Arizona republican., 1908-05-14
IHt AZTfC CLUBS
 GROWING MEMBERSHIP
The New Business Mems Organization and its Cosy Home in the Hotel Adams

The Aztec club is now an actuality. Its articles of incorporation were filed
 last week and since that time list of
 those desiring membership has lain
 on table in the proposed club room
 and the wayfaring man as he dropped In, If he felt like it signed the roll No | particular attention was paid to it ! until within day or so but yesterday
 many names were added, the docu-
 ment having never been taken from | the room.
 Last night the room was well filled with those who had already begun to 1 cherish feeling of proprietorship and a preliminary organization was effect l ed. The membership committee pass i ed on ninety applications. The names | of the incorporators of the club, who Were mentioned in the articles as di-
 rectors, were approved to serve as di- rectors until the regular election which will be held next Tuesday | night
 The membership of the club prom
 tses to be at least 150 by the time of | the election of officers next week. The present membership is a fine class of gentlemen, representative of the best | Interests of the city in many lines. Membership is not expensive and
 many young men have affiliated who felt they could not afford membership in the Arizona club. There is nothing in the Aztec club however that is an- tagoniStic to any other club and on the contrary it is designed to be an aux iliary not only to other clubs but to the business interests of the city as represented by the board of trade and the Maricopa County Commercial club. The purpose of the club is soci- ability and business. It is to be place where a man can drop in and talk business, when he is away from
 his business, a place he can go for a conference or consultation, where he can take his visiting friends and in- troduce them to the representative business men of the city. It is in no sense a competitor of the commercial club or board of trade in the sense that it proposes to initiate public movements, but it will be a nice quiet place to talk things over that those organizations do initiate. The social features are those that will appeal to the business man who wants to read, SllOhe UT pldE d game Ol DlllldTuS UT merely meet a friend. It will not at tempt what is called the society feature of social life; that is. there will be no big parties or balls or fancy dress occasions. The business suit will be regarded as full dress. Many members of the Arizona club have en- rolled themselves in this organization also and a still more notable feature is that many have joined it who have hitherto had no club connection.
 The club quarters are the apart ments in the Hotel Adams until recently occupied by the Arizona club. There is a billiard and reading room on the first floor and the base ment will be fitted up, painted, decor ated and furnished, making additional quarters below that will be most in viting, particularly in the summer time, the room being a remarkably cool one. There are new billiard ta- bles and pool tables formerly bought fsr tbe hotel of which the club will have the use and altogether it will be a finely and comfortably furnished little club, centrally located, convent ent and conducive of both business and pleasure.