Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-20
LONDON CLUB HOUSE
 FOR BLUE JACKETS
Equipped With Ample Sleeping Quar- ters, Pool Tables, Player Pianos,
 and We'll Filled Library.
(Correspondence Associated Press)

Correspondence Associated Press)
 Base American F'lotilla in British Waters, Aug. 25.-Twenty thousand dollars given by Americans in Lon don has been spent in providing a shore home for the American blue jackets in the destroyer flotilla based on this port. It's correct name is the United States Naval Mems clubhouse. It probably is the most cheerful spot in town for it combines everything to make the American sailor as happy and contented as he can be thousands of miles from home.
 If it had been built in the United States this shore home could not com hine many more of the characteris- tic American features of up-to-date- ness and cleanliness. It is steam heated throughout, an almost unheard of luxury in this country, and it boasts of a restaurant that would make some of the leading American restaurant teurs green with envy It spells com fort to the sailor who brings his Brit ish tar friend there with display of pride.
 The cooking is done in full view of the dinners on huge gas ranges of the most modern type. There is also a grill. A feature is quick lunch counter patterned after those so popular in American cities. In two large coffee urns is made the best of that beverage to be had in the port. There is some call for cocoa but not much for tea. The culinary depart ment is in charge of commissary steward from the. flotilla tender.
 There is a piano player, two grama- phones, and on special occasions a string orchestra from the flotilla ten der. There are two dormitories in the clubhouse containing altogether 75 beds designed to accommodate that many men ashore on overnight lib- crty. These accommodations can cas- fly be increased to 100. There never has been adequate sleeping accommo- dation in the private homes ashore.
 Adjoining the dormitory wings is a tiled bathroom equipped with six shower baths Of the newest design. Heavy white porcelain wash basins and other fixtures of the same ma terial help to give the place clean, substantial appearance. In one corner is series of steam pipes for drying clothing and just outside this room are linen closets where clean clothing is kept.
 In another part of the house two American pool tables enable the blue jackets to improve their skill with the cue. For the more studious there arc several reading rooms equipped with libra alB donated by British so- ciety. Reading matter such as news papers and magazines are also sent to the men from London, but there are not enough from America. To fill this want a movement is under way to interest Americans at home in send ing old magazines and books to the men. These can be forwarded through the American embassy in London.
 In the concert hall feature of the club opened nearly two months ago moving pictures and vaudeville by tal- ent from the ships continue to en- certain the men every Saturday nj ght. Last week many of the men saw them selves in the movies the pictures be- ing those of the arrival of the first destroyer flotilla. Their officers al- ways attend these shows and invari- ably bring along British officers with whom they are cooperating so sue cessfully in the business of hunting the elusive submarine