New-York tribune., 1902-05-18
A NATIONAL PARTY CLUB.
REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS MAY BE
MOVED TO NEW CLUBHOUSE.
SENATOR PLATT APPROVES THE PLAN AND
ALL NATIONAL LEADERS ARE LIKELY
TO JOIN THE ORGANIZATION


Senator Platt has. it is understood indorsed
the far reaching plans of the Republican Club
Of this city to make the club national in its
scope and to transfer from the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, after the new clubhouse facing Bryant
Park is completed. in February next, the Re
publican State headquarters. The proposition
will come before State Chairman George w.
Dunn and the Republican State Committee be-
fore the new clubhouse will be ready for Occu-
pancy, and it is believed there will he con-
test over the proposition TO take the State head
quarters away from the hotel For the good of
the party a whole. however il may be done,
as the plans of the managers of the club to
make the club State and national in its scope
warmly indorsed by prominent Republicans all
over the country
The building committee has received offer
for its site $4,000 in excess of the sum it paid,
and the man who made the offer later asked if
bid of $4,000 in excess of the purchase price
would be considered. He told it would not.
The clubhouse, when completed. will represent
an outlay of about S225,O 900
Internal Revenue Collector Charles II. Treat.
who is on the building committee of the club.
said yesterday that Senator Platt indOrsed the
proposition to make the club national head
quarters.
When I the Senator about this matter"
said Mr.. Treat last night to a Tribune reporter,
II asked him: Senator, are you not a little tired
of allowing people to hold caucuses in your bed
room and sitting room, and don't you think 1t
would be a good idea TO have the meeting place
for the State organization at the Republican
Club, after get into hOuse?' The
Senator said: Mr.. Treat believe your sug-
gestion is good one, and l will do all that 1
in propriety to bring about the result you sug-
gest.' 1 had long conversation with the Sen
he M he OH
Treat, "and he believes that we need just such
organization here as we are planning for.
Senator Hanna has decided to join the club,
and says that he Will bring with him a lot OF
his brother Senator's. We contemplate having
the dedication of the club on Lincoln's Birth
day. February u next. At that time expect
TO have present President Roosevelt. Senator
Platt, Governor Odell, Senator Hanna. Robert
T. Lincoln and other notable men. The dinner
is expected TO signalze the national character
OF the club.
The committee on subscriptions met this week
to consider plans for the raising Of $4,000 need
ed to complete the building under the new
plans" continued Mr.. Treat. and one-third
of the needed sum was subscribed at the meet
ing. We shall raise the remainder within the
next two weeks The largest subscription TO
the building fund up to date is S22.O from
Francis L. Loring, a retired business of
this city, a native of Maine. Mr.. Loring says
that he doesn't know of any better way of pro-
noting good public morals and patriotism than
by assisting the Republican Club in it's plan to
create a social political organization that shall
be national in its scope. 1t has been suggested
that the club elect ali the Republican Gov
ernors Of the United States to honorary mem
bership during their respective terms of office,
and this suggestion is being considered All
members of the State Legislature are to be
elected to nonresident membership. and there
are to be committee rooms for the free use of
the party"
st. Ignatius's Church. which stood the
site of the Republican Club. has been torn
down, and work on the foundations of the new
building will be begun this week. The struct-
ure will be eleven stories high. with banquet
hall on the tenth floor and Ioof garden on the
eleventh. The front will be of Indiana lime
stone.
The plans. which have been drawn by York &
Sawyer. of No 1j6 Fifth-ave.. provide for the
following:
on the entrance floor will be a reception room
lounging room, cigar stand, office. coat rooms and
from this foyer: and in the and extending the
full width Of the building are 10 be the cafe and
on the second floor will be the main Iounging
floor viii be devoted the billiard pool tables
Each of these rooms will be 80 BY IS feet in dimen-
The library is TO be the third floor. directly
over the lounging and corresponding to II in
dimensions The rear of the third floor viii be di-
Vided into meeting and committee
The fourth. fifth. sixth. seventh and eighth floors
will be fitted up in apartments, suites and single
rooms. offering the accommodations or a first class
hotel combined with club features which will
place the Republican Club for the first time in its
history in a position to offer more than senti-
mental attraction to Republicans from out of town.
who frequently To this city. and whose club
home here has been little more than name in the
past.
The ninth floor will be exclusively devoted to
taurant purposes feature of which viii be several
small rooms. which be used by members of the
club and their guests desiring 10 dine privately.
on the tenth floor the entire space viii be devoted
to an auditorium, which will also serve the pur-
pose of a spacious banquet hail. with seating
capacity for several hundred persons
The Library Square Realty Company has been
for the sole purpose of taking title
to the real estate and erecting the building
which is to he the clubs home.
The officers of the Library Square Realty Com
pany Louis Stern, president; ]. Edgar Leay
craft. treasurer William Einstein, secretary. and
Robert n. Kenyon. Henry T. Tremain and z. a.
Newell directors. Following are the members OF
the executive committee, as an advisory COM
mittee: w. Nj. X. OlcOtt. Leopold Stern, A. l.
Merriam. y. F. Hagar. +. r. Brush. z. e. Cos
teuo. Henry BirrelI. G. II. Treat T. f. Went
worth, F. Fl. Partridge William Leary, W. F,
r c. Morris and Alexander Caldwell.
4 GREAT FIRE IN MAINE.