Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-26

kill only SO many quail or pheasants in
a day and only so many deer in a
season Outing the summer the game
gets very tame, but il soon grows Wild
when the members come down here in
the winter ard it is good sport"
TURKEY AND PHEASANT SHOOTING.
Some OF the best sport upon letyl
Island is in hunting pheasants and tur-
keys The pheasants have been i'm
ported from England. One hundred
were brought over in 1885, and OF these
only seventy-eight lived. In one season
they laid l 600 eggs, which were Matched
out by barn.y1rd hens. When the little
pheasant chicks had grown they were
turned out into the woods. The next
year 100 more hen pheasauts were i'm.
ported and now the woods swarm with
them. Wild turkeys are native to the
region. They are to be found in the
oak and pine woods, They are very
shy, and ii takes a turkey call TO bring
them out. Il IS two and one-half miles
from any part OF the mainland to the
island, and the birds nearly always stay.
lnthe alt marshes there are plenty OF
snipc, and the cotton aud grain fields
hlt AlllIA hlAll YUAN lNN ALlNlf dAC
plenty Of woodcocl:, plover and doves,
so that the miilionaires have no trouble
about getting something 10 kill.
THE COTTAGES AND THE cLuB HOUSE.
spent some tine in looking at the
buildings on Iekyl Island. The cot
iages are not very ex.ravagant--that is,
| ihey are not cXtravagant as rich mems
| homes. They are rather eNtravdgant as
cottages, for they cost all the way from
| SIS, uco to 500 COO each. There is one
| $50, 600 house that has never been &C.
| cupicd. The millionaire who ordered 1t
built thought he might want it some
| time, but S. lar has not come to sec it.
The club house itself cost, am told,
| about Ii1C oco. Il is q big three-story
| brick building with tower at one end
aud with an immense circular porch run
ming around it, 1t is heated by steam
aud II is now being lighted by electricity.
1t formerly had gas, but the result was
not satisfactory, and so the building is
being torn to pieces and electric lights
put in. OF course, it will cost lot oil
money to make an Independent electric
light plant but these rich men can stand
| il.
went through the new apartment
house which is now being built. There
| are about 200 carpenters and masons at
work upon It, and it will have, Judge
about dozen apartments. 1t is being
built with packing OF wool or hair be-
tween the walls, in order that every
sound may be deadened and so that the
millionaire OF the floor above may not
hear the snores OF the millionaire Of the
| floor below. Everything is, OF course
| nj the nd
| is Of no object when there is any ques-
lion OF comfort under consideration.
could write a column about the beauties
OF the glounds. could tell you how
boats were employed 10 carry tall palm
trees from other parts of the coast that
they might be planted on the lawn
about the club house, and could DIES.
cribe other extravagauces which ate
possible only to the rich.
HOW THE EABoBs AsiUsE THEMSELVES.
could write about the miles of mag.
niiicent drives along the coast and tell
| you how these old nabobs sit here and
watch the sea and roll over and over
| upon the sand, taking sun baths on a
hot February day. ! could tell you how
| the millionairesses lie with the hot sun
shining down upon them. Here and
there an ankle may show out, but there
are no vulgar eyes to see it, and during
the greater part of the year even Miss
Kilmansegg with her golden leg"
could lie here in peace. ! could tell
you how these men OF money work up
their appelites by walking. The air
here is pure; il is full OF ozone, and you
can walk ior miles without firing. Then
| might speak OF the surt bathing.
| FIt,iply ~ &c I,asbf,g,
in midwinter and there is hunting and
fishing all the year around. If you
don't like such amusement you can take
drive, and if you have not your own
horses there is plenty Of good stock for
hire in the stables of the club. 1t is
true that a double team will cost you
| 500 month and your bill ior your rid
| ing horse will be more than half that.
| Horses are cheap everywhere else, but
where money is king, as here, there is
nothing cheap, and even horses are dear.
| And SO, as think again OF the
beauties OF Jekyi, ! wonder whether
| President Cleveland really went there.
1t would be splendid place to plot
| big financial scheme with Pierrepont
Morgan, or ENJOYS from Cuba could slip
across the water and land at Jekyl with
out any one knowing. He may have
| gone there TO shoot at the razor.back
| hogs which roam through the woods or
the gamekeepsr may have had orders to
| turn out few thousand quail in the
range OF his gun. He may have--but
| you can never tell what the President
has done. | know that Fighting Bob
Evans, who went with him, won't tell,
and that his physician, Doctor O'Reilly,
who was also along, like all good doc.
tors, keeps the secret OF his patients,
especially when one OF the patients is
the President Of the United States.
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