New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-24
HOME FOR STUDENTS.
A UNIQUE AND PRACTICAL CLUB AT
ST. MARKSNEED OF LARGER
CHARTERS
QUARTERS.

Before another twelve months ST Marks Stu
6sts Club will II all goes well, have house of it's
To turn the club into residential club. mod
elled on the famous Art Students Club Of Paris is
the dream Of Deacouess Hall, the founder, and she
will devote the winter TO raising the funds
There is great need OF a residential students
club IN New-York," said Deaconess Hall Many a
nice girl who comes here is obliged through the
etrsitness OF her means to live in place and in
manner that beneath her dignity
With full purse there is hardship involved. but
students IN New-York seldom have full purses.
What want is q big house where the girls could
be lodged simply, but decently and economically
Over IN Second-ave., where Tenth and Eleventh
sts almost cut each other, leaving irregular,
blunt triangle between. stands ST Marks Episcopal
Church. OF the Oldest and most interesting In
the city By following the stepping stones-they are
gravestones-around from the facade, one reaches a
plain door with Students Club in gilt letters
over the bell pull.
This club is unique institution. established three
years ego and Is q rendezvous for the hundreds Of
students who drift into the metropolis from all
parts Of the country. stay while and then float
on the food tides of music and art sometimes
10 study abroad. sometimes TO teach in a distant
city sometimes TO return to the little starved New
England hill town the hamlet on the brink of
the singed prairie where they first saw the light
One does not realize how many students Of all sorts
flock to New-York, or what q Mecca the town is
for the aspiring youth OF both sexes until one hears
that at the Art Students League and the Chase
Studio there eight hDnoreds WIN Two nunoESo
and fifty more at Cooper Union, to mention two
only Of the big art schools Of the city. The music
students are harder get at numerically because
more scattered Instead Of Joining great companies
OF other students artists DO. they attach them
selves 10 some individual teacher.
There is also an associate list, composed Of young
business men and women The associate members
entitled vote. but are eligible for every
thing else going If the club.
The noble old which forms the headquarters
of the club has grown into the very ideal of club
room II IS large-very large-w1th broad. low
windows looking out 10 the church and 70 the
graceful elms. There are deep settles and roomy
chairs in which may repose eZpansively. There
are q piano and a ping pong table and stage with
crop curtain and wings and footlghts, and tea
table The walls hung with old blue. with plas-
ter casts and Watercolors and sepia and charcoal
sketches. with old brasses and bits OF quaint ORR
entail stuffs- These are the gifts OF grateful stu
dents
As certain sea fish, dying. leave their shells
the seashore TO delight the heart of the collector,
so the art students. before they fit leave little
part Of themselves behind as permanent enrich
ment TO the club.
The music students make their contribution as
they go along in the shape of musicals and re-
ctals Charming little concerts given. with ell
the performers students. Many of the members,
although students. sing in choirs teach in
schools, and their performances are the reverse Of
anat5urisk-
The CLUB is open afternoons and on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday evenings. Formerly IT
special point Is made Of holidays, when the wan
oerer from home Is apt TO be peculiarly lonely
There IS always Thanksgiving supper, and Christ
mas. New Years, Halloween and the other fest-
walls or the year celebrated with parties or
feasts. Tuesday and Saturday evenings are called
the social evenings. On Tuesdays there is usually
a dance Then every Sunday evening at q light
supper ts served, with tea, coffee sandwiches and
cake. while every afternoon Deaconess Hall sits at
the tea table surrounded by shining brass and sill
yer and DAINTY china and pours tea for thirsty
students and their friends.
This year a change was made In the club orgaut-
cation by which the membership was divided into
art, literature, dramatic and music committees,
and each committee made responsible for one en-
delightful affairs not only do the students give
their best, but such William H. Crane and
John kendrick Bangs have contributed many
pleasant evening Several of the members possess
distinct histrionic ability. which they put TO adi-
Fable in the tableaus or plays that are given
once month during the club year. One young
woman is making profession OF Juvenile plays.
and stages the production Sometimes the produo-
uon takes a musical turn, when the choir OF
Ette girls gave two-act play under her direction
week or two ago. with solos and choruses TO
vary the dialogue.
But the Students Club does even more for the
young student in Manhattan than provide him
her with congenial society and clever entertain
suitable lodgings for the girl students, who often
md difficulty in getting housed respectfully and
economically Last year Christmas and Easter
sales OF students work were held-oinner cards,
carved leather, ETC. At the request OF some Of the
young parishioners class has been opened in
painting with a student instructor It Is hoped
70 extend the class work in time