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PORTLAND COMMERCIAL CLUB MECCA OF BUSINESS MEN
Noonday Luncheon Time When Many Big Deals Are Consummated.
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'Club at noon."
This Isn t an advertisement
from the "personal" column; It's Just
the dally salutation of business men of
Portland. More business men meet at
t..e noonday luncheon of this club every
veek-dav of the year than at any sim
ilar place in any other city, irrespec
tive of size, in the United States. Many
a public project or big: financial deal
has been marked out upon the table
cloths of the .'lub s dining-rooms. iany
a busy man who gives his services to
public interests makes it a point to
meet his committees at the club
luncheon, saving interruption of the
day's business and at the same time
riving a social flavor to -his commit
tee transactions.
Or. one might say. culinary flavor.
It isn't to be supposed that these men
are so engrossed in business that they
entirely overlook the menu. Who
could, when a meal is prepared by a
chef, four cooks, a pantry man and
three bakers, and travels eight stories
in the making? Wouldn't that make
an apartment-house kitchenette look
like a doll s tin kitchen in a premium
list?
Mincemeat "Home" Made.
Like any first-class hotel, the club
has a manager, J. Annand, a former
director of the club, who looks after
every detail in this home-like club,
from the draperies in the women's
parlor to the mincemeat In the cellar.
And that mincemeat! It is hand-
handpicked. In odd minutes the bakers
pick over the raisins and currants and
prepare all the other ingredients as
carefully as it was ever done in a
good old-time New England kitchen.
This club-made mincemeat was an in
novation this Fall and since Its advent,
a 52-gallon barrel has been used every
month.
A "personally conducted" trip
through the club with Mr. Annand is
interesting. On the roof is the waiters'
dining-room and lockers and a room
where vegetables are prepared for
cooking. Potatoes, carrots and other
such vegetables are pared by a ma
chine that washes them at the same
time.
On the eighth floor, the floor next
to the roof, .is the kitchen, where the
chef, four cooks, pantry man, four i
ranges, steam table and warming ovens
send the meal to three or four hundred
men. The club coffee is famous. There's
a reason. The coffee Is fresh ground
every day and the urn used today is
steamed and aired tomorrow. yulte
different from the method of a wo
man who thought the more coffee
grounds were warmed over the better
the coffee, and never emptied the cor
fee pot until it was so full of grounds
it wouldn t hold any more.
Billiard Tables Patrealxed.
On the same floor are the principal
dining-rooms, the big general dining
room where the men congregate at
noon. This is open to women for din
ner in the evening, but at noon it is
reserved for the use of men that they
may dispose of both the meal and bus
iness with despatch. At this hour the
women's dining-room is open to wo
men and. to men. The "Governors' i meet for a weekly luncheon, and the
room" Is on the same floor, where "Blue Room" is a small dining-room
the board of directors or governors I used for committees and small parties.
And that isn't all. On the sixth floor
are several small dining-rooms, beside,
a grill, which has recently been opene
for the convenience of billiard play
ers. Not every man comes to the club
at noon to attend to business. The
billiard tables are busier than the din
ing tables, men waiting thetr turn to
play in the two big rooms. The real
"fiends" give their orders at the grill
between plays, doing a juggler's act
with fork and cue.
And say, what do you-think of this?
Here's a barber shop where a man
doesn't have to wait his turn, or lose
it. The club member who wants a
shave or a hair cut pokes his head in
at the door of this perfectly appointed
"tonsorial parlor," the barber gives
him a number and the man goes on
with his lunch or his game. When It's
his turn a page calls "Next. No. 10,"
and he takes the barber's chair.
Comfort Are Many.
Booms are maintained on the fifth
floor for resident members who make
the club their home and for out-of-town
men who may be guests of the
club or of some member. All the ac
commodations of a hotel are provided,
with the social feature that the stran
ger misses in a hotel. All J the club
privileges are open to him after he has
been accredited and registered at the
office, on the seventh floor.
Opening from the lobby on this floor
is the "green room," the big reading
room and lounging room that extends
the length of the building. It is a
typical men s room, with deep lounging
chairs and sofas, if anything so big can
be called by the paTlor name sofa
Reading tables and writing desks com
plete the comforts of the room, .while
absence of draperies from the windows
further emphasizes the mannlshness of
the place. A new lighting system has
recently been installed, greatly increas
ing the reading light.
The women's parlor, on the same
floor, is in feminine contrast, with Its
blue silk tapestry walls, blue carpet,
lace curtains and blue hangings and
blue and gold furniture.
Those little cubes of ice that are
served in the drinking water come from
the basement, where 'the club has its
own ice plant, the ice being made from
filtered Bull Run water and sawed into
"individual" ice for the glasses. In the
basement is a storeroom that looks like
a grocery, a cold room for fruits and
vegetables and a refrigerator room for
meats. In the basement the baker
make their wonderful French pastry
and other confections, while the club
carpenter works In an adjoining room
with chisel and saw.
The Portland Commercial Club has
served as a model for clubs In other
cities. This Winter a man from Min
neapolis who was a guest of the club
remarked upon its similarity to the
Minneapolis Commercial Club, noi
knowing that the club in his city had
sent for the plan of the Portland club
and followed it in organizing Its own.
The board of governors la composed
of the following:
E. B. Piper, president; C. S. Jackson,
vice-president; J. H. Burgard, treas
urer; F. S. West, secretary; governors,
J. R. Rogers, George W. McDowell. V,
H. Ransom, F. I. Fuller, John S. Beall,
T. B. Wilcox, C. C. Coit, George W.
Klelser. F. A Freeman. Albert Felden
heimer, T, N. Stoppenbach.
TWO SIMPLE EMBROIDERY DESIGNS FOR BLOUSES
These very attractive designs may be worked in
olid or eyelet. Detail drawings show methods of
working.
There are two ways to apply the designs to the
material upon which you wish to work them.
If your material is sheer such as handkerchief
linen, lawn, batiste, and the like the simplest method
is to lay the. material over the design and, with a well
pointed pencil, draw over each line.
If your material is heavy, secure a piece of transfer
or impression paper. Lay it face down upon this, then
draw over each Hne of the paper design with a hard
pencil or the ..olnt of a steel knitting needle. Upon
lifting the pattern and transfer paper you will find a
neat and accurate impression of the design upon your
material.
There are two points to observe in this simple
process if you would execute it satisfactorily. One
Is to see that your material Is level cut and folded by
a thread and that your design Is placed upon it evenly
at every point.
The second Is. when placed accurately, secure the
design to the material with thumb tacks or pins, so it
cannot slip during the operation.
Do not rest your hand or fingers upon any part of
the design you are transferring, else the imprint of
your fingers will be as distinct upon the material as
the drawn lines of the design. ,
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