten years younger) mix this following additional spicing of goodfellows and their chums billiard-play- ers, rhum-players, pool-players, minstrels, students, writing-room denizens, diners, what- not? hear their shouts, greetings, repartee will you not have at last a satisfactory Club? Not these men alone, not these ad- ditional, but these symbolical of a vision of increasing, continuous hospitality and home (and all symbolical of the other scores of goodfellows present some other day) : W. H. Walker, Victor Eubanks, George Odell, Dr. Wayland, Billy Baxter, C. A. Briggs, Bob Campbell, Karl MacVitty, Kirk Towns, John I. Day, William Jossey, Albert Cone, Bedford Jones, Stanly Twist, Ben Simpson, L. R. Mer- rill, Rutledge Rutherford, Morton Hiscox, Prof. Radonovitz, J. N. Buchanan, Fred Hay- ner, W. H. Head, G. C. Griffiths, W. T. Chris- tine, J. Ellsworth Gross (with his celebrated camera), Bruce Calvert, Henry J. Hadfield, H. Guy Woodward, Ransom E. Walker, George Allen Yuille, Oswald F. Schuette, B. J. Beardsley, George J. Kimball, Frederick J. Squibb, John E. Bacon, H. P. Cohn, B. F. Zimmer, E. T. Bent, Max Rabinoff, N. L. Pat- terson, B. A. Pratt, Luigi del Oro, Banks Win- ter ("White Wings"), George L. Louis, Ed- ward C. Moore, Harry Daniel, Maurice Rosen- feld, C. J. Kirch, John M. Stahl, Horace Delano, L. T. Goble, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E. H. Plummer, Dan Morgan Smith, Chas. W. Collins, R. J. Peacock, E. R. Shaw, F. F. Ains- worth, O. M. Becker, C. W. Barrett, Ben S. Boyce, D. F. Cass, E. A. Hall, Jr., Dan M. Pierce, Gilbert Shorter, R. A. Ward, O. C. Finney, E. F. Kemp, Ed. Kolakowski, Fred A. Record, J. J. Zmrhal, John Weber, Eugene Skinkle, John Edward Buck, Mason Warner some at leisure and "clubby" this week, this month ; then the same men busy for weeks, months, or hermits for years some going, coming in and out of the Club and in Chicago, like Little Dick and Francis J. Schulte, and Frank Woods ; or in and out of the Club and on the other side of the world, like R. W. Emerson, R. R. Jones, Trumbull White, Dick Little, Kennett Harris so many or like John Gregg, playing Kongo in the Club to-day, at noon hour, in New York to- morrow a desk in each city, week after week the year around so goes Bohemio-Cosmopolis in the century of Wilbur and Orville Wright, in the day of the moving picture and the Victor Victrola. But let us always steady this picture of a swarming, whirling, coming and going universe of vigilant intellect, with an- other, a collateral permanent body of life- membership, attracting such names (not pre- viously mentioned) and by the hundreds, as the well-honored ones of Frederick Warde (tragedian and scholar), Victor Herbert, Fred- erick Stock, John R. McLean, Chas. A. Taylor. Jack Crawford, Elmer C. Hole, John E. Wil- liams, Samuel Alschuler, Bion J. Arnold, A. C. Berghoff, E. O. Brown, Father Dorney, Chas. A. Comiskey, E. S. Conway, Seth Crews, Chas. G. Dawes, Chauncey Dewey, T. N. Don- nelly, Max Eberhardt, ex-Vice President Chas. W. Fairbanks, Fritz von Frantzius, C. F. Gunther, Max Henius, Rabbi Hirsch, ex- Senator Albert J. Hopkins, Frank E. Hoyne, Chas. L. Hutchinson, Levy Mayer, Chas. W. Murphy, C. W. Post, Martin A. Ryerson, Na- thaniel C. Sears, John Z. Vogelsang, Chas. H. Wacker, Edward C. Waller, Arthur S. Wheel- er, Judge Windes, Judge Sabath and there you have some fragmentary portion of the dramatic film, the moving picture, that flashes across our memory, our vision, and our loyal and enthusiastic expectations, when we sum- mon a concept of the Press Club of Chicago. PRESS CLUB SCOOP PRESENTED BY THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY 25, J912 PROGRAM (Subject to Change) Opening Overture, "The Press Club Scoop" Orchestra Written and conducted by EDWARD C. MOORE. Prologue, OPIE READ. Grand First Part. "A Night at the Press Club." A Bohemian Revel showing famous mem- bers of .the Press Club in their usual haunts doing favorite stunts. Arranged by Douglas Malloch. Produced under personal direction of Otis B. Thayer. (Courtesy Selig Polyscope Company.) Stage direction of Stanly H. Twist. THOSE APPEARING. As Themselves. Affeld, C. E., Jr. Emerson, W. D. Ashcroft, Theo. Van R. Ffrench, Charles Bowes, W. R. Baxter, W. M. Buck, J. E. Bullion, Wm. R. Campbell, John A. Carrell, Clarence Cass, DeLysle F. Clark, Wm. E. Cole, F. C. Cox, Geo. L. Dahlstrom, Roy Davis, J. G. Davieson, Edw. Dean, Woodford D. Delano, Horace H. Demphy, Wm. C. Devitt, Geo. P. Dickson, Maj. M. E. Eberhart, Noble M. Ford, Horace M. Fox, Edw. H. Fox, Chester Gairing, John Goble, Leroy T. Gross, J. Ellsworth Halley, R. A. Hayboard, Arthur Hayne, Mark Helm, E. W. Henderson, J. F. Hartless, Robert Herbert, Chauncey Hess, Einar Higinbotham, John U. Hobert, S. G. Jones, H. Bedford Kissack, William Kney, Otto Krausz, Sigmund Lampman, Clinton P. La Pierre, James J. Lederer, Charles Louis, George L. McComb, James J. McCullough, Walter Malloch, Douglas Mears, William C. Melville, Willis Moody, O. E. Moulding, Dick R. Norris, Eben H. Ormes, A. E. Osborne, B. Beecher Papot, Benedict Pickard, E. W. Purchase, J. R. Read, Opie Ritchey, S. E. Ritchey, Ed. Roberts, Victor Rosselli, Rex Sawyer, Phil Schneberger, Rich. H. Shnable, E. R. Shorter, Gilbert Stewart, E. L. Taft, E. A. Thomsen, Wm. Ulrich, Barton A. Vane, Denton Walker, W. H. Ward, R. A. Warner, Mason Watson, Frank T. Way, Billy Weber, John L. Wetherbee, F. J. Wheeler, Charles X. White, Harry Sheldon Woodward, Franc R. E. Yore, Clement Young, H. W. As Others. First Waiter Stanly H. Twist Second Waiter. .William Lightfoot Visscher Third