Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-18
FIELD CLUBS NEW QUARTERS
Handsome Buildings Await Formal Opening
at End of Month.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE DURING SPRING
New Dancing Pavilion Added and
Equipment of Club House
Changed in Many Es-
sential Respects.

With 1875 acres Of ideal rolling grounds,
dotted in just the right places with trees
and laid off after a perfect model in va
rious athletic fields, with a complete equip
ment of club houses and accessories aud
with almost 800 enthusiastic members, the
Omaha Field club will accomplish the
formal opening Of its second season on
Saturday, May 81.
This affair will be almost as much a
housewarming in honor of Improvements
just completed to the value OF 1900 as
1t will be an opening gala day in greeting
to spring and warm weather. which is the
foundation Of existence Of outdoor athletic
clubs. Far more pleased with the hand
some additions to all departments of their
summer home than the fact that the time
to occupy 1t has come are most of the
members, and their pride is well founded.
TIL Field club was generally regarded as
a very handsome and desirable place when
it made its initial bow in the summer of
1901. Loud were the praises as to it's loca-
ton, its fine club house with it's handsome
furnishings and It's athletic accommoda-
lions in all lines OF amateur sports. The
member who visits the place on May 81
for the first time this year will hardly
be able to believe his eyes, so great has
been the transformation.
Ever since the frost left the ground
and even before that a crowd of workmen
has been swarming over the club prop
erty, e~xerting every effort to make the i'm
provement the more radical and the addi-
tions and changes the more striking. IN
der the direction Of the executive commit
tee some thousands Of dollars have been
thoroughly spent in a very short time, and
So judiciously that the most fastidlous
wanWahan a. unable 10 Nk1Alr -
more he wishes the club could offer.
What the Changes Are.
Most important OF all the Innovations is
perhaps the new building, located Just west
Of the other one. This is a combination OF
pleasure places. Most important is the
huge dancing pavilion, which monopolizes
the ground floor. This will prove one OF
the strongest social drawing cards the club
possesses. 1t is Of great extent and Is
wide open to the outdoor air, there being
nothing more between It and the open
atmosphere than a pillar here and there.
Meanwhile all round and about the pavilion
is a broad veranda, which is practically a
portion of the dancing floor. as one may
walk from one to the other without SO
much as stepping over a sill.
As protection for the dancing floor
against Indictment weather the veranda will
serve. with its wide. extending roof. Then
there will be huge curtains OF substantial
material that may be lowered all around,
closing the pavilion In completely. At one
end Of the hall is a little room to be utilized
as a coy corner, a tete-a-tete rendezvous.
BeloW are four handsome bowling alleys,
with ample accommodations for caddies and
pin boys. May 81 will see this building
completed. Just now only the milling is
delaying 1t. The dancing floor was laid
Friday and Saturday and now the bowling
alleys can be put in, a careful job.
work of the
The addition Of this new building means
some changes for the better in the old one.
What was formerly bowling alleys is now
locker rooms and shower brA for the men.