New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-06
FOR TPTOU.N BUSINESS MEN.
INCORPORATION OF A NEW CLUB BY MEN
WHO WORK ABOUT FIFTH-AVE. AND



WHO WORK ABOUT FIFTH-AvE. AND
TwENTY-THIRD-sT
a club Incorporated yesterday in the IA.
terest OF doing business in the neghborhood
OF Fifth-ave and Twenty-third-st 1t will be known
as the Uptown Association, and its objects are 70
promote social intercourse and give facilities for
luncheon for the men doing business in that part
OF the city. There many restaurants in that
region OF the city it is true but there has long been
a feeling among the leading business men there
that they ought to have some pleasant club. some
thing like the Downtown Club or the Merchants
Club where they get their luncheon. 1t is not
said that this is the handspring OF the foundation
OF the Uptown Association but the members Of
the club cannot help surveying with complacency
the pleasure OF sitting down a quiet luncheon In
the middle OF the day and knowing exactly who are
likely TO be In the with them.
The lncorporators of the club Robert
Maclay president OF the knickerbocker Trust
Company; John i. Townsend. president OF the Bow
cry Savings Bank Charles T. Cook. OF Tiffany 4
Co: Charles Il. Fosdck president OF the Hide and
Leather Bank; Horatio ~ Fraser president Of the
big drug concern No. 262 Fifth-ave; +. Frederic
Gunther, OF the well-known fur firm OF Gunther &
Co, In Ffth-ave near Twenty-third-st; 1sidor
Straus, OF Macy & Co.. John Sioare. OF W. & J.
Sloane John j. Sinclair. Charles Scribner OF the
well-known publishing firm Hobart J. Park, Of
Park & Tilford Isaac Stern. OF Stern Brothers.
teenth Street Bank: Washington Wilson. OF No. g
East Seventeenih-st., OF the firm OF Earl Wilson,.
William Baumgarten. OF Baumgarten Co, No. 81
Fifth-ave; John w. Aitkn. OF Aitkln. Son Co.;
William Schickel. OF Schickel & Co: H. Blanchard
Dominck. OF Dominck q Haff Henry j. Harden
bergh. architect. OF No. 10 West Twenty thiri-s,.
and Edward L. Hatch. OF the firm OF Lord & Taylor.
The directors OF the newly organized club six.
teen In number, including all OF the corporatorA
with the exception Of William Schcke. +. Frederic
Gunther, Robert Maclay and Charles Scribner.
The initiation fee will be not less than Sl0Q
About two months ago John Sloane. John w.
Aitkin and Isaac Stern happened to meet and
pressed the wish that such club should b
formed These three men took 1t upon them
selves to see number OF the leading merchants
In that pert OF the city. and about hundred
OK them expressed a willingness 10 enter upon
such an enterprise. and asked that twenty
take 1t upon themselves to take the initiative in
organizing the club. The twenty men, whose
names have been given as ncorporators met two
weeks In the office OF John W Aitkin,
Eghteenth-st and Broadway and appointed .
subcommittee OF five for the purpose OF taking
active steps toward securing a charter and in
cooperating such club meeting OF the sub
committee Will be held to-day to decide whether
the club Will lease building OF its own. or lease
the top floor OF the Constable Building In Eigh.
feminist and Fifth-ave
A member OF the club said to Tribune reporter
yesterday: 1T is not likely that we will build .
clubhouse at present although in the course OF 9
year or so. II the success of the club justiies II
we will probably put up A building in Fifth-aye.
will not be surpassed by either the Downtown Club
any other similar club. FOR architectural beauty
what of leasing the house on the east side OF Nad.
son Square; the south corner OF Twenty nth ST.
while, en- the ether hand, some of us think that
the top floor of 'be Constable Building would b
best suited for cur purposes"