Waiter.. ..C. C. Pickett VISITORS. Orpheus Glee Club. C. M. Wirick, Director. Warren B. Ewer Victor E. Tonneson Roy A. Novak Myron G. Dibelka Harold L. Goldstine Ernest E. Nelson Geo. J. MacGregor Irwin S. Olson Sam Bleiweiss Carl O. Lejonstein Arthur C. Mitchell R. H. Schneberger C. W. Gleworth Victor H. Halperin George W. Loach John R. Marchant Ernest A. Ford Walter Gabel Lemuel H. Allen Dwight H. Heath Ralph P. Brown Arthur Hayford Harlan H. Edwards H. Stacey Macomber PROGRAM Continued Joseph P. Thomson Lyman A. Stinson Allen H. Thomson W. B. Kurd N. Lawrence Snorf B. B. Silbermajin William L. Noblett H. E. McMullen Alfred R. Pastel W. A. Harris Frank M. Dry Rich'd H. Fairclough L. R. Pierson A. P. Selby G. L. Lyon 1. E. Roberts H. Snorf F. J. Hrubes Duane C. Colmey Pierre Blouke P. K. Van Winkle- Carl Stroker D. C. Ozmun A. G. Bryant R. J. Hovey James Viles. John W. Scott. Frank Houseman. C. W. Jordan. S. W. Allerton. NUMBERS. I. Grand Opening Chorus "Press Club Boys" Entire Company (Words and music by George L. Louis.) II. R. W. STERRETT, Tenor. "The Orinoco" (words and music by Billy Way). III. AXEL CHRISTENSEN, "Czar of Ragtime.'' "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary." IV. NEWSBOYS' QUARTETTE. Myron Dibelka, First Tenor. George J. MacGregor, Second Tenor. George W. Loach, First Bass. Harlan H. Edwards, Second Bass. V. BILLY WAY, That Inimitable Pianologist, singing his fa- mous Press Club Hymn, "He Never Blamed the Booze." VI. "THE DANCING EIGHT." From "A Modern Eve," Garrick Theater. The Season's Greatest Dancing Act. (Courtesy Mort H. Singer.) VII. WAITERS' QUARTET In Song and Dance. VIII. Closing Ensemble. "The Press Club Man" By Harold W. Dingman SYLVAIN LANGLOIS, Baritone. Supported by Entire Company. PART TWO All-Star Olio (Subject to Change) DIRECTION OF GEORGE S. WOOD Owing to the length of the program the for encores. I. FLO JACOBSON AND BILLY FOGARTY. In an original singing sketch, "1 wish I was in Dixie" (Snyder) II. Chicago's Own "JIMMIE" CALLAHAN, Manager of the "White Sox." III. WALTER McCULLOUGH, "Casey at the Bat." IV. RAYMOTH, "The American Nightingale." audience is requested to refrain from calling V. CHICAGO CARTOONISTS. A battalion of Chicago's cleverest. "Surprise Comics" Charles Lederer "The Cascade" Mark Hayne "Favorite Characters" C. A. Briggs "Local Room People" Robert A. Ward "Bits of Color" Frank I. Wetherbee "Cartoonists" L. R. Merrill "Doc Yak" Sidney Smith "Public Characters" Dennis Donohue Incidental music by Victor Herbert, mem- ber of the Press Club. PROGRAM Continued VI. VIII. wl7t)A DTTDT 1MT7T? W.M.BAXTER. VERA BERLINER, Ihe Press Clubs Own The Violinist with a Soul. Saxophone Soloist. IX. VII. FRANK FOGARTY, , . , -r: .. The Dublin Minstrel. Chicago s Favorite, MAUD LILLIAN BERR1, ARTHUR^DEMING. Dramatic Soprano. "That Famous Minstrel Man." PART THREE GRAND AFTERPIECE The Great Political Travesty 'An Advance Edition of the Republican National Convention" Presenting in One Screaming Act a few of the many screaming acts of the political leaders of our time. (Copyright, 1912, by the Press Club of Chicago) WRITTEN BY DOUGLAS MALLOCH Produced under the personal supervision of Otis B. Thayer. Stage in charge of Stanly H Twist. Time June. 1912 Place The Coliseum. Chicago CAST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS: Theodore Roosevelt Otis B. Thayer William Randolph Hearst E. W. Helm William Howard Taft. . .William D. Emerson Chairman of Suffragette Delegation Robert M. LaFollette Gilbert Shorter ; Billy Wax- Joseph G. Cannon Douglas Malloch The Suffragette Delegation. Frank I. Wetherbee Chairman Wisconsin Delegation Leader Convention Bands. .. .Edward H. Fox Charles N. Wheeler Page of the Convention. .Walter McCullough Chairman Ohio Delegation Reporter Leroy T. Goble Noble M. Eberhart Newsboy Denton Vane Chairman Illinois Delegation .. George L. Cox Bibulous New York Delegate Temporary Chairman of Convention Chauncey Herbert B. Beecher Osborne Ardent Supporter of LaFollette Secretary of Convention J. J. Zmrhal William R. Bullion Champ Clark John L. Weber Illinois Delegate Rex De Rosselli His Original "Houn" Dawg" Another Illinois Delegate John Campbell William H. Walker Chairman Georgia Delegation Woodrow Wilson G. Charles Griffiths William Lightf oot Visscher Various state delegations, state chairman, newspaper correspondents, photographers, telegraph operators, messengers, spectators, etc. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Press Club of Chicago wishes to acknowledge its appreciation and tender its sincere thanks to the following for courtesies and help extended in making the "Press Club Scoop" a success: LIST OF PATRONS. W. R. Abbott. S. W. Allerton. W. J. Anderson. E. W. Bailey. Edgar A. Bancroft Fred Bode. Glen Buck- A. W. Bulkley. Alonzo Burt. H. M. Byllesby. F. A. Delano. A. B. Dick. William Dillon. R. H. Donnelly, James Downey. W. P. Dunn. Albert M. Eastman. B. A. Eckhart. William S. Forrest. John Fortune. T. C. Gleason. E. T. Glennon. Al. F. Gorman. Charles F. Gunther. John C. Hately. Frank Hauseman. William Henneberry. William P. Hodge. Peter M. Hoffman. H. T. Hollingshead. A. C. Honore. John P. Hopkins. ^WiSrace E. Horton Robert W. Hunt. H. Hurd. Ed. M. Hyzer. Jens Jensen. W. O. Johnstone. James McNally. C. W. Jordan. J. L. Kesner. R. P. Lamont. G. F. Lewis. C. C. Linthecum. Ayer and Lord. George E. Lytton. Levy Mayer. Cyrus H. McCormick. Dr. John A. McGill. E. W. McKenna. Ira, J. Mix. . U. Mudge. Phil. A. Otis. Ralph E. Otis. Hugo Pam. A. S. Peabody. Albert Pick. Charles Piez. Clark L. Poole. Mrs. Geo. M. Pullman. Charles Pope. H. E. Poronto. Isham Randolph. G. A. Ranney. William A. Rehm. O. A. Reum. Andrew Russell. C. P. Saule. Frank H. Scott. John W. Scott. V. D. Skipworth. Allen R. Smart. Merritt Starr. James Vilis. George Weston. Carlton White. F. H. Wickett. J. H. Wilkerson. The Selig Polyscope Company and Col. W. N. Selig, its president, for the services of Mr. Otis B. Thayer, Stanly H. Twist and others. The Street Railways Advertising Company. National Railways Advertising Company. American Posting Service. The Mahin Advertising Company. The Snitzler Advertising Company. Mr. Mort H. Singer, manager of "A Mod- ern Eve" company. