New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-12
4 NLW CLUB HOUSE.
PLANS OF THE UNION LEAGUE.


, PROPOSITION FoR REMOVAL To \ NV SITE Al
FlFrH-lvE. AND rHIRrY-NINTH-sr. WHICH WILL
EH SUBMITTED TOMORROW NIGHT.
Daring the last five or six years the question
nj new club uose la, occupied the minds of leading
meub Is OF the Ualou League Club Even be ore that
time when il was found that the club had steady
us ,1 income from due. ana the restaurant II was lie
termncd invest THIS surplus Ia United states bonds
a. a fund for a club house. This lund now
,,rounts TO s.5OOOO in Government securities. The
tod u, helm, large enough make active operations
feasible AT the last monthly meeting II was suggested
that since the Committee on site FOR Cub House."
arpouted some years before, had never been dis
charged II ought be hled out II members furnished
with new power. and requested 10 report at the next
mopthly meeting. The committee as named consisted
~ Jackson = SCHULTZ, chairman: salem H. Wales. John
II Hall Richard Butler and Daniel F. Appleton The
late Alexander T. Stewart member D. this commit
zee and 10 M vacancy and one other Mr. Wales and
Nr Appleton were appointed
To-nlorroy night Will be held the monthly meeting.
which the committee Will read carefully prepared re
mort and "A large attendance or members 10 expected
th uect having aroused general interest The public
Generally holds the opinion that the club Is very
Comfortably housed Ia the Leonard Jerome Manson at
usdso.square and twenty since this Is, per
bps IA its appointments rs preenious private house
"A mere Is IN SewIorE, 1t comes as near as any private
house can to supplying the wants OF cub with upward
thousand IueuDers IL LAS Dten tne HOuo OF Tue
club FOR ten years AID has its advantages and
.r,ot,. drawbacks. As the committee Will say re
mort 10 provide club house for thousand members
II must be quilt with eye single to the purposes of
c'ui house. building erected for private dwelling
or A public house will meet the requirements. The
Jerome mansion costs the cuD $4,000 rental, which
with the insurance added raises the expense to $4,000
year. The handsome little theatre attached makes
excellent meeting room and ballroom for the annual
ladies' reception but 1t incr enormously the ns
auca risk The biIardroOm Is much too smal! and Low
s IA the ceiling; the kitchen u too small and Is lily ven
tiisfed An effort was made 20 have the landlord
amt a k.tch,u in the atic, after the plan
If the Union CLUB. At Tweuty-iir.i-sr. and Fifth
,ve bus the suggestion was nos adopted. There
no elevator in the building aud almost end Of tedious
,trca.e-. Worst Of al tere A;e oa!y twelve sleeping
rooms ia the building, Will. graf many members d.
sire 10 have apartments ia III cup Aou e. Al prtsen
,7o or three ar the adjoining residences ecu led
durmItorcs bv bachelor u mD"r'. \ 'uO house Is
wanted Pie G. mmltre nuk- Win al .eas' hity rooms
,r t.e tr, Alto aIAftu,nts # members, wuIrn would
also ne Il source II revenue % the clun var from
next May the PIE, lt lease Nptres Is believed that
Dg prompt action .Ii' house can be made ready
bv N.y Is5O. which wOud enable thr club to survey
the next Presidential conte-t ftom AT Least anew 4nd
iuury, % material point OF view.
When Alexander /. stewart "a, alive he and Jackson
= schultz were tho PRINCIPAL members OF the committee
I'D TAR a. practical efforts made iowa securing "a
site They ranslcEei the principal avenues from
Twenty irl-,t TO tie Park ami beyond Then now,
q was the feeling that when the c.uD OMIT 70 must have
81, n.ea site ls Manhattan Island could ahori lot
Ill F.,t-ayc. has l.ways been preferred. majority
1f the committee several year. ago were IN favor ~
securing the Casven property on Ffth-tye. and
Tbrtvh'rh-st 'u,, back Of the stewart house Mr..
C..ur Icu fused et ,he property during her llfe
and N- Stewart drr" the lue o.. his enthusiasm for a
.i.c AZ the Ca,atu property. "O~nucwrn. YOU cau't
h.y. tlat -tc," be- said 70 she comm tee. Glow - y
they asked because" De replied IN rs decisive bus,
ness tou- A. T. stewart his KY uOr' money than yOu
/ have" ffar disAkcd the idea OF having club hous,
next t. hi, rpsdauce he dd not So, the suppostou
bong that he wanted eventually TO add these lots to h.
! grounds.