The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-14
STUPENDOUS ENGINEERING
 FEATS UNDER WAY IN NEW YORK

of the younger generation of Wander bilts are serving in the New York Gen. tral. Alfred c. Vanderbilt has his desk in the financial department and Cornelius finds his greatest interest in the shop and construction department.
 James Stillman. the president of the greatest banking institution in this. country. the National City Bank, is gradually giving up his duties and ex- poets soon tc spend much of his time in Paris. He will be succeeded by James A. Stillman, his son. Young J. P. Morgan will soon succeed his fla ther; John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. has all ready taken the place of his father in the Standard oil trust and H. H. Rog CTS, Jr., Is being trained as his father s successor.
 A story is told of young Mir. Rocke- feller that when he was boy he earn ed few cents by putting some fence posts around a lot his father owned In Cleveland. He did not spend the money. but put 1t in the bank and added to 1t :. Finally he asked his father how he could invest it profitabiy. The spirit of the boy pleased the elder Rockefef- Ter. The money was invested and was ultimately increased to s1o,o00.
 The Lonely Club Busy.
 The Lonely Club, which was describ- ed in this correspondence nt the time of it's organization, has got on 30 well that the members are now talking about building a home of their own. For the benefit of these who nre hot familiar with the purposes of the Lonely Club it may be said that 1t was started in the interests of the young folks in New York who have no friends and find life a lonely existence. The club meets every Sunday afternoon and xx,hn fc ic in1y faI RN attend.
 The building scheme has got as far as Package Party" 10 start the ball rolling in raising the wherewithal to buy the land and the bricks and nor tar to erect the home This invitation was sent out for Sunday afternoon: You are invited to have a good time at package party and entertainment by the Lonely Club nt Tuxedo Hall, 5Sth Street and Madison Avenue, on Sunday afternoon, Aprjl f. Each lady | and gentleman Is requested to bring an original package to be sold in the hall for the benefit of the Club Re- treatments served gratis. Come and be merry"
 A hundred or more of the lonely re- sponded to the invitation. At the door was young person in blue who greet ed you:
 T know you must be a stranger and lonely or you wouldn't come here" she said. You know as soon as you get inside the door here you don't need an introduction. You just go up and talk | to anybody. That's the way we used | to do at home, Now you just mix around and talk to anybody you want to. That's what the Lonely Club is | for"
 And everybody seemed to be having a good time with the exception of a | few who would be lonely anywhere. | Some of the members contributed nun bers to the entertainment One of them was a woman who reao a poem. Here's | a verse of it:
 Life Is what the living make 1t,
 Be the course smooth or rough;
 Things unseen and things unheard.
 Pearly morning .fraught with dew. l Life Is but a minutes struggle
 Little battle in the dark.
 I'll we see the glorious promise | Of the haven of the blest."
 The assembly managed to survive this and then came the sale of the or iginal packages. One ypan got three $ cent cigars for 95 cents. and another
 man. who said he wasn't married, got a himsy thing with blue ribbons for 1 50 cents. The club at least raised OhSu6h hoASy tO Duy o Sikn 10 put Ill the door when they get the building l completed.
 VIII Colony Club Sell Drinks.
 There Is a great stew In the Madi- son Avenue Baptist Church because 1 the pastor of the church Is sure that he has received an application from the new Colony Club for women to be allowed to sell liquor. As the club building Is within 200 feet of the church the consent of the church must be obtained before a bar can | be instituted. Members of the club who have consented to be interviewed | by newspaper reporters are sure that no application has been made to be 1 allowed to sell drinks. Says the chairwoman of the Board nf Gover- nors:
 This club doesn't want a liquor H. cense. Why. the women here won't drink. They're too vain, :oo much afraid that they will get fat. Any doctor will tell you that alcohol and adipose tissue go together. There's an enormous consumption of lemon phosphate by the members but very little of anything stronger. The truth Is that they would like to drink, some of them at least. ut as I said before they don't want to get fat Why, most of the members are hathin0 and exer-