LARGER FACILITIES FOR CLUB

The construction of the addition to the club house of the Harvard Club of New York City is already well advanced and is proceeding toward completion rapidly, the steel work being practically finished. This addition covers a space of 25 feet on 44th street, giving a total frontage on that street at 75 feet and of 60 feet on 45th street, making a total or 160 feet on the latter. It is expected that the new building will be ready for occupancy by June 1, 1915, and possibly somewhat sooner.

The present office space at the original entrance on 44th street is to be converted into a reception room, back of which will be a telephone room with ten booths and an exchange. Directly in front is the long vista through the grill-room to the farther end of Harvard hall. At the left is the main stairway, which is to be left unchanged. Beyond, in the 44th street addition, will be an enlarged office with coat room adjoining. Just beyond the elevators and opening directly from the grill-room, is a large lobby, forming the entrance to the new dining hall, which with its service appurtenances, will occupy the entire area of the 45th street addition. The decorations of this hall are to be in the Elizabethan style, in harmony with that of Harvard Hall.

On the sixth and mezzanine floors there are to be two new squash courts, making five in all, a markers' room, barber shop, ample showers and baths, a lounge room, and a swimming pool, 15 feet by 33 feet. The 45th street addition on the third floor is intended for private and class dining purposes. The fourth and fifth floors are devoted entirely to bed rooms. The remainder of the building is practically unchanged. The private dining and meeting rooms on the third floor are the same, save that the card room has been enlarged and the front of the 44th street addition will be used for a billiard room and lounge.

The building will, of course, be a modern, fire-proof construction, with self-closing doors, stand-pipes and a fire alarm system. Complete ventilating and electrical interconnecting systems will be installed in the new building, and, as far as possible, in those parts of the older building not so equipped. The architects are McKim, Mead and White, who have previously designed the club-house in its successive stages of development, this being the third extensive addition