The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-29
FRECESS CLUB HAS
/ AUsP|C|OUs START
lew York Financiers Form
Organization Where Shop
Talk Is Taboo.
DIsMISs BUSINESS CARES
Is Limited and
Club Already Has Large
IA Waiting List.
BUSINESS CARES
Ry PRESTON G.. ADAMS.
.iro 10 The Tribune.

,s.se5 Uirc to The Tribune.
'>rrur YORK, Oct. 2S.-Wsll street has
~, club which is unique In more re-
..rts than one. 1t f. the Recess club,
~ rooms OH the twenty-frst and
.-.,,v.sscond floors of the skyscraper
II. sa Broadgay Its membership is lin
"A ,o $50, and with the club rooms
.,od barely a week already there are
4, names on the waiting list,
rhe fortunate $50 constitute the very
a., of the financial district, the ag-
|->rots wealth represented II written in
|,orea would cause a famine in the
'-upht box in any printing office in the
n which tried 10 put the amount in
~ The board OF governors Is typical
Fihe club. IL consists OF George +.
|.ker jr.. Cornelius Wand erhjlt, c. Led
-rd Blair. William a, Tucker. John L.
"A Mortiner l.. Schin. +. Q. Brown,
Liar z. Bliss. J. Horace Harding and
"a nff,cers who are: Joseph ". IIar-
|,,at president; C.. Louis Boissevain:
:sssurer. and W. ". Miller. secretary.
fruly this is a. list OF names with which
F. conjure In Wall street
'|rhe object of the club is n place whore
y
"a In the country, If not actually in
"a world, may get absolutely away from
uxdncss for few minutes without get
~ TOO far away from the market,
|hsre is not stock ticker within the
reeincts Of the club.
The club has no rules and there prob
bly never nill oe any 10 amount TO any
hing 20 that IL need Worry none, as il
|IRflt II any man were actually forbid
M 10 worry about the stock market or
rRat financial operations. There are
1fie Of the lo,nging and rest rooms
here business is absolutely taboo.
Must Not Talk Shop.
The dominant note OF the club is men
\ refreshment. For that reason even
d reading nf editions of newspapers
hlcf come from the press every few
||nutes is 5iscours ged but there Ia GER
||ply fine assortment Of magazines and
HIews. especially foreign ones, because
ia point Of view is different
Then the news OF the founding OF a
"a so distinctive as this became known
ne were many inquiries made concern
4 Il In the homes OF the members. and
i Is that this club OF lower New
Uk Is making social arrangements for
entertainment of women guests Part
[he first hoor * given TO q boudoir.
Farlor and a dining room for women,
eppointcd in the English types Of
uiture seen in the other portions Of
establishment, There are three pri-
f dining rooms also on this floor
ers memoers may have small parties or
ends OF where meetings Of the club
lniitses may be held, There are bed
zoe with baths, also for members who
" wish to remain in the club over
rt IN order to meet some engagement
next morning All the conveniences
tb II Is possible 70 have In the cluf
Home or hotel are gathered in this
P which comes as an innovation.
is small wonder that the waiting
already is long and is growing
rger.
Borrowers Block" Busy Place.
thile comparisons NAV be odious cor
~ are aIwars interesting. The Re-
c'up represents one extreme Of W.
~. Here is the other:
corresponding length Of respectable
~ anywhere In the world contains
MANY borrowers Of money as that