/ ** tti CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB YEAR BOOK 1903-1904 Chicago Literary Club CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB YEAR BOOK FOR. 1903-1904 Contents Page Officers for 1903-1904 9 Committees for 1903-1904 10 Scheme of Exercises, 1903-1904 . 11 By-Laws 17 Regulations for Selecting and Printing Papers read before the Club ... 29 Officers, from the Foundation of the Club 37 Resident Members 49 Non-Resident Members 66 Honorary Members 72 Members Deceased 73 Membership 77 Officers, Committees, & Scheme of Exercises 1903-1904 Officers for 1903-1904 President. AREA N. WATERMAN. Vice-Presidents. CLEMENT W. ANDREWS, FREDERIC W. ROOT, JOHN L. SHORTALL. Corresponding Secretary. FREDERICK I. CARPENTER. Recording Secretary and Treasurer. FREDERICK W. GOOKIN. The above officers constitute the Board of Directors. Committees On Officers and Members. Class of 1904. CLEMENT W. ANDREWS, Chairman. WILLIAM W. CASE, AVERY COONLEY. Class 0/1905. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE, MERRITT STARR. On Arrangements and Exercises. FREDERIC W. ROOT, Chairman. CHARLES CHENEY HYDE, JAMES W. THOMPSON. Class 0/1905. HENRY H. BELFIELD, GEORGE H. HOLT. On Rooms and Finance. Class fffigo^. JOHN L. SHORTALL, Chairman. WILLIAM R. STIRLING, FRANK H. MONTGOMERY. Class 0/i.gos- JAMES J. WAIT, CHARLES H. HULBURD. On Publications. LOUIS J. BLOCK, Chairman. GEORGE C. HOWLAND, WILLIAM M. SALTER. Scheme of Exercises Season of 1903-1904 Oct. 5. Annual Reunion and Dinner. Inaugural address by President AREA N. WATERMAN, and other addresses. Oct. 12. Paper, by SAMUEL S. GREELEY. "The Burning of Cities." Oct. 19. Paper, by ROBERT D. SHEPPARD. ' ' " The Chicago Convention of 1 860. Oct. 26. Business. Paper, by ABRAM M. PENCE. "The Evolution of the Federal Constitution and State Socialism." 12 CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB Nov. 2. Informal Dinner. Short addresses by SLASON THOMP- SON, THOMAS E. DONNELLEY, and JOHN HENRY LONG. Nov. 9. Paper, by EDWIN BuRRiTT SMITH. " Senate Bill No. 40." Nov. 1 6. Paper, by GEORGE L. PADDOCK. "The Method of Public Power; and Personal Responsibility." Nov. 23. Business. Paper, by WALTER CRANSTON LARNED. "The Modern School of Land- scape Art." Nov. 30. Reception. Story, by Louis JAMES BLOCK. "The Ways of Providence." Dec. 7. Informal Dinner. Short addresses by CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM P. SID- LEY, and JOSEPH ZEISLER. SCHEME OF EXERCISES n Dec. 14. Paper, by CHARLES J. LITTLE. "Ibsen compared with Shakes- peare and Sophocles." Dec. 21. Paper, by EDWIN G. COOLEY. Jan. 4. Paper, by HENRY S. BOUTELL. "Mr. Stornbeck's Fatal Decision. Jan. n. Paper, by WILLIAM KENT. "Historical Vignettes." Jan. 1 8. Paper, by DAVID B. LYMAN. "The Taxation of Church Prop- erty." Jan. 25. Business. Paper, by FRANK H. MONTGOM- ERY. "The Influence of Light upon Animal Life." Feb. i. Informal Dinner. "Some Public Questions." Short addresses by EDGAR A. BAN- CROFT, WALTER L. FISHER, and others. 14 CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB Feb. 8. Paper, by FRANKLIN MACVEAGH. "Some Reflections on the Future of Riches." Feb. 15. Paper, by THOMAS DENT. "Law Reports as Memorials of History and Biography." Feb. 22. Business. Paper, by LESLIE LEWIS. "How far should Education by the State be Free?" Feb. 29. Reception. Paper, by PAUL SHOREY. "The Pace that Killed Athens/ Mar. 7. Paper, by NEWTON A. PARTRIDGE. "Line upon Line." Mar. 14. Paper, by MORTON DENISON HULL. "Charles Sumner." Mar. 21. Paper, by AZEL F. HATCH. "The Rights of the Scab." SCHEME OF EXERCISES 15 Mar. 28. Business. Paper, by EDWIN LILLIE MILLER. "A Twentieth Century Chaucer." April 4. Informal Dinner. Short addresses by MARTIN D. HARDIN, JOHN L. SHORTALL, and others. April 1 1 . Paper, by WILLIAM T. BELFIELD. "The Psychology of Sex." April 1 8. Paper, by JAMES G. K. McCLURE. "The Autobiography of a Dining- Table." April 25. Business. Paper, by JOHN F. BASS. May 2. Paper, by GEORGE WASHINGTON WEBSTER. "The Captain of the Hosts of Death." i6 CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB May 9. Paper, by EDWIN J. JAMES. "The Relation of the Federal Ju- diciary to the Federal Legislative Power." May 1 6. Paper, by JOHN C. GRANT. "The purely Commercial Aspects of the Tuskegee Movement." May 23. Club night. Annual Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. Business. Discussion of Club Affairs by offi- cers and members. By-Laws By-Laws ARTICLE I. Name. The name of this Association shall be the CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB. ARTICLE II. Object. The object of the Club shall be social, liter- ary, and aesthetic culture. ARTICLE III. Members. SECTION i . There shall be three classes of members: Resident, Non-Resident, and Hono- rary Members. SEC. 2. The Resident Members shall be limited to two hundred and fifty in number, unless temporarily increased by transfers