The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
HOMES OF VOMEN'S CLUBS
At LEAST SEVENTY or THEM
ERECTED IN AMERICA.

Only Ono Failure. and mat Laid 70 Men
Men Have Helped Lots. Thoush-0ns
Earned and Get the Borosis Gqueeze-
Some or h Clubhouse Pay Dividends.
The club women Of the United States
own st !ess. seventy clubhouse, When
tho first was dedicated. eighteen years ago.
It was consideredan extraordinary event.
That was the Atheneum Of Milwaukee,
Mtt 1t led the procession by only q small
margin Of time. That same month the
Ladies' Literary Club OF Grand Rapids,
Mich, opened Its own clubhouse.
The list Of seventy olubhouses includes
only those which have been built especially
for the purpose for which they are now
used. There are clubs which, like the
Twentieth Century Club Of Pittsburg. have
bought some old mansion and ~remodelled
II for their use.
which rent their quarters. The Chicago
oman club pays $4,000 a year for ito
rooms In the Fine Arts Building.
Among the seventy specially erected
c~lubhouses there IL the $3.50. 900 home OF
the Twentieth Century Club Of Buffalo.
with Its marble stairway, c~apaoious court.
ballroom. gymnasium and plunge. The
club has 800 members, and so their achieve
mept Is no greater than that Of the handful
OF women composing the Women's Club OF
Bisbee. Ariz. Although Bisbee 10 but an
overgrown mining camp these women
have erected a 5000 clubhouse.
III Sitka, Alaska. the Ladies' Literary
has taken up its quarters in q quaint
Did log cabin dating from 1880. The latch
string 10 always Out. according to Harper's
Bdxar, on steamer days for q chance club
woman from the States.
Tho West End Woman's Club OF Chicago
has q house containing a dining room seat
ing $40. The College Woman's Club Of
Boston makes q speciality Of its sleeping
apartments. Another Boston clubhouse 10
the Ceatlry Building costing Sies,ooo.
New York's 100000 Colony Clubs home
b well known.
The woman's Club Of Worcester, Mass,
has q 500 600 building. So has the Woman's
Educational and Industrial Union OF Buff
falo. The Worcester women were working
hard to get their house when Stephen Sails
bury gave them a fne lot.
Thereupon the women took hold with
renewed vigor, put up q splendid four
story building with an assembly room
fner than anything in New England, ex-
oept one In Boston. The building con-
tains also six suites done In different stylea,
other interesting apartments ~and-perhaps
from gratitude TO the donor OF the lot-a
smoking room for mon. E.
Several clubs owe a good bit Of thanks
10 Q helping male hand. A woman's club
In Dallas, Tex, received from j. j. Muneon.
O wealthy bachelor. the land and $4,000. 1
provided other ~oitisens would add 5000
women, wanted to build. They. got It,
but With q mortgage for o., 100, which Car
negie disposed OF beoause the club had
oolected, a library which was opened to
tho public.
As for Capt. Bertrand Rockwell q juno
muniicenoe and ~gallantryi The Captain
bought the lot. built a stone clubhouse,
furnished It with artistic trsppings" and
gave 1t outright to the Ladies' Reading |
Club. It 10 reoorded-and who can wonder |
Captain was systematically given the
sorosis squeeze by the appreciatve club
Here In New York State Congressman
=; slost Fsssett gsye e ECO lot fer the
and his wife gave SIS 900 towardt he build
But the mems attention Q have not always |
resulted gloriousiy. The one failure Of
a ,woman's clubhouse from q financial
point Of ~view-th9t at Decatur, M.-miRht |
have been averteA. it is declared, II tbs
men had not mixed up in the affair. Others
have been financial successes. The Bos-
ton clubhouse has paid since the first
six months. 4 per cent. to stockholders
The Athenseum at Milwaukee has paid
s per cent; the $50 600 clubhouse ut Dor
chester, Mass, 8 pei. cent.
There are no less than fifteen chubhouses
owned by women's clubs In Michigan. |
Another clubhouse centre Is California. |
Curiously enough there are four clubs |
in the State named after q man. Dr.. Ebell. |
who was al early apostle Of culture In |
California, and every one OF the four Ebeli |
clubs has its own house.
The q at Los Angeles is in Spanish
style and cost t20, 000. The one at Long