Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-25
LONDON CLUBS.
Palatial Headquarters of Rival
Political Parties.
WAKEMAN's WANoERlNos
Famous Old Whites and lis Curious Betting
Book Genuine Comfort The Disiln.
gushing Characteristic oil all
The Club Rooms.
WAKEMAN'S WANDERlNGS
lcopygls4t 1899, BY Edgar L. waEemsn.j

Copyright 1893, by Edgar l., Wakemsn.l
For the Sunday Gazette.
London. June II. 1893.
Beaumont and Fletcher, johnson,
Shakespeare, Goldsmith. DIR. johnson and
Boswell, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Addison,
Burke, Steele. WnlpOle aud scores more
famous men OF lelers aud art, Ia their
time rcsurted 10 little, dingy old public
houses for coffee, ale, gaming aud eA-
change of a sort Of intellectual sayagrrli
the friction Of which undoubtedly pro-
yided a yrie and iiecdith inspiration,
aud the history Of these uhcicnt cohee-
houses, the lorrrunners of the great lson'
dOn clubs Of today, comprises almost the
social history Of English art and liters'
iure.
While there are at the present time
more than one hundred wealthy aud
noted London clubs there are really M
resorts answering the same purpose as
Toms" "Nil's' aud "Buiton's' Of lhc
Angustan literary period OF Anne The
Joyous ncighborhoOd OF C0Nent barden'
AZ Thackeray remembered II and IN
imltably described II, is only Joyous
nciphborh0od of mellow memories nnd
,he old.timp genial eluhlAnd nbout ST
lanes pulacc IL transformed into u
somber neighborhood which. likr the
newer clublands Of Picadilly and ran
Mail. l. oppressive In It's splehdor ana
M ~ III very old clubs of london still
existing like Arthurs Brooks, Whites
AMI ine Cocoatree. all located Ia 81.
lanes strcet. Whites is 10y far the most
noteworthy aud arisiorrntic, II u older
than the Bank Of England was te"lly
INC first OF the great English ciuhs az
they are known today. But II was never
the resort Of literary men ana wiz u
K nnrely A social club AMI IFS members
wa chiefly noblemcn aud those leaders
| - a5stncratic government, Including al
~ Envland's prime ministers from Wal
| u,la Ia pecl aud their powerful crl.
ieagues. who shaped nnionni hcasntf'
and controlled natural acquisition Ste'ln
clearly defined It's earliest siatns o. WI
as that Of the noted WI ..,i'a,,
sf;reciunr when he wrote ~ lhr ~
~, ,hat "all acrouuts Of gallAntfy'
IIa,snre aud eniertainment shall be
,,,jer the article OF Mai. Nho'o'
ulu'' tinnsrW while "Wlll's" was 70
furnish the poetry and the 'reelAn Tue
Whites is still undoubtedly the &, m ,s,
.,',nsive and arisiocratle elpb ~ hl'
I'LL 10 windows look ont upon we
1 NpIttu,,isn farad.. Of the almost as afistp-
~, ~ nd INTELLECTUALLY more slh'e3
| rsnservniiye club. opposite pn ~. 'ni'ss
Greet lis dinners are u. in IT, t,,,',
,annious known All Of the oll-illne . lsns
I ftab formally - nflt y. * ~. 4 fF....
All undoubtedly more hine-'loolen ~.
4. 1,,,,sn have oglcd fair ladies' IRON ~
h H,,lii',,s ,ow window thnn FROM any other
ILL.,, Mace in Britain. Perhaps y ma
~ ~, la.n the scene Ok the most dangerous
~ In Engad. but ihsre p 80 o,hel
! ,hs,slS aoclal resort In all ID. Muilu Nnft1
\ Eat,ine ha- beea ~ constant nniN'fftm. ~
"a nroyoked nu 70 slight pIeleN,
Any ,pfris,l-which could be 500 10y
.sa,,sa,ds of pounds forlts noble az ~,
tho e',s sirrntures has been preserved aAn
inys.in in ~. Thousands Of theae fesN
49, hsis are Of the most whimsits..i
| W cter comprising every l9pr',Iit -
,iaa-eeec u Judgment on nnnir, g I've
al.lri intrigue and politics iF1. ~
ai' few literal transcrlpuons Wi'h tne''
detSs lincoln bets Id- Winenlsea nAe
~ - ,a;nsa4 10 dfty Enlneas That me
hnrbrss Dowager Of Mar'D,,l. .s', ~ ~
i ", "er,iye the IMehes. j., n0Noe'f W
~ ~ slani Octr re ., l13t
~ ~ IA Nonffori bets Mr. w; tanai,ss,
l'D .,,o,,,.ss nat Lady JuAon has ,,nha
haH ssil,e before Lady burirish' 'rA'
Al, Halfour bets Lord coyneham iel
49, ~ 6ra that Buonaparie ~ antr
,,,aaths after the comuelts 1 Z, y
aA.,ii;iiss between England and Finner'
Mas 4 = r s bets Mr. cashes Corn