The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
BANKERS PLANNING
Big ATHLETIC CLUB
Membership Will Represent a
Billion, If Idea Is Car
ricd Out.
HOME HIGH IN THE AIR

Health preferred Is the newest stock
offered for listing on the Stoci En-
change. with all the excitement over
war brides" great industrial combina-
tions and A bail market, the men behind
them have taken ~ breathing spell and
have said something about organizing a
health corporation.
That fact became apparent yesterday
with rumors concerning the %organiza-
ton Of q Bankers Athletic club. which
probably will occup, about 5000 square
feet on the eighteenth fioor Of the new
true. II Is to be the wealthiest athletic
organization in the world.
Means Greater Enrras.
Wall Street believes In annihilating
time and space. for by that method
more gold coins drop into the Golfers
The big bankers OF the Street realize
that health contributes to brain power
and energy. both essential for fighting
the bears and the bulls.
So they have hit on a scheme by
which 1t will take just one minute from
the counting rooms to an athletic club
where q game Of squash. j. Nor
cams favorite pastime-a game OF
handball, a swing Of the golf club, or
even a snap OF trout rod on a wager.
may furnish amusement and relaxation
from the game OF dollars and the strug-
xle over stocks and bonds.
With this idea In view. Thomas Coch-
Bank. has been bu%ttonholing his friends
at luncheon and asking, How about
an athletic club downtown where we
can get a little exercise before dinner
The idea seems to have caught the
fancy Of the big men OF the street who
are inclined to athletics, and while no
club has been formally organized. II
was admitted yesterday that the prof.
ect was In the air Mr.. Cochran re-
fused to discuss the club yesterday.
Harvey n. Gibson. vice-president of the
bank. said that really nothing had been
settled. no lease for the rooms had been
taken or no charter for a club had
been sought.
Many Widely nov Men In u.
II was reported. however, that j T..
Morgan is keen on having IA place where
he can get "A game Of squash before
going uptown. col. Coleman du Pont.
owner of the CONTROL. pg. stock in the
Equitable Life Assurance, Society. q
interested in the plan. Albert II. Wig.
gin. president of the Chase National
Bank. has promised to Joia. ScNcra
of Mr. Morgan's partners are SAID I
be interested in the project George B
Case, of White N case. lawyers. is no;
aversc 40 a game of squLsh.
While tn" bankers declined TO Civ,
details Of the propje"ted athletic club
" was lean ned that the tenants On on,
wing OF tn eighteenth floor OF tn, l.uuit.
aD Bu!ldius have given up their leases
and have agreed to tai. odirr quarter
II the project goes through.
The plan p DIVIDES for the most elIbo'
rate. though by no means the largest
for squash. handUdl! u other game.
Will h. li;ted up Exercising machines
will lie Installed n there are any
gymnasts among THE bankers there vii
be parallel bars, horizontal bars anC
tumbling mas.
There W.! hr AN athletic inst ucto, vi
hand, and perhaps opportunity Will b,
arranged for bankers who like to pu.
on the gloves for IA friendly bout as {
means OF divcr'iug the mind from tn
excitement of the stock market.
The membership is to be limited. Tn
initiatlon fee is $500, the dues are 500
4 year.