The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27
THE CAsINOsAT JEKYL.

marrying. The dog. sits on plush
cushion, and I am told it wore a gold
i collar. It's pudjy little nose was kissed
again and again by this beautiful
heiress, and l venture that young Van
derbilt has many times wished him
self in it's place. Then there are the
Goelets, the Rockefellers, the Cuttings
and score of other we'll known names
which are almost regularly registered
on the Jekyl Island club book. There
are millionaires from Cincinnati and
other great cities, and, in fact, a rep
resentative of most of the great for
tunes of the United States may be
found in the club.
WHERE WESLEY MADE LOVE.
President Cleveland would be de-
lighted by visit tc Jekyl 1t is a
fairy island, where is it almost always
summer. Heated. as 1t is by the
amorous kisses of svoilIptuous guilt
stream, the air is always balmy, and
the trees are always green. 1t is, you
know, just opposite Brunswick. Ga.
which is one of the great turpentine
and resin markets of the country, and
the sweet smell Of the long-leaved
pines is mixed with that of the tropi-
cal plants Of the South and the soft
salt air of the sea. Jekyl does not lie
alone on the waters. Within a few
miles Of 1T are many beautiful islands
the famed Sea Islands which embroider
the coast of South Carolina and Geor-
Sia, and which are noted for raising
the finest cotton of the world. 1t is
now winter here in the north, but De-
cember in Jekyl is like June in Dakota
The flowers are In bloom and nature
has on its seven-leagued boots of
luxuriant life. Your surroundings are
those of perpetual spring The air is
such that 1t opens the soul of the most
ascetic. 1t was here that the pious
Charles Wesley fell in love. and here
john Wesley came to straighten out
his brothers trouble. Here John Yves
ley preached some of his great SER
mons, and it was on one arm of this
island that Charles Wesley stood
when he composed the well known
hymn, the first verse of which is:
10! on narrow neck of land
Twixt two unbounded seas | stand
Yet how insensible!
A point OF time, moments space,
Removes me to yon heavenly place,
Or shuts me up in HE'LL
Above Jel1yl is st. Simon's Island,
upon which Fanny Kemble lived for a
time, after she had married one of the
Sea Island cqt9on kings, and 1t was
there that Ga4 6lglethorp fought the
Spaniards more than a quarter of q
century before ,,Quf independence was
declared l. went to the island with
Mr.. c. w" Demfng, the newspaper
man of Brunswick, who made himself
famous through his reports Of the
yellow fever here of some years ago.
We had little naphtha steam launch,
and our captain and pilot was g. one
eyed negro who knew less about a
boat than the average salt water sailor
does about digging gold in the Rockies.
We started at noon and wound in and
out among the islands through narrow
channels until we came into a wide
river or strait which lies between Je-
kyl Island and one of the other bits
of land lying below it. AS we neared
Jekyl we could see the cottages shin
ing out Of the trees. We rode for some
miles through low. marshy. lands.
which are famous for their hunting
and are filled with snipe and ducks
Beyond these we could see the forests
and off in the distance the great casino
or club house, where the most Of the
members of the club have their winter
quarters. We landed at the wharf
and spent some hours III going about
the island.
A GREAT GAME PRESERVE.
Everywhere we went we saw traces
of game and we learned that we were
IN one or the best game preserves of
the United States. Jekyl island is
eleven miles long and about two miles
Vide 1T contains $4,000 acres and this
| is of such a character that 1t is adant-
ed TO eli kinds of game. Thirty-fiye
hundred acres OF it are Of salt marsh
twenty-five hundred acres are of
heavy oak and pine forest. Twenty
i've hundred acres are. Of old Sea Is
land cotton land, and 4,500 acres are OF
hummock and dry savanna land. The
Irresults is that ali kinds of game will
| thrtveM The forests are full of deer
and wf1d hogs, In the game keepers