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restaurant, with a roof -garden for summer use. The adja- 

 cent spacious pantry is connected by dumb-waiters with the 

 kitchen and supply-rooms that are situated in the basement. 

 For Club banquets the entire floor-space is available. The 

 second story is known as the Scientific Floor : it is exception- 

 ally lofty, to accommodate a gallery in the Library, which 

 has the same dimensions as the social room, immediately 

 below, and whose shelves can hold upwards of 16,000 volumes, 

 with additional space in reserve. This room is named Chand- 

 ler Hall, after the first president of the Club, and it will prove 

 an ideal work-room for the scientific student. The rear half 

 of this floor is to be used as a scientific museum, according 

 to a plan devised by a committee of the American Chemical 

 Society, but not yet fully developed. Out of it there opens 

 the board-room, which, in conformity to the character of the 

 museum, has been designed in imitation of an alchemist's 

 laboratory and adapted to the preservation of specimens of 

 old chemical apparatus. A small photographic dark-room 

 and storage for unbound pamphlets are likewise to be found 

 on this floor. 



The fourth and fifth stories are residential, and provided 

 with rooms for either transient or permanent occupancy. 

 There are two suites, consisting of sitting-room, bedroom and 

 bath-room, with a private corridor, and eighteen other bed- 

 rooms, a number of which are provided with private bath- 

 rooms. Each suite or room is named after a college or uni- 

 versity, whose alumni have furnished it, and this serves to 

 accentuate the academic spirit of the Club membership. The 

 institutions thus commemorated are : Harvard, Yale, Prince- 

 ton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York University, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, German Universities, 

 Cornell, British Schools and Universities, Johns Hopkins, 

 University of Virginia, University of Michigan, The College 



