New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-25
THE CLUB-HOUSES
EVERY ONE IS BUILDING A HOME.
BRooKLYY's DEVELOPMENT IN CLUB LIFE At
rp,cTING ATTENTIoN--A GLANCE AT

THE SEVERAL WORKERS.
An article recently published in one OF the Illus
.,d ,-oeli, newsIapers and copied into one OF
,Lo prool,Ivn evening papers describes the extra
ordinary dc, clopment in the club life OF the city
as shown by its descriptions OF the new MONIES
which such social clubs as the Germanh' the
Nontau.. and tne Union League Clubs are erectihg'
20 saw nothing of the building which Democratic
nolitical club is putting up near the lily nan
For some reason the substantial new structures
of the Lincoln md the Carlton CLUBS receive ho
notice This omission is all the more astounding
in Wow of the fact that the larger part oil the III
formation in the article in question was taken
bodily from articles on the same sunject hereto
fore pubsheo in this column oil Inc ltiouhe'
IN some instances even without the shghest
change of phraseology.
Of all the house-building clubs, the Carlton
Club are the farth. st ahead. f1gurauveiy speak
inc il looks as if they would be enjoying the
fruits of their own vine ana hg Tree peIore NO
vomher Il To an observer standing at Flatbush
and ST. Marks ayes. and getting out oil MS line
Of vision an Obstructive tree which stands in the
latter thoroughfare. the new building would seem
IN he complete with the exception OF the window
,oroe There is however, considerable work to
lao done in the interior. and, indsmuch as the
manner of building the front addition has neces-
sariIv been peculiar because of the way IN which
the new section in front was joined to the old
Climb bouse in the rear, the inside work Will have
70 be done on a somewhat novel plan.
Dnfing all the time the carpenters and cabinet
makers are at work the clubhouse Will be kept
oper as was the rule while the new superstructure
was being reared and the uniform brick side wall
along Sixth-ave. was being carried up. The IN
pnuty of the architect, Mercein Thomas, has,
however. proved equal TO the emergency. The
omalramated structure will be finished floor by
floor beginning at the third story. When that
is complete the members will move up there and
the second story will be finished And this method
of making progress downward will be followed I'M
iii the basement and its belongings are all, as the
chairman of the Building Committee, Richard
Schermcrhorn, puts it, in apple-pie ORDER
MODEL BUILDING.
Taken altogether the new building will be as
convenient and elegant in its appointments as the
most fastidious clubman can desire. The entrance
on the SiXth-ave. side with its handsome portico
is at the head Of fight of steps approached from
Sixth-ave The pOrticO leads to the vesti5ule
eight fee. square, which will be finished in carved
oak woodwork with polished panels and mould
ings in relief, and tesselated pavement Of i'm
ported tiles.
The vestibule leads to a spacious hallway which
opens on the left into the parlorS, whose dimen-
sons will be about twenty by sixty feet. These
rooms will be finished with high wainscOtting of
antique oak, the rest of the side walls and the
ceiling to be frescOed in oil, in some rich design
which will properly harmonic with the furniture
and CARPETS A handsome mantlepiece and fire
place of variegated marble costing $500 will Or
namcnt one side of the room. The Offices and
library IN the rear will be treated in the sane
STYLE it being the intention of the Building Com
mittee to finish each hoor alike All these rooms
have wide doors, and are so arranged that they
he thrown into one large apartment nearly % by
100 feet in size. The house will be lighted bg
electricity throughout
The woodwork on the second floor will he OF
birdseye maple with finely contrasting mahogany
mouldings and the walls and ceilings will also b.
frescoed in oil In font is the billiardroom. %
by so feet, and in the rear the card rooms. The
latter, DR.. lIewett says, will be furnished with
every convenience except poker chips no games Of
chance being allowed in the club. The third floor
containing the large dining room, % by 45 feet,
and the four smaller supper rooms, will be finished
in California redwood or some other selected hard
wood but in other respects will be like the floors
below The house has no elevator, but the dumb
waiter running from the third story to the basement
has been so contrivcd that the heaviest member
can be comfortably slowed away in it and safely
shot down to the basement before he say Jack
Robinson.
The members Of the Carlton say that in their new
hcne. as in the old. there will be as much of the
right kind of jolity 10 the square inch as is con-
tained in any other club. Whist playing which
is one of the pet amusements of the club still goes
on in the present restricted quarters during this
vacation season with almost the same ardor as
heretofore. Two Of the experts Melvin j. Bailey,
president of the club. and Judge ~ II. Clements,
are away, the former in the Catslills and the
latter IN Europe with his daughter. They are
greatly missed but Messrs. Stewart, Dollard. Tap
scott and McNlasters, with the occasional assistance
Of President Lewis of the Brooklyn City Railroad
Company manage TO keep things moving in old
time form.
THE DESIRE FOR CLUB LIFE.
As was predicted in these columns at the time
the Montauk Club, the near neighbOr of the Carl
ton was formed, there is room for both Organza-
tons The development Of the clubable" spirit
among the residents of the Prospect Park section
of the city has worked to the advantage of both.
The proof of this is to be found in the fact that
at the last three meetings thirty members have
been taken into the Carlton, and sixty more
pledged to join when the clubhouse is fin
ished.
The MontaulI is not having any easier time IN
arranging the indispensable preliminaries for the
erection of its new home than its predecessors in
the same field of operations As has been the cX-
perence of the other clubs, the specifications have
had to be redrawn, the plans have been changed
IN important details from time to time, and some
bidders have been dilatOry in responding This
latter trouble has been exasperatingly frequent
with contractors known TO the Building Committee
for the high character of their work in several
instances the committee have found them busily
engaged and reluctant rather than anxious, to en-
gage in new undertakings.
BY next TnesdaY however the committee which