The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-17
THE CATHOLIC CLUB.
Father KellY's New Organ
ization to Be a Most
Beneficial One.
FOUNDED ON MODEL LINES
The Members Will Be Afforded
Magnificent Opportunities of
Personal Advancement.
FOUNDED ON MODEL LINES

A complimentary reception and ban
quet will be rendered the ladies who as
sisted at the rec nt fair, held at the new
Catholic Club House, on Jersey avenue,
on December %. The reception will take
placesin the parlor of the new clubhouse.
The ladies who had charge of the several
tables will distribute the tickets, and it is
expected that every one who participated
in the fair will be in attendance. OF
course. it is not going to be a stag" la
dies affair. The ladies will be accom-
panied by their husbands, their brothers
or their "sWeethearts," and every girl
who had a book at the fair has u sweet
heart" The fair was a success beyond
the expectation of the most sanguine,
and the reception is also sure to be a sue
cess. With these bright auguries, who
can doubt but what the club itself, on
the lines proposed. will not also be :: sue
cessP
Strange though it may seem, here is a
magnificent clubhouse, with everything
desirable, yet with no association IN
actual existence. Lucky, inGeed, are
those entitled to membership in the pro-
posed organization.
THE CLUBHOUSE.
The new clubhouse has been described
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floor is occupied by bowling alleys, kit
chen, pantry and baths. On the second
floor are a large billiard room, spacious
game rooms, smoking room INT news
paper room. The clab parlors, ladies'
parlor, music room, library and reading
room are on the third floor, while the
fOurGh floor is devoted to the gymnasium,
committee u class and assembly hall.
IhH Rev. Fathers Senez and Kelly,
pastor aud assistant. respectively, of st.
Mary's Church, desire to make this a
model association. Membership will be
open to any Catholic young nan il the
city over eighteen years of uge. For the
present the initiation lee will be So and
the monthly dues fifty cents. All per-
sons desiring to become members should
apply to Father Kelly, at st. Mary'S rec
Tory, NO. 219 Third street.
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.
The club will be formed on tue lines of
the Furnishing Xavier Club of New York
City. 1t will be managed by the pastor of
st. Mary's Church through committees
appointed by him to take charge OF the
various departments, viz, library, educa-
tioual classes, athletics, dramatics, music,
etc. Each committee will elect its own
president, and the presidents of all the
committees will form a general house
committee. with the duty of arranging
for social entertainments, of acting as a
reception committee to meet, welcome
and introduce members and visitors,
Thus all the departments will be welded
together i'll a compact body, and at the
same time each department will be left 10
its own individuality and perfect free
dom in the full exercise aud control of its
own affairs,
aThe reader will naturally conclude,
after reading the above, that the objects
Of the club are not ordinary. In this con-
-clusion they are right. Mere ordinary
pleasure the projectors OF the club did
not provide for. They desire by this in
stitution to effect real and lasting good.
to benefit all classes of men, AID assist
them to elevate themselves by honest
effort in the different professions and
stations of life they occupy. Every pro-
vision has been made to satisfy them in
their particular bent and to incite them
TO labor for their advancement.
For the man who has received a liberal
education, a large library and reading
room have been provided, and debating
classes and reading circles viii be organ
lied. The man OF medium education
will find educational classes suited to his
wants, and the man who began life's
battle with the scantiest foundation of
intellectual requirements may improve
himself in penmanship, grammar and
bookkeeping, and the higher branches,
if desired. The man who seeks pleasure
aud amusement will have them fur
uished free from vice and evil surround
ings, for i'll the building are six bowling
alleys, a we'll furnished gymnasium,
large billiard room with six tables. game
rooms and dramatic nall. Two spacious
parIors aud q music room will always be
at the service of the members for social
entertainments.
MEMBERSHIP.
The membership of the club will con-
sist of active and library MEMBERS, The
active members Will be composed Of re.
spectacle Catholic men eighteen years of
age and over, who will be entitled to all
the privileges OF the club.
The library members will consist Of
Catholic women. who will be entitled to
participate in the benefits of the library
and reading rooms.
Father Kelly has received a large num-
Der of applications for membership.
Shortly after the holidays the several
committees will be announced and the
club be in working order by February L.
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