The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-08
TILE CLUB TO MEET AGAIN.
X. a. .ABBEYS VISIT REViVES
A SOCIETY ONCE NOTED.
4 Dinner 20 He Give I'm ]" Honor ~
the Salamaxundi Ciub - VINO
Belonged To the ! and Their MICA
names Its Discovery Of Ions Island
and the Famous lanai Boat TIP.

During the stay in New York OF Edwin
A. Abbey, X. A.. otherwise known az The
Chestnut" in the innermost circles OF the
Tile Club. the living remnant OF that mys-
FERROUS body will be entertained at dinner
by the S~almagundi Club. The dinner
will probably occur on Dec. %.
The Tile Club may well be characterized
as mysterious, for 1t had no ~discoverable
beginning or ~perceptible ending. and.
true to itself, It has left no record behind
except a ~suInptuous folio volume bouno
In vellum and published In 1881. which
was written In part by The Bone whose
mundane name was Earle Shinn. and COM
pleted by THE OWL" who is otherwise
known az +. Hopkinson Smith. This
volume, with signed illustrations. on japan
paper, Ia no record at all. for neither dH'"
nor name Of a single Tler appears etw"'t
its oovers-only some badinage between
persons whose names are lame jokes or
sad puns, like Ca Gut and 'lcicle.
The drawings are by -Terrapin.' The
Puritan" THE Griffin" -Briareus. IA =
MUM THE Chestnut The Owl The
Bird OF Freedom The Saint, The Bull
garian.- The Englishman,' The Pagan,
The Bishop" SIRIUS The Marine.
-The Beaver. : and The Hawk and 'lcicle. :
"The Terrapin- was nom other tn an
Frederick Dielman. now the dignihed
President Of the National Academy OF
Design, who was thus reminded Of his
native Baltimore.
THE Puritan" was the Tile name for
George Boughton OF the Royal Academy.
who was made an honorary member OF the
club. His certificate of membership was
-. .n r.nF,lrnant
To this instrument the members signed
their names and affixed their seals.
Its ewness however, offended their
sense Of what a parchment certificate
should be, 90 in order to give it z and
character they played a game OF studio
football with Il, trarnpled upon IL, stained
II and abused il until the club was ex-
hausted. The sheepskin was then smoothed
out and forwarded to London, where 1t
hangs to-day in an antique frame in the
London studio OF The Puritan.
The Griffin was the Tile name for the
landscape painter r.. Swain Clifford, and
-Briareus- was short for William NJ. Chase;
Cadmium was Alden Weir: The Saint.
Augustus ST. Gaudens. the sculptor; The
Bulgarian, Frank Millet, who was a famous
wal correspondent in the Russo-Turkish
War, before he became still more famous
THE Englishman- was Alfred Parsons.
the protrayer in illustration Of English
landscape; The Pagan" was Elihu nedder.
whose home was Rome. The Bishop
was Gedney Bauer. whose Venetian marines
were usually Indicated az To the waterline
by one dash OF a crayon point j.
Sirius -The Marine and The Bird OF
Freedom were Charles Stanley Retnhart.
The Beaver was sometimes called The
Builder'-otherwise plain Stanford White;
For Hawk read George W. Maynard; for
"~Icicle.- A. B. Frost.
The Boarder" was Charles w. Truslow,
a friend of the Chestnut. and there Was
Waiter Paris, in whose studio at I Union
Square the Tile Club was born; and there
was a certain Wimbridge away hack IN the
dim '7Os, who embraced the ancient faith
OF Buddha and vanished with the hlgh
priestess Of theosophy. Nine. Blavatsky.
II was In the late '70s that the Tile Club
evolved itself from the foam OF the beer,
and in the following decade II faded out OF
view. leaving behind IT an empty. house,
skulking behind a decent row oil Tenth
street dwellings-and Daniel.
Daniel was the body servant OF Briareus.
and wa lent to the club for special occasions
by that painter. When The " stamped
on the parlor floor and cried Put '"tn IN.
Daniel meaning the oysters or the chops
or the rarebits. a sepulchral woke would
Ia heard among the coppers bclo" saving
I'm dey 90, sah:' and In due tima Daniel.
bowing double az each step. would appear
with the feast on a platter.
II wa the Tile Gu thai discovered Long
Island on its first jaunting trip by rail,
and reported 20 the artists at home, WHO
in the years that followed focked Ia Past
Hampton and Cold Spring Harbof. Water
Mil and Port Jefferson
The Tile club was famous for IL outings,
and the greatest Of all It's tourn"vs was
The canal boat tnp through the Northern
Canal o. lake Champlain To drcorat"
this boat the studio- ~ all the menfrr-
gave up their rugs and hanging tapestries
and costumes
one long saloon, exceTt - coph galley,
~ the rear. which was pre-adet over 10y
Daniel Co,s which seTvt~i a. bs1r al ught
were divsns bv day "oN"rsi WIN rich IRA
p.ri-s The rough walls ~ this old pufato
boa, were bidder Nv z'lken hanging and
Iapans-s co-tume-. AMI ~ she pull'si out
FROM the dork Turkish rlgr swept che water
along the -id.,- q this Clsopatra's barge
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