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company for billiard tables. Ted Snyder Music Pub. Co. Cable Company, for Mason and Hamlin grand piano. Mr. James A. Brady, manager Colonial theater. Mr. Rudolph Berliner, musical director Co- lonial theater. Schoenhofen Brewing Company for bar fixtures used in the club scene. Marshall Field and company for decora- tions used in the convention scene. Alexander H. Revell and company for furniture used in the club scene. EXECUTIVE STAFF. "Press Clqb Scoop." General Manager William J. Way. General Producer Otis B. Thayer. Stage Director Stanly H. Twist. Business Manager Karl G. MacVitty. Treasurer B. Beecher Osborne. )irector of Publicity Mason Warner. Assistant Director of Publicity Horace H.' Delano. Musical Director Edward C. Moore. Conductor Rudolph Berliner. Director of Olio George S. Wood. Costumer John L* Weber. Master of Properties Rex DeRoselli. Committee on Publicity Roy O. Randall, chairman ; John U. Higinbotham, Opie Read, Stanley Waterloo. Committee on Finance Edward H. Fox, chairman ; H. S. Hyman, B. Beecher Osborne. Committee on Posters Mark Hayne, chair- man ; Robert J. Campbell, Karl MacVitty, Jo- seph Deutsch. Committee on Program Theodore Van R. Ashcroft, chairman ; W. G. Harding, C. A. Briggs. Committee on Music Edward C. Moore, chairman ; Benedict Papot, George L. Louis. Committee on Production W. J. Way, chairman ; Harry Daniel, Otis B. Thayer, Stanly H. Twist, Geo. S. Wood, Edward H. Fox, Charles N. Wheeler. Committee on Art Charles Lederer, chair- man ; Robert A. Ward, C. A. Briggs, Sidney Smith, L. R. Merrell. BOOSTERS' COMMITTEE, 1,258 Members of the Press Club of Chicago. SOME OF THE SONGS SUNG IN THE "SCOOP" Air: BILLY. For when we spout we always spout for Billy, Cause Billy tells us how to spout ; And when we shout we always shout for Billy, Cause Billy tells us how to shout. And when we vote we always vote for Billy, We wouldn't vote for Ted or Bob ; For if we win, for if we win, We all will get a job. Air: YIP AYE ADDY. Bob LaFollette, hooray, hooray ! Bob LaFollette, hooray. We'll give Teddy an awful toss For handing Robert the double-cross. Bob LaFollette, hooray, hooray, For Bob's in the fighting to stay. Mister Taft we won't miss, Ted was never like this Bob LaFollette, hooray ! Air: SCHOOL DAYS. School days, school days, good old Princeton rule days, Readin' an' 'ritin' an' 'rithmetic They are much better than Teddy's stick. We are for Wilson all the time ; Let's put a stop to this hound-dog rime. Fix up the slate and help him climb The rest are a passel of kids. Air: GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD- WAY. Give my regards to Congress, Remember me to Washington. Tell all the gang on Pennsylvania Ave. That I would like to run. Whisper of how I'm yearning To mingle with the oldtime throng. Give my regards to Washington And say I'll be there ere long. Air: EV'RYBODY'S DOING IT. Ev'ryone's a candidate, Candidate, Candidate, Ev'ryone's a candidate, Candidate, Candidate, See that Ragtime Teddy over there, See Bill Taft just a-tearin' out his hair, See Bill Taft just a-tearin' out his hair, Tear the hair From the bear, Teddy bear There ! Ev'ryone's a candidate, Candidate, Candidate, Ev'ryone's a candidate, Candidate, Candidate, Ain't that racket breakin' your heart? Taft and Teddy bustin' apart, Wilson, Harmon, Underwood, Clark Ev'ryone's a candidate, Ev'ryone's a candidate, Ev'ryone's a candidate, now. So fearlessly we gather all the news The murders, scandals, pictures, interviews. Oh, laurels, medals, halos, too, On us the constant readers strew Again the chorus let it ring : PRESS CLUB SONG. By George L. Louis. The pen is mightier than the sword, 'tis said. So heroes who in battlefields have bled Must hie themselves to secondary place \Yhile we the spotlight calcium proudly face. The loud reports of cannon in the fray Compare not with reporters of today Oh, sing the song of Press Club joys, The song that's sung by Press Club boys. Then altogether let us sing : Of the press the men are we; The news, the views, the poetry, That brings delight Each morn and night From our pencils fall. To the muses who inspire Raise your steins, yea, raise them high'r Sing out the toast, Ring out the boast ; Goodfellowship one and all! The grafters fear our deadly aim and fire; How often we arouse their frenzied ire. We seek the truth in all that may occur For peace, for justice and for twenty per. THE PRESS CLUB MAN. (Copyright, 1912, by Malloch & Dingman.) While you're drinking your toast And are making your boast Of the men who do most For the nation; While you're singing your song Of the brave and the strong To whom rightly belong Admiration ; While the leaders you cheer In a president's year Who in parties so dear Have arrayed them Let us cheer once again For the newspaper men, For the boys with the pen Who have made them. Chorus. The Press Club man, the Press Club man Here's to the Press Club man ! Here's to the girl his eyes