The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-10
Kansas City Star.

M club, which he has just been in strumenta1 in organizing here. is going to be a big thing on both sides of the At lantic.
 Since our first meeting was held at the Carlton, not long ago.. said the gen eral yesterday, it has been quite freely prophesied that the club would not last. but when such men as Senator Depcw, Capt. Hedworth Lambton. Lord Grenfel1 and Lord Charles Beresford on the Pil- grim's executive committee, together with members like George T. Wilson of New York, the Hon. Jefferson Levy, Col. My ron T. Herrick of Cleveland and Lieuten- ant Governor Woodruff on our side, and Henniker Heaton, Sir Douglass Straight and Edgerton Castle here, go into thing determinedly there is a decidedly good chance of It's being a success, and a big success, too"
 It was General Wheeler who got his friend, Lord Roberts-"Bobs become president of the club, and 1t Is hoped that Admiral Dewey will accept the presidency of the American end of 1t. Before long Don M. Dickinson, Charles T. Yerkes, M H. De Young of San Francisco, Frank A. Munsey, J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the other prominent Americans who helped to launch the organization in London will have returned to the United States, and they will lose no time in booming it ct home.
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 T look at it from the American view point" said General Wheeler. up to the of affafa mi Englishmen in the United States hasn't been what it should be. At present, all most every Englishman who comes to America brings letters of introduction. He almost invariably hesitates about presenting them, however, for it seems to him rather soliciting entertainment and so he goes about practically by himself and, just as he is leaving, writes to the people to whom his letters are addressed, saying that he hopes to see them in Eng land at some time. feeling that then he'll be able to initiate the entertainment him. self Or, suppose he does decide to pre- sent his letters. They will always be at the bottom of his trunk, and 1t will take him few days before he brings them to
  pie will be out of town. He will be put up at several clubs, but quite likely he won't go into any of them, except to leave his card as a mark of appreciation of the compliment of election. And so forth.
 Now, suppose that the Pilgrim club is in existence and one of its English mem bers goes to the United States. It will be cabled ahead that he is coming and the secretary of the New York branch will immediately organize a dinner to him and notify each member of the club that such a dinner will be held Care will be exercised to make sure of hav- ing several men at the banquet whom the stranger will really be interested in meet ing. For instance, If he is a military man, American officers will be invited to meet him; if a divine, two or three well known clergymen, and so forth. Then in the matter of sightseeing his tastes will be consulted. If he is a military man, again, he may be taken to West Point or to see the Notifications; if a barrister, to the courts; if a physician, to some of the hospitals. By this means we hope to make the visiting English mans first impression of America a warm one"
 And probably visiting Americans will be shown similar attentions in Eng land?'
 Tt Is not for us to think of that but movement of this sort on one side of the water is sure to bound back"
 Headquarters for the new organization will be opened on both sides of the wa ter almost immediately. There will. not first. There will be offices at the Carl- ton hotel in London, and, to begin with. probably at either the Waldorf-Astoria or the Holland house in New York, in charge of secretaries, to which mem bers of the club, whether from the Unit ed States or England. can report them selves. out perhaps the clubs immedi- ate plans could not be given more clear ly than in the words of Harry D. V. Britain, the young London society man who conceived the idea of starting the organization and who has been appoint ed its secretary. Mir. Britain, by the way, has just returned from visit to the United States.
 "We want as members of the Pilgrim club" he said, linen whom you might describe as interesting both from Eng land and the United States. Men who have done something, or travelled exten- sively, and so on. Whether a man is rich or not will make no difference. The society will not be a costly one to be a member of The entrance fee hasn't been decided yet, but the subscription will be two guineas, or s10. We expect to get our nominating committee elected in a few days.
 There will be one respect in which the Pilgrim will be different from, and. I think, an improvement on. other Anglo Saxon associations that have been start ed from time to time, most of which have failed. We inten. 60 have two or three Americans among the English ex- ecutive committee and two or three En- glishmen on the American executive com mittee. Heretofore such organizations have been made up on one side of the water entirely of Americans and on the other entirely of Englishmen, with the result that the two wings of the organ ization have soon got out of touch with each other. Lindsay Russell of the New York bar will be one of the American representatives on the English commit tee and others will be George J. Wilson