Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-06
THE REOPENED HOUSE.
The spick Span Pittsburg Club Is Shown
to the Admiring Four Hundred of the
Two Ciries-A Representative Gathering
There-Other Affairs.

The Spick Span Pittsburg Club Is Shown
to the Admiring Four Hundred of the
Two Cirfes-A Representative Gathering
There-Other Affairs.
AFTER being in the hands of architects
and decorators almost for a year, the Pitts
burg Club reopened last night, and in honor
of the event, within it's doors, there was as
brilliant and large q gathering as ever
marked an event, solely Of o social nature.
The usual awning at the club theater
door told the story of 8 function
within; for even on this notable oc-
casion the iron-bound rule was no tannulled
which forbids a woman, or a man who is
not a member, to cross the "threshold Of the
great front door," This was locked and
barred and remained so all evening. The
house was profusely arranged by John r. &
A. Murdoch with flowers, beginning with
the foyer and extending into the theater, up
the connecting stairways and throughout
the house proper in the many numerous
appropriate places. An orchestra was
stationed in niDo the house 3ns propeF5
stage in the club theater where the dancing
was carried on. The general plan o. the
house has not been much disturbed, except
ing in that part belonging to the domestic
establishment already described in THE
DISPATCH, but the general effect of the re-
Punishment and decoration is that of n
than heretofore.
Nine o'clock was the hour mentioned in
the invitations, and as this meant any time
until l2 the full quota of guests was not
present until midnight. About 800 guests
were present, many regrets being received.
sent by people living away from here and
the many whom the season has plunged in
mourning. A number of the ladies
representing the receiving committee,
wives OF the officers and governors,
were through this latter cause kept
sentation was present. The entire club was
open, the bar connected with the billiard
room being suitably screened off and every
semblance of cloven foot or horn success
fully screened from the eye of the fair con-
tingent present. The reception, one OF the
most successful in the annals OF the Pitts
burg Club, did not come TO u close until or
O'Clock this morning.
Since Madame Del Sarte's very success
full causeries at Mrs. Schoonmaker's house,
society is beginning to wonder why home
talent is not sought out and lioniZed- There
are many exceedingly clever young men
and women, who are starving intellectually,
and having their abilities warped for want
OF sympathetic atmosphere. 1t IS
certainly = fact that brains is not the
card which alone will introduce a young
person possessing more than ordinary IN
telligence to PittSburg drawing rooms, un-
less that person be lucky enough not to
claim this happy SPOT for his rthplace.
This is city whose society has always been
remarked for its generous patronage OF
visiting talent. and it would be delightful
laurel. indeed, for it to wear, should it,
henceforth, include the clever of its own
rearing, in lavishing tokens of its love.
THE members of the Johnstown Core
spondents' Association who attended the
dedication of the Conemaugh Valley Hos
pital on Thursday were charmingly enter
tanned by a. J. Haws and Ell. J. Haws at their
home on Vine street. During the flood the
newspaper men were also the guests of Mr..
Haws, in that he was the owner of the
cement mill and the brick kilns in which
they made their headquarters. The dinner
Thursday evening was the most powerful
argument yet produced to show how the new
JohnStown surpasses the old.