The sun., 1919-04-10
Big CLUBS PREPARE
FOR BLACK JULY 1
Harvard Men Plan TO Set Up
Soda Fountain That Failed
in 1917.
OTHERS TO SELL STOCKS
Lambs and Friars Rely on Own
Praise as Cocktail
Substitute.

and other out and out theatrical clubs
are concerned about the ousting Of hard
liquor from the club grills--it was
learned yesterday by a reporter who
made some inquiries concerning the
sociological. hydraulic and architectural
changes contemplated In club life ON or
before July tho theatrical clubmen
always win be abba. evcn after the dry
spell has set In. to work w q glow
around the entire cocktail hour by saun-
terins UP to where the bar used to be
and discussing the merits OF their own
performances.
It has been scientifically demonstrated
by the eminent Prof. Jawn ]. Speeele
that a remark such as. well. knocked
'em cold again at the matinee to-day"
when delivered by Lamb or a Friar
to no more imposing an audience than
club waiter. gives the same kick TO
the speakers nervous system as one,
decimal point. seven, I'VE dry martini
OF the average club size. And a eta,e-
ment such rs. Hugely Ford offered me
$4,000 . week to-day TO leave art fat
on It's back and 60 into the movies"
causes the actor to wake up the follow
ing noon with all the physical symptoms
Of q hangover.
Sadness in Harvard Club.
wherefore there was not so much
solemnity around the Lambs grill and
the Friare' gothic monastery yesterday
when July / was mentioned as one
noted. say. at Director Ned Cullinan's
jolly old Harvard Club.
We should worry was. in effect the
opinion around the Lambs. and Itch
kabibble,' in the Friars. the general
idea In both cases being the same. But
Director Ned Cullinan-who in days
gone by was an intimate Of Sam Blythe
and Booth Harrington but cut them dead
when Sam and Booth Joined the Anti
Saloon League-pulled a cast Of coun-
tenance when July was mentioned
to him yesterday as sad as the ex-
preston on the average Harvard face
on the night Of any day Harvard has
played football with Yale. And, signing
deeply he spoke In the Harvard tongue.
'Cripes!' cried Dr. Cullinan, Har-
ward. 81, "Aint II turribler'
Director Cullinan. II should be hastily
added. some time ago was converted to
total abstinence by the combined SER
Blythe. The director Of the Harvard
Club therefore had his fellow olubmen's
sunerings in mind. not his own
1t was Director Cullinan, aided and
abetted by the combined !ntellects of the
harvard Clubs house committee, who
ABOUT two years ago installed a soda
fountain in the club. At the time the
Cullinan soda fountain appeared in the
Harvard Club 1t was unofficinlly stated
In the offices of the Yale Club that the
Harvard Club fountain was the result of
the natural hankering of Harvard men
for nut sundses. As against this state
ment the fact remains that the club soda
fountain was a dismal failure, many of
the members-so II was further stated
at the Yale Club-having acquired the
habit in recent years Of going down the
block to Jacks, where they learned 10
drink and smoke and even curse
VIII Restore the Fountain.
Be that as It may the Harvard Club
intends to revive the Culllnan fountain
on or before Black July l. A week ago.
il was said yesterday at the club the
house committee met before starting for
Jacks and passed resolutions in Latin,
Greek and the Harvard accent to root
the old fountain out of the cellar. dust
the Harvard clubhouse. where wide
window will throw strong light upon
the motto engraved across the facade OF
the fountain: ITO He'll With Yale"
At the City Club, which has the ad-
vantage of being almost half block
closer to Jacks than even the Harvard
Club. 1t was said yesterday. oddly
enough, that no thought had been given
so far by the house committee to any,
thing so low as the booze problem. II
was admitted by City Club members that
undoubtedly II lecturers and the news
papers are to be believed. there are some
men, possibly even women. who drink,
but none OF these creatures Is a member
OF the City Club.
In the Century Club, around the cor
ner. there was an unverifed rumor that
the installation OF n new checker board
set Of dominoes and an illustrated edi-
ton OF the Encyclopedia Britannica had
got the boys so het up with excitement
that probably not a member will notice
until long after July l that the clubs
bottle OF rye has been replaced by
bust Of John Ruskin, And by that time,
il was further predicted, the Century
Club cutups will have got the last OF the
hard stun so thoroughly out OF their
systems that they will have got used to
sohriety.
One gentleman In the Union Club Office
said positively that the Union Club had
not even thought OF soda fountain bus
in an instant the gentleman realized
that he had gone much too far In reveal
ing so much Union Club history to the
vulgar press He fastened to repeal his
statement. adding that the Union Club
would not say 1t was going to put IN n
fountain and would not say it would
not-thus leaving everything where It
was originally
At most OF the clubs. 1t was learned,
the grog left over as Black July ap-
proaches will be sold to the members,
who thereafter may be served from their
private stock as long as II lasts
Greek Revolt In Strumnitza.