New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-06
WHIST PLAYING IN NETWORK

WHAT THE NEw-YORK WHIST CLUB IS DOING.
The New-York Whist Club May removed from
Its former home In the American Jockey Club Build
Ing at Madisonave. and Twenty-seyenth-st, 10 at
tractive quarters at No. 1s West Thirteth st.
This is handsome and spacious house. formerly used
both for residence and Office purposes by the WELL
known physicians, DR.. John T. Metcalte and Or.
Ward, who have moved up town. The whist club has
taken the whole house, and in its new home will
doubleday develop increased prosperity and influence.
The house is halfway between Broadway and Fifth
ave-, only shcrt distance aooye Madison Square,
and central convenient and attractive location
could be desired
This club is absorbing In its membership the best
whist players of all the principal clubs of the city.
Up to year ago there much whist playing In the
Union, University, Manhattan, Lotos, New-York and
other leading clubs In the Union League card
playing of any kind, even tho most innocent diver.
sions IS allowed but In the other prominent clubs OF
Newly York t the custom for bankers, brokers and
other whose occupations gave them leisure be
fore dinner, and who had a fancy for whist to play
a few rubbers at the clubs before dinner. It was
formerly almost the nvariablo rule that whist
playing INDUCED In at tho Union Manhattan
and most Of the other clubs mentioned before
dinner and general games mado up In the
ng. But the New York Whist Club has
gathered within its folds most OF the skilled players
Of these clubs. The result is that 1t Is difficult to
get up game at any honr OF tho afternoon oven.
.
member Of eager enthusiasts In the higher Develop
ment of whist to be found every afternoon
after bank hours, and every evening" in the pleasant
rooms of the Whist Club.
Its membership includes VOL known and influential
Wall Street men, and representatives of the legal,
medical and other professions In this aud neighborins
cities, but there is still room for more, and it is hoped
BY the present members that all devotces OF whist who
desire to study It I'm the most advanced forms Will
seek to ally themselves with this organization In
Ito ranks some Of the best players In America
and It's members always ready to try
conclusions with tho champions of whist
In Boston, Chicago any other city where
there are enthusiastic admirers OF this noble game.
Whist exercises constantly increasing fascination
upon its followers. No man who becomes interested
in Ii over gives 1t up His zeal for It and his deter
mnation TO master Its prsfoundest inricacies al
ways expanding No earnest and dlligent
students OF IT'S problems can be found anywhere IN
this country than In the New-York Whist Club IL
Is hoped by IT'S members that the friends Of whist
playing VIII rally to this centre OF whist education
and whist development, and make IL comprehen-
sive, extensive and representative In its member
States sort of whist university for America cor
responding I'm position and influence 70 the great whist
clubs OF London, which produced a Clay Csvendish,
a Pole a Drayson and other famous players
The initiation fee OF the New York Whist Club IA
$50 tho annual dues S25. The expense, therefore
attending membership and playing not at all heavy
in COMPARISON with the Initiation fees and dues Of
other prominent clubs, while Its home could mol
be bother adapted for tho purposes for which the club
was organized.