OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 9 



been the pivot of livestock marketing. By that act the scattered 

 offices of the numerous pedigree associations found a logical loca- 

 tion, an4 a common center for the vast ramifications of the live- 

 stock industry was established. Chicago became the contact point 

 for those who breed and those who feed, those who sell and those 

 who buy, those who kill and those who cure; all that mighty array 

 of stockmen, shippers, commission men, packers, breeders, vet- 

 erinarians, manufacturers of stock feeds, medicine and serums, 

 harness and saddlery men, fertilizer makers, builders of farm 

 machinery, and the journalists of the growing agriculture. So 

 varied a constituency early created the need for quarters suitable 

 for the fraternal discussion of the important affairs pertaining 

 to the interests they represented. 



Appreciation of this need called into existence the Saddle and 

 Sirloin Club. The germ of the idea unfolded in the mutual 

 minds of Robert B. Ogilvie (6), Arthur G. Leonard (64), and 

 Alvin H. Sanders (12) in June, 1903, as a corollary to Mr. 

 Leonard's achievement in building the purebred Livestock Record 

 Building, while the name was suggested by Richard Gibson from 

 "The Druid's" tales of that title. Mr. Leonard's acquaintanceship 

 as general manager of the Union Stock Yards, Mr. Sanders' life- 

 time relation with the growth of livestock journalism, pedigree 

 values and breed history, and Mr. Ogilvie's personal intimacy 

 with the gentlemen breeders and sportsmen of Britain and 

 America, the show and breeding veterans of a half century, all 

 furnished viewpoints assuring the broadest foundations in club 

 ideals. In the days of the old Lake Side Stock Show the necessary 

 social and business center was provided in the old Grand Pacific 

 hostelry, but the retirement of Messrs. Drake and Parker in 1894 

 scattered the clans. Hence from its inception the Saddle and 

 Sirloin Club was foredestined to a broader function than the 

 refreshment of those whose business and financial interests 

 located them at the Stock Yards. Here numberless meetings 



