New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-02
CLUB-LIFE IN NRU-YORK.

Clubs are exotics in New York. They do not spring
naturally from the social necessities of our people, as
they do 10 Lon6oni bat, there being Clubs in Lon
don, we must have ClGbs too, q, we have liveried
fupkies G. otbic churches and Academies Of Music
~ Of Painting. TIE habit Of imitation Is yet strong
upon us, ii must of necessity be with AL cOonized
nations. We have il Is true, few indigenous ins.i-
tutions such o. monster hotels, Mcrmons ADD black
Slavery, but the Club House is not one Of them we
have imported it, we have a good many other OF
the luxurious phases of European civilization But
IL begins to take root AMI thrive among US, though
the very pames Of gu, Clubs show how uorea aud un-
necessary they are The Clubs of London represent
cssses end thers indicate for whose benefit they were
institu,ed-as for example, the AthenGum, the Army
and Navy the Oriental, the University, the United
Service. the Oxford and Cambridge, the City, the
Trsvtllers the Reform, the Conservative aud so on
There was a Club organized in New-forS, rome
twenty five years ago cal ed the Albion, which oc-
cuped rooms in Park place Heuse, on the corner OF
Broadway, but 1t died ont many years ago, and is
now forgotten. The Century Club was instituted
some ten or twelve years ago. the object OF its ound-
ers being to unite together, in social meetings. au-
hors artists amateurs and patrons of Art it o,cu-
pied rooms originally, Of the brick stores on
tie corner of Broadway and Prncest but has,
daring the past two years. rented an ordinary
house in Ninth-st. The name of this Club is
wlthou, any meaning, tina. we know Of
Us members represent almost every class, sueh as
painters journalists, brokers, suctoneers eugravers
dry goods jobbers, judges, grocers, booksellers,
crockery dealers, lawyers and idlers. Smoking
drinking and reading poetry are said to be favo.ite
recrea,ions of the Century ana its members give an
annual party in strawberry time TO the ladies and
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an in.igh, into Club life The Century is inexpensive,
and snybody may Join it, unless some OBJ
lection on the part OF member should subject can
.iidste TO black ballipg.
The Nee. York Club has just stepped ont of exist
ence II was founded some fifteen yesrs since, and
It's members consisted OF fashionable young men
about to.n. 1t occupied house in Broadway, op-
posite St. Thomas Church, several years, and ives
dissolved. Il is generally understood, to &c. rid of
certain members whose habits or snteceden's rem
dered their companionshp undesirable. The OH'
perse is the name of a new Cub which was organized
a year or two since a religious foundaaon-'he
only oLe Of the kind in New-York, or, We be-
lieve, ia the world. Il occupies apartments in
hired house ia the upper part Of Broadway,
and is supplied with refreshments from res.
saursnt 10 the cellar it has spacious aud pleasant
dictlNttut lNt itoutbs-i'Ou tvuaAhS Da'>~
way and pleasant but small dining-room in the
rear TIE members OF the Universe mus, be Romsn
Catholics. Among its members are Charles Conor,
james L. Brady, and many Of the foreign Roman
Catholic merchants doing business in New-York. IL
is the only one Of our Clubs that has distinct char
scter, as that was formed ike the Clubs Of London,
for the benefit Of class. There is, however, another
Club, Of which we saw an announcement few days
since whose name distinctly indicates lis character
it IL the JowHalists Cub, aud it has rooms in the
Mcfatt Building, on the corner Of Broadway and Az
fhony st. bat we believe il has hardly, yet been
sufficiently constituted to be enumerated in the caa-
logne Of New York Clubs.
The Union C7ub, which has recently taken pos
session of its new Club-HOu'e in Fifth sv., Is, in
fact the only Club in the New World that deserves
10 be named in connection with the great clubs of
London. The desultory character Of The Union, and
is indefinite purpose are very wei expressed By Its