The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-04
WHEN A MAN is BLACKBALLED
1usons Is Almost O1d Czb and There Were Clubs
in the Days of the Care Dwelers-Some Notable Rejec
tons Woes of Committees n, Big Organizations

chamber near the entrance where mem
| bers may receive friends and callers
| To become member of any of these
! first class clubs is not easy. In the first
| place. the fees and subscriptions are high.
The entrance foes range between 20 and
| 40 guineas. while the subscriptions may
| be anything between Z and II guineas
| per annum.
The best military clubs are the most
expensive. The entrance fee is $40 to
the Army and Navy club and TO the
Junior United Service. II IS 40 guineas
in the Naval and Military club. None
| Of the great political and social clubs.
high an entrance fee. At the Junior
Carlton ii is So guineas: at Brooks's, the
| Turf. the Travellers, and the Athenaeum
| II is 80 .guineas. the Garrick 2l and
Even II YOU arc willing to pay such en-
| trance fees and subscriptions. however.
and have good DroposerS and seconders
at the club YOU wish to join ii is by no
In the majority OF the best clubs Il gen
eral ballot OF all members is still pre-
served-that Is to say. one is not elected
by committeeman il Is easy enough to
keep q man out II some of the members
so desire.
In the older clubs the rule prevails that
one black ball in ten excludes a candi-
date. At Brooks's the rejection is accord
ing 10 scale. Two black balls exclude
where the total poled Is twenty -four. be-
tween twenty -four and iorty-nine three
|
black balls exclude. Hence. IL will be
obvious that the election OF a candidate
must be practically unanimous,
Major Arthur Griffiths tells story
apropos Of the whimsical objections some
times raised by, members TO candidates.
| The story Is about TbackeraY and the
Garrck club. a man OF fortune named
HIN, self made, but illiterate. who some
times went astray with his his. was a
candidate for election. II piled him be-
rs lG . a * a p grlsC CrlU II
calls himself III when he Isn't"
Theodore Hook was one of the Gar
rick>s most famous members. He gen
orally arrived at the club late in the af-
ternoon and never went home till morn
ing" He had been told by the doctors.
he said 10 avoid the night air. \ mem
ber OF the club in Hooks time predicted
the advent of the millennium at the end
OF three years. "Al right" cried Hook.
give me e5 note now and III repay
YOU $50 at tho millennium"
Apart. however. from the notabilities
who have been members OF the Garrick--
and they include almost everybody who
has been anybody. In art and the drama
especially, during the last eighty years
the Garrick was. and is esteemed for its
good cooking. Two famous things are
stllI 10 be obtaincd-gn punch and the
Garrick steak The recipe OF the first is
10 pour half pint Of gin on the outer
peel Of lemon then add a little fresh
lemon juice. glass OF maraschino. about
a pint and a quarter OF water, and two
bottles Of iced soda water. with two
pints OF punch as the result. The Gar
rick steak is made by cutting through
the sirloln. and the fat piece produced
contains both the upper and the under
cut
At the Athenaeum club-siXty- mine
members OF which. II has been calculated.
have been buried in Westminster Abbey
and thirty-two in 81. Pauls-a feature
in the feeding WAS the "Asatc Sunday
as some one styled II. when curry and
rice always appeared on the bill Of fare.
Another popular dinner was that which
provided marrow bones and lam roly
poly puddinGs
Although the members OF London clubs
are most fastidious in regard to the