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1907 Issue. 3. Monday at Baddeck 60

Times New York, 31 Mai 1907

AERO 300

[[image]] John W ("Jack") Kearney. Secretary.
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St. Louis, Governor of the State of Missouri, Secretary of the Interior in Grover Cleveland's second Cabinet, and President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, better known as the St. Louis World's Fair. He is a millionaire several times. 

D.C. Nugent, another Vice President of the club, is also Vice President of one of the largest department stores in town, and is a millionaire. 

G.H. Walker, the other Vice President of the club, is the head of G.H. Walker & Co., a leading stock and bond brokerage firm. His father is worth several millions. He is a great polo player and a prominent factor in the social and club life of the city. 

Francis D. Hirschberg, Treasurer of the club, is President of the Imperial Club, the city's ultra-fashionable dancing organization. He has an enviable reputation as a social leader. Though not a millionaire, he is wealthy. 

Albert Bond Lambert, Honorary Secretary of the club, is President of the Lambert Pharmacal Company, former President of the Automobile Club of St. Louis, one of the best golf players in the city, a social factor, and a millionaire. 

John W. ("Jack") Kearney, Secretary of the club, is not a millionaire, but if every good story he can tell were a dollar he would be worth several millions. He is also famed locally as a wit. He is destined to do much of the entertaining of that element of the foreign delegates to the balloon meet who enjoy story telling and witticisms. And he can write stories as well as he can tell them. By training he is a newspaper man. He has been city editor of two of the St. Louis dailies, and has also filled other important editorial posts. He has been an active officer of the last five annual Horse Shows. From horses he has risen to balloons. He is one of the most widely acquainted men in town. 

The membership of the club includes men who stand at the top of the city's social, financial, commercial, and professional life. For instance, ministers of various faiths, including Archbishop J.J. Glennon of the Roman Catholic Church, are members. So are the Presidents of practically all the banks and trust companies, including the J.C. Van Blarcom, President of the National Bank of Commerce (having $10,000,000 capital and $8,000,000 surplus,) the biggest banking institution west of the Mississippi River and one of the biggest in the United States. Presidents of great railroads are members; A.J. Davidson, President of the Frisco, for instance. The President of the principals clubs, including Judge Wilbur F. Boyle, President of the St. Louis Country Club, the most fashionable organization in the city, are members. Judge Boyle by the way, has the biggest corporation [[text cuts off]]

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[[images: portraits of two men, drawing of landscape with aerocraft in the background. One portrait is captioned "John W ("Jack") Kearney. Secretary."]]