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Employes Club-house, Chicago , Burlington Sr Northern Railroad. The employes’ dub-house ofthe Chicago , Burlington & Northern Railroad is a handsome brick building with hard-wood finish, fittedup and supplied with all modern and essential appointments. On the first floor are a reading-room,smoking-room, billiard-room, and toilet; on the second are twelve large bedrooms, two bathrooms,and a large toilet-room. Every room is heated by steam, lighted by gas, and ventilated in the bestmanner.
Railroad Branch Building, Young Men's Christian Association , New York Central Sr HudsonRiver Railroad, New York , N. Y. —The Railroad Branch building of the Young Men’s Christian Association at the shops of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad at Seventy-second Streetand North River, New York City , is a two-story building appropriately arranged, the interior beingplastered and wainscoted in natural wood; the ground-floor has three large rooms, a kitchen, twobathrooms, and the secretary’s office. The upper story is provided with twenty comfortable, wellwarmed and ventilated sleeping-rooms, arranged about a gallery, similar to the second tier of state-rooms on a steamboat. The rooms are intended for railroad employes who live at distant points andare forced to lay over between runs at the New York end of the road.
Railroad Men s Club-house, New York Central Sr Hudson River Railroad, New York , N. Y. — A very extensive and handsome club-house for the use of the employes of the New York Central& Hudson River Railroad and associated companies using the Grand Central Station at Forty-second Street, New York City , was formally opened on October 3, 1887, by Mr. Cornelius Vander bilt , at whose expense the building was erected. The building is controlled by a board of trustees,composed of directors and officers of the interested railroads, and the detail management is under thedirection of the Railroad Young Men’s Christian Association.
The building is described in the issue of the Railroad Gazette of October 7, 1887, as follows:The building has been designed with thorough consideration for its uses. It stands at the corner ofMadison Avenue and Forty-fifth Street, adjacent to the yard of the Grand Central Station . It isbuilt of brick and terra cotta, and is two stories high, with a tower running up two stories higher.There are a gymnasium, bowling-alleys, and bathrooms in the basement, and a plunge-bath 6 ft. deep,9^ ft. wide, and 13J ft. long. The bathtubs are porcelain, the ceiling and walls of glazed brick andtiles. The partitions in the basement are of marble, set in a framework of solid bronze, and theplumbing work is nickel and brass. On the main floor is a library with 6000 volumes on its shelves.Then there are a reading-room, a social room, a general secretary’s room, and committee room. Inthe reading-room there are files of 95 daily, weekly, and monthly papers. In the social room there isa piano. The floors here are tiled, and the walls are panelled in dark oak. On the second floor isthe lecture and amusement hall, fitted up in polished oak and frescoed in light, pleasing tints. Thishall will seat 400 people. The third floor is occupied by a thoroughly comfortable room, filled withleather-covered chairs and lounges, where the railroad men can have luncheon. Hot coffee is servedfree of charge. On the top floor there are ten bedrooms, furnished with brass bedsteads, which areintended for the use of railroad men who, by reason of long runs, are. compelled to stay in the cityovernight. There is no charge for their use.