Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Old Clubs of Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Old Clubs of Chicago.

Lacy Monroe, in Lippincott’s: Chisago is responsible also for the Forty Club, the One Hundred and One Club, and the Two Million Club, though why these particular figures should have a toaeinatlan, is not quite dear. The

first is more or less bohemian, the second tries to be, and the third is frankly and grossly material, with no object in life except the diverting one of increasing the population of the city to the number indicated 'by the name of the society. And yet there are people who think that clubs are not useful. There was another numerical chib also, a Thirteen Club, which was built to defy the ancient superstition. Its members were only admitted in batches of thirteen, warranted not to kill. In Chicago also there was once a club called the Midway, designed purely for social diversion. But the most whimsical of all clubs, the most desperately foolish, the most beguiling and impossible, was the Whitechapel Club, which once made Chicago its footstool. It was organized in rather a haphazard way by a gay band of young reporters, who dined together now and then in an obscure chophouse, where they had a way of taking forcible possession. Their dinners grew more and more frugal as the week progressed, -but they made up for it with great splendor on pay day. Marble is said to exist in twenty-four of our states.