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Identifier: outing15newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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the total membership is com-posed of them. The club house is opento them every day until 3 oclock and THE ORANGE ATHLETIC CLUB. 127 all day on Monday and Thursday. Thisfeature of lady membership is an in-novation in athletic clubs. ProfessorSargent, of Harvard College, in a recentvisit commented very favorably on thispleasant plan. The annual dues and re-ceipts from billiards, bowling and tennismore than meet the current expenses ofthe club and necessary repairs, while theinitiation fees are forming a sinking fundwith which to redeem the bonded debt of a portion of the front of the house. Themain doors open into a small lobby withthe office placed conveniently at one side,and wide curtained openings give accessto the ladies reception room on the leftand the main hall or assembly room be-yond at the end. Ihe lobby is decoratedwith a heavy dado of embossed Japaneseleather in gold and bronze. Above this,to the ceiling, the walls are in plastic workin warm, soft colors, combed and flashed
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THE BILLIARD ROOM. the club. Financially the club is as soundas it IS socially. THE CLUB HOUSE. The club house is divided practicallyinto two buildings : the club house properfronting on Halstead street and the tennisbuilding that extends back and faces onRailroad avenue. The location is mostconvenient, it being almost the geograph-ical centre of the Oranges and not ahundred yards distant from the BrickChurch station of the Morris and EssexRailroad. The entrance to the house isacross a low wide piazza extending along in metals. The ceiling is in plastic work,with border of bronze in mosaic lines. Inthe assembly room, with its wide fireplace, with a welcome blazing fire in win-ter, is the heavy oak mantel on which areplaced various club trophies. The sidewalls are stippled in plastic work of pleas-ing cedar hue. The frieze has a designof a flowering vine in bronze and oldgold. Mosaic designs in delic-ate tintsare used in the ceiling, the border ofwhich is in blue and pink shades. Thewa

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