New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-12
COLONY CLUB OPENS.
Handsomely appointed Meeting
Place of ErcluaUe Women.

The By now famous clubhouse OF the Colony Club.
st 40. 10 Madison avenue. was opened informally
yesterday first 10 the press. then TO members.
Guests who arrived at 10 o'clock found everything
already IN operation.
Except for a beiated workman hustling about IN
the basement, 80 all complete, perfect. as
81 It had been running for a month Clocks were
ticking in the dining rooms the tables set.
an English -Jeems'' in buzz and blue stood In the
reception hail 20 watt the visitor hitler and yon
telephones were tinkling. elevators running, and
three women clerks busy behind the desk.
To complete the dainty femininty. the homelike
charm OF the most sumptuous women's clubhouse
on the continent. wood fires sputtered and cracked
tn the open CRATES and azaleas and American
Beauties bloomed from roof garden 10 basement.
Ask member Of the Colony Club which room
Of Il all she is proudest Of, and ten she
viii answer The pool room" Miss Jeanette Gil
der confessed much, she ciceroned people
about yesterday. With its white marble floors and
low seats its pergola-lke roof all grapevines and
hanging clusters, the silent pool. the mirrored
walls, which repeat and reflect in wonderful. in
finite vista-the whole seen under a mellow golden
light-the pool room is like bit Of ancient Greece
set down bodily in Manhattan.
Ample lockers and dressing rooms adjoin. with
beautifully lighted rooms for hairdressing and
shampooing while you wait; manicure parlor,
and many kinds OF baths-needle, Turkish. Nau-
helm and what not-as anybody can think Of.
GYM FOR MEMBERS
Next 10 the pool room in interest comes the gym
nasium, 80 by &C feet In size, equipped with
ming track Gibbs dumbbells a horse, parallel bars
goals for basketball etc. In fact. it is a fully
equipped womans gymnasium. Here the town and
country members will develop their muscle under
the supervision of Miss Margaret E. Clark and Miss
Elizabeth C. 9IacMartin. graduates of DR.. Sar-
gents normal school OF physical training at Har-
ward University
I'VE don't expect to make a physical exannina-
caid lark ~ 4
clan ala that; but we shall instruct in the use OF
the apparatus and work with the members" To
Mrs John Jacob Astor is credited the addition OF
the athletic features.
On the same aoor with the gym is the assem-
bly, room. superb apartment running across tho
entire length Of the building-sevcnty-f feet-and
dQRe IN sort OF bright old rose. Against the
cream white walls and rose colored rugs the gilt
tables and crimson MORE and gold chairs make a
delightful contrast. At either end is a mantel in
white marble with black veins.
Throughout the building the utmost attention has
been given 10 decorative details. In the bedroom
suites. OF which there on the fourth floor,
the writing pads on the escritoires the bIotters
pencils, penholders and clock all match with each
other and with tho color scheme Of the room So
DO the tall candlestcks which support the electric
lights on the dressing tables These tables bv the
way are covered with great slabs OF plate glass.
through which the chintz OF the table shows
most effectively. The rooms all have long mir
goTs inserted in the DOORS q telephone a big
closet lighted by electricity and a bath Some of
them have quaint four-posters and all are deco
rated IN chintz and red blue or white with
great arabesques OF birds and flowers The Colon
sa idea has been carried out even TO the Quill mons
on the writing tables. Tenure OF suite is limited
20 two weeks
COMPLEXION ROOM
The NTH floor has the members dining room
ana separated from It only by folding doors. the
strangers dining room. where members win enter
naah guests These rooms are uniform in decora
uof' cream walls. emerald green CARPETS and hang
sngs ana mahogany chairs. The green sf6eliob,s
or sconees show the prohles of Napoleon ana
Josephine In white medaIlions. The Colony Club,s
CHINA Is plain white. with raised festoons ~
1o~ers. and its silver is in the severest roodern
Colonial style. with simple beading
no man could ever have thought or the ,,r,,,,
elning room, Il is Elusive so delicatel,- frai,,
- 40 al IL plnk-palest pink. Nothing more Saffar
-ls 70 a pretty woman could be Imagined r1'er -,
slht snell PINK that filters through the mink c1ir
sesns aho the pink screened skyIigbf Ter,,
q Iencny, this room, but with the ;.FrenchinassS,
o. the eighteenth century.
=. Inc mans throughout, from the roof garden ana
tlle squash courts down TO the kitchens ,ynere =
woman cook once in the employ OF the late Xyii
1eEn . whitney Is installed chef are "a Dere5 in
striped green and white This green and urbfta
Is repeated IN the glazed chintz OF the recenfior
hall into which the visitor passes from the Street
everything on the ground floor is designed -
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