Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-22
CLUB & E i g ONOMIEs.


POOR MEN I'LL rrtE SWELL oReANl-
. 5s I'D CATIONS or NEW YORK.
! A Democracy where All, Regardless,
4 OF Income, Are Eslual- 1nbership
I'M a First Rate CIub Regarded sas a \
Profitable Investment. N ~ Il, "A. ,SA9.
!. A good many country visitors are
nisapp ointed when they learn the sober
truth that New York has no clubs COM
posed exclusively Of millionaires It
Is harder still to make country folk
believe that hundreds of men join the
30 called swell clubs IN large part from
motives OF economy.
There are scarcely. three clubs IN the
city that do not include d considerable
number OF poor men In their member-
ship. The average income Of the whole
membership of2 tie ten, best known
clubs in the city is probably nearer
$4,000 a year than $4,000, a year, and
almost every one Of these clubs In
cludes some scores Of men with incomes
well below $4,000 and q good many
with incomes we'll below S., OOO. s5si
There is. a real democracy of New
York club life. Youths In Their early
twenties and just beginning their ca
reers on very modefate salaries IRE
auent truly palate clubhouses, break
fast in rooms such as few princes ever
use and lounge before fireplaces that
are; to- be matched only in the most
splendid buildings Of Europe. s475s n
The poor mans credit at the club Is
Rs good as the rich mans; and both are
ampartialy posted when they neglect
TO pay their bills IL good season. There
are q good many Instances also III
which the monthly bills Of the poor
man are higher than those of his rich
fellow member, / for the frequenters of
clubs are apt to be the poorer rather
than the richer members.
Many d man Of small means regards
bis membership in a first rate club IN.
the light Of profitable Investment
Such a man, lie d confirmed bachelor.
has probably lived for twenty years
within half a block Of the club, paying
p few hundreds a year for a small
bedroom and finding all his luxuries in.
the apartments Of the clubhouse. ,II5#
Without being in the least mean he
makes Of the club q money saving in
Etitution for himself Its comfortable
aounging rooms save him annually
from $500 to $1,O 600 a year In rent ac-s
cording to the location In which he HAS
Ills modest lodgings, After that he
saves q fair percentage On everything
he eats and drinks at the club. d.
His simple breakfast costs him per-
hapss 10 per cent less than 1t would cost
at any restaurant he would be likely
to frequent, and the same is true Of his
dinners. If he takes three fourths OF
4 his meals at the club he saves annually
about 500 ID tips. ), 5t ss}f
"a. Ia IL he drinks Wine at dinner he saves
from 10 to- 25 per- cent upon every bot
He If he permits himself the luxury
pf a cab he saves q handsome per-
centage by ordering 1t through the club.
and avoids all possibility of row
with the cabby over the a1nount:of the
fare. Many a man writes all his let;
tiers of a social character and some Of
a business character at the club, and
thus saves from SIS to $40 a year In
stationery.
4 He need buy no books, nor need he
I subscribe to q library, for there is the
/ club library free for his use. He never
need buy a periodical or even news
paper save when he travels, for all
that he reads are freely supplied BY
/ the club. And the enjoyment OF all
I these things imposes upon him no con-
siderable expenditure for extravagant
auxuries. He ID sure, especially in the
college clubs, to and plenty of men
with like modest incomes and simple
tastes as himself, and he may sit for
hours with croniess over the cafe table
without spending money that he can
not afford and without giving offenses
to the servants of the house committee.
Most club members probably do not,
keep d debit and credit account with
The club, but the man OF modest means
and moderate habits would find the ex-,.
animate Of such an account matter.
of great satisfact ton Such man,
paying $3.50 as an entrances FEE and SIS
$ta year In dues, Is likely to find himself
lat the end OF twenty yearssa long way
ahead Of the game n The club in TWEEN
ify years has cost him rather less than
$2, 600 for entrance fees. dues and con-
ltributions to the Christmas box, and
his savings BY reason off the club have
Ebeen from SIC. 900 to SIN, New
York Sun u sz3ss u
n AT sister,s Love.
a Boston ciefsg ynaan whose work
takes him among the poor of that town
tells q pretty story 90 sisterly love ex
\ letting among the humble and urif
nate One day pale and agged girl
iof about ten years wIis seen going
ljalong the street carry iig Oh her back