popularity. Another favorite is the widely known lawyer, Solomon Hanford. George F. Harriman, another lawyer and old member, is a friend of everybody. The brilliant Edgar Saltus is an old member of the Club, and makes it his home when his literary occupations and errant fancies detain him in this country. Special privileges are allowed to Sylvester J. E. Rawling. As music critic of the "World," it is necessary that he compose his opera criticism late at night, and the Club is kept open for that purpose! Other famous lawyer members and frequenters of the Club are John B. Stanchfield and George Gordon Battle. Mr. Stanchfield was formerly Democratic candidate for governor and nominee for United States senator. Mr. Battle at one time served as assistant district attorney, and is at present a law partner of Senator O'Gorman. Daniel M. Brady is the election expert of the Club. It is popularly said of him that he can prophesy the outcome of any election, such is his broad familiarity with statistics. At the head of the Art Department stands August Benziger. He has painted portraits of Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, one of Senator O'Gorman, and, specially for the Club, one of Judge Dowling. Herbert D. Lounsbury, a gentleman of brilliant wit, and Congressman Jacob A. Cantor, ex-president of the New York Senate and ex-president of Manhattan Borough, are favorites with all. J. Henry Haggerty is much sought after because of his genial ways. So are Herbert Smyth, who stands in the front rank of trial lawyers, and Justice Charles L. Guy. Justice Guy was elected Supreme Court justice in 1907 for a term of fourteen years. General favorites, also, are those two gentlemen, Harry Mollenhauer and Conrad Peters, popularly known as "Harry" and "Connie.” James Buckley, general passenger agent of the Erie lines, |