The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-26
MANHATTAN CLUBS.
Places That Are the Most Expensive
in the World.

There is no city in the world that has
more expensive club houses than New
York and no where else are club dues so
high. To a man with a modest income
enc good club is in many ways econ
envy For the millionaire, a dozen clubs
are not worth their dues He may find it
convenient to use three or four of them.
and he probably does not enter the others
more than once a year. I know one man
in New York who is member of p clubs
He had paid DIES TO one of them ever
since 1t was organized, nearly 70 years
ago. and he has been inside its doors but
once There are others in which he has
not been during the past five years, and
possibly for longer time. II one picked
out at random a dozen young men CT
wealth and social position in New York,
he would find that they had at least five
clubs In common
This is both the weakness and the
strength Of New Yorks club life The
club does not identify a man here as it
does in London. Each club has a few men
whose names are always associated with
it, but the majority of its members are
also members of several other clubs which
th=y use quite as much and their loyalty
is divided Were this not the case, how
ever. we should have many fewer hand
some club houses, because there would not
be members enough to support them.
We could not follow a better example in
selecting clubs for our millionaire bachelor
than that set by the discriminating possess
sor of 20 million dollars. who devotes much
OF his time when here to his country place
in New Jersey. He selected such clubs
as he thought gentleman should belong
to. rather more from sentiment than from
actual need OF them. Here is a list with
the annual dues which he must pay: In
ion, SIS Racquet, $75 Tuxedo, $40: Univer-
sity. SEQ: Metropolitan $780, Coaching. S35:
Riding 500; Country, SIS; New York Attn
letic. $50; Fencers'. $50; New York Yacht,
He is also member of his college fra
ternity club. of several New York clulS,
OF half dozen associations, and of a good
club in London and another in Paris Inc
initiation fees of the New York clubs to
which he belongs range from the
ion clubs and the 500 of the
University down to the $50 of the Fencers g,
Republican convictions we may add TO
this list the most influential club in the
Unit ed States, the Union League. with its
initiation fee of $500 and its annual dues
Or he may have a fondness for arts and
letters, and join the Century CLUB by pay
the more frisky Lotos, with its entrance
fee Of 500 and its annual dues of $75- The
Calumet, with initiation fee of eco.
prizes itself with some justice, on being
Junior Union club, and its far more ex-
elusive neighbor. the Knicxerbocker, with
al entrance zee OF $500 and annual dues of
SlcO counts among its members some of
the most popular bachelors in New YORK
societE.
Nor should the claims of the Players
club be overlooked. if the bachelor like to
get as near the stage as did the man TO
pugilis7n who shook the hand that shook
the hand OF Sullivan. There are some ac-
tors still in the Players Clue. but: for
the real midnight to dawn flavor of the
profession. he should join the Lambs
cluh-and use it moderately
To this list may be added, # our bache-
Tor is something of a rover. and apprec
GATES club comforts in the cities where he