New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-29
BEARD AMONG CLUBMEN.
WHAT MEMBERS OF WELLKNOWN ORGAN
KAIIONS ARE INTERESTED IN.

WHAT MEMBERS OF WELL-KN0WN ORGAN
KAIIONS ARE INTERESTED IN.
The GLIB field has been pretty we'll cultivated IN
New York ity, but there is one spot which has NOT
been worke, There Is possible opening for uni
versity athletic club Unless all signs fail and the
unexpected hppens. the long-existing want VIII Dc
filed and TINT within very few months. WIN
athletic clubs New-York Is, to be sure, well pro-
vided but collere are both cubable and athctc-
essentially athlete. In no other city In the country
are there so maly clubabe and athletic men OF col
legiate attainmens as in New-lork Recently u
number OF promireut Yale, Harvard, Princeton and
Columbia men got pgether and talked the affair over,
studied the chances of probable moral and financial
support, and all but decided to launch college attn
letic club. They hae received abundant encourage
ment, and are practically q unit on the feasibility
and ACCESSIBILITY Of stating the club. They are not,
however quite ready asyet formally to announce the
details of their plans bit in all probability VIII see
their way clear to doing so within the next thirty
DAYS In general way, II may be said that their
scheme provides for clu, which shall combine the
exclusiveness Of the Univerty Club, all the athletic
features of the big athletic ubs and the social at
fractions Of the frstclass avnue clubs Membership
will be restricted to college Graduates, or at least to
those who have passed part of their time in college
halls There will be football a,d baseball teams, pos
sbly several club crews, and numerous teams to rep
resent the club in the various branches Of athletics
The clubhouse will necessarily be big One There
are thousands and thousands Of college men In New
York City and it's vicinity. The Crescent Athletic
Club, OF Brooklyn, which was ioun'ed as football
as an athletic club year later; ant largely under
the N matte rss pe 5 Goa %e Club Of
this sort pick 1900 members In Irookyn, i is
dollar: TO cents that club Of the sort ire restricted s to
thousand members in a-city like New-iork
C1,bmen who were fortunate enough to participate
in the story Telers' Night at the Aldine Club last
winter will be glad TO know that the club has another
entertainment OF the kind in contemplation The CON-
ing affair will take place the evening Of Thursday,
December 10. Frank r. Stockton the presiden, OF the
club Will preside and stories may be expected from
George W. Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, F. HopLnscn
Smith T. A. Janver, Will Carleton. Hamilton Glib
SON William H. McElroy, Lieutenant j. ID. Jarold
Kelly Chauncey NJ. Depew and Others
1t is now apparent that there will be no contest ut
the annual meeting OF the Reform Club next Tues-
day. The ticket placed in nomination for the vacant
trustceshps. announced in these columns couple OF
weeks ago. has met opposition and the election Of
Edwin Is. Whitney. Isdor stFaus and the three men
nominated 10 succeed themselves trustees is as
sured The annual dinner will take place at Sherrys
on the evening OF December 10
Next Thursday evening the members Of the Catholic
Club will get together and hold their annual meeting
The committee on admissions of the University
Club is steadily at work reducing the gap between the
clubs nonresident membership and the limit OF non
resident membership, which is fixed at 100 For sew
eral months ten nonresident members have been
elected each month"; and only 100 more are needed 10
bring the club up to its limit of membership. Once
that limit is reached there will be pracious little use
in man putting up his name at the University Cinb,
as there already over 400 names on the waiting
list.
Last night was lively one at the Loos Club. The
afn.dl
thirty or forty members Of the club in The upstairs
dining ROOM The first Saturday Night" dinner of the
season was given down stairs, and The usual speech
making. recitations and whatnot incidental TO the
L6tos Club Saturday Nights made the clubhouse
hum with activity. Tomorrow members OF the fair
With which the clubs walls covered, and 10 enjoy
the proverbal hospitality OF Lotos Clubs La1ios
Day"
The Century Club will have its monthly meeting next
saturday night and along with it will be the regular
monthly art exhibition
The Deutscher Vercln German Club IS making ar
rangements for a Ladies' Day. musical entertain
melt 10 be given some evening in december.
Tile Committee on Publications OF the Grolier Club
that the monograph Washington Irving by
George William Curtis, which IL has ia press, VIII Do
ready by the fifteenth OF next month.
Ever since the organization of the Groier Club
seven years ago the organization has made feature
Of the annual or scmiannual issue Of editions de luxe
of works of historical or essentially literary value
An edition of each book Just large enough TO 90 around
the clubs membership Is issued mt the bare cost oil
pubication SO valuable these publications through
the Limitation OF the issues and their exquisite getup
that complete sets of them command fabulous prices
single set OF the ten volumes published up to last
Nav brought $40 at auction although the cost Oh
production did not exceed 80.
The Grolcr Club, famous for its novel and artistic
exhibitions has a particularly interesting exhibition
in view a a starter for the season CT 1SD1'o2. Th'
exhibition in question will be one OF about 400
portraits Of early English authors and oldtme plates
from which famous portraits Of these authors nave
been struck The exhibition VIII open with a private
view next Thursday evening when the ~ 'nth. MOT
ING of the club takes place. and will continue Tor scv
eral days.
Al the last meeting Of the Board OF Managers OF the
Club seventeen resident and eight non
resident members were elected, thus bringing the resi-
dent membership Of tho club up 10 about 300 The
limit Is 500 and consequently there Is si room Tor
a couple OF hundred more New-IOrk city members
Two tickets afe In the field for the annual election
n, the Democratic Club which takes place one week
n ON tomorrow. The regular ticket, placed In nomi-
nation by the Board OF Governors reads like this. For
President John II. V. Arnold vicepresdent Barlow
Weeks secretary ". L. Curtis; treasurer, J. Rock
cell Fsy: Governors ito serve three yesrsD-Jenerson
NJ. Lazy r. q. Beall Roger Foster and John pDwyer'
% serve two years. Gilbert d. Lamb The opposition /
n the regular ticket docs not propose 10 asht the