The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-01
CLUBLIFp IN NEW YORK.
A Growing Quantity Handsome Ciut
Honses Huilt in 1890.

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Houses Built in 1890.
Nep York TrlGuae
The year just closing has witnessed q
remarkable advance in clrb affairs
More new clubs have been formed in New
York, Brooklyn and their vicinity, more
new club.houses have been built, and
more changes have been made than
during any similar period. The year Of
1890 has been one Of striking prosperity
in every branch OF club life. The popu.
larity OF the club idea, as manifested in
the desire to get together to form clubs,
has never been greater than at present.
The number OF clubs in New York and
Brooklyn has increased by at least q
score this year. Perhaps not score
have been actually created within the
year, but dozen unheard OF clubs have
doubled their membership and enlarged
their quarters or moved into new
houses, 80 that there are fully twenty
new clubs in the sense that they had not
been heard Of before. The tendency to-
ward club life is on the increase. There
are now three or four political clubs in
every Assembly district in New York,
and the small social clubs are very nu-
merUus. There is also disposition to
make club houses more elegant. In
years gone by club men were satisfied
with having roof over their heads, but
now they insist upon luxurious quar-.
tiers, with every comfort and con-
venience that experience can suggest. A
veritable building fever has ragged in
clubdom, and during the year there
have been no less than fourteen new
club houses built in this city and
Brooklyn, some OF them at great cost
The Stewart mansion may be counted as
club properly, for 1t is au open secret
that in case the Manhattan people are
satisfied with the property, there is an
understanding that they will purchase
it at the expiration Of their lease.
The Calumet has practically doubled
its capacity by taking in the house next
door and spending $4,000 in remodel
ling and furnishing it. The Manhattan
Athletic has moved into its stately
building, which cost, with the ground
on which it stands and the appointments
some 100000. The Century Club has
Just flushed building new house in
Forty-third street, and will move in next
month. 1t cost $4,000 The Alpha
Delta Phi, a club formed within the last
half OF the year, had its house-warmlng
last week in the old Agnew house, ON
which $50 600 was spent in decorations
and furnishings. The Deulscher Verein
has new club house just completed in
Fifty.ninth street, at cost Of $3.50. GOO,
and will movein on New Years Day. The
Central Turn Vereiu opened its new
club house in Sixty-seventh street early
in the year. The Ladies' Athletic club
has enlarged its club house and many
improvements, The Colonial club has
a handsome new house well under way
at Seventy second street and the Boult-
ward. It will cost SS25,OO0 The Catho.
lie club is building house in Fifty
ninth street, which will be ready for
occupancy in the spring. The Union
club has built an extension to the club
house which cost 100000. The Salma-
gundi club moved from it's old location,
at No. 12l Fifth avenue, where 1t has
been for years, to its new house in
TWenty.second street, in November.
The Reform club practically built
new house when the Emo mansion
was purchased and remodelled at cost
OF $3.50 900. The Democratic Club pur.
chased the house in Fifth avenue, next
to the Buckingham Hotel, at cost Of
S2C0 1000, and moved in two months
ago. The Republican Club has decided
to have a new building. The project OF
the Union Lesgue to enlarge its guar.
tiers by purchasing the adjoining prop.
erty was defeated Tor time, butt is GER
tain TO come up again. The Manhattan
Bicycle Club will build a new house.
The Lotos Club building movement has
gained strength. There is also talk Of a
new house Tor the St. Nicholas, which
had its old quarters burned out shost
time ago. The Progress Club has ex-
pended $4,000 in decorations and i'm
proVements.