Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-28
MAINE CLUBS EVERYWHERE.
Sons and Daughters of Maine Are
Organized in Many States.

| The completion of the handsome
quarters of the State of Maine Ciup
in Boston a few months ago Is but one
of the many organizations of sons and
daughters of the Pine Tree State in
| whom the home instinct is always
strong and the love of home one which
endures always. From the Atlantic
coast states to the South, even unto
the coast cities of the Pacific, Maine
clubs are to be found, and wherever
Maine Club is there will be, found
loyal sons and daughters, who take
second place to no collection of people
coming from any other state.
1t Is a good sign that the sons and
daughters of Maine who have gone
INTO other states retain their love for
their home State and are pleased to
speak a good word for it whenever
thcre IS an opportunity. State of Maine
clubs are continually being formed and
perhaps no State in the Union has
more clubs or larger memberships. ac-
cordinS to the population, than the
grand old State, rOck-ribbcd and rug
ged.
Perhaps the farthcst club away from
Maine is that i'm Los Angeles, Calf,
| where the many sons and daughters
who have settled in that beautiful city
of the far West have formed them
selves into an association for the per-
petuation of the love and interest in
the State of their birth. The club is
one of the most flourishing in the city
| and is great factor in the social life
| of the city.
| Chicago has its Maine Club and New
York has several, while nearly every
larger city in the East has it's cluster
| of Maine people who have some sort of
an organization in one form or another
i'll which the spirit of the old State is
| kept fresh in their memories.
With its large number of sons who
| have made names for themselves in
| other states, no Maine Club is ever at
a loss for prominent speaker at any
of its functions. There is always to
be found a distinguished son of Maine
in any state or part of the country and
list of the prominent Maine men in
the United States now living i'm other
states, men who have become leaders
in business, professions and in public
| life, is surprising for it's length and
prominence.
/
| native state, for it denotes certain
strength of character with which love
| of home is closely allied. 1t is good
| TO inculcatc spirit of loyalty as the
| Maine clubs are doing, and more than
this the Maine clubs are good substi-
tutes for what every true son and
| daughter of the State generally longs
for, Il sight of home. Meetings of these
clubs always furnish opportunity of
getting the latest news from the home
State. Many of the members are col
leSe men and women with a general
acquaintance in their native State OBJ
tanned while in college and there is
always news of interest dear to Maine
hearts to be passed around.
In New York City "a few years ago
q number of women got together and
formed a Maine Club of their own, and
from a small beginning it now en-
braces many Maine people living in
the great metropolis. Regular meet
ings are held and the club has done
more toward enfivening the social lire
of Maine people living in the great
metropolis than any one thing.
1t has been said that the people Of
New England are cold and distant:
that they prefer to be by themselves
and not to intcrminGlc with people in
other parts of the country, but this is
hardly the case. They have a natural
reserve in manner, but the love of their
native State and it's people is strong
and one has but to witness a gather
ing of Maine Club to dispel the illu-
sion that Maine people are cold and
distant. When two people meet in an
other state and discover that each
came from Maine there is Immediately
bond of feeling and friendship be-
tween them which makes them friends
always. Maine people who do not par
t1cularly notice each other in the old
home State sec in each other traits and
tastes in common in other states.
The work of organizing Maine clubs
is but partially finished, for now that
Boston has q home for Maine people
where one may smell the odor of the
pines other cities will follow, although
such scheme is hardly possible out
side the larger cities where there are
sufficient numbers Of Maine people. 1t
Will not be many years. however be-
fore the traveller from Maine NAV have
a home in his wandcrings in the big
cities where he may meet Maine pco-
pie with the same air as in his own
native State