. Concerning the Press Club of Chicago : its advantages, its members, its history, its purposes, its legends, its future . 25. Afterward otherrooms were added, untilwe occupied all of twofloors, and part of an-other. Our subsequent clubhistory is well enoughknown. This story con-cerns itself only with the/^ origin as it really was, vvil5lh^k Ne:3^«7 and has no thought ofseriously disturbing thepleasing, even flattering legend attributingthat origin to a source so illustrious. Themyth is too firmly fixed, too alluring, to benow desired away. If Melville Stone says a thing is so, why,so it is. B
. Concerning the Press Club of Chicago : its advantages, its members, its history, its purposes, its legends, its future . 25. Afterward otherrooms were added, untilwe occupied all of twofloors, and part of an-other. Our subsequent clubhistory is well enoughknown. This story con-cerns itself only with the/^ origin as it really was, vvil5lh^k Ne:3^«7 and has no thought ofseriously disturbing thepleasing, even flattering legend attributingthat origin to a source so illustrious. Themyth is too firmly fixed, too alluring, to benow desired away. If Melville Stone says a thing is so, why,so it is. But the germ being there as he de-scribes, it was a germ occulted, for it layunknown while the work was going on. Iwish it had been otherwise, because MarkTwain was the greatest we have had amongus; and heaven knows our roll of greatones is neither short, nor pitched in anyminor kev. W. D. Eaton. A TRIBUTE TO THE PRESS CLUB. No one who has not enjoyed the hospi-tality of the Chicago Press Club knowswhat he has missed. I am deeply sensibleof the fact that I have never known Chicagoat her best until today; have never known
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