The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-05
IfS Completion Means the FruifiOn Of Plans Which When First Suggested Were ThOughf by Some 70 be Wholly Ln7praCtiCabIe-In Indicative Of GrOWrh and Prosperity Of fhe City,

The billiard room is a magnificent apart ment, twenty-seven by fifty-ive feet, and is superbly equipped. The secretary's office and the check rooms are on the first floor. The buffet, where the members may sit about and. smoke and have things Is also on the first floor, and Is done In old English
 The entire interior is finished in hard wood, the main corridor being eleven by sixty-four feet. and having its arched doors into the lounging and billiard rooms designated by columns with orna- mental frieze. The panels will be orna- mented with the clubs monogram.
 The broad stairway Is lighted by an im- mense window of stained glass and leads into a long corridor, corresponding to the one below.
 The ball room is a beautiful interior and is thirty-seven by sixty-four feet with height of twenty feet.
 The hangings will be of lace and vel ours the exquisite Empire green selected as the most effective setting for the many brilliant gatherings that will assemble there.
 Mahogany is used on the second floor the ladies and gentlemen's cafe keing richly done and finished in mahogany and leather. The card rooms are on the sec- ond floor and are also furnished in ma i hogany. The basement has been utilized :, for the kitchen and the dumb walters solve the problem of having the cafe on 1 the second floor.
 Nothing has been overlooked that would l add to the comfort of the members. Every feature was planned for the con venienee of the individual member and the club house is in every respect ideally 1 comfortable and one of the most elegant and luxurious of modern clubs. i Even with the unavoidable delay in the arrival of much of the club furniture, the 1 beauty and completeness of the club can be fully appreciated, and certainly when the finishing touches are put on the in 1 terior will leave nothing to be desired in l point of luxuriousness.
 The interior decoration is being done by
 Loseman, Joseph & Loeb, and the worK 1 will be completed in short time. The furnishings were supplied by this firm.
 The cafe will be one of the most popu- lar places of the new club house. MT. A. E. Campbell formerly of the Metropoli- tan hotel, has already been installed as i steward and as soon as possible the cafe will be opened. Luncheon will be served from 12 to 2:30 o'clock every day in the gentleman's cafe, and later on announce ments will be made in regard to ordering private dinners and luncheons which may be served in the ladies care-
 The plans for entertaining have not yet been fully decided upon, and the date for 
 not been announced. If tradition is fol- lowed the opening reception will be- held Thanksgiving week. There will be La- dies Day at the club during the winter and in some of the large clubs in the southern cities, the women whose hus- bands are club members will entertain at the club, the ladies cafe to afford them charming retreat where delicious not luncheons may be enjoyed.
 The club membership is now complete, and there are many prominent names on the waiting list Blackballing in many of the leading clubs has been discontinued and it is seldom that this method Is re- | sorted to. If the proposed member Is | considered ineligible, his friends are quiet | ly advised to withdraw his name and mo- i body is any the wiser Still these little black balls have a most formidable look. That the clubs limit in membership has 1 lust been reached at such an suspicious | time in it's history emphasizes the marked l success of the present administration. | success made possible by the broad policy under the long administration of Major l Frank r. Anderson, whose resignation | placed in office one of the most promi- | nent men in the club, MT. William H. | Kettig. who succeeded himself as presi- | dent at the last election.
 It has long been a cherished wish of the president to see the club in a house com
  | club is more prosperous than at any time l in it's history, and that 1t now occupies so handsome a home, speaks volumes for 1 the policy of MT. Kettig's administration, which will certainly be always regarded as the most memorable one in the history I of the club.
 The duties of secretary are in the hands of Mir F. T. Wilcox, one of the most pop ular members of the club and whose ac-
 tive interest in the clubs welfare Is evil l denced in many ways.
 MT James Weatherly, one of the prom 1 inent members, is vice-president, and the | board of governors include many of the most influential members. They are MT. T. H. Benners, MT. John Pugh, MT. Harry
 Jones' MT. James Tanner and MT. H. B. | Whee1ock.
 I am aware that this article has not
 in any respect given an adequate descrip- tion of the Southern club house any more than it has given an inside view of club life of which 1t certainly did not at-
 tempt to do. And I have no doubt but
 that every club man who is perusing the morning paper in his favorite corner at the club thinks that I owe him an apology
 for having touched upon 1t at all. l --s--