The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-06-24
WANT TO ENLIST
TWO HUNDRED NE MBERS
Club House Will be Built By an Aux
iliary Association and Latter VIII
Undertake the Erection of Building
and Shoulder the Expense-Bright
Hopes for the Future.
Especial to THE T1mEs,)

first active step toward organization or
the Commercial club expected to dVcu
py the clubrooms in the new CONNER
ctal club building in Guthrie street,
which is rapidly nearing completion,
was taken last night.
The Commercial Club Auxiliary asso-
citation held meeting at the South Bay
hotel for the discussion of the subject.
A feature of the meeting was a supper,
which was designed as bait to lure
members to the session. This heroic
measure was taken because of the fail
ure to get a quorum at a previous meet
ing which had been called, and some
bright intellect conceived the brilliant
idea that a good supper was an infall-
ible means of insuring a quorum. The
wisdom of the conjecture was proven by
the goodly size of the company which
assembled about the festive board when
the hour for feasting arrived
Committee of Tventy-One.
Under the genial influence of good
viands and pleasant companionship, the
work in hand progressed apaee and be
fore the meeting adjourned a commit
tee of twenty-one had been appointed
to canvass the towns of Indiana Harbor
and East Chicago for members for the
new organization. The committee is to
meet Wednesday night in the East Chi
cago companFs office at which time it
is expected a chairman will be appoint
ed.
1t will be the aim of those entrusted
with the work to get from $50 TO 200
members as nucleus on which to build
up an organization which will boost In
diana Harbor and East Chicago to such
an extent as viii insure for the twin
cities not only their acknowledged po-
sition as the hub of the Calumet region
but of the whole world. The members
who assembled last night are no pikers
and they wish it understood that their
aims for the cities of their adoption
are boundless.
Keep the Dues Down.
It is intended to keep the initiation
! fees and club dues down as low as pos
sible. making $40 the tariff in eacf
| instance If from 80 to 200 members
are acquired as a starter this can bt
done. the initiation fees being sufficient
to furnish the new clubrooms in suit
able style.
Previous to the organization of the
| Commercial Club Auxiliary association
| it had been intended to organize tht
| Commercial club proper at once ant
erect a clubhouse in its name. 1t wa
discovered, however, that this would h.
impossible, as the club desired to rem
the structure and hold it as a money
making proposition. The law forbid
commercial clubs owning real estate TO
profit. and so it was decided that a goo
way out of it would be for an auxiliar
| association to be formed, the latter t
undertake the erection of the BUILDING
and shoulder the expense, and later I
rent the clubrooms to the Commercial
club to be formed when the buildin
was ready to receive 1t.
Other Recommendations Made.
Another thing that recommended thi
arrangement was the fact that man
business men who would make desir
able members did not care to join a
organization where their financial oh
legations would be as great as thos
entailed in joining a club which wa
putting up a building. and who coul
easily see their way to pay the nomi
nal initiation fee and annual dues Of 81
each.
The Auxiliary association has a mem
bership of eighty and the officers ar,
President. John Farovid; vice presiden
DR. Robert Ansley; secretary. W. !
Van Horne; treasurer. G. ]. Bader.