The record-union., 1893-05-06
A CALIFORNIA CLUB
In Chicago Columbian Club
Organized.
What 1t Is and Who Are at Its Head
Headquarters for Visiting
Californians.

Barrett Eastman. representing the Cali
fornia Columbian Club in Chicago, was
in the city on Thursday notifying Cali
fornians, who propose to visit the Worlds
Fair at Chicago, that the club is open.
Mr.. Eastman explained to gentlemen
at the Sutter Club, who made inquiries
about it, that the California Columbian
Club is rendezvous and headquarters for
Californians and other residents of the
Pacific Coast who visit Chicago during
the Worlds Fair.
1t occupies, at No. 1927 Michigan
Boulevard, near the corner of Twelfth
street, one of the handsomest club houses
in the country; centrally and conveniently
located, so that no point of interest in the
city is more than ten minutes distant. 1t
is on the fashionable drive of Chicago.
Two lines of cable roads, and the South
Side Elevated Railway, also running di-
rect to the exposition, are within two
blocks, and the Auditorium, the largest
theater and opera-house in the world, is
less than six blocks away.
1t is a new building, six stories in
hight, richly appointed, and is equal in
all respects to any club house in Chicago,
San Francisco or New York. The apart
ments, which are richly and lavishly
furnished, include reading, writing,
smoking, billiard and card rooms; wine
room, which is stocked with the best
California brands and of foreign wines,
at the cheapest rate; and cafe, where
meals are served under the direction of
an experienced chef at all hours of the
day and night. The club, he says, has
telephone, telegraph, postal and district
| telegraph messenger service, and the
best livery service is also to be had at a
moments notice. There are a number of
! sleeping rooms for accommodation of
mem berS.
The idea is, said Mr.. Eastman, that for
the sum of $40 Californians can have for
the fair season club headquarters of the
best kinda headquarters that will be
| rallying point for Californians, where
they can meet and greet each other, rest
and refresh themselves, have their tele-
grams and mail sent, conduct their CORE
| spondence and find the latest Pacific
Coast papers and all leading magazines
and journals of the day. Here they can
secure their exposition tickets and have
any other reasonable orders promptly
| filled.
But perhaps the most valuable of the
many advantages of membership in the
| California Columbian Club is access to
the clubs complete and comprehensive
list of hotels, boarding houses, flats and
rooms, furnished and unfurnished, which
is ready for inspection at the clubs we'll
appointed bureau of information. This
| bureau, said Mr.. Eastman, makes special
| effort to procure and to supply to mem
| bers full and accurate information as to
| pleasure and other trips in and about
Chicago, its suburbs and the neighboring
resorts. When member of the club is
| ready to start for Chicago he may write
or telegraph to the clubs Secretary, in
! forming him of the nature of the accomo-
dations required, and upon arrival he
will find at the club the addresses of, and
will be directed to, such places as appear
to answer the requirements.
So, too, if a member should fall i'll, he
can, by report to the club, surely have
careful attendance and have the care of
friends also.
The club will furnish members with
guides also about the city and vicinity, to
the saving of time and expense Outside
of the $40 membership fee there are no
dues, and no charge is to be made for use
OF the clubs directory referred to. In the
club the Californian, it is intended, shall
find all the comforts of his home club
and be in California social and news at
mosphere.
The officers of the club Mr.. Eastman
| furnished, as follows: Board of Gov
ernors, Governor Henry II. Markham of
California, Joseph Medill, editor Chicago
Tribune; Colonel Alexander G.. Hawes,
San Francisco; Congressman John T.
Cutting, San Francisco; Judge r. B. Car
penter, Los Angeles; Professor T. S. c.
Lowe, Pasadena; Judge w. L. Pierce,
San Diego; Paris Kilburn, Surveyor of
Port, San Francisco; Henry T. Hazard,
Los Angeles General n. p Chapman,
Red Bluff; John B. Wright, Sacramento;
Charles f. Eaton, Santa Barbara. The
officers are: Arthur H. Chetlain, Presi-
dent Marquette Club, Chicago, President;
James E. Rogers, Secretary Marquette
Club, Chicago, Secretary; Harold Sturges,
Union League Club. Chicago, Treasurer;
Barrett Eastman, General Agent.