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the conventions, banquets and other functions by 

 which the newly-established crowning event of the 

 year in American stock-breeding circles would surely 

 be, in due course of time, annually attended ? The 

 old hotel had no adequate accommodations of the 

 sort required. To that all readily enough agreed. 

 And as we journeyed on, a vision was unfolded. 

 There was painted in fancy the beneficent ends to 

 be subserved in a thousand different ways by the 

 club of our dreams! An institution with incalculable 

 possibilities ! The potential center of inspirations to 

 be felt to the very outermost edges of a great 

 periphery! And presently all that was lacking was 

 its name! Before Madison was reached that point 

 was settled once for all. To men who knew and 

 reveled in the works of DIXON "The Druid" of happy 

 memory, whose apt titles and unrivaled volumes 

 on British country life are still the delight of all 

 appreciative men the matter of a name for such 

 a club as that in mind presented no problem what- 

 soever. That was the least of the impediments. 

 The decision was unanimous. 



And so the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB projected 

 under a title now universally recognized as distinc- 

 tive, significant, and in extraordinary degree appro- 

 priate was born. 