from the Non-Resident list. SEC. 3. Application for membership shall 20 CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB be in writing and signed by three members of the Club. The application shall state, in the blank form furnished for the purpose, the can- didate's place of nativity, age, occupation, gen- eral qualifications, and, if a graduate of a col- lege, the name of the college, and the year of his that the believe graduation ; and proposers that the candidate desires to become a member of the Club. SEC. 4. If approved by the Committee on Officers and Members, the candidate's name, with the names of his proposers, shall be con- spicuously posted in the Club rooms during two regular meetings; after which the Elec- toral Committee shall consider the application and vote thereon by secret ballot; and two black-balls shall prevent an election. The can- didate thus elected shall be declared a member of the Club. No rejected candidate shall be again proposed for membership within six months after his rejection. SEC. 5. Before admission to the Club, each member-elect shall signify his acceptance in writing to the Recording Secretary, and pay to the Treasurer an entrance fee of twenty-five dollars, but shall not be required to pay the cur- rent dues for the term in which he is elected. If he fail to qualify within two months after he has been notified by the Secretary, his election shall be void. BY-LAWS 21 SEC. 6. The annual dues of members shall be thirty dollars, payable in advance, in two equal instalments, namely, on the first days of October and February; provided, however, that whenever the Club shall be free from bonded indebtedness, a rebate of two and one half dol- lars shall be allowed on each instalment paid before the expiration of the calendar month in which it accrues. SEC. 7. Resident members in good stand- ing who may leave Chicago or vicinity to be absent for one or more years may, upon giving notice to the Secretary and Treasurer, have their dues reduced to two and one half dollars for each of the respective periods into which the annual of dues are divided payments ; provided, however, that no reduction shall be allowed for any such period unless the member shall be absent during the entire duration thereof. SEC. 8. The names of members whose dues or other debts to the Club are one month in arrears shall be posted in the Club rooms by the Committee on Rooms and Finance. Notice of posting shall be sent to delinquent members by the Recording Secretary. SEC. 9. Membership may be terminated as follows : I. By voluntary resignation, provided the member resigning has paid all his indebtedness to the Club, and is in good standing. 22 CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB 2. By forfeiture, in case a member has been delinquent for six months, and duly posted and notified ; unless he has been absent from the city during the whole of the six months aforesaid. 3. By the vote of three fourths of the mem- bers of the Electoral Committee present at any meeting, provided that at the previous meeting of the Committee there shall have been a motion regularly made and seconded, with reasons given, that the name of the designated member be dropped from the rolls; and the Recording Secretary shall promptly notify him by mail that such a motion is pending. SEC. 10. Members removing from the city and vicinity, who are in good standing and have paid all their dues to the Club, shall be enrolled as Non-Resident members, and be exempt from the payment of annual dues. Resumption of residence in Chicago or vicinity shall cause them to be again placed upon the Resident list. SEC. ii. Honorary members may be elected by unanimous vote of all the members present at any regular business meeting of the Club, and shall be exempt from active duties and the payment of annual dues. The vote shall be by secret ballot. BY-LAWS 23 ARTICLE IV. Officers. SECTION i. The officers of the Club shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Corre- sponding Secretary, and a Recording Secre- tary, who shall also act as Treasurer. The chairman of each standing committee shall be a Vice-President. SEC. 2. The officers and standing commit- tees shall be annually elected by ballot, on the second Monday in May, or, in case of a failure then to elect, as soon thereafter as shall be practicable. Their term of office shall begin immediately upon the adjournment of the last meeting of the season. At the business meet- ing next preceding, the Committee on Officers and Members shall submit their regular nomi- nations for all the offices to be rilled; and there- upon any member or members of the Club may make one or more nominations in opposition to those of said Committee. The candidates for whom the highest number of votes shall be cast, respectively, shall be declared elected. A special election may be ordered at any business meeting, to fill a vacancy.