Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-18
A NEW CLUBHOUSE.

Handsome Home of the Concordia-A Spa
cious BalIroom-Miss Mary McKean's
Wedding Announced-Piano Contest for
Gold Medal-Social Gossip.
A QUITE domestic looking place is the
Concordia Clubhouse, with little about it
that is characteristically clublike. The
plain stone front tells no tales. 1t might be
the residence Of a millionaire, who pre-.
ferred his comfort and the qualification OF
his taste tosupplying food for the gaze OF the
curious passerby. This does not mean that
it is not imposing. There is frontage of 60
feet on Stockton avenue, and it extends to
Park way, a distance OF 240 feet. This gives
the ballroom a floor 80 feet long and go feet
wide, the dimensions OF which might be
more easily realized by comparison
with the Pittsburg Club assembly room
which is said to be I5x45 feet. Even n con-
servative estimate would still leave some
thing in favor of the Concordia ballroom,
and thus it occupies the first place in the
city to-day as dancing floor. The general
plan of the house is lighter than in club
where men alone frequent. Stern mascu-
Unity does not favor varied comfort such
as delights the more feminine mind. There
are arrangements everywhere that smack
not of a woman's hand, but of the desire for
the presence of the owner of such a hand.
Yet, strange to say, the most beautiful room
in the house, a charming apartment in
the third story, with an entire out
side wall of windows connecting
in French fashion and by doors
with fine stone balcony, is devoted to the
use OF the men as a smoking room
The style OF the clubhouse is, as so often
the case in buildings of to-day, no style at
all or many styles in one Simplicity IS par
amount. On either side of the hall, W riich has
a width of feet, are two large rooms, the
one library, the other the parlor. The
front walls of each, cop tanning huge windows,
are concave and effect superb spacious
ness. The convexity without has a most
ornamental appearance. The entire fur
nishfngs are in oak, and excepting the
two rooms mentioned. the floors are
and library will both be carpeted in
wilton. The oak paneling reaches
up third o. the wall. The remainder is
treated by fine method of roughcast to
represent a coffee-colored velvet hanging
The rooms on the lower floor are Is feet
high, and depending from the ceilings are
silver chandeliers. simple in style and dis
playing much elegance. The entrance hall
widens into reception room, embellished
by huge mantelpiece. fashioned after the
fireplaces o the days when people could sit in
their corners eyond this the reception hall
again narrows into the entrance hall that
leads to the ballroom. This fs the
only entrance, for the ballroom will not
be open to anyone except members
and the use OF it for a private ball at any
time will include the front entrance of the
club. Other members on such occasions
will be relegated to side door. The ball
room contains q stage and a gallery. This
last Is accessible from the cafe upstairs. A
wide stairway occupies the fourth side of
the reception hall, and, like the hall. is of
hardwood, polished and uncarpeted. 1t
winds up in three flights and is lighted by
txin nd OF koir Irrlo
that adds a much appreciated glow. On the
second floor is the cafe. The ballroom
being two stories high, the second floor does
not contain a room similar in size to It,
Over it on the third floor Ia a huge billiard
room, with the newest designs in billiard
and pool tables.
The remaining rooms on the second floor
are all amusement rooms. where large or
small party of friends can enjoy the evening
in whatever wav their ideas OF enjoyment
suggest. The third floor has similar rooms
room and the Board room, where the officers
and House Committee meet and all business
OF the club is transacted. All these rooms
are finished as on the first floor and are
equally Indicative OF quiet elegance and
good taste. In the basement is spacio us
dining room capable of seating 500 people at
tables arranged to accommodate ten guests
Down there also is the domestic establish
ment and the stewards apartments Two
bowling aheys have also managed to find
room on this wonderfully well arranged
floor. Near the cafe on the second floor is a
small dining room for the use of privat te
parties.
: In Hebrew circles the clubhouse occupies
an entirely different position to that of the
generally accepted clubhouse. They say
the clubhouse Is destroying the home circle
Their clubhOuseS are only intended to widen
the home circle by an intermingling with
other house circles, and as round a mans own
equally around . fireplace OF the club. Hav-
ing this in view. the intention to make
house in its tenderest and most perfect
sentiments has been admirably carried out
in the Concordia Clubhouse. The club will
be formally presented TO its members on
Wednesday evening next, the House Com
mittee having Reception Committee on
The entire list of officers is as follows:
President P. II. Hamberger; Vice Presi-
dent, Mr.. Josiah Cohen: Treasurer.
Charles Zugsmith: Corresponding secre-
tarv, Mr.. Theodore Kaufman; Board o; Di-
rectors, J. d. Bernd. S. Rodelheim, s. Kauf-
mann. M. Kingsbacher, b. Forst: House Com
Snverman, G. Kaufman. Louis Himmelrich.
The annual dues are $50 and the entrance
fee is the same. No man except he is a MEM
Der is admitted. and only the wives, sisters
and daughters of members are permitted to
form the feminine contingent. They are
not subject to any fee.
THE commencement exercises of the
Fits burg Academy were helQ IN the Grand
Opera House last night, wher u varied and
elaborate programme was gone through.
The following young girls and boys
received graduation honors: Classical
course, Meredith Reed Marshall, Henry
Park Easton; scientific, Frederic Alter
Hemphill John Nelson Bennett, Thomas
Chalmers Davis, William Pierce.
INVITATIONS have been issued by the
trustees and the faculty OF the Shadyside
Academy for the closing exercises, to be
held on next Tuesday evening at 8 O'Clock in
Dilworth Hall, Pennsylvania College for
Women. The class is composed of John
Isaac Eowes, Thomas Benton Clark, David
Hayden Collins, William Sutton Dickson,
William Smith Ferguson, Henry Darling
ton McCandless Earle Ramsey Marvin,
George Norris Morgan, Arthur Edmund
Pew, Henry Holdship Robinson, William
Henry Schoonmaker, David Speer and Doug
las Stewart.
M ISIS MARY E. MCKEAN, of Charleroi, a
sister OF Postmaster Mexican, will be mar
ried to C. F. Thompson. of Finleyville, next
Wednesday evening, June p. The wedding
will be q quiet one, only relatives of the
parties being invited. Miss
Mexican is a popular and attractive young
lady. She has host of friends and is well
known in Pittsburg. Those who have been
royally entertained on the Mexican farm