This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Eoom is a tradesman's way to this basement. Besides the main entrance, and that to the Conference Eoom, there is yet another entrance from "Whitehall Place, under the tower in the north-east angle of the building. This is for the benefit of such non-members as may be admitted on special occasions to the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Eoom is a tradesman's way to this basement. Besides the main entrance, and that to the Conference Eoom, there is yet another entrance from "Whitehall Place, under the tower in the north-east angle of the building. This is for the benefit of such non-members as may be admitted on special occasions to the Gladstone Library, and for communication with the residential chambers, offices, etc., on the higher floors. The two principal rooms on the upper ground floor, besides the Gladstone Library and the small members' library, are the grill-room and the dining-room. From the dining-room there is access to an open loggia, and thence down a flight of five steps to the broad terrace, 30 ft. wide, overlooking the Embankment. The dining-room, it may be mentioned, is 108 ft. by 38 ft., the grill-room Go ft. by 35 ft., both these rooms being 24 ft. in height and 15 ft. 6 ins. Constitutional Club. above the level of the street. The grill-room is the largest of its kind in London. The first floor is occupied by a reading and writing-room over the Gladstone Library, a smokers' reading and writing-room over part of the dining-room, and a drawing-room over the members' library. At this floor the principal staircase ceases, and with it the club proper, the upper stories being reached by the staircase in the tower or by the adjoining lift. The second floor is devoted to chambers, bedrooms, and bedrooms and sitting-rooms combined, some of which have spacious balconies placed over the bay windows of the floors below. The third floor is a repetition of the second, consisting of bedrooms, sitting-rooms, bath-rooms, etc. The fourth floor is partly occupied by chambers and partly by rooms for officials and servants, but the two departments are kept entirely...
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