The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-18
COUNTRY CLUES PLANS.
Report of Board of Governors Adop

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 The recently organized Country club held a meeting at the New Haven Lawn club Saturday evening and the prospects of opening the newly acquir- ed grounds at Lake Whitney, were dis cussed The following report was made by the board of governors and adopted by the club:
 The following officers of the club have been chosen: President, Eli Whitney; vice president, General B. E, Bradley; secretary Phelps Montsom- cry; treasurer, c. K. Billings, MT Whitney resigned as president
 for several reasons, and his successor has not yet been chosen. William Bee be resigned from the board of gover- nors, and Thomas Hooker was chosen
 to fill the vacancy until the next regu-
 lar meeting of the corporation. Messrs. William Beebe, Thomas Hooker and T. s. Woolsey were ap- pointed a greens committee to have | special charge of the golf course. Messrs, J. K. Beach, J. w. Bristol, B. R. English, George D. Seymour and Eli Whitney were appointed building committee to have special charge of | the plans and construction of the road, bridge and house.
 A lease of the grounds has been exe- cuted, with the approval of the board, and took effect on April 1. It is here- with submitted:
 The present membership of the club | is 255, of whom 142 are men, 19 active l women, S5 associate women and boys. l l membership for the current year is $S,- 1 700. of which the treasurer has collect | ed $4,2OO. The New Haven Street Rail- | way has subscribed $a50, payable when work on the grounds is well under way. | If the present limit of membership | should be reached, about $2,O00 addi- tional will be received
 l Since April five men have been at work under the supervision of MT. Da- wis ditching, taking out stone, clean | ing out brush, etc. Some rolling also \ has been done, but the weather has been too dry to do much rolling to ad | vantage. The lower end of the grounds has been considerably cleared up, so that we have thought it worth while to pay out provisionally six holes for prac- ! llCtidll0 tllty cti e AOW lSciy Iol u2C' ~ | must be understood that the putting | greens are still in state of nature, | and that work is all the while going | on over this part of the grounds but | the board is able to give notice that a l six hole course is already open. l A satisfactory arrangement has been | made with the water company with re- gard to the fence which they propose | to put up on the water front, the water i company having been kind enough to | locate the fence so as to give the club | the use of most of It's land.
 As the success of the club and the l attractions which it will be able to of- l fer and to maintain will finally depend on the number of it's members, the board recommends that members l should interest themselves in nominat- ing desirable candidates, and for this purpose blanks have been prepared, | which may be had on application. l It has been decided to make the car riage road into the grounds from the
 Hartford turnpike, and to build the | road wholly upon the grounds of the | club. This will involve considerable | filling and sleeper grade than could | be had by using the water company's ! land, but it will avoid the necessity of
 having gate kept locked when not in | use. Work upon the road will be com l menced at once.
 | The proposed bridge is a steel sus- | pension bridge of 27S feet span and
 seven feet wide in the clear. This i width is necessary to give lateral stiff l ness to the structure and to prevent | excessive vibrations. The cost of the l bridge has been figured out closely. It | will take three months to build it and | the board recommends that work be
 begun immediately.
 The water company reserves the right ito terminate the use of the
 bridge upon thirty days notice by vote
 of its directors, but the fact that it Is
 willing to let us build the bridge at
 all proves that with proper manage
 ment there need be no occasion for It's
 removal.
 l So far as the club house is concerned
 the governing board thinks that the
 club ought to have a club house de- signed upon a liberal plan, and to be
 erected without delay. The board be-
 1ieves that such club house will at-
 tract members enough to more than
 pay interest upon the cost of construc-
 tion and maintenance. The matter oi
 plans for the building has been in the
 hands of two architects, acting under
 the following general instructions:
 That the house should have broad pi-
 azzas, an assembly room about 40x30, a
 dining room about 20x22, a commodious
 buffers pantry, a kitchen, mems dress
 ing and locker room, a smoking room
 a ladies' tea room and ladies' dress
 ing room and locker room: and in ad-
 diton to these a carriage shed, stew
 ards rooms and little shop for the
 repair of golf clubs, the whole to cost
 approximately $10,000.
 To provide for the cost of such g
 building the governing board suggests
 the following plan, which is practically
 the same plan as that adopted in the
 case of the Lawa club: