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 Rose Hill 
 Cemetery 
 Company 
 
 WM. H. TVRXER. Vice-President. 
 KCGEXK C. LONG. Sec'y and Tres 
 GKO. H. SCOTT. Superintendent. 
 
 CITY OFFICE: 
 
 61 La Salle Street, Room go. 
 
 CEMETERY ADDRESS: 
 
 Havelock, P. O. Cook Co., III.
 
 EDWIN G. FOREMAN. 
 
 OSCAR G. FOREMAN. 
 
 FOREMAN 
 BROS. 
 
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 128 & 130 WASHINGTON ST. 
 
 Receive Deposits, Buy and Sell Mortgages, 
 Bonds and Other Investment Securities, 
 and Make Loans on Real Estate. 
 
 SELZ, SGHWflB & [0: 
 
 CAPITAL, $1,425,000. 
 SURPLUS, $105,000. 
 
 LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 
 
 BOOTS AND 
 
 IN THE WORLD. 
 
 Selz 
 
 Shoes 
 
 STREETER, Exclusive Chicago Agent. 
 
 ....CHICAGO BRANCH.... 
 
 The Liverpool % 
 
 & feondon 
 @ &- Globe 
 
 INSURANCE COMPANY. 
 
 UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF 
 'THE PROPRIETORS. 
 
 Losses Paid in the Great Fires at 
 
 Chicago and Boston, - $4,500,000.00 
 Total Losses Paid in the United 
 
 States, - - $56,241,533.35 
 
 Chicago Office, 155 fca Salic St. 
 
 CHICAGO BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 EZRA .1. WARNER, of Sprague. Warner A Co. 
 LEVI Z. LEITER. Capitalist. 
 
 HENRY \V. KING, of Henry W. King A Co. 
 
 WILLIAM S. WARREN, Resident Secretary. 
 George H. Moore, John V.Thomas, Assistant Secretaries. 
 
 Packing Houses, 
 UNION STOCK YARDS. 
 
 ANGLO=AMERICAN 
 PROVISION CO. 
 
 Porl< Packers and 
 Refiners 
 
 60 Board of Trade, CHICAGO. 
 
 AND 
 
 FOWLER BROS, LTD., 
 3 Victoria St., Liverpool, 
 
 in Produce Exchange, 
 New Ycrk.
 
 PAY DIRT 
 
 There is no man who has ever been In the mines but that 
 knows what "pay dirt" is. It is the kind that puts the 
 
 Vellow Ducats Into your Pocket; 
 
 And the boys crack their heels together for joy when they 
 strike it. Miners measure and sell (my dirt by the ton. I 
 measure and sell it by the lot. It makes no difference whlcl' 
 way you figure it, prdriflinti it w ytmrinf pay (lift; nnd most of 
 tha't which is sold by the lot pans out belter than a good deal 
 that is sold by the ton. But 
 
 Not All Dirt Is Pa\J Dirt. 
 
 A good mnny mines are "salted." and they are not all in the 
 Kocky Mountains, either. Some dirt which is offered for sale 
 about Oiir own city has not even "the color of the stuff." That 
 is where one needs to use disoietion and care. 
 I have some dirt which I sell by the lot at my queen suburb j 
 
 Four-fifths of these lots have already been sold, and their pur- 
 chasers declare 
 
 Every One a Pa\J Streal<. 
 
 >*ot one of them but that will put money into the pocket of its 
 owner. Those lots unsold are equally good, and would be de- 
 sirable purchases even by the ton. (Jo out and see them on my 
 
 FKEE EXCURSION, 
 
 which leaves I'nion Depot. Cor. Canal and Adams Streets, 
 EVERY SUNDAY at 2 p. m. 
 
 Sp: /~JK>f~\^<i 6O2 - 603 - CO4 n< l 605 
 Li V_>I\V>OO, Masonic Temple, 
 
 state timl Randolph Streets. 
 
 I 
 
 MEAD & COE 
 
 Real Estate and 
 ^lortaaae Loans 
 
 I 
 
 100 WASHINGTON ST. 
 
 Chicago 
 
 AARON B. MEAD 
 ALBERT L. COE 
 
 GEORGE W. COBB 
 
 Tfy. 
 
 Haw ley 
 Down Draft 
 
 -^ 
 
 Furnace Co. 
 
 
 
 PERFECT COMBUSTION 
 OF BITUMINOUS COAL 
 
 2000 Furnaces in Daily Use 
 
 170 MADISON STREET 
 
 ^^^^^m 
 
 f'%^ / O AMERICA'S 
 
 IhlCdgOOC r. :;.^" 11 - 
 
 JteR-R- 
 
 PERFECT 
 
 PASSENGER 
 SERVICE. 
 
 The direct, best and only rock-ballast:d dustless line between 
 CHICAGO AND KANSAS CITY, 
 CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS, 
 
 ST. LOUIS AND KANSAS CITY. 
 
 Through Pullman Service Every Day Frorr. 
 
 C 
 
 OLORAD 
 
 JAMES CHARLTON, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, 
 ChiCtigo, Illinois.
 
 Natural Gas 
 
 THE BEST FUEL 
 
 FOR ALL PURPOSES 
 
 For Cooking, Laundry, Grates, and 
 for Heating the Dwelling 
 
 FOR INFORMATION APPLY TO 
 
 CHICAGO ECONOMIC FUEL GAS CO. 
 
 148 MICHIGAN AVENUE. 
 
 Title Guarantee and 
 
 Trust Company 
 
 (THE FIRST GUARANTEE COMPANY ORGANIZED IN CHICAGO ) 
 92. 94 and 96 Washington Street. 
 
 CAPITAL PAID UP $1,600,000.00 
 
 UNDIVIDED EARNINGS 270,000.00 
 
 IS AUTHORIZED BY LAW TO ACT AS 
 
 Administrator, Executor, Guardian, 
 Trustee, Receiver and Assignee, 
 
 AND HAS DEPOSITED 
 
 $2OO,OOO.OO 
 
 WITH STATE AUDITOR AS A SECURITY FUND 
 
 Transacts a General Trust Business, 
 fltakes Abstracts of Title. 
 
 Guarantees Titles to Real Estate. 
 
 PROMPT SERVICE AND REASONABLE RATES 
 
 ..OFFICERS.. 
 
 GWYNN GARNETT, Pres. A. H. SELLERS, Vice-Pres. 
 
 A. A. STEVVART, Sec'y. C. R. LARRAHEE, Treas. 
 
 FRANK H. SELLERS, Trust Officer. 
 
 ADOLPH SCHOENINGER 
 PRESIDENT 
 
 J. A. SCHMETZER 
 MANAGER 
 
 RATTAN 
 COMPANY 
 
 FACTORY AND WAKEHOOMS 
 
 WELLS AND SIGEL STS. 
 
 ), 111. 
 
 Real Eslate and 
 Mortgage Loans 
 
 ORVILLE VAN THOMPSON 
 
 Counselor at Law 
 Notary Public 
 
 218 fea Salic Street, SUITE 4 8-4io. 
 CHICAGO
 
 Burlington' 
 
 BEST LINE 
 
 CHICAGO AND ST LOUIS 
 
 TO 
 
 DENVER 
 
 FOUR TRAINS DAILV 
 
 BftNK 
 
 NOtfft 
 
 INCORPORATED 1832 
 
 Capital - - $1,500,000 
 Reserve Fund, $1,200,000 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 H. C. McLEOD, Manager 
 
 ALEX. ROBERTSON, Ass't Manager 
 
 American Gxchange 
 ...National 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 OFFICERS- 
 
 ROBERT STUART, President. WM. C SEIPP, Vice-President. 
 
 G. F. B1SSELL, 2d Vice-l're'ident. 
 A. L. DEWAR, Cashier. R. M. ORR, Ass't C..shier. 
 
 ARTHUR TOWER, id Ass't Cashier. 
 GEORGE F. ORDE, Manager Coun-ry Bank Department. 
 
 -DIRECTORS- 
 
 ROBERT STUART, Ame ican Cereal Co. 
 WILLIAM C. SEIPP, Capitalist. 
 
 G. F. BISSELL, Gen'l Agent Hartford Fire Ins. Co. 
 JOHN B. KIRK, James S. Kirk & Co. 
 
 J. C. WELLING, Vice-l'res. Illinois Central R. R. 
 I. K. HAMILTON, Hamilton & Merryman Co., Lumber. 
 
 J. A. MARKLEY, Markley, Ailing & Co., Wholesale Hardware. 
 D. K. PEARSONS, Capitalist. 
 
 L. C. HUCK, Pres. L. C. Huck Malting Co. 
 E. W. GILLETT, Flavoring Extracts. 
 W. H. SWIFT, Attorney. 
 
 F. L. UNDERWOOD 
 
 AND... 
 
 WILLARD R. GREEN 
 
 GENERAL CONTRACTORS 
 
 Lake Street "L" R. R. 
 
 1109 Security Building, 
 CHICAGO, ILL.
 
 The Merchants 1 National Bank 
 
 ' OP CHICJLOO. 
 Statement at Close of Business July 18, 1894. 
 
 RESOURCES. 
 
 Loans and Discounts, $5,865,241.68 
 Overdrafts, 3,053.91 
 
 U. S. Bonds at par, 50,000.00 
 
 Other Bonds at par, - - 544,700.00 
 Banking House and Safe- 
 Deposit Vaults, 235,000.00 
 Due from Banks and U.S. 
 
 Treasurer, - 1,279,595.89 
 
 Coin and Currency, - 4,754,894.67 
 
 $12,732,486.15 
 
 LIABILITIES. 
 
 Capital, - $ 500,000.00 
 
 Surplus, 1,500,000.00 
 
 Undivided Profits, 412,504.80 
 
 Deposits, 10,3.9,981.35 
 
 $12,732,486.15 
 
 CHAUNCEY J. BLAIR, President. HENRY A. BLAIR, Second Vice-President. 
 
 FREDERICK W. CROSBY, Vice-President. JOHN C. NEELY, Cashier. 
 
 GHAS. COUNSELMAN & CO. 
 
 ....Grain and Provision.... 
 
 COMMISSION MERCHANTS 
 
 GoUNSELMflN'S BuiLDINO, 
 
 Room 24, ... 238 and 240 La Salle Street, 
 
 ....GHIGf\GO, ILL
 
 MINERS, 
 MERCHANTS. 
 
 DfiWlTT C. DEWOLF, 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 ALBERT A. AUGUSTUS, 
 
 VICE-PRES. & TREAS. 
 
 740-745 OLD COLONY BUILDING, 
 
 Telephone Harrison 190. 
 
 A Strictly first-class European Hotel, 
 W abash Ave. and Jackson St'. 
 
 Gage Hotel Company, Proprietors 
 Albert S. Gage, Prest. 
 
 CHIC A GO. 
 
 EDWARD L. BREWSTER 
 
 MEMBER NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. 
 
 CHARLES C. YOE 
 
 BANKERS AND BROKERS 
 
 to. $a\\e Uael, Coxuex Mams 
 
 W. P. KETCHAH. Prest. 
 A. E. CARTIIR, Viee-Prest. 
 
 K. D. KKTCHAM, Treas. 
 W. A. CARTIER, Sec'y. 
 
 KETCflflM LUMBER COMPflNY 
 
 ..WHOLESALE.. 
 
 Long Joist and Timber a Specialty. 
 
 OFFICE AND TARD: 
 
 HOYNE AND BLHE ISLAND AVENGE. 
 
 CITY OFFICE. 1355 OLD COLONY BLDG. 
 Telephone,] ' $ CHICAGO. 
 
 EDWARD G. PAULING 
 
 Mortgage Loangi 
 
 . . . REAL ESTATE . . . 
 145 Ln SflLLE ST., ROOMS 15 OND 17 
 
 Telephone Main 250. CHICAGO 
 
 LOBDELL, FARWELL & COMPANY 
 
 (INCORPORATED) 
 Southeast Cor. Dearborn and Adams -M --. CHICAGO. 
 
 COMMERCIflL PflPER, STOCKS1 BONDS 
 MORTGAGE LOANS. 
 
 We make a Specialty of Chicago Elevated Railroad Securities. 
 
 EDWIN L. LOBUELL. ) CHARLES C. WHITACRE. 
 
 GRANGER FARWELL, I"* Mgr. Mortgage Loan l)ept. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 CHARLES II. DEERE of Deere & Co., Moline, 111. 
 
 \VII.LIAM D. PRESTON, Cashier Metropolitan National Hank. 
 GILBERT li. SHAW, 1'rest. Am. Trust and Savings Hank . 
 
 AYarble i Granite Co. 
 
 (INCORPORATED) 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 
 
 Wabash Ave. 
 
 . CHICAGO. 
 
 Bonds Engraved by this Co. Accepted on X. Y. Stock Exchange 
 
 C. C. CHENEY, PREST. 
 
 C. A. CHAPMAN, VICE-PREST. 
 
 C HEINEMAN, SECY. 
 W. S. QOULD, TREAS. 
 
 Bar^fe 
 Conjpanp, 
 
 Madison St. and 
 riichigan Ave. 
 
 SURPLUS &. UNDIVIDED PROFITS $200,000 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 W. C. D. GRANNIS, Prest. 
 
 C. B. FARWELL, Vice-Prest. 
 S. W. STONE, Cashier. 
 
 W. S. TILLOTSON, Asst. Cashier. 
 
 A general banking business transacted. Prompt 
 attention given to collections. Corre- 
 spondence solicited.
 
 MANHATTEN OFFICE BUILDING 
 
 DEARBORN i 
 
 CH ICAGO. ILLS. 
 
 /Vlanhattdn Office 
 
 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 
 
 Property of c C'. HEISEN. 
 
 AMERICAN 
 BISCUIT & 
 M'F'G CO. 
 
 GENERAL OFFICES, 
 
 1600 OLD COLONY BUILDING, 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 THE- OWINGS' 
 
 BUILDING 
 
 Was erected in 1889 by Francis P. Owings. being the first 
 fourteen story building constructed, and the tallest office 
 building in the world at the time of completion, outstrip- 
 ping in height the thirteen story building of which New 
 York City had boasted. . . . . 
 
 W. W. SHAW 
 
 385 ASHLAND BOULEVARD 
 
 TREASURER OF THE 
 
 AMERICAN BISCUIT 
 AND MANUFACTURING 
 COMPANY 
 
 AND MANAGER OF THE 
 
 DAKE BAKERY 
 ,.. CHICAGO ...
 
 NORTHWESTERN /V1ASONIC AID ASSOCIATION. 
 
 THIS is Chicago's largest life insurance company, its 
 amount at risk at this time being about J 145,000,000: 
 a really remarkable result to be brought about in twenty 
 years. It began business in 1874. Mere volume of business, 
 however, has not been so much the object sought by its man- 
 agement HS the establishment of a sound and solid organization 
 which could be retted upon by its policy-holders implicitly. 
 How nearly this object has been realized may be determined 
 from the Association's further record of over fourteen million 
 dollars paid its beneficiaries, by its surplns of three-quarters of 
 a million in cash and income-yielding securities and that it is 
 now experiencing the most prosperous period in its history and 
 a larger and more profitable business than for many years. The 
 fad* that $400,000 of the Association's surplus are savings 
 from the expense percentages of premiums and that 8356, 000 
 for death claims have been taken from the same source, mak- 
 ing a total saving to policy-holders of $756,000 all of which 
 might have been absorbed in "expenses" show the economy 
 
 and integrity of its management. 
 
 The Association is not a "Society" or "Mutual" order as 
 generally understood by these terms. It isa -natural premium" 
 company, controlled by individual Masons, and insures Non- 
 Masons at the same rates as paid by its .Masonic members. Its 
 LOW-RATE, ABSOLUTE-SECURITY PLAN, all its name im- 
 plies, atfords undoubted life insurance protection at very 
 moderate cost, about two-thirds that of "old-line" insurance. 
 The Association's policies are concise and complete, incontest- 
 able and non-forfeitable. and provide for total disability pay- 
 ments, surrender value and extended insurance. 
 
 Diiniel .7. Avery, the president. James A. Stoddard. vice- 
 president and Manager and Charles A. Capwell, secretary, date 
 their connection with the Association in some capacity in its 
 active management from the time of its organization. 
 
 The Association's home offices are in the Home insurance 
 building, northeast corner of Adams and La Salle streets. 
 
 JOHN WORTHY, President. 
 JOHN W. GABY, Vice-President. 
 
 GEORGE W. CHAMBERLIX. Second Vice-Pres 
 CHARLES C. REED, Cashier. 
 
 COMMERCIAL LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY 
 
 D/i 1 N Ix. . .... 
 
 Hartford Building, No. 140 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
 
 Capital, ^500,00000. Surplus Profits, $110,000.00. 
 
 JAMES a HOBBS. 
 AUGUSTUS O. HALL. 
 JOHN WORTHY. 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 HENRY CRIBBEN JAMES A. SEXTON. CHARLES \V. DAUB. 
 
 WILLIAM H. BOSH. JOHN THOMLINSON. WILLIAM W. Gl'RLEY. 
 
 JOHN W.GARY. GEORGE W. CHAMBERLIN. 
 
 A general banking business transacted. Correspondence or a personal interview invited. 
 
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 PROPERTY OR INVESTMENTS 
 
 IN OR NEAR CHICAGO, 
 
 IF 
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 WANT I ANDREW DUNNING & CO. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
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 Chicago Stock Exchange Building. 
 
 STAYER & ABBOTT 
 
 MANUFACTURING CO. 
 
 FINE CftRRIftGeS ND HARNESS, 
 
 WE CARRY A FULL ASSORTMENT, 
 either for town or country. 
 
 381-383-385 WABASH AVE. 
 
 CHICAGO.
 
 THE 
 
 PRESS CLUB OF CHIGA^Q 
 
 *. * fi / 
 
 A HISTORY 
 
 WITH 
 
 SKETCHES OF OTHER PROMINENT PRESS CLUBS OF THE 
 
 UNITED STATES 
 
 ILLUSTRATED 
 
 COMPILED AND EDITED BY 
 
 WILLIAM H. FREEMAN 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO 
 
 CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
 1894
 
 ,vi^u" v& * 
 
 ^%'-^' 
 
 COPYRIGHT 1894 
 
 BY 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO 
 
 PRINTED BY THE BLAKEI.V PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO
 
 124223
 
 Index. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 INTRODUCTORY, 5 
 
 CHAPTER I, 9 
 
 CHAPTER II, - 29 
 
 CHAPTER III, 41 
 
 CHAPTER IV, 45 
 
 CHAPTER V, 57 
 
 CHAPTER VI, 65 
 
 CHAPTER VII, 73 
 CHAPTER VIII, - - 81 
 
 CHAPTER IX, 89 
 
 CHAPTER X, - 103 
 
 CHAPTER XI, in 
 
 CHAPTER XII, 119 
 
 CHAPTER XIII, 131 
 
 CHAPTER XIV, 137 
 
 CHAPTER XV, 147 
 
 IN MEMORIAM, 169 
 
 MEMBERSHIP, 175 
 
 NEW VORK PRESS CLUB, 183 
 
 BOSTON PRESS CLUB, 195 
 
 NATIONAL CAPITAL PRESS CLUB, 203 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS PRESS CLUB, - 2cg 
 MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB, - 213 
 
 ST. PAUL PRESS CLUB, 218 
 MINNEAPOLIS PRESS CLUB, - 223 
 
 SAX FRANCISCO PRESS CLUII, ... . 226
 
 THE 
 
 National Bank m? Republic 
 
 OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 Capital, One Million Dollars 
 
 Centrally located, with ample Capital and every 
 facility for transacting the Banking business in all its 
 branches, this Bank solicits the business of responsible 
 persons and firms, tendering all the courtesies that 
 are usually extended by a well conducted and 
 
 obliging Banking House. 
 
 JOHN A. LYNCH, President A. M. ROTHSCHILD, Vice-President 
 
 W. T. FENTON, Cashier J. H. CAMERON, Assistant Cashier 
 
 Globe Savings Bank 
 
 COR. DEARBORN AND JACKSON STS. 
 
 4% 
 
 Interest ^"N Q / On ^^ Q / On Demand 
 
 Paid on "^ / Time J / Certificates, 
 
 Savings Deposits. ^^ / *> Certificates. " / ^ Checking Accounts. 
 
 C. W. SPALDINQ, Pres. H. Q. QILLEY, Vice-Pres. C. M. JACKSON, Cashier. 
 
 SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS Boxes $?.00 and Upward per Year.
 
 A General Banking Business Transacted. 
 
 Special Attention Qiven to Collections 
 
 OPENED FOR BUSINESS AUGUST 11, 1892. 
 
 The Bankers National Bank 
 
 /Masonic Temple, CHICAGO. 
 
 CLEARING HOUSE 
 NO. 24. 
 
 CAPITAL, $1,000,000. 
 
 DEPOSITS JULY 1Z, 1893, $1,533,983. DEPOSITS HAY 4, i894, 53,278,948. 
 
 D, B. DEWEY. Vice-President, 
 Ex-l'res. Am. Exchange Nat'l li'k. Chicago. 
 
 .1. C. McNAUCiHTON, Ass't Cashier. 
 Late Slate Hank Examiner for Nebraska. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 K. S. LACEY. President. 
 Ex-Comptroller of the Currency. 
 
 .IOHN C. CRAFT. Cashier, 
 hate Acting Assistant Treasurer U. S.. Chicngo. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 GEO. S. LORD. 
 SIM-OIK! V ice- President. 
 
 FRANK P. Jl'DSON. 
 
 Second Assistant Cashier. 
 
 M. H. WILSON, Wilson Bros.. Men's Furnishing Goods. 
 
 M. CUDAH V. Cudahy Packing C<>. 
 
 K. GOULD, L. Gould'* Co., Woodenware 
 
 D. H. BUKNHAM, Director of Works World's Columbian 
 
 Exposition. 
 GEORGE S. LORD, Lord, Owen i Co., \\ holesale 
 
 Drueyists. 
 
 WALTER C. HATKLY. Hately Bros., Packers. 
 H. M. HOSICK, H. M. Hosick 4' Co.. Hide and Leather 
 
 Dealers. 
 
 AUSTIN J. DOYLE, President McAvoyBrewing Co. 
 
 ROBERT M. WELLS, Wells & NelleRar Co.. Hardware. 
 HARVEY T. WEEKS, President Masonic Fraternity Temple 
 
 Association. 
 DAVID STUDABAKER, President Adams County Bank, 
 
 Decatur, Ind. 
 
 C. H. WEAVER, C. H. Weaver & Co.. Commission 
 
 Merchants. 
 S. H. BUSF.Y. Banker. Urh.na, 111. 
 
 D. B. DEWEY. Vice-l'resident. 
 
 E. S. LACEY, President. 
 
 The ACCOUNTS of Hanks, Corporations, Firms and Individuals received upon the most favorable 
 terms consistent with safe and conservative Banking. 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE solicited with those contemplating a change or division of their Chicago accounts. 
 
 WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. 
 
 China & Glass 
 
 Buriey&Co. 
 
 145 and 147 State St. 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 our main floor and 6 Art 
 Rooms on second floor we 
 exhibit one of the greatest col- 
 lections in this country of 
 
 TABLE CHINA, 
 
 CUT GLASS, 
 
 BRIC-A-BRAC, 
 
 LAMPS, ETC 
 
 at prices unquestionably the low- 
 est for goods of equal value. 
 
 WEDDING GIFTS. 
 
 TABLE SERVICES.
 
 Introductory. 
 
 TH E writing of a history presupposes that the history of the insti- 
 tution written of is worth preserving. It may be a question with 
 some whether, measured by this test, the history of the Press Club 
 of Chicago should be written. The present writer does not propose to 
 discuss that point. To him, there is in the organization enough merit to 
 warrant all he may say of it in the following pages. It is an organization 
 which is in some degree indentified with the history of this wonderful city 
 of Chicago. The men who compose its membership are among those who 
 have seen the city grow from a morass, almost, into peerless magnificence; 
 into the habitation of nearly two millions of people, and it has been their 
 fortune to chronicle this growth; to tell the civilized world what was 
 being accomplished here on the shores of Lake Michigan by a cosmopoli- 
 tan people, filled with the energy of a new land, and imbued with noble 
 ambitions. In this work many of the members of the Press Club of 
 Chicago have long been engaged. Many have worked out their short lives, 
 and their memories have been fittingly honored by their fellow members 
 of the club; others are still toiling, proud of Chicago, and anxious for 
 her prosperity. 
 
 While as an organization the Press Club has not frequently taken 
 part in measures designed to benefit the city, the members individually 
 and collectively have, in their capacity of newspaper writers and authors, 
 ever striven to promote the best interests of the city. Under these circum- 
 stances it is with no blush that we present the history of the Press Club of 
 Chicago, as well as the sketches of the sister Press Clubs which will be found 
 in these pages. In their respective cities, those organizations have no 
 doubt been as effective for good as the Press Club of Chicago assumes it 
 has been to Chicago, and to them we say God speed. 
 
 It is fitting, in an undertaking by men who deal so largely with adver- 
 tising, that a few pages of advertising should appear in this volume. It is
 
 G INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 an axiom in printing-offices that the use of printers' ink in advertising is 
 always commendable, and this is no time to reverse that principle. 
 
 To those who have aided the project by their patronage, the club 
 returns thanks, and gives assurance that, as a body, and as individuals, it 
 and they will ever be mindful of such generosity. 
 
 Literary merit is not claimed for this work. The writing has been 
 hurriedly done, in odd hours, and the facts have been obtained from scat- 
 tered and imperfect records. The compiler has endeavored to be fair in the 
 presentation of all matters, and tried to give credit where credit was due. 
 
 W. H. F.
 
 FRAM B. WILKIE. PKESIIIKNT. 1880.
 
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 Tf)e Press Gab of Chicago, 
 
 CHAPTER I 1880. 
 
 AVING in the preceding pages given reasons for the existence of this 
 chronicle, it now becomes necessary to say that the suggestion for 
 the organization of the Press Club of Chicago was made in 1879. 
 In November of that year, General U. S. Grant, ex-president of the 
 United States, having returned from a trip around the world, was enter- 
 tained by the citizens of Chicago. A reception at McYicker's theater was 
 one of the features of the entertainment, and to this many distinguished 
 people from out of the city were bidden. Among this number was Samuel 
 L. Clemens (Mark Twain), then as now one of America's most entertain- 
 ing writers. Mr. Clemens met during his stay in the city many of his 
 friends in the journalistic profession, including the late Franc B. 
 Wilkie, of the Times, and Melville E. Stone, then of the Daily News. 
 While these and others were enjoying an hour of social converse, Mr. 
 Clemens asked: "Why is it you Chicago newspaper men do not have a 
 club similar to the New York Press Club?" 
 
 The question precipitated a discussion of the subject in which all took 
 part. Mr. Clemens was informed that Press Clubs had been organized here 
 but they had fallen to pieces, and various reasons for this fact were given. 
 Mr. Clemens believed Chicago could form a Press Club that would last 
 and Mr. Franc B. Wilkie agreed with his eastern confrere. He said 
 he would endeavor to interest Chicago journalists in the scheme, and 
 Mr. Clemens urged such a course, and promised to do what he could to 
 serve such an organization. 
 
 The scheme thus fathered made rapid headway. Messrs. Wilkie and 
 Stone secured the services of Mr. W. K. Sullivan of the Evening Journal, 
 and after several weeks of planning and discussing, a meeting was held at 
 the club room of the Tremont House, in the afternoon of January 1 1, 1880, 
 for the purpose of talking over the subject of organization. Sixteen jour- 
 nalists were present, and they organized by electing Mr. Wilkie president 
 and Mr. Stone secretary. The discussion evidenced the fact that there 
 was an unanimous sentiment in favor of organizing a club of newspaper 
 men, and also that such organization should not be a failure. 
 
 9
 
 10 -THE fA'ESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The enthusiasm of those present indicated that desire to make the 
 club a success would not be lacking, and the sixteen gentlemen signed their 
 names to a temporary constitution, and, after appointing a committee to 
 secure rooms, adjourned to meet at the Tremont House, on January 15. 
 The Tribune of January J2, 1880, contained the following report of the 
 meeting: 
 
 During the past few weeks several meetings of Chicago Journalists have been held at the 
 Tremont House to arrange for the formation of a "Press Club," and such an organization 
 has finally been effected. The club was organized by the adoption of a constitution and by- 
 laws and the election of temporary officers to serve until the regular annual meeting, which 
 will be held at the same place, on Thursday afternoon, at 5 o'clock. The meetings have 
 been thoroughly representative, and gentlemen connected with all the daily newspapers in 
 Chicago have participated, so that the club starts under very favorable auspices. The thanks 
 of the club are due and have been formally extended to the proprietors of the Tremont House 
 for the accommodations furnished the club. 
 
 Thursday following, January 15, another enthusiastic gathering of 
 newspaper men, intent on making the Press Club movement a success, is 
 recorded as held at the Tremont House. Twenty-four working journal- 
 ists were present, all having signed the temporary constitution and thus 
 become members of the organization. Mr. Wilkie again presided, and 
 Mr. Stone acted as secretary. Everyone understood the object of the 
 meeting, and but little time was spent in talk. Mr. Theodore Gestefeld, 
 of the Staats-Zeitung, moved that the meeting proceed to ballot for officers 
 for the ensuing year. The motion prevailed, and after nominations, and 
 the usual talk which follows or precedes such phase of election matters, 
 the result was announced as follows: 
 
 FOR PRESIDENT. 
 
 FRANC B. WILKIE, The Times 17 votes. 
 
 MELVILLE E. STONE, The Daily A'eiys 7 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 First GUY MAGEE, The Tribune 23 votes. 
 
 Second--W. T. COLLINS, The Telegraph 13 votes 
 
 Third JOHN F. BALI.ANTYNE, The Inter Otean 13 votes. 
 
 GEORGE B. ARMSTRONG 10 " 
 
 THEO. GESTEFELD, Slants Zcituag, 6 " 
 
 J. R. DUNLOP, The Times 3 ' 
 
 W.K.SULLIVAN, The Journal .... 2 " 
 
 T. C. MAcMn.LAN, The Inter Ocean 2 " 
 
 THOMAS liURNSlDE, The Telegraph I " 
 
 SECRETARY AND TREASURER. 
 
 MELVILLE E. STONE 22 votes. 
 
 THOMAS BURNSIDE i " 
 
 W. K. SULLIVAN i "
 
 MELVILLE E. STONE
 
 yy/A f'A'SS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 13 
 
 The members of the Executive Committee were voted upon singly, 
 the result being: 
 
 TIIEO. GESTEFEI.D, Staats-Zeittmg 9 votes, balance scattering. 
 
 W. K. SI:LUVAN, T lie Journal 20 " 
 
 JAMES MAITLAND, The Tribune 13 " " 
 
 JOSEPH R. Dr.Ni.oi', The Times 23 " 
 
 T. C. MAC-MILI.AN, The Inter Ocean 18 " 
 
 The club being thus organized and officered, routine business was 
 taken up. Mr. J. R. Dunlop, of the committee on rooms, reported prog- 
 ress, and asked for further time, which was granted. A special commit- 
 tee, consisting of Messrs. Thomas Burnside, John J. Flinn and Henry F. 
 Donovan, was appointed to secure books and periodicals to form the 
 nucleus of a library. Messrs. H. F. Donovan, W. B. Sullivan and Platt 
 Lewis were appointed a visiting committee, the purpose being to call 
 upon members who might be sick, and render aid and assistance. The 
 Secretary was authorized to have slips of the constitution printed and 
 distributed. 
 
 The Treasurer found time to say he had received $84.00 for initiation 
 fees, and the meeting adjourned until January 2^. 
 
 On that date the Tremont House was again the rendezvous of the 
 journalists who were laying the foundation of an enduring club of writers. 
 At this meeting it was agreed that the following persons should be classed 
 as charter members of the club: 
 
 Melville E. Stone 
 T. C. MacMillan 
 F. O. Bennett 
 J. F. Ballantyne 
 Platt Lewis 
 W. P. Hanscom 
 
 Franc T3. Wilkie 
 TOS. R. Dunlop 
 Theo. Gestefeld 
 Klwvn A Barren 
 Thos. K. Burnside 
 Guy Magee 
 
 Rodney Welch 
 Henry F. Donovan 
 William T. Hall 
 \V. T. Collins 
 C A. Snowden 
 W. H. Hicks 
 
 W. K. Sullivan 
 W. B. Sullivan 
 John J. Flinn 
 James Maitland 
 Lawrence Hardy- 
 John E. Wilkie 
 
 Sam V. Steele. 
 
 The committee on rooms reported that two rooms could be procured in 
 the building owned by Mr. E. W. Morrison, at No. 133 Clark street, at a 
 moderate rental. One of the rooms faced Clark street, and was large 
 enough for a reception room. The committee was authorized to make a 
 lease of the rooms for one year, with privilege of renewal if desired. 
 This was accomplished, Mr. Morrison being desirous of accommodating 
 the club. He has remained friendly from that day to this, and the club 
 has remained in his building, spreading out as occasion required, or as 
 prosperity permitted, until now the club occupies eight rooms five on the 
 third floor and three on the second. Alterations have been made from 
 time to time, with Mr. Morrison's consent, and the rooms are now admira- 
 bly adapted for the uses of the club. 
 
 January 24, ten clays after the election of officers, President Wilkie 
 and Treasurer Stone gave a dinner to the members in the ladies' ordinary
 
 14 THE PKESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 of the Tremont House. It was said to be the first time in years that 
 so many (there were about thirty) working journalists had met together 
 socially and distinctively as journalists, at their own board. At this meet- 
 ing, which was a delightful one, and evidenced the gratification of Messrs. 
 Wilkie, Stone and their guests over the successful launching of the 
 organization, a telegram was read from an old friend, Mark Twain, 
 expressing regret that he was unable to be present, and offering congrat- 
 lations. 
 
 The first meeting in the club's rooms was held February 22, 1880. The 
 committees which had been appointed for various purposes, together with 
 the officers, had been hard at work, and had secured enough furniture to fit 
 up the rooms nicely, and some pictures had been obtained for the walls. 
 Other conveniences were arranged for, and the rooms presented a very cred- 
 itable appearance. At this meeting a precedent was established that has 
 since been practically adhered to. The Executive Committee, as the pres- 
 ent Board of Directors was then called, reported that in passing upon appli- 
 cations for membership, as required by the constitution, they had deemed 
 it to be their duty simply to ascertain if the applicant was constitutionally 
 eligible not to inquire whether there were members of the club who had 
 personal objections to applicants. The temporary constitution under 
 which the club was then working prescribed the qualification of members. 
 The purpose of the founders of the club was that its membership should 
 consist only of persons actively engaged in newspaper or literary work at 
 the time of their election. This idea has been adhered to throughout the 
 club's existence. 
 
 The same committee also reported favorably on forty-three applicants 
 and all but four were elected members. 
 
 Temporary house rules, reported by Messrs. Dunlop, Hicks, and Dono- 
 van, were adopted. 
 
 Under these rules matters moved along until the next regular meet- 
 ing, March 28. At this meeting the constitution adopted for working 
 purposes at a preceding meeting was formally adopted, after numerous 
 amendments which experience had shown to be necessary. This docu- 
 ment contained the following as its opening paragraph, and it is still 
 retained: 
 
 For the purpose of bringing the members of the newspaper profession together in closer 
 personal relations, to elevate the profession, to further good fellowship, and to extend a help- 
 ing hand to all members of the organization who may deserve it, the undersigned hereby 
 form themselves into a society. 
 
 The constitution was ordered printed for the use of members. 
 
 Whether or no gambling should be allowed in the rooms was a sub- 
 ject considered at this time, and it was decided that games of chance in 
 which there was a pecuniary interest should not be permitted in the
 
 C01.. N. A KKKII. .Mi
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 Cf THF 
 
 UNIVERSITY at ILLINOIS,
 
 J. ('. WII.MAKTH 
 
 A. S. LECKIE 
 CHAS. M. FAYE 
 
 A. T. PACKARD 
 
 D. K. SASSEKN 
 
 NIXON WATERMAN 
 
 W. T. f. HYDE 
 
 W. C. NICHOLAS 
 
 E It. DILL1NGHAM
 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 17 
 
 rooms of the club. This subject has frequently been before the club. 
 It was found a difficult matter to restrain the speculative tendencies 
 of members, but it is worthy of mention that whenever the question of 
 the tolerance of poker playing or other forms of gambling has been put to 
 vote, a majority of the members has opposed such tolerance. 
 
 The meeting appointed Messrs. Rodney Welch, S. J. Medill, J. B. 
 Bradwell, Sam V. Steele, Franc B. Wilkie, and M. E. Stone a committee 
 on entertainment. 
 
 A previous historian, Mr. F. O. Bennett, has said of the club at this 
 date: 
 
 "It will thus be seen that at this early stage the reputable journalists of Chicago, to the 
 number of seventy-five, had been united in an organization of a stable character, having 
 more definite and commendable aims than any that had theretofore been attempted. Once 
 fairly established in its new rooms, the membership of the club increased rapidly. The 
 young organization was beset with trials of personal and tribulations of financial character not 
 necessary to enumerate in a record which is of necessity but a plain, uncolored statement 
 of advancement from a small beginning to a great and permanent success. There was 
 the question of furnishing and fitting up the new rooms; the difficulty in prescribing rules 
 for games and amusements to suit all tastes; and, more important still, the prompt paymentof 
 all obligations and keeping out of debt." 
 
 Five months passed before any event of public interest transpired in 
 connection with the Press Club. In the meantime Mr. Stone resigned as 
 secretary on account of his inability to give the necessary time to the work. 
 However, he consented to remain treasurer. The constitution was 
 amended so as to provide for the election of officers by ballot at the Jan- 
 uary meeting in each year. The offices of financial and recording secre- 
 taries were also provided for, and Mr. Thomas O. Thompson was elected 
 financial and Mr. Elwyn A. Barren recording secretary. The number of 
 blackballs required to reject an applicant for membership was changed 
 from three to five. In July the club rooms were opened to the visiting 
 journalists who attended the triennial conclave of the Knights Templar, 
 and a committee was appointed to look after their comfort. For 365 days 
 in each year since, these rooms have been open to the journalists of the 
 world. They have been used by men from all climes, and many lasting 
 friendships have been formed therein, and the club has been absolutely dem- 
 ocratic in spirit. Every member has had a voice in its government, and 
 form, for form's sake merely, has always been tabooed. The Board of 
 Directors has been subject to the will of the club, to which it reports at 
 each monthly meeting, and its actions have repeatedly been overruled. 
 Ceremony has always been at a discount, and members and guests have 
 been requested to enjoy themselves as best they could amidst the surround- 
 ings. 
 
 One of the purposes of the founders of the club was to induce news- 
 paper men to give more attention to social duties, and with this idea
 
 18 THE PKESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 receptions were planned to be held in the club-rooms, to which friends of 
 members, ladies and gentlemen, were to be invited; an annual banquet 
 was provided for, and it was also decided to give an annual entertainment 
 artists from the dramatic and musical professions having offered to 
 contribute their services for the purpose of raising funds, the hope 
 being that one day the club would have secured enough to erect a building 
 of its own. It may be well to say here that these customs, except that of giv- 
 ing receptions in the club-rooms, have been abandoned, and when lectures 
 and entertainments are now given under the auspices of the club, they are 
 on a purely business basis, the speaker or artists being compensated for 
 his or their work. The first annual entertainment was originally arranged 
 for July 14, at Central Music Hall, but was postponed to September 30. 
 An immense array of talent volunteered for the occasion, and, accord- 
 ing to the before mentioned chronicler, "the press on the following morn- 
 ing related that never before had such a brilliant and critical audience 
 assembled to do honor to any public entertainment in Chicago. Every seat 
 and box was filled -standing room was at a premium and ladies with 
 opera cloaks and diamonds were as plentiful in the upper gallery as in the 
 parquette." The programme was as follows: 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 1. QUARTET Theme and Variations in D Minor, - - - - Schubert. 
 
 LEISEGANG-HEIMENDAHL STRING QUARTET. 
 
 2. SONG My Angel, - - - - Esser. 
 
 MR. JOHN McWADE. 
 
 3. RECITATION Tom's Little Star, Harper's Monthly. 
 
 MRS. LAURA DAINTY. 
 
 4. ARIA Robert toi qui J'aime, - Meyerbeer. 
 
 MRS. IDA MAE PRVCE. 
 
 5. VOCAL QUARTET Spring Night, Fischer. 
 
 THE CHICAGO CHICKERING QUARTET. 
 Chas. A. Knorr, Charles H. Clark, John E. McWade, Charles F. Noble. 
 
 6. VIOLIN SOLO Spanish Dance, Sarasate. 
 
 MR. E. HEIMENDAHI.. 
 
 7. ARIA Chegioja, Mattel. 
 
 MISS EMMA ABBOTT. 
 
 S. READING Sketch from "The Queen of Bohemia," - Uatlon. 
 
 MR. JOSEPH HATTON. 
 His first appearance in America. 
 
 9. BALLAD The Kerry Dance, ... ... Mallov. 
 
 MRS. JESSIE BARTLETT-DAVIS 
 
 10. PIANO SOLO Grand Polka de Concert, - - - Bandeir. 
 
 MR. EMU, I.IEBI.IXG.
 
 VICTOR F. I.AWSON
 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 21 
 
 11. BALLAD "Way Down upon the Suwanee River," A'egro Melody. 
 
 MISS EMMA ABBOTT. 
 
 12. RECITATION "Mare Antony's Oration," from "Julius Ca:sar," - S/iakespi-ars. 
 
 MR. THOMAS W. KEENE. 
 
 13. QUARTET Serenade (new, first time in public), - - S. G. Pratt. 
 
 LEISEGANG-HEIMENDAHL STRING QUARTET. 
 
 14. SONG Chanty, .... fauiv. 
 
 MR. CHARLES KNORR. 
 
 15. I.KCTL'RE Advice to Boys and Girls, - - - Sotson. 
 
 MR. STUART ROBSON. 
 
 16. BUFFO SONG The Stew-Pan Song, - - Offenbach. 
 
 MR. WM. H. CRANE. 
 
 17. VOCAL QUARTET He's the Man, ....... Zollntr. 
 
 THE CHICAGO CHICKERING QUARTET. 
 
 A meeting of the club was held October 3, at which Treasurer Stone 
 reported that the estimated net proceeds of the Central Music Hall 
 entertainment were $2,100, of which $1,944 were already in hand. 
 
 The thanks of the club were extended formally by vote to George 
 B. Carpenter, the National Printing Company, Rand, McNally & Co., 
 Knight & Leonard, Kingsley & Burgoffer, Leroy Payne and Mr. Beards- 
 ley for assisting in making the entertainment a success. Similar votes of 
 thanks were tendered S. M. Moore, Esq., for a paid-up policy of insur- 
 ance on the club fixtures and to J. H. McVicker, Esq., for a number of 
 handsome engravings, contributed to beautify and adorn the club rooms. 
 
 A permanent reception committee and a permanent committee on 
 entertainment were appointed; the latter to provide a social entertain- 
 ment in the club rooms on the fourth Saturday night in each month, to be 
 known as "Ladies' Night." 
 
 October 24, 1880, the treasurer was instructed by vote to invest $1,500 
 of club funds in interest-bearing bonds, and Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, 
 of Paris, a well-known authoress and former Chicagoan, a warm friend 
 of President Wilkie and family, and of the club, and Joseph Hat- 
 ton, of London, who had appeared for the club at the entertainment, were 
 elected honorary members. Some years afterward, through no hostility to 
 the female workers in the journalistic field, but simply because it was be- 
 lieved that the best interests of the club would be subserved and greater 
 freedom enjoyed if women were prohibited from making unquestioned 
 use of the rooms, the constitution was amended to read "no woman shall 
 be elected a member of this club." 
 
 A committee consisting of Messrs. Wilkie, Stone and Cowles was ap- 
 pointed to consider the advisability of giving a banquet January 15, the 
 anniversary of the club's birth. Judge J. B. Bradwell, to whom had 
 been delegated the work of securing incorporation papers for the
 
 22 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Chicago Press Club, reported that the right to use that corporate name 
 had been preempted, and suggested that the body adopt the name " The 
 Press Club of Chicago." The matter was referred to the Executive Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 At a meeting held December 12, 1880, Judge Bradwell reported the 
 incorporation of "The Press Club of Chicago," and the receipt of the 
 incorporation papers. The banquet committee reported in favor of giving 
 a reception and banquet January 15, at 5 o'clock p. M., and was in- 
 structed to make arrangements therefor. Messrs. Barron, Colebrook and 
 Bradwell were appointed to revise the constitution, and the club having 
 grown prodigiously the Executive Committee (which by the act of incor- 
 poration became the Board of Directors, the club officers being ex-officio 
 members thereof) was instructed to lease an additional room, and the 
 sum of $100 was appropriated for the use of the Library Committee. 
 
 The annual meeting was called for January 20, at 4 o'clock p. M., the 
 polls to be open from 4 to 9 o'clock. It was also decided that voting by 
 proxy should not be permitted, and that rule has since been followed. A 
 subsequent amendment to the constitution fixed the time for holding the 
 annual meeting as the first Thursday after the first day of January in each 
 year. The names of ninety-three distinguished persons whom it was 
 desired to invite to the banquet were approved. 
 
 The banquet committee arranged with the proprietor of the Palmer 
 House to provide the banquet, and at 5 o'clock on the i5th day of Janu- 
 ary, 1881, the parlors of that famous caravansary were thronged with 
 many well-known citizens of Chicago and distinguished guests from 
 other cities. 
 
 The banquet was essentially a press affair, the first of its kind in the 
 history of Chicago, given by an organization of journalists, and of the 
 two hundred guests present fully four-fifths were directly connected with 
 the profession of journalism. The reception lasted from 5 to 7 o'clock 
 p. M., when the guests adjourned to the handsomely decorated main din- 
 ing hall, and proceeded to do justice to the feast prepared by the hotel 
 chef. 
 
 When the gustatory efforts were finished President Wilkie arose, and, 
 after congratulating the club and guests upon its material progress and the 
 pleasant features of the anniversary, said: 
 
 "While I congratulate you on your marvelous growth, let me be permitted to assert the 
 belief that there is nothing in it akin to that of those gigantic fungi which grow up in a night 
 and before sunset have disappeared from existence. I know that such is not your destiny; 
 that there is no sinister augury in the rapidity of your development. In the Mosaic cosmog- 
 ony we are told that the great planetary system grew to its vast dimensions in a single day. 
 Nearly fifty centuries have rolled away since then, and the myriad members of that system yet 
 revolve and shine, with no diminution in their speed; no fading in their lustrous glances. 
 Let us take hope from the fact that what is soonest ripe is not always soonest rotten, and that 
 there may be for us some of the perpetuity of this Mosaic transaction."
 
 \VM. M. KXOX
 
 J 
 
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 LiBRARV 
 
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 U:iVSlTV ( ILLINOIS.
 
 CHAS. F. BLAKK1.V
 
 THE PKESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 23 
 
 General Frank W. Palmer responded to the sentiment of " The Press 
 and the President." The speaker ably delineated the efforts of the press 
 in behalf of justice, liberty, and a government by the people that made a 
 President possible, saying that so long as the presidency of the United 
 States should be justly administered, and the press conscientiously con- 
 ducted, the growth of governmental liberty in the western hemisphere 
 would be as limitless as the hopes and aspirations of men. 
 
 The Hon. Joseph Medill responded to " The Press of Chicago." The 
 speaker said the press of Chicago spoke for itself, and needed no one to 
 sound its praise or defend its reputation. Some of the characteristics of 
 the Chicago press were, notably, its fearless exposure of humbugs and 
 charlatans; its enterprise ; its liberality in incurring expense in the gath- 
 ering of news; its help to Chicago in the vast growth of the city; and, 
 as to the personnel of the press, it employed and drew to this city the 
 best journalistic talent of the country. Mayor Carter H. Harrison re- 
 sponded to the toast of " The Press and the City of Chicago. " Mr. John 
 Ritchie responded to the toast, "Stenography, the Lightning of the Press." 
 James W. Sheahan, to " The Veterans of the Press. " Hon. Emery A. Storrs, 
 to "The Press and the Bar." In the course of his remarks Mr. Storrs 
 said: 
 
 "When we speak of the freedom of the press we usually think of it as something we 
 have always enjoyed- a privilege which has never really been denied to us. We do not remem- 
 ber, and perhaps some of us never knew, that it is the youngest-born of all our great privi- 
 leges. * That freedom has been achieved by the joint action of the 
 press itself, the bar and juries, and, in the great majority of instances, against government 
 and the representatives of government upon the bench. * * 
 There is nothing in this world so good that is not a little better by being watched. No 
 statesman is so pure and lofty that he is not likely to become still purer and still loftier so 
 long as he feels that keen eyes are upon him to observe every move that he makes. Dishonest 
 legislators fear this freedom of the press, for the exercise of that freedom is the only method 
 by which their dishonest schemes may be exposed. 
 
 So many members of the press are here to-night that I venture to suggest in their presence and 
 to them some needed legislation on the law of libel. 
 
 The law as it now stands is injurious, both to the injured person and to the press. There 
 may not be one word of truth in the article published, nor a single scintilla of malice in the 
 publisher. The jury may reach the conclusion that no damages have been suffered and 
 return their verdict for six cents, the result of which is the practical destruction of the com- 
 plaining party. But under such statute as I have named, a verdict of six cents would be as 
 complete and perfect a vindication as a verdict for thousands of dollars. I.ibel suits would 
 not be then instituted for speculative purposes, and the newspaper could afford to deal, as it 
 always ought to, fairly, justly and generously with the injured individual. Some such enact- 
 ments are necessary, as the law now stands in this country. The growing necessity for the 
 fullest and largest discussion of public measures, and the demand of the people to know about 
 public men all that they ought to know to wisely and intelligently judge concerning them, 
 renders any return to the bad old times utterly impossible. * 
 
 Freedom of the press is as essential as the right of trial by jury, and without it suffrage 
 will be a failure, for it would not be possible for suffrage to be intelligent."
 
 
 24 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The speaker was loudly applauded upon the close of his remarks. 
 Gov. Eli Murray, of Utah, took the place in the list of speakers 
 accredited to Col. Charles A. Taylor, of the Boston Globe, who was 
 detained in the East. The Governor desired the press of Chicago to leave 
 nothing undone until Utah should be free from polygamy and admitted 
 into the Union, that there might be an unbroken chain of states from the 
 Atlantic to the Pacific. 
 
 The Hon. C. C. Bonney, of Chicago, responded to the sentiment, "The 
 Press and the Government"; the Hon. Henry Watterson, of the Louis- 
 ville Courier- Journal, to "The Press of Dixie"; Herman Raster, Esq., of 
 the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, to "The German Press"; C. G. Siebenech, of 
 the Pittsburg Chronicle, to '"The Press of Pittsburg, the Gate City of the 
 Continent"; the Hon. F. A. Eastman, to "The Bucolic Press"; George W. 
 Peck, of Milwaukee, to "The Press and the Ladies"; The Rev. Dr. H.W. 
 Thomas, to " The Press and the Pulpit, Cooperating for the Betterment of 
 the People." 
 
 A number of journalists and invited guests, who were unable to 
 attend the banquet, sent messages of regret, among the number Oswald 
 Ottendorfer, of the New York Staats Zeitting; Samuel Bowles, of the 
 Springfield, Mass., Republican; Edwin L. Godkin, of the New York Nation; 
 Whitelaw Reid, John W. Forney, George William Curtis, Charles Dudley 
 Warner; R. M. Pulsifer, of the Boston Herald; Dr. George L. Miller, of 
 the Omaha Herald; Thomas W. Knox, of New York; Col. Charles A. 
 Taylor, of the Boston Globe; Fred Hassuerek, of Cincinnati ; J. R. McLean, 
 of the Cincinnati Enquirer; Horace White, of New York; Robert J. 
 Burdette, C. M. Goodsell; Thomas B. Connery, of the New York Her- 
 ald; Charles M. Walker, of the Indianapolis Journal; Col. Robert G. 
 Ingersoll, Carl Schurz, D. N. Lamont, George Alfred Townsend, Mark 
 Twain; Joseph B. McCullagh, of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat; and 
 John C. Hennessy, of New York. Archibald Forbes, who was tarry- 
 ing at Hamilton, Out., on his lecture tour through America, also expressed 
 his regrets at being unable to attend, as did the Hon. Wilbur F. Storey, 
 who was indisposed. Following are some of the letters: 
 
 "HARTFORD, December 29. 
 
 "I have been away for a fortnight, and I find on my return your pleasing invitation to be 
 one of the Press Club's guests, January 15. I should vastly like to be there, but, even if 
 other circumstances did not bar me from going, I should be barred anyway by the formid- 
 able size of the trip in this midwinter weather. 
 
 "I was glad to be remembered by the gentlemen of the club, but if I had been overlooked 
 I wouldn't have taken it as a cold wave, but only as an oversight, for there lias been a long 
 interval since we foregathered there. (To give one the 'cool shake' is vulgar and slangy. 
 I use the other phrase in the interest of refinement and in deference to the weather.) I was 
 glad to be remembered, because I had not slacked up in my remembering the boys, and one 
 likes such things to be mutual; and I was also glad because the circumstances of my visit out
 
 LEO CANM J
 
 U8RARV 
 
 -LLINOJS.
 
 JOHN M. DANDY
 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 2r> 
 
 there a year ago were such that I arrogate to myself as near a kinship to the club as anyone 
 may who is not an actual member of the family. 
 
 " With the heartiest congratulations upon the success achieved by your organization thus 
 far, and with best wishes for its continued prosperity. I am truly yours, 
 
 " MARK TWAIN." 
 
 " OFFICE OF THE BOSTON 'GLOBE,' January 12. 
 
 " Many thanks for your kind invitation to the first annual banquet of the Press Club of 
 Chicago. I regret that I cannot be present. We recently issued the Boston Daily Globe 
 dated one hundred years ahead, or in January, 1980. The paper was crowded then, when 
 we 'made up', as papers are now, and I respectfully submit for your consideration some 
 pieces of news which were crowded out, and which we presume would have interested Chi- 
 cago people. They are submitted with my best wishes for all present. 
 
 " Sincerely yours, CHARI.F.S H.TAYLOR. 
 
 IN A HUNDRED YKARS. 
 
 "After items about the movementsof Bishop Ingersoll, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 Chicago District, who lectured in the Southern Circuit, Washington, on 'The Mistakes of 
 My Ancestors,' the statement that upon the receipt of the census of Chicago's 1,647 wards, 
 showing a population of 15,665,714, thousands of the older citizens of St. Louis committed 
 suicide; an estimate based on sworn statements of the circulation of the older Chicago 
 dailies, in which they ranged from 863,994 to 863,999 each, and 'he comment that the new 
 law which obliged proprietors to divide fifty per cent of their profits with editors and report- 
 ers was working smoothly, and had made a perceptible increase in the number of good trot- 
 ting horses in the city, there came, as follows, an account of the 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE CHICAGO PRESS CIA'H. 
 
 " Chicago, Jan. 15, 1981. The one hundred and first annual banquet of the Press Club 
 of Chicago has proved an overwhelming success. The new dining-room of the Palmer 
 House, which will seat nine thousand people, was completely filled, more than four thousand 
 ladies being in attendance. The company represented more wealth than any assembly of 
 similar size ever gathered in any dining-room or hall in this country. There were nine hun- 
 dred and seventeen editors present, who were worth from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 
 each, and it was estimated that the diamonds worn by the ladies were worth $2,000,000. Rep- 
 resentatives of the press from Paris, London, Japan, and other distant points came in during 
 the evening, arriving by the different aerial lines. The literary programme was, as usual, 
 equal to about twenty issues of Harpct* s, Sfri/nisr's and the Atlantic Monthly combined, and 
 gave unbounded satisfaction. The ladies claimed half the offices and were awarded two- 
 thirds of them, with the usual gallantry which has always characterized the Chicago man. 
 
 " The club has about $2,000,000 in the treasury, and it was voted to make the next, or one 
 hundred and second reunion an occasion when the presidents, kings, queens and rulers ot 
 every sort and the leading men of all nations might be brought together. A committee of 
 gentlemen of the club, who have a personal or bowing acquaintance with the various rulers of 
 the world, was selected to extend the invitations. To insure the most rigid honesty in the 
 club, the surplus in the treasury was divided among the members previous to adjournment." 
 
 In this wise ended the first year of the existence of the Press Club of 
 Chicago. The journalists had been brought in closer touch with each 
 other, and they appreciated the privileges enjoyed, and gave hearty sup- 
 port to the organization during the second year.
 
 W. K. SULLIVAN. PRESIDENT, iSSl

 
 CHAPTER II 1881. 
 
 THE annual election was held on January 20, as previously pro- 
 vided for. There were two candidates for president, the incumbent 
 of the office, Franc B. Wilkie, and W. K. Sullivan of the Evening 
 Journal. There was a tie vote for president, but the Sullivan ticket, 
 except the president, was elected. Following are the names of the suc- 
 cessful candidates: 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 RODNEY WELCH, The Times. GUY MAGEE, The Tribune. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 JOHN F. FLINN, Tht Daily Xews. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 J. B. BRADWEI.L. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 ELWYN A. 15ARROX. JOHN 1 M. DANDY. 
 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: 
 J. R. DUNI.OP, T. C. MACMILLAN, 
 
 The Times. T/ie Inter Ocean. 
 
 H. F. DONOVAN, W. H. FRENCH, 
 
 The Journal. Western Associated Press. 
 
 R. A. PATTERSON, 
 The Tribune. 
 
 A special election was called for January 26 to elect a president, but 
 prior to that time Mr. Wilkie withdrew from the contest, having learned 
 that he was to go to London to represent the Chicago Times. At the 
 special election Mr. Sullivan was chosen, receiving 55 votes out of 69. 
 the remaining 14 being cast for various persons. 
 
 In April following, before Mrs. Wilkie left to join her husband in 
 London, the club tendered her a farewell reception, in token of its appre- 
 ciation of her kindly interest in its welfare, and of many services rendered 
 on every social occasion. 
 
 January 30, President Sullivan presented the following list of stand- 
 ing committees for the year: 
 
 Library Commit/r, Theo. Gestefeld. E. H. Talbot, John J. Flinn, Jere Mahoney, 
 Collins Shackelford, James Sullivan. 
 
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 30 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Entertainment Committee M. E. Stone, T. Z. Cowles, E. A. Barron, S. V. Steele. 
 Wm. Colebrook. 
 
 Reception Committei W. T. Hall, F. O. Bennett, Washington Hesing, J. \V. Scott. 
 Elliott Durand. 
 
 Visiting Committee W H. Hicks, 'C. E. Nixon, J. E. Wilkie. 
 
 Messrs. Stone, Magee and Cunningham were' appointed a special com- 
 mittee to procure an oil portrait of the retiring president, which they did. 
 and it now hangs against the wall, and is among the most highly-prized 
 belongings of the club. Ever since that time it has been customary to 
 have the portrait of the retiring president painted and hung in the club 
 rooms. 
 
 February 13, the club extended by vote thanks to Mrs. Wilbur F. 
 Storey for a portrait of her distinguished husband, executed by herself. 
 Thanks were also extended to Messrs. Liebling and Newell for contri- 
 butions of engravings. The initiation fee was increased to $10, and reso- 
 lutions of respect to the memory of Ernst Buhlert, a promising German 
 journalist, lately deceased, were adopted and spread upon the records. 
 
 May i, a new lease of the rooms was secured, and William T. Hall 
 was made librarian of the club. 
 
 The second annual entertainment of the club was given in Central 
 Music Hall, Tuesday evening, October n, 1881, and was as successful as 
 the one before, both as to quality of entertainment and attendance. 
 
 Names of those who appeared will be found in the subjoined 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 1. ORGAN Grand Offertoire de Ste. Cecile, - ... . - Batiste. 
 
 MR. H. CLARENCE EDDY. 
 
 2. PART SONG, - - - S,-lcct,-i1. 
 
 APOLLO CLUH. 
 
 3. CORNET SOLO Fantasie, - - - - Hartman. 
 
 SIGNOR LIBERATI. 
 
 4. AR:A O Mio Fernando, - - - - Donizetti. 
 
 MISS HARRIET C. McLAlX. 
 
 5. VIOLIN SOLO Hungarian Airs, ..... . Ernst. 
 
 MR. ADOLPH ROSENBECKER. 
 
 6. RECITATION Aux Italiens, ------ - Meredith. 
 
 MR. SAMUEL KAYSER. 
 
 7. VOCAL QUARTET The Star of Love, - Buck. 
 
 ST. CECILIA QUARTET. 
 
 Miss Ettie Butler, Mrs. Clifford Williams, Mrs. Frank Hall, 
 Mrs. Jenny T. Kempton. 
 
 la Last Hope, . - - - Gottschalk. 
 
 ~\l, Le Tourbillon, - ... GolMeek. 
 
 MR. EMIL LIEBLING.
 
 JOHN .1. FJUINN
 
 HERltERT I.KKOY JOXKS 
 CHARLES L. KHuDKS 
 CHARLES ti. PERKINS 
 
 J. FEHC1VAL POLLARD 
 
 ASA DAME 
 HAROLD II. VYNNK 
 
 TOM H. CANNON 
 
 I I.A1!KN(E A. lllfi;H 
 
 ELTON J.mVKK
 
 
 HENRY M. HUNT
 
 JOIIX J. FULLER
 
 THE J'KESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 33 
 
 g. TENOR SOLO Dost Thou Remember? Lieblin^. 
 
 MR. CHARLES A. KNORR. 
 
 10. STACCATO POLKA, - Mulder. 
 
 MLLE. MARIE LITTA. 
 
 INTERMISSION. 
 
 1. ORGAN Overture William Tell, - - Rossini. 
 
 MR. H. CLARENCE EDDY. 
 
 2. BARITONE SOLO How Fair Art Thou, .... ... White. 
 
 MR. JOHN E. McWADE. 
 
 3. AYE MARIA With Violin, Piano and Organ, ------ Gounod. 
 
 MISS EMMA HECKLE. 
 
 4. READING, - - Selected. 
 
 MISS ANNA MORGAN. 
 
 5. OUARTET The Fisher Roy, - - Brauii. 
 
 CHICKERING QUARTET. 
 Chas. A. Knorr, Charles II. Clark, John E. McWade, Chas. T. Noble. 
 
 (>. ARIA Lucia di Lammermoor, ------ Donizetti. 
 
 MLLE. MARIE LITTA. 
 With Flute Obligate, MR. OSCAR OESTERLE. 
 
 7. RECITATION Sheridan's Ride, - T. Buchanan Read. 
 
 MR. CHARLES R. THORNE, JR. 
 
 S. BALLAD Forever and Forever, - Tosti. 
 
 MISS HARRIET C. McLAIN. 
 
 9. THE VAGABONDS, Trowbridge. 
 
 MR. JOHN McCULLOUGH. 
 
 10. BARITONE SOLO The Yeoman's Wedding Song, - - - Poniatowsky. 
 
 MR. GEORGE H. BRODERICK. 
 
 11. THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER, - - - - - Kev. 
 
 MR. THOMAS W. KEKNE. 
 
 The second annual banquet of the club was served at the Palmer 
 House, Saturday, January 14, 1882. It was a most pleasing affair, and 
 all enjoyed it. The Times of the following day said in reference to the 
 affair : 
 
 "The reception was in the nature of a reunion and was similar in many respects to the 
 regular monthly club receptions at its own rooms. It lasted about an hour, and at 6:30 the 
 company repaired to the dining room, where the spread was in waiting. The banquet was a 
 purely local affair, for the press of the city, the only outsiders in attendance being George 
 W. I'eck, of Milwaukee, and Willis Hawkins, of Aurora two suburbs. * 
 
 Shortly before 9 o'clock the oratorical part of the programme was inaugurated by the Presi- 
 dent, Mr. W. K. Sullivan, who congratulated the club on the advancement in journalism 
 and on the prosperity that had attended the Press Club. The membership, he said, had steadily 
 increased, until now it numbers 125, and on the roll may be found, with few exceptions, the 
 names of all the journalists of the city. * Last, but not least, the 
 
 club is linanciallv sound. It not only owes no man anything, but it has to its credit a hand-
 
 34 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 some sum in government bonds in other words it is a bloated bondholder. There is no 
 reason why the club should not continue to prosper. It is a healthy and lively two-year-old 
 infant, and, with proper care and kind treatment, it should become a permanent institution 
 of the city." 
 
 W. E. Curtis followed the President, having for his theme "The Pres- 
 ident of the United States." He said some amusing things about the dif- 
 ferent gentlemen who had occupied that exalted place, and made special 
 reference to their treatment of newspaper men. Dr. Edmunds responded 
 to the toast "The City of Chicago," in the absence of J. B. Hinman, and 
 ex-Governor Andrew Shuman, who was on the programme to respond to 
 the toast "Veterans of the Press," sent a letter telling what he would sa\ 
 if he were present. Then came J. \V. Sheahan, who spoke of " The News- 
 paper Reporter." He said he began the newspaper business forty years 
 before, at a salary of $2 per week. He was glad to say salaries had in- 
 creased since that time. After devoting some time to describing newspa- 
 pers and their functions, hespoke as follows of the reporter: 
 
 "He must be prepared for any business that presents itself, must know everything that 
 has happened, is to happen, or which has not happened, and be able to tell about them exactly 
 as they occurred or ought to have occurred. He must be qualified to receive statements from 
 astronomers, poets, writers, linguists, philosophers, statesmen, aldermen, and even the best 
 of mayors, and he must have the capacity to make these statements intelligent. A newspaper 
 may for a time get along without a manager or an editor, but never without a reporter. He 
 is the one thing indispensable. In no branch of journalism has there been such improve- 
 ment as in reporting, and in no other has there been such improvement as in the character of 
 those engaged in it. The gentlemen who now constitute the 'reporters' till a higher place 
 socially and professionally than those who have gone before them. They bring to the press 
 ability and personal character; they are the working force of journalism. Let this club never 
 cease to be a fraternity of gentlemen, and let the newspaper reporter never cease to be a 
 gentleman." 
 
 "The American Press in Europe" was the theme assigned to Mr. 
 Franc B. Wilkie, who had returned from Europe, and was well qualified 
 to speak on the subject. He began by telling what a chill came over the 
 average American journalist in London when he found that neither his 
 august presence nor the name of the paper he represented created a sensa- 
 tion. He summed up the situation as follows: 
 
 "If the American journalist stays abroad three months, and then returns home, I shall 
 not hesitate to assert for I know how it is myself that he will plant on American soil, on his 
 landing, the hoofs of an ass, much larger as to ears, than when he went away; and henceforth 
 his bray will be louder, longer, more far reaching than ever. But if he stay over there a year or 
 two, if he apply himself to studying calmly and thoroughly what he finds all about him, if he 
 sink the journalist in his efforts to attain social recognition, and depend solely on his own 
 merits, he will come back with an increased respect both for his own country and that of 
 which he has been the guest." 
 
 To Mr. M. E. Stone had been assigned the duty of responding to the 
 "Progress of the Press, "and he did so by reading a letter from the venerable
 
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 EI.WYN A. BAIIKOX
 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 37 
 
 Thurlow Weed, of New York, who gave fear to undertake the journey as 
 an excuse for not being present. Mr. Weed spoke of Joseph Gales, the 
 first man who reported the debates in the House of Representatives, and 
 of his successor, Rev. Mr. Stanbury. Allusion was also made to the fact 
 that the writer was the first man to undertake to report the legislative 
 proceedings in Albany. In concluding his letter Mr. Weed said: 
 
 " Nothing has been more pronounced in the history of Chicago than 
 the history of its press. Chicago journals, if not in advance of, have 
 kept pace with its wonderful improvements. Those journals, in their size, 
 typography, enterprise and general management, compare favorably with 
 our best metropolitan papers." 
 
 Letters from invited guests who were unable to attend were now read. 
 George Alfred Townsend (Gath) wrote that he had always wanted to at- 
 tend a banquet of the Chicago Press Club, but could not on the present 
 occasion. His letter closed as follows: "Present my compliments to your 
 officers and members, and the hope that such clubs may be the interment 
 of backbiting and all unsociableness among those who pull the single 
 scull of a good pen." The poet Longfellow wrote that illness prevented 
 his attendance, and there were other letters from Whitelaw Reid, Frank 
 Hatton, John Hay, Charles A. Dana, Carl Schurz, Murat Halsted, Mark 
 Twain, Oscar Wilde, C. B. Lewis (M. Quad), J. F. Baringer, President 
 of the New Orleans Reporters' Association: T. A. Merriam, President of 
 the New York Press Club; J. C. Fox, of the Baltimore Press Association; 
 W. F. Storey, C. D. Dennet, and J. B. McCullagh. 
 
 By this time the assemblage was ready for more speeches, and genial 
 John Ritchie was introduced to say something about "The Newsgatherer 
 The following paragraphs will give an idea of Mr. Ritchie's unique style 
 of expression, and his familiarity with his subject: 
 
 "The newsgatherer is an individual constructed on the ordinary human pattern, who, in 
 consequence of his environment, is governed by very few of the rules which influence other 
 members of the human species. The dust of the earth can be fashioned at will into almost 
 anything else, but you can't create a good reporter to order. I suppose in no other business or 
 profession is so much perfection required in return for such a small salary. [Laughter.] 
 This applies as well to country reporters as to the scribes on the metropolitan sheets. The 
 reporter is a social buccaneer, with little or no responsibility except to his city editor; with 
 rather vague notions of his duty to society, and somewhat skeptical as to human integrity 
 and virtue. And this is not at all strange when you remember that to him are revealed the 
 million little meannesses, the selfishness, the greed, the contemptible or criminal motives 
 which actuate many of those whom he meets in his daily line of work Like a lawyer he 
 takes a professional view of matters, treating himself as a third party, whose only business is 
 to get for his own paper all a thing is worth. Veil 'fire!' in his ear and measure how far he 
 will run, unless he is assigned to that duty [applause] or the blaze is big enough to rouse in 
 him the human desire to look on destruction. 
 
 "Once in a while, however, little things crop out which lead him to believe that the milk 
 of human goodness has not yet become caked in man, though the instances are not excessively 
 numerous. Not long ago I attended an inquest in the southwestern part of the city. The
 
 liS THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 day was raw and dreary just such a day as would tempt one to draw up to the tire and shiver 
 on looking out at the window. The body of the dead man was surrounded by the weeping 
 family and sympathizing neighbors, and in and out of the crowd, with a helpful word for the 
 wife, with a caress and a smile for the little ones, moved a clergyman of a denomination en- 
 tirely foreign to that of the stricken family. Away out in the desolate corner of the city, where 
 nothing in the shape of notoriety or compensation could be expected, this clergyman had 
 come, throwing a ray of sunlight across the gloom of the chamber of death. I could not 
 help contrasting his unostentatious goodness with those great top-heavy charities which, like 
 haughty sunflowers, look superciliously down on the modest violets of benevolence that dare 
 to bloom at their feet. And, although somewhat hardened by exposure to the pernicious in- 
 fluences I have named, I felt thankful that all brotherly love had not yet gone out of the 
 world; and yet, since then that man has been fired out of the church, not for burglary, not for 
 arson, but because he was suspected of having dallied with antinomianism! [Laughter.] 
 Great hevings! Just think of a bloodthirsty antinomian prowling around among the com- 
 munity. And imagine the consequences of meeting a red-headed antinomian on the Wells 
 street bridge at midnight! It makes me nervous in my underpinning to dwell on the subject! 
 [Renewed laughter.] 
 
 "A good newsgatherer must be a walking enclycopedia, for his city editor may at any 
 moment steer him against a society the shortest word in whose vocabulary is 'hypsiprym- 
 notic riegalosaurus' or 'homologous anthropodan,' or he may be asked to take in a discussion 
 on the ascent of a monad. Now there is nothing in nature so refreshing to a reporter as looking 
 on the struggles of a well regulated monad raising himself in the world, but very few of us care 
 to track him through the underbrush of protoplasm and several other asms until he reaches the 
 solemn dignity of a monad: and still less does the reporter desire to chase him through the 
 successive stages by which he becomes a bipedal anthropoid. Yet, with all this erudition vibrat- 
 ing along the wires of his mental apparatus, the newsgatherer is coolly dispatched to super- 
 vise a rooster dispute, or a 'scrapping match' in McCormick Hall." [Applause and 
 laughter.] 
 
 Following Mr. Ritchie, Theodore Gestefield spoke of the "German 
 Press," Leander Stone of "The Religious Press," W. D. Eaton of "The 
 Press and the Stage," H. W. Thomson of "The Press and the Bar," 
 George W. Peck, now governor of Wisconsin, of "The Suburban Press," 
 and John M. Dandy of "The Ladies."
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 CF THE 
 
 u:;ivtRsrrv * ILLINOIS.
 
 SAMTKL J. 
 
 IKDII.l.. PRKSIDKNT, 1882.
 
 CHAPTER III I882. 
 
 TTHE club had by this time become a powerful factor in the news- 
 paper life of the city. Its record as an organization was clean, 
 and there was considerable interest in the election for officers, 
 called for January 19, 1882. The successful candidates on that occasion 
 were: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 SAMUEL J. MEDILI., The Tribune. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 J. B. HINMAN, The Times. W. D. EATON, The Herald. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 \V. E. CURTIS, The Inter Ocean. 
 
 SECRETARY: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 ELWYN A. BARRON, EDGAR L. WAKEMAN, 
 
 The Inter Ocean. Corns. The Louisville Courier-Journal. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 
 J. B. BRADWELL, The Legal Xews. 
 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: 
 
 J. II. BALLARI), The Inter Ocean, F. S. DAVIDSON, The Times, 
 
 N. A. REED, JR., The Daily News, O. II. PERRY, The Journal, 
 
 R. W. RANSOM, The Tribune. 
 
 Hot'SE COMMITTEE: 
 
 H. B. HUMPHREY, The Times, \V. T. HALL, The Tribune, 
 
 L. ^Y. BUSBEY, The Inter Ocean. 
 
 The new administration appears to have been a business one from 
 start to finish, and kept the club in ship-shape. The new board of direct- 
 ors organized by electing F. S. Davidson chairman, and R. \V. Ransom 
 secretary. The rapid growth of the club made more room desirable, and 
 on March 23 another room was added to the club's quarters. 
 
 Mr. Ransom was a faithful secretary of the board, and left a model 
 record while serving in that capacity. During his temporary absence 
 from the city his position was filled by R. W. Peattie, whose efficient work 
 is worthy of commendation. In April Mr. Davidson tendered his resig- 
 nation as chairman, but it was not accepted. For several succeeding 
 weeks action on it was deferred for one week, and finally the matter was 
 passed indefinitely. 
 
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 42 THE PRESS CI.UR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 May 18, Mr. Ransom, on account of being called away from the city, 
 presented his resignation, and it was accepted reluctantly. A vote of 
 thanks for his good work was tendered him, and J. Harry Ballard was 
 elected secretary. Mr. Ballard fulfilled with credit the duties of the 
 office. 
 
 Mr. Edgar L. Wakeman, the financial secretary, was also a devoted 
 worker for the club's interests, and to his energetic methods and perennial 
 enthusiasm for the organization can be attributed much of its prosperity. 
 Mr. Wakeman has always remained a stanch friend of the Press Club. 
 
 The club made no particular stir until the annual entertainment, 
 which this year took the form of a lecture by Hon. Emory A. Storrs, who 
 had just returned from a trip to Europe. Mr. Storrs was one of Chicago's 
 brightest men, an excellent orator, and a wit. His subject, as announced, 
 was "Ninety Days in Europe." The lecture was delivered in Central 
 Music Hall, Monday evening, October 23, 1882. There was a very large 
 attendance, and as Mr. Storrs made no charge for his services the club 
 netted a handsome sum. The lecture was a brilliant effort, and delighted 
 all who heard it. Mr. Clarence Eddy, the celebrated organist, favored 
 the club by playing an organ solo before the lecture. 
 
 Mr. C. D. Mosher, during the year, presented the club with two 
 handsome albums, containing memorial photographs of members, and 
 was cordially thanked therefor. 
 
 The year closed without further notable event.
 
 LIBRARy 
 UNIVERSITY # U.|NOj St
 
 WII.MAN E. ( VRTI9. PRESIDENT. 1883.
 
 CHAPTER IV 1883. 
 
 T 
 
 HE annual election for this year was held January 4, and the fol- 
 lowing were the successful candidates: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 
 W. E. CURTIS, The Inter Ocean. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICK-PRESIDENT: 
 
 JOHN F. BALLANTYNE, The Herald. N. A. REED, JR., The Daily \eu<s. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 MARTIN J. RUSSELL, The Times. 
 
 SECRETARY: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 ROBERT B. PEATTIE, EDGAR L. WAKEMAN, 
 
 The Herald. Corres. The Loitisville Courier- Journal. 
 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: 
 
 SAMUEL V. STEELE, The Times, J. H. BALLARD, The Inter Ocean, 
 
 \V. A. TAYLOR, The Tribune, O, H PERRY, The Journal, 
 
 JOHN RITCHIE, The Associated Press. 
 
 HOUSE COMMITTEE: 
 
 J. E. FITZGERALD, The Tribune, \V. L. SEVERING, The Inter Ocean, 
 
 W. M. KNOX, The Herald. 
 
 The next event of importance, after the election of officers, was the 
 annual banquet. This was given Saturday evening, January 20, at the 
 Grand Pacific Hotel. The committees in charge were as follows: 
 
 Arrangements Vim. E. Curtis, Edgar L. Wakeman, W. T. Hall. 
 Reception Franc B. Wilkie, \V. K. Sullivan, and the officers of the club. 
 Dancing VI. S. Walker, Wm. H. Strong, Charles M. Fa ye, John M. Dandy, Win. 
 Colebrooke, R. B. Peattie, E. J. McPhelim. 
 
 A large number of members and guests were present, including the 
 following from out of town: Lieut. Gov. S. S. Fifield and wife, of Ash- 
 land, Wis. ; G. C. Matthews and Miss Lottie Matthews, Indianapolis; M. 
 B. Castle and Miss Castle, of Sandwich, 111. ; Colonel Pat Donan and 
 Miss Emma Stoner, of Fargo, Dakota; Smith D. Atkins, of Freeport, 111. ; 
 and George W. Peck, of Milwaukee. 
 
 An hour was pleasantly spent in the hotel parlors before dinner was 
 announced. The hotel chef had, as usual on such occasions at the Grand 
 
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 46 THE J'RESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Pacific, succeeded in setting a most tempting menu before the guests, and 
 there was no lack of attention thereto, nor of pleasant conversation. 
 
 When coffee and cigars appeared, President Curtis made a few re- 
 marks. He congratulated the club and its guests that they were securely 
 housed (the night was extremely cold), and then proceeded to allot the 
 evening's assignments, as follows: 
 
 1. "Who We Are, and Why We Exist, ' - Mr. X. A. Reed, Jr. 
 
 2. "The I'ress Club in Congress," ------ Hon. John F. Finerly. 
 
 Sicilienne (Robert le Diable) Meyerbeer Signer Mierzwinski. 
 
 3. ' The Importance of the Press to the Stage," - - - - Bfr.J.H.McVicker. 
 
 4. "The Importance of the Stage to the Press," - . Mr. George W. Peck. 
 
 Valse, "Parla, ' ----- Arditi. 
 Md'lle Rossini. 
 
 5. "The Perils of the Interviewer," ------ Mr. John Ritchie. 
 
 It. "The Perils of the Interviewed," ------ j/>-. Emory A. Starrs. 
 
 ARIA BUFFO "Mili rampolli cenerentola," - - - - - Rossini. 
 
 Signer Corini. 
 
 7. "Sweethearts, Wives and Babies," ----- Mr. Gilbert A. Pierce. 
 
 BALLAD: Madam Scalchi. 
 
 AT THE PIANOFORTE: Signer Rasori. 
 
 The "assignments" proved full enough of wit and good sense to keep 
 everybody interested, and the music was superb. The artists were mem- 
 bers of Colonel J. H. Mapleson's Opera company, and appeared by his 
 permission. 
 
 Colonel Reed told effectively his tale, but Mr. Finerty, who is the 
 only member of the club so far elected to Congress (though G. A. Pierce 
 has been governor of Dakota Territory, A. P. Swineford of Alaska, and 
 George W. Peck of Wisconsin), failed to take his assignment. Mr. Mc- 
 Vicker thought the press of no value to the drama as an art, but of 
 immense benefit as a commercial venture. Mr. Peck said he knew of 
 nothing of so much importance to the press as the stage, and did not 
 think any newspaper could exist fifteen minutes without it. Among other 
 chunks of wisdom distributed by the speakers were these: 
 
 Mr. Ritchie said: 
 
 A man may be an epitome of the genius of the universe so may a certain clam; but if 
 this talented clam remains locked up in his shell he never rises above the level of his fellow 
 clams. If, however, he is a clam with a grain of common sense in his craw he avails himself 
 of the interviewer and becomes a truly eminent clam. 
 
 Mr. Storrs said, among other good things: 
 
 I am a believer in the custom [that of interviewing]. It is no argument against it that 
 it is new, or comparatively so, and no argument against the system that it sometimes degen- 
 erates into impel tinence and abuse. I know of no better way of ascertaining the views of a 
 public man upon a public question than by squarely asking him what those views are. I know 
 of no juster way of treating a man than to permit him to express his views in his own language
 
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 HKMIY L. BEACH 
 .JAMES O'UONXELI. BENNETT
 
 
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 TOM J. N1CHOL 
 JOHN H. HARRISON 
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 JOHN W. STRONG 
 CHARLES K. LUSH 
 
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 and in his own way. I think it may be truthfully said that the interview will be read while 
 the editorial is not read, and a clear-headed man with sound views and a worthy purpose may 
 safely occupy the interviewer's columns of a great daily paper, permitted to state his case in 
 his own way, as against the editorial columns of the same paper, which state the contrary 
 views in a different way. I know of no better way of getting, not merely opinions, but f.cts, 
 and where facts in which the public have an interest are sought from persons able to com- 
 municate them, I think, as a general rule, there should be no hesitancy in freely giving them 
 to the public. 
 
 After Mr. Pierce had eulogized the ladies, and the babies, which he 
 did cleverly, and Madam Scalchi had sung, the assembly reluctantly dis- 
 persed. 
 
 January 28, the new officers were inducted into office, except Mr. 
 Wakeman, who presented his resignation as Financial Secretary, on 
 account of enforced absence from the city. Mr. Wakeman's resignation 
 was accepted, and the following resolutions were passed: 
 
 WHEREAS, Mr. Edgar I.. Wakeman, reflected Financial Secretary of the Press Club of 
 Chicago at the last general election, finds it necessary, for business reasons, to resign his posi- 
 tion; therefore, be it 
 
 Xi'solved, That in the loss of Mr. Wakeman, in his official capacity, the club is deprived of 
 one of its most energetic and valued officers, many of the fruits of whose unselfish 1 striving for 
 the welfare of the club we are today enjoying. He it further 
 
 Resolved, That in parting with Mr. Wakeman as our Financial Secretary, we express our 
 deepest regret for the necessity making his retirement imperative. 
 
 Mr. R. 6. Peattie was elected Secretary. 
 
 President Curtis announced the standing committees for the year as 
 follows: 
 
 Entertainment F. B.Wilkie, W. T. Hall, Slason Thomson, John M. Dandy, Frank 
 E. Johnson. 
 
 l'isifi/!g-A. F. Shuman, W. T. C. Hyde, W. H. Freeman. 
 
 Library E. H. Talbot, C. M. Pepper, James Maitland, John B. Adams. C. M. Faye. 
 
 A special meeting was ordered for February 4, at which George E. 
 Wright was elected Financial Secretary. 
 
 February 20 the club members were grieved to learn of the death of 
 their Ex-President, Samuel J. Medill, which occurred at Quincy, 111., 
 at the home of his father-in-law, Gen. John B. Carson, on the clay men- 
 tioned. Mr. Medill had been ill with lung and stomach trouble for 
 several months, and had traveled extensively in the hope of securing 
 relief. It was understood that he was improving, and news of his death 
 shocked his comrades. A special meeting of the club was called for the 
 2ist inst., and Messrs. F. B. Wilkie, W. E. Curtis, M. E. Stone, T. Z. 
 Cowles, David Henderson, Washington Hesing and Leo Canman, were 
 appointed a committee to proceed to Quincy and escort the body of Mr. 
 Medill to Chicago. A committee on resolutions was also appointed to 
 draw up a suitable expression and present it at a memorial meeting to be 
 held in the club rooms on Sunday, February 25. The escort committee.
 
 50 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 accompanied by Messrs. Harry Ballard and Martin J. Russell, performed 
 its duty, and funeral services were held in the city on the 23 inst., at the 
 residence of Mr. Joseph Medill, brother of the deceased. At the memo- 
 rial meeting on Sunday following, earnest and touching remarks concerning 
 the life and character of the deceased, were made by Messrs. F. B. Wilkie, 
 T. Z. Cowles, E. Colbert, W. K. Sullivan, John Finerty, E. L. Wakeman, 
 and Ex-Gov. Wm. Bross. The committee on resolutions, through Mr. 
 R. B. Peattie, made a report which was unanimously adopted. 
 
 November n, following, a special meeting was held in the club rooms 
 for the purpose of unveiling a splendid portrait of Mr. Medill, painted 
 and presented to the club by Mr. John Phillips, a thorough artist and a 
 warm friend of Mr. Medill. Addresses were made, on this occasion, by 
 Messrs. Finerty, Cowles, Sullivan and H. W. Thomson. Resolutions 
 were also passed thanking Mr. Phillips for his kindness. 
 
 The next thing to cause a ripple in club life, was the request from 
 the New York Press Club to join the International League of Press Clubs. 
 Col. N. A. Reed, Jr., proposed that the club join the league, but the pro- 
 priety of such action was doubted by many members, and after consider- 
 able discussion the subject was referred to a committee consisting of 
 Messrs. Reed, Thomson, Perry, Wakeman, and Ballard, with instructions 
 to report to the club at a future meeting. March 25, Mr. Thomson, of 
 this committee, reported that no meeting had been called by the chair- 
 man but that Messrs. Ballard, Perry and himself had considered the mat- 
 ter and were ready to report. The club elected to hear the report. It 
 proved to be against the proposition. After asserting that nothing in the 
 scheme seemed particularly advantageous, the report continued: 
 
 "The only tangible suggestion advanced by the projectors ol this journalistic league is 
 that it would be able to issue tickets to all members of clubs composing it, which would 
 entitle them of right to all the privileges of league clubs, which they now have by courtesy. 
 It is submitted that the Press Club of Chicago prefers that visiting members of all respect- 
 able press clubs shall enjoy such privileges as a matter of courtesy and not as a matter of - 
 right. This club values its freedom to extend the freedom of its club rooms to visiting news- 
 paper men, irrespective of their membership in any club too highly to allow that privilege to 
 belong to any except its own members, as a matter of right. The journalistic league proposi- 
 tion simply asks a surrender of this club s perfect independence in its government of its 
 rooms, and gives no advantage in return . 
 
 "Therefore, your committee recommends that the secretary be instructed on behalf of the 
 Press Club of Chicago, to decline entering into the journalistic league. At the same time 
 he should inform the New York Press Club that if the intention to hold the preliminary con- 
 vention in Chicago is adhered to, this club will take pleasure in rendering all the assistance 
 it can in making local arrangements therefor, and extend the courtesies of the Press Club of 
 Chicago to all persons attending such convention, and endeavor to make the stay of visiting 
 delegations to Chicago as pleasant as possible." 
 
 This report was unanimously adopted. 
 
 Matters moved along smoothly during the year. October 28 the 
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 D. Wright was chosen to fill the vacancy. At this meeting a proposition 
 to give a sacred concert on Sunday evening was voted down. The club 
 was desirous of increasing its building fund, but did not deem it proper to 
 take such a radical step as was proposed. 
 
 A special meeting was held November 4, when it was announced that 
 the Boston Ideals had offered to give a matinee Friday afternoon, Novem- 
 ber 1 6, and that Manager John Hamlin had tendered the use of the Grand 
 Opera House for that date. The offers were accepted and the thanks of 
 the club tendered Miss Ober, Manager of the Ideals, and Manager Ham- 
 lin. Messrs. Dandy, Hall, Bradwell, Sullivan and Cowles were appointed 
 a committee on programme and entertainment. 
 
 The matinee, like all previous entertainments of the club, was well 
 attended, and was an artistic and financial success. Following is the 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 OVERTURE Raymond, - - - Thomas. 
 
 QUARTETTE Song of ihe Lark. - - Mendelssohn. 
 
 MISS ULMAR. MISS BURTON', MR. MORSELL, and MR. BAKNABEE. 
 
 ROMAN/A 1'erche mi Volga, - Kizzo. 
 
 MR. KARL. 
 
 Soxr. Totnpkin's Silver Wedding. - - H. M. Dow. 
 
 MR. BARXABEE. 
 
 COMEDIETTA Come Here, 
 
 MME JANAUSCIIEK. 
 
 Firft time in four years. 
 SONG - Let all Obey, . Leach. 
 
 MR. MCDONALD. 
 
 DUET From "Lakme," Delitcs. 
 
 MISS STONE and MISS ULMAR. 
 
 ( La Kileuse, Kaff. 
 
 PIANO SOLO - ( Scher/0 O p. 3,, Chopin. 
 
 MR. LIEBLING. 
 
 SONG The Two Grenadiers, Schumann. 
 
 MR. WHITNEY. 
 
 SKETCH . Original. 
 
 MR. FREDERICK McCABE. 
 
 PART SONG Seleeled. 
 
 MALE VOICES FROM "IBJEAL OPERA." 
 
 PRAYER From the "Prophet." Meyerbeer. 
 
 MISS PHILLIPS. 
 
 R( >M AN/ A Domain, I'altoni. 
 
 MR. MORSEL!,. 
 
 GRAND CHORUS Hail, Poetry! Sullivan. 
 
 BOSTON IDEAL COMPANY. 
 MUSICAL DIRECTOR, - MR. S. L. STUDLKY.
 
 54 THE PRESS CLUR OF CHICAGO. 
 
 At the meeting held November 25 the committee reported the net 
 proceeds of the entertainment at $7 11.65, and subsequent returns increased 
 the amount to about $1,000. The club formally extended thanks to the 
 Boston Ideals, Mr. Hamlin, Madam Janauschek, Fred McCabe, The Weber 
 Piano Company and others for courtesies. On Saturday evening, Novem- 
 ber 31,3 reception was tendered the Boston Ideals, Miss Ober, manager, 
 and Madam Janauschek, in the club rooms. There was a large attend- 
 ance and every one present enjoyed the gathering. 
 
 The club meeting of December 23 is notable from the fact that Mr. W. 
 K. Sullivan presented to the club a portrait of the Hon. George Schnei- 
 der, founder of the Illinois Stunts Zeitung, and a life member of the club. 
 The portrait was the gift of Mr. Schneider in response to a request from 
 members of the club, and a vote of thanks was tendered him there- 
 for. At this meeting Messrs. F. B. Wilkie, W. H. Harper, John F. 
 Ballantyne, Morgan Bates, and Prof. John Fraser, were appointed a com- 
 mittee to arrange for the annual banquet at the Grand Pacific Hotel on 
 Saturday evening, January 5, 1884.
 
 .Jl'IMJE .1. B. BKADWELI.. PRESIDENT, 18^4. .
 
 CHAPTER V 1884. 
 
 'HE annual election preceded the date of the banquet by two days, 
 occurring January 3. Two sets of candidates were balloted for. 
 Mr. F. S. Davidson, of the Western Associated Press, who headed 
 one of the tickets, withdrew after the polls had been open some 
 time, but thirty-nine votes were cast for him. The victors were as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 
 JAMES 15. BKADWELL, The Legal Xews. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 VICTOR F. LAWSON, GUY MAGEE. 
 
 The Daily \c-vs. The Times. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 T. C. MACMILLAN, The Inter Ocean. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: 
 C. D. WRIGHT, The Inter Ocean. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY. 
 JOHN M'GOVERN, The Tnbunc 
 
 TREASURER: 
 
 JAMES \V. SCOTT, The Heiala. 
 
 HOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 LEO CANMAN, The Tribune. W. S. WALKER, The Times, 
 
 THOMAS O'NEILL, The Herald. E. K. DILLINGHAM, The Times. 
 
 W. M. KNOX, The Daily .\Vu. 
 
 HOUSE COMMITTEE: 
 
 I. W. BlNGHAM, The Daily .Yews. E. J. McPHELI.M, The Tribune. 
 
 F. B. \VII.KIE, The Times. 
 
 The banquet was given according to programme and while not at- 
 tended by as many peolpe as those which preceded it, was a most pleasing 
 event. The night was very cold, but the Inter Ocean of the 6th inst. said, 
 "the extreme cold did not prohibit a fair attendance, nor chill the socia- 
 bility of an agreeable occasion." President Curtis presided, and toasts 
 were responded to as follows: "The Old Timers of '56," A. I,. Shuman; 
 "Bohemianism," Franc B. \Vilkie; "Our Esteemed Contemporary," Mel-
 
 58 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 ville E. Stone; "Hard Working Journalists," William H. Busbey; 
 "Don't," Prof. John Fraser; "The Editor's Wife, " (verse) Eugene Field; 
 "Other Ladies," E. J. McPhelim. 
 
 The speeches on this occasion were both interesting and amusing, and 
 worthy of more extended mention. The club, however, did not take to 
 the banquet idea with the unanimity its projectors desired, and with the 
 affair just mentioned, the custom of holding annual banquets was allowed 
 to fall into "innocuous desuetude.-" Since then there have been many 
 brilliant social gatherings of the club's members and distinguished people 
 in all walks of life, in the rooms of the club, and the annual banquet has 
 not been missed. One of these notable gatherings was on the i2th of Jan- 
 uary, 1884, when the club gave a reception to Henry Irving and Miss 
 Ellen Terry, the distinguished English artists. A goodly company gath- 
 ered to do honor to the occasion. Among other guests eminent in the dra- 
 matic profession were Mdlle. Rhea and William Terriss and Miss Mil- 
 ward, of Mr. Irving's Company. There was a delightful informality about 
 the gathering that was fully appreciated. Refreshments were served, 
 and there were music and recitations, which lent an additional charm to 
 an event pleasing and satisfactory in every way to those participating. 
 
 During this year Mr. Joseph Medill, of the Tribune presented the 
 club with his portrait, and the late Hon. John Wentworth did likewise. 
 In the fall of the year Mr. Wright resigned as Secretary, and Mr. R. J. 
 Murphy was elected to the position. 
 
 The lecture the previous year having proved so successful, and Josh 
 Billings having offered to appear for the club, arrangements were made for 
 a lecture at Central Music Hall, on the evening of November 26. Mr. 
 Billings was prevented from keeping his engagement by illness, and Mr. 
 James Whitcomb Riley, assisted by various artists, appeared in the fol- 
 lowing 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 1. ORHAX OVERTURE "Oberon," - - Weber. 
 
 PROF. LOUIS FAI.K, 
 
 2. HUMOROUS LECTURE. - - 
 
 MR. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, 
 
 Of the Indianapolis Journal. 
 
 I'l \so .^ ("V'Ecossaises," ----- Chopin. 
 
 ( (/') Variations on "La ci Darem la Mano," Seetoeck. 
 
 MR. \V. C. E. SEEBOECK. 
 
 4. CAYATINA Bel Raggio. ''Semiramide," Rossini. 
 
 MISS JENNIE DUTTON. 
 
 5 ARIA "O Possente Magia!" Dinorah Meyerbeer. 
 
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 (>. PIANO "Raphsodie No. 14," - Liszt. 
 
 MR. \V. C. E. SEEBOECK. 
 
 7. SELECTION ----- - - - 
 
 THATCHER, PRIMROSE & WEST'S MINSTREL QUARTETTE. 
 
 S. So.XG- "The Village Blacksmith's Bride " Hokfl. 
 
 MISS JENNIE DUTTON. 
 
 y. BALLAD - - Scledni. 
 
 MR. GEORGE SWEET. 
 
 10. RECITATION "Shainus O'Brien," - - - - 
 
 MR. LAWRENCE BARRETT. 
 
 1 1 . SELECTION 
 
 THATCHER, PRIMROSE & WEST'S QUARTETTE. 
 
 This entertainment, like all of those which had preceded it, was art- 
 istically and financially successful, and the club added to its invested 
 funds as a result. At the meeting following thanks were extended to Mr. 
 George B. Carpenter, Miss Jennie Button, Mrs. D. E. Sasseen, Lawrence 
 Barrett, George Sweet, Prof. Seeboeck, Thatcher, Primrose & West, the 
 National Printing Company, The J. M. W. Jones Company, and Broad- 
 way & Treyser.
 
 JOSEPH I!. nfXI.OP. PRESIDENT. iSSj.
 
 CHAPTER VI 1885. 
 
 A CAUCUS was held in December for the purpose of nominating 
 officers to serve during 1885, and the custom has been followed 
 since. Such caucuses, however, have usually been rather infor- 
 mal affairs, and members have not felt called upon to support the nominees. 
 In this first instance the ticket was well supported, but was defeated. 
 There were three tickets in the field, two headed by Mr. James W. Scott, 
 and a third by Joseph R. Dunlop. The following were the successful 
 candidates: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 
 JOSEPH K. DUNLOP, The Into Ocean. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 JOHN M. DANDY, The Saturday Evening Herald. \V M. KNOX, The Daily Xcws. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 RODNEY WELCH, 77;,- Times. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 CHARLES H.DENNIS, The Daily Xews. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: TREASURER: 
 
 W. T. HALL, The Tribune. J. li. BRADWELL, The /.e?a' .Ystas. 
 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: 
 
 EDGAR L. WAKEMAN, The Cut rent. W. II. HARPER, The Inter Ocean. 
 
 LEO CANMAN, The Tribune. ARNOLD PIERCE, The Times. 
 
 F. O. BENNETT, At Large. 
 
 HOUSE COMMITTEE: 
 
 E. R. DILLINGHAM. 77;,' Mail. D. E SASSEEN, The Times. 
 
 WALTER NEEF, The Associated Press. 
 
 President Dunlop appointed the following committees: 
 
 Entertainment J. W. Scott, I. M. Dandy. F. E. Johnson, Washington Hesing;. C. E. 
 Nixon. 
 
 library M. E. Stone, W. K. Sullivan, J. B. Bradwell, Charles M. Pepper. Leancler 
 Stone. 
 
 risiting Charles S. Diehl, N. A. Reed, Jr., W. T. C. Hyde. 
 
 The annual reports for the year 1884 showed a total membership of 
 152 at the close of the year, twenty-four members having been dropped 
 from the rolls for various causes. Of the 152 members, 138 were resident 
 
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 and active, eleven non-resident, one life, and two honorary. There were 
 twenty-three new members elected during the year, and three members 
 died. The report of the retiring treasurer, J. W. Scott, showed receipts 
 for the year of $3,916.50; expenditures, $3,581.53; balance on hand, 
 $334.97. The bonds held by the treasurer amounted to $1,200, so that 
 the total balance in the club's treasury was $1,534.97. 
 
 In April, the Board of Trade moved from Washington and La Salle 
 streets to its new home at La Salle and Jackson streets, and celebrated 
 the event by a banquet at the Grand Pacific Hotel, at which President 
 Dunlop, of the club, was requested to respond to the toast, "The Press." 
 
 The following month Mr. Hall, Recording Secretary, and Mr. Dennis, 
 Financial Secretary, tendered their resignations, and the vacancies were 
 subsequently filled by the election of R. J- Murphy as Recording and F. 
 E. Johnson as Financial Secretary. 
 
 In June a large number of Mexican journalists visited Chicago, and 
 were handsomely entertained by the club, acting for the Board of Trade, 
 which body raised a considerable sum of money to defray the expenses of 
 the entertainment. The editors and their friends spent three days in the 
 city, and were delighted with the hospitality shown them. 
 
 On their return to Mexico a volume descriptive of the tour was pub- 
 lished, and the Press Club was warmly praised for the part it took in 
 making the stay of the visitors pleasant. 
 
 Mr. C. D. Mosher made group pictures of these visitors, and pre- 
 sented the club with a set, for which he was formally thanked. 
 
 June 25 announcement was made of the death of Emery A. Storrs, a 
 leading citizen and a staunch friend of the club, and Messrs. Leo Canman, 
 T. Z. Cowles and Henry Wendell Thomson were appointed a committee 
 to draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of the members. They 
 reported the following, which were adopted: 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Emery A. Storrs the press of Chicago will miss a 
 staunch and devoted friend, whose conception of the true relations of the press and of public 
 men toward each other might well serve as a model and a standard. He had a hearty con- 
 tempt for the fallacy that to say nothing is to establish a reputation for superior wisdom; and 
 in recognition of the binding force of the unwritten law that whatever the public wants the 
 public is entitled to have, he was at all times ready and willing to impart information that was 
 a proper subject for publication. He was the friend of the interviewer, and did much toward 
 popularizing and rendering valuable that feature of journalism. In Mr. Storrs the Press Club 
 of Chicago recognized a generous friend and a helper, whose voice and splendid abilities were 
 at all times at the club's service. Although ineligible to membership, he stood in the relation 
 of one of us, in the sense ot his hearty sympathy with all the ends and aims of our organ- 
 ization. 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the records of this club, and that a 
 copy of the same be transmitted by the Secretary to the family of the deceased. 
 
 When the time approached for the sixth annual entertainment, the 
 committee, consisting of J. W. Scott, chairman, J. M. Dandy, F. E.
 
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 Johnson, Washington Hesing, and Charles E. Nixon, determined to outdo 
 all previous attempts, and the result proved their efforts were successful. 
 They prepared an excellent programme, and the hall was crowded with 
 the best people in the city. Everything moved with clock-like precision, 
 and the committee merited the thanks of the club, which were voted at 
 the subsequent meeting. The programme was as follows: 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 ORGAN "Offertoire de Ste. Cecile," - - Batiste. 
 
 HARRISON M. WILD. 
 
 HUMOROUS MONOLOGUE, 
 
 JAMES WHITCOMB KILEY. 
 
 MUSICALS, 
 
 THE WONDERFUL MAGNANI TROUPE. 
 Courtesy of Kiralfy Bros. 
 
 LECTURE "Advice to Young Men," - 
 
 ROBERT J. BURDETTE. 
 
 BOLERO, Aniiti. 
 
 MISS JENNIE BUTTON. 
 
 RECITATION "Lasca," Desf raize. 
 
 SAMUEL KAVZER. 
 
 MONOLOGUE "Artistic Africa," - 
 
 WILLIS P. SWEATXAM, 
 Courtesy of Haverly's Home Minstrels. 
 
 ARIA From "Le Postilion de Lonjumeau," ----- Aiiam. 
 
 FERDINAND WACHTEL. 
 Courtesy of Gustav Amberg. 
 
 RECITATION "Antony and Cleopatra," - Lytlc. 
 
 W. S. HARKIXS. 
 Courtesy of Louis Aldrich. 
 
 SWEDISH LOVE SONG, - h'jcrnclf. 
 
 JOHN E. McWADE. 
 Courtesy of J. H. Haverly. 
 
 JAPANESE POT-POURRI, 
 
 THE MADRIGAL HOYS. 
 Courtesy of J. H. Haverly. 
 
 "Trr WILLOW" Song, The Mikado. 
 
 LOUIS DE LANGE. 
 Courtesy of C. H. Goodwin. 
 
 ARIA Prayer from "Der Freischeutz," - 
 
 MME. FRANCKSKA RABERG. 
 Courtesy of Gustav Amberg.
 
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 "OiiK MAMMA," - - - . . . - - Tosti. 
 
 MISS MARIE JANSEN. 
 Courtesy of John A. McCaull. 
 
 TOPICAL TRIO "Read the Answer in the Stars," - - - Cottrelly. 
 
 MATHILDK COTTRELLY, GEORGE C. BONIFACE, JR., AND 
 
 DE WOLF HOPPER. 
 Courtesy of John A. McCaull. 
 
 Full Orchestra Accompaniment, under direction of HERR DIETRICH. 
 
 Courtesy of J. M. Hill. 
 FRANK T. BAIRD, 'Accompanist. 
 
 The CHICAGO PRESS CLUB desires to make acknowledgment for the continued 
 courtesies of Mrs. Geo. li. Carpenter, lessee, and Mr. Mihvard Adams, 
 manager of Central Music Hall; also, to all the artists par- 
 ticipating in the programme. 
 
 The Weber Piano is used in this entertainment. 
 
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 At the meeting of the club held on December 13, 1885, the deaths of 
 members Frank Cunningham and Charles D. Wright were reported. After 
 the adoption of suitable memorials of the deceased, Mr. H. F. Boynton 
 offered a resolution to the effect that the club appoint a committee of five 
 members to report upon the feasibility of procuring a lot in a local ceme- 
 tery, to be known as the lot of the Press Club of Chicago, in which all 
 deceased members not otherwise provided for might be buried ; also, that 
 the committee inquire into the cost of a suitable shaft to mark the lot, if 
 one were secured. The resolution was adopted. It was prompted by the 
 offer of Mr. John R. Bensley, president of the Mt. Hope cemetery, to 
 donate a lot to the club. The committee appointed to take charge of the 
 matter consisted of Messrs. H. F. Boynton, T. Z. Cowles, Leo Canman. 
 Win. M. Knox, and Judge J. B. Bradwell.
 
 JOHN F. BAI.I.AXTYXK. PRESIDENT, ]886.
 
 CHAPTER VII 1886. 
 
 THIS year was not as productive in notable events as that of its 
 predecessor. 
 The annual meeting for the election of officers was held January 
 7, 1886. Mr. McGovern withdrew a ticket headed by James W. Scott, of 
 The Herald by authority of the latter. The polls were open from 4 to 9 
 o'clock, p. M., and 106 ballots were cast, the largest number since the 
 organization of the club. The result was as follows: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 
 JOHN F. BALLANTYNE, The Daily Xeu's. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 T. Z. COWLFS, 'I'lic Mirror of American Sports. 
 
 SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 W. A. TAYLOR, The Herald. WASHINGTON HESING, 
 
 Staats Zeititng. 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 JOHN J. FULLER, The \alional Car Builder. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: TREASURER: 
 
 W. H. HARPER, The Inter Ocean. LEO CANMAN, The Tribune. 
 
 HIKECTORS: 
 
 JOHN M. DANDY, Saturday Evening Hetald. 
 
 R. \V. RANSOM, The Tribune. W. M. KNOX, The .\~nvs. 
 
 C. A. SNOWDEN, The Mail. F. B. WII.KIK, The Times. 
 
 HOUSE COMMITTEE: 
 
 WALTER NEEK, Western Associated Press. 
 FRED B. STEVENSON, The Sun, C. F. BLAKEI.Y, Blakely Printing Co. 
 
 After the tellers had announced the result, on motion of Mr. Dandy, 
 the election of the successful ticket was declared unanimous. 
 
 The new officers, with the exception of President Ballantyne, who 
 was absent in New Orleans at the time of his election, were installed at a 
 special meeting, January 17. The outgoing Treasurer made a supple- 
 mental report, and the Financial Secretary gave an account of his able 
 
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 and excellent stewardship. The Treasurer's report showed receipts of 
 $5,174.22 for the year; expenditures, $4,744. 13; balance on hand, $430.09; 
 permanent fund, $2,000; total balance, $2,430.09. 
 
 Mr. Frank E. Johnson was added to the Art Committee Messrs. 
 Magee, McGovern and Cowles to procure a portrait of the retiring presi- 
 dent. 
 
 February 14, 1886, President Ballantyne was duly installed in office. 
 The Board of Directors reported having organized, with John M. 
 Dandy as chairman and W. M. Knox as secretary. The committee 
 recommended the resumption of Saturday evening receptions, which had 
 been allowed to lapse for a time. It was reported that a recent lecture by 
 Col. Charles Chaille Long, under the auspices of the club, was a pro- 
 nounced success. 
 
 March 14 President Ballantyne appointed the following standing 
 committees: 
 
 Library Committee H. F. Boynton, J. F. Henderson, R. J. Murphy. 
 
 Entertainment Committee Franc B. Wilkie, H. M. Hunt, E. J. Mcl'helim, Charles E. 
 Nixon, Harry \V. Snyder. 
 
 Reception Commit/ft John McGovern, H. F. Boynton, J. M. Dandy, H. W. Thomson, 
 J. W. Scott. 
 
 I'isiting Commit/it F. O. Bennett, J. C. Bundy, G. A. Babbitt. 
 
 April ii the club decided, by resolution, that it was the intent and 
 meaning of the constitution, in defining eligibility, that in the class of 
 "regular contributors" to the press should be included all artists who 
 illustrate thoughts in pictorial form for the publications of Chicago. 
 
 The Library Committee submitted reports acknowledging the receipt 
 of twenty-two volumes from A. C. McClurg, eleven from Belford, Clarke 
 & Co., and a large number of valuable books from Harper & Brothers, and 
 recommended that suitable notices be published. The committee also 
 set forth that the growth of the library and the acquisition of valuable 
 books had progressed so favorably that it would be wise to have cases 
 with glass doors and locks constructed, and recommended their purchase. 
 
 The club extended a vote of thanks to the publishers, and also to the 
 Chicago Safe and Lock Co., for a beautiful and valuable safe; to W. W. 
 Kimball for a Hallet & Davis piano; to The Daily News, The Legal News, 
 The Chicago Herald, The Hotel World, and The Saturday Evening Herald 
 for advertising favors, and to John J. Fuller, the Financial Secretary, 
 for his unceasing efforts in the interests of the club, and all of these 
 formal acknowledgments were spread upon the records. 
 
 May 9, 1886, Vice-President Cowles presided, and Treasurer Canman 
 reported receipts for the year, to date, $1,841.81. Mr. Boynton, of the 
 Library Committee, reported the receipt of twenty-four volumes from Har- 
 per & Brothers. The club was free from debt.
 
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 The deaths of Prof. John Frazer and Henry Wendell Thomson were 
 reported and suitable action was taken. 
 
 Messrs. Robert J. Burdette and Col. Charles ChaiHe 1 Long were 
 elected honorary members. 
 
 A special meeting of the club was held on September 3, for the elec- 
 tion of two directors and a Treasurer, to fill vacancies caused by resigna- 
 tions. The result of the election was as follows: Treasurer, James W. 
 Scott; Directors, Henry F. Boynton, The Inter Ocean; Hugh Hume, The 
 Inter Ocean. 
 
 At the meeting of September 12, Mr. Boynton tendered his resigna- 
 tion as a director, because he did not approve of two directors being 
 elected from the same paper. 
 
 The seventh annual entertainment was given Monday evening, 
 November i, at Central Music Hall. It was a pleasing and popular one. 
 Following is the 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 i. ORGAN SOLO Variations in A, 
 
 LOUIS FALK. 
 
 2. REMARKS The Use and Abuse of I'ugilism, 
 
 BILL NYE. 
 
 / fl, Mennetto, in G, 
 
 3. PIANO SOLO < b. Nocturne (Op. 37, No. 2), 
 
 ' f, Neapolitaine, 
 
 MLLE. CONSTANCE MOZARRA, 
 
 4. CHILD SKETCH "Orphant Annie," 
 
 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. 
 
 5. SONG, 
 
 HERR OTTO RATHJENS. 
 Courtesy of Amberg Thalia Opera Company. 
 
 , i. Fantasia on Russian Airs, 
 
 6. VIOLIN SOLO -' ( a. Nocturne, 
 
 ' ' '( I', Dervish Dance, 
 
 HERR PAUL STOEVING. 
 Piano Accompaniment by MLLE. MOZARRA. 
 
 7. READING The Little Wharf Rat, 
 
 MISS EMMA liOHHITT. 
 
 S. MONOLOGUE Musical Memories, 
 
 MR. FRANK LINCOLN. 
 
 9. AIR Thema und Variazionen, 
 
 Hesse. 
 
 Original. 
 
 Moszkou'sky. 
 
 Chopin . 
 
 Lissl. 
 
 Origins/. 
 
 Schubert. 
 
 Wicniau'ski. 
 
 Chopin- Sarasate. 
 
 Stoeving. 
 
 Derrick Doit,/. 
 
 Original. 
 
 Hfinrich Proch. 
 
 MISS LILY RUNALS.
 
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 10. EPISODE Reprimanding a Boy, Original. 
 
 KILL NVK. 
 
 n. SONG The Desert, - - Pinsuti. 
 
 IMPERIAL QUARTETTE. 
 
 12. HOOSIER DIALECT "Nothin" to Say," - Original. 
 
 JAMES WHITCOMI! RILEV. 
 
 13. INSTRUMENTAL El Guria (Waltz), - D. GradaJo. 
 
 FLORENTINE MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA. 
 
 14. SONG A Dream, Robin. 
 
 MISS CARRIE GODFREY. 
 Courtesy of Thompson Opera Company. 
 
 The entertainment was successful in every respect, and was the clos- 
 ing event of general interest in the history of the club for the year. 

 
 JAMES W. SCOTT, PRESIDENT, 1887-8-9.
 
 CHAPTER VIII 1887. 
 
 '1TH the coming of 1887 there was a desire to have an energetic 
 administration and the name of Mr. ]. \V. Scott, of The Herald, 
 was again mentioned in connection with the presidency. It 
 found favor with all, and a ticket was agreed upon, and elected without 
 opposition, January 6, 1887. The ticket was composed of the following 
 gentlemen : 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 JAMESW. SCOTT, The Herahi. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOSH VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 WM. PEXX NIXON, Tin- Inter Ocean. \V. K. SUI.I.IVAX, The Evening Journal. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 JOHN XI. DANDY, The Saturday Evening Herald. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 HENRY XI. HUXT, //tint's .Yew's Bureau. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: TREASURER: 
 
 DAVID E. SASSEEX. GEORGE SCHNEIDER. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 R. \V. RANSOM, The Tribune. T. Z. COWLES, The Times. E. H. TAI.BOT, The Kaihcay A^e. 
 CHAS. M. FAYE, The Daily Xews. J. J. WEST, The Evening Mail. 
 
 HOUSE COMMITTEE: 
 
 P.ui. C. Hn.l., The Daily Xews. JOHN PRATT, The Tribune. A. C. THOMAS, 
 
 The Associated Press. 
 
 President Scott appointed the following committees for 1887: 
 
 Entertainment C. A. Snowden, II. B. Smith, Walton Perkins, J. J. Fuller, Sam V. 
 Steele. 
 
 Library E. A. Calkins, H. F". Boynton, E. P. Yining. 
 
 Keception]rM. F. Ballantyne, Col. J. C. Bundy, T. '/.. Cowles, J. B. Jeffery, John 
 E. Wilkie. 
 
 J'isifi/i.? John McGovern, W. A. Taylor. J. Harry Ballard. 
 
 On the evening of January 6, 1887, a reception was given in the club 
 rooms to Mr. Wilson Barrett and Miss Eastlake, the eminent English 
 
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 actors. The rooms were crowded and a most interesting and enjoyable 
 evening was spent. Subsequently Mr. Barrett presented the club with 
 a fine portrait of himself. 
 
 At the regular meeting, held January 9, 1887, the newly elected offi- 
 cers were duly installed. The reports of the Financial Secretary and 
 Treasurer showed receipts $5,806.19, and expenditures $5,205.06, leaving 
 a balance of $601.13 ' n tne l u b treasury. Mr. Boynton of the library 
 committee reported the receipt of one hundred and forty volumes during 
 the year, and, on motion of Mr. McGovern, was tendered a vote of thanks 
 by the club for his efforts in behalf of the library. Mr. Hunt of the enter- 
 tainment committee reported that the receipts were $1,508.50, and the 
 expenses $477.36; net profit $1.031. 14. Mr. J. J. West was credited with 
 having sold the largest number of tickets, 250, and was given a vote of 
 thanks. There were forty-seven new members elected during the year, but 
 forty of the old members had either resigned or been dropped from the 
 rolls. Messrs. T. Z. Cowles and R. W. Ransom tendered their resignations 
 as Directors, and they were accepted. 
 
 At the meeting held January 23, Mr. George Schneider, a life member 
 of the club, presented a five dollar greenback, series A, No. i, to the club 
 as a curiosity. It has been framed and is carefully preserved. One or 
 two other bills said to be the original No. i have turned up since, but 
 none has been able to maintain its rights to priority over that held by the 
 club. One was sent to Washington for the purpose of establishing its 
 identity as the only Simon pure original No. i, but the treasury authorities 
 stamped "counterfeit" across it and returned the paper to the owner. In 
 February of this year, Mr. Paul C. Russell, a member of the club, was 
 killed by being thrown under the cars of the Illinois Central Railroad. 
 At the meeting February 21, Messrs. H. W. Snyder, John E. Wilkie and 
 John J. Fuller were named as a committee on resolutions of respect to the 
 memory of Mr. Russell. Suitable floral tributes were ordered sent to the 
 residence, and H. M. Hunt, Hill C. Smyth and D. E. Sasseen were 
 appointed a committee to procure the same. The pall-bearers named 
 were Messrs. J. J. Fuller, Harry Manning, W. T. C. Hyde, F. B. Wilkie, 
 W. M. Knox and Fred B. Stevenson. 
 
 Notice was received by the club from E. S. Clark, Secretary of the 
 Press Club of Albuquerque, New Mexico, that C. M. Ostrander, a member 
 of the Press Club of Chicago, was sick in that city and in distress. On 
 motion of Mr. Cowles, the club voted to send Mr. Ostrander a draft for 
 $50. At the regular meeting of the club held April g, 1887, the members 
 were grieved by the news from Phoenix, Arizona, that C. M. Ostrander 
 had died a few days before. Suitable resolutions were passed by the club 
 to the memory of M'r. Ostrander. 
 
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 also announced, and resolutions of respect were passed. Messrs. F. B. 
 Wilkie, T. Z. Cowles, J. J. Fuller, H. M. Hunt, H. J. Bohn and J. F. 
 Ballantyne were appointed a committee to represent the club at Mr. 
 Colebrook's funeral. 
 
