Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-16
GOSSIP OF THE CLUBS.
The Effect of Unpleasant Notoriety
Upon Membership.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-In London as
soon as club man becomes involved IN
any unpleasant notoriety he always SENDS
In his resignation to his club, as he knows
if he does not he will ultimately, If found
guilty, be expelled. Edmund Yates re-
signed from his clubs before his convic-
ton and sentence; Stead, the sensational
or shall l say reform p editor OF the fali
Mall Gazette, is understood to nave done
the same. A letter by the Etrurla on
Sunday intimates that Sir Charles Duke
not having done so, will publicly be eX-
PEELED should the case go against him,
as it has. In this country there
is no such unwritten law in our
clubs, and the consequence is that the
offending parties generally remain in the
clubs, Notwithstanding the fact that the
Union Club set an example some years
ago by intimating to ex-Mayor OaKey
Hall when he became involved in the ring
troubles that his resignation would be ac-
ceptabe. The banker James d. Fish be-
longed to several clubs, but as soon as his
troubles came on he resigned from all OF
them, alleging, however, impending pow
erty as the reason. The question is peril
nent now because both Squire and Flynn
belong to several clubs, and the wonder
is what two such cheeky men VIII DO I'M
der the circumstances pending their APP
peal and stay of proceedings should they
be convicted.
House cleaning in club is much more
OF an affair than IN the private residence.
AS a rule, however, the discipline in the
club is so thorough that the houseclean-
ing is a rare ordeal, This summer the
Union Club is renovating the large read
ing room on the first floor, and conse.
quently the loungers there found
accommodation in the rotunda. The
LOtos has renovated its billiard and dining
room. The New York club touched up its
dining room early in the season. The
Blossom is undergoing a complete house
cleaning. There is an annual busting OF
the models in the Yacht Club about this
time of the year. A man can escape from
his house when the cleaning commences,
but from his club there is no escape I'M
less he heroically makes a sacrifice of all
of his cOmforts-at least that Is what all
club men say.
The publication of the debtors to klun-
der, the bankrupt florist, shows his prin-
cipal patrons and debtors) to have been
Union Club men. The names, however,
are those of men amply good for the
amounts for which they probably never
received bills. 1t is a little surprising that
80 few names of the jeunesse dOree are "on
the list" Klunder readily gave credit to
any one asking 1t, any man about town !
mean, and if he had not tailed would
probably never have presented many of
the bills. He tells good story
on himself of the way he
bungled an order of two patrons, a
father and son, one member of the
Union and the other OF the New York.
The names were identical, and in send
ing out corsage bouquets he mixed or
ders. Each lady charged their gallants
with sending her some ether favored ones
bouquet, as the one she received was not
one ordered to match her dress. Klunder
was finally appealed to and explained
matters. The little joker was the fact
that up to that time the father and son
were ignorant of each others prediec-
tions. JOHN D'ARME,