The sun., 1919-01-12

POLICE HAVE A REAL
CLUB ON THE DRIVE
Double Mansion Opened With
Hylan and Other City
Officials Present.
FILLED WITH LUXURY
Latchstring Will Be Ont for
Visiting Cops from
Other Towns.
FILLED WITH LUXURY

Hereafter the letters p. c. occurring
IN the social register after any police
mans name will indicate that he Is a
member OF the Police Club. which was
opened with appropriate ceremonies yes
terday at li5 Riverside Drive.
This newest fixture in the city's club
lie occupies two handsome houses. made
into one, on Riverside Drive between
Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh streets.
and has been turned over to the police
Tor their club by Special Deputy Com
missioner John A. Harriss. who Is in
charge Of the traffic squad. The double
building is Ave stories high and contains
everything calculated to make the spare
lime OF its members happy. II Is at one
II the points along the Drive command
ing view both ways along the river.
The clubhouse, complete to the last
salt spoon, was opered yesterday after
noon with all the notables of the city
administration present Mayor HylaIl
made a speech, so did Commissioned
Enright and SO did Special Deputy Com
nissioners Ryan and Wallis There was
a Hawaiian orchestra in the main re-
IN the banquet hall and enough floral
pieces In the main foyer to have len,
distinction to a Fifth avenue wedding.
Luxurious Interior.
Strong drink will not be available al
the club, but since the demon Rum will
die the death anyway In less than en-
months. the club in every other respect
Is in q situation to hold its own with
any Of tho city clubs. Its entrance hal
10 in white enamel with Jacobean fur
niture, It's principal rooms very ornately
turned out, and its billiard. smoke art
reading rooms all that could be asket
by the most fastidious.
1t has also a kitchen which Is q
model In the way of cleanliness. and its
restaurant and grill will supply the mem
bers at the bedrock cost OF production.
The two old time private residences
which have been run into one clubhouse
are fresh from a process of remodelling
and redecorating which has taken siX
months of steady work. The decorator
and the upholsterer have been as active
80 the carpenter and the plasterer and
the plumber, and the effect produced is
;.s elegant as 1t Is practical
Harriss Solves Problem.
W men IlTSL ~
give the policemen {, clubhouse he had
his moments of indec!sion as to whether
the present property. which he owned.
would as perfectly suit club purposes as
some other building more in what is
called the heart OF the town.
As the clubhouse stands on a gilt
edged site from realty mans point OF
New. ne could easily have disposed OF
the buildings and obtained another site
elsewhere. After thinking the problem
over ne determined that a mans club
should represent the greatest change
POSSIBLE from his daily life. and that
;ipon the score OF centrally this lOcl-
ION was as central to the five boroughs
IS any other place he would be likely
% find.
The top l,oo- OF the clubhouse has
been divided into bedrooms and can
accommodate twenty-five sleeping police
men. TIE la:chstrln.y will always be out
20 visiting po,icemen Of other cities and
IN future the club. instead OF various
hotels, will re the scene OF oil police
lanque:s and entertainments.