The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-23

Ladies Literary Club.
Tho meeting OF the club. held Fri
d4y was one not soon forgotten either
h. the meIlbers or their friends who
were The guests of the club. The day
,.gs filed with the memories of the
carly times i'm this city when the infant
dub. now grown to maturity. was
horn. Mrs. Jennings. after welcoming
on. guests. asked Mrs. .ROYle she first
president of the club, 20 take he chair.
Mrs. Royle. on coming TO the chair,
made "a snort address. which was in
part as follows.
-Tn my frequent positively last ap-
rearances' before YOU L have, 1 believe,
many times ElOrified the L. l.. G. OF the
past The "reminiscences. indeed, of
Inc first president have become TO you
q h5,.neyed theme. Today / am going
to snare YOU. for ] feel that the club
pf today has glory of its own which
know must fiji with pride the heart of
every one of YOU In August. 1897 We
purchased this lot upon which we built
and paid for il 81. 400. our building cost
us A.G322l. so that the property we
own today has cost us IS, 1921. Today
we have paid our outside creditors in
fuIl We are out OF debt except what
We owe to ourselves Just here / wish
to acknowledge the generous courtesy
of your president, Mrs. Jennings, and
your treasurer. Mrs CritchlOw. in per-
hitting me 10 give YOU these glad It'd
ings of great joy Is not this glory
enough for your first president? Let
me congratulate the club on the excel
lent anagement of its various COM
mittees VINO that was here on the
day We opened this building in Janu-
ary 1895. will ever forget the pride and
delight We felt when Mrs. arthur
Brown. chairman of the building COM
mittee. announced that having been
limited 90 the sum Of $4,000. the COM
mittee that day presented the complete
house for the sum of S4,632.91? In joy
We exclaimed to one another: Where
is the committee of men who could
have done so well2' Today I shall not
speak of the intellectual growth and
l.osret s1of the cldb. Tiatsls pdtent, 10
alp, but what delights me is that in
the past twenty-five years we have de-
ye'oped such a splendid business facul-
IT, | wish I might go into details and
tell You how well the business of the
club has been manage,'.
And So, good club people we close
this epoch Of a quarter of a century To
me. and to an. it is, I am sure, a love
q silver birthday Let us grid up our
l2jDs and see what we can do. not for
ourselves. bu for our fair city. in
closing. let me remind YOU that
There is tide i'm the affairs Of men
Which taken at the flood leads on 10
fortune.
Friends. # Is the flood tide with us
today. II is for YOU 10 say whether or
got 10 Shall lead Us on L. new and
greater deeds
I'm the remir iscenceS which followed
Mrs. E0yIe's address letters were read
IRON AIRS. LaBarthe. Mrs. MCVicker,
Yrs. &. +. Alien and Mrs. Georgia Snow
Carlton. an old presidents Of the club.
or the eN-prtSidentS who were present
snort speeches reminiscent Of the past
history of the club were made by Mrs.
hugne Lewis. Mrs. Igleheart. Mrs.
Sells. Mrs. KimbaH Mrs. Wightmar.
airs. Lynn. Mrs. Fabian and Miss
Snow.
One 0f The most enjoyable things Of
me afternoon was the poem which
Followed. NY Mrs. Charlotte GilChriSt.
nhr was the second president of thy
..an. The poem was called Our Birth
.eF. and was dedicated To IT, club. \
..-.E tribute was paid Co Mrs Royle
l Mrs. P'ummer IN the most delight
... rendering Of the two new songs by
---t"H Milton Roy]e and Martha ROyle
N6-- The first was d dainty little
COON song Mandy Loves NE" and
UT. second am equally effective darkey
'... i'nGtculment
after short irtermissiOu the birth.
-'i's We're presented to the club.
b., We're - most beautiful capv of
H.'0" Jones "PygmaIion and ,fsIstes -
81, .. A'S. Fl =. Henderson: COW of
nae. Auselc's Moses. from SAINT
-.... from Mrs. Gilchrist: the I'VE
u.s. rom Oh, Sistine chapel also the
o.. Michael Angelo. from Mrs. q.
fufN. set 81 chairs from the
section NJ the club and sift of
-.- rom the Shakespeare section. a
.. N-7 from Alr. r. r. Jones and a
~ '. '"e of Ronate!Io's bows. from
s. RANGES. I'm "A gracious little
... Mrs. JENNINGS. on behalf of the
r..- ...aAed the dororS. and the re-
S.#. greetings. ~ 10