New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-31
oTrERFLoURIsurNG CLUBS.

The Delta Club Of the Phi Gamma Data nh
ternity was Incorporated In March OF inss ytats
The success of the club was ilstenianeouE ~ a.
ready IL has resident membership OF nearly Seos
On ita list are the names OF Waiter Hove. Asylu
d. Lloyd, Major o. j. Smith, Charles u. Lyaeelzer,
George W Carr, Eugene L. Bushe, A. W, Beaslex
The home Of the Delta is at No. SO East Forty
ninth-st under the shadows of Columbia College.
Two unique gas lamps serve as newen 70 tn s.s
the house. The light they. shed. is indicative Of
the wprmth and gccdfellowship TO be found
within The parlors Of the club on tho first
floor are homelike and comfortable. On the
walls hang q crayon portrait Of Paul L. E. Bishop,
by Bea1y. and an etching. with reparque, BY
Leigh Hunt presented to the club with the COM
the smoldng-room, well-stocled with pipes and
tobacco Purdy Van Vliet is president Of the club,
DR.. J. B. Warden vice-presidents J. w. White
secretary and William l.. Hazen treasurer
Just of Fffth-ave., at No 30 East Twenty
eighth-st, stands house unique in appearance
S Rd s OF Cub S
graduate embers Of the Delta Psi fraternity
and founded, according to its articles Of associs-
ton, TO promote social intercourse among the
home Of the ST. Anthony Club is as sacred b. its
members, as shrouded in secrecy as are the lodges
of Psi Ugsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon az Yale.
oicties to establish in New-York club which pre-
sents many Of the features Of the other social
Ss IN Who no 80 wss
mystic St Anthony cross, with It's shield Of blue
enamel its Hebrew letters and It's skull and
bones, knows little Of the interior of the heavily
6olted clubhouse of Delta Psi. It's merbers say
that it contains many Of the comforts and con-
vepienees Of an ordinary club, but that IL lacks
restaurant aud dining,room facilities The largo
lodge-rooms Of the Columbia chapter Of Delta
Psi are in the building. They are handsomely
decorated in pure Egyptian from designs imported
from Thebes.
The club has membership, resident and nom
e. q aSS d sSe on @ RI bs this
E s GyTqs w Fish eS Nicholas E f.s
t sPn Folsom am GsS1ss s " Tos0g R.m RS
Ens S1 William Kelley oi jr rank lawrence.
Edward De Peyster Livingston, William r. Nor
Seson @ vfensne hsn
POTTS. jr., Charles A. Rapallo r., James W. Rcose-
welt, Samuel Sloan, IT,, John I: Warning IT, Mar
las Fish is president Of the club, Thomas r Fisher
yice-president. F, A. Potts IT.. secretary and
Gouyerneur W. Morris treasurer.
Although the alumni of the Delta Upsilcn fra
ternity in this city have had an organized associa
ton since 865, 1t was not until little more than
a year ago that the club which bears the name OF
the society it represents was esta bished. In De-
cember. 1888, the New-York Delta Epsilon Club
was organized and Incorporated under The laws OF
the Stat, # New-York. The club was formed by
a number of the most active alumni in the city
and its vicinity for the purpose of promoting social
intercourse among its members and establishing
closer relations between alumni and undergrad
yates. The club leased the handsome brownstone
house No. East Forty-seyenth-st. and soon trans
formed it irto most attractive; and comfortabls
home. o secluded place where the alumni OF the
several chapters of the fraternity may meet
socially, and where any member OF the fraternity
who visits the city may meet friends and obtain
accommodations during his stay. The meetings OF
the club are of social and literary character ana
enable all its members to share equally in the sprit
Of Delta Epsilon
Every room in the house is used. In the base-
ment are the cafe and dining-room; on the hrst
on the second, the lodge-rooms OF the CoIgmbia
College and the University Of New-York chapters
OF the fraternity and on the third and fourth, thu
rooms of the Executive Council bnd the secretary
Of The fraternity and lodgng-rooms for rcsideA
members of the ch,b.
The officers OF the club are as follows: Samuel
B. Duryea, president; Charles. d. Baker, frat
president; John O. Mitchell secretary, ana
Frederick NJ Crcssett treasurer. The mezrhex-
ship numbers between sixty and seventy residents
and fifty non-residents. Among them are Eossiter
Johnson Hans s. Beatte, ex-Jud6 Amos, q. HUI, y
DR. Samuel s. Stafford and Professor A. s. Isaaosa
There are other Greek-letteP associations III
New-York which have not as yet organized them
selves into clubs, but which In q quiet way are
holding their men together and biding their time
The Delta Tau Delta Alumni Association Of New
York is virtually dining and conversation club.
hotel or restaurant dimes and then discuaorA
some subject that has been Agreed
upon. The Beta Theta Pr fraternity also bo4
a dining club Ia New-Yofk, meeting once me1th
for D good dinner and . good time