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been the pivot of livestock marketing. By that act the scattered 
offices of the numerous pedigree associations found a logical loca- 
tion, and 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 CLus. The germ of the idea unfolded in the mutual 
minds of RoBert B. OciLvie (6), ARTHUR G. LEONARD (64), and 
Autvin H. SanpEeRS (12) in June, 1903, as a corollary to Mr. 
LEonarp’s achievement in building the purebred Livestock Record 
Building, while the name was suggested by RicHarp Gipson from 
“The Druid’s” tales of that title. Mr. LEonaRp’s acquaintanceship 
as general manager of the Union Stock Yards, Mr. SAnpERs’ life- 
time relation with the growth of livestock journalism, pedigree 
values and breed history, and Mr. Ocitvie’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 
SrRLoin CLus 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 
