OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 1916-1917 JAMES J. STORROW, President JAMES E. FEE, First Vice-President ADDISON L. WINSHIP, Civic Secretary Board of Governors Executive Committee House Committee *Louis E. Kirstein †Frederick Homer Louis E. Cadieux Clarence W. McGuire W. E. Skillings * Chairman † Secretary BOSTON CITY CLUB BULLETIN FOR THE INFORMATION OF MEMBERS OF THE CLUB "This Club is founded in the spirit of good fellowship and every men VOL. XI APRIL 2, 1917 ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR APRIL No. 7 (The Entertainment Committee had made extensive plans, and received acceptances from several prominent government officials in Washington to participate in the Thursday evenings of April. Owing, however, to the calling of the session of Congress earlier than was anticipated, and at the request of high government officials, it was necessary to change the plans.) Thursday Evening, April 5 PATRIOTIC MEETING "THE STATE OF THE UNION AND PREPAREDNESS " Judge MICHAEL J. MURRAY presiding. (Chairman Recruiting Committee for Suffolk County, Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety.) Speakers Hon. CALVIN COOLIDGE, Lieutenant-Governor Hon. GUY A. HAM REV. EDWARD CUMMINGS S. K. RATCLIFFE, London, England Private JUDSON HANNIGAN, First Corps Cadets Several patriotic features will be introduced in the course of the evening. Auditorium, 8 o'clock Thursday, April 12 LUNCHEON tendered in honor of DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT President Emeritus of Harvard University on the attainment of his eighty-third birthday, which occurred March 20, and also in recognition of his great public service. Hon. JOHN L. BATES will preside. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office. Auditorium, 12.30 o'clock Thursday, April 19, Patriots' Day LUNCHEON to HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT 12 o'clock President JAMES J. STORROW will preside. Thursday Evening, April 26 HON. JAMES M. BECK Hon. SAMUEL L. POWERS presiding. Dinner at 6 o'clock. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office. Special meetings are to be arranged during the month, of which announcement will be given in the newspapers and on the Club bulletinboard. IMPRESSIONS OF A MEMBER The collection of pictures and curiosities upon the walls of the Club building already constitutes an attractive interest. It is agreeable at lunch to see a splendid old man-of-war, under full spread of canvas, speaking its message of preparation and defense. In the banquet hall is a remarkable collection of pictures of the old packets, preserving a record of a grand period in New England commerce. We shall never see their like again. Here members can teach their sons to tell a ship from a brig. Those who pass through the lounge find excellent and suitable paintings. But it is worth while to go on foot leisurely from the top of the building through all the floors. One finds on stairways and landings fine vistas of huge trees with sky beyond, reproductions of grand old gnarled monarchs of wood and field, and bits of delightful landscape. The walls of the newspaper room are covered with photographs and engravings of buildings of old or contemporary Boston. On the tenth floor are private dining-rooms, each with its distinctive decorations; the governors' room and others have memorials of the history of the Club; the dramatic room has programs of events to be remembered. Dining-rooms on the eighth floor have pictures of men and events in American history. On the third floor, the writing room looking down upon the lounge is abundantly supplied with letters, pictures, and curiosities which will repay minute inspection. The rooms opening out of the lounge have landscapes in oil and water of abundant merit and charm. The grill is decorated with a collection of colored lithographs a couple of hundred years old, showing foreign capitals. The billiard room has billiard, hunting, equestrian, and sporting pictures. Heads of animals represent the prowess of Club members. The head of the musk ox in the lounge was taken by Captain Bartlett. A half dozen moose heads in the grill show what members do when they are away. The extent and variety of the acquisitions of the Club in these few years is remarkable, and calculated to furnish interest and pleasure for the passing moment or for continued and careful observation, appropriate to the uses of the several rooms in which they are found and to the dignity of a great civic institution. REVIEW OF RECENT EVENTS THE CONSTITUTION AND THE COURTS The address given by Mr. Henry W. Dunn, of Boston, newly elected professor in the Law School of Yale University, had to do mainly with a consideration of the right of review of legislative action which the courts |