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Chicago Cluh Farewell Dinner 



The sponsor of the social side of Chicago's lumber business, the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Chicago, wound up three active and highly 

 satisfactory years of existence on the evening of Saturday, Feb- 

 ruary 20, at which time a final and farewell dinner and entertain- 

 ment were tendered by the club to its members and visiting guests. 

 There was no curb placed on the plan of the entertainment com- 

 mittee, which, headed by "Bill" Eager, surpassed itself in the 

 variety and lively humor of the entertainment provided. 



The dinner was a most impressive affair from a culinary stand- 

 point and the beauty of it was, the further it went on the more 

 impressive it became, as the entertainment committee had drawn 

 up its plan in collaboration with the committee on liquidation. 



The closing up of the affairs of the club comes as an altogether 

 logical sequence of the completion of the plans for the Lumber- 

 men 's building, and for enlargement of the facilities and scope 

 of the Lumbermen's Association. 



The impressive quarters of the latter organization will provide 

 just those added social and recreation facilities that gave to the 

 «lub its excuse for existence, and now that the opening of the 

 association quarters is imminent, the club would really have no 

 logical claim on its members in the future, and hence its affairs 

 are being liquidated under circumstances which pronounce the en- 

 tire plan a complete and unmistakable success. 



We would like to be able to put into type the sparkling, effer- 

 vescent spirit of social, good fellowship which overflowed the club 

 rooms on Saturday night. However, a severe cold in the head is 

 usually not conducive to literary accomplishments, along these 

 lines, of a satisfactory character. About all it is possible to do 

 is to record the events as they were presented and to insure 

 Hardwood Eecoed readers that a surpassingly "good time was 

 had by all." 



As promised in the original announcement of the function, the 

 business session was "very, very short," consisting mainly of the 

 report of the liquidating committee, the most significant feature 

 of which report was the statement that the club will issue a divi- 

 dend to all members in good standing rather than being compelled 

 to call upon them for an assessment to meet obligations. 



Phil Gilbert of the Wisconsin Lumber Company closed up the 

 business session without any prospect of its being reopened by 

 requesting a vote of thanks to the officers, committees, etc. This 

 much of the program having been accom- 

 plished, the chair was turned over to Toast- 

 master E. H. Defebaugh, who acquitted 



himself with remarkable versatility and with an unusual display 

 of clever wit which he used in announcing the various features. 



There was a generous arrangement for professional and amateur 

 entertainment along prearranged lines, which was interspersed by 

 oratorical efforts by some of the notables of the club, who ac- 

 quitted themselves with varying degrees of success. 



F. E. Gadd of the Wisconsin Lumber Company, second president, 

 was selected to present retiring-president A. C. Quixley with a 

 beautiful watch as a token from the club members. He took the 

 opportunity presented of indulging his own oratorical bent for a 

 few minutes prior to the formal speech of presentation. The gift 

 was accepted by President Quixley with a good deal of feeling. 

 Why shouldn't it be? 



George C. King, retiring secretary, was also rewarded for his 

 most efficient efforts in the secretaryship, with a similar token of 

 esteem, the watch being presented by H. B. Darlington, who 

 acquitted himself in a commendable manner considering his lack 

 of experience in this line. 



E. A. Thornton, whose name is necessary on any program of 

 speechmaking, made a little talk on nothing in particular and 

 involving a story of unusually effective point. 



Others who talked were Boiling Arthur Johnson, R. S. Kellogg 

 and C. B. Flinn. Mr. Flinn is one of the oldest men in years of 

 age who belongs to the club, and had some interesting anecdotes 

 to tell of the old days in the woods. 



E. L. Thornton selected as the topic for his talk "The Early 

 Days of the Lumber Trade in Chicago." 



Ed. Lang, the first president, read a piece of prose which con- 

 veyed in no uncertain manner its idea. 



Some of the members prepared a tableau, using as a theme the 

 present war situation, with several dressed as European rulers and 

 one as Uncle Sam. They carried out a little sketch that was sup- 

 posed to represent the amicable settlement that would result from 

 the intervention of "Uncle" in the turmoil across the water. 



George Pope, the new president of the Chicago Lumbermen's 

 Association, told of plans for enlarging the work of that organi- 

 zation. 



President Quixley of the club closed the entertainment with a 

 farewell talk, which was along just the proper lines to touch the 

 sentimental feeling of those who have by 

 their efforts and by their loyal attendance 

 made the club the success wliioh it lias been. 



E. A. L.\NG, FIRST PRESIDENT 



A. C. QUIXLEY, RETIRING PRESIDENT 



F. R. GADD. SECOND PRESIDENT 



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