Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1909 — HOOSIERS IN GOTHAM. [ARTICLE]

HOOSIERS IN GOTHAM.

The Indiana Society of New York the Rallying Point tor Residents and Visiting Hoosiers. On the second Tuesday In each month the Indiana Society of New York meets for dinner to fraternize, talk and sing "On the Banks of the Wabash." The Society, now four years old, was organized chiefly by the effort of Colonel James B. Curtis, formerly Speaker of the Indiana Legislature and commander of the world-famous Indianapolis Light Artillery. The membership now numbers one hundred and sixty, among whom are Hon. Joseph T. Fanning, formerly Auditor of State of Indiana; SenatAuditor of State of Indiana; Senator Leon O. Bailey; Rev. Dr. Carstensen, formerly Rector of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and Wm. DeMattos Hooper, one time Public Librarian of Indianapolis; Dr. Lyman Abbot, of The Outlook, and Wm. Bayard Hale, now a principal editorial writer on The New York Times. It is desired to add to the membership, and to that end the Society wishes to learn the names and addresses of all former residents of Indiana, who now live in, or near, New York. Visitors to New York will be given the hospitable hand and welcomed to the monthly dinners df they will let their presence be known to. Secretary Horace Hord, 38 Park Row, New York. » If you have Indiana friends In New York send their names to Mr. Hord. The annual banquet of the Society is given early in February of each year, and in previous years the three hundred, or more, guests have been addressed by Senator Beveridge, Congressman Landis, Mayor Bookwaiter; Meredith Nicholson, Dr. Hale and, other Hoosiers similarly Ulus? frlous In literature and state-craft.