The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-29

CLUBS REOPENING
The Coming Season Prom
Uses a Series of Bril-
liant Social Events.
pALMAs TAKE A BIG JUMP
Jersey City Club Will Take the
Place of the Old J. c. A. c.
Carteret House Cleaning.
PALMAs TAKE A BIG JUMP

in fuHS swing again. Members are ualiy
returning from the seashore and the
mountains and ropping into the old
familiar hunts in our Jersey City club
DOM.
Practically the club buildings have been
closed up since June Although OF course,
the precincts were open to members.
there was nothing going On. The libraries
were deserted, SO were the billiard
rooms, and even the card rooms had
temporarily lost their attraction. But
this week, one by one comes in
grabs a billiard cue and the rooms are be-
ginning to be lively at night. Commit
teemen are busting about and etvry
clubman knows what that means. In a
few short days the notice boards will
perhaps have some thing about stays"
and pool tournaments, and in more tina
one club there is already a movement
toward making up bowling teams and
arranging match games.
Perhaps there is only one club that
can boast of beginning the 1S94-5 season
with an increase of 100 names on its
membership from the spring, and that
is the Palma Club. e
PALMA's BIG BOOM.
Lik every other club the Palma Club
felt the reaction which usual sets in
after a lively season. Members become
Indifferent and get in arrears in dues.
While some clubs carried the delin-
quents along, hoping that they would
settle up others, and particularly the
Palma wouldn't tolerate half measures.
1t was pay up or out you go. Drop
ping the initiation fee, the managing
trustees started a bold plan which has
succeeded to an extent far beyond their
hopes. More than one hundred new
member lave come in, and the Palma's
will begin d season strong in number
and in esprit de corps. The Board OF
Trustees, composed of able and long
headed fellows, will soon begin with an
attractive list of features which will
maintain the high degree of popularity
the club enjoys. 81
JERSEY CITY'S NEW CLUB.
From the ashes of the Jersey City
Athletic Club p~hoenix-like rises the
Jersey City Club, which, in a few days
will assume all the liabilities, RESPONSE
bilities and obligations of the old club.
President William Brinkerhoff of the
new organization has appointed his board
of trustees, which will govern in future
the affairs of the club, and President
William P. Chesley of the old club has
named a committee of five to make
the transfer. The membership rod of the
new concern is steadily filling, and when
the trustees assume control, it is believed
that there will be at least 450 member
to start with.
Once in command the trustees will in
~augurate a policy which, If carried out
vigorously, cannot fail to be for the
OF ganization's benefit.
NEW Jersey CLUB.
The Oldest chartered club in the State
begins it's season in a most encouraging
way. President Alva A. Bedell says
that the club is financially sound, and
they W nc lack of members. In
deed there is a waiting list. The billiard
rooms lave been cleaned and painted,
the tables carefully inspected and re-
paired where necessary, and the cues
renewed and %retipped, a small, but high
ly important thing in itself. Upstairs In
the library some slight changes have
been made. and in the furnishing of the
card rooms. 1t is the intention of the
Board of Governors to arrange a series
of stays for the coming season. anyone
who has never attended a New Jersey
Club stag is in the position of the man
who has not seen Seville.
CARTERET"S SNUG HOME.
The coy clubhouse of the Carteret
Club on Bergen avenue has been put
into first class order for the return of
it's members. Not a place has been over
looked, and every thing conducive to
| the comfort and convenience of the mem
bers has received careful attention from
those deputed to superiptend the sum-
mer cleaning. President George H.Smith,
| assisted b. an excellent House Commit
tee, has labored to make the clubhouse
a model. Tha they have so far been
| successful, is evident by the long list of
MEMBERS. land there's no deadwood
either remarked one of the enthusiastic
THE usual ladies' nights will take place,
and also billiard tournaments among the
BERKELEY'S HOUSE WARMING.
Members of the handsomely appointed
| Berkeley Club talk of opening the season
with a concert and a dance afterwards.
| it will surely be well done, according to
| the tradition of the Berkeley Club. Since
July thehouse has been cleaned from top
to bottom, and now presents a most in
! viting appearance. Like it's rival, the
Carteret, the club is in a sound condi-
ton as to finances and membership, and
begins the season without fear OF trem-
bling.
| the Dennis Mclaughlin Association, the
!, members of which will open their winter
| season and close the summer by a dance
at ~Pohimann's, on September II. Only
lately the association began a line of re-
! more firmly establishing this club in pub
lie favor. President Feeney is at the
| head, and hat means energetic manage
| ment in all departments.
The standard bearer is winding up a
long holiday at Monticello, N. Y, where
| he held a conference with some of his
| lieutenants last week. AS for the polit-
| ical side of the organization, in a few
| DAYS active preparation will be initiated
| for the usual fall tusse1 for power.
NEW JERSEYS LIVELY SEASON.
The winter season of the New Jersey
Bowling Club promises to be a most at
~tiactive one, and already the members
are making plans in the pretty club
house on Virginia avenue. During the
| year there. has been a little falling off
| in membership, but not as serious as
| in larger clubs close by. AS the Build
ing is comparatively new, repairs have
been trihing. The bowling alleys and
billiard. rooms are now in first rate con-
4 dition. and even now are well patron
lied by night. Messrs. Fred Wright,
John Rowe, Ed Moore and others In high
authority are getting down to business
and paying sharp attention to account
| and other matters.
Thoroughly established in its new
| home on Mercer street, the Old O'Neill
| Association is about to launc out with a
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