 At the regular meeting held May 8, 1887, a report was made by the 
 monument committee to the effect that the Chicago Architectural Sketch 
 Club had submitted several designs for a Press Club monument. At this 
 meeting John R. Walsh, Esq., was elected a life member of the club. 
 Notice of the death of Mr. James F. Small, a member of the club, 
 was given, and Mr. McGovern presented resolutions of respect, which 
 were unanimously adopted. 
 
 At the meeting of the club held June 12, 1887, the subject of a series 
 of lectures under the auspices of the club was discussed. The resigna- 
 tion of C. M. Faye from the Board of Directors was received and accepted. 
 
 At the meeting held September n, Mr. J. K. Allen, of The Sanitary 
 News, was unanimously elected a Director to fill vacancy. 
 
 At the meeting held November 13, 1887, it was voted to give the 
 annual entertainment on the evening of Monday, December 5, and Presi- 
 dent Scott reported that he had procured the consent of Messrs. Bill Nye 
 and James Whitcomb Riley to appear for the entertainment. It was 
 found impossible to make the date suitable for these gentlemen, and 
 their offer was deferred to another occasion. The programme for the 
 entertainment was as follows: 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 1. OR<;AX FANTASIE "Old Folks at Home," Flagler. 
 
 MR. LOUIS FAI.K. 
 
 2. "A WARRIOR BOLD," /. A. West. 
 
 LOTUS QUARTETTE. 
 
 3. "Tompkins' Silver Wedding," 
 
 MR. H. C. BARXABEE. 
 
 ( (a) BorRREE, Bach-Hyllestftt. 
 
 "*' i (fi) POLONAISE - - Chopin. 
 
 MR. AUGUST HVLLESTED. 
 
 5. CHE FARO SENZA EI-RIDICK, Cluck. 
 
 JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS. 
 
 6. FAfST FANTASIE, M'ieniawski 
 
 MR. CARL MILD. 
 Accompanied by Mrs. Hild. 
 
 7. IMITATIONS, - Original. 
 
 MR. MARSHALL 1'. WILDER.
 
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 S VITTORIO Mio CORE, 
 
 Carrissiiiutii . 
 
 MR. L. GASTON GOTTSCHALK. 
 
 9. BARDIC FANTASIA ON IRISH AIRS, F. Ckatterton. 
 
 Introducing enharmonic effects possible only to the harp. 
 
 MME. TOSEPIIIXE CHATTERTOX. 
 
 10. AVF. MARIA, 
 
 1 1 . SONG, 
 
 MRS. ANNA DONEY, 
 Violin and Piano Accompaniment by Mr. and Mrs. Hild. 
 
 MR. vv. H. MACDOXALD. 
 
 Ch, Gounod. 
 
 Sflfcteit. 
 
 12. OH! LUCIE PI QUEST AMMA, 
 
 MISS JULIET CORDEX. 
 
 13. MONOLOGUE, 
 
 Original. 
 
 MR. MARSHAL P. WILDER. 
 
 14. By courtesy of the Messrs. John, James and George Gorman, proprietors, and Fred E. 
 Wright, manager, GORMAN'S SPECTACULAR MINSTRELS in the new erratic 
 extravaganza, entitled 
 
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 CHAPTER IX 1888. 
 
 THE ninth annual election was held in January, 1888, and the fol- 
 lowing ticket was unanimously elected, there being no opposition. 
 It was the first time in the history of the club that a president had 
 been reelectecl : 
 
 I'RESIDENT: 
 JAMES \V. SCOTT, The Herald. 
 
 VICE- PRESIDENTS: 
 
 FRANK S. BLALN, The Inter Ocean. CLINTON B. SNOWDEN, The Times. 
 
 JOHN K. ALLEN, The American Advertiser. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 GEORGE SCHNEIDER, Banker. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY. SECRETARY. 
 
 JOHN B. WALDO, Commercial Bulletin. HOMER J. CARR, The Tribune. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 HENRY F. BOYXTON, The Inter Ocean. OPIE P. READ, The Arkansaw Traveler. 
 
 FRED A. MALI.ERY, The News. ERVIN B. HAWKINS, The Tribune. 
 
 EDWARD L. STEWART. 
 
 At the regular meeting February 9, President Scott announced the 
 appointment of the following standing committees: 
 
 Entertainment Committee Henry M. Hunt, Chairman; John M. Dandy, Charles 
 E. Nixon, \Vm. M. Meredith, Paul Hull. 
 
 Reception Committee John McGovern, Chairman; Col. J. C. Bundy, Seymour 
 Kisch, M. B. Gibbs, T. Z. Cowles. 
 
 Library Committee \V. H. Freeman, Chairman; John Willy, Wm. H. Strong. 
 
 At the meeting of the club held January 8, Messrs. W. M. Knox, John 
 McGovern and W. H. Freeman were appointed a committee to revise the 
 constitution. At the meeting held February 9, the committee on constitu- 
 tion reported, and a lengthy discussion of the report followed, resulting 
 in the matter being deferred to the next monthly meeting. 
 
 It was deemed advisable that the club give an extra entertainment, 
 especially as Messrs. Xye and Riley had so cordially tendered their serv- 
 ices. The Directors carried out the wishes of the club, and on Wednes- 
 
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 day evening, February 15, 1888, at Central Music Hall, a very memor- 
 able entertainment was given, with the following 
 
 PROGRAMME: 
 
 1. ORGAN March 1-antastic (Bargifl). LOUIS FAI.K. 
 
 2. DIALECT STUDY - - JAMES WIIITCOMB RILEY. 
 
 3. MONOLOGUE, - - - BILL NYE. 
 
 4. "HARK! THE TRUMPET" (DuJley Buck). - LOTUS QUARTETTE. 
 
 5. CHARACTER POEM, - JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. 
 
 6. "As IT WERE," - BILL NYE. 
 
 7. "OLD KENTUCKY HOME," - - - LOTUS QUARTETTE. 
 S. IMPERSONATIONS, - - - JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. 
 9. IN CONCLUSION, - - - BILL NYE. 
 
 At the meeting of the club held March n, 1888, the Financial Secretary 
 reported that the receipts for February, including the Nye and Riley 
 entertainment, were $1,702, and the expenditures $670.80, leaving a 
 balance of $1,031.22 in bank, with all bills paid. Messrs. Nye and Riley 
 were elected honorary members of the organization. 
 
 The club now entered upon a season of prosperity that was unparal- 
 leled in its history. President Scott reported that the Directors had 
 decided to improve the club rooms. The committee on constitution 
 reported the revised document, and it was adopted after some revision by 
 the club. On motion of Mr. Boynton, the club voted to publish the con- 
 stitution and the history of the club, and President Scott appointed Mr. 
 Henry F. Boynton a committee on publication. The club rooms were 
 filled with members, and President Scott announced that the next meeting 
 of the club would be held at the Sherman House, as the rooms were to be 
 dismantled at once. Mr. Paul Blouet, "MaxO'Rell," was the guest of 
 the club on this closing Sunday in the old rooms, and a social session was 
 enjoyed as a farewell to the old home in its existing condition. 
 
 April 8, 1888, the club met at the Sherman House. President Scott 
 announced that Mr. David Henderson, of the Chicago Opera House, had 
 tendered the use of his theater for a Sunday evening during April for the 
 benefit of the club. The offer was accepted for Sunday evening, April 22, 
 but subsequently the date was changed, as it was deemed improper for the 
 club to give an entertainment on the Sabbath. The club voted to 
 give the first reception in the new rooms to the newspaper fraternity, 
 another formal reception to be given the same week as a house-warming. 
 
 The death of Leander Stone, Esq., was reported to the club, and Mr. 
 F. B. Wilkie was appointed a committee to draft suitable resolutions. 
 
 A special matinee was given at the Chicago Opera House Thursday, 
 April 26, 1888, and was a grand success. The programme, a most excel- 
 lent one, was as follows:
 
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 W. S. WALKER
 
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 PROGRAMME. 
 
 1. OVERTURE Rienzi (the Last of the Tribunes), Wagner. 
 
 CHICAGO OPERA HOUSE ORCHESTRA (conducted by MR. RICHARD MADDERS). 
 
 2. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE S. KNIGHT, 
 
 (By kind permission of Manager HARRY HAMI.IN) in the second act of their great play, 
 
 "BARON RUDOLPH" 
 
 WITH THE FOLLOWING CAST: 
 
 Rudolph Wiegand, Baron von Hollenstein, Mr. Geo. S. Knight. 
 
 \Vhitworth Lawrence, a Man of Iron and Gold Mr. John Burk. 
 
 Gen. Benj. Metcalf, a Man of Lawand Love, Mr. Bernard Dillyn. 
 
 Judge Merrybone, a Man of Justice and Fun, - Mr. Will C. Sampson. 
 
 Geoffrey Brown, a Man of Tender Years, Mr. 15. F. Grinnell. 
 
 Allen - | i - - Mr. Samuel Ryan 
 
 r Professional Men, - .-. 
 
 Owen - j ( " " Mr. B. B. Cromby. 
 
 The County Sheriff the Right Man in the Right Place Mr. Hartley McCullum. 
 
 John Henry Thomas, a Footman, Mr. Charles L. Webster. 
 
 Bill Overdeck, a Man who has a Memory, - Mr. John B. Dillon. 
 
 John Wilson, a Workman, Mr. Richard Reab. 
 
 Herr Louis von Zelner, - / Foreign Gentlemen, Agents ( - Mr. John H. Jackson. 
 
 Herr Otto Breau, - - f of the Hollenstein Estates, | Mr. William Jeffries. 
 
 Rhoda, who Loves and Suffers, - Miss Florida A bell. 
 
 Ernestine, a Baby, a Girl, and a Woman, Miss Rosita Worrell. 
 
 Mrs. Nellie Dashwood, a Young Widow, - Mrs. George S. Knight. 
 Iron Founders, Police Officers, etc., - SCENE Lawrence Mansion, Lawrenceburg. 
 
 3. VIOLIN SOLO Fantasie Brilliante (Othello), Rossini-Ernst. 
 
 MR. THEODORE MARTIN. 
 
 ^. SONG Open Thy Lattice, 
 
 MISS ANNIE MYERS. 
 
 5. THE COOPER'S SONG, from "Boccaccio," Von Sufpt. 
 
 MR. DIGBY BELL. 
 
 6. RECITATION The Little Hero. Matthcson. 
 
 MR. R. A. ROBERTS. 
 By kind permission of Manager DANIEL SHEI.HV. 
 
 i ( a. Two Grenadiers, i 
 
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 I l>, Birdie, [ 
 
 MR. DEWOLF HOPPER. 
 
 8. RECEPTION, 
 
 MISS MABEL BERT. 
 
 9. SONG Dein Gedenk Up Margarithe, Myer-HelmunJ. 
 
 MR. HUBERT \VII.KIE. 
 
 10. MR. EDDIE KOY, in his Famous Specialties.
 
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 11. SONG Love is but a Faded Flower, Von Suppe. 
 
 MISS MARION MANOLA. 
 
 12. MLLE. BKAMBILLA, Premiere Danseuse. 
 
 13. CORNET SOLO The Volunteers. Rogers. 
 
 (Descriptive of the yacht race between the Volunteer and Thistle.) 
 MR. JAMES LLEWELLYN. 
 
 14. MISS KATE CLAXTON and MR. CHAS. A. STEVENSON". 
 
 In the fourth act of their great play 
 
 "THE WORLD AGAINST HER" 
 
 (By kind permission of Managers MORTON and I'KRI.F.V), 
 
 WITH THE FOLLOWING CAST: 
 
 Jennie Clegg, May Contee. 
 
 Lucy Danvers, Leslie Tillson. 
 
 Sallie Millet, - Alice Leigh. 
 
 Liz Markland, - Maude Horsford. 
 
 Mary, Loie Collier. 
 
 Annie, Madge's Child, - Daisy Luby. 
 
 Madge Carlton, Kate Claxton. 
 
 Gilbert Blair, an Ironfounder, - Arthur Forrest. 
 
 Mr. Danvers, a Speculator, - T. Edward Hall. 
 
 Harold Vernon, his Nephew. - - Payson Mackaye. 
 
 Simon Clegg, - Palmer Collins. 
 
 Bob Millett, a Showman, E. A. Eagleton. 
 
 Dick Markland, a Coiner, - - - R. N. Hickman. 
 
 Hesslop, a Detective, - - - Edgar Drew. 
 Ned Markland (Twelve-year old son of Liz and Dick, adopted by Sallie), Master Frank Dean. 
 
 T awaits, - Edward Short. 
 
 James Carlton (Foreman of Blair's Iron Works), Charles A. Stevenson. 
 
 The artists of the McCaull Opera Company, by kind permission of Colonel JNO. A. McC.\ri,l., 
 and DAVID HENDERSON, Director Chicago Opera House. 
 
 Musical Directors ADOLF NOWAK, RICHARD MADDERN. 
 Stage Manager HERHF.RT A. CRIPPS. 
 
 The Press Club of Chicago wishes to express to Mr. David Henderson, Director of the 
 Chicago Opera House, its appreciation of his courtesy in tendering his theater for this enter- 
 tainment. 
 
 At the regular meeting held May 13 the Financial Secretary reported 
 a net profit of $569.51 on the Opera House matinee. This made the cash 
 balance in the bank $2,276.20. The Directors, under the leadership of 
 President Scott, had completely changed the club rooms, refurnishing 
 and redecorating the entire floor, from front to rear, besides securing 
 rooms for a restaurant on the floor below. The entire expenditure did not 
 exceed $2,000. It was decided to give the "stag" reception, to journalists
 
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 only, before the formal house-warming, and on Wednesday evening, May 2, 
 the rooms were filled with gentlemen of the newspaper profession. They were 
 delighted, and the result of the reception was the posting of nearly twenty 
 applications for membership. On the following Saturday evening, May 5, 
 the formal house-warming reception was given, and about five hundred of 
 the leaders of the social and professional world were entertained. It was 
 an era in the history of the club long to be remembered. 
 
 The club tendered Mr. Seymour Kisch a vote of thanks for a hand- 
 some gift of the Encyclopedia Britannica. At the meeting held May 13 
 the resignations of Directors F. A. Mallery and E. B. Hawkins were 
 received, as Mr. Mallery had left the city, and Mr. Hawkins could not 
 give the time necessary to discharge the duties of the office. The President 
 announced that at the next monthly meeting the vacancies would be filled 
 by the election of two Directors. Messrs. Scott and Wilkie were named a 
 committee to prepare an amendment regarding the admission of associate 
 members. 
 
 On June 7, at the regular meeting, the constitution as amended was 
 finally adopted. Several new members were elected. Resolutions of re- 
 spect to the memory of Leander J. Stone were adopted. Montgomery B. 
 Gibbs of The News and John S. Richardson of The Times were elected 
 Directors to fill vacancies. 
 
 President Scott reported that the restaurant attachment which had 
 been put in had proved a great success. It was voted to tender the use of 
 the club rooms to the Press Committee of the National Republican Conven- 
 tion. Also to give a reception to visiting journalists on Tuesday evening, 
 June 19. In accordance with this action the National Press Committee 
 occupied the rooms, and the tickets to the National Convention of 1888 
 were issued from the Press Club. A reception was given the visiting jour- 
 nalists, the assemblage being a most brilliant and congenial one. It 
 was the first of its kind ever held in this country at a National Conven- 
 tion. There were gathered in the rooms representatives from all the 
 leading journals in America, and the speeches and other entertainment 
 will long be remembered by those fortunate enough to be present. 
 
 The annual entertainment this year was given, as usual, at Central 
 Music Hall, on the evening of December 7, and was a thoroughly artistic 
 and enjoyable affair. The people crowded the house, and the club netted 
 about $2,000. Following is the 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 1. OKGAN Fantasie on themes from "Faust," Gounod-Eddy. 
 
 CLARENCE EDDY. 
 
 ( a "Serenade," ----------- Ilodn's. 
 
 2. SONG -: , , . ,, 
 
 I b I he Sparrow s 1 witter, - Otto. 
 
 WEBER QUARTKTTK.
 
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 3. RECITATION \ " " L Ve ! " yster Hay/> W ' l ~ 
 
 (b Scene from "The 1 ale of Two Cities," - Dickens. 
 
 A. P. BURBANK. 
 
 4. VIOLIN SOLO "Andante and Shcrzo," David. 
 
 MISS OLL1E TORBETT. 
 By courtesy of J. B. Pond. 
 
 5. BARITONE SOLO "The Palms," -------- four,: 
 
 SIGNOR TAGLIAPIETRA. 
 By courtesy of J. B. Pond. 
 
 6. MUSICAL READING "Minuette," - Co/this. 
 
 MISS EDITH PONU. 
 By courtesy of J. B. Pond. 
 
 7. SONG Air and Variations, - - - - - - - - .. - Prodi. 
 
 MISS ANNA SMITH. 
 (Her second appearance in America ) 
 
 S. SONG "Fond Heart, Farewell!" ---._. Hope Temple. 
 
 EUGENE OUD1N. 
 By kind permission of Col. John A. McCaull. 
 
 q. WHISTLING AIR "II Bacio," , - Arditi. 
 
 MRS. ALICE J. SHA\V. 
 By courtesy of J. B. Pond. 
 
 INTERMISSION, 
 
 10. PROF. HARTL'S VIENNESE LADY FENCERS. 
 
 By kind permission of the Eden Musee. 
 
 1. Au MUR, - Executed by eight Ladies. 
 
 2. LESSON AND ATTACK WITH FOILS. 
 
 Miss Anna Brantsch and Prof. J. Hartl. 
 
 3. ATTACKS WITH FOILS. 
 
 Misses Emilie Walters and Ida de Somogyi. 
 Misses Lina Reinle and Pauline Ilolzknecht. 
 
 4. FOIL FENCING IN LINE. By eight Ladies. 
 
 5. ATTACKS WITH SWORDS AND DAGGERS. 
 
 Misses Pauline Ilolzknecht and Leopoldine IJrantsch. 
 Misses Marie Scherer and Mathilde Vagemann. 
 
 6. LESSON AND ATTACK WITH BOTH HANDS. 
 
 Misses Leopoldine Brantsch and Mathilde Vagemann, 
 contra Prof. J. Hartl.
 
 
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 7. ATTACKS WITH SABERS. 
 
 Misses Lina Reinle and Leopoldine Brantsch. 
 Misses Mathiltle Vagemann and Marie Scherer. 
 
 S. SAISER FENCING IN LINE, l!y eight Ladies. 
 
 9. LESSON AND ATTACK WITH SABERS. 
 
 Miss Anna Brantsch and Prof. J. Hartl. 
 
 Colors Worn by the Viennese Lady Fencers. Miss Anna Brantsch, black and 
 red; Miss Leopoldine Brantsch, white and red; Miss Pauline Hol/.knecht, white and 
 green; Miss Mathilde Yagemann, red, white and blue; Miss Lina Reinle, black and 
 yellow; Miss Marie Scherer, white and yellow; Miss Ida von Somogyi, red and 
 green; Miss Emilie Walters, blue and white. 
 
 11. SONG AND RECITATION "Romance and Reality." 
 
 FRANK DAVID. 
 By kind permission of Managers Conreid and \V. H. Morton. 
 
 12. WHISTLING AIR "Tripping Feet Polka," - Boltm. 
 
 MRS. ALICE J. SHAW. 
 
 13. RECITATION "The Midsummer-Night's Dream," - (Act V.) Shakespeare. 
 
 A. P. BURBANK. 
 
 14. ARIA u MYSOI.I (From "Pearl of Brazil' 1 ), - Ff/icien David. 
 
 MISS ANNA SMITH. 
 
 15. SONG "Ohe Mamma," ---------- Paola Tosli. 
 
 MISS MARIE JANSEN. 
 
 By courtesy of Manager Harry L. Hamlin and Rudolph Aronson, New York 
 Casino Company. 
 
 16. RECITATION "The Charge of the Light Brigade," Tennyson. 
 
 MISS ROSE COG ULAN. 
 By courtesy of Manager R. M. Hooley. 
 
 With full Orchestral Accompaniment by Orchestra of Hooley 's Theater, by courtesy of 
 R. M. Hooley and Signer Timponi, Conductor.
 
 CHAPTER X 1889. 
 
 THE year thus closed had been one of the most prosperous and brill- 
 iant in the history of the club, and the members were so well 
 pleased with President Scott's administrative ability and energy 
 that they re-elected him at the election January 3, 1889, with the follow- 
 ing aids: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 JAMES W. SCOTT, The Herald. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 FRANK S. BLAIN, The Inter Ocean. STANLEY WATERLOO, The Mail. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 JOHN E. WILKIE, The Tribune. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 HOMER J. CARR, The Tribune. JOHN B. WALDO, Commercial Bulletin. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 GEORGE SCHNEIDER. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 WILLIAM H. FREEMAN, The Investigator. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 CHARLES LEDERER. The News. HARRY F. BOYNTON, The Inter Ocean. 
 
 OPIE P. READ, The Arkansaw Traveler. JOSEPH F. HENDERSON, The Times. 
 EUGENE WOOD, The News. 
 
 The first regular business meeting for 1889 was held on the i3th 
 of January. The reports of the officers showed the club to be in 
 excellent condition, and that it was appreciated by others than its own 
 members was made apparent by the statement of Treasurer George 
 Schneider, who announced that arrangements had been made for the 
 caring for sick members of the club at the new German hospital, corner 
 Larrabee street and Grant place. A committee was appointed to prepare 
 resolutions thanking Mr. Schneider for his thoughtfulness and the hospital 
 authorities for their kindness. 
 
 The committee on cemetery lot, after numerous conferences with the 
 authorities of Mt. Hope cemetery, reported at the March meeting that the 
 
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 club had been offered one of the finest lots in the cemetery, 100 feet square, 
 provided it would erect a suitable monument thereon. They recommended 
 that the offer be accepted, and the recommendation was adopted. 
 
 At the May meeting of the club, Librarian Freeman reported that 
 Mr. H. L. Kochersperger, a member of the club, had presented the organ- 
 ization with a mammoth improved album, large enough to hold cabinet 
 pictures of all the members. The Secretary was instructed to write Mr. 
 Kochersperger, thanking him for the gift. 
 
 The death of Mr. B. Yate, a member, was announced as having 
 occurred at Buffalo, N. Y., and Messrs. Gay, Lederer and Fleming were 
 appointed a committee to represent the club and attend to the burial of 
 the body. Messrs. Jno. McGovern, F. B. Wilkie, H. L. Gay, and Opie 
 Read were appointed a committee to draft resolutions concerning Mr. 
 Yale's death. Mr. Yate was an Englishman, without relatives in this 
 country, and the committee decided to bring his body to this city and 
 inter it in the club lot in Mt. Hope cemetery. This was done, the body 
 being the first placed in the Press Club lot. 
 
 President Scott, who was, and is, ever on the alert to advance the 
 interests of Chicago, suggested, at the August meeting, that the National 
 Editorial Association would soon meet at Detroit and that the Press Club 
 was entitled to a number of delegates. He believed if the club would 
 send a strong delegation to the meeting much might be accomplished in 
 the way of securing the World's Fair for Chicago. The club approved 
 the suggestion, and left the appointment of delegates to Mr. Scott. He 
 secured a representative delegation, and they did valiant work for Chicago 
 among the editorial fraternity and Chicago obtained the World's Fair. 
 
 At this meeting, also, the death of George H. Jameson, an old and 
 valued member, was reported, and a committee consisting of Messrs. 
 Ritchie, Richardson, Taylor, Ballard, and Carr was appointed to prepare 
 a memorial of Mr. Jameson. 
 
 At the following meeting, September. 1889, the death of First Vice- 
 President Frank S. Blain was reported, and resolutions of regret and con- 
 dolence were adopted. 
 
 Mr. John E. Wilkie was elected First Vice-President, succeeding Mr. 
 Blain, deceased, and Cornelius S. Gardiner was chosen second vice-presi- 
 dent to succeed Mr. Wilkie. 
 
 An effort to increase the dues to $2 per month at this time failed. 
 
 It should be stated that in the early part of the year Mr. George 
 Kennan, the well-known Russian traveler, lectured under the auspices of 
 the club, at Central Music Hall, before an immense audience, which was 
 greatly pleased. A special matinee was given during the summer, and 
 the annual entertainment at Central Music Hall Friday evening, Decem- 
 ber 6. The high character of all preceding entertainments under the
 
 
 
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 SAM V. 8TEELE 
 
 JAMES MAITLAND 
 
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 auspices of the club drew a large audience to this, the tenth annual enter- 
 tainment, and all were amply repaid. Following is the 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 i. ORGAN SELECTION, ----------- 
 
 MR. HARRISON WILDE. 
 
 2. SONG "You Spotted Snakes," --------- McFarrcn. 
 
 SCHUMANN LADY QUARTETTE. 
 By courtesy of Chicago Musical College. 
 
 3. VARIETY SKETCH, 
 
 "DUTCH" DALY. 
 By courtesy of Boston Howard Athenreum Company and Mgr. K. M. Hooley. 
 
 4. SONG "The Erl King," -------- Schubert. 
 
 MASTER BLATCHKORD KAVANAGH. 
 Accompanied by Prof. H. B. Roney. 
 
 5. HARP SOLO "Bardie Illustration," ----- Fredetick Chatterton. 
 
 MME. JOSEPHINE CHATTERTON. 
 By courtesy of Chicago Musical College. 
 
 6. SOLO "Fior di Margherita," --------- Ariiiti. 
 
 MME. BIRO DE MARION. 
 By courtesy of Chicago Conservatory. 
 
 7. SKETCH "A Burlesque Recitation" In three acts, Arranged by M 'iss Potter. 
 
 a. "A Child at School." 
 
 b. "The Modern Elocutionist." 
 f. "The Eccentric Actor." 
 
 JENNIE O'NEILL POTTER. 
 By courtesy of Major J. B. Pond, New York. 
 
 S. SOPRANO SOLO "Love's Sorrow," - Shelly. 
 
 LILY POST-MORTON. 
 Accompanist, - Miss NORTHRUP. 
 
 9. SONG "Three Merry Men," Molloy. 
 
 GEORGE ELLSWORTH HOLMES. 
 INTERMISSION. 
 
 10. SONG 'Hark! The Trumpet," - Buck. 
 
 WEBER QUARTETTE. 
 
 11. READING, ------------- 
 
 THE PRINCESS ENGALITCHEFK, OF RUSSIA. 
 
 12. RECITATIVE AND ARIA "Angels Ever Bright and Fair," - ffainiel. 
 
 MASTER BLATCHFORD KAVANAGH.
 
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 13. PlANO SELECTION Valse d 1'Opera "Kaust" de Gounod, .... Uszl. 
 
 MR. WILLIAM II. SHERWOOD. 
 By courtesy of the Chicago Conservatory. 
 
 14. SONG "The Flower-Girl," - 
 
 MME. CAMILLE MUORI. 
 Accompanist, MR. R. CCTRISS WARDE. 
 
 15. RAPID CRAYON SKETCHING, - - 
 
 MR. CHARLES LEDERER, of Tk,' Chicago f/cralJ. 
 
 16. SKETCH "Aunt Amanda" on Women's Rights, 
 
 MISS MAY IRWIN. 
 By courtesy of Boston Howard Athenaeum Company and Mr. R. M. Hooley. 
 
 17. HUNGARIAN GYPSY ORCHESTRA, --__-.. 
 
 By courtesy of the Eden Musee. 
 
 a. WALT/ "The Page," Zi,'!ircr. 
 
 l>. VIOLIN SOLO Hungarian ami American Melodies. 
 
 MR. PAUL OLAH. 
 f. MARCH - "Rakozcy," - - Liszt. 
 
 18. HIGHLAND SWORD DANCE, ---------- 
 
 MLLE. CORINNE, assisted by a Highland Piper. 
 By courtesy of Mgr. H. R. Jacobs, of the Clark Street Theater. 
 
 Should the professional engagements of any of the artists necessitate a change in the 
 regular numbers of the programme, the indulgence of the audience is requested. 
 
 The Steinvvay Piano used on this occasion is selected from the warerooms of I .yon & 
 Healy, State and Monroe streets. 
 
 The Chickering Grand Piano used on this occasion is selected from the warerooms of 
 the Chicago Cottage Organ Co., 223 State street and 223 Wabash avenue. 
 
 The Concert Gothic Harp used by Madame Chatterton is by the great makers, Erard. 
 of London, England, and was presented to her by them for her professional tour in America.
 
 STANLEY WATERLOO. PRESIDENT, 1800 AMI 1893.
 
 CHAPTER XI 1890. 
 
 THERE was some talk of re-electing Mr. Scott president, after his 
 excellent service for three years, but he desired release from re- 
 sponsibility, and believing he had earned rest no pressure was 
 brought to bear upon him. The annual election was held on January 2, 
 1890, and the following officers were declared elected: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 
 STANLEY WATERLOO, 
 
 * The Daily \'eu<s and The Black Diamond. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 \V. A. TAYLOR. CORNELIUS GARDINER. 
 
 The Herald. The Evening Journal. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 H. E. O. HEINEMANN, The Tribune. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 GEORGE SCHNEIDER, Illinois . National Bank. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY: RECORDING SECRETARY: 
 
 JOHN B.WALDO. W. H. FREEMAN, The Investigator. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 ED. R. PRITCHARD, A. -\". Kellogg Neiospaper Company. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 JOSEPH F. HENDERSON, The Times. JOHN M. DANDY, Saturday Evening Herald. 
 O. E. MOODY, The Daily .VVair. KIRKE LASHELLE, The Mail. 
 
 CHAS. MATTHIAS. The Herald. 
 
 The first regular meeting of the club for 1890 was held January 12, 
 and the annual reports of officers were heard. From these it appeared 
 that the club was in good shape every way. The receipts for the year, as 
 shown by the Financial Secretary's report, were $10,273.01, and the total 
 expenditures $9,452.02, leaving $820.99 ' n tne treasury. The club had, 
 however, disposed of its bonds, but had also enlarged the club rooms, 
 added to the furniture, and made the rooms much more attractive. The 
 Librarian, Mr. Freeman, reported that 102 substantially bound volumes 
 had been added to the library during the preceding year, and that the club 
 
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 90 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 was under obligations to Messrs. Rand, McNally & Co., Houghton, Mif- 
 flin & Co , J. S. Ogilvie & Co., Henry George, Captain Charles S. King, 
 Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley, Franc B. Wilkie, John McGovern, 
 George O. Shields, and numerous others, for donations to the library; 
 also, to the publishers of The Century, the New York Clipper, the Dramatic 
 News, The Dramatic Mirror, Outing, and Lippincott' s, who had regularly 
 sent their publications to the club without charge. 
 
 The new officers were then introduced and installed. 
 
 In view of the eminent services rendered the club by Ex-President |. 
 \V. Scott during the three years he was president, the club, at the sugges- 
 tion of Mr. John McGovern, decided to tender a reception to Mr. Scott. 
 February 8 was agreed upon as the date for such reception, and on that 
 occasion a very large number of friends of Mr. and Mrs. Scott were present, 
 and spent a most pleasant evening. Master Blatchford Kavanagh, the boy- 
 soprano, Paul Olah and his Hungarian band, and other artists were in 
 attendance and added to the enjoyment of the occasion. 
 
 At the February meeting the death of Ex-Governor Wm. Bross was 
 reported, and Messrs. Maitland, Gardiner and Prime were appointed to 
 draft resolutions expressing the feelings of the members over this sad 
 event. 
 
 A custom of giving fortnightly dinners in the club rooms, estab- 
 lished under Mr. Scott's administration, was continued with great success 
 until the summer of this year. Some member was appointed at each 
 meeting to read a paper or lead in discussing some topic, and in this way 
 many pleasant gatherings were brought about. 
 
 At the April meeting Secretary Freeman resigned because of the re- 
 fusal of the club to sustain the Board of Directors, and at the following 
 meeting Mr. T. R. Weddell, of the Inter Ocean, was elected to fill the 
 vacancy. 
 
 May 6 a special meeting was held to take action concerning the death 
 of Ex-Governor Andrew Shuman, of the Evening Journal, who died sud- 
 denly on the 5th inst. Addresses were made by Mr. \V. K. Sullivan, Col. 
 W. H. Calkins, Florence McCarthy, W. H. Freeman, A. C. Cameron, and 
 Col. Phocion Howard. Messrs. W. K. Sullivan, of the Journal; James 
 Maitland, of the Tribune; and A. C. Babize, of the Times, were appointed 
 a committee on resolutions, and their report when presented was adopted. 
 Many members of the club attended the funeral services at the home of 
 the deceased in Evanston. 
 
 The Auditorium managers, through the efforts of President Waterloo 
 and Ferd W. Peck, a life-member of the club, having offered the club the 
 use of the Auditorium Hall for an evening, free of charge, an arrangement 
 was made with Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, of New York, to deliver a lecture 
 on the subject of the "World's Fair" Thursday evening, June 5. The

 
 
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 lecture was delivered according to programme. The audience, one of the 
 largest of the many large audiences which have gathered in that immense 
 place, was delighted by hearing popular airs on the' grand organ, at which 
 Prof. Louis Falk presided, and by a most brilliant effort/on the' part of 
 Mr. Depew, whose praise of Chicago grit and enterprise w^l, ,long 'be 
 gratefully remembered. A portion of his utterance on that 6oe^sio / n / , fvf\ 
 the form of a tablet, occupies a place in the Auditorium, which merits all ' 
 Mr. Depew said of it. 
 
 At the next meeting of the club Mr. Depew was elected an honorary 
 member, and the directors of the Auditorium and Mr. Peck were thanked 
 for their generosity. 
 
 The club also decided to establish a building fund, and having accu- 
 mulated some money as a result of the Depew lecture it was ordered that 
 $2,500 be set aside for that purpose. 
 
 The resignation of Mr. Waldo, Financial Secretary, was presented in 
 June, and accepted. Mr. S. T. Clover was elected to fill the vacancy. 
 
 There was considerable enthusiasm in the club during this year, and 
 many ambitious schemes for the club's advancement were proposed. One 
 was the leasing of a down-town lot and the erection of a $350,000 build- 
 ing thereon. Committees were appointed to ascertain whether a lease 
 could be obtained, and what legal questions would arise in case such a 
 procedure was decided upon. The effort to secure the lease was not a 
 success, and some of the money set aside for the building fund was used 
 for current expenses. The building idea, however, had taken firm root, 
 and is still a cherished project. 
 
 The annual entertainment this year was given in the afternoon, for 
 the first time, at the Columbia Theater, and that custom was adhered to 
 until the present year, when the giving of such entertainments was finally 
 abandoned. The date of this innovation was Thursday, December 4, 
 1890, and the entertainment drew a crowded house, and was satisfactory to 
 the artists participating, the audience, and to the club. Following is the 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 1. ELAINE EILLSON, 1'rologue, written by Kirke LaShelle. 
 
 2. RICHARD MANSFIELD, Drawing Room Entertainment. 
 
 3. DK\VOLF HOPPER AND DELI. A FOX, - - Bits from "Castles in the Air." 
 
 4. SIGNOR VITTORIO CARl'I, ....... Baritone Solo. 
 
 5. CHARLIE REED, The Plain Comedian. 
 
 6. PAUL CINQUEVALLI, Juggling, etc. 
 
 7. IC.XACIO MARTINETTI AND WILLIE COLLIER, - - - Burlesque.
 
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 S. J. C. MIRON, Vocal Selections. 
 
 9. DUTCH DALY, - Specialties. 
 
 10. LEON MARX, Hoy Violinist. 
 
 KEN Kl-fX), Piano Imitations. 
 
 I?.* vPA^T RQOVlEY, Irish Specialties. 
 
 13. IMPERIAL QUARTETTE, Selections. 
 
 14. AMELIA GLOVER (Little Faun), - Dancing. 
 
 15. MAY AND FLORA IRWIN, Original Sketch. 
 
 16. GUSSIE COTTLOW, - - Child Pianist. 
 
 17. NURSERY MAIDS' DANCE, - - From Babes in the Wood. 
 IS. STUDIO SCENE FROM CLEMENCEAU CASE, - Laura Kiggar as "Iza." 
 
 The total receipts were $2,906.50, and the net proceeds to the club 
 $1,787.37- The thanks of the club were formally tendered all those who 
 participated in making the entertainment a success. 

 
 
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 C. E. ROLLINS
 
 
 WM. A. TAYLOK, PRESIDENT, 1891
 
 CHAPTER XII 1891. 
 
 7T BRILLIANT reception to Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Stanley was 
 f-\ given at the club rooms on Sunday evening, January 4, 1891. The 
 / \ guests were numerous, the rooms being overcrowded with people 
 anxious to meet the famous explorer and his talented wife. All were 
 abundantly repaid for their presence. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley proved most 
 agreeable personages, and after formal presentation to the company, Mr. 
 Stanley made a pleasing address, thanking Chicagoans for their apprecia- 
 tion. 
 
 January 8, 1891, the annual election was held with the following 
 result: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 WM. A. TAYLOR, The Herald. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 THOS. R. \VEDDELL, A. T. PACKARD, 
 
 77ie Inter Ocean. The Railway *Yt"ius Bureau. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 OLIVER E. MOODY, The News. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 MELVILLE E. STONE. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 \V. M. GLENN, The Tribune. SAM T. CLOVER, The Herald. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 FRED. H. HILI). 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 KIRKE LASHELLE, The Post. WM. T. C. HYDE, The Times. 
 
 (. |. LANE, The Mail. JOHN E. WILKIE, The Tribune. 
 
 R. C. JACOBSEN, Hide and Leather. 
 
 January n the newly elected officers were installed, and a commit- 
 tee was appointed to acknowledge an invitation from the German Press 
 Club to be present at its receptions, and to establish reciprocal relations 
 with that organization. Messrs. Heinemann, Lederer and Clover were 
 appointed as such committee, and fulfilled the duty imposed upon them. 
 
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 120 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 The matter of joining the International Press League was again 
 brought up because of an invitation to attend the meeting of the League 
 at Pittsburg, presented to the club at the December meeting, previous. 
 The refusal of the club to take part in the league proceedings was made 
 the occasion of an attack on the organization in some newspapers, and it 
 was asserted that the club refused to join the league because women were 
 recognized therein. As a result of these statements the directory author- 
 ized Messrs. LaShelle and Lane to draft a statement setting forth the 
 club's position. The statement, which was presented to the February 
 meeting of the club and adopted, declared against the league proposition 
 because the Press Club of Chicago refused to grant its privileges to men 
 who could not be elected to membership therein, as it would be compelled 
 to do under the league constitution. The statement further asserted that, 
 "as no mention was made in this matter of the women who so ably fill 
 many newspaper positions, no objections could possibly have been made to 
 entering into a convention with them." The statement concluded as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Resolved, however, that in the future, as in the past, the legitimate newspaper workers 
 from other cities shall be given a hearty welcome at the rooms of the Press Club of Chicago, 
 and the right hand of fellowship gladly extended to all such by its members. 
 
 At this meeting (February) the President announced the standing 
 committees as follows: 
 
 Reception E. A. Barren, chairman; John M. Dandy, M. 13. Gibbs, S. T. Clover, M. P. 
 Handy. 
 
 Entertainment F. E. Johnson, chairman; Kirke I.aShelle, C. E. Nixon, J. E. \Vilkie. 
 Art J. B. Bradwell, chairman; C. Gentile, Kay Brown. 
 Library S. Waterloo, John X. Crawford, Major Kirkland. 
 
