GROUP OF FRATERNITIES BUILDS NEW YORK CLUB

A 19-story building for the exclusive use of college fraternity men is now under construction on the south-east corner of Madison avenue and 38th street in New York City and will probably be ready for occupancy about October 1, 1923. Construction was started about four months ago, and the finished club house will contain 625 bedrooms, comfortably furnished, and each adjoining- a shower bath and lavatory. It is planned to rent the rooms at moderate prices.

The undertaking was organized by a group of fraternity men in New York who recognized that the average fraternity could not successfully build and operate adequate independent quarters. The committee in charge of the plans organized under the name of the New York Fraternity Clubs Housing Committee and one man from each participating fraternity is a member.

The entire space of the building has been tentatively subscribed by the following fraternities: Alpha Tau Omega, Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Phi, Delta Upsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi, and Theta Xi. Several other fraternities have requested reservations in the hope that there may be room for them. Each fraternity has reserved a block of permanent rooms so that members of the same fraternity may be housed in adjoining rooms.

In addition to the bedrooms and private clubrooms for each fraternity, the building will also contain a large lounge, dining-rooms, cafeteria, billiard room, gymnasium, Turkish baths, squash courts, roof garden, library, and reading and writing-rooms.