Evening star., 1914-03-20
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
HOLDS H0USEWARM|NG
New Quarters in Riggs Building
Opened to Members and Their
Friends Today.
Festivities Beginning This After
noon to Continue Until Midnight.
President to Attend.

In its new quarters, on the top floor
of the Riggs building, 18th and G.
streets northwest, the National Press
| Club opened its dors in a "housewarm-
ing to it's members and friends this
afternoon, and the festivities attendant
upon the formal presentation of the
club by the building committee to the
board of governors will include a pro-
gram of music and other entertainment
extending until nearly midnight After
$50 o'clock the club will receive the
woman friends of the membership, ad-
mission to the new quarters being re-
stricted by card invitations. President
| Wilson, Il member of the club, has
signified his intention of paying a visit
to the new quarters this afternoon. The
President has been a member under the
author role for more than a year.
To make the club appear at its very
BEST the building and house commit
tees have been at work for weeks, and
when the woman friends of the mem
bers enter il tonight, the large living
room Will have taken on an added
brightness from the floral decorations
that have been placed there during the
day. AS the rooms of the clu b are all
on the same floor of the building the
doors of the library, assembly room and
dining room have been thrown open to
give an uninterrupted view of the en-
tire club. One OF the most attractive
features will be found in the large open
fireplace in the assembly room, dec
GRATED in imitation Of Aztec art from
OLD Mexico. over the fireplace will be
found four odd-shaped gnomes, who
keep watch over the newspaper men
as they relax from their laporS. The
gnomeS have been named Constant
Reader old Subscriber" ''Vox Popu-
IL and PRO Bono Publico.'
View in Three Directions.
In the northwest corner of the club
rooms is the library. with windows
from which the view sweeps north,
south and west over the tops of the
Treasury. the White House, the State
War and Navy building and over the
tops of the offices and dwellings, to the
north.
The library collection contains some of
the most valuable and most-sought gov
ernment publications, in addition to books
of reference on all subjects, and fiction.
much it written by members of the
club. Next to the library, on the north
end of the quarters, is the club Office,
writing room and telephone exchange;
beyond that is a courtroom, cardroom
and billiard room.
Inc clubs prize exhibit is the assem-
bly, room. 1t is a broad and spacious
chamber, decorated in excellent style
from designs by A. P. Clark, jr., a men,
Der of the organization. BY day it is
lighted by many large windows; by night,
the soft glow of inverted kettle lights
made of semi-transparent marble. The
furniture used in this room Is of ma
hogany and oak. Decoration for the
walls follows the scheme used in the old
quarters at 10th and F streets, in which
the papier mache matrices of the front
pages of newspapers represented in the
club were made into a deep frieze. The
same scheme is carried out in the dining
room, which is entered from the assem-
bly, room, and which is considerably i'm
proved over the dining room of the oid
club. Beyond the dining room is grill
room, the walls done in red oak, and with
another Aztec fireplace.
This room is used occasionally as a
private dining room. An old English
tavern corner is one of the new features
of the buffet. Although the present sea-
son is not conducive to display of the
roof garden, the club has announced to
its friends that when the evening wealth
er is balmy that portion of the club will
be in complete running order, and it Is
expected that the woman friends of the
club members will by special card be ad-
mitted to a portion of the roof