New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09
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WHAT MEMBERS OF WELLKNOWN ORGAN
IZATIONS ARE INTERESTED IN.

WHAT MEMBERS OF WELLrKNOWN OhuAN-
IZATIONs ARE INTERESTED IN
There Is a fable about the shepherd lad who 1oR-
ingy cried out "wolf wolff" so often that when inc
wolf did actually appear the youthful joker was una
BILE to persuade any one to his assistance Is
fable has q moral and the officers of the insurance
Club would do we'll to profit by IL. For the last
thirty days they been solcmuly announcing uhat
the opening of their new clubs Quarters would RSs
lively take place such ana Such usS., iIhey
hive made about announcements of this Kind;
and Just that number Of announcements nave proved
false. They now announce with their usual posi- posi-,
veness that the longdeayed opening will occur next
Tuesday. The workmen who are putting on the I'M
bors and there seems to be no why the open
Ing should not take place according to schedule
Captain Hugh R. Garden. president of the Southern
Society, Just returned from long Southern tour
In the course of his trip he visited most of the big
Southern cities and famous resorts of the South
and everywhere discovered the greatest interest in tho
prospects Of the big building scheme OF the society
the one which confempatcs the erection of sort OF
mammoth hotel with unequalled accommodations for
visiting nonresident members. Captain Garden did
not let all this interest 90 to waste, but secured
practical reminder of it in the shape Of about dozen
applications for membership in the society which he
brought back with him.: AS has previously been
shown Na1r IN mi & e nba in S0He the matter Of
wealthy members IT is safe 70 say II can also make
of bank presidents and presidents of big corporations
There at least four bank presidents In the society
Bank; W. W. Flanagan, of the Southern National
John McAnerney of the seventh National and Charles
half dozen notable presidents Of corporations, in
Guiding DR.. Norvn Green, president of the Western
dent of the Richmond Terminal
The next meeting of the Executive Committee Of
the Southern Society will be held August 49, and at
that meeting something like fifty of candidates
for admission will be passed upon. The nonresident
"bOom" Of the society is something remarkable for the
dull season.
The attendance at the Manhattan Club nowadays
IS decidedly variable Some evenings the parlors
well filled with more than hundred men, who
patrOnze the club restaurant. Again, a cOrpOras
guard could hardly be recruited at the marble club
house On Monday evenings there is generally
pretty goodszed crowd on hand. probably owing to
spending the summer in the city run out Of town
the evening after their return
According to the last annual report of the Man
haitian Club, its business for the year ending March
amounted to about $6e,o0o but these figures are ut
tery misleading altogether failing to give an idea of
the amount of money spent for wines and liquors at
the Manhattan Club The last report 10 be sure
covered years business but for six months of that
year the club was housed in its old quarters, and
did not do 81 worth Of business where it now does
$40. On exceptional occasions high as 81 900
has been taken in for wines and liquors in n single
day and the present average business not far from
1900 $4O0 day. The Manhattan people are
connoisseurs wines and liquors, and 60 TO the
length of getting member Of the club who happens
TO be in Europe to pick the choicest vntaces FOR
II and import them. II IS nothing unusual for the
club to have as high as $4,000 or 100000 worth Of
drinkabes on hand in It's cellars. 1t is said that
Henry Wilder Allen the first man to suggest this
admirable method Of keeping the liquid end of the
| clubs cuisine up to the mark.
| The Republican Clubs showing at the convention
of Republican clubs at Syracuse was strong. The
! president Of the League Of Republican Clubs
and the president of the convention, Colonel D.
| II. McAlpin, is member Of the Republican Club
SO is Job E. Hedges, secretary of the League; and
aside from these officers of the convention. several
conspicuous figures at the convention were mem
bers of the New York club. The club IS the lare-
est. weahhlest and most influential club In the
League, and all these honOrs naturally fell to II.
The band that used TO make things cheerful for the
diners at the Republican Club house was withdrawn
early In July, but there to be nearly as much
hunger In the club still, and the patronage OF the
restaurant is better than it has ever before been in
| the summer time II looks now if the fall bust
ness would be double that Of SIX months ago.
The Harmonic Club is always well patronlzed, but
Just is doing the largest business of the year.
thanks TO the aerial garden next door to the club
house. In Forty secondst opposite Bryant Park This
annex Is Just high enough so that passers-by
not annoy the diners with their starcs and is par
tcularly popular.
meeting OF the Engllshmen who propose TO found
an English club in this city was held last Monday
evening at the studio of Kingsley Champncy. re-
port Of the progress already made by the St. George
Hall and Club Association presented by Dr. +. V.
|
some deliberatlon 1t decided to abandon the idea
OF forming club. and TO unite with the ST. George
| Hall people in common endeavCr 10 get the Eng
lishmen Of New-York into club. A. A. Michel the
| moving spirit in the scheme for a new club saws
that both he and his colleagues thought II useless 10
go the ground already covered BY the organizers
| on the ST. George Association The St George Hall
| and Club Association organized last March and
! was Incorporated MAY .. Stock To the amount OF
about $4,000 has already been subscribed for
As everybody knows. there are more Engishmen TO
the square foot Staten Island than anywhere else in
colony are now talking about forming club for Eng
| lishment resident Staten Island The project I'M
doubleday originated in the talk about an English Club
In this city, and, whatever its fate, has Substantial
| support.
The little Alpha Delta Phi Club continues TO cd
| vance. At the last meeting Of the governors OF the
club dozen candidates for admission elected and
still the applications continue 10 IN Despite the
summer duness. twenty-five thirty men take dinner
al the clubhouse every night, and financially socially
and numerically the club is on the top wave.
The arrangements for the annual Feast by the
Sea" of the Thirteen Club at the Brighton Beach Hotel
next Thursday about completed and is probable
| that between $50 and 900 members Of the club will
! participate.
| Edward c. Moore, the wellknown silverware manu-.
facturer, who died last Sunday, Of the few
men who had succeeded In securing membership I'm
both the Manhattan and Onion League clubs. Mr.
Moore was also q member Of the Century and Aldine
| clubs.