Club Life In New York

In the vestibule of the Union Club, says the New York Times, sits installed a porter, who opons and elmts the doors, receives all letters for the various members except those brouglit by the postman, and sees that no improper peraon enters the sacred edifice; f rom tlu! interior of the vestibule a smal! waiting-room branches off to the right, dovoted to the reception of visitors. On the first or ground floor are spacious rèading and smoking rooms, the bar, the office, and the cloak-room. On the second floor, the billiRrd-room, cardroom, and library. On the tliird floor, the public and private dining-rooms, all luxuriously fitted up with a single eye to comfort, and without any attempt at elabórate embollishment. The kitchen is above the dining-rcom on the fourth floor. This arrangement does away with the unpleasant odor of cooking, which so often permeates houses where the kitchen is in the basement. An elevator running from the ground floor to the dining-room is constantly in operation. The card-room is frequented by but a small portion, even of those members who take all their meals at the club and make it their home. Whist, euchre, all fours, ecarte, bezique, cribbage and picquet only can be played. Bets are strictly limited. Members must not have at stake, directly or indirectly, more than the following amounts on any of the above-metioned games. Any violation of this rule renders the offender liable to expulsion : Whist, twenty dollars a game, or five dollars a point, when playing what is known as the " English " game ; euchre, five dollars a game (a " slam " to count as two games) with privilege of betting in addition ten dollars on the usual rubber of either three or four games; all fours, five dollars a game; ecarte, five dollars a game; bezique, two cents a point - two hundred additional points on each hand. Betting up to these limits is rather the exception than the rule. The games chiefly played are short whist at five dollars a game, and euchro at on e dollar a game.