New York Grill-Rooms 
though small, proves amazingly elastic when 
any man who is persona grata comes in at the 
door. A few men occupy the table almost 
daily; others come two or three times a week; 
still others drop in once a fortnight. It is 
enough that a man shall have rendered him¬ 
self agreeable to the company to make him 
welcome whenever he chooses to come. 
Of all the college clubs Yale makes the 
most of the grill-room. The Harvard Club 
board that runs around the room hang the 
mugs specially set aside for the use of in¬ 
dividual members. The grill-room is more 
prized by the younger Yale men than all the 
apartments on the ten other floors of the club¬ 
house. 
Rather more conventional in style and fur¬ 
nishing than the Yale grill-room is that of 
the Princeton Club, which occupies the im¬ 
mense Dodge house in Park Avenue, at the 
GRILI.- AND TAP-ROOM—GROLIFR CLUB 
has what it calls a grill-room, but the apart¬ 
ment does not occupy a specially high place 
in the affections of the members, and is not 
a place of general resort. The Yale Club 
grill-room, on the other hand, is perhaps the 
most frequented room of the club-house. 
Its great stone fireplace, with an appropriate 
inscription on the front of the oaken mantel, 
and cups, platters and tankards along the 
breast, is the centre of attraction. Many pic¬ 
tures adorn the walls, and beneath the high- 
corner of Thirty-fourth Street. While the 
subway was under specially active construc¬ 
tion at that point the Club took refuge for a 
time .in the Waldorf-Astoria, but it has since 
returned to its spacious old quarters, and the 
grill-room, with its high-backed chairs and 
its pleasant fireplace, is again exceedingly 
popular. Men sit late amid the smoke of 
the Princeton grill-room, and after any event 
that attracts Princeton men to New York, the 
room is a singular mixture of youth and age. 
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