The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . io. It had its ownvestibule door, by which a horse, when a horsewas needed for a model,«could be led in along themarble floor. The parlor had a line of low book-cases against the west wall, the bar had been thebutlers pantry, and the red room the family-dining-room, with two windows looking southover the Rogers Studio. The library was dividedby a low partition into two bedrooms, and thiswa
The Salmagundi Club, being a history of its beginning as a sketch class, its public service as the Black and White Society, and its career as a club from 1871-1918, with illustrations [electronic resource] . io. It had its ownvestibule door, by which a horse, when a horsewas needed for a model,«could be led in along themarble floor. The parlor had a line of low book-cases against the west wall, the bar had been thebutlers pantry, and the red room the family-dining-room, with two windows looking southover the Rogers Studio. The library was dividedby a low partition into two bedrooms, and thiswas the house as we found it. An entry in the minutes of the executive com-mittee reads: Mr. Hartley was empowered toengage Mr. Andrew Christopher and his wifeas janitors. The club needed several servantsbut as it could afford only one it was as wellto begin with a janitor and his unpaid other member of the Christopher family wasa fox terrier of objectionable habits. Andrew was a surly Swedish sailor, who openedthe door in his shirt-sleeves and frightened timidmembers away. Ashore he was a carpenterwhich accounts for his engagement, and it wasAndrew who removed the low bookcases from the. OFFICE, U WEST 18TH STREETFrom a charcoal drawing by Charles S. Chapman C 79 ] parlor and the diamond-glazed cupboards fromthe pantry to the library. It was also Andrewwho built the covered passage to the studio. Thispassage was built along Mr. Cranes fence andalong the wall of the studio to the studio door. Itwas built of unplaned boards; the cracks andknot-holes in the boards and the cracks in fence were battened with strips of lathover ragged bits of oilcloth and the roof was cov-ered with tarred paper. It was a rude passagedown an inclined plane and very cold in the winter. The sailor and his family lived in the kitchenor as Andrew called it the galley, and occupiedthe two back bedrooms on the fourth floor, onefor a bunk and the other for a cabin. In the sum-mer inst
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