The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-11
PALACE FOR ABOYS' CLUB
New York East Side Organization
to Have a $500, 900 Home.
A Eive-Story Structure to Front on
TempJsins Square Appointments
Complete, From Big Plunge Baths
and Roof Garden to Billiard, Card.
and Concert Rooms and a Gym.

NEW YORK. Aug. 1.-THE Boys CIut
of the East Side, composed Of 600 member:
is to have new clubhouse to cost $780,, 600
The building will rival the structures o.
athletic organizations which number mil.
lionaires among their members.
Plans for tae building were yesterday
submitted at the Office of the Department
of Buildings by P. H Ohm, of No 269 West
Fifty second Street. architect of the pro-
posed clubhouse. Land has been purchased
upon which the building will be erected
and the officers OF the club are planning to
celebrate New Year by occupying their pa
latiaI quarters.
At the corner Of Tenth Street and Ave
nue. a. fronting upon ,Tompkins Square
Park, the Boys Club house viii be built
This site is within block of the borrowed
quarters now occupied by the club. in the
basement of No rs St Marks Place II
was the expressed wish of the boys that
their new quarters should be located in the
neighborhood where the club was born
twenty seyen years ago. and where it has
grown and thriyed
According TO the plans which have been
accepted. the building Will be five stories in
! height. The roof viii also be utilized, and
in one corner of it there Will be Constructed
a court for hand ball, while chairs and set
tees viii occupy the remaining space. This
Will afford a place for the members of the
club to take refuge from the heat on sultry
summer nights The facade OF the building
viii be of ornamental brick trimmed with
stone, and the structure will cost about
So, C0G.
1t is the intention of the building COM
mittee to devote most of the expenditu c
10 Improving the interior Everything will
be constructed OF the hardest material, 20
stand alike the ravages OF time and some
rough treatment from the club mGmb rs
who have not been bred in crystal paias es
/ There is no regulation OF tae club prohibit
ing rompirg, and the enjoyme Mt of the b Us
within IS enormous, their neighboEs i :
clare. il it Is gagged by the noise which
hoats through the windows OF the present
quarters.
Athletic training is one OF the PRINCIPAL
features of the club. The two upper SO
res viii be given over exclusively TO the
gymnasium and the plunge baths There
is an effort being made to obtain a sw N
ming tank, and if it meets with success
the pool viii probably also be placsd on
the fourth floor.
Below the gymnasium there viii b a
large hall or reception room. As the So
cial side of the club develops there VIII be
ladies days and then this room may lie
utilized fer dancing In the immediate
future, however, the club meetings vii
be held there, together with gee club en-
certs and an occasional amateur vaudeville
performance
On the second floor arrangements have
been made for a reading room, card rooms,
and 2 recreation hall where the club boys
may chat and smoke Offices and a bill
lard room viii be on the ground floor. and
in the basement there viii be two bowling
allies.
Il was two years ago at dinner in the
Union League Club that the project 10 give
the boys club permanent home was first
discussed In a short time the managers
Of the club were able tc announce that
when a suitable site co Id be found the
money 10 build club .louse would be
forthcoming.
Edward n Hartman, F. Norton Cod
dzrd, Henry o Taylor.s:G Thomas Wy
man Porter we're cncse. as a committee
to bI -Dg the matter 10 : successful finish.
As soon as the building contract can be
awarded ground viii be broken for the
clubs paIatial abode.
The sole mission OF the club is the social
uplifting and physical perfection OF boys
and men of-the east side whom i can
reach. 1t Is supported by private charity
and dues Of from I TO j cents a week from
its members. No religious denomination
assumes 10 guide il. and the benefit de-
rived is designed to come wholly from the
hUmanizing Influence Of sesf-cultuTe
With rapidly scarcely to be credited.
the membership Of the club has sprung
from about fifty members to between five
and six hundred. The exact number is not
cent a week may Join the junior class and
Pnioy the privileges OF the club.