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The Lotos Club
with a dinner for his role in building the Suez Canal and his plans for the Panama Canal.
The Lotos Club celebrated its tenth anniversary with a dinner on March 28, which the presidents of eleven other city clubs attended. They included the presidents of the Century Association, the Union League Club, the Manhattan Club, the Army and Navy Club and the Harmonie Club, all of whom toasted The Lotos Club’s success.
That November, the Club entertained President Ulysses S. Grant. All the members who wished to be present could not be accommodated. By 1882, the number of Resident Members had reached the Constitutional limit of four hundred.
On April 15, the Club held a dinner honoring Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes joined the occasion. The members rose as Dr. Holmes entered, and cheered until he took his place alongside President Reid.
At one dinner in 1885, Chauncy M. Depew said, “What a congregation it would be if all the eminent men who have been received by The Lotos Club were gathered in one room. It would be an intellectual kaleidoscope that at every turn would illustrate and present the best forms of genius.” The mayor’s dinner in 1885 was addressed by Elihu Root, the United States
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