committee on membership. The rules of candidacy differ in
various clubs. In some, the name of the candidate with those of the two
members proposing him is exposed in a conspicuous place where the entire
club can see it. There is also a book in which other members sign the
application, and the number of signatures, of course, has weight with
the governors.

Again, the name is inscribed in a book kept for the purpose in the
steward's office, and it is not necessary that any other indorsement
except that of your sponsors be made.

Any member objecting to the name of a candidate has two methods by which
he can make known his objection. One is to write directly to the
governors, or to the committee on admissions and membership, whichever,
according to the laws of the club, has the matter in hand. Usually it is
the governing committee or board of governors. This communication is
treated, as are all club matters, with the secrecy of the confessional.
Your sponsors are written to and the objections stated, but the name of
the person objecting is withheld. The other method is, if any one has an
objection to your admission, that he should go at once in a manly way to
one of your sponsors and state it. It is a rare occurrence in a New York
club that any candidate is black-balled. The warning from the governing
committee, or from another member to the sponsors, is a word to the
wise, and the men who propose you should immediately withdraw your name
to avoid a disaster. Otherwise a very great risk is run, as objections
which have any foundation have great weight with the governing
committee.

In the clubs where the names of the candidates are kept only in a small
book, while on the waiting list they are posted ten days before the
election in a conspicuous part of the clubhouse. No candidate can be
elected to a club who is not personally known to two or more members of
the governing committee. A short time before election, if the candidate
has not this acquaintance, it is the duty of his sponsors to take him
around and introduce him, or to arrange that he will meet these
gentlemen in some way; otherwise his name will go over; and after two
setbacks of this kind, it will be rejected.

On the election of a candidate--the balloting being done by the
governing committee--the sponsors are notified, sometimes by posting and
otherwise simply by letter. The secretary of the club will let the new
member know immediately of his election, a