Its members included Mark Twain,[1] General John Pershing, Admiral Robert Peary,[2] Gutzon Borglum (the sculptor of Mount Rushmore), Herbert Adams Gibbons (a Princeton professor and journalist),[3] and more than 100 other prominent businessmen and academics located, primarily, in the northeastern United States.
During the first three decades of the twentieth century, the group held an annual dinner at the Savoy Hotel in New York, where its members would meet and exchange stories about foreign travel and politics.
[4] The members of the group generally favored Anglo American colonization of the non-European world.
Mark Twain recalled an evening at the club in a dictation recorded on March 7, 1906.
During the evening, the chairman of the dinner, General James L. Wilson, proudly told the group that they were "all members of the Anglo-Saxon race."