The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-14

at the annual meeting of the club held
last. night in the Windsor hotel.
While this announcement has a gloomy
sound there is but little promise for the
death announcement of the club. Condl
tons responsible for the decline of the
organization are to be removed, if pos
sible, and if they are removed thei. Sthe
st. Paul club will have the strong repre-
sentation in the Northwestern associa-
ton that is desired, and before the sea-
son is over will have crowded mem
bership list.
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose of electing officers and discussing
the plans for the coming season. w. W.,
Lorimer was unanimously chosen as pres
ident. E. j. Murphy as vice president, M.
A. Beckman as treasurer, Frank Nc
Carthy as secretary, and Rev. A. B. Mel
drum as chaplain
For many years the club Kinks have
been located on Raspberry island This
season the club will have a new location
OF there will be no club. The old loca-
ton is blamed for the decline of the
club. An out-of-the-way place, only
reached with difficulty, curling enthusi-
asts refused to attend the matches and
the club officials could not arouse inter
est.
Now the clubs lease has expired and
the members intend to secure a more IA
vorable location. At the meeting last
night President Lorimer, L. Defel and Z.
Cameron were named as a committee on
location. and this committee will be ex--
pected to report at the next meeting of
the club, to be held next Wednesday
night.
Prospects Are Bright.
Two sites are being considered by the
curriers', and if either one of these is Sc
lected the club will erect a three-sheet
rink club house. The location of the
sites will not be made public until some
definite agreement is reached by the
club, The club expects to expend at
least ST. 900 in this final attempt to re-
vive the interest in curling.
Seen after the meeting, Secretary Nc
Carthy said that the prospects for a
good season were the brightest. with
the old location on our hands," he said,
'tthe club was continually on the decline.
We could not coax men to climb down
the long steps to the Kinks, and our
membership dropped gradually from in
the neighborhood of 200 to some % or 80.
With the few members left we intend to
start a revival of the interest in curling.
We are through with the old location,
and now we intend to build our new
Kinks where they can be reached without
trouble Once this is done 1 firmly be-
lieve that we will again work up to a
large membership and have one of the
best clubs in the country"
All of the curriers' attending the meet
ing last night believe with Mr.. Mccarthy
that the clup is to have successful sea-
son, and after concluding the discussion
of plans, the scheduled matches of the
season were taken up.
This year the annual bonspiel of the
Northwestern Curriers' association will be
held at Duluth during the week of Jan.
13, and the ST Paul curriers' intend to
send a rink to this bonspiel as well as to
the other bonspiels that will bring back
trophies.
Last year the St Paul rink, playing at
the Winnipeg bonspiel, was handicapped
by the absence Of Il. H. Dunbar This
year Dunbar will accompany the rink,
and the invincihle curler declares that if
the st. Paul rink does not return from
the big bonspiel with two or more troph-
les he will permit his friends to '.call
him a Dutehman. -