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Show SALT LAKE CLUB AT A PASADENA BANQUET Novel Organization Sets Tables Around Pretty Sunken Garden. NO SPEECHES GIVEN Members Are Drawn From All Parts of the Country for Sociability. Some special events held in Pasadena during the past few years have been marked by banquets laid in beautiful aet-tinps aet-tinps that will liiyrer long in the memory of those in attendance, but from all reports re-ports no prettier or more charmingly dec- . orative effects have been provided for any event than those which were the feature of the annual dinner of the Palt Lake club at the Maryland hotel, Pass-. !ena. a few days ago. The tables were placed in the form of a hollow square, and in the open center a wonderfully realistic sunken gar-den gar-den had been arranged. It was complete In every detail. There were the miniature minia-ture trees, ferns and other forms or plant life, rocks, winding pathways, and in the center was a replica of Great Salt lake. It wasn't such a tiny lake, either, for the garden was fully twelve feet long, and the lake extended almost the entire length. The Salt Lake club Is a unique organization. organ-ization. It has no headquarters and no special mission other than the dissemination dissemina-tion of good fellowship. Its claims to the right of classification as a club rest al-mostly al-mostly solely in the fact that it has its duly elected officers and holds a meeting once each year. The Salt Lake club was formed three years ago In Pasadena for purelv social purposes by men of large affairs, who frequently spend the winter in Pasadena and almost dally drop into the offices of , the Salt Lake Route for a friendly chat with Dr. Russell Ball, the company's commercial com-mercial agent at that point. Its members are arawn Trom ail parts or America, ann the membership includes some of the best known names In (lie business and professional pro-fessional world. Broadens Its Scope. Originally the organization was called the Salt Take Hub, in honor of Dr. Ball and the Salt I-ake Route. But the namo now has a greater significance. Its members mem-bers have Hssociated the name with the Great Salt lake and Salt Lake City, and both are given recognition in all its official offi-cial events. On the front of the menu of tho recent banquet was a beautiful reproduction re-production In colors of a sunset on Great Salt lake, and the feature of the decorations decora-tions was the replica of Great Salt lake Itself. Once each year the members get together to-gether for the a nnual banquet and the election of officers. The one held a few days ago was the fourth in the history of the organization. There was no formal programme there never is. No one was notified in advance that he would be expected ex-pected to talk, and there were no addresses. ad-dresses. Many of the members, howevW were called on for Informal talks, anuC they responded In a light and witty vein. George B. Harris, chairman of the w ho;i m ' f lirM-tors of the Chicago, Bur- llngton A Qulncy railroad and president M of the club, presided at the function. The 9 one feature of the business session waJ-the waJ-the election of officers. Dr. Russell Ball of the Salt Lake Route was unanimously elected president, officially recognized as the Knight of the Sail Horse. Those Who Attended. Among those who attended the annual meeting and the positions they fill In the business and professional world were: T. W. Sprague, retired realty operator of Chicago; James T. Clark, operating vice president of the Chicago. Northwestern & Omaha railroad; Howard T. Abbott, an attorney of Duluth; Charles Chase of Superior, Su-perior, Wis.; H. I. Stuart, president of ' the Union National bank of Pasadena; C. J. Hall, vice president of the same Institution; W. D. Longyear. cashier and secretary of the Security Trust & Savings Sav-ings bank of Los Angeles; George Bledler and K- S. Wilkinson of North Adams, Mnss. ; Dr. T. N. Jamieson of Chicago; A. K. Crowley, Senator F. L. Stiles. Leigh Guyer, C. H. Bradley and W. E. Grattan of Pasadena; J. T. Greenwood of Philadelphia: Phila-delphia: Miles Almy of Chlragoi Colonel Isaac L. Goff. former mayor of Providence. Provi-dence. R. I.; Otto Mears, Colorado railroad rail-road builder and mining man; C. M. Waldo Wal-do of Mlnncanolls; Charles Hewitt, whole sale grocer of Des Moines; L. L. Lamb, retired business man of Clinton. Town ; B. F. Myers, a banker of St. Paul; L. C. Eastman, a lumberman of Iowa; Jared How, a San Francisco attorney; A. C. Volk, a real estate operator of Duluth; J. B. Ashby of Chicago; J. W. Anderson, a PMrnit iittnrney; Frank Ray. Pasadena mnnaper for Logan & Bryan; A. E. Edwards, Ed-wards, president of the First National bank of Pasadena; J. H. foulston, president presi-dent of the National Bank of Pasadena; D. A. Bartlott, H. S. Smith, C. F. Alden. George J. Schmidt. George R. Nicholas and 1 B. Adams of New York ; W. B. Upjohn of Kalamazoo, Mlrh. ; Dr. E. R. Kellogg of Los Aneeles; Edward T. Glen-non, Glen-non, vice president of the New York Central railroad; G. A. Goodypar. rt retired re-tired biisinrss man of Chicago, and George B. Harris, chairman of the hoard of directors di-rectors of thp Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy railroad. |