Rotary International downtown Chicago, United States, at Harris's friend Gustave Loehr's office in the Unity Building on Dearborn Street on February 23, 1905. In addition to Harris and Loehr (a mining engineer and freemason), Silvester Schiele (a coal merchant), and Hiram E. Shorey (a tailor) were the other two who attended this first meeting. The members chose the name Rotary because initially they rotated subsequent weekly club meetings to each other's offices, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it became necessary to adopt the now-common practice of a regular meeting place. The next four Rotary Clubs were organized
Rotary snowplow Innovations" category with "National" significance. Southern Pacific rotary snowplow MW208 is preserved in operational condition at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. This rotary was involved in the rescue of the "City of San Francisco" train in 1952. The Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota and the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri each have one on display. The Rotary Snowplow Park in Breckenridge, Colorado has a 1901 snowplow used originally for the White Pass and Yukon Route in Alaska. The Northern Pacific Rotary 10 steam snowplow built in November, 1907 is owned by the Northwest