Excerpt from Reception and Dinner in Honor of the Fifty-Sixth Birthday of Augustus Peabody Gardner: A Pioneer for Preparedness Resolved - That we, members and guests Of The Roosevelt Club, at this dinner in honor of the fifty sixth birthday Of Augustus Peabody Gardner, take pleasure in recognizing our Obligation to the Honorable Robert M. Washburn, the organizer of the Club and now its President. His strong capacity, high purpose, enthusiastic devotion to the Club, and untiring industryin its interest, are the chief causes of its success. Nothing good can be accomplished without labor. The result produced is the measure Of his toil. May he have many happy, prosperous, vigorous years. Mr. Walker, thereupon, submitted the Resolution to a vote, all standing, it was declared by him, as unanimously adopted. 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.