Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-23

house. Occasionally there are balls and par ties at the ByculIa to which all the fashion of Bombay is invited, and the vast extent of the
 premises enables the affair to be conducted in princely style. The membership is large, the
 dues are high and the prices of living by no means low, but do not know of any club in Europe or America that offers so much to it's
 members as does the Byculla. In the East
 one needs great deal of comfort, and evil dently the managing committee of the inst1-
 tuition have described have sought to give liberal allowance of the article in question. Another club at Bombay, where I found
 comforts aud luxuries iberally bestowed,
 bears the name of the city. The Byculla club is in the suburban portion of the city of the Parsees, fully two miles from the region
 where most of the business is conducted. In its general shape and division Bombay is @
 forcible reminder of New York, as it is on long strip of land whose extremity holds the business quarter, while most of the residences
 are couple of miles farther north. The Bombay club is therefore downtown, and
 is convenient resort for those of its members
 whose affairs keep them in the vicinity of the
 fort. When was in India, the club had fine
 house on the principal avenue, but since that time it has received from the government grant of land near the Apollo Bunder, which is much the same as though club in New
 York should receive gift of the site of Castle Garden. Castle Garden would be delightful
 location for New York club in summer, and as it is summer all the year round in Bombay
 the advantages of the new site will be readily
 understood. The buildings are now going up and when they are completed the Bombay
 club will be as well situated and as oomforta- ble in the usual club respects as any similar institution in the East. True it has not the
 race-track of the Byculla club, but on the other hand the Byculla clubbists cannot sit on their veranda to look on the shipping in the
 spacious harbor and sniff the breezes as they sweep in from the sea. The island of Ele- phanta, with it's rock-cut temples will be 8 | feature in the picture one sees from the yer 1 anda of the Bombay club, and is not this is- | land one Of the famous sights Of mystical and | mythical India :?
 The Bengal club of Calcutta and the Ma
 dras club of the city of that name vie with
 their Bombay rivals in the luxury of their at l fractions and the general splendor of their premises. The Madras club covers an area | large enough for small town, and the gar | den of tropical trees that surrounds it is one
 of the most fourishing in all India. The
 stranger within the gates who is fortunate enough to receive the clubs Inequalities is
 not likely to be in hurry to leave them, and | unless he is made of sterner stuff than the most of nortals he will sometimes look back and sigh that fortune does not oftener lead | him in the direction of the city whose front | is so mercilessly swept by the surf of the bay of Bengal Where else can he find dry curry III Per1octlol, anu Wuere can ue more easlly dream that he has discovered the Garden of | Eden without the preliminary passage of the | Styx? He sips his brandy and soda under the | delusion that it is the nectar of the gods, and | as he feels the cool breath of the sea bree %
 he may fancy that he has been transported to | Elysian fields.
 | The clubs of the East are generally hospita- | ble to strangers, and one must be quite with out friends or acquaintances to be unable to | gain admission to one of these favorite abodes
 during his sojourn in a city. On nearly
 every occasion when arrived in one of the
 cities of Asia, whether small or large, and de-
 livered my letters of introduction or called | upon acquaintances, was at once presented ] with an introduction to the leading club.