Show HAPPY IS I ONE OBE O f THE TH fADS WHICH l MR i Persons who saw E E. H. H Harriman in Salt Lake City this week were attracted attracted attracted at at- by his devotion to his boys Next to ra railroads boys are his hobby and when he is not giving his time to his own sons he is planning ways and means to make lads less fortunately situated situated situated sit sit- happy Mr Ir Harriman's great di diversion is the Bo Boys Boys' s club of avenue avenue- menus A the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest boys' boys club in the world It numbers numbers num num- bers more than ten thousand members and draws daws its numbers from the most densely crowded and cong congested sted districts of Kew New York Cit City It works out its usefulness through a boys boy's natural I fondness for life for sports for fun It isn isn't t like any other boys' boys club in in existence I It is just five e stories and basement o of good wholesome dive diversion ion recreation recreation tion and amusement the kind that real boys care for It keeps them from front the streets and builds on a a. sure foundation not only through play but through h companionship com com- companionship with rea real men men of the world men of business and ana affairs I Dir Mr rr Harriman practically made the club He fostered it even back some i thirty years ago when hen in the basement basement base base- ment of St. St Marks Mark's church or parish house bouse it had its inc inception He eat sat up nights wi with h it he te watched i it grow row from an infant into a a. healthy child and finally some five years ears ago when it changed from to manhood he still stood by and nd not only built but furnished the splendid limestone building diagonally opposite Thom Thomson's Thompson's Thompsons Thompsons Thompson's Thomp Thomp- sons son's square and avenue A and Tent Tenth street Boy His Companion C When Mr Harriman feels the need of relaxation of loosening the tension he turns not to men of his own sphere his billionaire acquaintances nor to the pastimes of the rich but to the boys of avenue A. A He mingles freel freely with boys who have less of this worlds world's s goods than any other who have less chance of improvement ement but who are bully good fellows nevertheless and who have bave the ability to develop into men good practical self-made self men men- menthe the tho kind the country needs to safeguard its wealth and honor As it was Mr Nr Harriman's money that erected the new building so is the sum of 2500 which comes annual- annual Iv lv to the clubs club's treasurer Eliphalet N. N Potter otter and which goes toward the support support sup sup- support port of the club Air Mr r. r Harriman's latest latest latest lat lat- lat lat- est plan contemplates the purchase of the two dwellings just north of the clubhouse the lots to be used for a afine afine afine fine addition to the t lant in the shape of entertainment rooms and additional athletic quarters Ten thousand boys and young men of the east side living Jiving in in inthe the ar area a abounded bounded by Fourteenth and Houston streets are members member o of the club Itis It Itis Itis is a club like any society mans man's club up town It is organized chiefly for pleasure although educational features are by no means lacking It is a club where the boys play playas as asgood asgood good Association football as any college college college col col- col- col lege team Witness their last seasons season's victories over Columbia and Princeton besides a tie with the University ot or Pennsylvania It is a club where Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert Gil Gil- bert and Sullivan Sullivan's s 's operas are being revived in a W way war Y that would bring crowded houses if produced on the legitimate legitimate le le- stage The Mikado given last year rear at the Berkeley Lyceum took in as evidence of its brilliancy It is a club where its members learn to take photographs do carpentry and no end of other things all in a a. clever way It is a club where a man may play a game of pool or billiards chess chessor or checkers can do stunts in the gym gym or in short as one boy expressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed it do an anything he pleases Taken seriously Francis Tabor tho superintendent whose winning personality personality personality per per- is responsible for his bis great influence influence in in- fluence with the boys says It does not try to check but guides ides his love of play his capacity for taking interest in all sorts of things games athletics natural history drawing or singing It teaches teaches him bim to play football and basketball or to wrestle The club also teaches him perseverance perseverance per per- severance by the daily unremitting practice for the operetta It also teaches him to play chess or checkers knowing that in all of these games recognition rec awaits his skill Orchestra and Band In connection with the operetta given en every year there is music by the club orchestra and for those who care for it there is a brass band that plays at all aU football matches and on other gala occasions as well as a good drum corps In order that the football team shall have its own oval on which to practice and hold games Mr Tabor has been searching the city over Strange as it may seem it was well nigh an impossibility impossibility to obtain a plot of gro ground nd of sufficient size anywhere in the city Mr After a a lon long and weary search Mr Tabor recently announced that he had obtained the only one in all of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York worth having It is up in the Bronx at South Broadway and street and has been rented for a term of five years at an annual rental of 1500 When ready for the season it will be fitted with suitable dressing rooms shower baths etc A peep into the senior room of the club of an evening would present no very different aspect from the average average aver aver- age age ge mans man's club uptown About the room in luxurious luxurious easy easy chairs the young men sit and smoke or chat chatto to together torether ether Just now the clubrooms look very smart with their festoons of ground pine and holly wreaths Thirty small clubs there are led by well-known well society and business men most of them wealthy who give one evening of each week to their respective respective tive club Among the names of men menas menas menas as as club leaders are E R IL Bayard Cutting E E. G G. Stillman Stilman J. J Deane lell Pell G G. Gordon Gordon Gor d don n Brown nephew of Pierpont Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- gan Eliphalet Potter lotter nephew of Bishon Bishop Bish op on Potter Edwin Trowbridge Halll HalIl of the firm of Rogers Peet Co Meredith Meredith Mere Mere- Howland Howand Jr son of Dulaney Howand Howland Howland How- How land and Luther B. B Little the politician Albert Kessler of the firm of bankers by that name and many others 2 Mr fr Harriman has hall been influential in obtaining places for many of the boys in the club dub as have also many prominent prominent prominent nent and wealthy men meni directors of the club Each leader is naturally of course interested in his own flock t. and where he sees especial adaptability there is every likelihood of f his bis seeking seeking seek seek- ing to find an outlet for it One of the valuable assets o of the club is is the employment bureau which has become deservedly popular Many firms in need of clerks or assistants send to the bureau for their help and in running over the books there will be seen seon that some fifteen boys a month have found good brood places with bankel's and brokers in Wall street with electrical electrical electrical cal firms and various manufacturing concerns By all aIr odds one of the most attractive attractive tive th-e features of the Boys Boys' club is is the summer home on the north shore of Long Island about two hours out from the city From a bluff sixty feet high the boys can look down rn a well wooded glen to the changing waters of the sound with the dim outline of the ConI Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- shore in the distance It is a t I most picturesque spot spott and from a veritable veritable veri veri- table wilderness the boys nors of the William William Will Will- iam Cary Gary camp a as s asit lit it is called have made a a. delightful summer abode They Ther have cleared the ground tilled the soil sOlI planted herb flower and vege vee- vegetable vegetable vege- vege I table gardens built the dormitories the room dining and culinary department depart depart- department ment adjoining stables a wagon lodge chicken house and aud pigeon loft T They ey have made a baseball field and tennis court besides building a cement wall to pre prevent prent nt the encroachment of the sea and a flight of sixty odd steps to lead from the shore up to their eyrie eyri on the top tOJ of the cliff One of the most remarkable feats which they have accomplished is the Building of a pretty cottage fot for the superintendent which h was completed last summer Between five hundred and one thousand thousand thou thou- sand boys divide their time during luring the summer between the tho city and the camp They come in i relays clays and the habit of week weekend end visits has become an established established established one |