Show OLD CLU LU I Will w E NO MORE i NEW V EW YORK March After After an existence of nearl nearly half h a century dur during ur jug ing which time it entertained sonic some of tho the greatest Republican politicians in inthe inthe inthe the countr country the Alpha club i is about to pass awn aa away and soon Eloon will be he only a memory to tim tho few fow members who havo have remained faithful to the he last When tho the club Iu was started in in 15 1 at S g Fifth street tho the neighborhood was inhabited in in in- I habited 11 by Americans who rho were engaged en in the shipbuilding in yards vars at tho the foot of oC Fourth Fifth and Sixth streets on tho the East Bast r re river e The United States State ironclad Ram that was sold n after ter the civil il war var to England Englan was wa built at the foot of Sixth street b by William II 11 Webb ebl e h and a picture of the lie ship hangs Jiang on the walls of the out old club in iii company compan with one of the schooner yacht America that won tho the famous Clip cup As the foreign clement moved into ho tho dist district tho the old mem members bers moved way away or died so go o that th gradual the dwindled until only ten arc are left eft Among tho the famous fatuous in men en who had vis vis- fed the Alpha zIpha club and nid ma made e speeches there hero in in its palm palmy lava days were lre President ibraham Abraham Lincoln l' l President Chester A A. A Arthur President Garfield and anil James Jr U. Blame Ulaine Among the various arious relics belonging to o tho clu is a u portrait of or Henry Clay done ilone one in in StO isio for the lie old ohl Whir Whig party part antl anil nd a lock clock which ha has ticked away a on the he walls wall of the club from froni the first day diy it L came camo into existence |