Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-16
TO SELECT A SITE.
The Randall Clubs Committee
Offered Several Pieces Of Property
FOR THEIR NEW CLUB BUILDING.
The Structure Will Cost not Less Than
$4,000 When Finished.
HOW TIE FUNDS ARE NOW BEING RAISED

Considerable activity is noticeable among
real estate men, OWING to the intention Of
the Randall club to seek new and more COM
modious quarters. Quite a number of sites
for the now clubhouse on various streets
are under consideration by the committee.
J.E. McCrickart, one of the members OF
the committee, said yesterday that offers Of
property had been received from points
along Sixth, Third and Penn avenues and
Duouesne way. A F. Heating came more
directly to the point with the statement that
if the sites were at all reasonable, Sixth
avenue would be selected as the site for the
new building, as that is practically the club
street already, and the members are at
tached to their old quarters.
The project of building new home for
themselves has been agitating the Randallites
for months past. Some time ago the follow
ing committee was appointed to make all
arrangements for the erection of a new build
ing: A. +. Heating, chairman, and Messrs
John j. Mccarthy. J. E. McCrickart,
Samuel w. Black, II. 7. Morris, 7. O'Leary,
Jr., John B. Lsrkin and John O'Neil. The
club is managed
BY STOCK COMPANY,
with capital stock OF $4,000, and as soon
as this amount can be raised to 500, 900
work will be commenced on the new club
house. The membership of the club, already
over 45O, has been increasing so rapidly
lately that this step was rendered impera-
lively necessary. AS one of the members
put it, it has been the custom in the Randall
club to do everything only by the general
consent of the members. and so no definite
action will be taken in the matter until the
signature of all the stockholders of the club
is obtained to an application for a new char
ter. There is no doubt, however, but that
all the signatures will be obtained.
A DISPATCH reporter had interviews
Yesterday with Mr. Fleming, President of
the Randall Club, 7. j. O'Leary, Jr., H. T.
Morris and several others. "Of course"
one of them said, 1--WE cannot tell what the
style of the new building for some time yet.
That will depend to a great extent on the
location and surroundings of the clubhouse.
The building will probably cost about S5O,-
900. and with the exception of the Duquesne
clubhouse, will be the finest of its kind in
the city. Every effort will be made to run
the club as economically as possible and
still to keep it on frst-class basis.
ON DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
''There must be nothing exclusive about
the Randall Club. The accommodations of
the new house will be frst-class, and will be
open to all. Lecture, reading, smoking and
card-playing rooms, reception parlors and
private compartments, billiard halls and
dining rooms, in fact everything to be found
in frst-class clubhouse will be provided
for our members.
"The Randall Club will be as much an
association for social enjoyment and mutual
improvement, as it is political organiza-
ton. We have made some endeavors to fol-
low this out In the past, but we expect them
to be far more successful in the future. "A
large library, together with social, musical
and literary entertainments will be features
of the Randall Club OF the future. 1t is
reasonable to expect that the Randall club
house will be one of the ornaments of our
city, and the club itself the glory of the
democracy"