Show CLUB EXPENSES v what it costs to run the lie caulia of kew york few people outside of tho governing bodies of the big clubs have any idea of the vast amount of money which intakes to run tho larger bow york clubs says the sun of that city A club is not a moneymaking money making institution and tho governors aim to so grade the charges for meals wines liquors cigars etc as to sell them just a little above cost but tho receipts from the restaurant and cafe of a big club like the manhattan or union loague are nevertheless enor since the manhattan club took possession of the stev art mansion its always famous cuisine the best in now york has been more than over in demand from one hundred and fifty to two hundred members of the club dine there every night and the night which isa not marked by two or three private dinner parties is the exception including the receipts from the restaurant the sale of wines liquors and cigar the income from billiards and other games etc the club has a revenue of nearly a day exclusive of initiation becs and dues theror are more than 1200 members of the club and as each one pays seventy dollars a jear condues fondues fon dues the club thus nets sum of about a year inthis in this way to say nothing of the aggregation of two hundred and fifty dollars initiation fees from incoming members take it all in all the total receipts of the manhattan club for the coming year will probably be somewhere between and As all or nearly all of this money will bo expended in running the club it will be seen that like 1500 a day to maintain the manhattan club its most formidable rival the union leaguess League is not so far behind in the way of receipts and running expenses last year the of the union league bromall fro mall sources was so hearty were the receipts and expenses balanced that the outlay of the club for the same period was 2952 1014 of the total income about came in the form of dues from initiation fees about from the restaurant from the sale of wines and liquors from lovers of the weed for lodgings and from billiards and othar gamas |