 The idea of securing a building being still entertained by many mem- 
 bers, a special meeting was called for April 5, 1891, for the purpose of 
 taking the necessary steps to secure a lease and proceed with the work. 
 To accomplish this it was decided to form a "Press Club Auxiliary," and 
 Messrs. W. A. Taylor, Franc B. Wilkie and Stanley Waterloo were 
 appointed a committee to incorporate such auxiliary. A building commit- 
 tee was also appointed, consisting of Messrs. Stanley Waterloo, Ferd W. 
 Peck, Wm. H. Park, A. T. Packard and John B. Waldo, and in February, 
 1892, they reported favorably on taking a ninety-nine-year lease of a lot on 
 Michigan avenue, between Madison and Monroe streets. Messrs. W. A. 
 Taylor and F. E. Johnson were appointed additional members of the 
 building committee, and at a special meeting held March 13, Mr. H. H. 
 Kohlsaat was authorized to sign, as trustee for the Press Club of Chicago, 
 a ninety-nine-year lease of the lot before spoken of. An auxiliary was 
 incorporated consisting of the following club members: H. H. Kohlsaat,
 
 
 
 THEROX R. WOODWARD
 
 
 K. A. SITTICi
 
 
 H. P. ROBINSON
 
 
 W. H. PARK 
 W. M. MEKK1IITH 
 JAMES I.ANGLAXI) 
 
 H. V. BEMIS 
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 MATHE1! I). KI.MBAI.L 
 
 H. M. SCOVEL 
 
 KIltKE LASHELLE 
 
 H. L. KOCIIERSPEIUiER
 
 OEOR<;E SCHNEIDER
 
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 Stanley Waterloo, A. T. Packard, Montgomery B. Gibbs, W. H. Park, 
 W. M. Knox, F. E. Johnson, James W. Scott, George Schneider, and John 
 B. Waldo. Mr. Kohlsaat was elected president, Mr. Packard vice- 
 president, Mr. Schneider treasurer, and Mr. Waldo secretary. The presi- 
 dent of the club is ex officio a member of the auxiliary. Various plans 
 for the erection of a building were discussed and prospects for the speedy 
 commencement of the work seemed bright, when financial clouds began to 
 lower. The Baring failure made men of means timid, and the change 
 resulting from the democratic victory in 1892 further complicated mat- 
 ters. Money became tighter, and there has been no time since when the 
 scheme of erecting the building could have been successfully carried out. 
 As a result, the auxiliary holds the lot, without immediate prospect of 
 realizing thereon, and the probability of the club soon securing a home of 
 its own is not at this writing apparent. 
 
 The April meeting of the club was adjourned to the 26th inst. , for the 
 purpose of considering a proposed new constitution, and further adjourn- 
 ment was taken to May 3. At the meeting on the 26th the death of Clar- 
 ence P. Dresser was announced, and at the meeting May 3, the death of 
 Major John B. Hinman, a former member and officer, was reported. 
 Suitable action was taken in each case. 
 
 May ii Col. R. G. Ingersoll delivered for the first time his superb 
 lecture on Shakespeare, under the auspices of the club. The lecture was 
 given in the Auditorium, and a tremendous audience assembled to hear 
 the famous orator. The lecture netted the club a very handsome sum. 
 
 October 19, 1891, occurred an event that appalled the members of the 
 Press Club as well as the citizens of Chicago. On that date Messrs. Leon- 
 ard D. Washburn, Fred W. Henry and Frank A. McCafferty, the first two 
 reporters, and the other an artist, members of the Inter Ocean staff, lost 
 their lives at Crete, Ind., together with James Clark, an engineer on 
 the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railway. Henry and McCafferty had been 
 assigned, at their own solicitation, to describe a night-ride on an engine. 
 Henry was an acquaintance of C. L. Stone, the general passenger agent of 
 the Eastern Illinois Railway Company, and arranged with Mr. Stone to go 
 to Evansville, Ind., and at that point take the Nashville express to Chicago. 
 Mr. Stone accompanied the two young men on the trip. Washburn had 
 been visiting his mother at Clinton, Ind., and knew nothing of the move- 
 ments of his associates until he met them on the train, as he was return- 
 ing to the city. When they informed him of the purpose of their trip he 
 joined them, and in the evening the three young men boarded the engine 
 and were making notes and sketches for their article when the train neared 
 Crete. At that station a switch had been left open, and the heavy 
 train was turned from the main track and ran into the round-house, the 
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 124 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 it. The fireman escaped by jumping. Washburn, Henry, McCafferty and 
 Engineer Clark were instantly killed, but owing to the fact that the brave 
 engineer had reversed his engine as soon as he saw the open switch, the 
 passengers in the coaches were saved. 
 
 When the news of the awful calamity reached the members of the 
 club it was decided, notwithstanding the fact that none of the young 
 men belonged to the organization, to hold a special meeting for the 
 purpose of publicly expressing the regret of the members over the unfor- 
 tunate occurrence, and rendering such service as they could in honor of the 
 deceased. The meeting was held in the club rooms Friday, October 17, 
 all newspaper men in the city being invited. A very large number were 
 present. Henry M. Hunt called the meeting to order, and Wm. A. Taylor 
 was chosen chairman and Edward Freiberger secretary. Mr. Taylor 
 stated the object of the meeting and suggested the appointment of a com- 
 mittee to draw up a memorial and present it to the meeting. The sug- 
 gestion was adopted, and the chairman appointed the committee which re- 
 tired to formulate a report. While the committee was thus engaged, 
 Stanley Waterloo spoke briefly of the good qualities of Leonard Wash- 
 burn; R. H. Smith, of Louisville, spoke of Fred Henry, and R. A. E. 
 Dorr, of Philadelphia, spoke of Frank McCafferty. Remarks were also 
 made by C. E. Nixon, E. A. Barren, John Ritchie, W. H. Busbey, Ed. 
 Insley, W. K. Sullivan, and others, and committees were appointed to 
 escort the bodies to the homes of the parents of the deceased Washburn 
 to Clinton, Ind. ; Henry to Versailles, Ky. ; and McCafferty to Philadel- 
 phia. The committee on memorial presented the following report, which 
 was adopted : 
 
 The Press of Chicago is deeply grieved over the appalling accident which has just deprived 
 it of three bright and able members. Human feeling is so strong and human expression is so 
 weak that the set phrase of sorrow for the dead and sympathy for the living do not reflect 
 our emotions. There are times when the heart is too heavy to console times when attempted 
 consolation is but "a remembrancer of sorrow," yet we cannot turn away in silence, for we 
 have come together to-day to deplore the loss of three young men Leonard D. Washburn, 
 Frank A. McCafferty. and Fred W. Henry ornaments of a profession that has filled the 
 world with light, and gone hand in hand with, or in advance of, every step forward in the in- 
 tellectual and physical advancement of the human race. Of this profession they were worthy 
 exemplars. Young, ardent and ambitious, they strove in every honorable way to make a 
 name for themselves that would be honored in the profession they had chosen. No work 
 was too great, no hardship too perilous for them to endure in the service of the newspaper 
 with which they were identified. Life was sweet to them; they had achieved a fair measure 
 of success, and looked forward to future triumphs with the gladness of youth. 
 
 But they were cut off suddenly, and that without warning. No soothing words sounded 
 in their ears as they passed into the dark valley of the shadow of death; no soft fingers banished 
 their pain and made easy their sufferings. A moment's plunge into the darkness, a crash of 
 iron, a rush of steam, and all was over. 
 
 Jean Ingelow in her matchless verse somewhere says that all men must die. One may 
 die soothed by all the tenderness which loving friends and relations may be able to bestow;
 
 
 
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 another ma)' die on the wild mountain side, amid the drear solitude, with nothing but the 
 soughing pines as a requiem. But, continues the poet, 
 
 The first hath no advantage, it shall not soothe his slumber 
 
 That a lock of his brown hair, his father aye doth keep; 
 For the last, he nothing grudgeth, it shall naught his quiet cumber. 
 
 That in a golden mesh.of his callow eaglets sleep. 
 
 While it may be true that to the dead it makes no difference when or where they pass 
 through the door into the Beyond, we cannot but feel that we would rather have been near 
 to our friends in their final moments. 
 
 In view of our loss, we submit the following: 
 
 That this meeting of representatives of the newspaper profession of Chicago tenders to 
 the relatives, and all others near and dear to those who have so suddenly been called hence, its 
 most sincere and heartfelt sympathy in the affliction that has overtaken them. 
 
 That this meeting further extends to The Inter Ocean, and to the newspaper associates 
 and colleagues of the deceased on that paper, the expression of its condolence in the misfor- 
 tune which has deprived two of its departments of associates whom they had learned to love, 
 admire and trust. 
 
 That a copy of this memorial be furnished by the secretary to the parents of each of the 
 departed men. 
 
 OPIK READ, ] 
 
 W. H. HARPER, 
 
 W. I. WAY, y Committee. 
 
 W. H. FREEMAN. | 
 
 HENRY M. HUNT, J 
 
 Arrangements were subsequently made for a memorial service at 
 Grace Episcopal Church, the character of which may be gathered from 
 the following minute, which was adopted by the club at its November 
 meeting. 
 
 On Sunday last, November i, at Grace Episcopal Church, a magnificent service was 
 held in memoriam of Messrs. L. D. Washburn, Fred W. Henry, and Frank H. McCafferty. 
 Said service was of the most impressive character, and deeply affected the large gathering 
 present. The music was of a high order, was soothing and satisfying; the sermon of Dr. 
 Locke full of hope, and the oration of Luther Laflin Mills a splendid effort, eulogistic alike of 
 the three young men and the profession which they represented. Professor Henry B. Roney, 
 the precentor of Grace Church, composed a requiem and other music for the occasion, 
 which pleased all, and the choir filled the sacred edifice with sweetest harmony. 
 
 To all the members of the Press Club, and the friends of the three reporters, these serv- 
 ices were exceedingly gratifying, and in view of these facts, the club hereby tenders to the 
 Rev. Dr. Locke, Professor Henry B. Roney, Luther Laflin Mills, and the Choir of Grace 
 Church its heartfelt thanks for their efforts in thus honoring the memory of the three young 
 men who were so suddenly deprived of life. 
 
 The Secretary of the club is hereby instructed to transmit to Dr. Locke, Professor Roney 
 and Mr. Mills a copy of this minute. 
 
 The annual entertainment this year was held at the Columbia Theater 
 December i, at 2 p. m. It was a decided success. Following is the
 
 128 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 INTKRMEZ/.O, Orchestra, 
 i. \\'M. CONRAD AND HIS DOG "TRAMP." 
 
 Burlesque on Antony and Cleopatra 
 
 2. CHARLES Ross AND MABEL FENTON, 
 
 3. J. O. S. BANJO Ci.ru, 
 
 4. LA I'KTITE BLOSSOM, 
 ;. ONE ACT OF "JASE," 
 
 6. SCHUMANN LADY QUARTETTE, 
 
 7. CORINNE AND JOHN GlI.HKRT, 
 
 8. MDLLES. MARTHA IRMLER AND HENRIETTA ROSCHE, 
 
 INTERMISSION. 
 
 Selection. 
 Dancing. 
 
 Charles Krohman's Company. 
 
 "Coming Thro' The Rye.' 
 
 Sketch. 
 
 Grand fas dc tieax. 
 
 10. WM. GARDI.EV, of Nat Goodwin's Company, 
 
 u. MMK. SOFIA SCALCHI, 
 
 12. EDWARD DE RESZKE, 
 
 13. EDDIE FOY, 
 
 14. GENKVRA GIBSON, 
 
 15. TlM Ml'RI'HY, 
 
 "A Royal Revenge." 
 Aria, accompanied by Signer Mascheroni. 
 Selection, accompanied by Louis Saar. 
 "Melange." 
 Musicale Monologue. 
 Recitation. 
 
 William Parry, stage manager; musical directors, William Moebius, Columbia; W. H. 
 Hachellor, Chicago Opera [louse; and Wm. Robinson, Alhambra.
 
 DAVID HENDERSON 

 
 
 JOHN E. WILKIE. PRESIDENT, 1892.
 
 CHAPTER XIII 1892. 
 
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 HE annual election for 1892 was held January 8, and the follow- 
 ing ticket was elected: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 JOHN E. \VILKIE. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 MONTGOMERY B. GIBBS. A. T. PACKARD. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 H. E. O. HEINEMANN. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 CHARLES E. BANKS. ED. R. PRITCHARD. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 GEORGE SCHNEIDER. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 FRED. H. HILD. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 CHARLES MATTHIAS, WILLIAM IGLEHART, 
 
 F. J. SCHULTE, WOLF VON SCHIERliRAND, 
 
 E. W. PICKARD. 
 
 The new officers were installed at the regular meeting, January 10, 
 and the year proved a brisk one. Much time was given to furthering the 
 building project, which, as heretofore announced, had to be abandoned 
 temporarily. In other ways, however, the club was active. Lectures 
 were given by Messrs. Talmage, Waterson and Ingersoll, and considerable 
 money realized. The club rooms were decorated, and several receptions 
 in honor of visiting newspaper men were given. The auxiliary organiza- 
 tion was completed, as heretofore stated, and the construction of a $2,000 
 monument to mark the Press Club lot in Mt. Hope cemetery was ordered. 
 The club lost five members during the year by death. The death of Mr. F. 
 B. Wilkie, father of the president, and first president of the organization, 
 came home to each member with peculiar force, as Mr. Wilkie was be- 
 loved by all. Other deaths, each of which removed a delightful comrade, 
 
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 132 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 were those of A. C. Cameron, John A. Hall, John C. Bundy, and Thomas 
 S. Applegate, of Adrian, Mich., a non-resident member. 
 
 A pleasing episode of this year was the presentation to the club, in 
 the fall, of a magnificent painting of Paul Hull, one of the most popular 
 members of the organization, by Hubert Vos, also a member of the club 
 and art commissioner from The Hague to the World's Fair. The painting 
 is a superb likeness ot Mr. Hull, is nearly full length, and is handsomely 
 framed. It is one of the many evidences of Mr. Vos' skill as a painter 
 to be seen in this city, and at the reception given him and Mr. Hull in 
 the club rooms, on the occasion of the presentation, he gave evidence of 
 the fact that he is not without talent for speechmaking. Mr. Hull also 
 did some clever talking at the same time. 
 
 The annual entertainment was given at the Columbia Theater Decem- 
 ber 29, 1892, and received more than generous patronage. It was well 
 worth attending, as will be seen by perusing the 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 1. The Eminent Romantic Actor, MR. JAMES O'NEILL, and his company, in the first 
 
 act of his successful four-act drama, 
 
 FONTENELLE. 
 
 By HARRISON GREY FISKE and MINNIE MADDERN FISKE. 
 Characters in Act T 
 
 VICOMTK D'AI.HRKT, James S. Maffitt, Jr. 
 
 BOSCARD, Howard Gould. 
 
 GOUGOU, Wm. H. Pascoe. 
 
 HELENE, - Miss Florence Brandon. 
 
 HUI.OTTE, Miss Kate Fletcher 
 
 MR. JAMES O'NEILL, as - Henri de Fontenelle. 
 
 2. SOLO MISS HELEN BERTRAM, of the J. C. Duff Opera Company. 
 
 3. RECITATION "How Salvator Won," - MISS JENNIE O'NEILL POTTER. 
 
 OVERTURE Prof. William Moebius and the Columbia Theater Orchestra. 
 
 4. A Domestic Sketch, by Sir Charles Young, author of "Jim, the Penman," entitled 
 
 DRIFTED APART. 
 
 LADY GWENDOLINE BLOOMFIKI.D, Miss Virginia Harned. 
 
 SIR GEOFFREY BI.OOMFIEI.D, Mr. E. H. Sothern. 
 
 SCENE Sir Geoffrey's House, in Belgravia, London. 
 
 5. MR. HARRY GILFOIL, the talented whistler and mimic, of "A Trip to Chinatown." 
 
 6. MISS BESSIE CLAYTON, the wonderful danseuse, of "A Trip to Chinatown.' 
 MR. FRANK PALMA, Musical Director for Hoyt & Thomas. 
 
 OVERTURE Prof. Moebius and Orchestra.

 
 
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 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 135 
 
 7. "THE NIGGER AND THE BEE," by Miss Alice Gilmore, of Sam T. Jack's Lilly 
 
 Clay Burlesque Company. 
 
 8. MR. E. S. WILLARD, the eminent English actor, in a reading of Tennyson'.* 
 
 play, "The Cup." 
 
 9. Ten Minutes of Mirth, Mystery and Magic with HERRMANN, THE GREAT. 
 
 10. MISS ENA BERTOLDI, the World-renowned Equilibrist, Hand and Jaw Balancer, 
 of the Boston Howard Athenreum Company. 
 
 n. SOLO MISS DORA WILEY, the "Sweet Singer of Maine." 
 
 12. MAZUZ AND ABECCO, the Greatest Living Gymnasts, in their startling specialty. 
 
 The stage under the direction of Mr. Frank Leiden, of Mr. Sothern's Company; Mr. 
 Ben W. Singer, of "A Trip to Chinatown," and Mr. John W. Morrissey, of the Lyceum 
 Theater. 
 
 The Press Club desires to extend its hearty thanks to the artists who so kindly volun- 
 teered their services for this occasion; to the generous Chicago public, which has in former 
 years shown so warm an interest in the club's welfare; to Managers Hayman and Davis for 
 their courtesy in extending the use of their popular theater; to Managers Hoyt and Thomas, 
 Harry Hamlin, Will J. Davis, Wm. F. Connor, Sam T. Jack, John D. Hopkins, Frank 
 McKee, and to all who have in any manner contributed to the entertainment.
 
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 k ()\VARD the close of the year 1892 considerable discussion was 
 indulged in as to the best man to choose for President for the 
 World's Fair year. Finally several members formulated a plat- 
 form calling for aggressive action looking to the erection of a Press Club 
 building, and for improvements in the government of the club. All who 
 favored such action were invited to a caucus at the club rooms the last 
 week in December. At the caucus Mr. Stanley Waterloo was again nomi- 
 nated for President, and there was no substantial opposition to him. The 
 election was held January 5, 1893, with the following result: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 STANLEY WATERLOO. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 MONTGOMERY B. GIBBS. SIDNEY P. BROWN. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 JOHN FAY. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 
 GEORGE SCHNEIDER. 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 \VM. IGLEHART. I. A. FLEMING. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 
 JAMES MAITLAND. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 JOHN J. FLINN, J. F. HENDERSON, 
 
 ERNEST McGAFFEY, LINCOLN MAcMILLAN, 
 
 FRANK A. VANDERLIP. 
 
 MKMHERS AUXILIARY ASSOCIATION: 
 
 II. H. KOHLSAAT, J. W. SCOTT, 
 
 WASHINGTON HESING, H. E. O. HEINEMANN, 
 
 CHARLES DOWST, J. B. WALDO, 
 
 J. E. WILKIE. M. E. STONE, 
 
 NATE A. REED, JR., A. T. PACKARD. 
 
 These officers were duly installed at the first regular monthly meeting 
 in January, and at the meeting in February President Waterloo announced 
 the following standing committees: 
 
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 138 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Entertainment Messrs. Hull, Houseman, Heinemann. 
 Reception Messrs. Snyder, Pixley, Latshaw, Banks, Defoe. 
 House Matthias, Maitland, Henderson. 
 
 In the early part of the year arrangements were made for affording 
 conveniences to visiting newspaper men, and the rooms were opened to all 
 properly accredited persons throughout the year. For the purpose of 
 making the newspaper men acquainted with each other receptions were 
 held at the club rooms at various times. May 6 the representatives of 
 foreign newspapers were entertained, and May 25 there was another special 
 reception which attracted many brilliant men, and served to bring together 
 in friendly relations journalists from all parts of the world. A reception 
 was given to Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, May 5, and a little 
 later, but at different times, F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, and the 
 faculty of the Chicago University were entertained. 
 
 A series of entertainments was undertaken, early in the year, to pro- 
 vide funds to meet the unusual expense to which it was evident the club 
 would be put in connection with the World's Fair, but they were not car- 
 ried out. 
 
 Early in the year the Monument Committee, consisting of Mont- 
 gomery B. Gibbs, John McGovern and James W. Scott, reported that the 
 monument ordered by the club for the lot in Mt. Hope cemetery had been 
 completed, set up, and awaited acceptance. The committee was of opinion 
 that the shaft was in accordance with the contract, and was an excellent 
 piece of work. It was accordingly accepted and paid for, and dedication 
 thereof deferred until the fall. In the meantime Mr. Charles Gentile, a 
 member of the club, died suddenly while at an Indiana resort, and his 
 body was brought to the city and buried in the club lot, funeral services, 
 conducted by the Rev. T. D. Phillips, being held in the chapel at the 
 cemetery. 
 
 November 12 was the date finally fixed on for the unveiling and dedi- 
 cation of the monument, and the Hon. Luther Laflin Mills was invited to 
 deliver the address on that occasion. He sent a ready and cheerful ac- 
 ceptance of the invitation, and accompanied several hundred members 
 and their friends on a special train, furnished by the Chicago and Grand 
 Trunk railway, to the cemetery. In the chapel on the grounds the exer- 
 cises were held. The Rev. Henry G. Perry conducted the devotional 
 features thereof, and when these were finished Mr. Mills, in his impress- 
 ively superb manner, said: 
 
 It is well for all the members of the professions of journalism, art, and literature in 
 this community and the great public that there exists the Press Club of Chicago. Its 
 motive is fraternity and fellowship, its privileges of membership being offered to journalists, 
 to the artists of the newspapers, and to the authors of books. Beginning in the year iS8o. this 
 organization has constantly increased in numbers and been successful in its plan from the
 
 H'THKK LAFLIN MILLS
 
 FERI). \V. PECK

 
 77/7; J'A'ASS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 143 
 
 commencement. Most of its members are the writers of the newspapers the men who give to 
 the people the record of events, mold opinions, and greatly control the sentiments of society. 
 
 Of all the professions that of journalism, in this day, is the most powerful in its influ- 
 ences on mankind; it is the power that makes, the power that unmakes; the realization of the 
 pen as mightier than the sword. It is the toiler for the people; its whole trend and drift arc 
 toward the humanities. It is the advance of the army of thought, the assailant of wrongs, 
 the defender of the weak, the inspirer of charities; the great promoter of the general welfare. 
 Contemplate its service to mankind its education in knowledge and thought, its exciting 
 and maintaining the universal sympathies and the interest of man for man which leads to 
 peace and friendship; and you find not in the world to-day a social fact so broadly influential. 
 Open, at rare times, to criticism, still the broad sweep of its movement is for the fellowship 
 of men and the bettering of life. 
 
 The newspaper with a generous hand spreads fame for the living and erects mournful 
 and honorable monuments to the great and good who die, garlanding their memory with public 
 grief and worthy glory. When a great man departs from the people the newspaper recounts 
 his virtues, dwells kindly on his goodness, speaks tenderly to his kin, and relates the public 
 loss with pathetic emphasis. 
 
 Strange, indeed, it seems, that until recent days in this remarkable profession of jour- 
 nalism, with its high motive, power, manner and achievement, as it has progressed in its 
 mighty march for humanity, the earnest men composing it, the personalities creating and con- 
 trolling it, should have neither sought nor received that full recognition from mankind by them 
 so worthily earned; strange, also, and nobly strange, that these toilers for the race have been 
 content with glory for their calling and the accomplishment of their high purposes; beauti- 
 fully strange, in this age not free from selfishness, that there should be a class of men who 
 have been content to lose themselves in their art and rested satisfied in the simple conscious- 
 ness of duty daily done; strange, but not just. 
 
 The Press Club is, at last, the reaction from the long sinking of individualism in jour- 
 nalism. The world now begins to see and know the brain and heart, the manhood of the 
 press the splendid men who make the newspaper. 
 
 For themselves its members have created an atmosphere of friendship and brotherhood, 
 of mutual counsels, of aid, of sympathy, of inspiration elements of strengthening for 
 them and benefit to the world for which they toil. The Press Club of Chicago, in sad mem- 
 ory of its departed and for the commemoration of its future dead, dedicates to-day a monu- 
 ment of stone in this beautiful and restful scene; here it gives a place for the long sleep of its 
 beloved, tired from the endeavors of ended life. 
 
 Hither shall be brought, in future times, the mortality of some mighty man, who with 
 his pen had marshaled the social forces and led a moral revolution among men; some noble 
 being whose hand had touched divinity and written inspiration to men's souls; some brilliant 
 artist, who, by a printed picture, had told impressive thought; some gentle poet spirit who 
 had sung Nature to human life; some man of sweet humanity, whose very name before had 
 not, perhaps, been spoken, but whose words, read in hours and homes of grief, had cheered 
 sorrow into joy and made to glow with happiness, for grieving childhood, the fireside of home. 
 Here, with grieving welcome, the strong and rich, the weak and poor, may come; this burial 
 place shall know no difference among them. Here is the kind equality of death. And if, 
 perchance, there lives among us, or shall be, some genius of the pen, with thoughts of high 
 philosophy or dreams and little thought of things material, who shall depart leaving no land 
 nor gold, here shall rest, in the rich heart of nature, his mourned mortality. 
 
 In their devotion to the profession which they honor, and to the fellowship for one 
 another, which is their high sentiment, this magnificent shaft is dedicated by the members of 
 the Press Club of Chicago to the sacred memory of their departed. For generations it shall 
 stand, we trust, an enduring token of man's love for man, and a memorial of the virtues and 
 achievements of men who labored in great pursuits and left the world made better by their 
 living.
 
 144 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Immediately after the dedicatory oration the assemblage proceeded 
 to the monument, a few rods away, and visible from the chapel. It was 
 enveloped in a large flag, which was removed, disclosing the graceful lines 
 of the shaft. It is located in the midst of a lot of 1,600 square feet, on 
 the highest ground in Cook county, and can be seen for miles. 
 
 The monument is of Berea sandstone, from the same quarry which 
 provided the material used in the $500,000 Garfield monument at Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, and was cut by the McGee Marble and Granite Company of 
 this city. It is in the form of an obelisk, the main shaft being twenty- 
 five feet in height. On the west face of the shaft is the club's monogram, 
 "P. C. C.," through which runs an artistically designed quill pen. On 
 the same side, at the base of the monument, are the words, " Press Club of 
 Chicago," in raised letters, while immediately above this is the date of the 
 laying of the corner-stone, " 1892." 
 
 There is little to add to the record for this year. It was a remarkable 
 one in the history of the club, as it was in the history of the world. In 
 royal fashion the club fulfilled its mission, and its resources were ex- 
 hausted and considerable of a debt incurred. It had always paid its obli- 
 gations, however, and most of its creditors were willing to accept the 
 assurance of the officers, that, with a little time, all debts would be paid.
 
 
 FRANK A. VANDEKI.IP. PRESIDENT. 1894.
 
 CHAPTER XV-- 1894. 
 
 UNDER the conditions noted in the preceding pages the year 1894 
 was ushered in. The annual election was held on Thursday, 
 January 4. There were two tickets in the field, headed respect- 
 ively by M. E. Stone and Frank A. Vanderlip. Mr. Stone's name was 
 used without authority, and, upon his announcing that other duties would 
 preclude his accepting the position if elected, his name was withdrawn, 
 and the following ticket was elected: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 FRANK A. VANDERLIP. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 MONTGOMERY GIBBS. I. A. FLEMING. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 FRED. RAE. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 GEORGE SCHNEIDER. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY: RECORDING SECRETARY: 
 
 FRANK E. JOHNSON. WILLIAM H. FREEMAN. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 LEROV ARMSTRONG. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 A. S. LECKIE, WM. IGLEHART, 
 
 II. II. KOHLSAAT, SLASON THOMPSON, 
 
 \V. G. NICHOLAS. 
 
 MEMBERS AUXILIARY: 
 
 M. E. STONE, 11. II KOHLSAAT, 
 
 A. T. PACKARD, W. M. KNOX, 
 
 E. J. BAKER. 
 
 The Auxiliary being a continuous body, the club annually names 
 several members to fill vacancies occurring therein. The present Auxiliary 
 is composed of the following members: M. E. Stone, H. H. Kohlsaat, 
 A. T. Packard, W. M. Knox, Col. Nate A. Reed, Jr., H. E. O. Heinemann, 
 Charles Dowst, M. B. Gibbs, J. H. McEldowney, E. J. Baker, and F. A. 
 
 147.
 
 148 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Vanderlip, President of the club, ex officio. The officers of the Auxiliary 
 are: M. E. Stone, President; H. E. O. Heinemann, Vice-President ; Col. 
 N. A. Reed, Jr., Treasurer; M. B. Gibbs, Secretary. 
 
 At the regular meeting of the club, held January 7, a full statement 
 of the club's affairs wa.s made by the retiring officers. It showed that 
 there was an indebtedness of over $6,000 to be cleared off. The new offi- 
 cers were not appalled by the task that confronted them. Immediately 
 upon taking their positions they began to work enthusiastically to meet 
 all pressing bills and provide for taking care of all obligations. Current 
 expenses were paid out of receipts, and not a dollar of indebtedness has 
 so far been incurred this year. Financial Secretary F. E. Johnson had 
 been tried before and found not wanting. To his business-like methods 
 and hearty good humor can be attributed the success of the club in hand- 
 ling its financial affairs. It is just to say that in the arduous work it was 
 called upon to perform the administration received the hearty co-operation 
 of the members. 
 
 The standing committees appointed by the President for the year are: 
 
 Entertainment A. T. Packard, Chairman; Ernest McGaffey, Dr. C. B. Hall, Elliott 
 Durand, \V. V. Smith. 
 
 Reception E. A. Barren, Chairman; John McGovern, I. A. Fleming, A. S. Leckie, 
 Charles Eugene Banks. 
 
 Art and Museum L. H. Ayme, Chairman; Austyn Granville, J. Howard McEldowney. 
 
 February 20 an entertainment was given at Central Music Hall by 
 club members, assisted by local talent. The attendance was large, and 
 the occasion one of great enjoyment. Following is the 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 PART I. 
 
 
 
 1. ORGAN "Stradella," - - Flotow-Buck. 
 
 MR. H. B. RO.NEY. 
 
 2. Prologue, - - - I'ery Original. 
 
 MR. NIXON WATERMAN. 
 
 3. The Rescue of 1'hocion Howard, - Also Original. 
 
 MR. PAUL HULL. 
 
 4. "The Old Man," - - - Field. 
 
 MR. S. H. CLARK. 
 
 5. The Good in Everything, Original. 
 
 MR. CHAS. EUGENE BANKS. 
 
 6. "Moon Song," from Mikado, - - Gilbert-Sullivan. 
 
 Miss ALLIE BECKTEL.
 
 
 
 
 MONKS I'. HANDY
 
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 M. B. GIBUS, FIRST VICE-PREST. 
 
 FREI) G. HAE. THIKI) VICE-I'KEST. 
 
 F. E. JOHNSON. FIX. SECY. 
 
 . A. FLEMING. SEl'ONIl VH'K-PKKST. 
 
 I.EHOV ARMSTKONG. LIBRARIAN. 
 
 W. H. FRKEMAN. KKC. SECY.
 
 F. S. WKIUI.EY 

 
 JOHN T. BKAMHALL
 
 THE PKESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 157 
 
 7. A Sketch in Comedy "A Lesson for Husbands." 
 
 Synopsis Wailing. Hope Deferred. The Hall. 
 
 A Dance in the Foreground. Me has Fought a Duel. 
 Repentance. The Reconciliation. 
 LILLIAN WOODWARD GUNCKEI. 
 
 8. "Midway," - Replica. 
 
 MR. P>kN KIM;. 
 
 9. Dance-Recitation, - - Susan CooliJge. 
 
 Miss HATTIE FLEMING. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 a. "Miserere" II' Trovatore, - Verdi. 
 
 MASTER RUBENSTEIN DEMAREST. 
 I li. Intermezzo Sinfonico, from Cavalleria Rusticano. Mascagni. 
 
 \_ Duet by MASTER RUBENSTEIN DKMAREST and HERR BERNARD WENDELL. 
 
 2. "A Coat Like Proctor's" The Autobiography of an Abused Man, - - Original. 
 
 OPIE READ. 
 
 3. "Opening of the Fair." - Original. 
 
 MR. JOHN McGovERN. 
 
 4. "Mar' Jane," - Original. 
 
 l.ERov ARMSTRONG. 
 
 5. American-Indian Sorgs, - - - Arranged by Troycr. 
 
 Miss VIVA CUMMINS. 
 
 6. Tenor Solo, - - - Selected. 
 
 MR. FRANK V. POLLOCK. 
 
 ~. Toreador's Song, - - Bizet. 
 
 MR. CHAS. W. CLARKE. 
 
 S. "A Cowboy Sermon," - - - Original. 
 
 CAI>T. JACK CRAWFORD. 
 
 9. Zither, - - - Selections. 
 
 I'm IK. WM. STKINBACH. 
 
 After expenses were paid there was a considerable balance covered into 
 the club's treasury. A lecture by Miss Kate Field was also given under 
 the auspices of the club. 
 
 February 15 Mrs. Myra Bradwell, wife of Judge J. B. Bradwell, an 
 ex-President of the club, died, and a special meeting of the organization 
 was^eld on the i6th inst., for the purpose of taking action concerning the 
 death of so estimable a woman. A committee was appointed to draft 
 resolutions expressive of the feelings of the members of the club, and it 
 presented the following, which was unanimously adopted: 
 
 On Wednesday, February 15, Myra Bradwell, wife of Judge James B. Bradwell, died 
 at her home after a protracted illness. Her husband was the fourth President of the Press
 
 158 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Club of Chicago, long its Treasurer, and always a faithful and well-beloved member. By the 
 unanimous voice of our organization, and for these reasons, but also for still greater ones, the 
 club desires to tender to him, to his children and descendants, and to put on record before 
 the public, its final expression of the veneration and esteem in which Myra Bradwell, the 
 partner of his extended and active career, was held among us. It is. therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That it is the view of this body of men that Myra Bradwell was one of the 
 greatest women of the world, worthy of rank with those mothers of freedom whose glorious 
 names are written in the earlier chronicles of our Republic, whose deeds are the boast of filial 
 descendants wherever the watch of liberty is set; that we remain cognizant of her courageous, 
 persistent, and effective efforts to secure the rights which women once envied, and now, by 
 the consent of many governments and through her initiative, have completely gained. l!v 
 this conquest woman has been permitted to use her intellect for herself, and it will be gratify- 
 ing to the historians of the future when they shall record that the wife and mother who first 
 compelled the way for women into the upper halls of justice, into the greatest court that the 
 world has erected, lived to see her sisters among the governors and lawmakers of many com- 
 monwealths, and was herself an adviser and a delegate in the first national legislature of 
 women to be authorized by any government. 
 
 Kesohvd, That we all bear honorable recollections of the gentleness, courtesy, modesty 
 and dignity of this great woman, and in laying on her tomb that garland of just commenda- 
 tion which must adorn her history, we linger to speak those words of perennial affection which 
 rise from every heart. 
 
 JOHN McGOVERN, \ 
 
 ' NATE A. REED, JR., > Committee. 
 
 LESTER C. HUBBARD, ) 
 
 In March a reception was tendered Dr. O. W. Owen, of Detroit, the 
 wonderful iconoclast, who believes Bacon wrote Shakespeare, and about 
 everything else of consequence that was written between Bacon's fifteenth 
 year and his death. The doctor explained, for the first time in public, his 
 method of extracting the cypher story from the Shakespearean plays, telling 
 of Bacon's handiwork. A large number of people attended this reception, 
 and were greatly edified, if not convinced, by the eloquence and ingenuity 
 of the doctor. 
 
 During the year, also, the deaths of Messrs. Joseph Kirkland, Ben 
 King, James H. Coyne, and S. P. MacLean were announced, and appro- 
 priate action was taken in each case. The death of Mr. King, who was 
 a writer of quaint and pleasing verse, a musician of high order, and a 
 charming entertainer, was peculiarly sad. He was traveling in the South 
 with Opie Read, giving entertainments, and on the evening of April 7 
 appeared at Bowling Green, Ky. After the entertainment he joined a few 
 friends at supper, and about midnight retired. The next morning he was 
 found dead in his bed. The fact was at once telegraphed the club, and 
 arrangements were made to bring the body to this city, pending the decis- 
 ion of his wife and parents as to whether the body should be buried here 
 in the Press Club lot or at their home in St. Joseph, Mich. The body 
 arrived at noon, Sunday, April 8, and was taken to the club rooms, where 
 funeral services were held, conducted by the Rev. Lloyd Jenkin Jones and 
 Rev. Dr. Davis, of St. Joseph. A large number of friends of Mr. King
 
 
 
 JOHN B. JEFFREY
 
 
 E. M. I.AHIFF 
 
 .IOS. F. HENDERSON 
 
 JAMES F. BATE 
 
 SAM M. Bl'KDETTE 
 
 WASHINGTON HFMNi; 
 
 H. D. FAH<iO 
 
 WILLIS (1EO. EMKKSON 
 A. H. YOUNT 
 
 H. S. BTNTING 

 
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 WILL B. HirNTKK 
 
 B. AUTHt'R JOHNSON 
 
 11KXJ. H. ATWKLL 
 
 
 
 ROBT, V. ROSE 
 
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 SAM M. HAVMOM) 
 
 ALKX. J. JOXKS 
 
 AKTIIt'K L. < I.AHKK
 
 
 I)K I'Al'L CAIU'S 

 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 163 
 
 were present and participated in the services. Several members of the 
 club spoke of Mr. King's genius, his pleasing personality, and of the 
 regard in which he was held by all the members- The Imperial Quartette, 
 the members of which were all friends of the deceased, rendered appro- 
 priate music during the services. The family of Mr. King being desirous 
 that his body should be buried in St. Joseph, it was sent there, under escort 
 of Nixon Waterman, and interred in the family ground. 
 
 One of the most gratifying features of the year was the union of the 
 Press and Newspaper clubs, which was accomplished October i. The 
 Newspaper Club was organized late in 1893, by a number of journalists, 
 some of whom had never been connected with the Press Club of Chicago, 
 and others who had, for various reasons, dropped out of that organization. 
 These gentlemen believed that Chicago should have a club composed 
 solely of men engaged in daily newspaper work. They thought such a 
 club would find hearty support. An organization was accordingly per- 
 fected, with James Sullivan, of The Tribune, since deceased, as President, 
 and fine quarters were secured in the Boyce building on Dearborn street. 
 It grew rapidly in membership, and was well supported for a time. The 
 newspaper men of the country who had at various times enjoyed the hos- 
 pitality of Chicago journalists contributed to it in various ways; its walls 
 were hung with pleasing sketches, the nucleus of a library was secured, 
 elegant furniture was provided, and there were billiard and pool tables for 
 the use of those who desired. 
 
 But all these things did not make an enduring club. The lines upon 
 which the organization was cast were too narrow; members wanted more 
 latitude and a wider range of fellowship than the constitution permitted 
 them to have in their club rooms. As a consequence, dissensions arose 
 and the officers failed to receive the earnest support they needed to 
 maintain the organization. Many of the members were also members of 
 the Press Club, and when it became evident that the Newspaper Club, as 
 a distinct institution, could not be continued, they began talking of a 
 consolidation with the older organization. The matter was thoroughly 
 canvassed. The members of the Press Club took a generous view of the 
 situation, and the trend of sentiment being in favor of such action, each 
 organization called a meeting for September 30, at which their respective 
 Boards of Directors were given full power to act, and on the following 
 day, October i, the union was effected and the Newspaper Club vacated 
 its quarters in the Boyce building and moved bag and baggage over to the 
 Press Club rooms. The entire membership of the Newspaper Club, num- 
 bering 187, was merged in the Press Club, giving it a total membership 
 of over 400, and making it the strongest organization of journalists in 
 the country. 
 
