Show THE MICHIGAN ATHLETIC CLUB I A Young but Healthy Organization Tlio Club House The Michigan Athletic club is the name of a successful organization which has sprung up witnin n year in the City of the Straits The finishing touches are now being put on I tho club house which when completed will rival any similar organization in the west The entire cost will be about 25000 of which 3000 will bo expended on the gymnasium I gymna-sium alone In the basement of the building are the dressing rooms bathrooms lockers kitchen and boiler rooms There is a plunge bath 32sl3 feet There h been no regular of the in the arrangement rooms building no two being of the same shape The main corridor 1 shaped like a half moon On the first floor are the ladies rom antI reading rooms The main stairway leads to the gymnasium on the second floor and to the right of the entrance and near the stairway stair-way is the office Adjoining the reading rom i the smoking room 11x23 feet Across the Jt THE CLUBS HOltE corridor i the cafe loslO feet connecting with 1 serving room Sil5 feet The billiard room with accommodations for four tables is also on this floor The gymnasium occupies the entire upper floor and i fully equipped with tho Spaulding system of apparatus There is in this room a elevated track 9 feet from the floor and 15 feet in circumference The grounds about the house afford ample space for a cinder track of five laps to the mile Next spring the tennis courts will b laid out and the whole grounds arranged for the various gamesfootball lacrosse ba ball cricket etc The member take particular par-ticular pride in their gymnasium which they claim is unexcelled by any club house gymnasium gym-nasium in the TJuitsd States |