adore : Here's to the sheet he scribbles for Oh. Whatever the line, It's the life for mine Here's to the Press Club man ! In a panicky year When a panic is here And the stockholders fear For their meney, There's a Bill or a Bob Or a Jack on the job Who refuses to sob And. is sunny. He's an optimist, he, Of the highest degree, Who refuses to be Melancholy For, wherever he goes, Song and story he sows, Making friends of his foes With a jolly. Prominent Men of Chicago AS PORTRAYED BY Press Club Cartoonists The following pages depict some of the Press Club's friends men who have contributed to the success of the "Press Club Scoop" by permitting the use of their names and submitting themselves to the skill of the cartoonist- all to make this entertainment the most notable event of its kind ever known. JOHN M. ROACH CHARLES H. WACKER BRITTON I. BUDD WM. WRIGLEY, JR. E. D. HULBERT. EVRY TINE I COME TO TOWW THE BOY5 GO KlCKIN'MYLAWtf AROVAJ DOft'MAKE JSOPirFENC If HEtf AHOUN' ( THEYCTOTTA STOP KlcTKlN MY LAWG AKDVN EDWARD HINES FISH IN TOE HAND 15 WORTH A. B. CARPENTER '\ I'M MR. SAWDORFT OF SAWDQRFT 2; 5EAUNHEDD. WE. HAVE A MONEY-.5AV1NG PLAN WHEREBY YOUR CONCERN CAN 5AVC A THOUSAND A M/NUTE . ALU YOUR. CON- CERN HAS TO DO 15 TO USE OUR. NEAR- AND OUR PATENT SUBSTITUTE YOU'RE ON THE OTHER. SIDE OF TH OAD. THE MAN YOU WANT TO 5T MAKES PEANUT 1NCUBATOR.S ANDSEUS'EMFOR AUTOMOBILE IN EQUIPMENT AND ,IN ADDITION TO OUJ2. MR. BEAUNHEDDE I'M THE 51 LENT PART- NER. THE ONETHAT DOES ALL THE AND THINKING FX>P- THE FIRM W. E. STALNAKER. F. H. RAWSON. MY GOOD FELLOW; WHEN IT PA/NS A MAN TO B A NE.W YORKER WHEf^E DOE15 M05T 7 FRANK BAACKES WALTER E. SCHMIDT JOHN S. RUNNELLS JOHN W. ECKHART ISOFIT-WDSUCH *S IT IS 7 THAT'J DE MOS' CREWLI5' T'INO 1 EVER SEEN.T'lNK 0' MAKIN'WVT LITTLE U// MtRCHINE CARR-Y rT A WHITE BESTAND JAMES E. PLEW. WM. J. URQUEHART. W. R. LINN Mir n. nil The F( By S. The area of the Unit< in round figures 3,025 miles. The territory, bou Rocky Mountain waters west and the Allegher east, is drained princip in the west, the M issi in the north the Ohio, \Vabash rivers and their in the east through the lo stppi river This vast tr than 40 per cent of the a., 11. in entire United States. r Excepting periods wh< Kea channels carry off the s face water with little or to the territory adjacei channels east, north or i confluence of the Miss Ohio rivers at Cairo. . point south, however, b\ . an insufficient system o /Congre sands of acres and some Ml .:itf t .e sands of square miles of t ijraplest n .he corpo luct that passing through the lev iustna! * the entire northern ha [tons,' have United States, and jn th sections ram has fallen to secure tinnously since last Nove overcapit; ground, therefore, is subsequen saturated and consequen t he r absorpt ion of su r ket as to can occur The result of transactio dibons is that the chan Whether l benefited prehensiv by a natk lower M i&sissippi river upon to carry off water o unequalled since constrw present levee system. The efforts which have porations to protect the lands am commerci ties adjacent to the lower ""Bee ing of levees along its ba ness cor municipal or state, contro creatures ban km en ts being made i boards, and as a resu t t porate re lack of uniformity and a such law of any fixed standard of to this tion. Of recent years t America government has lent some the Civic assistance and supemsib efforts se protecting the communiti are Th valley of the lower Mississ of the At the present time it is rational that between ten and twe these su ducemen their spe. lion law both pha Manufacturers' News GLENN & COMPANY 7$ Wet Monroe Si - CHICAGO. ILL. the MANUFACTURERS' NEWS wound as may result from the re- loval of a hangnail. More than that will not accomplish. But even so. mfacturing interest of the most completely "skinned," little for itself as to collod- It under any obligation of gr ny support he good bill "Ha >rable" u th* POM Ofca M i ." ( U.: , 1 111 THE NEWSPAPER STRIKE. Credit must be given to the Chi- cago newspapers for their manage- far They have hung I considering their past the police and the autl ha d with ts they Prac- might wish that the Governor Deneen w< short step further than to offer ac- cess to his little bottle of collodion or "new-skin" and would open a way whereby the manufacturing inter- est of the state could become the beneficiary of a skin-grafting opera- tion to restore its stripped pelt But that is a vain hope. Mr. Deneen, as all the world knows, will have naught to do with kably we! tically every employer is a see them win because they so clearly have right on their side. It is a wonder that some of those re- form people that the newspapers are always encouraging do not come along and suggest arbitration or that will give the pressmen and the other unions joining in the fight half of what they want. The fight is a great deal more difficult than ap- pears on the surface. The public only sees the street corner part of it. They forget about the troubles in- side the office and the difficulties of getting material with which to produce a paper. A good many peo- ple have learned for the first time He i. Go* - Den "Hon that the support a daily paper The strike has given the man who sleeps half : being, is . guided and ' swayed by his con- science. His is a statutory conscience, if they would keep out of jail, to- ing right which any statute penal- izes, and nothing wrong which- no statute forbids. To illustrate what we mean when we say that Gov Oeneen will not practice charity if it "begins at home," we need only to allude to several well-known facts of