The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-25
GILLESPIE IS PIQUED|
RESIGNS FROM METROPOLITAN
 CLUB OF WASHINGTON.
The Blackballing of Adjutant Gem eral Corbin is Assigned as the
 ceuse-The Root-Hay
 scheme Dominating.

washington, April 2.-(Special.)- Anotner ripple is shimmering over ths harDor or ciubiife in Washington. Gen. erai George |. Gillespie. chief of the corps of engineers, who has been a promi- ] nent member of the Metropolitan Cut TOT some years, has resigned on account or the treatment of his .comrade, Adju- tant General Corbin, whose name Pay. master General Bates was recently con. strained to withdraw after proposing il Tor membership. The resignation has been accepted. and now 1t is said that this step IS the beginning of kind of social boycott by army officers of the swell gentiemen's club of Washington. It is 1 understood that several other notable army officers who are members will quit. General Miles is member and, with Admiral Dewey. secved on the comnit- tee which gave a hearing in the Corbin case when General Bates deemed discre- ton the better part of social insistence and withdrew the Corbin name. Among those said to be listed to follow the ex- ample Of General Gillespie are General Bates. paymastAr general; General foung, chief of staff of the army.
 Corbin Second to Root.
 Whatever may be said of General Cor pins lack Of measurement to the exacti- tudes of the simiiitudes of the Metropoii- tan Club. he bears triumphantly in Washington at least the reputation of being. mighty man in the military es- tablishment. second indeed only to the Secretary of War. For many years Cor Din has snuggled close to the executive neaftnstone of every administration, managing te hold the. confidence of them all. During the War with Spain, he vas by far the most considered man in the government, as Congressmen and others interested in army appointments can well testify.
 sion from the chief social club of our national capital became manifest sooner than was expected. The adjutant gen. eral had visited Europe last year i, nd had been most hospitably entertained both in Britain and on the continent. He bread cast on the waters would find it's way even across the Atlantic. Last week, but for his being kept out of the Metropolitan. he would have had an op- famous Englishman. General Sir Bad sn- Powell. the hero of Mafeking, who Is visiting America, was in Washington, and all that General Corbin could do for him in the way of marked attention was to have the cavalry out at Fort Myer. across the Potomas, give him fancy drill.
 The Hay-Root Club.
 There was some talk, at the time of the Metropolitan denouement that army of ficers belonging to the Metropolitan would retire and push to the front the Army and Navy Club to which they also belonged as kind of rebuke to the high exclusives of the old club. But this did not appear quite feasible. The Army ard Navy was too much of a professional affair. and 1t goes without saying among the lights of the clubbable Armament that people of he same calling in life do not club worth a club-sandwich.
 Yet from all accounts, the Metropolitan Club, Is not to De the only social organiya- ton of the national capital numbering among its members the foremost men of the country Secretaries Hay and Root are said to be at the head of a movement to organize a club something after the Union League yet not necessarily parti- san, its persuading sentiment-as tar as it could be said to have any--being of a patriotic rather than a political nature.
 The new club, q promoter .ays, will have well understood qualifications for membership, so that 1t could not be made the vehicle of mere soclal ambition of persons who had risen to financial dis tinction without fitness for social emil hence. On the other hand. there would be exact qualifications which Nol lid Tot exclude men who were the objects of somebody's whim or personal antipathy. Some members of the Metropolitan Club are said to tc favorably interested in the new club movement.