The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-01
ABOUT ANEW CLUB
WaVGrley Is About to Choose First
Set Of Officers.
A. v. GEAR FOR PRESIDENT
Objects of the Organization-A So
Objects of the Organization-A So
mary of Bylaws.

Club meets to elect it's officers who
will hold Office until December next.
At the last meeting a number of no.
limitations were made but the list OF
nominations was kept open until cleo
tion night Mr.. A. V. Gear was the
only nominee for President and Mr..
James T. Copeland for Recording Sec
retary. The probability is that Mr..
G. L. Edwards will. be elected Finan-
cial Secretary and Mr. A B. Scrim-
geour, Treasurer.
At the last meeting the constitu-
ton and bylaws were adopted, and
as the club aims to be an influential
factor in Honolulu social life in the
future an outline of them may be of
interest to many whose earnest and in
the club a permanent and beneficial
success.
The objects of the Waverley Club
are defined to be to afford to it's mem
bers the means of social intercourse,
mutual, mental and moral improve
ment and rational recreation.
The club shall be essentially nom
political, and no person shall be de-
barred from membership on account
of his race, color, occupation, religious
or political views.
Candidates must be nominated by
two members in good standing and be
approved of by the enrolment COM
mittee Elections may be viva voce
unless a ballot is demanded when a
two-thirds vote of those present is ne
cessary for an election.
Honorary members are elected by
the committee of management for as
sistance, financial or otherwise, rem
dered to the club.
Life members are those who contri-
butte 800 in money or material and
are eligible for the committee Of man
agement or board of trustees when
one is appointed.
Honorary members have represent
alton on the committee of One-fifth in
proportion to the club members and
nominate the three members them
selves.
The management of the club is en-
trusted to a committee consisting of
the President, Treasurer, Recording
and Financial Secretaries and the Lib
rarian by virtue of their offices, ten
members elected by the club and three
honorary members, should they so de-
sire.
The two Vice-Presidents and the
Sergeant-at-Arms, are eligible for cleo
tion to the committee.
The committee reports to the club
at the quarterly and annual meetings
and to any special meeting convened
by themselves or on the requisition
of seven members.
The committee appoints its own sub
committees and meets once a week
for the transaction of its business. The
club may appoint special committees
for specific purposes.
The committee has no power to in
cur any Indebtedness on behalf of the
club beyond its cash assets without
the consent of the club in regular OF
special meeting granted.
The club has the power, without
amending the constitution, to appoint
a board of trustees on the recommen-
dation of the committee.
Article VIII provides that no gamb-
ling, betting, bad language, or other
misconduct shall be allowed, nor shall
any intoxicating beverages be con,
sumed on the club premises, except
when the same may be sub-let to othel
parties for entertainments. There are
punitive regulations for the miscon.
duct of members derogatOry or injur.
| iOus to the character and interests Of
the club.
Strangers may on recommendation
of a member be admitted to the club
room free for one week, and for an
other month at the rate of 25 cents {
week
The entrance fees are 81 and the
monthly dues 81.
When the club is seriously under
weigh a series of attractive entertain
ment will probably be arranged by the
committee with tournaments of game:
of skill. 1t is quite probable that the
first musical and literary entertain
ment will be given as a "house warm
ing" towards the middle of March by
which time it is hoped that the clut
j will be in perfect working order.
Its rooms are open all day and any