The San Francisco call., 1905-03-01
UNION LEAGUE
IS PROSPEROUS
Club Fixes a Limit of City
Membership at Thousand
and Adopts New Bylaws
SPIRITED MEETING HELD
Applications for Admission
Far Exceed the Estimates
Made Prior to Removal

A general meeting Of the members
Of the Union League Club last evening
was largely attended, and quite a dis
cussion on topics pertaining to- the
management and direction of club af
fairs took place. The members were
called together for the purpose of con
sidering the report of the special COM
mittee on constitution and new by
laws. Colonel George H. Pippy, presi
dent of the league, presided, and Col
onel Jesse B. Fuller read the report
of the committee. .;
The new regulations adopted last
night, and which will take effect i'm
mediately, limit the resident member
ship to one thousand, and the number
of suburban members to three hundred.
There is no limit to the number of the
State nonresident, life and honorary
membership. The suburban class en-
braces members who do not reside in
San; Francisco, but dwell within
radius of fifty miles of this city, The
limit of this class is very nearly at
tanned, and the club may be impelled
by future pressure to extend the privi-
leges of the class to more than the
number now, prescribed. Provision is
made in the new bylaws for army and
navy members. The State member
ship embraces those who reside in
California, but at a greater distance
than fifty miles from San Francisco.
A life membership in the Union League
is not hedged with a qualification of
residence, but it involves the payment
in advance of $780,.
Questions relating to the transfer
from suburban, State and nonresident
classes to the resident membership en-
gagged prolonged attention at the meet
ing. The bylaws. as reported by the
committee were amended. or amplified,
to make the proposition clear that an.
amount eQualing the difference in the
initiation fee between the outside and
resident classes should be paid by any
one who was transferred from another
class to the resident class. =
The Union Lea que is in a remarkably
prosperous C, ndition, and the number
of applications for. membership sur
passes all estimates formed when the
project for moving from New Mont
gomery street to the present location
on Union Square was originally pre-
sented. There are indications that the
club will take national rank along with
the Union Leagues of Chicago and
New York The new. membership re-
presents many active and progressive
young men,, who will not attain the
'.chloroform age" within the next
twenty years. They are manifesting
keen interest in the affairs of the in:
stitution.
1t would not surprise the politicians
if they should exert quite a force in
the next State campaign. The club
promptly met all the pecuniary obliga-
tions incident to the removal from the
old quarters to the spacious house
formerly occupied by the Pacific
Union, and at the same time retained
quite a cash surplus in the treasury.
The ladies' grill and reception rooms
equipped in artistic and superb fashion
will be formally opened by a reception
to members and their families on Sat-
urday evening March II.
James Larabee, the new manager of
the Union League, formerly held a re-
sponsible station in the Hotel Touraine
and Young's of Boston. He resigned a
lucrative position at the ST. Francis
Hotel to accept the leagues offer. The
new manager is only twenty-eight
years of age, but his Boston creden-
tials are to the effect that he is capable
of managing the most extensive oper-
ations in the hotel line. The. Union
League Club, fashioned as it now is,
resembles big hotel. One hundred
and fifty members go there daily for
lunch. The dinner is elaborate and
served in modern hotel style. The
ladies' grill, the wine room and other
departments require the personal su-
pervision of a man trained in the
business