The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-05-01

IN CLUB.
THEIR is AND sUMPTUOUsLY
Apo QUARTERS FORMALLY
NED LAST NIGHT.
Orien sliness and Tranquilizing Eff.
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lease the Senses to BE
ID In Their Elegant
Social Home.
IN CLUB.
TILE CLUE HOME.

Entrance to the club rooms is
gained on Fourth street. A broad
stairway with easy ascent and rests
leads to the second floor in the Board
Of Trade building, on which the rooms
are located. They are separated from
the rear half of the building by a
spacious hall, and to gain admission to
them you pass through a beautiful
double door ornamented with colored
and
FROSTED CUT GLASS,
on which is the monogram of the
club. This door lets you into large
hall, on the right of which as you
enter is the store room, bar, wine and
lunch room, all handsomely and APP
propriately arranged and furnished.
The bar is well appointed with hand
some sideboards and elegant cut glass
ware bearing the monogram of the
club. Further on and adjoining the
VINE room is the card room, which
is supplied with the necessary para
phernalia necessary to make such an
apartment both pleasant and COM
Portable. Across the hall from the
wine and card rooms is the
BILLIARD HALL,
in which there are a billiard and a
pool table, with one billiard table yet
to be put in. The billiard hall is
20x54 feet, and is most agreeably
fitted up.
From the billiard hall you enter the
gentlemen's reading room and library.
This room is
ELEGANTLY FURNISHED
with hand carved furniture upholstered
in stamped leather. In this is large
table, two desks, library sitting and
easy chairs and settees. The window
draperies are elegant in plush and
lace, in old gold and maroon and in
the sheen of brilliant electric lights
last night were lovely. From this
room you enter the parlor through an
immense arched way pendant from
which are elaborate portierres and
elegant draperies. The parlor is the
most sumptuously furnished room in
the city. The furniture is unique in
design and the upholstery is in the
highest style known to the trade. The
window furnishings are most elabor-
ate, and the arrangement of the room
is of that soft
| ORIENTAL LONELINESS
which will commend it to the refined
taste of all lovers of the beautiful.
The elegance of the draperies, the
happy blending of their colors, their
graceful groupings and wondrous ef-
fects, are due to Mr.. Phi. Hatfield and
Mr.. Charles l.. Condit, who furnished
and arranged them with "the science
of the perception of beauty" The
carpet in this room and in the read
ing room is costly moquette of most
beautiful pattern.
The parlor is furnished with an ele.
CANT piano, pictures and other decora
tons. Over the entrance leading from
the parlor to the hall is wondrously
wrought Japanese portierre and it adds
much to the chaste beauty of the dec.
orations. The parlor and reading
room have wainscotting in old gold
and green bronze and freize of the
same.
The hall and card rooms are all car
peted with handsome moquettes OF
elegant designs. The tinting of all the
rooms is old rose.
The building is supplied with cleo
trio bells, and wash room, and in all
the State there is not more elegant
and comfortable club room.
CLUB EXTRAS.
A noticeable feature of the decora-
tions of the parlor was an easel sup
porting handsome steel engraving,
the whole a gift to the club from that
always-do-the .proper-thing firm of Har.
rell & Wilcox. This is most excel.
lent example that should be followed
by other firms in Austin interested in
the success of the club. There is no
reason why every one should not take
an interest in seeing that these rooms
are the most handsomely decorated OF
any in the State.
An elegant bouquet graced the table
in the parlor last night culled from
the flower garden of Mr.. Charles Lund-
berg, who presented it to Mr.. Lewis
Hancock, president of the club.
Thanks are due Mr.. Carl Drake for
courtesies extended last night. He
has been very active in giving Austin
her elegant club room.
The lunch served last night was
elegant.
The rooms have nothing gaudy or
garrish about them, but all are ele-
CANT, chaste and refined.
The columns supporting the ceiling
of the parlor are in ivory and gold
finish.
Everybody was pleased last night
and all predicted prosperity for the
club.
LAST NIGHTS MEETING.
Eight o'clock was the hour an.
nounced for the formal opening OF the
club rooms, but long before that hour
members, drawn by strong curiosity
and interest, began to drop in singly
and in groups; until by $50 Of the
entire membership OF 15S, there were