The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-21

by a University Club In Brooklyn. which
has been organized With n membership OF
i5 LANES. This BROOKLYN organization
hat grown naturally out Of the University
Glec Club. which has fiouri-hed over there
for several year. and ~ Brooklyn h a CITY
Of college men the new club has excellent
prospects Of sucCssss. Th"p' are IN New
York AZ least a score Of clubs Tor college
men ranging In -iDr from tho big Iniversiiy
Club. which admits to membership only men
who have obtained a degree from a college
OF university or have graduated from
West Point or ANNAPOLIS. down 10 some
very small college fraternity clubs Ia which
any member Of the fraternity i eiigibh"
whether he obtain,d hi degree or not
lalc, Harvard. Princeton and Cornell are
each represented 10y large clubs and every
Eastern college fraternity now has ia own
clubhouse. Some of the latter clubs have
beautifully appointed clubhouse 1hc
Women University Club. which viii open
It's house In East Twcnty-fourth street
next sc'k. viii start with = membership
large enough to guarantee expenses Tor
III" frs' war and ! will 10 run as are the
regular wom"n's clubs u London with the
omission ~ q smoking room. Tor which there
l. no demand
The new city prison which y being
crested a. tire old Tomh@ II demolished
l. more o~icerful Of exterior han was it's
predecessor. and by this so much the les
effective In inspiring awe. Its walls have
frightened the streets round u and until
II has a history Il cannot H. one Of tho sights
Of New York Except for its narrow-barrcd
windows there il little about it, exterior
To suggest a prison The old Tombs could
hardly nave been mistaken for anything
el-e. and IL easily ranked among the famous
prisons Of the world. In its courtysru
occurred many executions, and wilhln
i,s walls were confined the most notorious
criminals 81 New York for more than hall
n century Archi;ccturally, II was Egyptian
and al excellent example Of it, type Rev
eral days ago "a man Who was actiflg a.
Ciceroue To a party OF visitors called theu
attention TO the Bridge of Sighs. which
connects the city prison with III" New
Criminal Courts building across the street
He had told his guests all about the old
Tombs and mentioned IN" names OF hali a
doa"n well-known criminals who had been
inmates 81 II. Then be- added the state
mont that each Of them had walked across
that bridge to his trial. regardless Of the
fact that II leads 90 n comparatively new
building that stands ON a site never. occu-
pied by a court building before.
II some 81 tho uld-school lawyers and
brokers who were known 60 New York
twenty-five years ago could make a O u
of the downtown Offices occupied hy their
succ~~-ors they might SUSPECT that the
latter were cNtravagantly luxurious In
their surroundings In their day a law
yer's ONCE looked like a workshop and
~ bong ~ - furniture served It's purpose
T. did not matter whether II was artistic
or not and ordinary mating was good
enough for the foors. The change that
las come about In Office furnishing In
resent wears j. nov very noticeable. Quite
a. much attention Is paid 20 Decorating
aud furnishing them a. 20 the private
home % their owners One ut the large
bond firms In this city has oflces In which
tho hanging, furniture n sof rIgs repre-
sent an expense larger than the cquip-
mcnt Of "A W~cll-appointed private house
A brokerage firm hired Office a few weeks
agp In q new building that viii cost them
about $4,000 a year IN rent and they haN"
furnished them accordinsy Tn" man
who comes into the private orice 81 "A mem
h.r of the firm from the nous" 81 the busy |
street OUTSIDE experiences "A sense OF re-
lief and comfort that may make him more
amishls He walks on thick rugs or soft
carpets and h. sits In a beautifully made
chair that T. comfortable. N he " kept
waiting ~" may find excellent pictures
on tho walls and pleasing colors in IA"
Furnishings There are men IN New York
now who make a profitable specially u
tho designing and furnishing ~ hand-om"
Offices The rivalry among big firms for
handsome onice- i strong Apparently |
H. h a good business investment.
Tho Norfolk jacket for men i working
hack into popular favor 10y way Of the golf
l!nks, and a. fashions move In cycles, pos
sinly another year or two may restore this
stvie of coat 80 ,h~ genera. u-s and abuse
of II ~hich marked it, introduction more
than fifteen years ago A. a modified form
of the shooting coat II has long b~cn pop
ular in England. and u was taken up here
when tennis first began 70 boom and the
players wore knickcrbockerT and Norfolk
Jackets The coat wa.a novelty and within
two or three YEAR, men who follow the fash-
ions IN these matters and who did not wear
n Norfolk jacket either with Trousers or
knickerbockers were rare. IL was even
constructs 81 goods suitable only for more
formal dress and II was worn on all sorts
Of occasions until II became 30 common
that Il lost favor. II was simply worn to
a finish and In resent years very few such
such coats have h-snn worn even with hi
cycle suits Some 81 the crack golf players
have h+eu wearing Norfolk jackeLs, and
during this past summer an occasional man
would app+ar In one In this downtown dis
trici These 'UrCasioual men are usually
the ~forprunncrS Of the crowd, and we are |
likely 10 have another season or two %
Norfolk jackets without regard 10 their
particular u-e.
The campaign orator who invsdes the
Second district without special knowledge
Of the nationality 81 it, citizens will soon
find that he has undertaken a task that
would strain the linguistic knowledge Of a
professor II j. probably the most
cosmopolitan dist riot In New York and
crossing n street on. may e. from one
into another which arr differ
ent ia language and customs. Chinatown
T. heated there with its JOS Houses and it's
and opium joints and not far
aiove II II an Italian colony where the
customs Of the fHtherlsnd are preserved.
Across Park row IL a Greek colony
restaurants which serve Greek dishes
and advertise them with Greek signs hung
on the walls. There - n Hebrew colony
large enough To support several Hebrew
and many Hebrew restaurants.
an Irish and a German colony and many
The presence 81 these foreign
elements has a strong effect ou the Eng
lish hat 10 current. Hebrew. Chinese ard
German words that are particularly ex-
pre-sivc are 80 well understood that they
are incorpprated into the English Of the