New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-10
GOSSIP IN TIE CLUB WORLD.
oRATORY AT THE UNION LEAGUE-NOlL-
AR0I-T VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS.


Porter no f. most active In the good work speeches
in behalf Of he fund will be made by General Porter
! Chnuncey NJ. Depew. Joseph H. Choate ana Emu
itjot. The smbcrs will be asked to give hhahciai
aid TO the fund. If any speakers could arouse q"
tnlsasm for the cause these four can. General
I Grant honorary member OF the cruz ana "''
many friends in it. II seems only proper, therefore,
that the cub should take leading part in the PROJECT
! 10 honor his memory in n lifting manner. CircuarS
have recently been sent 10 the members, ASKING te
| to subscribe the fund for a monument TO "ehera
shcrrnnn who WAS also a member of the club. The
Union League clubhouse Is just now uninhamtaDie I'D
parts as Improvements are being made In the main
| dining room and In the care. These are being 20
decorate for the first time since the clubhouse was
| built decade ago the style In decorations ran
rather TO s1mbre colors, and these apartments "ec
not made as pleasant they might have been Ligh'
colors are 70 be used and there VIII he gam
I'm brightness and ceerincSs OF course the tearing up
Of the clubhouse is nuisance While II lasts ou'
| ARRANGEMENTS have been made TO lessen the neon
venience o. members as much ms possible
The Anil meeting of the Groier Club was held on
Thursday and private view OF the exhibition OF
etchings by Philip Zllcken, OF The Hague was held at
tbe same time. This collection will remain on ex-
blbtion at the clubhouse until April 10 from 10 v
D. M There is rejoicing among the members be
cause another 81 900 Of the indebtedness was paid
last week II the club continues to cancel It's obi
cations at the rate it has been doing lately II VIII
soon be free from debt. At the meeting Of the com
mittee last week Francis Wilson, the comedian, was
made a member. He is enthusiastic bock-lover
and his library at his home in NewRochele was Sc
loc,ed with rare good taste. Next month the club
will have an exhibition of missas etc, In connection
with which will be published descriptive catalogue
with about twenty five illustrations showing ue
pecuarties Of the books Of hours and other volumes
on View This will be published BY subscription and
sold 10 members.
The pleasant weather Of the early part OF last week
would have permitted the resumption Of work on the
horse of the Metropolitan Club. but the plans have
moi been finally decided In every detail Inc
building committee authorized TO spend certain
sum and ii finds il difficult 10 keep within the limit
II Is likely that the problem of getting the pest co
house for the money allotted will be solved shortly ."
that building can he continued some time this week.
In the meantime the applications for membership are
coming in steadily The men elected at the meeting
of the committee this month will bring the figure up To
about 80.
The Thirteen Club will have a dinner on Wedncs-
day evening at Yaesers. at which women VIII DC
present The programme will contain some novel
! and intere Ssing features
The St. Nicholas Club is to have It's monthly n'"C
ing on Thursday evening.
The ANIMAL report OF John Eldcrkn, secretary OF
the IGt0s Club, which read at the meeting Ias'
week. tod Of many things Of interest To the members
II mentioned the Lectures entertainments and dinners
paintngs by American artists. Among the most
notabIe social affairs were the dinners 20 Sir Edwin
Arnold and TO Henry VI. stanley. In the year. the
club has lost Judge Henry Wilder Auen, W. j. flor-
encc r. F. Fifty the artist b. Il. Palmer and David
A. hi Lima by death. Eleven pictures nave been
added to the permanent collection Of the cnb' some oS
Gift and some as initiation fec. Among thce
PAINTINGS are After the Rain" by Julian nix "rhe
lily Pond" by C. Henry Eaton; Forest INTERIOR
| by W. s. Macy Moonlight in Village street, by
George H. Bogart: Shipyard.- by J. H. Twachtman'
Head Of King Lear by Napoleon sarony and por-
! trait of sir Edwin Arnold. by Shirley Turner
The Union Clubs site Committee Is not serving any
| particular purpose Just row, as IT has not held
meeting for some time. It's members say inst there
Is nothing for them 10 do They are not now able I"
buy suitable site at what they consider reasonable
figure and the club has refused to allow them to lease
q pIo, Perhaps the members Of the club VIII recon
slider this refusal and allow the committee to lease
property il II desires 1t is felt that the inacti"n -
not for The clubs best interests. As the ST. Luke's
| IIosptal ha, now bought site uptown. the Union
Club men hope that lower price VIII be hscd or
that pat Of the hospital grounds at Fifty fonrth-f
The Salmagundt Club has about decided 10 rent
quarters at No 40 West Twenty second st.. almost
| opposite It's present home. No. 40 which II muA
leave on May /. The change will be an advantageous
one Tie entire parlOr floor T. to De secured, VITA
the privilege Of renting more space " desired Inc
suite Of rooms Is unusually wide IT forms more than
the half u two houses which have been rDult INTO
one Net only will the club have more room than IT
now has but the place Is much better arranged
In the first place tie light viii be better. The eNhi-
b,sone Will be held in the back room. In which new
! skvight is to be put mp. This apartment can
he catered from the hall. while IN the present house
persons pas. through all the rooms u reach the
| picture gallery A pleasant entertainment, Of an In
formal Kind given at the club on Friday evening
The member furnished part Of the alont' for the
club need not 60 outside OF rs own members to get
up A frstclsss affair. on next Friday evening uierc
viii be an exhibition OF sketches made by james
| symngton and Joseph F. Mathews IN the Whd"ard
| Islands This will be kept view all OF SATURDAY.
Tie Reform Clubs membership Ii now about DO
! No limit has been fixed yet Will ono be. In all
| probability until 200 800 more men are electd
the story tellers' night which TO be given this
month at the Alpha Delta Phi Club. has been post
poIed until fall Walter II. Cnttcndcn, who had II
in charge has been compelled 10 be ont OF the city
a great deal lately account OF business. and ha'
therefore been unable to give proper attention to IT,
The clubs pool tournament will h. held soon, however
II Is now certain that the meeting OF tle COLONIAL
Club Oh next saturday evening will be held In the new
| clubhouse in the Boulevard. one room will be made
ready In time for the purpose but the rest OF The house
will moi be ready for some little while.
The new club.boOk Of the Century Association has
tu,i been published. II contains the annual report
Of the secretary Judge Henry f. Howland the
poem by Edmund Clarence stedman which
was sung the Twelfth Night fes-
,ivtes and other interesting matter ExJudge
Howland's report Is exceedingly well written and in
tars I, eloquent and poetical to degree. la the
wear. eighty five new members elected and nine
teen died Among those who died George Ban
croft Dr. Fordyce Barker, lawrence Barrett the Rev.
| Dr. Howard Croiby, Robert J. Livingston, Jervls
McEntee. Jacob d. veriniIyea. Henry :; sandford.
John H. (,mlrlie John q. sargent and Henry Lane
Kendrlck. tx Judge HO"MId gives interesting
sketches of most Of these Egn, ar exi6ll9 ms
cuh two pictuIes BY her brother Edward May, Of
! Paris, who Is dead. The widow OF Oliver |. Lay
gave sketch portrait Of The late H. K Brown made
i,y her hu band and WortMngtOn &. Ford, In tealf
OF the family Of his father, the late Gordon Lester
Ford, added 10 the library letter oil Washington and
some otfer valuable autographs, including Of
Adam Smith. Thomas Is. Clarke gave three and