Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-20
GOTHAM IN SUMNER.
Rigid RuLxs xNFoRcED IN THE
CLUBS OF NEW YORK.
Talk In Financial iroles-Prohibition
Running Summer Resorts-Theatri-
cal Preparations-High Art
In Bar-Rooms.
correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatchl
Nrw yopK. June 10. 1896.

In Bar-Rooms.
lCorrespondence OF the Richmond Dispatch
New YORK, June 10, 1886.
The great, busting outside world,
BY whom the clubhouse is supposed
to be . retreat from its cares and con-
fusion, have little idea that the rules
and regulations are rs rigorous and
generally Is strictly enforced as at an
army headquarters. II Is said that
the most vigorously governed club in
the city Ia the Union League. Here
millionsires are ruthlossly posted II
they are indebted to the club 10 few
cents. This once occurred to no less
eminent capitalist than jackson s.
Schultz, who so much enjoyed the joke
that he allowed his name to remain on
the list the limit of the time before the
next step of suspension, preliminary
to expulsion and suit to recover the
amount. The editor Of . well-known
daily paper once thoughtlessly carried
away his own paper, and he was sus-
pended fifteen days for violating the
house rule that forbids the appropria-
ton of the Club literature. Jesse Grant,
who is generally considered the smart
est Of the three Grant boys, thought
lessly invited a neighbor of his to visit
the clubhouse with him, completely
Obvious Of the rule forbidding the in
PRODUCTION Of residents beyond the lit
tie reception.room furnished for them
by the door, and he has been suspended
fifteen days in consequence. This rule
regarding the introduction Of residents
is so vigorously enforced that even the
members who lodge in the house can
not see their visitors in their own room,
but must receive in that designed for
the purpose. This is rule Of all the
principal clubs, only the Lambs, the
Manhattan, and the Lotos making an
exception of admitting resident twice
q month. The Union League is the
only club in the city that has no card
room, and that does not allow card
playing.
EXCLUSIVE CLUBS.
The membership Of all clubs in the
city is full excepting at the Lotos, the
Lambs, and the Calumet, and, conse-
quently, the applicants have to wait
months for q vacancy to be caused by
death or resignation. 1t is common
for candidates to be listed in the Union
League and Union q year or two before
getting in; while in the Century he
generally grows gray and has forgotten
all about bis application. Here the list
is cut down annually by a wholesale
dropping of bali the number.
1t is likely that the Loubat-Union
Club matter will soon be ancient his
tory, so to speak, as the Club will not
further contest the case. Mr.. Loubat
has been assured Of the friendship Of so
many Of the membess that he will not
under any circumstances resign. lie
has returned to the Club. and will soon
once more become one of its haJitues.
lie is q middle-aged bachelor, with an
income close on to sl00, 900 per annum,
q gentleman Of leisure and pleasure, &C.
casionally taking flyer in stock specu-
lation just for the excitement, and he
used TO make the Club his headquarters,
taking all his meals there, and spending
most of his time and a good deal of his
money there. He contemplates q run
across the ocean this summer, and de-
clares he has no hard feelings towards
any in the Club, believing that those
who went against him acted according
to their convictions.
THE YACHT.CLUB SCANDAL.
There has been quite squall in the
New York Yacht Club over the refer
ence in several papers to the recent
" unpleasantness :" Of member bring
ing in lady to see the models early
one morning, and ordering wine and
INDUCING in piano-playing and singing.
Now, it is an unwritten rule that men,
bers may bring in ladies to see the
models at reasonable hours, and no no.
tice is ever taken Of it. But this mem
Der was evidently returning from a
feast, and he insisted on remaining and
doing as he pleased, his companion aid
ing and abetting him. The reference
alluded to indicated that the offender
was the well.known gentleman Mr..
Lloyd Phoenix, who has been very quiet
Of late years, and he has naturally been
very much annoyed. The offender was
the baritone Starsiield, who is not
yacht-owner, and who has been allowed
to resign to save himself from expul-
sion.
1t is considered very mira dig. to
fall asleep in chair in club, and the
only one in which it can be safely done
is in the dark corners Of the Century
Club, where gray-haired members often
indulge in forty winks after walking
uptown OF after dinner. A duel nearly
resulted once between two members of
the Union Club because one awoke the
other from a peaceful slumber in a
quiet corner one morning after he had
been out all night by repeatedly vio-
lently ringing the tap-bell in his
vicinity.
WHAT WALL STREET Is TALKING
ABOUT.
Although Wall-street speculation is
beginning TO revive, the general trade
is still inactive and lives mainly on ex-
pectations Of q good fall season. The
merchants and businessmen have Just
now fashion to grumble against the
press, and it is not out Of place to give
the substance Of the views of some Of
them. II cOpdensed and put in shape
for the press 1t would run thus:
II Is almost disgusting to read the
New York newspapers Of the present.
They seem to be written for the crimi-
nal classes, dudes, Anarchists, the
American followers Of Parnell, and the
pothouse politicians Of both parties.
When the President Was married some
Of them printed half page aud others
two pages, giving bogus descriptions Of
an event which no reporter witnessed.
When he and his wife ran away from
Washington into the Maryland noun
tains they sent their correspondents
afler the couple on special train. The
reporters, according to their own &C.
counts, were compelled TO live on the
railway car; except on one occasion