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Permanent disability, same figures. Wife's funeral, $25 ; $50. Meetings 

 Monday evening, in Arcade building. 



Builders' Exchange. — Purely mutual and voluntary. Fifty mem- 

 bers have boxes each for their own business, at office of Simons Bros. Brick 

 Co. It is a place and facilities for conference on all matters as to cost of 

 material, cost of labor, sub-letting of contracts, etc., on buildings, sewer work, 

 street work, tunneling, excavating, cement work, brick laying, and all 

 manner of trades work in these lines. 



NATIONALIST CLUB. 



The first record that I found of this society was dated August 9, 1889, 

 and said : "The third meeting for the consideration of Bellamy's book, and 

 other social reforms, took place in the parlor of the Universalist church. 

 Attendance, forty-eight. The subject of the evening was the 'Single Tax 

 System' of Henry George." At this meeting E. D. NejBf was chairman, 

 and Miss Eaura B. Packard secretary ; and the speakers mentioned were 

 Walter Eeavens, Dr. Eyman Allen, Mrs. Katie H. Keese, Mr. — Rhodes, 

 Mrs. Sophia K. Durant, J. B. Corson. The weekly meetings are recorded 

 as of " The Social Improvement Club,'' and seems to have had no regular 

 officiary up to October 5, 1889 ; but on this date the name " First Nation- 

 alist Club of Pasadena " was formally adopted, and a board of officers 

 elected as follows : E. J. Durant, president ; M. Earkin, vice president ; 

 E. H. Bannister, secretary ; C. T. Dxss, treasurer ; Walter Eeavens, W. H. 

 Clark, J. Albertus, advisory committee. The meetings continued to be held 

 weekly in the Universalist church basement until December 29 ; then they 

 were held in Wooster hall until August 17, 1890, when they returned to 

 the Universalist church again. And at this meeting the record says : " The 

 secretary stated that the meetings seemed to be doing but little good, that 

 many are losing interest, and they are at best but poorly attended." And 

 this meeting ended the club's active existence, for no further record appears. 

 At this time there were ninety-nine names on its roll of membership ; yet 

 more than half the names mentioned from time to time as taking part in the 

 proceedings do not appear among the ninety-nine. 



During the life of this organization it was a thing of note, and was 

 always dubbed in press and common speech as "The Bellamy Club." 

 Among the prominent people who gave lectures, addresses, sermons, topical 

 papers, or the like under its auspices, were: Rev. E. E. Conger, D. D.; 

 Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr ; Prof. James G. Clark, the eminent poet, music com- 

 poser, and sweet singer ; Rev. D. P. Bowen, author of " The Ideal Republic"; 

 Rev. R. M. Webster, the apostle of "Applied Christianity"; Dr. O. H. 

 Conger; Dr. Si vartha of Chicago, known as a " re-incarnationist "; Rev. 

 Doremus Scudder, D. D., a Congregationalist minister of national fame — 

 public lecture in Williams hall ; Dr. Kate S, Black ; Abbot Kinney,- of the 



