The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-20
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CLUB A WAR
 CASUALTY.

The true story of the demise or the Rocky Mountain Club. which followed it's Last Round Up" dinner, April II, will make clear that this great club that launched with so much enthusiasm in 1907 was really a casualty of the World War. It exhausted itself in that heart breaking contest for the supremacy of democracy, first by turning it's treasury over for the benefit of stricken Belgium and later, after the United States entered the war, in it's of Western soldiers on their way to the battefeds of France and other activities.
 The Rocky Mountain Club was a thriving or ganizaton before the war. It had had ten pros porous years and accumulated a large fund with which to build of the finest club houses in New York when the call came for money to save the starving Belgians. The plans called for a luxurious home for the members and their friends. It was to be the New York headquarters for Westeners living and visiting in New York.
 Then came the cry for help. Herbert c. Hoover, who had been spending his money and that of his friends and others lavishly, sent to the American people through the Rocky Noun tain Club, of which he member, clarion call for funds, declaring that every day of delay meant great additions to the death lists of the starved By unanimous vote the Rocky Noun tain Club donated it's building fund and gave it to MT Hoover for use in the work of salvaging the Belgian people, work that he had under taken with zest and efficient energy. That action sounded the death-knell of the club for, with out club home and with the increasing age of the members and their development of other associations and interests. the club became less and less active. It had given away it's heritage, '' but it had performed splendidly-heroically. II had furnished money when it needed for a humanitarian purpose and before public funds could be made aavilable for the emergency. It's donation was one of the incidents that served to exhibit to the world the great heart ol America that knows boundary lines race or creed when human life is at stake or there is suffering anywhere.
 Referring to the action of the Rocky Noun tain Club. in message to Herbert c. Hoover written January 31, 1917, than two months before the United States entered the World War Sir William Dunn, Lord Mayor of London, said
 The Rocky Mountain Clubs generous
 sacrifice is magnificent answer to the
 suggestion that America had forgotten
 Belgium. It also a splendid
 inspiration to further efforts the part
 of all those throughout the world who
 are united in the humane desire to
 alleviate the pitiful suferngs of the
 people in Belgium.
 The gift to Belgium however, did not quit terminate the Rocky Mountain Clubs war work It undertook, immediately after the United State entered the conflict, to care for Western soldier while in New York their way to war; and i raised large sums for their overseas WheI Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdot exhorting the American people to raise quick ly the money for the Third Liberty Loan, il 1918, the members of the Rocky Mountain Clul paid their dues for ten years in advance and in vested the entire proceeds in bonds But ever yet, the club continued to exert itself by meet ing the Western soldiers on their return iron and aiding in re-allooating them in the If, of the country.
 The members of the Rocky Mountain Clul have been received Life Members into tn American Institute of Mining and Metallaugiea Engineers and their funds, the Liberty Bond purchased ten years ago. will be used to endov something for the benefit of Western mining States under the of the Rocky Mountain Club Endowment"