New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-26
HEARD AMONG CLUBMEN.
WHAT MEMBERS OF wELLKNowN oRGANI-
CATIONS ARE INTERESTED IN.

WHAT MEMBERS OF wELLKNowN ORGAN
CATIONS ARE INTERESTED IN.
II the servants and employees of any one Of the big
clubs in this town were marshaled IN dress parade
| the array would be striking one. The Manhattan
Athletic Club probably heads the LIST OF local clubs
or American cubs for that matter-n the number OF
people WHO its livery, Or at least draw money
from its treasury for attending 30 the wants OF It's
| MANNERS More than 900 men, women and boys are
regularly employed in capacity or another In the
big NJ A. c. house, and at times the attaches OF the
clubhouse number as high as $50. This small army
comprises d0ormen, hal-boys, waiers bartenders, at
endants at rife range, shooting gallery, baths and
other departments, elevator boys, bOokkeepers, ae-
| oountants engineers, fremen, chambermaids, cooks
was hwOmen and scr1lbwonlen. The salary LIST is De
| tween 81 800 and 81 900 week. The Manhattan
Club which probably next in the length OF It's
salary list, employs between 125 and 100 persons ana
pays them something over 81 900 week. The present
Manhattan Athletic Clubhouse Is comparatively new
thing and naturally many if not mOst Of It's attaches
are newcomers, comparatively speaking. But at the
| Manhattan Club, which is of the old club insd
utous of the town, many Of the employees have grown
gray in the service The venerable female housekeeper
for instance kept things in order for twenty years
The Union League also has large staff Of employees rs
may be imagined from the fact that it spends enary
| 10000 a year in providing them with livery. The
| New DIRK AtiLeuC mas large btdH Oh eluplOJcs,
So too the Union Club, the University the New
| York Club the Lawyers Club and a halfdozen other
clubs Of the same order At most Of these clubs en-
| ployes of dozen more years standing may still
be seem and fact at any Of the frstcass clubs 1t is
the rule retain the doormen at least as long as they
behave Themselves in order TO have couple OF servants
VINO are familiar with the faces Of all the members
At the best clubs an endeavQr Is made to secure as
private families or other rstcass clubs, but at some
Of the clubs almost anypoay VINO resRosus !" , tS
and gets chance % don the club livery The LAWYERS
Club is notable exception to clubs OF the last named
order the attaches of that institution being par1cu-
arly well trained and well disciplined Almost every
q them has seen na service Hc in the SefF GSs
understands his place There are rarely II ever any
part of servants of the Lawyers Club.
The trustees of the Southern Society at their July
meeting elected sixty three nonresident members.
The restaurant is doing the biggest business in It's his
tory Ii always does fine business IN summer,
thanks to the influx Of vacaton-bent South
erners Seventy checks were turned in at
the dinner hour one night last week, these
seventy checks probably representing 100 40 din
ners served. The society yet has not adopted the
table d'hote Innovation, though the advisabillty Of
so doing las often been discussed It's restaurant is
run strictly the la carte basis. Secretary Wilton
Randolph has returned after round OF the summer
resorts Francis r. Rives who died few days ago,
was member Of several New, York clubs, among them
the southern Society, OF which he was the second
president, his predecessor having been Algernon s.
Sullivan.
The German Club. known 10 the people Of the
Vaterland the Deutschcr verein, Is prospecting
famousy in Us new clubhouse in ftyninth-st. The
dining-rOom Is crowded almost every evening. many
Of the members utilizing the privilege Of entertaining
and daughters at the clubhouse. At the time
of the last annual report the club had OF members
This number has not been notceably increased in the
last year. the club Is particularly exclusive and
election 10 10 is By no means easy matter II is
on n paying basis. Is a club OF rich men, has a fine
house, and can afford to go slow in the matter OF
German IS spoken IN the clubhouse almost exclusively
although most Of the clubs members pretty well
apsing into English If they are so inclined. Many
prominent Americans, however. have been honOred
by being made the guests Of the club. ex-Secretary
Fairchd for instance having often enjoyed the court
estes Of the organization.
President Ferdinand Motz and Louis wlndmuller Of
the German Club, have in hand the raising OF sufficient
money among the members provide for the painting
of a llfeslzed portrait Of the warke and imperous
German Emperor 1t is proposed to lntrust this
mission to Julius GOertz, the well-known German
artist, who has already painted portraits Of Carl
schurZ, oswald 0uendOrfer and Gustav II. Scnwa1.
Mr. GOcrtZ Will shortly sail for EurOpe and by means
Of letters OF Introduction 10 the German Emperor ex
poets 70 gain the privilege Of painting his portrait
TO the fund 10 the German Club.
President Clarence A. Seward, of the Union Club,
who has been in Europe for the last month or so, is
expected home or about August /.
The workmen employed in renovatlng and re-
facilitating the prospective quarters Of the In
surance Club putting on the finishing touches and
the clubhouse will be ready for occupancy this week
or next week at the latest.
Now Is the birth-time season Of clubbooks. A
dozen or more Of them in press including those Of
the Reform Club, the Colonial Club. the Manhattan
Athletic Climb and the Republican Club The whole
batch VIII be In circulation inside OF the next two
weeks.
Up to the time of General sherman's death last
spring the Colonial Club had not lost single member,
although it had been in existence for about Two years
Tho popular superstition regarding the significance OF
a single visitation OF death in an organization seems
have been fulfilled in this case, as since General
shermans death five members of the club have passed
frst members Of this club John s. sutphen is in
House Committee, Is in Sar atoga: AlonEo E. Con, |
over is in Bellehaven and the Rev Arson p Aterbury
10 be acted al the July meeting OF the trustees but
owing the failure 70 secure quorum the list has
gone over until the August meeting.
Walter Luttgen OF the firm Of August Belmont & |
Co.. has been proposed for membership at the Reform
Club by Louis wlndmuIler treasurer Of the club Al
the July meeting OF the governors Of the Reform, If
teen resident and eighty nonresident members were
elected IL is probable that these elections carry the
club the 900 limit OF resident members, after
which the initiation fee Is 10 become $50 IL Is GER
tain that the club Is the limit On paper, bal
whether the requisite 1000 resident members nave
actually qualiied Will not be known until the new
club book which is now In press appears. The total
number Of non resident members Is over 200, ana the
Reform club now ranks as the third largest club OF
the city The Manhattan Athletic heads the INST
with about $500 members al told, the New-fork AIN
letc comes next with about 200 member N ue
> 300 and 1890 members. Within the next SIX
months i win undoubtedly have outstrpped The New
York Athletic Club, and will begin the year as the
saennd largest club In town.