New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-23
GOSSIP IN THE CLUB WORLD.
NOMINATIONS AT THE COLONIAL.


NOTES ABOUT VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS.
A welldcfncd civil service reform principle ruicS
In the selection Of officers OF the Coionai 'iuo
rreferment Is generally based mcritorios s'ricc
The tickets posted last week for the election oil May
! made upon this line. There Is no c"he'V
over the executive Offices. Til" choice OF '"e
Nominating Committee for these met Will the appro
baton OF ALL James A. Pundcrlord has been h'''"
q, .,,ocaor Edward " Scott q, president. Mr.
Iunderford was dsinclincd t. take up the rsp"hsi-
blitics OF the place. but ticded the earnest scita
ton OF the members lie Is vice president OF ''e
club and has long been a trustee. Any movement
for the advancement OF the clubs Interests was always
OF his hearty cooperation.
Mr.. Scott had done mrch for the club III 'he
year of his incumbcncy that he was strongly urged
to accept reelection In spite OF the fact that nc Is
10 no out OF the country for ten months He sailed
the New-York yesterday 10 visit the branch o'hces
OF the Equitable Lille Assurance Society in Europe
Asia and Australia lie IS vicc-presidcni OF the
corporation and has made two such tours OF inspcc
ton before. Henry Is. Hyde, president Of the con-
pany, gave dinner for him at the Union League
Club ON Monday at which covers were laid for fifty.
The speech OF Chauncey NJ. Pepcw was an especially
pleasing tribute to the guest OF the evening. ON
the following night hundred members Of the Colonial
Club entertained Mr.. scott at handsome dinner.
They also chartered steamer yesterday to tel MIN
farewell down the bay.
The nominee for first vice president y William l.
Evans, the art patron, who. as chairman OF the
clubs Art Committee, has given valuable services
AlonzO E. Conover enc Of the best Known ana MOST
agreeable In the club. Is named foT sccoha wee
president. His membership dates tc the year when
the club organized under It's former ut!e' 'he
Occidental Club and he has been a trustee nearly
all this time. lie has served on the Art COMMITTEE
and was active In getting up the dinner for Mr. Scott
on Tuesday. Before moving TO the vest side ar"nt
five years he was much Interested III the liarie"
Club. lie Joined II early In Its history ana was Il
leading member for number OF years. lie TOOK
foremost part In the project for building that CLUB
present home and prominent In the movement
in the Colonial Club for the same purpose.
Mr. Conover's family Is all Old Ncw-iork one and
the business OF which he is now the head was founded
half q century ago. He belongs to the Chamber o.
Commerce, the Holland Society. the Building Trades
(lu5. the Historical society and the Geographical
Society is secretary Of the Garfield Safe Deposit
Company and a trustee Of the Excelsior savings
Bank Mr. Conover is Il leading Methodist. being a
trustee of 81. Andrews Church. IL member OF IN"
Missionary Board Of the Methodist Episcopal chureh
and OF the board Of It's city Sunday school ana
Church Extension Society.
General Henry l.. Burnett will be Tie next thri
vicepresident Of the Colonial. lie r. vicepiesar!'
of the Ohio Society and belongs to the Century
LAWYERS Tuxedo Whist Metropolitan. Republican,
Union and Commonwealth clubs and TO the Ear As
sociation. The General Is welihnown lawyer ava
a devoted Republican. His family has been identified
collateral ancestor. william Burnet, WIS Colonial
Governor OF New York and New-Jersey from 1870 10
1928. General Burnett's grandfather was hehd oil
Washington and one OF those VINO sacii1ceo 'he"
fortunes for the Of the colonies Alter 'he
close of the Revolution lie moved to Northern ONO
10 seek his fortune anew
General Burnett was born In Youngstown III lo''o'
At the age of fifteen he away from home |"
attend Chester Academy. where James a. oarhein
was then student. In 1859 he was graduated from
the Ohio state and National Law school. TWO years
later he enlisted in the army being at once eecl'u
captain OF Company {, Second OHIO cavalry. i"7
regiment was ordered TO Missouri. and the young
captain soon became a maj and then brleadicr
general In 1863 General Burnside appointed hlm
Judge Advocate OF the Department Of ONO. l'
Jurisdiction was later extended to the Northern DC
par,ment.
General Burnett cid much important work Tor
the Government, his services as Il prosecutor Chill
mating In his securing with Judge Holt and John A.
bingham the conviction of the assassins OF President
Lincoln. In the same year he resigned from 'he
Army to practise law In Cincinnati. whence lie re-
moved to this city In 1879. He beCam" associate
counsel Of the Erie road. hut three years later went
into private practice with Z. ii. Brist0w. William
peet and W. D. Opdyke. More recently his partner
has been Z. b. Whitney. General Burnett has
been concerned In number OF important cases
In 1885 he made the dosing argument for the de-
PENDANT in the great suit OF the Rutland Railroad
Company against Ex-Governor rage OF vermont, Icr
$4,000 600 The ex-(overnor's side was successful
General Burnett married Miss Taller. member OF
the family which Is SO well known in the social
world.
The Garden library OF the southern Society Is
already valuable feature OF the organization. al
though 1t is still far from the completeness WHICH
II will no doubt reach before many years are past
II has from the first been Of the ambitions OF
the society 10 establish "a library illustrative Of
southern life from the earliest time to the present
commemorative Southern traditions. customs ana
manners, and set forth the influence OF the
southern element in the development OF the Nations
character" The need OF such a library Appealed
so strongly 10 Captain Hugh r. Garden. prominent
member Of the society, that he resolved TO give the
beginning OF one. His contribution was the hahdsohie
one OF 1000 volumes. many OF them oil great value
lie had long been preparing list OF boo"s reia'is
10 the South, and had noted about o.ooo u'ies' lie
sent this catalogue TO all the eminent writer's VI
the country asking them to pick out those which
they thought OF greatest value for the proposed
library Captain Garden then bought the HIST 'hou'
sand works thus recommended
Many OF the volumes were secured Win erca, UNI
Guilty. About one third were purchased aDroau' "a
number were obtained at the sale OF s. L. NJ Baflo"
library Other members OF the society have given
books so that the shelves contain 13oo or l4oo
volumes. Captain Garden expects sill iur'hT 10 ~
crease the library at some time. lie peeah MS IFS.
with books early voyages TO the southern part Vi
what Is now the United states. -NcA' e'"'. ~ w
purtment devoted to the Colonial and Revolutionary
period and the War OF 1872 Especial value Is at
tached to works slavery written from the southern
point of view The value Of biographies OF southern
men and women, State histories. books OF travel ana
adventure novels. poetry and genealogical WORKS ID
recognized. II is the intention also to acquire every
thing possible relating to the Civil War;
Among the rarest books In the library are Oa'oro
Gpublic Good without Private Interest," remon-
STRANGE OF the sad state OF the English colony IN
Virginia, London, 1856; Governor Robert Beveriy's
Syirgina,n London, 1877; Gabriel dc Cardcnass HIS
tory Of Florida Madrid, 1873 Jefcrsons Notes Oh
virgnis.; Pfckett's Alabama; whitfed's Journey
Relative to Georgia; Flson's "Kentucky,' Paris,
1888; Imlays Kentucky" New-York. 1903, ana
Catesbys Natural History Of the Carolinas,' Two
folio volumes with handcoored Plates London. l1'l.
rapiaias on the war