Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-01
NEW YORK's PROPOSED CLUB.
1t VIII Have the Usual Facilities and WI
Give Vaudeville Exhibitions,

~ VIII nave the Usual Facilities and VIII
Give Vaudeville Exhibitions.
The projectors Of q vaudeville club in New
York have been occupied for several weeks
past in preparing arrangements to launch the
scheme and place II intelligently before the
public. Encouragement in the shape Of SUBJ
stantisl financial aid from men prominent in
club and social circles has stimulated the men
In whose heads the plan was conceived, until
there appears TO be no doubt Of the success of
the organization.
The invitations to join the club have been
prepared and today will be sent out, but only
members Of the important city clubs will be
favored with one Of the letters, Q copy of
which is as follows:
"THE VAUDEVILLE Clue.
Dear Sir: Under the above title club has
been regularly Incorporated, which it il pro-
posed shall furnish its members with an evening
entertainment, consisting of music and thor
oughly high-class specialties Of q character at
present unattainable in New York Negoti-
atoms are now pending for desirable quarters
in central situation, which will be exclusively
occupied by the club and especially designed
Tor the comfort and convenience Of its mem
beers.
'The club house will be fitted up in the usual
way, with billiard room, reading room, grill
the stage OF which will be given performances
between the hours Of 10 and O'Clock nightly
during the season Of thirty weeks, beginning on
November and ending on June in each wear.
The concert room will be arranged as a cafe
and Will also contain a number Of private boxes
members can be served with supper and other
refreshments during the performances.
'No person residing within fifty miles of the
city Of New York. not being a member Of the
club, will be admitted to any part of the club
house, except to the private boxes. Members
will. however, have the privilege Of introducing
their wives and other ladies to the club rooms.
1.-The membership of the club will be limited
to 1900. The annual dues will be $50. PAYABLE
In advance. The first 1,500 members will be
considered original members and exempt from
the payment of an initiation fee. Any person
elected to the club after the membership shall
have reached 500 viii be required to pay an
initiation fee of 500.
"YOur attention is particularly called to the
fact that for the annual dues Of $50 the club
Will provide its members not only with the
ordinary club facilities. but also with a first
class performance nightly during a period of
thirty weeks.
The club being incorporated no member il
personally liable beyond the amount Of his
annual dues.
AN invitation to become a member Of this
club Is herewith extended to you. should Won
desire TO join kindly fill out the inclosed form
and send the same to Preble Tucker, secretary,
Ill Broadway.
For the board Of directors
'PREBLE TUCKER, Secretary"
lnclosed with the invitation will be card
bearing the name of the president, Reginald De
koven, and the board Of directors, Messrs,
Elisha Dyer, jr., Preble Tucker, John c. Fur
man, James Otis. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Oil
yer sumner Teall, L. Mayhem Wainwright, p.
Lorlllard Ronalds, jr., Prescott Lawrence, Leon
Marie and Stanford White
1t is proposed to make the organization one
OF the most select and unique in the United
States. While no site has yet been chosen for the
new club, there seems to be o strong predilec-
ton for the Madison Square roof garden. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Stanford White is already
engaged in making plans by which the present
agreeable spot in the air can be transformed
into a kind of winter garden. The plan sug-
gested Is to place the entire roof under glass,
erect new gallery around the sides for boxes.
lay out an attractive promenade shaded and
adorned by palms, towering plants and tropical
trees and change the situation Of the stage.
Tho plan in detail ia enormous, and. il carried
out. will provide New York with q novel iusti-
tuition.