The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-07
BUSINESS MEN TO
HAVE A PALACE
NeWhouse Will Finance SpIen-
did Structure for CONNER
cial Club.
SUDDEN CHANGE IN PLANS
ORGANIZATION TO HAVE OWN
SEVEN-SToRY BUILDING.

4 \ \ Z = y y y = = y y 4
y NEW CLUB HOUSE PROJECT. 4
y Commercial club to have an ex- y
= elusive club building. +
+ viii cost 100000. =
' viii be located on southwest =
= corner of Exchange Place and =
= Cactus street. y
y To be seven stories hiqh, the +
= top two stories being an i'm =
= mense banquet room and con-
= vention hall.
= Will e-ntain sixty sIeepinq =
y rooms, billiard rooms, ladies' =
= dining room. general dining =
y room, parIors, smoking rooms.
= billiard room, buffet, SILENT" =
= rooms and other novel features. y
y Samuel Newhouse agrees to fl =
= nance the project to an extent y
= that insures the erection of the
= building.
y y i y +
handsome new structure to be erected
LOT the exclusive use of the salt Lake
commercial club, is now one of the nrob-
abilities of the near future
AT midnight last night Henry Ives Cobb
e S4 New YORK architect who planned the
NeWhouse and Boston buildings for Sam
uel Newhouse, and members of the build
ing committee and board of governors of
me commercial club. got up from a five
hours conference on the details of the
design of a magnificent club house
At o O'Clock yesterday afternoon Sam
uei NeWhouse and the building commit
tee OF the Commercial club closed a con-
ference that had lasted nearly two hours.
MI NeWhouse has agreed to help
finance the construction and furnishing Of
a seven-story building to be used exclu-
slVely by the Commercial club. The build
ing, according to the plans discussed YES
terday, VIII be situated on the sOutbwes.
intersection OF Cactus street and Exchange
place, the two new streets to be cut
through the Newhouse half block on low
er Main street.
The building is to cost between $3.50 600
ana sSe1,Wo exclusive of the value of the
site upon which it will stand Mr. New
house will not build the building and give
It to the club. He has been exceedingly
generous, however. and while he refused
TO talk of the matter himself last night.
1t was authoritatiVely stated at the Com
mercial club that the mining rnagnate's
loyalty to the city and the club has taken
the form of an offer to aid the club mem
bers in financing their projected building
to such an extent that the erection of the
building is assured beyond all reasona bic
doubt.
Must Be Exclusive Building.
The proposition submitted to the club
shortly after the erection of the New
house office and bank buildings on lower
Main street was announced. was for the
Comm ercial club to take two floors in the
NewilOuse building. These two floors
We're to be magnificiently finished and
furnished and for several years at least
would have made a splendid home for
the club
So rapidly has the membership Of the
club grown of late, however, that the
proposition to go into the Newbouse
buildings was officially reconsidered two
weeks ago by the board of governors of
the club, and Mr.. NewhOuse was informed
this week that under no circumstances
would the club move from its present
quarters until it could go into a building
of its own and one that will be credit
to Salt Lake and the organization for
years to come.
This decision was reached only after
careful consideration of the proposition
and the realization that but a few years
must elapse in any event when an exclu-
sive club building would be absolutely
necessary for the club.
we nave formally and definitely de-
cided not to move until we go into a
building of our own" declared President
Halloran of the club before leaving for
the east on a five weeks vacation trip.
Wednesday. I'VE have nearly 600 mem
berS many of them men of wealth and
from a very recent investigation on the
part of the board of governors we are
convinced that in the immediate future
we can finance a club building for our ex-
elusive use that will be a model of its
kind
Mr.. Newhouse was present at the meet
ing of the board of governors Of the club
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