Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-28
SPORT IN THE MOUNTAINS
ORGANIZATION of the Greenbrier Hunting
and Fishing Club.
Splendid Preserves Secured in the
Heart of the Game ReEiOn-De-
ecription of the Property.

The Greenbrier Hunting and Fishing Club
has recently been organized. 1t is expected
that it will be composed largely of gentle
men from Washington and vicinity. A
meeting of the stockholders was held in
Ronceverte, w. Va, August 16, at which
the following gentlemen were elected di-
rectors of the club: Rev. DR.. ]. Macbfide
Sterrett Of the Columbian University, Capt.
Alfred NJ. Fuller of the war records office,
Mr.. C. L. Bretz, general manager of West
Virginia Central railroad; Mr. H. S. Drink
er, assistant to president of the LehiSh
Valley railroad; Mr.. Jno. Driscol. presi-
dent st. Lawrence Boom and Manufacture
ing Company; Messrs. P. Kinports, E. A.
Smith, Jno. T. McGraw, Quin Morton and
Mr.. E. H. Camp At a meeting of the d.
rectors the following officers were elected:
Capt A. NJ. Fuller, president; Mr.. Jno.
Driscol, vice president; Mr.. E. H. Camp,
secretary and treasurer. Major j. w.
Harris as appointed attorney, and Messrs.
Fuller, Driscol and Sterrett a committee
to draft I constitution, bylaws and regu-
lationS for the club.
The following gentlemen were elected
honorary members: Governor McCorkle,
Postmaster General VIM L. Wilson, Major
]. w. Harris, Mr.. w. E. Chiffon and Mr.. c.
Bronson. A committee, composed of Messrs.
Fuller, Driscol, Kinports and Sterrett, re-
Gently went over the preserve and selected
location for the club house.
An Immense Preserve.
The object of the association is to pre-
serve and propagate fish and game. A COM
mcdious club house will be erected on the
head waters of Greenbrier river where the
club has secured lease for 10000 acres of
wild forest land for fifty years. said to be
among the finest hunting and fishing re-
There a
many small streams on it filled with brook
trout. and the forest abounds in deer, rur-
Key and other game The club proposes to
make 1t the finest resort for hunting and
fishing to be found anywhere. and design
building dam across the river so as to
furnish amusement in boating, ETC., and at
the same time afford protection for trout
during severe winters.
Ihls preserve Immediately adjoins that
OF the Cheat Mountain Sportsmen's Asso-
citation of $1,000 acres. This latter club
mmeh is chiefly composed of Pittsburg
gentlemen, has been organized for eight
years, ana owns very fine club house.
with all the comforts and conyeniences
needed The committee of the Greenbrier
Slup were handsomely entertained there
en- route to their new reservation
Ihe point selected for the main club buil1-
M, is over 5000 feet abnve tidews: ter. This,
with. the fact that it is surrounded by i'm
mense forests of hemlork vew pine etc of
great height insures a cool. delie htfuI at
m0sphere, with constant breeZes laden with
pine aroma at ali periods of summer. It is
an Ideal resort, pleasant and healthy be-
cause Tree from malaria. The natives say
those human plaques. mosquitoes are not
known In that region, and wild and unset
tied as the country Is, venomous snak IS ere
never seen there. If the region possesses
one-half the advantages claimed for It, it
will be the elysium of sportsmen.
\ Wilderness Easy of Access.
Another advantage Will be it's ease of &C.
cess. as 1t will be connected by the West
Virginia Central with the Pennsylvania,
Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake and
Ohio railways. 1t is wonderful to find a
region of undisturbed forest like this almost
in the center of the middle states, as wild
and unsettled as any region to be found in
the Rocky mountains, possessing every at
traction that appeals to the sportsman and
the lover of nature. 1t will certainly lie a
most pleasant and healthy resort for the
club members and their families.
. The main club house will be ready for
occupation by next summer, a two-story
wing of the house to be erected at once in
time for the fall shooting. 1t is to be erect
ed on a high knoll overlooking the river,
surrounded by pines. Water of the purest
and finest character, brought from springs
rising in the Cheat mountains above, will
be furnished in an abundant and constant
supply. The house, although built of logs
in harmony with its surroundings, will have
all the conveniences and comforts of a
modern city hotel.