Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-04
AMONG THE CLUBS.
A PEEP IN TEMPLES OF IN5CRU-
TABLE SOCIAL MYSTERY.

ABLE SOCIAL MYSTERY.
Within III" Portals 81 Extreme Erticrnce
and ENcIu i,"rr~~ Ia" Good Fellow
ship Of "A Millionaire Club -oti.er Lead
ing Clubs Of the CITY.
There is not half 50 much mystery about
New ork IA people imagine. the belief
that the c.ub house Is u ismpls OF ms. ru-
table mysteries Is really what causes the
club 70 be 50 mu h talked about as an IN
sututIon \ great many men believe that
II they Eet into good club their p sitIUn in
society Is sureL The cUli facts about
club life are that unless a man amounts to
something outside OF a club he will never
amount 10 anything IN one and that a very
great man ,an never hc an 4 ,teuslve club
man According to tic lIea, OF women,
there is Il continual ur-ie goIn. on In The
club houses People who have that idea
should spend an hour, a day, "a week or q
month at what Is ?, ob1b.y the most pre-
ten,Ious ani sucreS fu Of New York Iub.
The tnion league Anyboly who gan
construe II visl. to this club in the lsht OF a
racket wodid pronounce a regulation
" Wednesday night Methodist pray OF meeting
NOLuptuCus neOiuGA.
KETcENr ANn ENrLUrIy ENE~S
The club house is magnificent candidates
have TO wait four or tive years before their
names come up for admission, and when
they get in they tini that they are Iust as
far along socially As when they were out
side The hOu,e Is still. a. death the
members DO not SPEAK to each other unless
rercmoniou,ly introduced, and they will
FIRE luent the same room for years wIthoat
re- erOsnIAug each other n the slightest ds-
gree, unless brought together by Souls mu-
tual friend The man who speaks in Wig
Orous and resonant Nol,e is stared at WITH
such cold dlsIain from all sides that he
feels after an experience OF hall an hour as
though a rasping and brutal death woull be
a relief
Ou.y handful of the hundreds Of mem
bers OF the Union league are acquainted
The regular life Of u Union Lacquer Consists
OF passing solemn.y within the portals of
the club house and moving with more or
less pomPous solemnity through the big
Fifth avenue room where the heavy
weights sit reading with great reticence and
eNclusIvenesS As form Of mild dIssIpa
tion he may later on indulge in dismal
and silent game OF billiards Then he goes
home The street Is like Il pan lemonium
after the awful stiffness OF the club house
The Union CiuU Is dIstIn SuIsh. by much
more free,iom Of intercourse and good fel-
lOwship among the members The Cnion is
essentially a club uf mIlIiOnaires, and on its
list are the names of all the prominent
yachting, GA hing and shooting men in
town. lhe memTers run to a rich Old bur.
gundy color Of the check, gentle rUtundlty
OF form, and they are one and all imbueI
with high estimate Of the greatness OF the
mon club Indeed. it Is on this account
that the ,luO Is chiefly distinguished 1t Is
u law unto itself and 10 member of the
mon will ever admit that there is a better
club than his own in the universe Mem
bershiP To tn Union does not count Tor
M IN III the more exclusive circles OF so
cIrty, Is many business men, suctionee.s
and brokers OF scaut ru.intuIent and few
arcompli ishments are in the club but
am NJ club men nothing goes so FAR in re
commencing u man as the magical words
he a member OF the MON
ANUTHEK GLIB OF MILLLUNAIREs
Viewed from a society standpoint, the
Coaching club Is uniuestlonably the lead
ing club Of New York, Tor It Is made up
entirely OF mIliionaires man must have a
million to run coach and its regular
quarters are in what Is recognized u the
society club of New York the knicker.
booker This club was an off shoot OF the
Union, and Its rules are S. exceptionally
rigid tnat II a man gets into the knicker-
booker lie Is more cordially in society than
II he were member Il all the other clubs
in New York. The knickerboCker is
English in its aspirati ms, but in this it only
mirrors society, which has q decidedly
anglDulaniac lent Just now. They black.
baIl an English lord at the knickerbocker
with the utmost Calnness and recognize the
existence of very few other cluDs In New
Yorx-
As the kni kcrbocker sprang from the
Union, the Calumet club may be de-
scrlbed as an OFT shoot Of the knickerbocker
1t Is composed Of numb-r of well-dressed
and preternaturaly solemn young men who
believe in good form, society, and the Calu-
met They haven much money, but they
have an exceedingly pleasant club, and it Is
growing constantly. \ club Of which little
is heard, but which has an admirable repu
tation Ia the world of club men, Is the IT
Nicholas No man is eligible to membership
unless his family Ii ed in New York prior to
l1oO 1t has been claimed by men who are
not the descendants OF old New Yorkers
that there is something snoDbish in the idea
OF excluding from the ST Nicholas all men
except those whose families are well known
The criticism Is absurd The object OF
founding the st Nicholas upon its present
plan was to get into one club all the New
GOrk boys who had been acquainted with
one another from infancy, and whose fathers
Were playmates. The result is a happy com
bination OF Old friends and their sons The
rlnh has bptIs. Fifth nd
it has the reputation Of being one of the
most Gigni: ell and correct organizations of
its kiui in this city. New y ork Cor. ri
onecs Press
y scene IN Our Congress.