. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. reet; and the other the Acorn, in a fine old house at 1504Walnut Street. The Mercantile and the Manufacturers are socialclubs of business men; the former has a large and handsome houseat Broad and Master streets, and the latter a five-story building onWalnut Street, west of Broad. The Penn Club is composed ofliterary men, who frequently entertain eminent men and women ofletters at receptions and dinners, in their pleasant rooms at Eighthand Locust streets; and the Pen and Pencil and Sketch a
. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. reet; and the other the Acorn, in a fine old house at 1504Walnut Street. The Mercantile and the Manufacturers are socialclubs of business men; the former has a large and handsome houseat Broad and Master streets, and the latter a five-story building onWalnut Street, west of Broad. The Penn Club is composed ofliterary men, who frequently entertain eminent men and women ofletters at receptions and dinners, in their pleasant rooms at Eighthand Locust streets; and the Pen and Pencil and Sketch are clubsof artists, rather more Bohemian in their nature than the Art Chib,whose elegant building at 220 South Broad Street is one of theornaments of the city. To this hst might be added a large numberof social assemblages having particular characteristics, such as theancient State in Schuylkill, the irreverent Clover, and other diningclubs, the thoughtful Contemporary, the critical Browning, andvarious country clubs, which have suburban houses and go in forout-door sports and ruralized THE ODD FELLOWS TEMPLE - Corner North Broad and Cherry Streets. SOCIAL AND LEARNED SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ETC. 103 Athletic and Sporting Clubs.— Of these the leading interestUes in Cricket.— Philadelphia is the home of American cricket. Thegreat English game first gained a firm foothold in this country in thiscity, and its clubs speedily became the strongest in the land, so thatthey have frequentl}^ beaten crack teams from Great Britain andher colonies. These clubs are all socially influential and very exclusivein membership. The most famous is the Germaiitown Cricket Club,possessing the large Manheim grounds, near Queen Lane Station, onthe Chestnut Hill Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Here themembers erected a number of club houses of the Colonial style ofarchitecture, laid out a great cricket field, tennis courts, and groundsfor other sports, and established a country club sup
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