That home, which the Union occupied until fifteen or twenty years ago, was described as "a superb structure which cost three hundred thousand dollars." It was the first building erected in the city solely for club purposes.

Almost to the day of its demolition, although the neighbourhood about it was changing rapidly, the old house wore an aspect of dignity.

To the corner the habitues of other years seldom come today.

Instead, at the noon hour, the sidewalks swarm with foreign faces and there is excited babble in an alien tongue.

The cloak and suit firm of Potash and Perlmutter is as much at home here now as it was in its East Broadway--or was it Division Street ?--loft when the present century was coming into being.
There is an old volume, bearing the date 1871, called "The Clubs of New York." The author was a Francis Gerry Fairfield, and the chapters that make up the book were originally contributed to the columns of the "Home Journal." There is a perceptible smile on Mr.Fairfield's face as he writes of the town of thirty years before.