New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-29
TO DO AWAY WITH THE CLUB.
ACTION OF THE SOUTHERN SOCIETY'S EN-
ECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
THE BAR, RESTAURANT, BILLIARD AND CARD
ROOMS TO BE CLOSED-To BE MERELY
SOCIETY AFTER JUNE I.

ROOMS TO BE CLOSED-IO BE MEhELh
SOCIETY AFTER JUNE l.
Discussion was rife in the rooms of the Southern
Club No. Is West twenty -hfthst.. yesterday AFTER
noon over the action OF the Executive committee i'll
ordering the closing Of the bar. biard-room. card
room and restaurant on and after June 1. As this
means the abandonment of the features which are
the usual accessories of club. this action VIII put
the orc anization into the form OF society merely as
Il was first organized The change VIII De raulcAi
and complete. and opposition 10 it is forming so
that BY June IA, when meeting Of the club members
will be held to consider the course adopted by the
committee 1t is probable that some compromise
measures may have 10 he adopted
IL Is corfessedly true that the restaurant Of the
club does not paw and only slight proportion OF
the members will object to its closing II seems
likely however that a large piop)rtion Will object
to the closing Of the bar About 10 per cent OF
the membership has used the clubhouse a. SUCH spend
ing their time there in true clubman msEior Another
lnrger percentage is drawn 10 the clubrooms less
frequently but most Of them when they do 90 theTn
desire ready means of securing liquid refreshments
Pully TOO or 500 members o. the organization are
said not to go near the house except ON rare coca
sions when some big affair is on hand. This large
contingent will be depended upon to Keep up the
society in case the action of the Executive Com
mit,ee is confirmed by the members. In any case
there intention OF giving up the present com
Portable clubhouse. Reading and writing rooms Will
BE- kept open, and the continuance of the billiard
and card rooms may be part of the compromise
The first intimation OF the Executive Committees
action was the posting OF a notice on the CUPS
bulletin board on saturday saying that II had been
determined TO away with all club features and re-
turn 10 the basis of the original organization. Ap-
pended to the notice typewriter statement OF
explanation stating that the Executive Committee
had decreed this imperative for two reasons
first that the bar, restaurant ana billiard room were
maintained financial loss; and, second, that The
club features had materially interfercd with the
original purpose of the organization, which was the
cultivation of a good fellowship among Newly orkers
who came from the South, with an occasional dinner
or reception and Che maintenance of a charity fund
The decision leading to the posting OF the notice was
arrived at at a meeting on Friday evening
The club features have been introduced into the
Southern society In the last five years. At first the
dues we're made $50, but il was found that the i'll
novauon did not pay. and the dues were raised to
$40 Last year the society found that its income
had been drawn upon that social features, such
US dinners receptions, could be gwen. ms spring
three receptions have been glVcn-iO Mrs custer ana
Mrs Pickett. Thomas Nelson Page ana +. HOpklHoh
smith-and their FASTENED the action OF the
Executive Committee. tnGcr rhc new plan ID" du"s
for resident members will be reduced 10 so ana Tor
nonresident members, to $40, and the initiation lee
viii be abolished. 800
The offers of the southern society are Charl.,
A. Deshon, president John r. Abney, vcc-f.Tl
dent; lIeth LOrOn. treasurer George Gordon Ba'iie
secretary The Executive Committee consists " Dr.
Marion j. Vcrdery DR.. Stuart Douglass. Percy ~
FcFerell, Robert L.. Harrison Peter Wallet Jolh
a. Faust, James L. johnson. Lorenzo Semple Thomas
Marshall and George IL. sullivan