New-York tribune., 1902-02-06
CITY YCLUB WINGS TO SHEL TER
ALLIED POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
TO HAVE MEETING ROOMS
IN NEW CLUBHOUSE.

The City Clubs new home at Nos 90 and 81 Nest
Forty-fourth-st.. title to which Will be taken on
February 10, will. If present plans carry dhofu
meeting room for the Civil Service Reform Asso-
ciation the Merchants Association. the women ;
Municipal League, the University Settlement So
ciety and the City History Club This announce
ment was made last night at the annual meeting OF
the club when James r. Burnet, chairman OF the
building committee, gave detailed report on wnat
the building committee had accomplished.
The financing of the building scheme was told IN
The Tribune some time ago The committee has
obtained subscriptions to the stock OF the CITY Cup
Realty Company aggresatins S9o'UW S5oVVo OF WHICH
has been paid in in cash. The report further says
To stimulate the interest of the architect members
OK {he eiuD ana erycS 20 voUr committee invited
ciaiiy Gualiied to Submit competitive plans, under
conditions approved by a committee OF architects
and are now under consideration II is hoped tnat
decision OF this competition will be reached our
ing the next week. and an architect and builder
on February Is. shortly thereafter.
The plans submitted IN accordance With the pro-
building Of seven stories and basement. Of which
ine ooS aG vii, he appTonrate 10 club uses
and the remaining four stories Will contain forty
Our present plans must be be eqlqFgsd M and eTs VEL
present fund has been subscribed by about sixty
members, little over oue-teuth OF our member
Soe 6 IS Ge6 that G' een e9 m Re event
the failure OF the club TO meet It's obga tons the
may readily be converted into hotel or 6achelqr
apartment house. and as such. IL is believed would
pay fair return upon the investment
Adolph Openhym chairman OF the finance COM
mittee OF the council in his report said that upward
OF $4,000 would be needed for political work in the
ensuing year.
DIT. Thomas r. SIcer. chairman of the municipal
government committee, in his report says. amonS
other things that Subcommittee has employed
expert who will make an extensive report
on the franchises granted by the city. The COM
mittee. he says. has discovered gross abuses BY
which the city Is at very serious loss -
Policeman O'NeiI. for whose benefit AssemblymaU
Weekcs has introduced a special bill at Albany
Weekes's bill in the Assembly by any proper re-
enforcement that il can bring to bear A,
man OF the committee on water supply He says
No system Of detecting leaks and loss has ever
been applied I'm this city. II the street pavement
sinks the Water Department suspects a Ieak; II
srentif5o ways of indng and stopping leaks exist
gineers of the Rapid Transit Commission ind IN
Vulnerable cases n which the waste pipes from
water. The night use would not account 1or thls.
Wiifui waste and leaks in plumbing would account
an old service pipe cut on under tne sLeeI Sie I
Ions a day into the cellar of the Corn Exchange
Bank from which it had been necessary TO pump
the water Those familiar with the subject insist
that many leaks OF this precise character exist IN
the city. -,
covered under the CITY Hall. from which, according
to the newspapers three hundred and twenty thou
sand gallons day had been leaking for an IN
The following were elected members of the board
OF trustees TO serve until the fourth Wednesday In
April. 1892:
wM. II BALDWIN. JR CHARLES c; NADAL.
JAMES Il. BURNET. ApOIPHE OPENHfM.
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FRANK !. GOODSOW. THOMAS r. SIICER.