Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-18

equal numbers. 1t was great success
from the first.
It's quarters were first taken up over
livery stable on Broadway, opposite
the Times office. Though there were no
aristocratic associations about it's hab-
itat, it was the home of marked hos
pitality and good fellowship. The
most notable function which took place
when it was in those quarters was
banquet which 1t rendered to Gen. Mel
son A. Miles, when he retired from his
command of the department of Arr
IONA, with headquarters in the Bry-
son block Those who saw the way
Gen. Miles tossed Off champagne that
night were very much astonished at
the anxiety of the Prohibition party
to nominate him for president of the
United States. | was amongst this
number myself
Fortunately everything is possible
to the man who can wait. 1 was talk
ing to Capt. Tom B. Merry a couple
of years ago about the strangeness of
this desired Prohibition rapproche-
ment with Miles when that gentleman
told me that he had met the great
soldier at the Chicago derby a short
time before and that Miles said that
he had not taken a drink for eighteen
months. 1t was owing to that that he
very unwillingly captured the prefer
ence of the cold water guild whose
favor he was constantly declining. I'm
til this happy renunciatiOn the cele-
brated Indian fighter could undoubt-
eddy drink any man on earth under
the table, absolutely barring none.
Its Next Move
1t was sometime after that memoir
able banquet that the California club
moved over to the Wilson block. 1t has
since occupied quarters of its own in
superb building which looks down on
Broadway and the Central park, and
which is provided with convenences
and luXures which are scarcely sur
passed by those of any club in the
United States. There are not want
ing people. and they are numerous,
who pronounce the California the swell
club of the southland
But it is hard to decide when doctors
disagree. There are multitudes of An
gelenos who have no hesitation In de-
claring their belief that the Jonathan
club is not only up to snuff, but a leetle
ahead of anything of the kind here or
elsewhere. This opinion has more pro-
ponents since the club has installed it.
self in the Huntington Building, corner
of Sixth and Main. Almost involuntar-
lily l capitalize the word building" it
Is so stupendous! l have sort of faint
something OF recOllecIlOn tnat the
Jonathan club started out as sort of
political foregathering; but, If So it
quickly lost that character Los An
geles owes to this organization many
gala parades which were a feature of
it's early days. In them figured many
youths of dash and espieglerie. II has
immea surably dropped its sordid and
jolly boy aspects and has retired into
the penumbra of it's lordly halls. 1t has
a right to take on dignity.
other Clubs
The Jews have a notable club I'm the
Concordia, corner of Figueroa and Six
tenth streets. There is much good
clubable material in the Hebrew popu-
lation of Los Angeles.
In the Sunset Los Angeles has an as
ISOLATION of a high cast which does not
carry out all the conditions of club
life. Its members meet once a month,
read and discuss papers, and dine at
some leading restaurant The debates
are often Of a high literary character.
The membership embraces a large
number of our professional people.
The Newman club is largely ON the
order of the Sunset, has membership
of the same class, has its monthly
readings, debates and dinners, but de-
votes it's attention to Catholic instead
of secular topics.
II may be said with truth that no
city in the world, of it's SIZE approaches
Los Angeles In the splendor Of her
clubs.