history, apidly does whitewash rum a polit- Gov Deneen for the origination of that bill or fo: lend it. The Ap Mado though, if passed, it will cover and protect only a small part of the sur- face which so far as the manufac- been "skinned" and left raw by the compensation bill. But Mr Deneen's support of the Ap Madoc bill is simply another in- stance of attempting to "carry water on both shoulders 7 ' and to please everybody in his own selfish inter- He may well fear, and doubtless does fear what the manufacturers will do to him on election day, and coating to a bitter pill he'prepared for them in his workmen's compen- sation bill which was passed at the last regular session at his mstiga- ly. the same lawyer who urged and drew his ill-considered and unjust workmen's ation bill WHY JJtK DOWN NOW. Citizens have been beaten up re- cently in Chicago for no other rea- son than stepping op to a newsbox and buying a paper from a person than the negative one of not belong- a labor union. They hav> the j SKINNED AND COLLODIO In having had the legist; a poorly di workmen's in now tardily able al boss big "R." (1) Taking Peca: Lawful, al- also been attacked on elevated trams though in violation of a pre-election ind street cars for buying papers, epeated on the These assaults are incidents attend* iad been unlaw- ing the so-called newspaper We resp *-"- : ! : ' teemed anything >pectfully tnqu :ompel public officials whose duty it is to' prosecute such assaults to punish those guilty ? The newspapers in Chicago make make public officials they try to convey that impres- 10 the public. The Hearst pa- listration, the sheriff and the : the Daily News with the tn- ittent aid of the esteemed Tri- , controls Hon. Chas S. De- , the only state :rn time radically cf&rgem. You cannot imagine New York and Texas agree- ing upon a uniform antitrust law or New Jersey and Oklahoma agree- ing upon a law for the organization of business corporations Whether the federal law should make incorporation under it volun- tary or involuntary is fairly debatable There are strong arguments on each side To make it immediately and completely effective, the compulsory an adequate scheme of publicity, it might net be necessary in the first in- J. NEGRESCON. JAMES LEVY. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH DARIUS MILLER. WHEN HE. WENT LJTTUC NE. TERfcAP'N SOUP PHI LA. PATIE DE kOB-STER ALU GATOR. PEAK SAUA STKAW13Eft.P.Y WATtR ices, ^ <> a$> a> v r*. *<> LEROY A. GODDARD. __ NOTHING Q.U1TE SO SWEE AND PEACEFUL AS A COUNTRY CHARLES W. VAIL HOMER A. STILLWELL JAMES MATHEW SHEEAN. T. D. HUFF. JOSEPH O. KOSTNER. IT HAD BEEN THE WATER. WAGON! , I A xVrtfc V- 7 "l *& Sllfl^***^ fZAfOheu*"* &A& dL ='*** ^^ M r t ' TOBY RUBOVITS. M. W. BORDEN. linn WILLIAM BEST, SR. HERBERT S. MILLS. FRANK M. BUNCH WEBB JAY. ENVELOPE -0 .YOU BEAUT. FW. DOUL?* SLOWLY. PLCASC FRED W. BLOCKI. SMALUSN-.es AND B/<3 PROFITS ' THOMAS HAY. MAX PAM ERODE B. DAVIS. ALFRED L. BAKER C. A. COEY. JOHN J. HERRICK <%& V x JOHN ERICSON 'CAUSE DAD, HE'S OUT OF A JOB, Y'SEE HE'S A PUFFESHNAL FAULTFINDER AN 'HE C AIN'T FIND NO FAULT WITHTHATTHE.*- MELRCHINE! KA^ur LePERfJ^ WHAT ARE. VOUCHING ABOUT, MY LAD? FRED W. WARNER. J. R. BUCK. A SLIGHT ANG IN THC OTTO E. OSTHOFF FRITZ VON FRANTZIUS B. E. SUNNY C. A. STIGER. GERVAISE GRAHAM MRS. ELLA WOOD DEAN AS CARMEN. The Breezy, Out - of - Doors American Productions spell the uttermost in Pleas- ing Cinematography. Regular Gems culled from the mass of the mediocre. American Film Manufacturing Co. Ashland Block, CHICAGO High class writers are requested to submit scenarios. We pay just a little better than card rates. M. F. RITTENHOUSE, President J. W. EMBREE, Vice President C. A. FLANAGIN, Secretary H. W. CHANDLER, Treasurer Rittenhouse & Embree Co. LUMBER GENERAL OFFICES: 3500 CENTER AVENUE CHICAGO HARDWOOD FLOORING MILL AND YARDS: 3500 Center Ave. 949 Elston Ave. 63rd and La Salle Sts. CHICAGO YELLOW PINE MILLS RICHTON, MISS. WARREN, ARK. MOXLEY'S BUTTERINE U. S. Gov't Inspected Better Than Butter Costs About Half. PURE, WHOLESOME, ALWAYS DELICIOUS Carom and Pocket BILLIARD TABLES Artistically Beautiful Accurately Constructed Efficiently Equipped 3x6 to 5x10 in size. QUALITY PRICES EASY TERMS QUICK DELIVERY Bowling Alleys DeLuxe and Billiard and Bowling Accessories, Refrigerators and Bar Fixtures the kind in Exclusive Designs and Quality that will set your mind at ease and worry your competitor. Handsome Art Catalogs on Request. THE Brunswick -Balke - Collender Company Branches in all the principal cities of the United States, Canada, France and Mexico. Chicago Office and Salesroom: 328 SO. WABASH AVE. TRY The "Castro" cigar, a product of the finest Havana Tobacco and skilled workmanship. ON SALE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO William D. Castro MANUFACTURER Office 8 E. Michigan Street SOUTH HAVEN LINE In connection with Michigan Central R. R., Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago R'y via South Haven, Mich., to all points east and west. EFFECTIVE MAY 4, 1912 LEAVE CHICAGO, 9:00 a. m. Daily except Saturday and Sunday. 