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The bed table - the cloth-covered, horizontal playing surface - is, on high-quality equipment, made of solid, smooth slabs of slate, most often from Italy, Brazil or China. In artistic pool, lines may be drawn between opposite sights putting a grid on the playing surface. The Evening World. May 22, 1893. p. By 1918, there were 125 Metropolitan Club members fighting in World War I. Ultimately, six club members died in the war, and a plaque was installed on the main floor to honor them. Parts of the clubhouse were converted to bedrooms for soldiers, and the club waived membership fees for members who fought in the war. When the clubhouse opened in 1894, the bedrooms in the attic were rented out at different rates depending on the size of the room. The main dining room to the west was decorated in the Louis XIV style, with walls painted in a white, pink, and yellow palette. After months of deliberation, the committee proposed that the club begin allowing foreign members, add a gymnasium and bedrooms, renovate the squash court, and allow members to smoke in the dining room. The southern ground-level lounge was converted into a bar, and the club also began allowing women to eat dinner in the main clubhouse.

After Prohibition in the United States began that year, banning the sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S., the club's executive committee began allowing members to bring their own drinks, charging a service fee for each drink. The club's members claimed that debris from the hotel had been falling onto the clubhouse for four years. The operators of the neighboring Hotel Pierre also offered to buy the clubhouse, but the club's board rejected the offer. John McGowan, who owned the neighboring building at 11 East 60th Street, offered to sell the building to the club in 1905, but he withdrew his offer after the Metropolitan presented a counter-offer that was 30% less. During 1897 and 1898, the club did record a net profit but only because of contributions from the governors. Over the next two decades, the club earned $42,000 to $118,771 per year from these contributions. No images of the club's first social gatherings exist, as the club banned photographs of the clubhouse's interiors. 1987, saying that the plan would negatively affect the clubhouse's structural integrity. Curran's successor, Lee Warren James, devised a plan to pay off Mutual Life.

To pay for further improvements to the building, the club began asking its members in 1962 to contribute between $24 and $120 a year. At the time, the club had 1,062 members as well as 22 people on its waiting list. At the time, the clubhouse was valued at $2.2 million for tax purposes. The city and national governments began charging taxes on the Metropolitan's membership dues in 1961, though the federal tax was repealed four years later. Morton remained the club's president until November 1911, when Frank K. Sturgis took over as the Metropolitan's third president. Morgan resigned as the club's first president that February and was replaced by Levi P. Morton, although Morgan remained a member of the club. O'Hara resigned after one year, and James again led the club until 1958, when Cornelius J. Reid became the 13th president. Vol. 2. The One East Sixtieth Street Historical Foundation. One such proposal called for the Metropolitan to merge with the Union Club, though this idea was rejected. After the Metropolitan Club allowed Union Club members to begin drinking at its bar in 1902, daily revenue from the bar increased tenfold, from $12.50 to $135.

Meanwhile, the club's revenue and membership declined, since it was no longer allowed to sell drinks. Meanwhile, the onset of World War I barely affected membership numbers. The Evening World. May 12, 1894. p. New-York Tribune. March 4, Billiards Club Opening Costs 1894. p. New-York Tribune. March 25, 1909. p. New-York Tribune. May 29, 1891. p. Most of the largest events took place toward the end of each year. Like other Gilded Age social clubs, the Metropolitan Club functioned largely as a meeting place for the wealthy. In addition, the club borrowed $25,000 at the end of 1912 to pay for additional events at the clubhouse. By late 1944, Mutual Life was threatening to auction off the clubhouse if the club could not pay off the mortgage loan. The board of governors considered several plans to reorganize the club in early 1945, including selling the clubhouse. Curran, who had been advocating to sell the clubhouse, resigned as the club's president in March 1945, and several of his allies also resigned their membership. Thomas A. O'Hara became the Metropolitan's 11th president in 1956 following Whitaker's resignation.