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Show I The Manhattan club has the largest I membership, which accounts in a meas-! meas-! ore for itH large receipts, but the Union League club persistently refuses to increase in-crease its present limit, which is 1,800 members. Now York Letter. Club Incomes and Expenses. Few persons have any idea what it costs to run a large club in New York city. Clubs are not run to make money, . but to pay expenses and give the members mem-bers the best of everything at, as nearly cost price as possible. Nevertheless, tha receipts of a big club are enormous. Tha Manluittan club, since it went into the old Stewart mansion, is said to have revenue that approaches half a million a year from all sources, which is probably tho largest amount taken in annually by any club in New York. The opening ol the Manhattan Athletic club has brought a new competitor into tho field as to the aggregate amount of receipts, and its directors estimate its gross income for the first year at something like f 100.000. , The Union League, winch for years j led all the rest, took in last year from all j J Koureep and so evenly were its j : -xpenditures balanced that the money j jpent during the year waa only $2Uo,oUO. 1 |