10:30 p. m. Saturday. LEAVE SOUTH HAVEN, 9:00 p. m. Daily except Saturday. FARE ONE WAY, - $1.OO; ROUND TRIP, - $1.5O SHORT LINE TO ALL MICHIGAN Kalamazoo - - - - $1.63 Jackson Battle Creek - 2.09 Paw Paw $2.99 1.55 Docks North End Clark Street Bridge. Phone Franklin 814 Harrison 3680 Automatic 8550 . A. Donohue & Co. Printers, Binders and Publishers 701-727 Dearborn St., CHICAGO The Biggest Scoop in Chicago FRANCISCO GOYA Clear Havana Cigars made in Chicago, in a most Sanitary shop, of highest grade Havana Tobacco and individual hand workmen who spend all their money in this city. Did you ever give this any thought ? RANDALL LANDFIELD CO. MAKERS - CHICAGO The Crowd Goes to Hung Fong Lo Co. BECAUSE IT'S THE GREAT Chinese and American Restaurant Enjoy a good time, good eating, drink- ing and music. CHOP SUEY A SPECIALTY Open Day and Night. Oriental service and decoration. Music by the superb Bayard Fallos Quartette. After-Theatre and Dinner Parties given special attention. Also catering. N. W. Cor. Van Buren and State Sts. Telephone Harriion 4698 "HAVE You A LITTLE fi PAiRY B IN YOUR Nona?' Have your little "Fairy" use Fairy Soap Fairy Soap is dainty, delicate, and most agreeable to tender skins. Your child will enjoy its use, as well as benefit by it. Fairy is just as pure as a soap can be made contains edible products of a high grade, and no harsh alkali to raise havoc with sensi- tive skins. This handy, floating, oval cake of soap perfection costs but 5c. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY CHICAGO DESIGNERS ILLUSTRATORS ENGRAVERS ELECTROTYPERS NICKELTYPERS STEEEOTYPERS 102 NORTH riFTHAVENUE I CA.GO PHONES ALL DEPTS. MAIN 198 AUTO 1M ATIC 31-757 "The Spoken Word" Whether you write novels, plays, stories, articles or just plain busi- ness letters you probably have been bothered by not being able to get your ideas down on paper just the way they first present- ed themselves to you. THE EDISON DICTATING MACHINE is the thought re- corder that you need to get into your manuscript that spoken word that is much more live and virile than the "I take my pen in hand" style that results from writing in longhand or dictating to a shorthand writer. See a demonstration as soon as you can but write for catalogue right away. Edwin C. Barnes & Bros. The Edison Dictating Machine 639 1st National Bank Bldg. Telephone Central 4911 INSIST! DEMAND! FIGHT! for "NONESUCH" BREAD THE CELEBRATED UNWRAPPED LOAF OR "BIG HANDY" BREAD THE ONLY WRAPPED LOAF WITH A REP- UTATION BOTH BRANDS FLATTERED BY 1001 IMITATIONS GET THE GENUINE! CHAS. GARBEN BAKING CO. GEO. H. SODE, General Manager The VIRGINIA HOTEL NORTHWEST CORNER RUSH AND OHIO STREETS (NORTH SIDE) CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U. S. A. A M assive Fireproof Structure, containing 400 rooms, replete with all modern accessories and provided with every requisite for the most exacting patrons. Situated in the fashionable residential district of the north side, and within ten minutes' walk of all Retail Stores, Theatres, Public Library, Masonic Temple, Art Institute, etc. Conducted on the EUROPEAN PLAN with a cuisine of acknowledged excellence. Especially adapted for TRANSIENT VISITORS who desire to be located away from the noise, congestion and discomforts of the business center. Chicago Business Men, whose Families are out of the city for the Sum- mer Months, will find the Virginia a convenient and comfortable stopping place ALEX. DRYBURGH. Stoddard- Day ton 6 Cylinder Knight Motor $5,000 7 PASSENGER 4 Cylinder Stoddard- Day ton $2,800 7 PASSENGER 4 Cylinder Stoddard $1,800 5 PASSENGER 4 Cylinder Stoddard $1,450 5 PASSENGER ROADSTERS IN ALL MODELS COMPLETE ESTABLISHMENT "Repair Shop, "Paint Shop, WoodtuorK. and "Body "Building Shop, Trim Shop. Equipment "Room and Excellent Service. McDUFFEE AUTO CO 2457 Michigan Avenue We Manufacture Public Seating Exclusively For Auditoriums, Theatres Schools, Churches, Grand Stands, Ry. Stations, etc. C MICHIGAN BOULEVARD & CONGRESS ST. Orchestra FERDINAND STEINDEL PIANIST & DIRECTOR-MAX STEINDEL, CELLIST-ALBIN STEINDEL.VIOUNIST PL A YS AFTERNOON & EVENING ON sultry summer days the gratifying coolness of the Louis XVI Room of the Congress Hotel and Annex makes it ideal for luncheon or afternoon tea, for dinner or after the theatre. A most modern cooling and ventilating plant insures a delightful tempera- ture at all times. Distinctive in all its appointments, the Louis XVI Room offers a cuisine and service without comparison in America. Have You Seen Finest ^-acres at lowest prices. The Illinois Central R. R. Subdivision? Flossmoor Depot from Between blocks 7 and 8 Chicago's Highest Grade Subdivision 50 minutes from Randolph St. 50 trains daily 60 rides $6.75 The I. C. R. R. bought and highly improved this property in or 'er to add to its famous suburban traffic. The property was so cheap that we sold 312 lots in 30 days. We have 28 of these half acre lots left. They are from 100 to 200 feet wide by 200 to 230 feet deep and will be sold at $600 to $1500. (Most of them 100x200 for $800). Including all street improvements, sewer, water, macadam street and walk. Fruit and shade trees. No special assessments. Terms $25 cash; $10 per month. The I. C. R. R. cannot use the lots but wants them sold at cost to those who are likely to live on them and patronize the suburban trains. No speculators desired. High grade building restrictions. Phone for free tickets or go with us any time by appointment. ACT QUICK THE 28 WILL SOON BE GONE. F. C. WOOD & CO. 106 N. La Salle St. Room 38. Phone Main 3164. Automatic 33620. TELEPHONES! CENTRAL 3202 AUTOMATIC 9487 Tom N. Donnelly & Co LOAN and DIAMOND BROKERS 24 N. Dearborn Street Chicago Bet. Washington and Madison The Wagner Letter ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY, COVERS WHEAT, CORN, OATS, PROVISIONS, SECURITIES, COTTON, HAY AND FEED ON REQUEST E. H^. JVagner & Company GRAIN, PROVISIONS, STOCKS, COTTON 97-98-99-100 BOARD OF TRADE Chicago Engravers of High Class Wood Cuts for Magazine, Cata- log and Newspaper Artists Electrotypers and Photographers C. P. ZACHER & COMPANY 