 On the same day, October i, the death of Mrs. Joseph Medill was
 
 164 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 announced, and a special meeting of the club was hastily called by Presi- 
 dent Vanderlip. After some sincere expressions of sympathy with Mr. 
 Medill and family in the loss they had sustained had been uttered, the 
 President appointed Messrs. Stanley Waterloo, V. M. Harding and Opie 
 Read a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the feeling of the 
 body. They reported as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Press Club of Chicago tenders to one of the greatest of American 
 journalists and editors, and helpers of others in the profession, Mr. Joseph Medill, its sym- 
 pathy and deep expression of feeling at this time, when there has come to him what is one of 
 the greatest sorrows a man may feel, the loss of the companionship of a noble and good 
 partner in the things of life. The Press Club of Chicago thus simply for men of all ages 
 and status in the profession extends its sympathy to one whom it loves and respects. 
 
 The report was adopted and a floral tribute ordered sent to the 
 stricken household. 
 
 Several pleasant receptions were given to local and visiting news- 
 paper men during the early part of the year, and the preparation of this 
 history was begun. Its successful issue marks only one of the many able 
 and important financial achievements of the year, the credit for most of 
 which is due Financial Secretary F. E. Johnson, though the conception of 
 the history project is due to Messrs. I. A. Fleming and John B. Waldo. 
 
 With these statements the chronicler willingly relinquishes the duty 
 of preserving the history of the Press Club of Chicago to others, with the 
 hope that the work will be better done in the future. The Press Club of 
 Chicago, for all the purposes for which it was conceived, is surpassed by 
 no like organization in the world, and this fact is a source of satisfaction 
 to those of its members who have ever striven to make its influence for 
 good felt throughout the journalistic profession. 
 


 
 
 A. CHA1SER
 
 PKESS CLUB MONUMENT, MT. HOPE CEMETERY
 
 n QYUmonam* 
 
 JERE MAHONEY, 
 
 HARRY K. IRVIN, 
 
 SAMUEL J. MEDILL, 
 
 JAMES E. FITZGERALD. 
 
 WILBUR F. STOREY, 
 
 JOHN FRASER, 
 
 E. T. DALZELL, 
 
 CHARLES D. WRIGHT, 
 
 FRANK CUNNINGHAM, 
 
 HENRY WENDELL THOMSON. 
 
 PAUL C. RUSSELL, 
 
 CLARENCE M. OSTRAXDER, 
 
 WILLIAM COLEBROOK, 
 
 LEANDER STONE, 
 
 JAMES E. SMALL, 
 
 WILLIAM BROSS, 
 
 FRANK S. BLA1N, 
 
 CLAREXCE P. DRESSER, 
 
 ANDREW C. CAMERON, 
 
 JOHN A. HALL, 
 
 THOMAS APPLEGTAE. 
 
 JOHN C. BUNDY. 
 
 FRANC B. WILKIE, 
 
 JOSEPH KIRK1LAND, 
 
 CHARLES GENTILE. 
 
 BEN KING, 
 JAMES H. COYNE, 
 
 s. P. MACLEAN, 
 
 W. A. BROWN.

 
 
 EAKL 3IAKBLE
 
 O. L. DEMlNli 

 
 UALIFICATIONS for membership in this organization are set forth 
 in the subjoined Article from the Constitution, and it is a matter 
 of record that every member of the club came strictly within one 
 or more of the classes at the time of his election to membership. Many 
 have since engaged in other pursuits, but have maintained their connec- 
 tion with the Press Club: 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 SECTION I. There shall be four classes of members active, non-resident, life and honorary. 
 
 SEC. 2. The following shall be eligible to active membership: 
 
 (a) Persons connected with the press in Chicago or elsewhere as editors, reporters, proprietors, 
 publishers or regular paid contributors or correspondents. 
 
 () Resident editors and regular paid correspondents of journals published in other large cities. 
 
 (c) Artists regularly employed in the newspaper profession. 
 
 (tf] Authors of books of original matter published for general circulation, and persons regularly 
 engaged in literary pursuits. 
 
 (e] Applicants for active membership must have possessed the above qualifications for one year, 
 and be not less than twenty years old. 
 
 SEC. 3. Non-resident members shall possess all the qualifications of active members, save as to 
 residence in Chicago. 
 
 SEC. 4. Persons eligible as active or non-resident members may become life members by conform- 
 ing to Section 2 of Article VII. 
 
 SEC. 5. Prominent authors or writers, or persons who have placed the club under deep obligation 
 may be elected honorary members. 
 
 Abbott, F. D. 
 Abbott, Willis J. 
 Adams, A. B. 
 Adams, F. U. 
 Ade, George 
 Almy, C. IX 
 Anderson. Franklin S. 
 Andrews, O. F. 
 Armstrong, II. A. 
 Armstrong, Leroy 
 Armstrong, William 
 Atwell, Benj. H. 
 Ayers, S. P. 
 Ayme, Louis H. 
 
 Babbitt, Geo. A. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 Baird, Thomas 
 Baker, E. J. 
 Baker, K. S. 
 Banks, Chas. Eugene 
 Barnes, David 
 Barron, Elwyn A. 
 Barry, P. T. 
 Bate, James F 
 Beach, Henry L. 
 Beachel, Geo. S. 
 Beck, E. S. 
 Bemis, II. V. 
 Benham, P. 1). 
 Bennett, F. O. 
 Bennett, James O'Donnell 
 Bentham, George 
 175 
 
 Benzinger, Fred 
 Bernard, E. M. 
 Berry, Thomas P. 
 Bloomingston, J. S. 
 Bloss, H. H. 
 Bloss, William L. 
 Bogart, R D. 
 Bonn, J. J. 
 Boiling, George W. 
 Bowen, Wm. A. 
 Boyd, James 
 Bradley, C. II. 
 Bradwell, J B. 
 Bramhall, John T. 
 Brenne, Richard 
 Brewer, ]ohn A.
 
 170 
 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Bronson, Leonard 
 Brooks, Frank H. 
 Brown, E. B. 
 Browne, Ray 
 Bryan, I. J. 
 Buchanan, R. B. 
 Bunting, Harry S. 
 Burdette, Samuel M. 
 Busbey, L. White 
 Busbey, W. H. 
 
 Cahill, Daniel P. 
 Campbell, Quintin 
 Cannon, Tom H. 
 Canman, Leo 
 Carpenter, Harry 
 Carr, Homer J. 
 Cassidy, Bert 
 Chaiser, Andrew 
 Champion, T. J. 
 Clarke, A. L. 
 Cleveland, H.I. 
 Clover, Sam T. 
 Cobb, W. K. 
 Colbert, Elias 
 Connelly, M. \V. 
 ConXvell, James \V. 
 Cornell, William P. 
 Cossar, Walter L. 
 Costello, John J. 
 Crane, Jonathan Mayo 
 Crawford, C. E. 
 Crissey, Forrest 
 Crowell, C. H. 
 Curtis, F. D. 
 
 Daley, J. R. 
 Dame, Asa 
 Dandy, J. M. 
 Davis, J. D. 
 Davis, J. M. 
 Dean, Clarence L. 
 DeFoe, L. V. 
 DeKraft, S. I. 
 Deming, O. L. 
 Denslow. W. W. 
 Denison, T. S. 
 Dillabough, Joseph 
 Dillingham, E. R. 
 Dickson, M. E. 
 Dixon, John Arthur 
 Donaldson, Henry F. 
 
 Dowst, Charles 
 Duncan, Thomas 
 Dunne, Finlay P. 
 Durand. Elliott 
 
 Easley, Ralph M 
 Eastman, Barrett 
 Eastman, John C. 
 Eddy, M. Allen 
 Emerson, Willis G. 
 Erwin, J. M. 
 Etten, W. J. 
 
 Fargo, H D. 
 Faraday, W. 
 Faye, Charles M. 
 Fay, John 
 Finerty, John F. 
 Finnegan, F. X. 
 Fleming, I. A. 
 Flinn J. J. 
 Forker, Harry G. 
 Forrester, George 
 Freeman, W. H. 
 Freiberger, Edward 
 Frizelle, Charles E. 
 Fuller, J. J. 
 
 Gardner, H. G. 
 Gay, Henry Lord 
 Gesswein, A. J. 
 Gibbs, M. H. 
 Glenn, W. M. 
 Glover, Lyman B. 
 Granville, Austyn 
 Gregory, Wesley C. 
 Goodspeed, Chas. L. 
 Grover, Chester A. 
 
 Halbert, D. M. 
 Hall, Dr C. B. 
 Haller, W. J. 
 Halloran, ohn 
 Hamilton, Jno. B., M. D. 
 Handy, Moses P. 
 Harden, Edward W. 
 Harding, Victor M. 
 Harkness, A. H. 
 Harper, W. H. 
 Harrison, John H. 
 Harrison, William Preston 
 Harris, F. B. 
 
 Hatch, A. F. 
 Hays, C. L. 
 Hazard, Eugene J. 
 Hector, Eugene 
 Heinemann, A. H. 
 Ileinemann, H. E. O. 
 Henderson, D. 
 Henderson, Joseph F. 
 Hendrickson, Prof. Peter 
 Henius, Dr. Max . 
 Hesing, Washington 
 Hitchcock, C. I. 
 Hollman, Joseph C. 
 Holden, R. H. 
 Holme, Frank 
 Hough, Clarence A. 
 Houseman L. M. 
 Hubbard, Lester C. 
 Hull. Paul 
 Hunt, Henry M. 
 Hunter, W. B. 
 Hutton, N. D. 
 Hyde, Harry M. 
 Hyde, W. T. C. 
 
 Tgleheart, Wm. 
 Insley, Ed. 
 
 Jacobsen, R. C. 
 Jeffrey, John B. 
 Johnson, B. A. 
 Johnson, Charles C. 
 Johnson, Frank E. 
 Johnston, H. 
 Jones, Alex. J. 
 Jones, H. Leroy 
 Jones. R. H. 
 Jones. R R. 
 
 Kalheim, O. M. 
 Keeley, James 
 Kelly, John 
 Keough, Hugh E. 
 Kerr, Charles H. 
 Kimball. E. R. 
 Knox, Wm. M. 
 
 Lahiff, E. M. 
 Lamb, Louis A. 
 Landers, H. O. 
 Lane John J. 
 Langland, James 
 Lay ton, Harry B.
 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 177 
 
 Leckie, A. S. 
 Lederer, Sam 
 Lewis, Irving 
 Lewis, \V. E. 
 Link, D. M. 
 Linthicum, Richard 
 Lower, Elton 
 Lowrie, Harrie R. 
 
 Macbeth, W. H. 
 MacMillan, Lincoln 
 Maitland, James 
 Manning, Ham- 
 Mansfield, J. B. 
 Marble, Earl 
 Martin, Riley V. 
 Matthias, Charles 
 Maxwell, John 
 McCutcheon, John T. 
 McEldowney, J. H. 
 McEnnis, John C. 
 McGaffey, Ernest 
 McGovern, John 
 McGrath, George B. 
 McHugh, Joseph 1'. 
 McKay, C. P. 
 McKay, W. K. 
 McKenzie, Edw. S. 
 McNeill, Angus 
 McQuilkin, A. H. 
 McLaughlin, D. J. 
 Mac Rae, W. G. 
 Medill, Joseph 
 Meredith, Wm. M. 
 Mercier, David I. 
 Miller, Hubert F. 
 Mitchell, H. B. 
 Michaels, C. D. 
 Moody, O. E. 
 Morrill, F. K. 
 Mullaney, B. J. 
 Murphy, R. J. 
 
 Nathanson, Martin 
 Newell Allen G. 
 Nicholas, W. G. 
 Nicholl, T. J 
 Nixon, Chas. E. 
 Nixon, \Vm. Penn 
 Norton, S. F. 
 Nye, Fred 
 
 O'Connor, John C. 
 O'Neill, A. W. 
 O'Neill, Thomas J. 
 O'Sullivan, Daniel 
 Oviatt, F. C. 
 Owen. E. E. 
 
 Packard, A. T. 
 Park, W. H. 
 Patterson, A. L. 
 Patterson, R. W. 
 Payne, J. Edward 
 Peck, Frederick North 
 Pepper, Chas. 
 Perce, Chas. F. 
 Perkins, Charles G 
 Perkins, George O. 
 Phinney, Warren 
 Pickard, E. W. 
 Pierce, H. A. 
 Pixley, Frank S. 
 Place, R. M. 
 Pomeroy, P. P. 
 Powers, C. J. 
 Powers, T. E. 
 Pratt, George \V. 
 Prime, S. T. K. 
 Pritchard, E. R. 
 
 Rae, Fred G. 
 Ransom, Robert 
 Ray, W. E. 
 Raymond, Sam M. 
 Read, Opie 
 Reed, N. A. Jr. 
 Reilly, Leigh 
 Reiwitch, Herman L. 
 Rhodes, Charles L. 
 Rice, F. Willis 
 Rice, Wallace DeGroot 
 Richardson, Fred 
 Ritchie, John 
 Robinson, H. P. 
 Rockwell, R. K. 
 Rogers, L. W. 
 Rose, Robert F. 
 Rowe, Dr. N. 
 
 Sass, L. 
 
 Sasseen. David E. 
 Sayler, H. L. 
 Schulte, F. J. 
 
 Scovel. H. M. 
 Senff, Felix 
 Shuman, A. F. 
 Sittig, E. A. 
 Sittig, W. A. 
 Shanks, W. J. 
 Sheridan, Ed. 
 Sherman, John D. 
 Smith, C. W. 
 Smith, W. V. 
 Smyth, HillC. 
 Smythe, J. H. 
 Snyder, H. W. 
 Sparks, Clifton 
 Speed, H. B. 
 Suessman, A. L. 
 Sullivan, W. K. 
 Steele. Sam V. 
 Steiger, Charles 11. 
 Stone, Edwin P. 
 Stone, Melville E. 
 Strong, C. E. 
 Strong, J. W. 
 Strong, W. H. 
 Sweeney. Paul DeHaven 
 
 Taylor, C. W. 
 Taylor, W. A. 
 Terbush, L. F. 
 Thomas, J. C. 
 Thomson, Slason 
 Thompson, T. O. 
 Tobin, Frank W. 
 Tozer, A. B. 
 Tracy, F. K. 
 Turner, H. O. 
 
 Underwood, Kingsley 
 Upton, Geo. P. 
 
 Van Benthuysen, W. 
 
 Waldo, John B. 
 Walker, W. S. 
 Walton, L. R. 
 Waterloo, Stanley 
 Waterman, Nixon 
 Weed, C. E. 
 Weippiert, G. W. 
 Welch, Frank- B. 
 Weston, J. W. 
 Weigley, Frank S.
 
 178 
 
 THE PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Whitford, C.' B. 
 Wight, George H. 
 Wilkie, A. C. 
 Willy, John 
 Wood, George S. 
 Woodbridge, Harry 15. 
 
 Woodward, F. R. E. 
 Woodward, Theron R. 
 Wright, C. G. 
 Wright, Herbert Carleton 
 Wright, John E. 
 Wright, John L. 
 
 Wright, Nat. C. 
 Wright, Walter C. 
 Wyatt, Frank T. 
 
 Yount, A. II. 
 
 Blakely, Charles F. 
 Bohn, H. J. 
 
 Dunlop, Joseph R. 
 
 Kochersperger, H. L. 
 Kohlsaat, H. H. 
 
 Burdette, Robt. J. 
 Depevv, Chauncey M. 
 Hatton, Joseph 
 
 LIFE MEMBERS. 
 Lawson, Victor F. 
 
 Peck, Ferd. W. 
 Rollins, C. E. 
 
 Schneider, George 
 Scott, James W. 
 Shepard, H. O. 
 
 Vanderlip, Frank A. 
 Walsh, Jno. R. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 Long, Col. C. C. Nye, Edgar W. 
 
 Marchette, Blanche Roosevelt Riley, James Whitcomb 
 Mills, Luther Laflin Watterson, Henry 
 
 NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Andrews, Byron 
 
 Gray, Frank S. 
 
 Pollard, J. Percival 
 
 Bailey, W. W. 
 
 
 Price, T. J. 
 
 
 Hall H. P. 
 
 
 Burrelle, V. A. 
 
 
 Priest, J. L. 
 
 Carus, Dr. Paul 
 
 Ketchum, R. L. 
 
 Richardson, J. S. 
 
 Chandler, W. G. 
 Chapin, Will E. 
 
 Kimball, M. D. 
 Knight, H. W. 
 
 Shields, G. O. 
 Shuman, E. L. 
 
 Curtis, Wm. E. 
 
 Lane, Marcus 
 
 Soustcheffsky, R. 
 
 Davis, Augustine 
 Donnelly, Ignatius 
 
 LaShelle, Kirke 
 Lloyd, B. F. 
 Lonergan, L. F. 
 
 Stromme, P. O. 
 Sullivan, M. L. 
 
 Eaton, Will D. 
 
 Lush, Charles K. 
 
 Visscher, Will L. 
 
 Eggleston, Dr. W. G. 
 
 Malkoff, M. 
 
 Vos, J. II. 
 Vynne, Harold R. 
 
 Flanders, A. R. 
 
 Manin, W. J. 
 
 
 Fulton, A. W. 
 
 Mackenzie, Fred 
 
 Weddell, Thos. R. 
 
 
 
 Wellman, Walter 
 
 Gardiner, C. 
 
 Palmer, Thomas W. 
 
 Wilkie, John E. 
 
 Giveen, R. F. 
 
 Payne, Frank 
 
 Wilmarth, J. C.
 
 CHICAGO PRESS CLUB.
 
 VISITORS' REGISTER, 
 
 ofefi 
 
 (Pet. 
 
 /ft' 
 
 Ji
 
 Tl)e Rev ^lorf, Press Club. 
 
 By S. H. AGNEW. 
 
 The New York Press Club, 
 the largest Press Club in the 
 world, dates back to 1873. 
 Twenty-one years ago, the 
 journalists of New York were 
 wont to meet in Schaick's 
 saloon in Nassau street, where 
 the question of a journalistic 
 organization was first dis- 
 cussed. Among those who fre- 
 quented this resort, and who 
 will always be remembered as 
 the founders of the " Journal- 
 istic Society," were James 
 Pooton, George F. Williams, 
 William H. Stiner, Charles H. 
 Bladen, Howard Carroll, Wil- 
 liam S. D. O'Grady, Joseph 
 A. Peters and Jeremiah J. Roche. Of these Major George F. Williams 
 is now connected with the staff of The New York Recorder. Mr. Bladen 
 is still in harness; Howard Carroll and William Stiner are engaged in 
 other business, and James Pooton holds a federal position. 
 
 The " Journalistic Society" was organized in December, 1873, and 
 two years later was incorporated under that name by the founders with the 
 exception of Howard Carroll and Jeremiah J. Roche. After this many 
 well-known newspaper men joined and the membership swelled to a grati- 
 fying extent. 
 
 Rooms at 115 and 117 Nassau street were taken for club purposes, 
 and in 1874 the Society changed its name to that of the " New York Press 
 Club." In 1884, more commodious quarters were secured by leasing the 
 building No. 120 Nassau street. The initiation fee was increased from $5 
 to $10, and the club assumed more of a local habitation and permanency. 
 
 183 
 
 JOHN W. KELLER, PRESIDENT
 
 184 THE NEIV YOKK PRKSS CLUB. 
 
 Such distinguished men as Cyrus W. Field, P. S. Gilmore, F. W. 
 Jones, Joseph Pulitzer, Elliott F. Shepard and George W. Childs en- 
 rolled themselves as members. Among other honorary and life members 
 of the club who have come in from time to time are Chauncey M. Depew, 
 William Waldorf Astor, Roswell P. Flower, William R. Grace, Henry 
 Hilton, Levi P. Morton and Henry M. Stanley. The membership of the 
 club has steadily increased, now numbering upward of 650 names on its 
 rolls, including the brightest intellects in metropolitan journalism. A 
 great ambition of the management from the start has been to erect a home 
 of its own, a home commensurate with the growing importance and repu- 
 tation of the club and the dignity of the New York press. This object 
 having been always kept in view, national and cosmopolitan celebrities, 
 famous orators, travelers, prima donnas, great actresses and actors, men 
 and women of literary fame, came forward and lent their services to raise 
 funds for such an object. The moneyed men of the city donated hand- 
 some sums, and the theaters gave benefits in the cause until the sum of 
 upward of $100,000 was raised which was necessary to secure a lot of 
 ground on which the club house was to be erected. While the plans are 
 not yet complete, it is the intention to erect a building fully equipped 
 with all conveniences of a modern club house, a place where the journal- 
 ists of the world may be received and entertained, and receptions held. 
 The present rooms of the club afford a lounging place, a place of social 
 meeting, and, with its library and files of the daily newspapers of New 
 York extending as far back as 1831, furnish a workshop for industrious 
 writers, such as cannot be had or given in the city. 
 
 The charities of the club are conducted with discrimination and lib- 
 erality. The Press Club in the exercise of its benevolence is in the highest 
 degree democratic. When a worthy applicant appeals for assistance it 
 suffices that he is connected with journalism, and the aid is given, whether 
 he is a club member or not. The Presidents of the club since its organi- 
 zation have been James Pooton, 1873-4; George F. Williams, 1875; 
 Charles H. Bladen, 1876; Charles H. Pulham, 1877; John B. Wood, 1878- 
 9; William N. Penney, 1880; John C. Hennessey, 1881 ; Truman A. Merri- 
 man, 1882-3-4; Amos J. Cummings, 1885-6; John A. Green, 1887; John 
 A. Cockerill, 1888-9, 1890-1-2, and John W. Keller, 1893-4. 
 
 Since journalism has become so potent a factor in our national life, 
 the presidency of the New York Press Club is a prize that is keenly con- 
 tested for. For two successful competitors at least Merriman and Cum- 
 mings it has led to the halls of Congress, and among its members are 
 quite a number of State Senators and Assemblymen. The incumbent 
 of the Presidency, John W. Keller, is managing editor of The New 
 York Recorder. Mr. Keller was born in Bourbon county, Ky., on July 5, 
 1856, and traces his ancestry in the Blue Grass State back to Revolutionary
 
 THE .VEW YORK PKESS CLUB. 185 
 
 times. He was educated in Yale, class of 1879. In appearance he is a 
 fine specimen of the Kentucky gentleman, and is an athlete of no mean 
 order. He pulled oar No. 5 in the university boat race with Harvard in 
 1879, and took a leading part generally in the athletic sports and games 
 of the college. That he did not spend all his college life in classics and 
 athletics, however, is evident from the fact that in 1879 he founded The 
 Yale College Daily News, the first daily paper ever started in a university, 
 either European or American. It is still in existence, and flourishes 
 amain. Mr. Keller came to New York in December, 1879, and began his 
 newspaper career as reporter on Truth, then issued for the first time. 
 
 He was subsequently made its dramatic editor. He has been con- 
 nected with The Dramatic News, The World, The Times and The Press, 
 until The Recorder appeared in the journalistic firmament, when he was 
 made its managing editor, which position he still retains. Mr. Keller is 
 the author of "Tangled Lives," a successful drama. He is an able after- 
 dinner speaker, having, as well as other acquirements, a keen sense of 
 humor and a ready wit. The New York Press Club is justly proud of its 
 present President, and delights to honor Mr. Keller, as he reflects honor 
 upon the club. He has done more toward raising the club's large charity 
 and building funds than any other single member. The present officers 
 and members of the New York Press Club are as follows: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 JOHN W. KELLER. 
 
 FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 ASHLEY W. COLE. 
 
 SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 GEO. H. FLEMMING. GEO. H. DICKINSON. 
 
 TREASURER: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 JOHN C. HENNESSEY. GEORGE F. LYON. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY: CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: 
 
 CALEB H. REDFERN. S. H. AGNEW. 
 
 HOARD OF TRUSTEES: 
 J. I. C. CLARKE, Chairman. 
 
 JOHN \V. KELLER. JOHN N. BROCKWAY. 
 
 ASHLEY W. COLE. JOHN FRIEDRICH. 
 
 JOHN C. HENNESSEY. GEO. F. WILLIAMS. 
 
 GEO. F. LYON. CHARLES \Y. PRICE. 
 
 W. J. K. KENNY. ARTHUR A. MACKAYE, Sec'y to Board 
 
 R. E. A. DORR. JOHN A. COCKERILL. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 
 I. FRANK CLARK.
 
 186 
 
 THE NEW YORK J'KESS CLUB. 
 
 Abarbanell, Jacob R. 
 Ackerman, Gunther K. 
 Ackerman, George H. 
 Adams, W. II. 
 Agnew, Samuel H. 
 Agnus, Gen. Felix 
 Alden, John 
 Ames, IX T. 
 Andrews, A. F. 
 Andrews, W. S. 
 Angell, A. H. 
 Angevine, Frank 
 Arkell, W. J. Bliss 
 Arnoux, Charles T. 
 Austin, Samuel C. 
 
 Bailey, I. H. 
 Ballard, Anna 
 Raich, E. B. 
 Barsotti, Charles 
 Bartholomew. George 
 Bassett, F. N. 
 Beard, F. S. 
 Beattie, Charles M. 
 Beecher, Eugene F. 
 Beers, William C. 
 Bell, Clark 
 Bennett, W. H. 
 Bennington, Arthur 
 Herri, William 
 Bill, Edward Lyman 
 Black, E. Martin 
 Bladen, Charles H. 
 Blake. George W. 
 Blake, M. F. 
 Bocock, Kemper 
 Bodley, William S. 
 Bonner, Robert E. 
 Bonynge, Edward W. 
 Bonynge, Robert 
 Bonynge, William F. 
 Bottassi, Demetius 
 Blakely, David 
 Brasher, A. R. 
 Brown, W. R. 
 Brown, Charles R. 
 Brown. Percy 
 Brady, Jerome 
 Brockway, John N. 
 Brockway, F. A. 
 Brown, George 
 Brown, R. C. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 Brown, W. L. 
 Bruce, L. C. 
 Bruno, R. M. 
 Burrell, F. A. 
 Burdett, II. W. 
 Burgin, V. F. 
 Burke, Edward A. 
 Burke, Joseph J. 
 Burke, Richard 
 Byrne, Joseph 
 
 Cadwallader, F. I. 
 Caldwell, J. R. 
 Calhoun, Maj. A. R. 
 Call, W. T. 
 Cantor, Hon. Jacob A. 
 Casey, Edward F. 
 Cassidy, Patrick S. 
 Chadwick, Henry 
 Charlois, Jean I. 
 Chenoweth, E. B. 
 Childe, Cromwell 
 Christian, C. H. 
 Clark, J. Frank 
 Clark, Marvin R. 
 Clarke, J. I. C. 
 Clancy, James J. 
 Clappe, Arthur A. 
 Clark, J. W. 
 Cone, Edward P. 
 Cortelyou, Geo. B. 
 Coles Stephen L. 
 Coates, Foster 
 Cockerill, Col. John A. 
 Cole, A. W. 
 Cole, W. L. 
 Collar. Charles B. 
 Colt, Daniel H. 
 Condon, Edw. O'Meagher 
 Cook, V. S. 
 Cotter, John 
 Cowan, W. J. 
 Coyney, Weston 
 Creamer, Thomas J. 
 Crisswell, R. W. 
 Culyer. J. V. 
 Cummings, Amos J. 
 Cummings, Geo. W. 
 Cunniam, P. 
 Curtis, F. B. I). 
 Curtis, W. B. 
 
 Daniels, W. C. 
 Dare, Arthur 
 Davenport, B. R. 
 Davenport, R. B. 
 Deering, W. A. 
 Beats, H. E 
 Delano, Thomas H. 
 Depew, Chauncey M. 
 Desmond, Henry W. 
 Dickinson. A. J. 
 Dickinson, Geo. H. 
 Digney, John M. 
 Dodge, Raymond E. 
 Doney, E. S. 
 Doolittle, Frank W. 
 Dreyfus, Jacob 
 Ducret, Arthur F. 
 Devide, Charles 
 Delano, Arthur H. 
 Doster. E. D. 
 Demerest, J. A. 
 Degan, Robert 
 Dorr, R. E. A. 
 Doolittle, R. E. 
 Dunn, Thomas J. 
 
 Eagan, James 
 Ebbetts, C. H. 
 F.arlie, Geo. E. 
 Edwards, Charles, J. 
 Eddinger, M. 
 Eddy. F. W. 
 Eddy, W. A. 
 Edison, Thos. A. 
 Edson, Dr. Cyrus 
 Edwards, Richard 
 Elderkin, John 
 Ellis, W. J. 
 Ellison, I S. 
 England, W. H. 
 English, G. W. 
 Eschwege, Walter O. 
 Evans, C. Ralph 
 Evans, Thos. H. 
 
 Fancuilli, F. 
 Fast, F. R. 
 Fay, Gaston 
 Fish, Ferdinand 
 Fisk, Chas. W. 
 Freece, de A. 15. 
 Farnham, R. L.
 
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 187 
 
 Farrelly, I'. 
 Flynn.E. J. 
 Frothingham, Robt. 
 Fisher, H. W. 
 Fales, W. E. S. 
 Fitzpatrick, P. A. 
 Fleming, Geo. H. 
 Flower, Roswell P. 
 Ford, Thomas 
 Forman, Allen 
 Fort, Homer 
 Fowler, Edward S. 
 Frankenstien, G. L. 
 Friedrich, John 
 Fyles, C. E. 
 Fuller, Paul 
 Fullerton, K. B. 
 Feigl, Fred 
 
 Gallagher, Barclay 
 Gavan, Joseph 
 Gedney, F. G. 
 Geoghegan, \V. 
 Gude, G. 
 Grossman, M. H. 
 Gallagher, James 
 Gillam, B. 
 Guilfoyle, J. J. 
 Grout, R. W. 
 Gorman, Timothy 
 Green, W. B. 
 George, Chas. H. 
 Gibson, William B. Jr. 
 Gilbert, Shepard D. 
 Gilchrist. \Vm. F. 
 Gillig, H. F. 
 Gilpin, Wm. Brouard 
 Golding. Louis T. 
 Govan, Charles H. 
 Grace, Wm. R. 
 Grey, Wm. Steele 
 Greaves, E. T. 
 Griffin, Dr. John 
 Griffin, M. 
 Guy, Charles L. 
 Gould, J. H. 
 Griffith, Wm. Patton 
 Giunard, Henry 
 
 Hall, A. Oakey 
 Hackett, H. li. 
 
 Hicks, W. E. 
 Hicks, W. H. 
 Halstead Murat 
 Hill, John A. 
 Hinman, F. W. 
 Hamilton, R. F. 
 Hammond, Clement M. 
 Hammond, Geo. 
 Hanway, P. J. 
 Hardenburgh, Jas. E. 
 Hardin, L. S. 
 Harding, Wm. 
 Hardwick, Benjamin 
 Harris, E. H. 
 Harrison, Geo. E. 
 Harrison, R. A. 
 Harrison, Russell B. 
 Harroun, G. K. 
 Hart, Chas. F. 
 Hastings, Hugh 
 Halton, John A. 
 Hayden, Henry R. 
 Healy, Augustine 
 Healy, David 
 Hemming, F, 
 Hennessy, Rolland 
 Hill, John G. 
 Hamlin, Chas. E. 
 Hinman, Geo. E. 
 Hancock, H. I. 
 Hall, A. Wilford 
 Hasbrook, Chas. E. 
 Henderson, John 
 Hendrix, Joseph C. 
 Hennessy, Chas. O'C. 
 Hennessy, John A. 
 Hennessy, John C. 
 Hennessy, Joseph P. 
 Henry, W. H. 
 Hess, Aug. 
 Hicks, Wm. 
 Hilton, Henry 
 Hirsch, M. J. 
 Holly, Willis 
 Hollman, Oliver D. 
 Hoyer, C. E. 
 Howard, Joseph, Jr. 
 Hoyt, Charles A. E. 
 Hoyt, Chas. Hale 
 Hoyt E. V. 
 Hoyt, F. A. 
 
 Hoyt, W. H. Jr. 
 Hughes, C. C. 
 Huking, Leonard J. 
 
 Ingram, H. B. 
 Innes, Prof. F. N. 
 
 Johnson, N. J. 
 Jackson, John P. 
 Jackson, Thos. W. 
 Jacobs, A L. 
 Jacques, W. L. 
 James, Thos. L. 
 Jenney, Charles A. 
 Jones, Francis W. 
 Jennings, N. A. 
 James, Howard K. 
 Karst, John 
 Keller, John W. 
 Kenny, W. J. K. 
 Kent, A. T. 
 Kerr, Wm. M. 
 King. Gen. Horatio C. 
 Klopsch, Louis 
 Kirchoff, Charles 
 Kane, Rev. J. J. 
 
 Lakey, Charles D. 
 Landon, Melville D. 
 Lassing, Dr. Henry 
 Latzke, Paul 
 Lee, Walter J. 
 Lehman. F. M. 
 Levy, Eugene H. 
 Lewis, Charles B. 
 Lewis, W. H. 
 Little, Andrew 
 Livandais, Dr. A. M. 
 Livingston, W. H. 
 Lord, Chester S. 
 Loyd, Samuel 
 Laughlin, P. J. 
 Lake, Carson 
 Lowenstein, M. J. 
 Lewi, Isidor 
 Lyon, Geo. F. 
 
 Macguire, Frank Z. 
 Mackaye, Arthur L. 
 Macy, J. William 
 Maderia, F. D. 
 Mamreov, B. A. F. 
 Marshall, I. D.
 
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 Masterson, Thos. A. 
 May, Chas. S. 
 May, Edward W. 
 Mayers, Jacob 
 McAdam, David 
 McBreen, P. F. 
 McCann Peter K. 
 McDonald, John \V. 
 McEwan, D. C. 
 McLean, John H. 
 McLean, Charles F. 
 McLaughlin, M. E. 
 McManus, Thos. J. L. 
 McMurran, Charles \V. 
 Mayo, C. A. 
 Murphy. M. J. 
 Morris, Fred P. 
 Muldaur, Geo. B. 
 Marsh, H. I. 
 Martin, T. Henry 
 Miller, H. Percy 
 Myers, Gustavus 
 MacKnight, [as. A. 
 Meany, Geo. P. 
 Meehan, Thos. F. 
 Meeker, Ralph 
 Meyer, J. G. A. 
 Miles, Geo. E. 
 Miller, John DeWitt 
 Mitchell, J. J., Jr. 
 Macauliff, Harry 
 MacMichael, Norton 
 Mathison, Charles F. 
 Milholland, J. E. 
 Morse, Lyman D. 
 Mitchell, John J. 
 Mooney, J. H. 
 Mortimer, F. C. 
 Morton, Levi P. 
 Moss, Charles 
 Mott, Lawrence S. 
 Moulton, Geo. E. 
 Mullaly, John 
 Munroe, P. S. M. 
 Munson, Jas. E. 
 Murphy, Walter S. 
 
 Nagle, Dr. John T. 
 Neagle, Harry 
 Nickerson, W. E. 
 Nostrand, F. \V. 
 Norton, Geo. L. 
 
 O'Leary, Henry A. 
 O'Brien, Jas. W. 
 O'Brien, Thos. S. 
 O'Donnell, Wra. H. 
 O'Neill, \V. Lane 
 O'Rourke, C. A. 
 Osborne, W. F. 
 Oudin, Joseph A. 
 Olney. Geo. \V. 
 Olsen, Neills 
 Ormsbee, H. \V. 
 Oscanyan, C. 
 
 Page, Harry C. 
 Parker, A. D. 
 Pasko, W. W. 
 Pearce, Geo. W. 
 Pearsall, Alfred E. 
 Pearsall, E. R. 
 Peck, Frederick North 
 Penny, Wm. N. 
 Perry, Dr. Charles J. 
 Phillips, Waldorf H. 
 Phillips, Walter P. 
 Phelps, Sheffield 
 Phelps, Geo. M. 
 Perkins, Frank 
 Phenis, Albert 
 Platt, W. A. 
 Pooton, James 
 Pratt, Sereno S. 
 Price, Chas. W. 
 Pulitzer, Joseph 
 
 Quigley, W. S. 
 
 Ransom, Chas. A. 
 Rankin, A. B. 
 Raab, C. 
 
 Rawlings, S. T. E. 
 Redding, C. H. E. 
 Redfern, Caleb H. 
 Reed, Charles B. 
 Reid, Geo. I. 
 Rice, I. L. 
 
 Richardson, A. Frank 
 Richardson, M. T. 
 Ransom, W. A. 
 Roberts, W. C. 
 Rascover, James 
 Rascover, Edward 
 Rushmore, Chas. E. 
 Richardson, J. H. 
 
 Rhoads, J. W. 
 Rogers, Robert 
 Rowell, Geo. P. 
 Ridder, Henry 
 Ridder, Herman 
 Riggs, E. G. 
 Riggs, O. W. 
 Ritch, Henry Ramson 
 Roberts, Ellis H. 
 Roesch, Geo. F. 
 Roosevelt, Rob't B. 
 Ross, Peter 
 Rothschild, Alonzo 
 Rowe, Geo. H. 
 Rusk, Frank T. 
 Russell, P. A. J. 
 Ruttan, W. E. 
 Rothwell, Richard P. 
 
 Salmon, Leon N. 
 Sanger. W. A. 
 Sass, C. Victor 
 Shilling, J. A. 
 Schoenduv, Andrew L. 
 Stump, Clarence E. 
 Sommerville, Roy V. 
 Shepherd, John L. 
 Strassman, A. 
 Scott, James W. 
 Selmes, R. E. 
 Senner, Dr. Joseph 
 Sidebotham, T. B. 
 Sinclair, Angus 
 Smith, Charles J. 
 Smith, Nelson 
 Sommers, Harry C. 
 Sotheran, Charles 
 Speer, Wm. McM. 
 Spinney, Geo. F. 
 Stanley, Henry M. 
 Stein, Meyer J. 
 Snyder, N. N. 
 Snyder, W. S. 
 Showalker, W. DeKalb 
 Steele, J. S. 
 Sullivan, Jas. E. 
 Sutton, Geo. D. 
 Sutton, David A. 
 Stanton, R. L. 
 Sterne, S. 
 
 Stevenson, John R. 
 Stiles, W. A.
 
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 189 
 
 Stiner, Joseph H. 
 Stiner, Wm. H. 
 Swain, G. F. 
 Sweeney, Dr. J. Vincent 
 Sweet, Clinton W. 
 
 Taggard, E. T. 
 Taylor, Geo. B. 
 Terry, Henry Clay 
 Thompson, \V. V. 
 Thurber, F. B. 
 Tifft, A. H. 
 Tinker, John J. 
 Tinsdale, E. J. 
 Tooley, James W. 
 Tousey, Frank 
 Tower, H. E. 
 Taggard, Geo. P. 
 Thorns, W. A. 
 Tippetts, Wm. H. 
 Turner, Will C. 
 Troy, W. B. 
 Taylor, Sam'l W. Jr. 
 Townsend, James B. 
 
 Tovey, A. E. J. 
 Townsend, E. DeKay 
 Tucker, Gideon J. 
 
