The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
REFORM CLUB OPENS AN EYE.
U,s~,r DrAD. ONLY ASLEEP. AND
WIZ TAKE NOURISHMENT
In the Form OT I.unchcOns SOme where
Downtown. n How OratOry WIN Ga
With a Business Mems Lunch Remains
10 he seen free Trade on the, side.

nONnNDWWs aVU INV UENloEy VIII 0W
Win n Business Mems Lunch Remains
10 he seen-I'res Trade on the, side.
n. Reform Club. which some years
,yo s6~an,.Dned this wicked political world
,, UA y.a devices, sold its Fifth avenue
clubhouse, Distributed It's members among
o,ner CLUBS and relapsed into the harmless
obs~urity Of half a.dozen subcommlttees,
has for some weeks been o. the trail Of a
Moral Reaction,
John De Witt Warner. who in the course Of
each season Of. public dinners -also speaks"
more than any other n man, was the first
10 detect the alien presence. He thought
he smelled it one night last spring at the
corner Of Fifth avenue and Thirty eighth
street, not far from the Union Club. He
a, once communicated his suspicious TO
Henry r. p. Staplcr. Everett V. Abbot,
calvin Tomkins, Louis Wiudmuller aud
John G. Agar, who said Hist unanimously
and Immediately bought gum shoes
This bunch Of sleuths has been hard
at work all through the long hot summer
and at last they have rounded up that
Moral Reaction. They have il now, Gagged,
conered and all its fangs extracted, at q?
Broadway. room 3i4, with half a dozen
engaging typewriter girls to keep it in
order and stimulate is legitimate activity.
The principal fun ction OF this strange
beast. il appears, is to r~evivify the old
Reform Club. Urged on Ivy the typewriter
girls and superintendent by John G.. Agar,
Who as chairman of the committee on
canvass for a downtown club is boss Of
the ~menagerie, the captive has already
tuned ont several thou sand copies of a cir
nullr describing its capture in the wilds
NJ New York and the uses 90 which it is
proposed TO put II. They were stacked
up breast highs stamped and addressed,
al over room 3ll yesterday afternoon.
Bv this time they are in the mails.
II is to be a downtown daytime club.
Just way luncheon is supposed to be better
adaptet to reform than dinner is not quite
slear, bU that Messrs. Warner and Agar
think so is very plain. 1T would be" says
Mr.. Agar. in the tyPewrittcn document
inspired by the moral reaction, -the natural
headq'arters for public spirited movements
Of every kind
The members Of the Reform Clubs COM
mittee on home rule and municipal owner
ship are the persons most encouraged by
the discovery and capture OF. the moral
reaction. Indeed, as already seen, il was
the chairman of that committee, Mr.. War
ner. to whom the achievement is primarily
due. II Is limited, in fact, that to theaccom-
llAGAhhiChb VI NlN CAAN vi Nllls Observation-Disclosures
the new club would be largely devoted.
though there would be provisions made
whereby the clubs members could be
served with Luncheon and even with dinner,
now that the subway is able to shoottham,
dinner laden, up to the theatres and hotels
with little loss Of time. p
The tariff reform committee, too, repre-
Sented in the pursuit and capture of the
moral reaction by its chairman, MIR. Stapl5T,
has found 1t says, Such rapidly reyiving
interest in its work as to justify ar attempt
N organize upon . national scale for an
aggressive fight, first in the Congressional
elections hear at hand and thereafter dur
ing the war" Other kinds OF prOu uganda
will be served with the table d'h6te lunch
cons. Here, for example, is a sample bill OF
fare that the new club is likely to offer:
Little Neck CLAIMS
Consomme Home Rule Cream Of Tarin Re-
Fiiet Of Sound Currency.
Imperial ism Fricassee
lOin of Panama Canal.
Toast Of Armour and Cudahy.
Municipal Ownership Tarts.
tonee and JOIN Dewitt Warner.
The reform baCillls receives in thik new
movement an additional proof of its per-
elstenCP, Only last spring John C.. Agar
resigned the chsirmsnship Of the Democratic |
city committee Of New Rochelle. after
his own followers and the Republicans
had both shown hin something new in the
line OF tricks, n announced that he vas
sick of politics add likewise disguised
with them. His friends minated that
he would hereafter compel the public to
worry along WITHOUT his aid.
He nov announces that il il proposed
not to start the new club W hich the capture
NJ the moral reaction has made possible
until A meTrber shjrS of 300 or more has /
been assured. guaranteeing annual dues
nj al least $4,000, Accompanying his
statement is given a list Of the names Of
who hke, approved the plan and
slgnihed y desire to ipin.the new club,
To assure oneself that the club will he a
most conservative and dignifed organiza-
ton It IS only necessary to state that this
llst is adorned by tbs ame Of Arthur BrisL' |
hane, who wrtes Hearst editorials; the free
handed VI. F Ihmsen, whose popularity
a. Hearst meetings is only less than Mr..
Hearst's; that eminent reformer Bird s.
Coler, John Ford, the Hearst candidate for
Attorney -Cienefsl; Bolton Hall, Henry
George. Jr., I4vson Purdy and j. G, Phelps
Stokes, who iSEoing 70 stump the State tins
TALL Tor The SOCIALIST ticket. ,
Al thNae ceitlemcn are az much inter- !
ested in the discovery OF the moral reaction
as are Messrs. Warner, Agar and the other |
of this Hare beast. and are expected
70 lunch frequently at the Downtown Re-
form Chrh.