The St. Paul Athletic Club, corner 4th and Cedar streets, has a frontage on 4th street of 112 feet and 100 feet on Cedar street and is founded on broader lines and will cover a much wider scope and field of usefulness in the community at large than similar organizations in the country of its kind. While its name implies that it is an athletic club, it* will leave nothing undone to make it worthy of the name and maintain teams in the various branches of athletic endeavor that will bring honor to the club and the city of St. Paul, still it is a fact that included in the membership there is probably but one man to represent the organization on the field compared with scores who need, and can with personal benefit participate in some of the main forms of exercise and entertainment planned for it. The activities of the club are not confined strictly to athletics, but can be summed up as follows:
1. The object shall be the promotion of health, amateur sports, athletic exercise, recreation, entertainment and the cultivation of social intercourse among its members.
2. To take an active interest in all physical, educational and social problems that make for better health, better mental vigor of the men, women and children in the community.
This means that the club aims at all times to serve its members with the best in all things that make for health and happiness and to do everything in its power to place opportunities for a better and higher physical well being within reach of everyone in the city and its vicinity. It is laid out on such broad plans that the wives and children of members will have privileges in the club and especially those of the gymnasium and swimming pool at stated periods. The club will be complete in every respect having among other things, a very large gymnasium, large swimming pool, large and private dining rooms, lounging rooms, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, rifle range, handball courts, barber shop, library, sleeping rooms, turkish baths, locker rooms, wrestling room, boxing room, etc.
The membership is limited to two thousand resident members.
The following compose its officers and Directors:
President, Oscar L. Taylor; Vice President, Charles Patterson; Treasurer, F. A. Nienhauser; Secretary, W. D. Jenkins.
Directors: Oliver Crosby, Albert J. Nason, Watson P. Davidson, F. A. Nienhauser, Walter J. Driscoll, Charles Patterson, C. Milton Griggs, Edward Randall, A. S. Guiterman, N. W. Reay, James R. Hickey, E. F. Sands, W. D. Jenkins, Carleton P. Schaub, A. J. Krank, J. Clair Stone, N. P. Langford, Oscar L. Taylor, F. G. Leslie, George Thompson, Fred B. Lynch, M. W. Waldorf, Thomas McDermott, David Wallblom.
–The City of St. Paul and vicinity
A Compendium of Information
Published by Geo. F. C. Paul
1915