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Show I3ULUIERS' AND SAILORS' CLUB i"f Sev?n-story Building Full FittalUp -for Boys in FINEST IN U. S. Seattle Athletic Club Turned Over With Fine Equipment to Men in Uniform. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 31. Tho Seattle Soldiers an Sailors club occupying occu-pying an entire seven story downtown building fully fitted with club conveniences conven-iences and athlotic equipment being -conducted for the men of tho army and navy by the War department commission commis-sion on training camp activities, a part m cainp communlty rnovc- Soldiers and sailors are patronizing the club heavily, according to Albert E. Carter, former president of tho Oakland, Cal., Rotary club, who Is now representing tho War and Navy departments de-partments in tho Community movement. move-ment. On a recent Saturday night over 200 men occupied beds In the club dormitories. "Patronage has been very heavy despite de-spite the order barring soldiers from Camp Lewis from visiting Seattle," Mr. Carter said recently. "When we opened December l.wo expected the club would not be well patronized until the . quarantine was lifted. Our fears have proved groundless. "There is no finer war camp community com-munity club in the United States than in Seattle," Mr. Carter added. Mr. Carter Car-ter spoke with authority for he has .v; visited all the community movement " ' clubs in the larger cities of the nation recently. He has been assigned probably prob-ably temporarily, to the Seattle club. The building occupied was erected i and used for many years by the Seat- tie Athletic club and is equipped with a big gymnasium, shower baths, steam baths, Turkish baths, reading rooms, jf parlor, office, reception room and dor- ; muones. '4, When the movement to establish the . club started, Seattle people, under the ' - X leadership of A. W. Leonard, president 'I i of the Puget Sound Traction .bight & f i Power company set out to raise $25,000 uj in subscriptions to equip the building. $j i Although they did not reach their goal, i I they obtained enough to furnish the 1 clubrooms with new furniture, includ- f . ing beds, writing tables, chairs, a , $ piano, a phonograph, seven pool tables y and other fixtures. Mr. Leonard Is chairman of the Seattle committee In charge of the club. t Only men in uniform are allowed to 4 use the club. They are given everything every-thing freo except sleeping accommoda- . tions, for which they nro charged 25c a night, and tho use of pool tables, for which they pay a nominal rate. Every Saturday night dances for the uniformed men are held In tho big , gymnasium, which has the flags of tho United Statos and her allies draped on the walls. Girls, many from the Uni-versity Uni-versity of Washington, are sent to the dances by the women's section of the', general Seattle committee. ( Several smokers, at which boxing matches are to be held, are being planned. plan-ned. Mr. Carter said recently that he -hopes to have Benny Leonard meet Eddie Pinkham, a local boxer, here under the auspices of the club. The , bout would be staged in some other building but the proceeds would go ; into the club treasury. Sunday afternoons' musical concerts i are given In tho gymnasium. The ! ! music for the concerts, as well as for i the Saturday night dances, is donated. , Six nights a week classes in French, Spanish and mathematics are held for ' ! the soldiers and sailors. Instructors ; I from the University of Washington have charge of tho classes. Classes in , swimming are also held. Every after noon a swimming instructor and twenty-five men from the naval training academy on tho University of Washington Wash-ington campus use tho club pool. |