New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-14
HEARD AMONG CLUBMEN.
WHAT MEMBERS OF wELLKNowN ORGAN
IzATIONS ARE INTERESTED IN

makes men comrades rather than acquaintance, tLh'
begets an interchange of philosophy and subsequently
friendship and in short is particularly appropriate 10
club life which has Is Its cornerstone, as Chauncey
Depew says good-felowshp. The table d'hote dinner
is comparatively a newcomer in club restaurants In
this CITY, but 1t is popular one and Is fast gaining
foohold throughout clubdom. The latest club TO take
non made to the house committee that body has de
cided hereafter to serve dollar table dhoie every
Saturday and sunday night. Inc INNOVATION VIC
introduced last evening for the first uIne'
It seems safe TO say that the Manhatan's adoption
of table d'hote dinner viii be followed by other
clubs which have profound respect for its judgment
In affairs Of this sort. The air Of the Manhattan
Clubs dining room is laden with official dignity at
dinner time nowadays owing to the presence OF the
score or of prominent city and State officials VINO
dine there these pleasant evenings But as everybody
who has been there Knows the air OF dignity IS aten
and not potential for there IS nothing sun or 10rna
about the most noted club dlmng.roo ~ ne" c III
Almost any night one can find there MAYOR OT r
Police Commissioner Martin Kegster f1tLgsIu dr.
(Idersleeve Allen, Pryor, Beach. lawrence Andr1wi
Patterson Iruax, Ingraham and Brleh, yuGge w a.
lace of the United States Court and Surrogate RANSOM
When the Manhattan Club moved uptown many
ladies who have occasion to pass the Stewart house on
+be,r 1vav down the avenue were fearful that they
would be compelled to the gauntlet OF score or
roore NJ clubmens eyes every time they passed ue
bouse The tear,wss grOundless, though fcr the VIII
hov-s on the avenue side Of the clubhouse are never
occupied so far as passers-by can see. MOI hl4Ie-
ouen+v groups of members gather around the WINDOWS
IN watch the promenade outside but they always sl'
en- for hack from the windows That they are pracuea1y
,r,islle IN persons on the sidewalk. The avenue WIN
az NJ the new Reform Clubhouse al invent!
- are likewise unObjectiOnabe 10 women VINO pa
81 ar h1sn Tor they are never tenanted. AS RUE
Reform Club men are not SO guy anu - .ho thar
window gazing as are the members OF some o. Ie Vu
,nnte Clubs and they rarely sit in the WINDOWS OF tlS
clnh parlors The Union Club has Away Deel mouc
for rs window crowd" and still leads ia tIat M @
hing is
test hOnOrs Of this kind Win H.
Treasurer Windmuller, Of the Reform Club points
with pride to the fact that his club has secured
resident members in three years % H6mmere los
fact that it has taken the Chamber Oh OoHiin0
years 10 accomplish Inc same resu1''
Cantain James Colling Summers, commodore OF the
Cherry Diamond Yacht Club, has arranged to prVVuo
complete exhibit of yachting models ana Eac4 I
paraphernana In general fOr Olc NhD"e0 "
Among recently elected members Of the Groler
C1ub are Burdette Mason. II. Oliver Northco'e ano
Frederick Wells Williams. Under the direction OF the
bonse committee the exhibition cases and other tVy
hrntnre Of the exhibition hall in the GrOIer ttuR
house have been removed for the sumner aS I%ht
bades and light rattan furniture in the way OF roSey
little tables chairs, etc.
Members of the Aron and Lederkranz societies ana
the other German club organizations OF the GU! are
much interested in the proposal OF the German hlStor
cal Society 10 start German Day" In this city, The
nIan has also been tried other cities notably IN Bah
ti,ore and has elected the hearty cooperation OF te
German residents of those cities. The mempers OF
the German Historical Society Of this city think that
the greatest city the continent should not De peiiu
in the way of concentrating the infusion OF UeFlHai
blood into this country, and have taken the ItaQ III
mating arrangements for an annual day for Ihat
purpose. They have eorrespon Win I1e all ~.
taken warmly to the proposition and promise {heir
cooperation sunday o 4c'C OF the first Celebration Of
The kind. Exercises viii probably be held Iii IN
Carnegie Music Hall under the direction o. JUr
has promised to preside and deliver the address o. t
day in German. George Nllllam S u VI and
other welnown Teutonic New Workers have PROMISED
to do all in their power to help make tne ana"
success. .
