The herald., 1897-08-14
COUNTRY CLUB
Pasadena'S Exclusive So
Cial Organization
IA RIVAL FOR BURLlNGAME
THE CLUB WILL HAVE ITS OWN
HANDSOME HOME
A RIVAL FOR BURLINGAME
Where Men Can Play Golf, Tennis,
Polo or Any Other Sport of the
Gilded Youth

Burlingame-better known is Blingum
-Burlingame with its pretty clubhouse
and smooth lawns; Burlingame, with it's
leafy forest drives and shady walks;
Burlngame, with its sportive youths and
dashing damsels; Burlingame, the home
of the lordly Clifton Talbot and the port
ly Downey Harvey; Burlingame must
look to it's laurels or it will find them
fading on its brow
The meaning of this is that Pasadena,
the crown of the valley, has entered the
race, and proposes to have country
club of its own, complete in every de-
tail; club with handsome grounds and
a handsome clubhouse, where the fortu-
nate members may enjoy the sweet dolce
far niente of life or live the rattling ex-
istence that is the lot of the athlete
the polo player, the tennis expert and
the golf fiend. And when the trans
planted easterner who typifies Pasadena
begins to do anything of this sort, there
is no end of the beginning and no be-
ginning of the end.
! On July 6, thirty men met together and
| formed what is to be known as the
| Pasadena Country club. Officers and
| directorate We're chosen, and the club
was duly Incorporated under the laws
| of the state The officers elected were
John b. Miller, president; Jason Evans,
| Vice-president; A. w. Armstrong, sec
retary and treasurer. John S. Cravens
| William r. Stats, j. S. Torrance, N. W.
| Bell and the above mentioned officers
form the board of directors, serving in
| that capacity for one year. A limit of
one hundred was placed upon the men,
bership, and there are now more than
sixty names upon the rolls, embracing
most of the best known men in Pasadena
and Los Angeles social life. No less
| than five of the directors are Yale men,
but it is not expected that this fact will
cast a blue tinge over the meetings of
that august body.
The directors are now looking for lands
upon which to erect their house Sew
eral beautiful sites have been offered,
but only one or two fulfill the require
ments of the case. The directors desire
that the club house and grounds shall
be situate far. enough from both Pasa-
dena and Los Angeles to make verita-
BILE country club, reached by an easy
drive. At Ell Molino there is place
Jn the bluff overlooking Wilson'S lake
suitable in many respects for the pur-
pose. But the best site of any that mas
| been viewed is on the San Rafael ran
cho. Here is a pretty lake in hollow
the wooded heights enclosing it on three
Sides while on the fourth is clear open
ing with a broad view of mountain ano
plain stretching away before the eye
This club will purchase five acres foi
house site and gardens, and will lease
100 acres for golf links, which are in
tended to be the best on the coast. Plans
for a set of tennis courts are being
drawn up. A polo field will be laid out
with stable accommoda tons for this
cropped and docked quadrupeds who
bear the mighty clubwielders.
But the pride of the members will be
the cosy club house. Lounging rooms
of the most improved pattern, with al
the modern luXuries that can soothe the
tired body of the exhausted athlete OF
over-enthusiastic devotee of sport, vii
occupy the ground floor. A dining room
kitchen and necessary offices will use
up the rest of the first floor space. AboVi
will be apartments for bachelor mem
bers when training for some of the many
events the club proposes to hold. AS
Mr. MJler, the president of the club
put it, "a small but choice cuisine viii
be provided for the members" and a
buffet will not be the least of the at
fractions. Comfortable window seats
! and shady porches will complete this
southern edition of the Blingum clul
house.
Exclusiveness will be the watchword
of the nominating committee, though
the members particularly desire it un-
derstood that the club IS not and vii
not be composed of multi-mllionaires.
The club house should be ready for the
winter occupancy by November, and al
ready program of events and functions
has been laid out. The Country clut
lsbould prove a decided addition to the
social life of Pasadena and Los Ange-
les