Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-07

in Alabama street, Atlanta's Round Ia
BILE club once more finds itself home
less and a wanderer upon the face of
an unappreciative and barbaric earth.
Time was when the Etowah cafe was
Atlantas foremost resort Of intellectu-
ality and fashion. The time never was
when it was not an interesting and
engaging place to satisfy ones gusta-
tory desires, and to occasionally graft
fy mental warnings not to be de-
scribed in ordinary words.
Colonel Hooper Alexander, the head
Of the Round Table. who revels in the
glorious title, king Of the world" was
so full of grief and darkly depressing
sorrow today that he would not dis
cuss at length the habitatless state OF
the Round Table.
Just say for me-" proposed his ma
jesty, that the Round Table shall not
wander long. A new home shall be
found for 1t within the present moon.
We. rex. have spoken"
An Ancient Institution.
Claude Smith, who was not in so
fearful a mood as the king Of the world.
o. KID we. rex's" ukase, and that
makes 1t all right
The Round Table will hold another
session soon. and things will go on
just as of yore.
The Round Table Is an ancient and
honorable Atlanta institution 1t was
north side restaurant Of modest preten-
tons. and there it got along pretty
well until Harry Silverman opened his
gorgeous Etowah cafe. 1t had got to
be some organization then and so it
took on a lot of frills and things. and
began to hold its meetings in Silver
mans place.
Harry Silverman was just the boy
who was looking for that Round Table
thing Under his astute chaperonage,
it grew in grace and membership, and
soon it became famous among the
highbrows Of this vicinity and neigh
borhood.
Bunch of Good Fellows.
The Round Table club is a bunch of
good fellows long on argumentative
proclivities, and of various shades Of
thought and opinion. political religious.
professional. ordinary, and so forth
and so on
1t meets-when it has a meeting
place-at lunch time. anywhere from 1
to 3. and 1t undertakes the adjustment
of any old problem laundering for ad-
! justment, all the way from white houst
and international politics to the pros
and cons of an aldermanic squabble.
II is no respecter of opinion outside
it's own sphere of activity, when it is
on the Job and under full steam ahead
1t stipulates that, in all arguments and
discussions, reporters and gossips in
variably are not present whether they
are or not.
Whatever settlements the Round Ia
bic makes, they are the Round Table,
business-don't forget that if you ex-
pect to sit at the Round Table a second
time.
When Harry Silverman gave up the
Etowah cafe, one dismal and depressing
day the club forsook the big table Har-
ry always reserved for its exclusive
use. and passed through perilous and
| heartbreaking period of its career.
Finds Old Home Intact.
For a while 1t looked as if Harry had
stabbed it to the heart and put it hors
de combat, so to speak But 1t - llied,
and after operating here and there,
eventually it strayed back to the Eto-
wah and the new management brought
forth the old table. brushed the dust
off, set 1t aside sacredly and exclu-
sively for the use of the club. and
there 1t has met. and calked, and scrap
ped, and yapped, and had its being,
until the Etowah closed its doors the
other day. And now it is adrift once
more
The membership of the Round Table
hespeaks in language more eloquent
than words the quality OF the discus
sions that have marked the varied ms
and outs of its picturesque career.
Headed by King of the World"
Hooper Alexander. and seconded by
Chancellor c. b. Bidwell. its roster dis
closes the following names, past and