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

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in Alabama street. Atlanta's Round Ia
bic club once more finds Itself home
less and wanderer upon the face Of
an unappreclauve and barbsric earth.
Time was when the Etowah cafe was
Atantas foremost resort of intellectu-
ality and fashion. The time never was
when 1t was not an interesting and
engaging place to satisfy ones gusta-
tory desires, and to occasionally graft
fy mental warnings not to be de
scrbed in ordinary words.
Colonel Hooper Alexander. the head
OF the Round Table. who revels in the
glorious title king Of the world" was
50 fun of grief and darSly 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 new home shall. be
found for it within the present moon
We rex. have spoken"
An Ancient institution.
Claude Smith. who was not in so
o KID I'VE. rex's' ukase and that
makes 1t all right
The Round Table win 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
organized about ten years ago. in a
north gia, ragto,~o,,+ ~ ,oodagt v,rat.r
tions, 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 lot Of frlls 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.
1t grew in grace and membership. and
soon 1t became famous among the
highbrows Of this vicinity and neigh
borhood
Bunch of Good Fellows.
The Round Table club is bunch of
good fellows. long on argumentative
thought and opinion. political, religious
professional, ordinary, and so forth
and so on
1t meets-when it has meeting
place-at lunch time. anywhere from
to 3, and 1t undertakes the adjustment
of any old problem hankering for adj
justment, all the way from white houst
HI
and cons of an aldermanic squabbe
1t is no respecter of opinion outside
its own sphere OF activity, when 1t 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 on not.
Whatever settlements the Round Ia .
bic makes. they are the Round Table S
business don't forget that, II 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-
~ always reserved for its exclusive
use and passed through perlous and
heartbreaking period of its career.
Finds Old Home Intact
For a while It looked as IL Harry had
stabbed 1t to the heart. and put it hors
de combat. so to speak But 1t lIllied,
and. after operating here and there.
eventually 1t strayed back to the Eto-
wah. and the new management brought
forth the old table. brushed the dust
off, set it 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 it's doors the
other day. And now it is adrft once
more.
The membership of the Round Table
bespeaks In language more eloquent
than words the quality of the discus
sions that have marked the varied ms
and outs of It's picturesque career
Headed by King of the World"
Hooper Alexander. and seconded by
Chancellor c 3. Bidwen. its roster dis
closes the following names, past and