New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
ALPHA DELTA PHI CLUB.
Membcrs Noe Thoroughly at Home
an Their Ne1c House.

The house-waru,ing last evening Of the Alpha
Delta Phi Clubs new home, at No. l3o west
4itk- street marked the real entry into larger
sphere Of usefulness of this the strongest creek
letter club in the city. Though the builuihs nus
been informally open since last spring d" III
little adjustments and final touches t'a' inaN'
ND comfortable bachelor quarters nave ON! IT
Gently been completed. At the reception a ia'Ee
company of Alpha Dclts visited for the hrst 'i'ie
this --latest and in many respects the hhesl a"u'-
tion to the structures n what has core to be
the club street of this city.
Rut il was not a formal inspection or re
ception in the stcreotyped sense men li"''
all parts of the United States, representing me
twenty four leading colleges OF the coui'" -
gathered to sing again their college songs and
give once more their old yels. AT one time IN
little groups the delegates Of the various chap
ters strove TO outsing outshout one another.
At another in one big group they sang the
praises of the brotherhood that bound them all
together.
Under the Grecian portico the visitors entered
the spacious hallway, containing the desk. coat
room and telephone booths. AT the right of the
entrance some found friends in the cosey little
loungng room. Offers passed on to the cafe
and billiard room, in the rear with its big fire
place and comfortable alcoycs, all finished in
dark wood. There stood the piano around
which the singers gathered
Ascending the broad, winding stairway the
second floor. the guests found the large, well
lighted library, its many windows opening on Il
balcony. This room, too, is finished in dark
wood and hung with heavy draperies. 1t is the
living room of the club. On the same floor also
the dining
An electric elevator leads to the other six
floors Part of the third is reserved for the
committee rooms, offices and vault of the ex-
ecutivc council of the fraternity, as this club is
also the national headquarters of the organiza-
tion. The rest of the third floor and the fourth
and fifth floors contain apartments and private
baths, while the sixth. seventh and eighth floors
consist of single rooms, with general baths
showers, etc.
There altogether fifty eight bedrooms ir
the building, which contains all the conven.
fences to be found in first class hotel and /:
calculated in every way to make the young
college graduate think that wife and hora,
are not very essential to fellows happines.
after all.
But however rapidly the may burn theil
incomes they can't burn the clubhouse as it il
freproof. Representing outlay Of $3000OO
there is not handsomer structure in the street
Some of its near neighbors the st. Nicholas
Harvard, New York Yacht, City, Racquet Yale
LAMBS century and Army ana Navy clubs
besides the Bar Association and the Mechanic:
and Merchants Institute
The architects of the building were Palmer &
Hornbostel The plans those of the lat,
Louis Brown, of that firm member of tn.
club, who died before the building was com
pleted.
The club was organized in 1890 It now ha
a membership of over seven hundred and fift,
and is rapidly growing. 1t numbers among 1t:
members some Of the best known men in tn,
country. The present president is Franci.
Lynde Stetson. Among preceding president.
have been Joseph H. Choate and the late Clar