Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-08-01
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one0fShc big clubs in this town were
marched in dress pnratfe the: array
woGld'be n decidedly Imposing ono; and
the size of the small army would sur
prise Hnybodywho had'not had occasion
TO Dccotnc familiar with the workings
Of the lcrger New YorlE clubs, says the
New York World. The Manhattan Ath-
!ctic club probably heads the list Of local
Hlubs-or American clubs, for that mat
5cr-in the number Of people who. wear
its livery, or at least draw money from
its treasury for attending to the wants
# its members. More than two hun
s?rcd men, women and boys arc regular
~ ciaployedin one eapGcityor another
IN the big Manhattan Athletic club
::ouse,| and ut times the attaches Of the
Tub house numbcrns high as two hun
''rcl and fifty. This small army COM
prizes door mon, hall boys, walters, bar
tenders. attendants ut the rifle range
shooting gallery, baths. and other dc
partmcnts, elevator boys, bool1lsecpcrs
accountants, engineers, flrcmcn, cham
OcrTnaids, cooks, "washcrwomen and
Scrubwomcn. '@' - :'i"t '.'v. e..
1lrmblG though some of these en-
ploycs arc, it costs money 70 secure
their moro or less professional services
for tho club, and the salary list is be:
tween fifteen hundred dollars AID two
thousand dollars n week. - r'
The Manhattan club, which probably
comes next IN the length of its salary list,
employs between one hundred and forty
i've and one hundred and fifty, ana pays
them Something over one thousand dol
lars IL week fer attending to the clrE
house ard the wants of the mca VIII
!iccp it a-going. The present AIanhat-
IAN AtnlEtia club house is comparatively
= me-" thing, and naturally many, if not
most, of its attaches arc comparatively
ncw-eo1acrs. /" but at the Manhattan
club, which is ono of the old club insti-
buttons eff the. town. m;lny of the help
have grown gray in the service. The
venerable female houscliccpcr, for in
stance. has put in a couple Of decades
coping things in order For the Man
.lattanitcs, abit q dozen Othrr employees
hare been. with tho club for y decade or
moro. There is one defa ,hinc:?t of the
Manhattan Glub'H employees whose very
existence is probably unknown to nine
tcnthS Of the clubs members Every
ono of this Qttachncnt is Of the fem
nine gender, and cHcry one il likewise
IF the color Of the acc of spades. The
women in question arc the. houscclcan-
crs, and put in their appearance 1T the
clubhouse about sunrise, nuke things
lively for Il couple of hours, and disap-
pear before the earliest meinbcriof tho
club has shaken OFF tile embrace Of Nor
phcus! De-. i" g. 49, .. 49,. -. e.. ,'.'
The Union league also has, big staff
Of employees, as may be imagined from
tho fact that i spends nearly ten thou
sand dollars every year in providing
them with Ivory. The New York Ath-
leti2 is another. calb whiph docs
large business intlfc way OF employees;
likewise the Union club, tho New York
club, the Lawyers club, and half o doz9
On other clubs on tlc Same order. At
most OF these clubs employees of dozen
or molc years standing may still bc
seen, and, in fact 9t any of the Hrss-
class clubs it, Is. the rule 10 retain the
doormcn, so long rs they bchaxe them
selves, in order to have at'least y couple
of servants WHO are familiar with tho
faces ofall the members. The Wnivcrsi-
ty club, of course, has IN fnmcnsc
rctinuc of servants, but, as. tho rul"
there sGeTas tobe to have :'shalle-uR
once q month or'so,. not more than half
dozen old-tinlG attaches of tho club are
to be seen at tho club house on Madison
avenue nowadays.
At the really Grstclass clubs an en-
dcavor Is rapdo to secure rs servants.
only serving people. who have had OK
pericnce in private families or other.
first-class clubs, but ut some, of the
clubs almost everybody who responds
to tho house committees adFcrtis0-,
mcnt Is taken on faith and given q
chance to don tho club livery. Tho
lawyers club is q notable exception to
clubs of tho last named order, the ut.
tachcs of that institution being particu-
larly we'll trained and disciplined. AL
most every ono of them, has seen service
in tho better class of New York fami-
lies and every ono of them thoroughly
understands his place. There is rarely