The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-25

| DC members enough to support them.
we could not follow a better example
IN selecting clubs for our millionaire
nachelor than that set by the discrim-
mating possessor Of $40, 100000, who de-
votes much of his time when here Ia
ms country place in New Jersey. He
selected such clubs as he thought a
gentleman should belong to- rather
more from sentiment than from actual
need OF them. Here is his list. win
the annual dues which he must psy:
Union, sIo; Racquet, SIS; Tuxedo, 500:
University $50; Metropolitan, 500:
coaching, $35; Riding, $780, Country
40; New York Athletic, $50; Fencers'.
$50; New York Yacht, $25. He is also
member of his COLLEGE fraternity
club, of several New Jersey clubs. Of
haIf dozen associations, and of
good club IN London and another IA
Parls. The initiation fees of the New
YORK clubs to which he belongs range
from the $500 of the Metropolitan and
the Union ana the $500 of the University
down TO the $50 Of the r'encers'. II
our bachelor happens to have strong
hepuDlican convictions, we may add
TO this list the most influential club
In the United States, the Union
League, with Its initiation fee of $500
ana its annual dues of SIS. Or, he may
have fondness for arts and letters.
and join the Century Club by paying
$3.50 Initiation and $50 annual dues. or
the more frisky Lotos, with its en-
trance fee of $500 and its annual dues
OF $75. The Calumet with an initia-
ton fee of 5000, prides itself, with
some justice, on being a Junior Union
club, and its far more exclusive
neighbor, the Knickerbocker, with an
entrance fee of $500 and annual dues
OF 800, counts among its members
some of the most popular bachelors in
New York society. Nor should the
claims Of the Players Club be over
looked, If the bachelor likes to get as
near the stage as did the man to pu-
gilism who shook the hand that shook
the hand of Sullivan. There are some
actors still in the Players Club, but.
for the real midnight-to-dawn flavor
OF the profession he should Join the
Lambs Club-and use it moderately.
To this list may be added, If our bach
elor is something of a rover and
appreciates club comforts in the cities
where he is likely to spend the most
time, the Metropolitan, of Washing
ton, at $50 year: the Philadelphia,
In the city of that name, SIS annually.
and the Somerset. of Boston, at SIS a
year. Then there are likely to be
three or four golf and hunting clubs,
If he be a sportsman. He may make
choice OF ten or a dozen OF these or
ganizations already mentioned with
out being extravagant and possibly
without being described as a we'll
known club man, should misfortune
make him tanget for the newspapers.
But when he has paid his initiation
fees and his dues, his club expenses
are not ended. even If he does not use
them. There are Christmas boxes for
the club servants to which he is ex-
pected to subscribe and an occasional
subscription for other purposes. 1t
would be fair to put his annual club
expenses, exclusive of his restaurant
and bar bills, at $1,000 year. If he
uses one or two of his clubs fire.
quently his restaurant and bar bills
may easily average him $1,000 a year.
A distinguished member Of one of the
clubs mentioned, died two years ago,
and a curious steward who went back
through his accounts with the club.
found that his bar bills alone amounts
ed to $4,000. and at that time the club
was less than thirty years old. Il IL
only fair 10 say that this mans case
was an exception. There is very
much less hard drinking In the best
New York clubs now than there was
twenty years ago, and In most OF them
gambling u prohibited"