The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . ficialseal was made for him on parchment to be sentalong with the notification of his election. It waspromptly decided by the club that the seallooked too new and that what it needed was somedecent evidence on its face of a respectable an-tiquity, so it was properly stained and thendanced upon by the Owl, the Chestnut, andthe Builder and all the other Tilers until theywere exhausted, and t
The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . ficialseal was made for him on parchment to be sentalong with the notification of his election. It waspromptly decided by the club that the seallooked too new and that what it needed was somedecent evidence on its face of a respectable an-tiquity, so it was properly stained and thendanced upon by the Owl, the Chestnut, andthe Builder and all the other Tilers until theywere exhausted, and then, after the documenthad been sufficiently abused and violated, itwas forwarded to London, where it was framedand hung on the walls of George Boughtonsstudio. From that goodly company of Tilers, who dinedwith the Salmagundians in 1904, Death, theReaper, has called ten. The Bulgarian wentdown with the Titanic; the Puritan and theGriffin live in their works; the Saint in hisimmortal sculptures; Polyphemus as the suc-cessor of Charles A. Dana; the Beaver, victimof an assassin, lives in poems of marble, and theChestnut, the Owl, Briareus, and theBishop in their works and in the hearts oftheir CARD-BOOM, 14 WEST 12TH STREETFrom a charcoal drawing by Charles S. Chapman C 125 } The Tile Club was never intended, like theCentury Club or the Salmagundi Club, to de-velop into a permanent organization — indeed, ifsuch a development had resulted, it would havebeen a living offense to the spirit of its Tile Club was born in maturity; it was lim-ited in membership carefully to forestall expan-sion; it was exclusive and perfectly satisfied withits twenty-two members and three musicians. Itwas organized at No. 2 Union Square, in an atticstudio (afterwards occupied by the writer of thishistory), all of which is fully described by the Owlin his book, The Wood Fire in No. 3, only read-ing Tile Club for Stone Mugs. Madame Blavatsky flew away to India withone of the origi
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