The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-04
CLUB FOR
CITY BE|hG PLANNED
Committee Of Representative Citi-
xens, College Graduates, Sounding
Sentiment OF Alumni.
WOULD HAVE SPLENDID HOME
Handsome Clubhouse I'm Heart Of City
Proposed For Organization, which
May start with Membership OF Five
5Hundred-f,s 500 EIigiblcs Here.

Richmond Is shortly to have Uni
versity Club an organization built ana
maintained along the same lines as
those of similar organizations or col
lege men in other large cities OF tine
United States, IL the movement now
under way is carried through TO sue
cessfui issue large COMMITTEES,
composed of representative business
and professional men, is sounding the
sentiment of the college men in Rich
mond and IL is expected that within
a short time a general meeting OF
alumni of various institutions will be
called for the perfecting of organi-
zation.
Should the movement for the or
ganization of University Club De
successful. handsome clubhouse Is
to be erected or otherwise established
either in the residence section OF
downtown in the heart of the busi-
ness section.
seeks Expression OF Sentiment.
The secretary of the COMMITTEES, q.
III. winfrey, of 304 Davis Avenue, IL
addressing letters to all alumni known
to the committee with view TO learn
ing their position on such organfza-
ton as is proposed. Mr.. Winfrey IN
vites all college men who may be
interested to communicate with him,
WNGtnGf In&Y TECCfNG DAS tCSttA VI p0~'
1t is not purposed to restrict the
membership of the club to college or
university graduates The privilege
of election will probably be extended
to all who have had at least three
years of collegiate training in the
academic departments OF their re-
spective institutions or to those VINO
are graduates of professional schools.
An admissions committee, however.
will carefully consider the names OF
all proposed for membership, so that
no mistakes may be made by the
election of undesirable persons.
1900 College Men In City.
II has been estimated after thor
ough survey of the field that there
are about l 500 college men in Rich
mond. wsiile all of these would not
be available as members OF the or
ganization. it lis believed that the to-
tai, when sifted out, would furnish
at least 500 men to whom DR.. sam
Johnson's adjective ''clubable" could
safely be applied.
The initiation fee will not be more
than s25. nor will the dues be over
80 month. with a membership Of
from 500 10 500. a University Club
could be maintained here in comfort
able. weii-furnished quarters, while It's
social and intellectual features woula
be delightful.
Committee Personnel.
The organization committee 10:
wyndham r. Meredith GU. Val,
chairman. George Bryan GU. Va. and
r.. ca, S. Dabney Crenshaw Gu. Val,
y. C. Metcalf Harvard and Chicagol.
j. Garnett Nelson III. Va. and M. G.
w. Il. n. Chesterman tRichmond
Coilege9. C. v. Darlington tU. Val.
Russell Cecil (Princeton), w. Russell
Bowie fHarvard). r. II. Pitt tRich.
mond ColiegeD, George Haw wash
ington and Lee), Douglas s. Freeman
fJohns Hopkins. Richard w. Car
rington fHampden-S Sidney and u.
Val. wortley F. Rudd tCoiumbiae.
Additional information may be OBJ
taineA fFeHa any Of the following Fns-
ter Witt (v. NJ. ID. SOS Cathedral
Place: r. L. Saviile OR. c. and U.
Val. $50 East Main Street; Roy G..
Pratt fSyracuse), 737 East Main
street: w. R. Beverley Or. c.. SOC
East Broad Street. John A. Penny
packer tPrinceton), care chief engi-
neer, C. & o.; r. Grayson Dashiell
tJY. Val, $40 Mutual Building; Ed
win Conquest w. NJ. -. 737 East
Main street, H. b. Hardy fHarvardl.
1919 West Franklin Street: T. j.
Moore fHarvard). 403 Virginia Rail-
way and Power Building: G. H. VIM
frey (Richmond College). 304 Davis
Avenue; E. E. Worrell tWilliam and
Mary1. Chamber of Commerce Build
ing: J. B. Duval Or. c.. 410 Ameri-
can National Bank Building; Robert
M. Dashiell tv. NJ. ID, $40 West
Grace Street '@s...''et7fs 49, z =