 Van Arsdale. R. M. 
 Van Cleve, James A. 
 Van Dyke, Herbert 
 Valentine, F. C. 
 Vaughn, B. A. 
 Vaughn, W. W. 
 Veitch, David S. 
 Vreeland, S. S. 
 
 Wales, Salem H. 
 Walters, R. M. 
 Walton, Perry 
 Warker, E. H. 
 Washburn, Dexter C. 
 Webb, John H. 
 Webster, Franklin 
 Weil, Julius 
 White, Geo. 
 Wakeman, W. F. 
 Wright, Charles H. 
 Webster, Geo. P. 
 
 White, Hugh L. 
 Wetzler, Joseph 
 Willis, W. D. 
 Wiley, Louis 
 Wood, Benjamin 
 Weston, Edw. Payson 
 Whithead, Sam'l 
 Whitley, J. E. 
 Wight, Jarvis S. 
 Wilder, Marshall P. 
 Wiley, Wm. Halstead 
 Williams, Geo. F. 
 Williams, Wm. H. 
 Wilson, John 
 Wilson, John G. 
 Wilson, Harry B. 
 Wiman, Erastus 
 Winton, Henry D. 
 Worrall, Wm. R. 
 Wyatt, Francis 
 
 Yates, Benjamin 
 Young, John Russell 
 Young, de M. H. 
 
 Astor, William Waldorf 
 *Bonar, Thomas 
 
 Bruce, David 
 *Childs, George W. 
 *Croly, D. G. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
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 Flower, Roswell P. 
 Grace, William R. 
 Hilton, Henry 
 *McElrath, Thomas 
 
 Morton, Levi P. 
 Pooton, James 
 Smith, J L. 
 Stanley, Henry M. 
 
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 Brown, Col. W. L. 
 Ballard, Anna 
 Dare, Arthur 
 Elderkin, John 
 Edison, Thomas A. 
 
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 Hoyt, Charles A. 
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 Loyd, Samuel 
 Mooney, John H. 
 
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 Nagle, Dr. John T. 
 Ridder, Herman 
 Sidebotham, T. B. 
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 TI)e Boston Press Gab. 
 
 COMPILED FROM SKETCHES BY J. B. SMITH AND E. C. HOWEI.L. 
 
 This club was organized 
 in 1886, the incorporation 
 papers being dated May 28. 
 Its first quarters were in an 
 eyrie in Court street, and of 
 the place J. B. Smith, a mem- 
 ber of the club, has said: 
 
 "To think of that long 
 ascent, even in retrospect, is 
 enough to give one a pain in 
 the joints. But despite the 
 difficulties of locomotion, the 
 members climbed to the rooms 
 in sufficient numbers to show 
 that interest in the success of 
 the club was general. After 
 a time it is just as well to 
 confess that it was after the 
 first annual entertainment the club felt able to remove to more desirable 
 quarters. The choice for a new location fell in the midst of a section of 
 the city where the children of Bohemia had long pre-empted their claims. 
 In Bosworth street, fragrant with the odors of English chop houses and 
 French tables d'hote, the club made its home. A Bible society occupies 
 the first floor of the club house, and the windows facing Bromfield street 
 look out upon a church. These details are thrown in to reassure wives 
 and sweethearts that the club is located in a respectable quarter of the 
 town, surrounded by institutions which cannot fail to edify and inspire 
 the members " 
 
 The society of the club is a pure democracy. Neither "bigwigs" 
 nor "hightippybobs" are recognized there. Within its doors the man 
 who pays the salary stands upon the same footing as he who receives it; 
 
 195 
 
 FRED E. WHITlNfi. PRESIDENT
 
 196 THE BOSTON PRESS CLUB. 
 
 the editor who wields the blue pencil and the reporter who furnishes the 
 copy for mutilation both forget the feuds of the past in the mellowing 
 influences of the place. 
 
 A restaurant is run for the benefit of the members, and while the 
 cuisine is wholesome and nutritious it is not likely that it will diminish 
 the receipts of Young's or Ober's. This department is run day and night, 
 affording opportunity for the members to secure refreshments at all times. 
 This feature of the club is warmly appreciated by all, but especially by 
 those whose duties compel them to labor at night. When the lights are 
 out and the shutters up at other dining establishments the steward of the 
 club is still found at his post. Even after the morning papers have gone 
 to press, when the rest of creation is taking its final nap, the reporters 
 who have been caught with long assignments, and the news editors, those 
 vigilant searchers for errors of fact, grammar and taste, who never sleep 
 till the dawn approaches, may be found reviving their drooping spirits 
 from the stores of the steward's larder. 
 
 A fire alarm tapper is also at hand, while telephone and messenger 
 service keep the members within easy communication of the newspaper 
 offices. 
 
 Of course sociability is the principal object of the club. Before it 
 was organized the employees on the press in this city had absolutely no 
 place where they could meet together in a social way. It was often the 
 case that men worked in different offices for years without having had an 
 opportunity to become personally acquainted. Under such circumstances 
 men could have had very little interest in one another. Through the 
 medium of the club all this has been changed, and a spirit of fellowship 
 prevails which was formerly unknown. The advantage of this general 
 acquaintanceship is obvious. From mutual discussion of the matter 
 appearing in the newspapers, the abilities of the writers become known to 
 the whole fraternity almost as accurately as to those whom they alone 
 serve. This gives every man of merit a standing in the craft which is of 
 great advantage to him when he feels inclined, or compelled, to change 
 his base of operations. 
 
 Many interesting and enjoyable entertainments have been held in the 
 club house. For the instruction and amusement of the members Henry 
 A. Clapp, the popular Shakespearean lecturer, has talked of the writings 
 of the great English bard; George Makepeace Towle has drawn on his 
 fund of historical knowledge; Prof. Muybridge has illustrated his obser- 
 vations on animal locomotion; P. T. Barnum has given reminiscences of 
 his active and varied life, and Mark Twain has turned on the fountain of 
 his wit and humor. George Kennan has given two courses of lectures 
 under the auspices of the club, which were received with great public 
 favor, and Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley were introduced to a 
 Boston audience under the same auspices.
 
 THE BOSTON PRESS CLUB. 197 
 
 The professional and amateur stage, always generous of their time 
 and talents, have been frequently pressed into service to delight and 
 amuse the members in the club house. 
 
 Among the distinguished gentlemen in whose honor the club has held 
 receptions are Henry M. Stanley, Mark Twain, Bill Nye, James Whitcomb 
 Riley, George Kennan, P. T. Barnum, and Elijah W. Halford. 
 
 The success of the club has been as great as could have been reason- 
 ably expected, but it is disclosing no secret to say that there is an oppor- 
 tunity for the achievement of still greater success in future. 
 
 The present home of the club is at No. 14 Bosworth street, and is 
 now sufficiently commodious for all the requirements of its 312 members. 
 Of these 216 are on the active list; that is, are men who are actively 
 engaged in newspaper and literary work in Boston, or were so engaged 
 when they joined the club; about 50 more possess associate membership, 
 a distinction dependent mainly on residence; and 43 are what we call 
 visiting members, men prominent in business and politics who are not 
 connected with the newspaper press, but who value a connection with the 
 Press Club, the representative organization of Boston newspaper men. 
 
 The death roll of the club contains 31 names. We are a fairly enter- 
 prising body of men, take us all in all, as the public knows, generally to 
 its profit, and occasionally to the cost of some of its individuals; we are 
 doing well, but we hope to do better, and some day, when the times look 
 up, we will talk of building a house over our heads, and of getting a 
 thousand members, more or less, to make us the greatest club in the city. 
 
 The officers of the club and members at the present time are as 
 follows: 
 
 PRESIDENT: FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 FRED. E. WHITING. WM. V. ALEXANDER. JACOB C. MORSE. 
 
 THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 ROBERT G. FITCH. WILLIAM B. SMART. 
 
 SECRETARY: TREASURER: FINANCIAL SECRETARY: 
 
 M. J. KEATING. GEORGE M. WHITAKER. EDMUND J. CARPENTER. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 
 EDWIN STEARNS. FRANK C. BROWNELL. WILLIAM E. BRIGHAM. 
 
 GEORGE H. BRENNAN. J. W. HEMENWAY. 
 
 WM. S. McNARY. JAY B. BENTON. 
 
 And the Executive Officers. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE: 
 
 CHAIRMAN: SKCRETARY-TREASURER: 
 
 EMIL SCHWAB. E. G. HEATH. 
 
 WALTER LITTLEFIELD. 
 
 WARREN T. BILLINGS. FRANK A. NICHOLS. 
 
 CHARLES F. GETTEMY. F. W. FORD. JOSEPH MCCARTHY
 
 198 
 
 THE BOSTON PRESS CLUB. 
 
 Adams, Walter E. 
 Adams, William T. 
 Ahern, M. W. 
 Alden, Fred H. 
 Alexander, William V. 
 Anderson, Thomas F. 
 Andrews, Chas. H. (Life) 
 Andrews, Charles S. 
 Appleton, B. A. 
 Appleton, Henry 
 Austin, Henry W. 
 
 Bacon, Edwin M. 
 Baker, William 
 Balch, William L. 
 Barnes, Walter S., Jr. 
 Barrett, A. W. 
 Barren, Clarence W. 
 Barry, E. P. 
 Baxter, Sylvester 
 Beal, B. Leighton 
 Bean, Edgar L. 
 Bender, Prosper 
 Bennett, Frank P. 
 Benton, Jay B. 
 Billings, Warren T. 
 Bonnelle, Frank J. 
 Bosworth, F. E. 
 Bragdon, Alvin A. 
 Brennan, George H. 
 Brigham, William E. 
 Brownell, Atherton 
 Brovvnell, Frank C. 
 Buckley, Eugene 
 Burns, Wylie C. 
 Burpee, George C. 
 Byrne, Samuel J. 
 Burton, Frederick R. 
 
 Carmody, John D. 
 Carpenter, Edmund J. 
 Chamberlain, Henry R. 
 Chase, Walter G. 
 Clarke, Arthur E. 
 Cobb, Walter H . 
 Cole, Alfred Q. 
 Conant, Charles A. 
 Cook, Charles E. 
 Cooke, Albert W. 
 Coolidge, Erwin I,. 
 Cornish, H S. 
 Costello, J. F. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 Cracknell, Ralph 
 Crosby, Edward H. 
 Currier, George W. 
 Curran, M. P. 
 
 Daniels, James 
 Dickey, F. G. 
 Dickinson, George H. 
 Dodd, Horace 
 Donovan, William F. 
 Dorr, Henry R. 
 Douglas, O. M. 
 Draper, Edward F. 
 Dresser, William A. 
 Drew, Charles S. 
 Dukelow, Charles T. 
 Durant, William 
 Dyar, Charles W. 
 
 Edgerly, Julian C. 
 Edwards, Edward E. 
 Ellis, George H. 
 Ellis, William R. 
 Elmer, A. D. 
 Elson, George H. 
 Elson, Louis C. 
 Estes, J. Irving 
 Evans, George W. 
 
 Feeney, Thomas J . 
 Finerty, H. B. 
 Firman, Burton M. 
 Fitch, Robert G. 
 Flanagan, John S. 
 Flanagan, Thomas P. 
 Fletcher, Herbert H. 
 Ford, Daniel S. (Life) 
 Ford, Frederick W. 
 Fowle, Arthur A. 
 French, E. M. C 
 Fuller, Horace W. 
 
 Gettemy, Charles F. 
 Gibbons, Joseph M. 
 Gillam, Ernest M. 
 Glidden, Charles H. 
 Goodrich, Frederick E. 
 Goodwin, Fred W. 
 Goss, Frank M. 
 Green, Mason A. 
 Grier, H. J. 
 Griswold, James R. 
 Groce, Joseph B. 
 
 Grout, William C. 
 Guild, Curtis (Life) 
 
 Hale, Philip 
 Harrison, Frank 
 Haskell, E. B. (Life) 
 Hathaway, William H. 
 Hazewell, Edward W. 
 Heath, Edwin G. 
 Hemenway, J. W. 
 Holbrook, Benjamin P. 
 Holmes, John H. 
 Hopkins, William 
 Howard, Charles S. 
 Howard, Joseph, Jr. 
 Howell, Edwin C. 
 Huntington, E. S. 
 
 Jenkins, E. L. 
 Johnson, C. C. 
 Keating, M. J. 
 Keeler, Justin S. 
 Kelley, Peter 
 Kenniff, Daniel J. 
 Kingdon, Samuel S. 
 Knowlton, Daniel S. 
 
 Lee, John H. 
 Lee. William 
 Legate, Henry R. 
 Little, Edward S. 
 Lord, Eliot 
 Loring, Charles A. 
 Lovell, Arthur T. 
 
 Maguire, Patrick 
 Mandell, Samuel P. 
 Mandell, George S. 
 Markham, E. F. 
 Mattson, John 
 McCarthy, Joseph 
 Mclntire, H. F. 
 McNally, John J. 
 McNamara, John J. 
 McNary, William S. 
 Merrigan, John J. 
 Merrill, Samuel 
 Miles, Samuel S. (Life) 
 Monroe, George H. 
 Moore, George W. 
 Morgan, James 
 Morse, Jacob C. 
 Murray, William F.
 
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 199 
 
 Nichols, Francis A. 
 Nichols, Frank A. 
 Nichols, John W. 
 Noyes, James B. 
 Odlin, Edward \V. 
 O'Keefe, Arthur 
 O'Meara, Stephen 
 
 Parcelle, Walter A. 
 Parker, Arthur C. 
 Parkman, Henry 
 Pember, John E. 
 Pinkham, Henry M. 
 Pope, Frank H. 
 Porter, Linn B. 
 Prescott, Edward (Life) 
 Quinn, Thomas C. 
 Quint, Wilder D. 
 
 Ransom, C. M. 
 Restarick, Charles W. 
 Reynolds, J. B. 
 Rice, C. Frank 
 Rich, Charles J. 
 
 Rich, Isaac B. 
 Richmond, George F. 
 Ritchie, John, Jr 
 Robertson, D. C. 
 Robinson, A. H. 
 Robinson, William E. 
 Roffe, W. G. T. 
 
 Sanger, William H. 
 Savage, Minot J. 
 Saxe, Martin 
 Schwab, Emil 
 Schriftgiesser, Julius J. 
 Shirley, Sidney F. 
 Sise, Robert W. 
 Smart, William B. 
 Smith, Cross G. 
 Smith, Daniel W. 
 Smith, George H. 
 Smith, John B. 
 Smith, Joseph C. 
 Splithoff, Peter 
 Stearns, Edwin 
 Stevens, Frank B. 
 
 Stewart, George A. 
 Stickney, Edwin D. 
 Strang, Lewis C. 
 Strong, William T. 
 Sullivan, William D. 
 
 Talbot, Emory H. 
 Taylor, Charles H. (Life) 
 Taylor, Nathaniel H. 
 Teamon, Robert T. 
 
 Walsh, William H. 
 Wardner, Torrey E. 
 Washburne, George F. 
 Weeks, Frank M. 
 Whitaker, George M. 
 Whiting, Fred E. (Life) 
 Whitney, Fred B. (Life) 
 Wilkinson, H. S. 
 Winship, Albert E. 
 Winslow, W. Copley 
 Woodward, William A. 
 Woods, E. H. 
 Woods, Joseph E. 
 
 Young, George M. 
 
 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS. 
 
 Atwill, Richard S. (Life) 
 
 Gosse, C. S. 
 
 O'Brien, Hugh 
 
 
 
 Olin, William M. 
 
 Bacon, George A. 
 
 Haines, George A. 
 
 
 Bennett, Oliver A. 
 
 Hall, William D. 
 
 Partridge, Wm. Ordway 
 
 Bogardus, F. 
 Boss, Robert P. 
 
 Hickey, David J. 
 Holden, Luther L. 
 
 Quinn, William J. 
 
 Bridge, J Ransom 
 
 Hoyt, Charles H. 
 
 Rice, James E 
 
 Burpee, George C. 
 
 Leach, E. Arthur 
 
 Richards, George F. 
 
 Cahill, Thomas H. 
 
 Littlefield, Walter 
 
 Smith. G. Waldon 
 
 Claflin, Fred H. 
 
 Marvel, Louis H. 
 
 Southard, Louis C. 
 
 Crockett, Ralph W. 
 
 Maxham, Lowell M. 
 
 Southwick, Henry L. 
 
 Decrow, William E. 
 
 Meany, John T. 
 
 Sproul, Arthur E. 
 
 Dever, John F. 
 
 Merrill, George S. 
 
 Tarbel, P. E. 
 
 
 Mood) , John H. 
 
 Towne, Willis L. 
 
 Farnsworth, Fred L. 
 Fitzgerald, J. K. 
 
 Morse, Charles F. 
 Moseley, Samuel R. 
 
 Tyler, James L., Jr. 
 
 Flynn, William H. 
 
 Murphy, James C. 
 
 Watson, B. F. 
 
 Fowle, A. Lincoln 
 
 Murphy, John R. 
 
 Watson. J. R. 
 
 Frazar, Douglas 
 
 Myrick, N. Sumner 
 
 Wells, John S.
 
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 Andrew, John F. 
 
 Bird, Lewis J. 
 Breed, Frank W. 
 Burbank, A. N. 
 
 Clarke, James 
 Cordley, F. K. 
 
 Davis, Charles G. 
 Denison, Henry B. 
 Doogue, L. J. 
 Dunbar, Charles C. 
 
 Eaton, Charles S. 
 
 Faxon, Henry H. 
 Field, George P. 
 Fitzpatrick, John B. 
 
 THE BOSTON ]>RESS CLUB. 
 VISITING MEMBERS. 
 
 Galvin, Owen A. 
 Galvin, Thomas F. 
 
 Haile, William H. 
 Harris, Herbert A. 
 Hart, Thomas N. 
 
 Jones, Jerome 
 Knowles, C. S. 
 
 Lawrence, William B. 
 Leeson, J. R. 
 Lodge, Henry Cabot 
 
 Mitchell, Edwin V. 
 Morse, Elijah A. 
 
 Nichols, George B. 
 Obrion, Thomas L. 
 
 Paige, John C. 
 Parker, J. H. 
 Pierce, Henry L. 
 Pope, Albert A. 
 
 Reed, Henry R. 
 Russell, William A. 
 Russell, William E. 
 Russell, Harry E. 
 
 Shuman, A. 
 Sinclair, Charles A. 
 Smith, Harry W. 
 Sprague, Charles F. 
 
 Tucker, George F. 
 
 Wardwell, J. Otis 
 Whitney, Henry M. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Kennan, George Stanley, Henry M.
 
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 By C. M. STADDEN. 
 
 The National Capital Press 
 Club is an organization that 
 was incorporated by the Wash- 
 ington correspondents at the 
 beginning of 1891. Thereto- 
 fore the local newspaper repre- 
 sentatives took steps to organ- 
 ize a social club, but their task 
 was not completed. January 
 21, 1891, the correspondents 
 assembled at the Ebbitt House 
 and agreed that by proceeding 
 upon the lines laid out by the 
 local press, a club should be 
 formed. Mr. John P. Miller 
 presided over this first meeting 
 as temporary chairman, and 
 committees were appointed to 
 draft a constitution and to secure quarters for the club. 
 
 After the constitution was adopted the first election was held February 
 16, 1891, and S. H. Kauffman was made President. The organization 
 immediately secured the second, third and fourth stories of a building ad- 
 joining the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth street, which 
 is the present location of the club. 
 
 The membership of the National Capital Press Club is of three classes, 
 namely: Resident, Non-Resident and Associate. According to the con- 
 stitution the following persons and no others are eligible for active mem- 
 bership: Men who are connected with newspapers, magazines or other 
 periodicals, and artists who have a similar connection, provided that in 
 all cases their work shall be of a character to bring them within the gen- 
 eral scope of the purposes of the club. The initiation fee for this class of 
 
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 JOHN P. MILLER, PRESIDENT
 
 204 
 
 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PRESS CLUB. 
 
 membership is $15, and the annual dues $24. Gentlemen who are not 
 eligible to Resident or Non-Resident membership may be elected to Associ- 
 ate membership, provided they are nominated by twenty active members in 
 good standing. They shall pay $35 in advance in lieu of all fees and 
 dues. This latter class consists principally of Senators, Members of Con- 
 gress and Government officials. 
 
 The club is now in a flourishing condition. The cafe and buffet are 
 well patronized and are running on a paying basis. The parlors and 
 reading room are well supplied with the leading papers, books and peri- 
 odicals. The writing room is a source of great convenience, especially to 
 visiting correspondents. Changes and improvements about the rooms are 
 being made constantly, and at present a committee is laboring with the 
 revision of the constitution. 
 
 The following are the rolls of the club: 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 PRESIDENT: VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 JOHN P. MILLER. JEROME J. WILBER. 
 
 SECRETARY: TREASURER: 
 
 CORRY M. STADDEN. DANIEL CURRY. 
 
 Allen, William H. 
 Allison, James \V. 
 Annin, William E. 
 Apperson, Geo. H. 
 Austin, Oscar P. 
 Ayers, Edward W. 
 
 Bain, G. Grantham 
 Barrett, Edward W. 
 Bailey, A. M. 
 Beadle, J. H. 
 Bell, Wm. R. 
 Blumenburg, Milton W. 
 Boyle, John 
 Boynton, Chas. A. 
 Boynton, Charles H. 
 Brady, Edward W. 
 Britton, Fred H. 
 Brooks, Hobart 
 Browne, Herbert J. 
 Butt, Archibald W. 
 
 Campbell, Francis C. 
 Canfield, Henry S. 
 Carson, John M. 
 Carter, J. M., Jr. 
 Carter, John 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 Chandlee, Wm. H. 
 Clarke, Alfred J. 
 Clarke, H. Conquest 
 Coffin, Geo. Y. 
 Carlton, Charles Carroll 
 Carpenter, Frank G. 
 Cohen, John S. 
 Conant, Charles A. 
 Crandall, Lee 
 Crounse, Wm. L. 
 Cummings, Amos J. 
 Curry, Daniel 
 Curtis, Samuel M. 
 Curtis, Wm. E. 
 Gushing, Marshall 
 
 Darby, Rufus H. 
 Darwin, Chas. C. 
 Decker, Karl J. 
 Dey, Fred M. 
 Dingley, Albert G. 
 Drew, John W. 
 DuBois, James T. 
 Dunn, Arthur W. 
 Durham, Jay F. 
 Fernold, C. B 
 
 Ferris, Fergus P. 
 Foster, E. M. 
 
 Gardiner, Cornelius 
 Garthe, Louis 
 Gill, Delancy W. 
 Gilliland, Geo. E. 
 Gibson, E. J. 
 Goodwin, Harry P. 
 Gross, John A. 
 Grubb, Alfred F. 
 
 Harbercow, L. W. 
 Hall, Henry 
 Halstead, Albert 
 Hamilton, Chas. A. 
 Handy, Fred A. G. 
 Harris, Findlay 
 *Hatton, Frank 
 Heath, Perry S. 
 Henry, James S. 
 Hill, Geo. Wm. 
 Hinman, Wilber F. 
 Hood, Edwin M. 
 Hosford, Frank H. 
 Hopkins, Henry T. 
 Howe, Franklin T. 
 * Deceased. 

 
 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PRESS CLUB. 
 
 Hughes, Peter J. 
 Hunt, A. B. 
 Hutchison, John A. 
 
 Irland, Fred'k G. 
 
 Jenks, J. Edward 
 Johnson, H. L. E., Dr. 
 Johnson, Philander C. 
 Johnson, Sylvanus 
 Jones, John E. 
 
 Kauffmann, Rudolph 
 Kauffmann, S. H. 
 Kauffmann, Victor 
 Kerns, Charles E. 
 Kirby, Thos. B. 
 
 Lampton, \Vm. J. 
 Lemon, Geo. E. 
 Lewis, Alfred H. 
 Lindsley, Richard H. 
 Lockwood, Chas. B. 
 Low, A. Matirice 
 
 McEIroy, John 
 McSween, Angus 
 Martin, Jas. D. 
 Mathews, Jerry A. 
 Matthews, R. Bowman 
 Merrick, Harry L. 
 
 Merrillant, C. H. 
 Messenger, North O. 
 Metzger, Chas. W. 
 Miller, Albert L. 
 Miller, John P. 
 Milliken, Benjamin H. 
 Morgan, Frank P. 
 Morgan, T. M. 
 Murrey, Thos. J. 
 Mussey, Fred D. 
 
 Newcomb, Josiah T. 
 Noah, Jacob J. 
 Noyes, Crosby S. 
 Noyes, Frank B 
 Noyes, Thomas C. 
 Noyes, Theo. \V. 
 
 O'Connor, John D. 
 O'Neil, Francis J. 
 Oulahan, Richard V. 
 
 Quinn, E. S. 
 
 Ridenour, Chas. J. 
 Roberts, Henry C. 
 Rose, Clifford 
 Rouzer, Geo. W. 
 
 Schroeder, Reginald 
 Shaw, Wm. B. 
 
 Shriver, John S. 
 Simpson, \Vm. E. 
 Smith, E. B. 
 Smith, Henry H. 
 Smith, H. N. 
 Smith, N. W. 
 Stadden, Corry M. 
 Sterrett, William G. 
 Stevens, Walter B. 
 Sylvester, Richard 
 Sylvester, Richard H. 
 
 Tennant, J. W. 
 Thompson, Chas. T. 
 Thompson, Howard \V. 
 Tillman, J. Fount 
 
 Van Antwerp, Jas S. 
 
 Walker, Harry W. 
 Walsh, Patrick 
 Warden, Clifford 
 Wedderburn, John 
 Wellman, Walter 
 West, Harry W. 
 Wight, E. B. 
 Wilber, Jerome J. 
 Wilkins, Beriah 
 Williams, John C. 
 Wilson, Harvey L. 
 Wynne, Robert J. 
 
 Ainsworth, Fred. C., Col. 
 Allen, Edward H. 
 Alvey, William 
 
 Bailey, Jos. W. . Hon. 
 Barnes, Lyman E., Hon. 
 Bartlett, Geo. A. 
 Battershall, Sanford 
 Beall, Robert 
 Blanchard, A. 
 Boatney. Charles J., Hon. 
 Bright, Richard, Col. 
 Broadhead, Richard 
 Burke, J. M. 
 
 Caldwell, John A., Hon. 
 Cannon, Jos. G., Hon. 
 Caruth, Asher G., Hon. 
 Catchings, Thos. C., Hon. 
 Clements, Judson C., Hon. 
 
 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS. 
 
 Cobb, Seth W., Hon. 
 Covert, J W., Hon. 
 Grain, William H., Hon. 
 Crisp, Chas. F., Hon. 
 Crutchfield, N. T. 
 Gulp, John M. 
 
 Darlton, Chas. A 
 Devine, John T. 
 Derrickson, Samuel B. 
 Dockery, Alex. M., Hon. 
 Dolliver, Jonathan P., Hon. 
 DuBois, Fred. T. 
 Dunn, John T., Hon. 
 
 East, Hughes 
 Ellcott, Henry J. 
 
 Fay. John C. 
 
 Fanciulli, Francesso, Prof. 
 
 Fellows, John R., Hon. 
 
 Gale, Thomas M. 
 Gardner, Lawrence 
 Gardner, Wm. F., Prof 
 Geary, Thomas J., Hon. 
 Galvis, George O. 
 Gordon, Frank 
 
 Hamilton, John B., Dr. 
 Hamlin, Chas. S., Hon. 
 Hassler, J. J. S. 
 Hatch, Wm. H., Hon. 
 Hibbert, Charles H. 
 Hilborn, Samuel G., Hon. 
 Houghtaling, W. J. 
 Hupp, L. J. 
 
 Johnson, Tom L., Hon. 
 Jones, John Paul
 
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 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PRESS CLUB. 
 
 Kerr, James, M. D. 
 Kilgore, C. Buckley 
 Kimball, E. S. 
 
 Lamoreux, Silas W. 
 Landis, Kenesaw M. 
 Layton, B. W. 
 Lindsay, William 
 Lipscomb, Andrew A. 
 Lothrop, Alvin M. 
 Louis, Michael A. W. 
 
 McAleer, Wm., Hon. 
 McGann, Lawrence 
 Macauley, Daniel 
 Mansur, Chas. H. 
 Mercer, David H., Hon. 
 Merritt, H. F. 
 Myer, Adolph, Hon. 
 Minetill, Joseph P. 
 Mitchell, John L., Hon. 
 
 Money, Hernando D. , Hon. 
 Mosely, Edward A. 
 Muhlenburg, John C. 
 Murry, John H. 
 
 Parker, Myron M. 
 Pitney, Ora L. 
 Pommer, Frank L. 
 Price, Andrew, Hon. 
 
 Quay, Matthew S., Hon. 
 
 Raymond, A. C. 
 Reilly, James B. 
 Reynolds, John M. 
 Roosevelt, Theo., Hon. 
 Rudy, William D. 
 
 Sayers, Jos. D. , Hon. 
 Shipman, Jon. B., Hon. 
 Sibley, Joseph C., Hon. 
 Simms, William H. 
 
 Smith, Marcus A., Hon. 
 Somers, Peter J., Hon. 
 Sousa, John P., Prof. 
 Stone, Chas. W., Hon. 
 Storer, Bellamy, Hon. 
 Squire, \VaUon C., Hon. 
 
 Tarsney, John C., Hon, 
 Tolford, W. O. 
 Torrey, J. L. 
 Tucker, W. F., Major 
 
 Voorhees, Daniel W., Hon. 
 
 Wade, Rufus D. 
 Wardle. James H. 
 Washington, Joe E., Hon. 
 White, Edward D., Hon. 
 Whitehead, Cabell 
 Wright, Myron B., Hon. 
 Wyman, Walter, M. D. 
 
 NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Bartholdt, Rich'd, Hon. 
 Bean, Tarleton H. 
 Bennett, Claude N. 
 Berch, N. P. 
 Bone, Scott C. 
 Bowman, Thos., Hon. 
 Boyle, P. C. 
 Burrelle, F. C. 
 
 Durborow. A. C., Hon. 
 De Lipman, M. 
 
 Fearn, R. Lee 
 
 George, Henry, Jr. 
 Glenn, W. M. 
 
 Handy, William M. 
 Hansborough, H. C. 
 Hoffman, Geo. H. 
 Howard, Joseph Jr. 
 Hughes, Peter J. 
 
 Kerr, James, Hon 
 
 Mack, Norman E. 
 Miller, Jos. S. 
 Moorehead, H. B. 
 
 Muckle, M. Richard 
 Mutchler, Howard 
 
 Osborne, N. G. 
 
 Scott, James W. 
 Sahler. Charles Jr. 
 
 Taylor, F. H. 
 
 Williams, John S. 
 Williams, Thos T. 
 
 Young, Jas. Russell 
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 Nicholas, associate editor of The Indianapolis Journal, Miss Laura A. 
 Smith, of The Indianapolis Sentinel, and Mrs. Nettie Ransford, editor of 
 The Eastern Star. 
 
 The club has delightful rooms in the center of the city. The walls 
 are decorated with a fine collection of the works of Indiana artists, and 
 the library contains the books of Indiana authors. While not large, the 
 club has on its list of members men like James Whitcomb Riley, the 
 Hoosier poet; Gen. Lew Wallace, the author of "Ben Hur, " and others 
 who have placed Indiana in the front rank of American literature. The 
 club does not give many receptions and social entertainments save when 
 there are distinguished guests in the city to be entertained, for all its mem- 
 bers are in active literary work and have little time for society. The 
 
 200 
 
 J. P. HORNADAY. PKESIDENT
 
 210 
 
 TffE INDIANAPOLIS PRESS CLUB. 
 
 annual author's reading given by the club is the largest entertainment of 
 the year and never fails to pack the opera house. Mr. Riley always 
 appears on the program and other Indiana authors, with an occasional 
 Kentuckian thrown in, appear and read from their own manuscripts. The 
 past presidents of the club are: William Fortune, 1891 ; Hilton U. Brown, 
 1892; and Harry S. New, 1893. 
 
 A new and simpler constitution was adopted in 1894, at which time 
 the Club was composed of the following officers and members: 
 
 PRESIDENT: VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 JAMES P. HORNADAV. LAURA REAM. 
 
 TREASURER: 
 HILTON U. BROWN. 
 
 CUSTODIAN: 
 WALTER K. LANDIS. 
 
 SECRETARY: 
 LAURA A. SMITH. 
 
 LIBRARIAN: 
 ADOLP1I SCIIMUCK. 
 
 ARTHUR C. WHITE. 
 
 T. A. RANDALL. 
 
 DIRECTORS: 
 J. B. JEUP. 
 
 ERNEST P, BICKNELL. 
 
 MAURICE PERKINS. 
 
 Alexander, Grace 
 
 Banta, D. D. 
 Bicknell, Ernest P. 
 Briceland, H. G. 
 Brown, Harry G. 
 Brown, Hilton U. 
 Brown, Robert 
 Burk Annis 
 
 Carlton, Emma 
 Clancy, M. J. 
 
 Dennis, Charles 
 Dunn, J. P. 
 
 Eaton, Ben A. 
 
 Fortune, William 
 Foster, Charles 
 Fuller, Chas. II. 
 
 Galloway, Walter 
 Goodridge, Fred. L. 
 
 Henderson, J. O. 
 Hibben, Thomas E. 
 Hitt, George C. 
 Hogate, Julian D. 
 Holliday, John H. 
 Hornaday, James P. 
 Howland, Louis 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 Jenkin, D. H. 
 Jeup, J. B. 
 Johnson, O. R. 
 
 Kaylor, Wm. 1 1. 
 Kingsbury, J. G. 
 
 Landis, Charles B. 
 Landis, Walter K. 
 Lane, Chas. R. 
 Layman, Chas. A. 
 Lee, Lot 
 Ludlow, Louis 
 
 Mavity, Mr. 
 Mayer, Cornelius 
 Maynard, J. B. 
 McKenzie, Miss Anna 
 McPhetridge. Lannes 
 Miller, Samantha West 
 Morss, S. E. 
 Morton, Oliver T. 
 
 New, Harry S. 
 Nicholas Anna 
 Nicholson, Meredith 
 
 O'Brien, H. S. 
 
 Paine, Gavin L. 
 Payne, Frank 
 Perkins, Maurice 
 
 Peterson, A. W. 
 Piercy, J. W. 
 Praigg, D T. 
 Pratt, W. D 
 
 Randall, T. A. 
 Ransford, Nettie 
 Ream, Laura 
 Richards, W. J, 
 Riley, James Whitcomb 
 Ross, Morris 
 Royce, Alvin 
 Royce, Harry 
 
 Schmuck, Adolph 
 Seeds, Russel M. 
 Smiley, T. E. 
 Smith, Laura A. 
 Stafford, E. E. 
 Steele, T. J. 
 Stein, Evalein 
 
 Thompson, Gid. B. 
 
 Wallace, Lew 
 White, Arthur C. 
 Wilkins, W. A. 
 Williams, Charles K. 
 Williams, W. R. 
 Williamson, Mr. 
 Wilson, W. L.
 
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 WM. A. HAMMOND, 
 
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 HENRY R. KENT, 
 
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 ESEK BUSSEV, Vice-President. 
 
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 H. M. LEWIS, Treasurer. 
 J. R. GRAVES, Auditor. 
 
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 WM. O. GOODMAN, TREASURER, CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
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 Bv T- IX McMANUS. 
 
 The idea of establishing a 
 Press Club in Milwaukee orig- 
 inated in the brain of Archie 
 Foster about ten years ago. 
 Foster was then the theatrical 
 and sporting editor of The 
 Sentinel. One night, while a 
 number of the boys were en- 
 gaged at their after midnight 
 lunch, Foster suggested his pet 
 idea, and within two weeks 
 quarters had been secured and 
 a Press Club organized. This 
 ready, active enthusiasm which 
 inspired its beginning, has 
 ever since been the chief factor 
 in the success of the club. 
 James Langland, the present 
 
 managing editor of The Chicago Record, was elected its first president. 
 Foster afterward became an actor, joined Jacob Lilt's forces and died in 
 Denver. Singular to note he is the only active thorough member of the 
 club whose name appears on the mortuary list. 
 
 From the first the club thrived, and was instantly recognized as an 
 excellent medium for propagating good fellowship. But in 1888, with 
 over $100.00 in the treasury, it was found necessary to reorganize it for the 
 purpose of reviving interest. Since then the history of the club has been 
 a series of brilliant affairs and glorious undertakings. To-day it stands 
 in every respect among the foremost organizations of its kind in the 
 country. It has been especially fortunate in the selection of energetic 
 and competent officials, and accordingly its financial and operating condi- 
 tion has ever been its proudest boast. In no other city of the country, to 
 
 213 
 
 W. A. Rl'BLEE. PRESIDENT.
 
 214 THE MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB. 
 
 my knowledge, and I have been around a bit, does such a perfect esprit de 
 corps exist among the working reporters of rival newspapers. 
 
 A gala affair which astounded the natives far and wide, and which 
 will go down as the most brilliant and creditable entertainment in the 
 history of Milwaukee, was that tendered the World's Fair foreign journalists 
 on the 24th of June, 1893, by the Press Club. 
 
 The club rooms are located on the third floor of loo Mason street, 
 corner Broadway, and consist of a reading and writing room, a novel and 
 unique banquet hall, a parlor, billiard and grill room. All the rooms 
 are exceedingly well appointed for the purpose, but odd in design. The 
 banquet room is an attractive novelty, fashioned on the plan of an 
 ancient Munich inn, with high wainscoting and ludicrous wall decora- 
 tions. The walls of the billiard room are papered with matrices of all the 
 leading papers of the country, from Boston to San Francisco. A cool, com- 
 fortable, elevated "bier stube, " or summer garden, in the rear, completes 
 the club quarters. The incorporators of the club, on the occasion of its 
 reorganization, were Herman Bleyer, Wm. J. Anderson, George H. 
 Yenowine, George P. Mathes, and H. P. Myrick, and their declaration 
 was that they intended to associate together for the purpose of forming a 
 corporation under and pursuant to the laws of the state of Wisconsin, the 
 business and purposes of such corporation being the promotion of good 
 feeling among the members of the newspaper profession in said city of 
 Milwaukee and state of Wisconsin, mutual assistance in cases of need, and 
 the elevation of the character of said profession, with all dealings and 
 transactions incident to said object. 
 
 Following is a list of present officers and members of various classes: 
 
 PRESIDENT: FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 \V. A. RUBLEE. M. A. HOYT. 
 
 SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 C. \V. EMERSON. 
 
 SECRETARY: TREASURER: 
 
 J. D. McMANUS. A. G. WRIGHT. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: 
 
 W. A. RUBLEE (,-x officid). C1IAS. K. LUSH. 
 
 JOHN R. WOLF. GEORGE H. YENOWINE. HERMAN BLEYER. 
 
 WM. F. HOOKER. M. E. McINTOSII. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON ROOMS. 
 
 CHAS. K. LUSH. JOHN R. WOLF. 
 
 FRANK A. PUTNAM.
 
 THE MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB. 
 
 Aikens, A. J. 
 Aldrich, H. B. 
 Anderson, W. J. 
 Andrews, Thos. S. 
 
 Hannen, James 
 Berger, Victor L. 
 Bleyer, Herman 
 Bleyer, Julius 
 Bowdish, W. A. 
 Braun, Herman 
 
 Campbell, H. C. 
 Clark, C. S. 
 Colburn, Otis 
 Coleman, Edgar W. 
 *Coleman, W. \V. 
 Cramer, John F. 
 Cramer, Wm. E. 
 
