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

IN Alabama street Atlanta's Round Ia
bic club once more finds itself home
less ana a wanderer upon the face Of
an unappreeiative and barbaric earth.
Time was when tine Etowah cafe was
Atlanta's foremost resort of in.ellectu-
alty 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 yearnings 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 darby depressing
sorrow today that he would not dis
cuss a. length the habitatless state ot
the Round Table
Just say for me" proposed his ma
1esty, that the Round Table shall not
wander long. A 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
fearful mood as the king Of the world
O. KID we. rexs" ukase, and that
makes It 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
organized about ten years ago, in a
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 II
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 II 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
procivitles, and Of various shades of
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 It undertakes the adjustment
of any old problem hankering for adj
iustment all the way from white houst
and international politics TO the pros
and cons of an aldermanic squabble.
1t is no respecter of opinion outside
its own sphere Of activity, when II is
on the Job and under full steam ahead
tut stipulafes that, In an arguments ant
discussions. reporters and sossips in
yarably are not present, whether they
are or not.
Whatever settlements the Round ia
bic makes, they are the Round Tables
business-don forget that. If YOU ex-
pect TO sit at the Round Table a second
time
When Harry Silverman gave up the
Itowah cafe. one dismal and depressing
day. The club forsook the big table Hsr-
ry always reserved for its exclusive
use, and passed through a perious and
heartbreaking period of its career
Finds Old Home Intact.
Tor while It looked as II Harry had
stabbed it to the heart. and put it hors
de combat. so TO speak But It allied,
and after operating here and there,
eventually II 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~
slvely for the use Of the club. and
there II has met. and calked and scrap
ped, and yapped, and had its being,
until the Etowah closed its doors the
other day. And now 1t IL edrft 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 Us picturesque career.
Headed by King OF the World"
Hooper Alexander. and seconded by
Chancellor c. r. Bidwen. it's roster dis
closes the following names, past and