~ >r.ror Smith Ely was prominent figure at the
old Manhattan Clubhouse but for some reason or oer
he has not been near the club for four or nVe years
mill the other day, when he dropped III at the marble
clubhouse When he entered the dinlns-fo there
was disposition on the part OF the forty or Cor n a b O
IA 70 he was compelled 10 hold informal reception
Whatever the causes Of his GOODNESS toWara T C au6
NAV have been. they are now removed or tcrgo.eh. anu
h' ,nnnlar ex Mayor is once more pretty Tesu
lar attendant at the clubhouse
A. The LAT meeting Of the BOARD Of Managers OF the
Electric Club twentysix associate members SIX aeuNe
members and one life member were admitted A n9zeh
~ annlicatlons have been received IN the last week.
,ore &c some talk In the Electric Club of renewing
p Ies.e of the present clubhouse IN
Gov couple of years, and IN case TINS acuoh is 'dAe
no,is,on for more sleeping apartments VIII be MADE
IN order to meet the steadily increasing G of the c hG
them Thu" dav evening and following the meeting
smoking cohoer" , 1T,
,,o ara all sorts of clubs in this town. and clubs
o.. all sorts of classes not TO mention CLUBS LOT une
-I II &c doubtful though. If there is any class
-, .1n which so TO speak, boycotts the diversions
- the gerry class which 1t appeals as does 'he Ie
Va t, ncanized Music Club. This club, composed o.
80, comnosers vocallsts critics. teachers anna
$50 rlavers and patrons, rigidly PROMPTS the ID
troAuction of any musical Instrument lhto ns 'l1D
hou.e The trainers Of the club constitution l.reSn"
81 tbore would be q tendency on the part Va o"i
=. "a, oonosers vocaists and players to deaien theh
| " i'' ,o- with their own productions. Too
-, sic is worse than music at all, ana SC
49, aaoi6ed 70 treat them all alike, and not allo"
,rcb as a iewsharp in the clubhouse lei aioh'
| ~ ,a They have Jolly little cluo MEhu
Pi' tcjd,v evening but they are cluD hsuls
eNcIS ,THe c,uh now has about ITO meHbee' ilCIuu
% to1 Scid John a. Kampng AineTIcD uoL ~ 0oy ~
FIocrshelm james HunneKer, M enceT and II s5hmer
ru I ~ cosey rooms have been secureG over CeI
tain well % srch eaabIes and drinkables As may bt
0irS arc readily obtained from inc
| low without the expense anu OoU''i "a
| club restaurant ana odi0'
| M. ...,,,.+ee IN nonresident members which wa'
1i.oo NV the Democratic Club couple Of months
~ go aro has accomplished wonders Inc louhs
We,,s democratic Club. which became the Demcciau'
c' ,a,e last fall had 10 nonresident members but II
the interim between the adoption Of the new name anS
the Of the 9 4eTbeTe % Se secnred Vow
1elS - The recently appointed committee there arr
$50 nonresident members
Uo,son Smith recently elected chairman OF the E1
acntve Committee Of Tammany Hail. Is regular al
| tndant AT the Democratic Club, although he ais
claims membership in the Manhattan CiuD
rhesa men were elected 10 membership Ia the Adm
c1nb at the last meeting of the Committee on Ad
| missions: Resident members. Francis L. Hine' vice
nresdent Of the Aston Place Bank Eugene " Connect
ir and Ernest r.. Connect nonresident members
George W. Cable. Jacob NJ. Green. Hartford Louis
| uariow and Charles Brown, of Boston, and Roher
Thomson Of Chicago. The new committee OF the Gu
are Committee on Literature and Art1Ihomas W
| Wood LIexander W. Drake George p. Brett, Henr
| frI"cn1 and Tobn s. Wood. Committee on Entertain
mepts-John Kendrick Bangs. Robert Bridges, Hamilo
| w Mabie william W. ELLSWORTH ana hoDert ho"~'