180 NORTH MARKET ST. CHICAGO Phones Franklin 2998 and 2999 Wood Engraving From Painting Chicago Laboratory 8 NORTH STATE STREET. Telephone 6239 Central A laboratory for physicians in which all work is done by physicians. Fully equipped for all kinds of clinical examinations. Wassermann Test. Preparation of Autogenous Vaccines. Medico-legal Examinations a Specialty. ::::::::: Write us for fee tables and for information regard ing means of procuring specimens for examination. RALPH W. WEBSTER, M. D., Ph. D. Director Chemical Department. THOMAS L. DAGG, M. D. Director Pathological Department. C. CHURCHILL CROY, M. D. Director Bacteriological Department. ALYS B. CROY, M. D. Assistant. Graham & Sons Bankers TELEPHONE WAR ASH 38 1O HAMBURG -BREMEN FIRE INSURANCE CO. Suite 1821175 West Jackson Blvd. Insurance Exchange Building, Chicago WITKOWSKY & AFFELD .... General Agents Established 1854 Colonial Trust and Savings Bank La Salle St., N. E. Cor. Adams 3 per cent paid on savings L C M. 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The Lexington is located just outside of the con- gested loop district, with- in two blocks of the lake where it is cool and pleas- ant, and but ten minutes' ride on two electric car lines from the shopping and theatre district. One block from L station. J. E. Montrosc j D _. Charles McHu4hi Pr P nctors T. V. Strain, Manager STUDEBAKER AUTOMOBILES E. M. F. - 3O FLANDERS -- 2O $11OO.OO SNOO.OO STUDEBAKER ELECTRICS S17SO.OO Gasoline and Electric Delivery Wagons Studebaker Corporation 21st and Michigan Avenue Chicago John T. Cunningham Manufacturer of FINE ICE CREAMS 2311-2313 West Van Buren St. TELEPHONE WEST 752 Chicago BRANCH: W. Ravenswood Park and Berteau Avenue Telephone Lake View 6102 ESSENTIALLY -"-^ a Bachelor's Laundry. Socks darned, buttons sewed on. All kinds of repairing free. EXCELSIOR LAUNDRY COMPANY 66 East 22nd Street Telephone Calumet 157 CHICAGO and NORTH WESTERN TERMINAL TEA ROOM DINING ROOM LUNCH ROOM JESSE M. MARQUETTE, Proprietor Telephone Main 2755 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS The Main Dining Room, adjoining the waiting room on the second floor, is a tastefully appointed place, with room for two hundred or more guests, and with a cuisine second to none in Chicago. The service is equal to that of any loop Cafe and the prices are no higher. Lunch Room on first floor Tea Room for Ladies on third floor LOUIS EMRATH General Machinist Newspaper, Stereo- typing and Printing Machinery JOBBING A SPECIALTY 315 W. Washington Street Second Floor, rear CHICAGO TELEPHONE MAIN 4163 Wm.D.Algeo&Co. Manufacturers of the La Flor De Algeo 1635 Van Buren Street S. W. Corner Marshfield Ave. Mocdy & Waters have kept the pie standard in Chicago up to the "kind that mother makes" for 40 years. The result is that the Moody &Waters quality gives Chicago the world's best pies. Moody & Waters Company Phone Monroe 865 IIO7 West Congress Street 40th Avenue y The Underground Mains of the .Cosmopolitan Electric Company b fj -sa are now supplying Electricity for all forms of LIGHTING AND INDUSTRIAL POWER throughout the territory indicated. | The service is eminently RELIABLE, EFFICIENT and highly ECONOMICAL. Our smallest consumer uses one 16 c. p. lamp. Our largest uses 2,000 Horse Power. These, and the thousands in between, are well SATISFIED. A phone call or card p 1 aces our Engineers and Estimators at your service. Unless you can afford to mine your own coal, you must seriously consider. COSMOPOLITAN POWER SERVICE GENERAL OFFICES, 122 SOUTH MICHIGAN BLVD. Address the \ RANDOLPH 3341 GENERAL CONTRACT AGENT PHONES , AUTOMATIC 64612 20 MILE TEAM BORAX THE WORLD'S GREATEST CLEANSER IT PURIFIES THE HOME OLIVER & CO Down Town Real Estate 42 North Dearborn Street TCbe TCRooblawn Gate 63rd St. and Cottage Grove Avenue Cuisine Unexcelled Popular Prices Orchestra Music Evenings nas Giant spikes of bloom make grand flower beds. Geraniums, Cobaea ( %t! ral Pansies, Salvia, Asters,Verbenas Tomato, Cabbage and Cauliflower Plants 31-33 W. Randolph Street. JOHN L. WEBER HUBERT L. WEBER Phone Central 6292 Automatic 41-681 Absolutely Sanitary Costumes and Wigs for Sale or Rent Chicago Costume Works Importers and Manufacturers Theatrical Costumes, Tights, Supplies, Make-Up Properties, Scenery, Etc. Amateurs Advised and Supplied 20 Years' Professional Experience 143 North Dearborn Street Opposite Cort Theatre Istablished 1875 E. l_ehrra n r STATE. ADAMS and DFARBORN STREETS Phone. Private Exchange 3 We Are Not Satisfied Until You Are The most dependable merchandise at the lowest prices is the basis of our success. A Modern Candy Plant .,..,. -JEiJi The Home of Cracker Jack, Angelas Marshmallows, Chocolates and Pon Boos and Over 750 Other Varieties of Reliable Confections This Sunlight, Sanitary Candy Productory was Established in 1872. The Present Building was Completed in 1910, which is built of brick, stone and steel. Heavy mill construction style with hardwood floors. Open space all around. Light and ventilation perfect. Automatic fire sprinkler protection in all departments. Vacuum system, steam heating and lighted by 1852 lights. Pure sparkling water from two artesian wells, and thoroughly equipped with rr.odcrn ar.d special machinery driven by 80 electric motors. Eight long distance and 50 office ar.d factory telephones. The floor space of the buildings equals seven acres. High class modern buildings where pure wholesome confections are made. Rueckheim Bros. & Eckstein CRACKER JACK AND CANDY MAKERS Chicago J. P. BLACK (^ COMPANY INCORPORATED PRINTERS ARTISTIC P HO NES FRANKLIN 2662-2663 NORTH M4RKET