Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-02
0AEEY HALL BUDGET.
Notes Of Travel in New York Club
dom and References
To the Best Clubs-Libels on Them
Answered Their Classification,
Differences and Specialties-
Prominent Ones Dissectsd.
From on Rogular CorrespOndent)


From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, January 81, 1896.
The first month of the new leap year
closes under flying colors that satisfac-
torily stream over society mansions,
business empOriums, Mayor Strong 5
City Hall and the one hundred and
three clubs Of this metropolis.
A CLUB SURVEY.
Club life here transcends in extent,
comfort, popularity and influence that
OF any other city abroad or at home;
and I have had occasion to practically
study the subject in several foreign or
domestic capitals. Of the foregoing
number-many without distinct prem
Uses Of meeting. and TO some extent OF
casual attendances-Only the following
can really be called clubs, and I mention
them in their order Of precedence pop
uiarly considered:
CLUBS PARTICULARIZED.
The Union League, the Union, the
Manhattan, the Press, the Lotos, the
Century the Colonial. the New York
the KnickerbOcker, the Calumet, the
Yacht the Jockey, the Racquet and
Tennis the Lambs. the Players. the
Reform, the ST. Nicholas, the Grolier,
or Mss. Club. the Engineers. the Au-
thOrs, the Metropolitan or Millionaires,
the United Service, the University, the
Bar. the Aldine, the Catholic. the
Church: and of college societies, the
Stigma Phi. Alpha Delta. Psi Epsilon
and Delta Phi. The character Of each
club generally appears in its appella-
ton. Even those first named out
number al the London clubs. and
probably equal the number of all the
clubs aggregated from other cities OF
the Union. Each one named has spe-
cialty Of some kind, or some predomln-
ating social characteristic.
OUR CLUBBABLE CITIES.
New Workers and Chicagoans are
doubtless the most clubbable Of all
American citizens. Boston and Phila-
delphia are least so So clubbable are
New Workers that large numbers be-
long 10 several clubs and distribute
their attendance impartially. notice
from the official club list Of A. D. 90.
just issued-a directory volume Of some
three hundred pages-that Chauncey
Depew and Commodore Elbridge T.
Gerry, for instance. belong to ten New
York clubs and head the list OF al the
differentiated memberships. This calls
for yearly checks from them for dues OF
anywhere between $500 and $1,000. with
subscription calls for perhaps a hum
dred more on special occasions. Nearly
every clubbist in the directory belongs
20 az least two clubs, and the average
seems TO De four.
CLUB PREJUDICE ANALYZED.
Popular ignorance concerning club
life is great and curious. especially
among clericals and women. The re-
sprcuve prejudices and jealousies Of
these are odd. Our mutual friend Box.
dear reader informs me that he was re-
Gently called upon to rebuke one OF his
clerical acquaintances on the subject
who declared club TO be a hell cham
0er-a refuge for misdoing husbands.
or primary school for demoralizine
young men. an interference with domes-
tic happiness and a nursery for g!ut-
tony and drunkenness.
BOX ANSWERS A DON Glorious.
Don Glorious was much asronisbea
when Box, out of his abundant experi-
ence with men and mundate matters.
convinced him TO the contrary. But II
is unfortunate that our American sys-
TEN OF theological seminary education
is calculated TO prevent divinity stu
dents from obtaining that thorough
knowledge Of human nature as II exists
ana is ramihed, which would seem nee
eSsary in soul saver. One reason
why Episcopal Bishop Potter and Cath
ono Nicar-General Father Ducev are so
successful in their pulpits and in con-
tact with congregations is that while
or the church Christly each is also Of
the world. worldly; and each appre-
ci3tes the meaning of the text about
calling sinners and not the righteous
TO repentance. As Henry Ward Beecher.
another divine az the same class. used
to say: St. Paul made so grand a
preacher because he had first been a
wicked sinner at Damascus. Al
though Bcecher did not believe that il
was necessary for every preacher to be
graduated first as a sinner: nor. with
Dr. Parkhurst. that il was advisable TO
personally witness a bagnio circus be-
fore you could undertake the much
discussed social evil
BISHOP POTTER CLUBBABLE.
7 never passed a more clubbable hour
than the one I spent one morning in
1889 IN London aJ the French Club
with Bishop Potter. at a breakfast given
by the then Dean of the Savoy Church.
into which the club windows looked
There was not phase Of human life
touched upon with which Bishop Potter
was not found an c0urant He also be-
lleFes with Beecher. that a physician
can learn an about leprosy. if he
chooses. from books. without living
among lepers or visiting their nest
houses.
A WORTHY THEOLOGICAL PRO
FESSOR.
Another New Yorker who well be-
comes his position as a clerical who
has studied human nature ana believes
In the necessity Of its study for dfvsn-
ity tudenJs is the Rev. Dr.. Thomas
Hastings, presiden, of the Union Theo-
logical Seminary. 50 does his comrade
IN that institution, the much-persecu;-
ed DIT. Briggs, whom ignorance Of HUI
man nature by his assailants have
made b-gots. Is not every bigot an
isnoramus as 20 human nature? There
fore there is nothing squeamish about
that theological seminary, and its grad
yates may be relied upon to become ac-
compGSled pastors. The same may