Gulian C.Verplanck was the club's first president, and back in his day began the Century's peculiar Twelfth Night Festival, which has been continued ever since.

Twelfth Night with the Centurions is distinctive in that it is not an annual event nor the event of any given year.

The very uncertainty of the ceremonial has added zest to the revel, which usually ends with an old-fashioned Virginia Reel.

A few years ago the reel was led by Theodore Roosevelt and the late Joseph H.
Choate.
The first home of the Century, which it occupied for two years, was in rooms at 495 Broadway--between Broome and Spring Streets.

During this period a journal called the "Century" was started, and edited by F.S.
Cozzens and John H.Gourley.Then, in 1848, the club moved to 435 Broome Street; thence, in 1850, to 575 Broadway; in 1852, to Clinton Place, where Thackeray learned to love it, and where, by virtue of proximity, it first laid claim to be regarded as a Fifth Avenue club.
[Illustration: WHERE THE AVENUE AND THIRTY-FOURTH STREET CROSS STANDS THE BUILDING POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE KNICKERBOCKER TRUST COMPANY.