Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09

There having been considerable gossip
about the financial strength of the South
Fork Fishing Club, reporter of The DIS
PATCH yesterday investigated the matter.
Rumors had fixed the capital stock of the
club at anywhere from 500, 900 to $500, 600.
These figures were found to be absurdly
high. The writer first examined one of the
certificates of stock which each of the lake
owners in Pittsburg holds. It reads as fol-
lews:
South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.
Incorporated MdrcA IS, 1879.
Be it known that t--i is entitled to
--6No.)- of shares of the capital stock
OF the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club,
subject to the terms of the articles Of incorpor-
alton and the bylaws Of the club.
Hereunto are affixed the seal of said club and
signatures of the President and Treasurer, this
LOUIS IRWIN, j. J. LAWRENCE, -.
Treasurer, President.
The Charter ITSELF
There was nothing on the above to indi-
cate the amount of capital stock. But in
the Office OF County Recorder Graham in the
Court House was found copy of the charter
Of the club. The application was made to
Judge Stowe. He granted it, and Pro-
thonotary B. f. Kennedy drew up the pa
pers for the court at the December term in
1879. The form of the charter is as folio VS.:
How the Charter Reads.
First-The name and title Of this organization
shall be the South Fork Fishing and bunting
Club of Pittsburg, incorporated under and in
pursuance Of the provisions ofan act Of General
Assembly of Pennsylvania, approved April q.
1874, entitled IAN Act, etc"
Second-This association shall have for its
object the protection and propagation of game
and game fish, and the enforcement of ali laws
OF this State against the unlawful killing or
wounding of the same.
Third-This ASSOCIATION shall have its place of
business in the city of Pittsburg, county of
Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania.
Fourth-This association shall as such exist
perpetually from the date of its incorporation.
Fifth-The capital stock of this association
shall be $4,000, divided into 100 shares of the
value of Sl00 each. The names of the subscrib-
ers are as follows:
Thomas Clark w. F. Fundenberg. Howard
Hartley H c. Yeager. ]. b. White, H c. .Frick,
o E. A. Meyers, c. Z. b ussey. d. R. Ever, c. A.
Carpenter, w. l. Dun, w. L McClintock, ,A.V.
Holmes
The Liability Limited.
Not long after the charter was granted,
the capital stock Of the club was increased
from SIC, 600 to SS5, ,O0O There was no need
to make it more. That figure amply COW
ered the cost of Improvements and the pri-
vate cottages along the lake were, of course,
erected with private funds. Since then
there has not been much activity in stocks
of the club, The present officers of the
club are Colonel E. J. Unger, President;
Colonel J. J. Lawrence, Vice President: |
Louis Irwin, Treasurer; E. A. Meyers, Sec |
retary. For several years Colonel Ruff was
President, and John A. Harper, cashier of |
the Bank of Pittsburg, was Secretary and |
Treasurer. Colonel Ruff and some others |
are now dead.
Dfcourse the club is only liable fnan-
cfally to the limit of its capital stock. Its
property at South Fork is valuable even in
rs present drained condition. The dam
will never be rebuilt. The officers of the
club are all so deeply shocked by the cstas-
trophe, and SO earnest in their efforts to
help the sufferers that they have not had
the heart to think of their clubs future.
Some of the members of the club are
demonstrating their usefulness to humanity
Gin spite of some unfair newspaper reports) |
bv aiding the State Board of Health to pre-
vent the rise and spread of sickness from
polluted waters. This aid is substantial in /
its way. One of the club stockholders told
the reporter yesterday that there was actu-
ally not so much danger now from an epi-
demic along the Allegheny river and in
Pittsburg as there will be- later on. He
said the danger will come when the river
falls to a low stage.
Bad Water Yet.
George b. Clapp, the we'll known chemist,
was asked his opinion of the latter state
merit cit is true" he said. 'There is
practically no danger from drinking the
Allegheny liver water now, because the
river is still high, and very swift. The
mud is the dirtiest thing about the water
now. After q while we will have
very warm weather. That will
cause the carcasses and corpses up
stream to putrefy very fast. By that time
the river will have fallen to low stage,
and will have a sluggish current, Its water
will fairly teen with organic matter, and it
being warm weather, more of the water will
be drank than now.
''The Allegheny river is not the kind of
river which purifes itself every II miles.
Streams that do that are supposed to be
shallow, full of rapids and constantly
t1mbling over rocks. This makes
it violent and swift of current,
and the agitation of the water aids in the
purifying process. Now, while the Allie
gheny is swiitly-fowing stream, it is deep
and without rapids. The Monongahela is
E very sluggish stream and would carry i'm
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