Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-05-31
IN NEW CLUB ROOMS

Good Fellowship Make the EVENING
One Long to be Remembered.-A
Popular Body Al over the Country.
The Elks, than which there Is no
more poular order in an this vide
land. we're celebrants Of their eleventh
anniversary as an order ia historic
Martilsburg last evening 1t was the
initial opportunity Of lle social friends
Of the order to view the luxurious and
very handsomely appointed club rooms
on West King street, just opposite
the Berkeley Hotel and some four or
five hundred maid and matrons. wives
and sweethearts and that more or
less important animal, man. availed
themselves Of the cordial invitations
aud royal welcome It was just
little after seven o'clock when a
stream Of visitors and the Elks them
selves began to POUR into the club
| and il wa sthe wee sma" hours Of
this morning WHOM the weary music
/ ians Of the City Band orchestra laid
away their instruments and the last
Of the delighted guests took their de.
parture OF the many occasions and
entertainments OF the local order that
Of last evening win easily take rank
as the most thoroughly enjoyable
There Is always charm, verve. a
spirit Of what cur French friends call
camaraderie about the Elks that
places them In a class by themselves.
a Pleasant Evening.
There is always q charm. a yerye,
OF esteem perhaps, but few il any Of
them are imbued with the same spirit
Of good fellowship and the finesse to
eylnce IT, Il
One must have had heart of ada
mant; the ice of an anehorite, If the
warmth and wealth of welcome ex-
tended by Exalted Ruler Harry Downs, !
Allen Emmert, Guy c. Felker and the
other members of the reception com
mittee did not beget response
In Gala Attire.
The handsome rooms were in gala
and festive attire. The entire edifce, |
once an attractive cid home was very
artistically decorated with multi-col.
ored flowers, potted plants and palms |
and ferns and the whole scene one OF
eolorful light and gaFety with its
countless pretty women, representa-
tive Elks and their friends.
All through the building from the I
reception room on the second floor I
were waited the sweet melodies Of
the orchestra. 1t is question IL
these popular musicians ever played /
with better effect The dance melo
dies of Waltenfeld, Struss and the
waltz kings waited N duloet strains
throughout the building for hours.
There were pretty women galore
grouped about the drawing rooms
throughout the evening vloleteycd I
girls with the cream of health and
the bloom Of the peach in their sweet
faces; lissome lassies with the sraces
of a Galatea; the wicheries Of a
Psohye silhonetted against the pack
ground of flowers anc plants.
Many Pretty Women.
II there is any one in Martinsburg
who has any doubt about its pretty
women-and that ract is doubtful
it Is a pity that hey did not drift into
the club last evening when esteemed
Leading Knight DR. A. A. Westrater,
Loyal Knight f. T. Henshaw. Lectur-
ing Knight Il. f. Doole$, Secretary
George l.. Weaver and Charles II.
were having their hands fun
meeting the merry saIlles and playing
mine host"
Underlying the jollity of the eve
ming many of the visitors may have
given thought to the seriousness OF
purpose embodied and that runs like
a ribbon Of light through the ritual Of
this order
Fine Body of Men.
The Elk wears his mask like a man
and he is always to the fore when
there is work to be done in the world.
From the time Of its inception up to
this very moment it has been a civil
izing, uplifting body of men ever ready
in eleemosynary ana pnilanthropic eff
fort IN the evil days of calamity and
disaster in this land they were ever
ready and helpful and they have made
for themselves a page in American
history that may well be envied.
They like life in the light aud they
are men when the shadows deepen.
There are more than a hundred Eks
in Martinsburg.