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Show EAST SIDE BOYS II CLUB NEW YORK. Dec. 18 for ten rents a year and up. 7.000 boys of Nw York's East s'dc enjoy all the fun facilities fa-cilities that a seven story club house can provide. They are . members of the Boy's club. It Is the largest organization or-ganization of its type In the world, devoted solely to furnishing w hole-some hole-some recreation to the youths 6( the congested tenement district sourround-Ing sourround-Ing it. Any youngster in that part of the metropolis can be a member if he Ifl between 7 and 21 years old. Annual dues are paid, according to heights, beginning with a modest dime (or those under four feet, four inches, and growing with tho boy himself The club has taught the East Side gamins how to be happy though clean bv providing a big swimming pool Fringed around it are gymnasium game rooms, billiard parlors, and above, six more floors devoted to club rooms and other amusement areas. Within the Bos club Itself there are SO separate clubs, each with adults as headers. Two-thirds of these leaders were army officers during tho war. Dividing popularity honors with the 1 ! swimming pool l a lunch room where a cup of cocoa sells for a penny and cookies to go with it for a slmllai sum. Pretzel peddlers and handorgau H iwlrtuosos steer clear of the neighbor- H iiood of the club, for the boys have , their own eals and own music making H I Instruments- H In the daytime there frequently are onlj a few hundred youngsters within ajB the club house and comparative quiet H .exists. But after the schools release M jthelr pupils and the working boya fin- H ish the day's business duties, the roof 1 has a hard time staying on. H There are fow "don'ta"' and fewer "must do's" In the club, and each member enjoys himself as he la wont. Those desiring to "shoot a game" of pool do so, and those with penchants i for painting dab the canvas to their I heart's content. Several of the. boys 'study the National Academy of Design JH ami one of tho porlalts hanging in the 'Metropolitan Museum of Art w as done &H h in- tub"! of ' he club. ,no evening each week each of two H I hundred men of the city make them- H (selves hoys again Just for the night. HH I They are the leaders of the various HHJ (Subsidiary clubs and organizations. H .Sunic of these men are college gradu-lates gradu-lates and barons in the business world. I One of tho founders of the club was a ( I famous figure in America's railroad , jH I and financial circles the late E II. IBB lllarrlman With him in the early work of building up the organization were several Yale graduates. |