 Deuster, P. V. 
 Deuster, Oscar 
 DingwaH, A. W. 
 Deimling, Adolph 
 Dougherty, Fred. 
 Douglass, M. C. 
 Dankoler, H. S. 
 Dunlop, \V. S. 
 
 Eldridge, E. C. 
 Emerson, C. W. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 Everett, J. Winter 
 
 Friese, A. W. 
 Friese, F. W. 
 *Foster, Archibald 
 
 Gardner, W. E. 
 Garrison, James C. 
 
 Harbach, F. M. 
 Hannan, John J. 
 Heath, Fred. F. 
 Heming, Harry H. 
 Hooker, Wm. F. 
 Hoyt. M. E. 
 
 Keene, Francis B. 
 King, Capt. Charles 
 
 Krackowizer, E. W. 
 
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 Langland, James 
 Legler, Henry E. 
 Littell, Philip 
 Lush Chas K. 
 Malkoff, M. D. 
 Markle, Frank 
 Myrick, H. P. 
 Mclntosh, M. E. 
 McManus, J. D. 
 
 Nieman, L. W. 
 
 * Dead. 
 
 Osborn, Chase S. 
 
 *Pagenkopf, H. W. 
 Peck, George W. 
 Peck, George W., Jr. 
 Pollock, Walter W. 
 Pohl, W J. 
 Poppendlick, John, Jr. 
 Putnam, Frank A. 
 
 Quin, Edward 
 
 Rublee, Horace 
 Rublee, W. A. 
 Remey, O. E. 
 Schindler, J. J. 
 Schoenecker, V. J. 
 Starkey, Dan. B. 
 
 Treat, Curtis M. 
 Tafft, A. J. 
 
 Underwood, H. G. 
 
 Walthall, W. T., Jr. 
 Watrous, J. A. 
 Watrous, R. B. 
 Wolf, John R. 
 Wright, Alfred G. 
 
 Yenowine. George II. 
 
 Barry, Frank 
 Bruce, W. G. 
 Booth, W. A. 
 
 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS. 
 
 Campsie, J. W. Howard, Samuel 
 
 De Leur, A. B. Moore, Willis L. 
 
 Filmore, J. C. Whittemore, Don. J. 
 
 Brown, Sherman T. 
 Keene, Thos. W. 
 Litt, Jacob 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 Mendel, H. M. Payne, H. C. 
 
 Pabst, Frederick Richter, August, Jr.
 
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 will influence vastly the present generation. Its 
 awards mark the advance made by the exhibitors 
 in their different lines, prominent among whom 
 were the 
 
 Chicago Varnish Co. 
 
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 were awarded, with special commendation of their 
 Architectural Varnishes. No manufacturer in the 
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 G. B. SHAW, President. JOY MORTON, Vice-President. \\II.I.IAM KENT, 2d Vice-President. 
 
 J. R. CHAPMAN, Cashier. W. L. MOVER, Assistant Cashier. 
 
 TRfVNSflGTS f\ GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. 
 
 PERSONAL AND BANK ACCOUNTS DESIRED. 
 
 Three per cent. Interest paid on Savings Deposits. Accepts Trusts created by Will or otherwise. Assumes the Care of Prop- 
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 information at 
 
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 President. 
 
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 Sec'y and Treas. 
 
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 UNION 
 
 NATIONAL 
 
 BANK 
 
 OF CHICAGO. 
 
 ....DIRECTORS.... 
 
 DAVID KELLEY, J.H. BARKER. 
 
 of Kelley. Mans & Co., 
 Wholesale Hardware. 
 
 H. N. MAY, 
 
 of Corbln. May & Co., 
 Wholesale Grocers. 
 
 O. C. KARBKR, 
 
 President 
 Diamond Match Co. 
 
 H. H. GETTY. 
 
 of Martin Ryerson & Co., 
 Lumber Merchants. 
 
 J. J. P. ODELL, 
 President. 
 
 of Haskell A Barker Car 
 Co., Michigan City. 
 
 S. K. MARTIN, 
 
 of S.K.Martin Lumber Co. 
 
 D. II. DKWEY. 
 
 of W. T. Rickards A Co. 
 Bankers. 
 
 .J. W. ELLSWORTH. 
 
 of J. W. Ellsworth & Co.. 
 Coal Merchants. 
 
 H. H. KOHLSAAT, 
 
 of H. H.Kohlsaat* Co. 
 
 R. C. LAKE. 2d Vice-President. 
 
 A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. 
 
 ....OFFICERS.... 
 
 J. J. P. ODELL, 
 
 President 
 
 DAVID KELLEY, 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 Al'GUST BLUM, 
 Cashier. 
 
 W. O. HIPWELL. 
 
 Assistant Cashier. 
 
 RICHARD C. LAKE, u'd Vine-President. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1864. 
 
 ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. 
 
 ..ESTABLISHED 1867.... 
 
 HIBERNIAN RANKING ASSOCIATION 
 
 TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS- 
 
 Allows ? per cent. Compound Interest on Savings Deposits. 
 
 Solicits the Accounts of Banks, Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders and others. 
 
 Buys and Sells Foreign and Domestic Exchange. 
 
 Is empowered by its Charter to receive money in Trust from Courts, 
 Executors, Administrators and others; also, to accept and execute trusts 
 of all kinds and to act as receiver for Estates. Corporations, Firms and 
 Individuals. 
 
 Buys and Sells on Commission Investment and other first-class securities, and 
 carries the same on satisfactory margins. 
 
 Negotiates loans, makes investments and loans money at the lowest current 
 rate on approved collaterals. 
 
 J. V. CLARKE, President. 
 
 HAMILTON B. DOX, Cashier. 
 
 H. B. CLARKE, Vice-President. 
 
 L. B. CLARKE, Assistant Cashier.
 
 Tl)e at. Paul Press Gab. 
 
 COMPILED FROM A SKETCH BY H. P. HALL. 
 
 
 This organization grew to 
 years of maturity under ad- 
 verse circumstances, and its 
 present vigorous condition is 
 no doubt the result of the 
 effort required to keep it alive 
 in -the early years of its exist- 
 ence. We prize that most for 
 which we are compelled to 
 strive the hardest. From Mr. 
 Hall's breezy sketch of the 
 club we learn that the earliest 
 record extant is a call for a 
 meeting to be held at the 
 Merchants' Hotel, Sunday, 
 April n, 1886, to consider the 
 question of organizing a club. 
 The meeting was held, the 
 following persons being present: C. S. Bartram, Frank M. Reed, William 
 Erwin Ward, George Thompson, W. J. Ilger, U. S. Genung, C. H. 
 Dixon, of The Dispatch; John F. Baker, Edw. S. Tingle, J. S. Richardson, 
 J. O. Denny, Geo. H. Moffett, P. P. Pomeroy, S. B. Woolworth, T. B. 
 Holmes, C. E. Maxfield, L. B. Little, G. F. Gifford, Charles F. Batchel- 
 der, of The Globe; Geo. D. Eastin, A. M. Wells, James H. Foote, F. A. 
 Carle, M. J. Roche, John Talman, James N. Bradley, Geo. C. Cochrane, 
 C. M. Schultz, H. I. Cleveland, Hartley Davis, Louis E. Fisher, J. G. 
 Pyle, Edward Richards, of The Pioneer Press; and M. B. Hatch of The 
 Tribune. These were all signers of the call, and in addition there were 
 H. A. Castle, E. V. Smalley, H. P. Hall, Geo. K. Shaw, J. H. Hanson, 
 H. B. Humphrey, H. Stockenstrom, J. E. Osborn, H. G. Dunn, W. O. 
 Bates, S. A. Phillips, H. B. Hanncore, and D. E. Roselle. 
 
 219 
 
 DR. J. J. COSWiT, PRESIDENT
 
 220 THE ST. PAUL PRESS CLUB. 
 
 Capt. H. A. Castle presided at the meeting, and L. B. Little was 
 temporary Secretary. The gentlemen decided to organize and spent some 
 time in discusing who should be eligible to membership. Committees were 
 appointed on rooms and constitution, and arrangements made for a sub- 
 sequent meeting. A number of meetings were held, and on Sunday, May 
 2, the following gentlemen were chosen as officers of the new organization: 
 
 President, E. V. Smalley, of The Northwest Magazine; Vice-Presi- 
 dent, Geo. K. Shaw, of The Evening Dispatch; Treasurer, C. M. Schultz, 
 of The Pioneer Press; Financial Secretary, C. F. Jones, of The Globe; and 
 Recording Secretary, L. B. Little, also of The Globe. Directors, F. A. 
 Carle, Geo. H. Moffett, H. A. Castle, C. S. Bartram, H. Stockenstrom, 
 and C. H. Lienau. House Committee, H. P. Hall, J. S. Richardson, and 
 H. I. Cleveland. 
 
 The first quarters of the club were in Union Block, and the first 
 meeting was held therein July 4, 1886. "An event which has made that 
 day so memorable, " says Mr. Shaw, "that its anniversary has ever since 
 been observed by the closing of the banks (possibly as a precautonary 
 measure), celebrations and a general suspension of business. The club 
 had a fitful existence until 1890, when it was disrupted, and another club 
 was formed. Neither organization prospered vigorously, and in 1891 a 
 reorganization of the original club was effected, and since that time the 
 club has flourished, and taken a prominent place among the social and 
 benevolent organizations of the city. Following were the officers during 
 the reorganization period: President, H. P. Hall, of The Daily News; 
 Vice-President, Mrs. R. F. Steele, of The Pioneer Press; Secretary, Geo. 
 W. Dodds, of The Globe; Financial Secretary, F. A. Johnson, of The 
 Dispatch; Treasurer, T. J. Price, of the Kellogg Newspaper Union; 
 Directors, H. T. Black, Globe; Geo. H. Sargent, Pioneer Press; A. E. 
 Chantler, Dispatch; F. W. Lee, Daily News; C. J. Miner, Minneapolis 
 Tribune; Carl Neuhausen, Volkszeitung; D. W. Meeker, N. IV. Railroader; 
 F. Le Vasseur, Le Canadian. 
 
 From the time of the reorganization of the club until December, 1892, 
 the quarters of the club were in the Grand Opera House, but in the month 
 named the club leased a cozy residence at the corner of Fifth and St. 
 Peter Streets, where it is still domiciled. 
 
 Shortly afterward Harry W. Wack, one of the enterprising members, con- 
 ceived the idea of having the members write stories which should be 
 published in book form, with advertising matter, and entitled "For 
 Revenue Only." The people of St. Paul gave the project hearty support, 
 and clever literary contributions were furnished by Hon. Henry A. Castle, 
 Col. A. E. Chantler, Ruth Kimball, H. \V. Wack, John Henderson 
 Garnsey, Franklyn W. Lee, Rev. John A. Conway, Mary Harriman 
 Severance, E. A. Patadis, Irving Todd, J. S. Vandiver, Luigi D. Ventura,
 
 THE ST. PAUL PRESS CLUB. 
 
 221 
 
 H. T. Black, William Wettelson, F. A. Johnson, Carl Neuhausen, DeWitt 
 Kenneth Cochrane, J. M. Hawks, J. E. Gemmel, M. D, C. M., Moses 
 Folsom, Hon. Lewis Baker, and H. P. Hall. 
 
 The officers of the club at the present time are: 
 
 PRESIDENT: 
 DR. JOHN J. CONWAY. 
 
 SECRETARY: 
 STEPHEN CONDAY. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS: 
 GEORGE THOMSON P. J. SMALLEY. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY: TREASURER: 
 
 C. P. STINE. A. M. KXOX. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 Ahearn, J. J. 
 
 Gemmel, J. E. 
 
 Pegeler, A. E. G. 
 
 
 Gifford, G. F. 
 
 Pinney, J. S. 
 
 Baker, John F. 
 
 Gonden, B. H. 
 
 Powers, F. L. 
 
 Baker, Lewis 
 
 Graff, Harald 
 
 Powers, Winn 
 
 Baker, Lewis, Jr. 
 
 Grant, J. D. 
 
 Price, W. W. 
 
 Bancroft, F. L. 
 
 Greening, H. B. 
 
 
 Baring, O. 
 
 
 Ramaley, David 
 
 Barrett, O. E. 
 
 Hall, H. P. 
 
 Ramaley, I. Howard 
 
 Bell, W. T. 
 
 Hamlin, Conde 
 
 Root, L. R. 
 
 Benson, W. L. 
 
 Hawks, J. M. 
 
 
 Bjorkman, Ed. 
 Black, H. T. 
 Brisley, C. F. 
 
 Hendrickson, G. L. 
 Johnson, F. A. 
 
 Sargent, G. H. 
 Sawyer, C. E. 
 Schmahl, J. A. 
 
 Buell, C. T. 
 
 Kimball, H. M. 
 
 Severence, Mrs. Mary H 
 
 
 King, J. E. 
 
 Smalley, E. V. 
 
 Carter, C. G. 
 
 Knox, A. M. 
 
 Smalley, P. J. 
 
 Castle, H. A. 
 
 Koch, Wm. 
 
 Smalley, V. H. 
 
 Chantler, A. E. 
 
 
 Smith, Rev. S. G. 
 
 
 T AP V \V 
 
 
 Clifford, R. W. 
 
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 Stack, J. L. 
 
 Cochran, De Witt K. 
 
 Ledoux, L. N. 
 
 Steele, Mrs. Carrie 
 
 Conday, S. 
 Conway, Rev. J. J. 
 Costello, M. J. 
 
 Le Vasseur, T. H. 
 Lienau C. H. 
 Listoe, F. C. 
 
 Steele, R. F. 
 Stern, Louis 
 Stine, C. P. 
 
 Cowan, B. S. 
 
 Listoe, Soren 
 
 Stone, Dr. A. J. 
 
 Danforth, E. L. 
 Deacon, W. G. 
 
 Lonegren, O. 
 Luther, M. H. 
 Lysander, Geo. 
 
 Stockenstrom, H. 
 Sutton, Del. T. 
 
 Dearth, E. H. 
 
 
 Tait, Geo. D. 
 
 Dobson, J. J. 
 
 Magraw, W. E. 
 
 Taylor, E. D. 
 
 Dunn, H. G. 
 
 McCrea, E. E. 
 
 Thompson George 
 
 Dysart, J. B. 
 
 McGill, C. H. 
 
 Tighe, Ambrose 
 
 
 McKenney, C. R. 
 
 
 Evans, E. \V. 
 
 Meeker, D. W. 
 
 Vandiver, J. S. 
 
 Fales, E. L. 
 
 Middleton, J. E. 
 
 Verity, H. E. 
 
 Fenwick, A. R. 
 
 Murphy, C. H. 
 
 Wack, II . W. 
 
 Flandrau. C. E 
 Folsom, Moses 
 Ford, Frank 
 
 Neihausen, C. 
 Nuzum, F. P. 
 
 Ward, John 
 Willard. A. J. 
 Wood, A. B. 
 
 Fulton, Dr. J. H. 
 
 O'Brien, John D. 
 
 Wood, J. D. 
 
 Garnsey, J. H. 
 
 O'Connor, J. P. 
 
 Woodward, F. R. E. 
 
 Gardiner, Mrs. Ruth Kimball 
 
 Paradis, E. A. 
 
 Woolworth, S. B.
 
 222 
 
 THE ST. PAl'L PKKSS CLUB. 
 
 NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 liurnum, 1'. K. 
 Harrett, K. 
 Hassford. II. (). 
 
 Hare, A. N. 
 Day, F. A. 
 Day, H. G. 
 Dowling, M. I. 
 
 Eastman, Alvali 
 Kdwards, A. \V. 
 
 Gordon, N. S. 
 Gottry, E. C. 
 
 Ileatwole, Joel P. 
 Hinds, Win. 
 Hunt, 1.. P. 
 
 Ives, H. E. 
 Johnson, J. A. 
 Langum, S. A. 
 
 I'erry, I lorace Greeley 
 Pease, G. S. 
 
 Smith. W. IX 
 Strong, D. K. !>. 
 
 Todd, Irving 
 Tyler, C. G. 
 
 Whitney, C. C. 
 Whitney, W. C. 
 
 Hixby, K. I.. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Cory, Judge Lilt, Jacob
 
 Ti)e AUnneapoli^ 
 
 Hy SMITH 15. HAM.. 
 
 The Minneapolis Press Club 
 was organized twelve years 
 ago and during the greater 
 part of its history has been 
 active and progressive. For 
 the three past years it has 
 maintained a handsome suite of 
 rooms in the Rochester block 
 on "Newspaper Row." Its ac- 
 tive membership numbers one 
 hundred, and is confined closely 
 to those who make their living 
 by newspaper work, eight-tenths 
 of them being newspaper writ- 
 ers. Its honorary members are 
 limited to twelve. 
 
 The following papers are 
 represented: Evening Journal, 
 Times, Tribune (morning and 
 
 evening), Penny Press, Minneapolis department of The St. Paul Globe, 
 Minneapolis department of The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mississippi Valley 
 Lumberman, Commercial Bulletin, Northwest Trade, Daily Produce Bulletin, 
 Northwestern Miller, The House Keeper, Irish Standard, Svenska Ameri- 
 kanska, Posten, Minneapolis Daglig Tidende, Skordemetnnen, Furniture News, 
 Samf linden, Minneapolis Horseman, and The North. 
 
 The present officers of the club are: President, Smith B. Hall; Vice- 
 President, Joseph T. Mannix; Recording Secretary, \V. W. Jermane; 
 Corresponding Secretary, Fred. H. Oilman; Treasurer, Fred. H. Sanders; 
 Historian, H. H. S. Rowell; Directors, J. H. Leonard; W. I"). Child; E. 
 I). Twombley. 
 
 The club is pre-eminently a social organization but has done much 
 in a practical way to advance the interests of its members, individually 
 and collectively. 
 
 233 
 
 SMITH II. HALL. I'KKSIUKNT
 
 224 
 
 THE MINNEAPOLIS PRESS CLUB. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 Atkins, W. E. 
 
 Harris, H. S. 
 
 Price, T. J. 
 
 Butman, J. R. 
 
 Hoskinson, H. L. 
 
 Pierce, G. A. 
 
 Blanchard, John 
 
 Haskell, W. E. 
 
 Pegler, A. E. J. 
 
 Bartholomew, C. L. 
 
 Higgins, H. F. 
 
 Peet, E. L. 
 
 Barnes, E. 15. 
 
 Hunt, L. P. 
 
 Palmer, Miss Emma E. 
 
 Blunt, Abbott 
 
 Hillhouse, L. J. 
 
 Pryor, L. C. 
 
 Baltuff, Harry A. 
 
 Jaeger, Luth 
 
 Pratt, E. C. 
 
 Bushell, F. \V. 
 
 Jones, Will S. 
 
 Parker, C. A. 
 
 
 Jones, H. V. 
 
 Pease, G. S. 
 
 Caven, Geo. 
 Clark. Fred. J. 
 Chapin, H. C, 
 Chamberlin, W. B. 
 
 Jermane, W. \V. 
 Jones, R. F. 
 Jackson Geo. F. 
 
 Rowell, H. H. S. 
 Russell, A. J. 
 Rask, O. II. 
 
 Collins, 1'. V, 
 
 Knappen, T. M. 
 
 Reed, John H. 
 
 Child, \Vm. D. 
 
 Knapp, C. H. 
 
 Sanford, E. H. 
 
 Canfield, Geo. 
 
 Leonard, J. H. 
 
 Spear, Geo W. 
 
 Curtiss, II. B. 
 
 Leonard, Mrs. J. H. 
 
 Smith, Roy 
 
 Conklin, J. T. 
 
 Leader, Geo. 
 
 Stacy, F. N. 
 
 Dunn Horace 
 
 Leavitt, F. W. 
 
 Swift, L., Jr. 
 
 Davis, Mrs. Kate B. 
 
 Mannix, J. T. 
 
 Sanders, F. H. 
 
 Doods. Geo. W. 
 
 Mortland, ]ohn K. 
 
 Smith, C. L. 
 
 Daniels, J. V. 
 
 Murphy. W. J. 
 
 Somerby, C. \V. 
 
 
 Miller, Miss Kate 
 
 Shaw, A. W. 
 
 Edsen, Adolph 
 Eastman, E. H. 
 Evans, R. G. 
 
 Minckler, J. A. 
 Morey, Geo. W. 
 Murphy, J. G. 
 
 Triggs, Floyd 
 Thurston, J. S. 
 Thurston, Robt. B. 
 
 Fraser, Geo. 
 
 Macdonald, M. L., Jr. 
 
 Twombley, E D. 
 
 Fanning, N. O. 
 
 McLain, J. S. 
 
 Turnblad, S. J. 
 
 Francis, C. R. 
 
 McMurchey, W. G. 
 
 Taylor, Richard 
 
 Frisbie, W. A. 
 
 McCracken, Burton 
 
 Vanderhoof, Chas. H. 
 
 Fenwick, A. R. 
 
 McGill, A. R. 
 
 Valesh, Mrs. Eva McDonald 
 
 Gray, James 
 
 Nind, J. Newton 
 
 Varney, V/tn. O. 
 
 Gray, Mrs. James 
 
 Nelson, Miss M. E. 
 
 Vail, Roger 
 
 Gilman, Fred. H. 
 
 O'Brien, Edward 
 
 Walker, Platt, Jr. 
 
 Graham, E. G. 
 
 O'Brien, \V. L., Jr. 
 
 Wallace, Carl L. 
 
 Havden, J. F. 
 
 O'Brien, H. J. 
 
 Wells, A. M, 
 
 Hall, II. R. W. 
 
 Otis, E. L. 
 
 Wettleson, W. W. 
 
 Hall, Smith B. 
 
 Ostrum, C. S. 
 
 Wilbur, Miss Sybil 
 
 Harwood, \V. S. 
 
 Odson, E. O. 
 
 Wheaton, Fred. 
 
 Conklin, J. F. 
 Eustis. W. H. 
 Evans, R. Y. 
 Goodnow, John 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Ilaney, C. H. 
 Hays. Theo. L. 
 Keeker, G. E. 
 Rose, E. J. 
 
 Smith, H. J. 
 Stafford, Loc. 
 Stevens, Col. G. H. 
 Winston, P. B.
 
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 The following; are extracts from autograph letters received by W. W. Kim I mil Co.: 
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 SIG. E. BEVIGNANI -"The Kimball is certainly the singer's ideal piano." 
 MME. LILLIAN NOKDICA "1 have a Kimball Piano iu my private room and take great comfort with it. The tone is mellow 
 
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 MME. SOPHIA SCALCHI "The Kimball Pianos are ideal in tone and perfect in action." 
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 SIG. FRANCISCO VIGNAS "The Kimball Pianos are in every respect superb instruments." 
 SIG. MARIO ANCONA -The Kimball Piano fully justifies the high praise bestowed upon it by great musicians. It satisfies me 
 
 thoroughly, in every particular. " 
 SIG. N. CASTELMARY "The Kimball is an ideal piano, in beauty of tone and perfection of action." 
 
 THE KIMBALL. PIANOS have been used and indored by every Grand Opera Company which has appeared in 
 
 INIBALL PIANOS have been us 
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 Tfye 
 
 Francisco Press 
 
 liv F. C. ROBERTS. 
 
 The Press Club of San 
 Francisco, with a membership 
 of over two hundred after six 
 years of existence, and with a 
 prominent and influential posi- 
 tion in the community, was 
 originally an outgrowth of 
 several moribund Bohemian 
 organizations. These, which 
 had formerly contained the 
 newspaper men of the city 
 among their members, passing 
 out of favor and out of time, 
 left the way clear for the ready 
 formation, at the suggestion of 
 some Chicago and other East- 
 ern men recently arrived in 
 San Francisco, of an exclusive 
 
 "Press" Club. Some of the charter members were, or have since become, 
 persons of distinction in the community though that is neither here nor 
 there as to the history of a body of newspaper men who seek neither fame 
 nor glory, but only dollars and the driving of the quill: "Let the world 
 slide, let the world go, a fig for care and a fig for woe," is one of the 
 mottoes inscribed under a skull and a bacchanal infant on the walls of the 
 club's handsome rooms; and that is the spirit of the men when they are 
 assembled in "jinks," or individually after work, to read, shuffle cards, 
 talk or drink. Inebriety and carousal, however, are not the index words 
 of the club's character, however much they may have been so in the more 
 halcyon and convivial days of California's past. The couplet merely 
 expresses the let-us-rusticate-and-not-worry temper of the "ink slingers" of 
 the Golden City when they have given up the day's labors and come 
 together for social purposes. 
 
 F. C. ROBEIIT8, SECRETARY
 
 228 THE SAN FRAXCISCO PRESS CLUB. 
 
 The first housewarming of the Press Club had the honor of being a 
 reception to several newspaper men of New York city; and the first 
 "benefit" received the compliment of a joint entertainment by Madame 
 Modjeska, Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davies, The Madrid Spanish Opera 
 Company, Louise Pyk, and the perennial local Tivoli Opera Company. 
 In following years courtesies have been extended to and received from 
 Bill Nye, Henry M. Stanley, Sarah Bernhardt, George Kennan, Henry 
 Watterson, Jacob Schaefer and many other celebrities. The prominent 
 lawyers and jurists of the city have always made the club their frequent 
 habitation, and imparted to it, by their associate membership, the prestige 
 and goodly reputation that come of social and civic honors. The several 
 benefits that the club has received at the hands of the theatrical profession 
 have placed it upon a generous financial footing, and helped to lift it to 
 the general prosperity and self-complacency it holds at the present time. 
 
 The ordinary vicissitudes anent the process of evolution in local 
 journalism indeed in local municipal life have been registered in the 
 changing complexion of the Press Club. It has grown from the more 
 characterless and insipid days of a hybrid and mongrel press to quite a 
 pretentious and numerous body of representatives of all that is good and 
 holy, bad and worse, grave and jocose in the spirit of the Pacific Coast 
 Metropolis. Following are the officers and members, 1893-94: 
 
 PRESIDENT: FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT: 
 
 T. F. BONNET. FREMONT OLDER. 
 
 SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT: SECRETARY: 
 
 I. F. SHEEHAX. WELLS DRURY. F. C. ROBERTS. 
 
 FINANCIAL SECRETARY: LIBRARIAN: 
 
 GEO. D. SQUIRES. \V. F. BURKE. 
 
 BOARD OF MANAGERS: 
 
 \V. \V. NAUGHTON. E. F. MORAN. 
 
 L. G. CARPENTER. D. M. FRAZER. J. ROSS JACKSON' 
 
 J. P. BOOTH. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 Adams, E M. Beel, Sigmund Bouvier, Al. 
 
 Adams, H. P. Belcher, E. A. Brittan, N. J. 
 
 Allen, M. C. Benjamin, B. Brittan, \V. G. 
 
 Benson, A. *Brook, II. L. 
 
 Backus, M. Benton, \V. G. Brown, J. F. 
 
 Backus, S. W. Bishop, A. W. Bunker, \V. M. 
 
 Barendt, A. H. Black, A. P. Burke, Frank H. 
 
 Barnes, C L. *Black, O. Burke. M. J. 
 
 Barnes, W. S. Bogart, W. F. Burke, W. F. 
 
 Barry, James H. *Bonnet, T. F. Burns, D. M. 
 
 Bauer, A. Booth, J. P. Burrows, A. 
 * Charter Members.
 
 THE SAN F RAX CISCO PRESS CLUB. 
 
 Bush, H. P. 
 
 Carpenter, L. G. 
 Cassell, Joseph B. 
 *Coe, C. M. 
 Coffey, J. V. 
 Colnon, E. L. 
 Colville, T. 
 Conlan, C. T. 
 Cook, Carroll 
 Cooney, J. T. 
 *Cosgrave, J. O'Hara 
 Cowles, Paul 
 Craig, Scipio 
 Crothers, R. A. 
 
 Daniells. T. G. 
 Davis, Robert 
 Davis, Sam 
 Dewey, A. T. 
 *De Young, M. H. 
 Donald, J. C. 
 Dreypolcher, W. S. 
 *Drury, Wells 
 Duke, Dean 
 Durst, Jonathan 
 Dusenbury, S. 
 
 Ewing, S. M. 
 
 Finlay, John 
 Fitch, L. E. 
 Flynn, Thomas E. 
 Forsythe, Alex. 
 Fouga, J. 
 Frazer, D. M. 
 Frazer, W. G. 
 Friedlander, L. H. 
 
 Garber, E. K. 
 Goetzel, E. H. 
 Goldsmith, Paul 
 Gray, F. H. 
 Groom, J. J. 
 
 Hamilton, E. K. 
 Hanlon, C. F. 
 Harrigan, J. J. 
 Hart. W. H. 
 *Hart, W. N. 
 High, Gavin D. 
 Hirsch, C. J. 
 Hoeffler, L. M. 
 Hoesh, John 
 Howell, C. F. 
 
 * Charter Members. 
 
 *Hume, Hugh 
 Hunt, John 
 Irvine, L. H. 
 Jackson, J. Ross 
 Jesson, C. H. 
 Joachimsen, H. L. 
 "Jordan, J. S. 
 Jourdan, W. H. 
 Judd, N. A. 
 
 Kahn, Julius 
 Kahn, Dr. S. S. 
 Kelly, Allen 
 Kelly, J. P. 
 Ketchum, R. L. 
 King, Cameron II. 
 Knight, G. A. 
 
 Lande, E. S. 
 Law, Dr. H. 
 Lee, Charles A. 
 Lemmon, A. B. 
 Levinson, N. G. 
 *Lowe, C. A. 
 Lynch, Jere. 
 
 Mann, Harry 
 Maxwell, G. H. 
 Maxwell, J. D. 
 May, Albert 
 McComb, John 
 McCraney, H. A. 
 McDonald, R. H. 
 McGillivray, J. D. 
 McEnerny, Garrett 
 McMullen, J. 
 McNair, \V. \V. 
 Merritt, H . L. 
 *Michelson. Charles 
 Mills, H. H. 
 Mills, W. H. 
 Molera, E. J. 
 *Moran, E. F. 
 Moulder, A. J. 
 Munson, F. E. 
 *Myer, George H. 
 
 *Xaughton, \V. W. 
 Newcome, W. A. 
 Newsome, \V. B. 
 Norcross, D. 
 
 O'Hatton, G. 
 *O!der, Fremont 
 Oliver, R. W. C. 
 
 Osboine, II. Z. 
 Painter, Edgar 
 Palides. D. 
 Patton, H. 
 Pickler, Charles 
 Pitcher, W. J. 
 Polk, Willis 
 *l'ounstone, A. L. 
 Powers, A. H. 
 Powers, F. H. 
 Powning, C. C. 
 Price, Edgar T. 
 Ralston, W. C. 
 Riordan, T. D. 
 Roberts, F. C. 
 Robertson, R. V. 
 Sanderson, A. A. 
 Seawell, J. M. 
 Sheehan, J. F. 
 Shetterly, J. L. M. 
 Shortridge, C. M. 
 Shortridge. S. M. 
 Simpson, S. 
 Slack, C. W. 
 Solomon, L. 
 Solomons, T. S. 
 *Squires, Geo. D. 
 Steppacher, J. 
 Stillwell, C. J. 
 Stowell, F. \V. 
 Street, A. T. 
 Sullivan, T. B. 
 Sutherland, H. V. 
 Taylor, H. R. 
 Thompson, F. P. 
 Thompson, J. F. 
 Thrum, J. F. 
 *Timmins, John 
 Truesdell, F. H. 
 Truman, B. C. 
 Trumbo, I. 
 Tyler, T. S. 
 *Ulrich, C. 
 Von Szinngey, S. 
 Washington, John T. 
 Watt, James Alva 
 Waymire, J. A. 
 Welch, L. J. 
 Wetmore, C. A. 
 White, Douglas 
 Williams, T. T.
 
 230 THE SAX FRANCISCO 1'KtiSS CLUB. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Albani, Emma Keith William Schmid, S. 
 
 Stanley, H. M. 
 
 Bancroft, H. H. ^^\\, Lillian 
 
 Kernhardt, Sara Wilson. C. F. 
 
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 JAMES H. GILBERT, President 
 
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 ere ng 
 
 MANUFACTURED AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Crushed jStone, jS/ag, Cinders 
 
 and Limestone for Flux. 
 162 WflS-HINGTON STREET, 
 
 : : Particular attention given to 
 building Macadam Roads, Drives 
 and Boulevards :::::: 
 
 TELEPHONE No. 1469 
 
 f hicago. 
 
 WM, SOOY SMITH 
 
 CIVIL ENGINEER 
 AND CONTRACTOR. 
 
 801=804 Stocl< Exchange, 
 
 108 La Salle St. 
 
 ....Chicago.
 
 N.W.HARRIS&COMPANY 
 
 Dealers in 
 
 tjigh Grade Municipal and Corporation Bonds 
 
 We carry a large line of con- 
 servative investment securi- 
 ties, a complete list of which 
 will be mailed on application. 
 
 Correspondence Invited 
 
 163=165 Dearborn St., CHICAGO 
 
 NEW YORK BOSTON 
 
 E. A. CUM.W.VGS 
 SILAS M. MOORE 
 C. O. GOSS 
 
 E. S. JUDD 
 
 Manager Loan 
 
 Department 
 
 E. fl. COHMINGS 5 CO. 
 
 Real Estate and Loans 
 
 Co\\ed Reuts ax\A Pa\j taxes, Bvuj, 
 aud, l&a.ua^e PTQext ou 
 
 Locau 
 
 S. W. COP. Dearborn & Washington Streets 
 CHICAGO 
 
 Telephone 
 
 Main 302 
 
 CAPITAL, 
 
 $1.500,000 
 
 ..COMPANY.. 
 
 Offices on the Main Floor 
 of its Building, 
 
 100 WflSHINGTON ST. 
 
 Executes Trusts of every 
 description. 
 
 Acts as Executor, Admin- 
 istrator, Guardian, Re- 
 ceiver, Assignee, Trus- 
 tee, Registrar, etc. 
 
 Insures Titles to Real 
 Estate. 
 
 Makes Abstracts of Title 
 to Real Estate. 
 
 UAVID B. LYMAN, PRES'T. 
 
 GEO. L. PADDOCK, VICE-PRF.S'T. 
 
 HENRY W. LEMAN, 2i> VICE-PRES'T. 
 WM. C. NIBLACK, SECRETARY. 
 
 E. G. FOREMAN, TREASURER. 
 
 QUEEN 
 
 Ins. Co. of America. 
 
 Western Department : 
 O, ROOKERY 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Jos. M. ROGERS, Manager
 
 C. B. CONGDON 
 
 A. C. DAVIS 
 
 C. B. CONGDON & CO. 
 
 Commission Merchants 
 
 GRAIN AND PROVISIONS 
 
 47 Board of Trade 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 fl. G. Spalding & Bros. 
 
 INCORPORATED 
 
 CHICAGO NEW YORK 
 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 
 Athletic Goods, Bicyles and Supplies, 
 Uniforms for all Sports, 
 Gymnasium Outfits . . 
 
 CMAlili. 147-149 Wabash Are. NEW YORK, 126-130 Naisiu St., 
 
 I'llll UIKLI'HIA, 1032 Clirttnut St. and 15-17 Bttkman St. 
 
 H, H, Kohlsaat & Co, 
 
 FINE 
 
 BAKERY 
 
 GOODS 
 
 BAKERIES: 
 
 196-198 Clark Street 324-326 Dearborn Street 
 
 221-223 State Street 83 Lake Street 
 
 59-61 Washington Street 81 Clark Street 
 
 5AJX 
 
 Ti)e Finest Prait Lands in the World 
 
 In AYerced County 
 
 The Wonderland of America. 
 
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 TELEPHONE HfllN 4383 
 
 FOR 
 
 Put up in Quart and Pint Bottles for Family Use. 
 For Sale Everywhere. TRY IT. 
 
 Cor. Indiana and Desplaines Street 
 CHICAGO 
 
 H. PABST, Manager 
 
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 HENRY H. WALKER, 
 
 REflL ESTflTE 
 
 MORTGAGE LOANS, 
 INVESTMENTS 
 
 AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT 
 OF PROPERTY, 
 
 Tacoma Building, 
 
 La Salle and... 
 . .Madison Sts 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 CLAY ROBINSON & COMPANY 
 
 LIVE STOCK COMMISSION, 
 STOCK YARDS. 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 So. Omaha, Neb. 
 Kansas City, Mcft v ' 
 
 WILLIAM J . GOUDY 
 ROBERT F SHANKLIN 
 
 TELEPHONE MAIN 3897. 
 
 Goiidy, Shanklin & Company 
 
 MORTGAGE BANKERS 
 
 HEAL ESTATE AND LOANS. RENTING. EST 
 
 84 La Salle Street 
 
 OI'1'OSITE MAIN ENTRANCE TO CITY HALL 
 
 Chicago 
 
 GOMPIGMIE GENERALE TRANSHTIINTIQUE. 
 
 PKBNGH UlNB. 
 
 . . . Qrand Winter Excursion to the Hediterranean and the 
 Orient, including, The Azores, Portugal, Spain, France, Cor- 
 sica, Italy, Skilly. Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Halta, 
 Tunis and Algeria, BY THE NEW FAST TWIN SCREW EXPRESS MAIL 
 STEAMEK "LATOURAINE" 
 
 OF 10.000 TONS AND 14,OOO HORSE POWER. 
 
 . . . Sailing from New York February 2, 1895, and returning 
 April ist or 2d. Duration of round trip about Nine Weeks. 
 
 The regular Kast Express Steamers of this Company sail 
 from New York to Havre-Paris every Saturday. 
 
 MAURICE W. KOZMINSKI, GENERAL WESTERN AGENT. 
 166 Randolph Street, .... CHICAGO. 
 
 The popular brands 
 ...of... 
 
 Toilet Soaps 
 are made by 
 
 J. 5. KIRK & CO. 
 
 F. A. BARNES. Telephone 1931. S. M. PARISH. 
 
 Notary Public. , 
 
 BARNE5 & PARISH, 
 
 Members Real Estate Board . 
 
 Real Estate, Loan and Renting Agents. 
 
 STORES AND HOUSES RENTED. 
 
 Bents Collected, Estates Managed and Taxes Paid 
 for Non Residents. 
 
 157 LA SALLE STREET, CHICAGO. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1873. 
 
 PETERSON & BAY, 
 
 5. W. Cor. La Salle and Randolph Sts., 
 
 CHIGflOO. 
 
 .Investment Securities, Foreign Exchange and Collections.. 
 Mortgage Loans and Real Estate. 
 
 F. G. LOGAN. F. K. DUNN. 
 
 D. BUTTERS. 
 
 Co 
 
 ommission-- 
 
 4 Board of Trade, 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 GRAIN, PROVISIONS AND STOCKS 
 
 BOUGHT AND SOLD ON MARGINS. 
 
 McARTHUR BROTHERS CO. 
 
 CONTRACTORS. 
 
 Room 820, "THE TEMPLE," 
 CHICAGO. 
 
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 Send $1.25, $2 or $3 50 for 
 Sample Retail Box by express 
 of the BEST CANDIES in 
 America. 
 Put up in elegant boxes and 
 strictly pure. Suitable for 
 PRESENTS. Express charges 
 
 
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 prepaid west of Boston and 
 
 f?an3y 
 VU ^ *- 
 
 \ 
 
 11 
 
 east of Denver. Refer to all 
 Chicago. Try it once. 
 Address, 
 C. F. GUNTHER, Confectioner 
 212 State Street, 
 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
 
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