Excerpt from Union League Club of New York, Its Memories of the Past: The President's Address at the Last Meeting in the Old Club House, on Union Square, Thursday Evening, March 26, 1898 In compliance with the request of the Committee, I propose to detain you a few minutes with a brief review of our Club history, and then to call upon gentlemen, whose voices always command the attention of the Club, and whose participation in its work, and devotion to its principles, make it especially fitting that they should be heard to-night. The change that awaits us in our new quarters will be greatly to our advantage, in the spaciousness of the edifice, and the perfectness of its appointments, as re gards the Assembly Hall, the Restaurant, the Reading Room, the [art Gallery, and the Library; and yet, in view of the memories that cluster around this spot, but few of us will leave it without regret. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.