The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-25
CLUBS IN NEW YORK.
Political Social and Literary Associations
and Combinations.

foHticab social and Literary Associations
and Combinations.
The older social clubs which have
been known most distinctively as such
are all prospecting. Applications for
membership almost invariably exceed,
and sometimes largely exceed, the limit
of the numbers allowed in the clubs.
The growth of the upper part of the
town has compelled the building of a
new and beautiful house by the Harlem
Club. The increased interest in athletic
sports, and in the demand for club life
and accommodations has caused the
Manhattan Athletic Club to begin the
erection of new house on scale of
great magnitude. The Universitv's
growing membership is severely taxing
the facilities of its present house, large
as it is, and desire for new, more
spacious and grander quarters begins to
show itself. The Union, with it's more
than one thousand m embers, consults
with reference to removal to situation
further up town, and to house of
greater proportions and magnificence.
The Century is building a new house
on Forty-third street, near Fifth
avenue. The New York Club has
taken on new life since its removal
to Thirty-fifth street and Fifth avenue.
The Union League is prospecting as
never before. The Knickerbocker
is full. The st. Nicholas keeps on
its progress. Down town the Lawyers
Club has about eight hundred members.
The Down Town Club and the other
clubs of that region, all started within
very recent years, are crowded with
members and alive with activity during
the day time. The college clubs are in
creasing, the Harvard having q member.
ship of something like eight hundred.
The Authors Club, the Press Club and
the Fellowcraft Club, all for workers in
the field of literature, are solidly estab-
lished. The Players Club, the Lambs
Club, the Lotus, the Calumet, the Gro
lier and the others are also prosperous.
Yet new clubs are organized yearly,
and as they come up they seem to find
no difficulty in gathering in congenial
members, many men belon cling to half
dozen, or more different organizations
of the kind. The supply is great and
increasing, but it does not outrun the
demand. Meantime, country clubs in
the neighborhood of town have been in
troduced as new feature of club life.
The Tuxedo Club has been successful
beyond the expectations of Mr., Lorillard.
The Country Club at Westchester has
just built now house, and it's list of
membership, $50, is full. Both of these
are the centers of communities which are
rapidly growing up on club property,
and which are composed of members of
tho clubs. Beside, the different riding
and hunting clubs are steadily gaining
in membership, and at the new Morris
racing track in Westchester large and
costly club house is building. Hard by,
at Travers' island, the country home of
the Athletic Club is situated in elegant
quarters.
New York, therefore, is becoming a
great center for clubs, the greatest in
the world. Club life is now and even
more marked and prominent feature of
our civilization than it is of that of Lon
don, the originator of the modern club.
The tendency toward association and
combination is strong in all directions
in