The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-28
HOB0KEN'S COLUMBIAS.
Grand Fancy Fair in the
Clubs Beautiful New
Club Home.
MODEL PLEASURE HOUSE.
Architectural Features of the Build
ing = Bowling Alleys and
Promenade.

The fair of the Columbia Club of Hobo.
ken, which opens tonight at the clubs
| beautiful new clubhouse at Eleventh and
| Bloomfield streets. promises to be one OF
the leading social events of the season.
1t will continue all the week. On Wed.
nesday and Saturday afternoons it will be
open for children, for whom a special
programme will be presented.
AT the opening this evening, General
| Martin L. Mcmahon of New York is ex.
| pected. Every evening Prof. Cranmer's s
orchestra will render concert music. The
booths have been erected in the main
hall on the second story and are beaut1-
| fully decorated with bunting and flowers.
| They are heavily laden with costly art
icles. The several committees have been
untiring in their work, and the result is
completeness in every detail that guaran-
tees success and an enjoyable time to
| those who attend.
THE NEW BUILDING.
Some weeks ago The JERSEY CITY
| NEWS published the history of the or
ganiZation. and the plans for the grand
fair which begins tonight. A description
OF the new club house is opportune.
The style OF architecture is modern
Romanesque, somewhat eclectic. and the
building presents varied and beautiful
appearance. with its arched and square
windows, peaks. brick piers, tower and
bay windows. 1t is ornamented with Il
handsomely carved head of "Colum bia"
on the Eleventh street front. 1t is three
stories high, with a basement and attic
ana is "a feet from ground level to
peak of tower. The founda-
tion, up to the water table,
Is of trap rock, twenty inches thick, and
Is laid on concrete bed eight feet below
the street level. The walls of the build
ing are twelve inches thick. built of best
hard burned brick. and faced with light
mottled buff brick, trimmed with Lake
Superior cut stone. The two fronts verge
into tower on the corner of Bloomfield
and Eleventh streets. and the extreme
ends of both fronts are ornamented with
bay windows extending to the second
story.
The main entrance to the building is on
Bloomfield street. The front doors, which
are of oak, are massive and open into q
vestibule fooled with Mosaic tling.
Passing the vestibule doors. which are Of
plate gl@Ss, one is ushered into corridor
10x42 fet t, from which doors communi-
cate with all the rooms on the first floor
10 the right is the office, and at the
southerlv end are the eDtrances to the
main pallors, consisting of two rooms,
13x25 feet and 21x24 feet respectively,
occupying the entire Eleventh street
front of this floor. These rooms are
finished in mahogany. 10 the left of the
vestibule is the reception room, finished
In dark cherry aud ~oeRaraaptsd~ with, a
mantle to match. At the uortherly end
of the corridor is the billiard room, which
occupies the entire end of the building
and which is 3314x35 feet, affording am
pie space for four billiard and two pool
tables. The room is finished in light
cherry aud has large and massive oak
mantle, which, togsther with the hand
somely Ornamented wood ceiling, makes
| it the finest billiard room of its size in the
State.
THE SECOND STORY.
At the back of the stairway leading to
the second floor, Is a large corridor open-
| ing into the ladies' parlor. reception
\ room, library, two card rooms and an en-
| tertainment hall. The ladies' parlor oc-
| cupes the easterly corner Of the Eleventh
street front aud is 13 by 16 feet. 1t is
| furnished in mahogany and has hand
| some mahogany mantel with bevel plate
| glass. Connecting with this room is the
| ladies' dressing room. The westerly
| corner is devoted to the library, finished
| in dark cherry, with mantel to match.
| Between the two rooms, and connecting
| with them. il a small reception room. the
| division between it and the ladies' par
| lor beng effected by a beautifully carved
archway. Between the library and en-
| tertainment hall are two card rooms.
| The entertainment hall is one of the
| most delightful of it's kind. 1t is 36x4S
| feet, and occupies the northerlv portion
| of the second floor. 1t is fitted with. a
movable stage fifteen feet square. 1t
| has an open roof, from floor TO peak
| being thirly-five feet. This hall will be
| used for dancing. concerts and other en-
| fertaiuments as we'll as for a gymnasium
1t will be fitted up with movable gym
nastic apparatus of the most approved
pattern. The strongest feature of the
second floor is the magnificent prone
made the arrangement Of the rooms
affords, All are connected by double
sliding doors, and when thrown open,
afford promenade of $50 feet In length.
Up ANOTHER FLIGHT.
On the third floor is a banquet room,
with n seating capacity for 200. Here
also are the Kitchen. janitor's quarters,
committee room lavatory, dressing room
and store room. Overlooking the ball
room on this floor Is a large balcony. In
the dressing room is a large bath, with
shower. The room is fitted up with lock-
| ers for the use of those members using
the gymnasium.
Over the grand staircase is a large
dome, with colored glass skylight. The
roof Is supported by seven large trusses.
WAY DOWN STAIRS.
The entire basement, 92x37 feet, is
given up to the six bowling alleys. These
alleys are considered the best in the
State.
Everything considered, the new home
| of the Columbia Club is n credit to the
| members and an ornament to the City of
Roboken.