Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-27

tricycles, temporarily housed, will be accom-.
| modated. This room is nineteen feet wide by
| twenty-eight feet long, and will accommodate
In racks between thirty and forty bicycles, be-
sides tricycles, sociables and tandems. In cases
OF emergency many more machines may be re-
c rc, 70 BY SIMPLE, yet ingenious device the
floor and wainscoting, yet they hold the ma
chimes more firmly than any other arrange
indeed the entire first floor, will be concerted
AT the rear of the wheel room proper, ap
preached through apassageway nine by nine
| feet on the right of which is a room containing
| the heating apparatus, and on the left step:
leading to a landing on the main stairway o.
| the house, the visitor will enter the machine
room, nineteen feet four inches wide and
| twenty feet long, wherein will be stored such
cycles as are left i'll the house for long periods
and i. where will be found work bench and
tools for such repairs as the owners are able tC
make on their machines. This room will bt
amply lighted by three windows. The rear O
the first floor will be occupied by locker
room, with capacity for sixty lockers and
bath room, with all the approved ablutionary
facilities.
referred to above is five feet wide and twenty
four feet long, extending along the north sid
of the wheel room, from which it will be separ
ated by an ornamental partition, half wains
coting and half lattice work. At its foot rise
hye steps of the stairway to a landing, from
both stairs and hall. The stairway thence
proceeds, with a turn to the right, to the second
floor Ascending, the visitor is received into
what Is the unique feature of the houses in
terror, and which dominates the plan of every
hoor-a central hallway extending across the
mouse rom north to south, and nine and one
hall feet wide. Its north end is % nd by
the stairway just assembled, which, me
more turn around an ornamental newel fHednts
mantel ana crate surmounted by a mirror
and thanked by divans. Sliding doors ter
feet wide open on either side, one pair into
the drawing-room in front, the other into the
meeting-room behind. The drawing-room is
twenty-fOur and one-half feet wide by thirty
feet long. with Il twelve-foot ceiling. Its north
side contains an open CRATE and mantel-piece
and 1t Is lighted by the bay window, seventeen
feet wide, containing six windows. The bay
Inc Inc meeting-room, in the rear of the central
hail. Is nineteen feet four inches wide and
tWenty-four feet six inches long, lighted by
three windows ON the north. The remaining
room on the second floor is the library and
committee room, ten feet by nineteen feet four
inches, extending across the east end of the
building and lighted from the east and north
The third floor is divided into billiard room
in front, whose dimensions are twenty -four feet
ana half by thirty feet and halt, with an
eieven-foot ceiling, and we'll lighted by four
large windows; a card and committee room
twelve by fifteen feet, and two rooms, each
eleven by fifteen feet, to be rented to club mem.
bers. The spacious attic will be fitted up for
the accommodation OF the janitor and for
storage.
pine and cypress, with hard oil finish. The
WheelroOms, meeting and committee rooms
billiard room, halls, stairways and closets will
be wainscoted. All the plumbing and sewer
age Will be contained in detached wing in the
rear OF the main building, easily accessible
from every floor, and the house will be heated
by steam, and provided with electric bells. II
Is boosted by the club that this will be the most
convenient bicycle club house in the country
Ihree members OF the building committee have
visited and carefully examined the two lead.
Ing club houses, that OF the Massachusetts club
At a. boston, and the MARYLAND clubs house, al
baltimore, ana an attempt is made to avoid
the errors in building into which those clubs
are believed to have fallen. The stone for the
cut by Mr.. Jacob Veihmeyer.