The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17

s be reported on Mt the next meeting. At
IA ti,e instfinrc OF JOHN Anderson Chisholm,
The chair appointed Cary RuiIin Randolph,
" lor. Francis Lee Thurman aud Murray
HI 1anococis to draft n Constitution ana by.
81 J.sMs also TO be repcrbsdS ut the next
meeting.
4 And thus began this organ!aation, which,
II like Longfellows' Thrnin TINT grew be-
a hind IKE barn, 1T grew. aid It grew and
sf,s II grew, and the turnip did no harm.
NJ tnd II grew behind The barn. Vet " grew
nnd III grow md IL grew" 1t Is needless
" "a SAY IN defense Of Mr.. L.onsfellow, that
fsihis5 was his first Juvenile attempt at
Isli toetty. liz this meeting was lengthy, 1t
T. was no more so than the banquet was
great, and after visiting the punch bowl,
N aid rerisiting II and visiting 1t again.
&; the. lio,,r of two p. NJ. found us Just adj
jonrning. some stu discussing tie issues
MA of the hour; some past all discussion.
During the interim between this Jolly
4 meeting and the Annual Meeting in No
Ssyembcr, 1897, progress was nil, spirit
or vacillation rather than progress pre-
Il vadng the body polite, and many and
many times the dcubsers scoitcd, ana
Il tiec weak hearted failed TO pay their
s&duos. to the chagrin and disgust Of the
I worthy Treasurer but his courage and
perseverance, was unabatcd If his sue
cess was small. and after Il while the
chaos began 70 clear away and those.
hdrilt could see the shores of stahility
and progress looming up in the distance
H out or the fogs ana mlsts of DOUBT ana
uncertainty
Starving Time.
N Like the settlers of Jamestown, this
& year of 1891 might be termed the star
wing Ti,ne,'' and the survivors OF the
struggle deper,ded upon to stick 20 tho
Il organization to the end. Verify, q sitting
SsR Of the wheat f1pn the chaff. Like Capt.
3 John Smith Col Cary Rutiin Randolph,
IA the worthy A. II. III. was member, Mas
\ ter and henefactpr all in one. nc Kept
hounds mt forty gents Il month Moses
mn, Aron what Il price" Who that has
seen a hound eat can fail to classify him
MS ANYTHING but q game sport ana ~
bcncfactor of the first water True,
u meal was forty cents bushel, but he
4 who thinks n big mputhed hound cannot
1 eat more than a busifc2 of meal a month,
hath little knowledge of hounds, But he
II did 1t and many other burdens We're on
his shoulders. that the. present observer
of the prosperity of the club Knows
#little of More than this hound pups
were taken for dues and the keep of
hounds for others dues, so that between
hounds and dollars, and both on tho
same side of the ledger. the worthy
Treasurer was put TO his wits end to
Know how to balance his accounts, and
Il when he was sure he had 1t right some
body would pop in with a voucher show
Il Ing that some confounded hound had
eaten up his balance and that SO far
from owing the club, the club owed him,
and the Treasurer resigned-disgusted,
sad and overcome. Then we elected that
sturdy freshman, B. Il. McGlone. who
did not know the difference between
dollars and hounds if said hounds cost (!
dollars. and we sailed on again.
Built Clubhouse.
Then We purchased land-anticpated I
dues-borrowed al we could and bonded /
for the rest and built the clubhouse. !
The faint-hearted expected to buy the !,
property in a year for residence property. |
but the brave ones plodded on. And with |
4 'Reddy White ta brother Of Stanford !,
White, the murdered architecp to sing
us a song. and H W. Greenough and
ANDY Chisholm TO make speeches for
u.s. we plunged ahead rot daring to look
back lest we become Pillars of Salt
s How re built the clubhouse, we never