The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-04

Home of the Board Of Trade.
Something About the Building, the
Club aud the Board.
The towering Board of Trade build
ing now finished as far as work upon
its exterior and main construction ar.
concerned is undergoing the finishing
treatment on its interior and already
stands as a graceful and substantial
evidence Of the Scranton push that
caused its erection. by the eNi of
January ii will embrace two things,
which, like the structure itself. are eN-
ponents of the city's high business tone.
Contained i'm the building will be the
headquarters of the board of trade i'm Il
part of its eighth floor. and the Scran-
ton club in the whole of the seventh
and a part of the story above. The
one organization representes the body
that has done a large part toward
making Scranton the foremost busi-
ness anthracite coal center in the Unit
ed States and the other embodies the
aggregation of business, financial and
professional men who have developed
the city and who in turn have been uc-
velOped by their own creation. Inc
club offer three resources for interest
ing comment.
S235,OOO INVESTED CAPITAL.
1t cost $4,000. including interst. for
the real estate and SlS5OOO. including
elevators, boilers and all fixtures, to-
tai of $235,000 invested capital. A stock
company the Board of Trade Building
company, owns it. G. Parker David
son is president of the company. Arthur
ID. Dean treasurer. and ID. b. Atherton
secretary. The board of directors is
composed of President Davidson. chair
man; Mr.. Dean. L. B. Sturges. Captain
w. A. May, 4. Fl. Watkins. Major Ev
erett Warren, Major James w. Oak
ford, eX-Justice Alfred Hand ana l.. NJ.
Gates. NJ. ID. President Davidson. Ma
jor Oakford and Mr.. Atherton comprise
the committee on rentals. In the erec-
ton of the structure by the contractor,
Conrad Schroeder. the work was under
the direction of the following building
committees: A. w. Dickson, chairman;
James A. Linen. Colonel Fl. NJ. Boies,
+. Il. Sturges and President Davidson.
1t is a gratifying coincidence that be-
speaks success for all three bodies that
the gentlemen mentioned are particu-
larly interested in the building. the
ON or about Dec. Is the structure will
be finished. According to contract Mr..
Schroeder was to have finished the
work Nov. l, but the delay was caused
by changes in the plans and other
things for which the building company
was largely responsible and which will
not make the enforcing of the penalty
clause in the contract probability.
Office tenants will probably be in full
possession of their part of the build
ing by January IL.
BOARD OF TRADE QUARTERS.
Three rooms on the top floor. the
eighth, will comprise the board of
trades home. One of these is large
assembly or meeting hall 20 by SO feet
extending across the back of the build
ing. Opposite the elevators will be the
secretary's room and the library and
committee room. all three reached from
the public corridor and connecting en-
suite. The furniture will be of quar-
tered oak. Even the floor of the
big hall vii lbe of quartered
oak polished. and this space can
he cleared and used for banquets, social
assemblies or whatever similar affairs
the board chooses to give.
In furnishing the apartments only the
the aim being to continue the board
of trade along all its lines on a broa {,
scale and par equal to that of repre-
sentative commercial bodies in other
large cities. The furniture has been
purchased. and the committee having
that matter in charge is now ready to
close its bargainings for carpets, cur
tains and the like.
SCRANTON CLUES HOME,
The Scranton club will have its cul-
mary department, several private din
ing rooms and a ladies' reception parlor
on the eighth floor. The seventh floor
will contain the public dining room
several private dining apartments, bill
lard room, smoking room, and cafe
reading rooms and parlor. In purchas-
ing the equipments for the rooms the
committee has spared neither taste nol
expense, and while the quarters will
not be so large. they will be furnished
with magnficience equal to that OF
any club in the state. The floors will
be of polished quartered oak, and the
furniture of the same wood.
The furniture, dining and other fur
nishings, have already been purchased
with the exception Of the rugs. cur
tains, bric-a-brac and similar articles
Concerning the details of club man
agement, the governing board has not
finished its work. A number of the
servants have been engaged, however
and now negotiations are pending for
a steward. a likely candidate seems
to be one who served eight years as
steward of the University club, and
another eight years with the Sehawan
ka Yacht club, both of New York city
1t is probable that certain days in the
week will be designated on which la
dies who are relatives of members but
unaccOmpanied by gentlemen may
procure lunch in some of the private
dining apartments to be set aside for
that purpose. On any day during GER
tain hours members may entertain
ladies at lunch.
LAST AND BEST.
So. during January when the board of
trade organization, the club and the
tenants possess the building there will
have been in operation another one Of
the creations Of pluck and confiden ce
of Scranton business men. 1t stands
now around the corner from the Tribune
building an evidence Of the expansion
of the city's trade. and is the last ard
best of the several structural monu-
ments leading to the locality on Wash
ington avenue toward which trade is