St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-25
TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB.
Two Hundred Well Known Peo-
pie Organized for Sport, Sum
mer and Winter

ner and Winter.
1t will be long year Of fun this year.
with the three Fights in it and its 500
days, for the Town and Country club, so
recently organized as an all year
round club, bent both upon winter car
nival sports and summer suburban
pleasures. This club includes the elite
of the city in its circle of exclusive
membership. 1t was organized OH the
night of Dec. s, 1887, at meeting
which had responded to a call issued by
Manly b. Curry and William Henry
Patterson. The idea of such a club
originated in the fertile brain OF Mr..
Patterson.
At the organization meeting the en-
thusiasts who had come together were
Maj. and Mrs. A. E. Bates, Judge and
Mrs. George B. Young, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tilden Il. SelmeS, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
|. Frost, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Seymour.
Miss Isabel Bend, Miss Mamie f. Stur-
gis. Judge r. K. Nelson, Sam Daw-
son, Frank F. McInver, W. f..
Mayfeld. Morgan Brooks, ii. NJ.
Cunningham, DIR. Charles Wheaton.
r. B. Heath, W. F. Peet, Jared S. How,
George V. Bacon, E. A. Young, J. r..
McMurran, Walter S. Morton. +. ID. Ha-
ger. Frank B. Clarke, Lane K. Stone, H.
L. Heath, Victor Robertson, +. w. Nj.
Cutcheon. Kingsland Smith, S. A. Gro
Zier, Jr. DR.. l.. \. DenSlOw, l.. E. New
port and w. H. Patterson.
Maj. A. E. Bates was promptly made
chairman, and Edward [. Frost secre-
tary of the meeting which resulted in
eleeting the following officers for
the year:
President, Judge r. r. Nelson: vice
president, Judge G.. E. Flandrau: secre-
tary, Frank b. Clarke. and the follow
ing executive committee: MeSSrs. w.
H. Patterson, Maj. A. E. Bates, Manly
B. Curry, Edward [. Frost and Walter
S. Morton.
The club has closed its books with a.
membership of 100 ladies and 100 gen
tlemen. The costumes for the Carnival
and winter fun are very nobby, being
of dark blue cloth, with black astrachan
trimmings, and made after the style of
a Russian hussar'S jacket. Toques are
worn by the gentlemen, but the ladies
have the privilege of wearing ANYTHING
they please for their head-gear, from a
little skull tObOggan cap to a coquettish
Tam O. Shanter.
The large brick house at the end of
Lake Como has been selected for club
house and general rendezvous. Here
tOD0ggan slides running toward the lake
are being put up, and there are good
skating Kinks upon the lakes CLASSY
surface.
DURING THE WINTER
the club will rendezvous regularly twice
month here. Those who desire to can
go out on snowshoes, and those whose
bentS are more in the direction of COM
fort than muscular development will
have sleighs provided for them. In the
summer, boats, bath houses, a tennis
court, music, and numerous other enter
tanning things will be provided. A great
object of the club is to induce people to
take advantage of the pleasant Como
drive during the summer, and stables to
accommodate twenty-four horses are in
readiness. The club house, which is a
block from the Como station of the
Northern Pacific, has been thoroughly
renovated and nicely fitted I'D. On the
right hand side of the entrance is the
reception room, and to the left, the ball
room. Back of the reception room is
the dining room, where meals will be
furnished at the pleasure of the mem
bers. In each of the reception and din
ing rooms are great fire places. orna-
mented with buffalo and elk heads. Up