The Washington herald., 1909-03-14
GIRDLING THE GLOBE
Club Organized of Those Who Have Gone Around
the World-Associate Branches Also.


board. with the titles. respectively. Of
nrst money changer. keeper Of the rec
orcs, and scribe Then they looked
around them for others OF their kind, and
reached out for men who knew not Los
Dos AmericanoS
Taft and Bryan Members.
Among the men whom they reached
first were Mr. Taft and Col Bryan. The
] colonel accepting the invitation. showed
that he had read the prospectus carsful,
by Femarkins that he could hardly re-
spect that clause which forbade speech
making al the meetings. since IL had been
his practice Tor so many years 70 preach
tnat he questioned his ability 20 forbear.
he also reserved the option OF permitting
the highbal 70 go back on the tray IN
/ touched.
Other men who accepted the invitations
were Lieut. Col C. w 5 Patterson. oS
auckland, New Zealand. and Hankow.
Cnlna' T. T. DOnne. chief Of the tourist
department Of the government OF New
! Zealand, % Wellington: Donald NJ Ross.
oversee cOEl-aissio-cr Of the Dominion
OF Canada. IN Melbourne. Australia: I.au-
renee r. Grahame. commissioner Of the
interior. san Juan. Porto Rico. J. c. TIP
ton OF the foreign department OF the
STANDARD OH Company. with An Office az
- Broadway; George A. Chamberlain.
United States consul IN Pernambuco. Bra
I'll; Harris r. Childs. Of New York. Zan-
zlhar, Mombasa. and NairObi: ThurIow
Weed Barnes Frank Nankiveu Austin
strong, and others whose present places
or residence are IN New York The club
having no house and Mr.. Patterson rank
ing highest among The Oficers. he has
authorized the club 20 make its head
quarters for the present il his Offices. az
\ Z Cedar street
BY the time that Mr.. Roosevelt returns
from his pursuit Of big game in the heart
OF Africa there may be a branch OF the
club 10 which he viii be eligible. for the
members are considering the formation OF
! an associate branch which viii take IN
men who have crossed either the Atlantic
or The Pacific ocean or who have trav-
I eled IN both North and South America
For these when they have qualified 10
become circumnavigators. there viii be an
initiation with a ritual that VIII combine
the terrors Of the seven seas
VIII Give a Dinner.
/ Unless something happens the club VII
give the first real dinner OF its existencs
on the night OF March q The Log.
which IS about 20 be issued. win say oe
this date that according TO the cards,
the stars. the Farmers Almanac. and
u Ned PattersOn's TheumatiCs. The fourth
day after March . is q happy omen
/ Il also goes on 20 say:
We VIII dine az the sign Of the Winged
u Heel known as the New York Athlerio
u Club. and have room for ourselves. 50
\ that We may commune each with tha
u other wiki gUietUde and decorum and
free from the caUsuc comment that such
a hish-browed pose IS sure 10 excite
FF=ra -r---- .
I ners. which are the feature OF member
I ship in the club al present. the prospec-
tus says
n The dinners VIII not be expensive,
n There viii be none OF the bubble water
i that used 20 be the popular breakfast
beverage al johannesburg. but those who
viii permit the life in a highoau 20 evap-
\ crate or dry Martini 10 hike hack on tha
tray should not be persuaded into peti-
tioning for membership
There are many stories % the expert
ences OF these men. b- il is impossibis
) 20 draw them out OF them except as
Il Incidental 10 conversation Mr.. Morrf-
son. however. stands sponsor for a cou-
! PIE Of short ones from The lives % other
) members
Ate the Rollers.
! one OF the men. who was al one ting
editor OF the Shanghai Mercury. noticed
that neither the type nor The rollers fur
nished 10 the plant had time 10 wear Ous
before they disappeared. On investiga-
ton he found that the type was melted
and sold and the ink diluted for writing,
but for a long time ne could not discover
why his composit0rs whitfield OF slices
Of the gelatinOus ink rollers Finally he
/ caught one man with some OF the slices
and gave him the option Of telling what
the Chinese did with IL or Of going u
prison. The man explained that q was
the belief that these soft rollers. cover
ing so much English printing hundreds
OF times a day and week after week
must absorb part Of IL. and that an indi-
vidual by absorbing this n tuTn must
get the benefit Of IT, AS result they had
worked I'D a nice little trade among stu
dents and business men. forming ths
pieces OF roller into pills and selling
[ them 20 those who would perfect their
knowledge OF English
/ The second CircUmnaviEatOr OF whom
Mr. Morrison srake was In NiUchwanE
at the time Of the Boxer excitement One
day a messenger rushed into the city and
reported that a mob Of Boxers had at
tackled 4 mission some distance away. A
small corps 81 volunteers was raised.
mounted on Chinese ponies. and sent %
rescue the missionaries. The volunteers.
not accustomed 10 riding. became weary
and sore by the time they had Travelled
p few miles and had met some hostile
Chinese armed with rocks and mud. and
were heartily glad when another messen-
ger from the mission met them and re-
ported that the uprising had been oueIed-
lTheTeupon the rescuers headed again for
the city with the messenger daTting away
before them Arriving there, they were
met with cheers and lifted from their
ponies and feasted and their names were
cabied 70 the United States as the saviors
OF the mission When they learned the
cause OF the celebration they decided that
Il was too late then 20 make any explana-
ti01s. so they let themselves pass as
heroes The man who is now Circuni-
navigator was the only one fl the party
whose name indicated that he knew Eng
lish. so a newspaper IN New York at once
cabled 20 him. making him its CORE
i spcndent.
One more excerpt from the prospectus.
/ Here. then. 10 the Circurnnavigators
Club. May II flourish Ike a green bay
tree. May all IT'S doings be clean and kind.
May II faithfully observe the unwritten
and unspOken laws Of friendship and
charity, May Il keep its ideals ever "a
sight. and may they dwell so high In the
thin. pure air as 10 he forever out OF
reach, and yet so obviously the best as
20 eliminate the searching for any that
are different
The ScOtSmun's Test.
From the ChicaEo Inter Ocean.
asa Goddard. OF the American Au,ono-