STREET CHICAGO, ILL. Phone Canal 9 FOR A Case of Good Judgment Phone Harrison 7 CARVER & WILKIE AND CARROLL McMILLEN TAILORS STEGER BUILDING JACKSON BOULEVARD AND WABASH AVE. CHICAGO TELEPHONES HARRISON 3395 HARRISON 5142 AUTOMATIC 64395 HARRISON 5667 Peterson Linotyping Co. BOOK, NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE AND CATALOGUE COMPOSITION 531-537 Plymouth Place PRINTING FOR THE BUSINESSMAN The Ryan & Hart Co. 324-326 Federal Street CHICAGO p, ( Wabash 490- Private Exchange All Depts. Phones l Aufo. 62-809 John M. Ryan President Geo. H. Hart Vice-Pres. Elmer E. Buchan Secretary u U Established 1863 C. H. Weaver & Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS Apples Potatoes Peaches Tomatoes Melons Berries Grapes Cabbage Celery S. Potatoes Onions Cranberries Beans Dried Fruits Nuts 65 and 67 West South Water St. Ch ic a go REFER TO Commercial National Bank, Chicago. Any Wholesale House in Chicago. Commercial Agency Reports. Irving National Exchange Bank. N. Y. City. TELEPHONE GRACELAND 1112 The George Wittbold Company 737 BUCKINGHAM PLACE CHICAGO HOTEL SHERMAN City Hall Square CHICAGO Q Hotel Sherman invites consideration of its tmequaled facilities for banquets, balls, luncheons, dinners, wed- dings and similar functions. ^ Hotel Sherman has eleven private dining rooms and banquet halls, ranging in capacity from six persons to one thousand. COLLEGE INN America's Most Famous Restaurant is in the HOTEL SHERMAN Corner of CLARK and RANDOLPH STS. to 6 ^ Safe Securities for Sale Call or Write for Our Latest List of Choice Chicago First Mortgages In Any Amount, also $500 and $1,000 , GUARANTEED GOLD BONDS T E Buy Pure Compressed Yeast If The discussion about using starch in Compressed Yeast has reached the point in the United States of a decision forcing those who use it to declare the fact on wrapper or label. That is how we administer the Food Laws in this country. 11 In Austria where they do things more thoroughly, the chemists of the Royal Experiment Station of Vienna investigated the question for some years and finally reported against the use of Starch in Compressed Yeast for the reason that when mixed with Yeast "Starch is liable during a certain stage of the deterioration to hide Putrefaction of the Yeast and thereby favors the marketing of products unwholesome and dangerous to the public health." 1^ Thereupon the Austrian Government promptly passed a law prohibiting altogether the use of Starch in Yeast. We do not use Starch in Yeast. A. P. CALLAHAN & COMPANY 24O7 La Salle Street, Chicago. Illinois PIE TALK! PURE FOOD LAWS are useless unless properly enforced, and the efforts of honest manufacturers count for naught while the unscrupulous acquire wealth by the use of inferior ingredients and misrepresentation. Thus defying the spirit, and not infrequently the letter of the law designed for your protection. We are manufacturers of Pies GOOD, PURE PIES, and have been engaged in this occupation right here in Chicago for a period of 43 years. The dealer is required to pay more for our products because they are better. Made from the purest raw materials, in the cleanest, and largest bakery of its kind in the world. Help the enforcement of Pure Food Laws encourage the manufacturers of Honest Foods you do both when you demand CASE & MARTIN'S PIES of your restauranteur or dealer, and finally don't take our word for quality and purity but visit our bakery and see for yourself. It's always open. CASE & MARTIN CO. Wholesale Bakers of Connecticut Pies. ESTABLISHED 1869 WOOD & WALNUT STS. JOHN EBERSON ENGINEER ON WASTE "You Cannot Make' 'Neither Can You Destroy "Anything" "In Ihis World" Illinois Life Insurance Co. CHICAGO JAMES W. STEVENS, President Greatest Illinois Company Is now located in its new Head Office, third floor, Number 10 LA SALLE ST., at Madison Those desiring proposals for Life Assurance, Annu- ities, Incomes or Survivorships will receive courteous attention. Telephone Calumet 4510 ROGERS & SMITH COMPANY DESIGNERS PRINTERS BINDERS COMPLETE FACILITIES FOR THE PRINTING OF ALL KINDS OF ADVERTISING LITERATURE 222-1224-1226 WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO H. M. Byllesby & Company ENGINEERS OPERATORS and MANAGERS of PUBLIC UTILITIES Examinations and Reports Utility Properties Financed Utility Securities Bought and Sold CHICAGO New York Portland, Ore. Electric Cooking Devices Are Universally Popular The man keeping bachelor apartments finds in elec- tric cooking appliances an ever ready means of prepar- ing dishes for company which may drop in on him. Electric cooking utensils become as necessary to him as to the housewife, or the bachelor girl. Absolutely clean, these appliances are decidedly practical and simple. You have only to attach the connecting cord, and the heating coils become hot in a few seconds. The Electric Toaster makes toast of just the right crispness toast that is exactly the way you like it best. It toasts fast enough to serve three or four persons. The Electric Coffee Percolator makes ideal coffee with no annoyance, dirt or danger. It is less expensive to operate and has innumerable advantages over coffee percolators of other kinds. The Electric Chafing Dish will prove a lasting delight, enabling the user to prepare many delicate dishes. Its safety, cleanliness and beauty make it a treasure in any home. ELECTRIC SHOP-CHICAGO Michigan an.d Jackson Boulevard* Over 2000 Things Electrical P7H- Rft, DATE DUE CAYLORD PRINTED IN U.S.A. PN 4899.C37 P7 8198 312 200 130 Press club scoop. Ul THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO II II I main