The compiler (H. DeVoe) thanks Dr. Richard Chafee of Providence, RI and Marvin Anderson at the University of Washington for providing copies of this article. In the bound copies of The American Architect at many libraries, the Current News and Comment sections are missing. Mr. Anderson found the article at the Seattle Public Library.
Transcription of first three paragraphs:
The annual meeting of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects was held on November 21st at the Hotel Brevoort. As heretofore, the meeting was preceded by a banquet.
A new amendment to the Constitution was passed which provides that the newly elected officers do not take office until the first of January. In consequence, President Barber was in the chair for the entire evening and the newly elected president, Mr. Ernest Flagg, gave a brief address.
Mr. Flagg exhibited to the members present a copy of the original menu of a dinner which was held at the Cafe d'Orsay in Paris on Thanksgiving Day in 1890, at which the idea of the formation of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects was broached. Those who were present at the dinner signed this menu and many of them were the founders of the Society. Their names are as follows:--John P. Benson, Evans Preston, J. W. Lavalle, A. L. Brockway, Joseph H. McGuire, John W. Bemis, Edward L. Tilton, Ernest Flagg, Whitney Warren, J. Donaldson, George Cary, Edgar A. Josselyn, Thornton Floyd Turner, Austin W. Lord, Louis de Sibourg, T. R. Plummer, S. B. P. Trowbridge, and William A. Boring.
From later in the article:
During the evening Mr. McGuire proposed a toast to George Cary of Buffalo, who, he declared, had done more than any other man among the American students in Paris to get the original group together for the discussion of the project of forming an American society.
