The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-06
NEW CLUB ON THE COAST.
KILKENNY PLANTATION OWNED BY
PHILADELPHIANs.


Dixon Are Officers of the Club, OF
which There Are But Eight Menu
bers-PhiIadeIphiR Visitors Now
at the Handsome C1ubhouse-New
and Speedy Launch Has Arrived
There From New York-''kiIkenny
Plantation" the Name of the
Tract-Abounds in Game.
Wealthy Phlladelphians have established
a hunting and fishing club on the Georgia
coast, adding another to the organiza tons
of this character that are to be found in'
Georgia and South Carolina. The new club
is located on the Kilkenny Plantation, and
has adopted that as the name of the tract
it occupies. The Phiiadelphiane own e.
GOO acres of land splendidly adapted 70
their purposes, as It sbounds in deer, quail
turkeys, ducks in season, foxes and other
game, while the waters by which the
tract is bounded on three sides and deeply
indented TEEN with the finest specimens
of fish.
But eight Philadelphians are represented
in the corporation that is known under the
name of Kilkenny Plantation. The charter
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themselves, allowing no others to come
in, that it win be only by invitation
that others than members of the CLUB
will enjoy the many advantages that a
stay at delightful Kilkenny will afford.
The officers and members of the club
are as follows: Mr. John Wanamaker
President; Mr.. Randall Morgan, vice pres
ATr
treasurer; Mr.. Thomas Roberts, Mr.
George Roberts, Mr.. Alexander Van
RENSSELAER, and Mr.. Thomas Wanernaker.
Kilkenny clubhouse is twenty-nine miles
from Savannah by rail and dirt road
trains have to be forsaken at Ways
station, in Bryan county for vehicles to
carry visitors fourteen miles through the
country. Far from the disturbing whistle
and rumble of trains. game turks in
abundance, and the members of the club
made remoteness from railroads one of
their requirements when they were look
ing for suitable tract for the establish
ment OF preserves. By the water route
from savannah, Kilkenny is distant fifty
miles and magnificent sparkling naphtha
launch, Kilkenny" has been purchased
by the club to make this trip and for out
Ing cruises. The Kilkenny came down
from New York, arriving on Jan. / and
- wv az tire CLUBHOUSE ldnQlng. She is
described as 4S feet long, having three
handsomely furnished cabins, beautiful
silver service and is the fastest thing in
these waters On her trip down from
Beaufort, N. C, she beat Mr.. Howard
Gould's steam yacht, Wadda, her captain.
Fred Appel, declared, by twenty-four
hours
Guests and members of the club are now
at Kilkenny, enjoying the hospitality of
the magnificent club house. This was re-
modelled, renovated and decorated some
time ago. Chief Engineer Henry M, Steele
of the Central Railroad who numbers
the Philadelphians among his friends. hav.
lug designed the new interior arrange
nent. Mahogany dnishings and furniture
make the club house beautiful, and ii is
said It will compare favorably with the
handsomest of club homes. Those now
making stay at Kilkenny are Mr. and
Mrs. George Roberts Mr. T. Wilson
Sharpness, MIR. T. Henry Dixon and Mr.
Arthur f. Newbold.
Sixty years ago the clubhouse was
built, ideas that prevailed in that day
upon the construction and appearance of
southern plantation homes having been
followed. Rev. Charles Rogers was the
builder and the plantation was long re-
ferred to as the Rogers place" 1t was
bought some years ago by Mr.. j. II.
Furber Of this city, by whom it was sold
to the PhiladelphianS.
On the main land of Bryan Neck Kill
kenny plantation owns 4.60O acres, most
of which is wooded with virgin pines
magnificent timber. Not content with so
extensive a tract, the owners, looking
around for adjacent lands, decided upon
the purchase of the greater part of Ossa-
baw Island, in which there are some IA
900 acres. The north and south ends of
the island, 5000 acres in all, were acuuir-
date section may be secured later thus
giving the Kilgennyians the sole posses
sion Of an entire island. putting them
upon the same plane with the Jekyl ISL
and Club and with Mr.. Jacob Rauers,
owner of st. Catharine's Island and sat
isfying the ambition that prompted the
young Bnglshman in Phroso to own an
isle of Greece.
From Kilkenny clubhouse, across Kill
kenny creek, Bear river and St. Catha-
rines sound, it is seven or eight miles 20
Ossabaw Island, but the Kilkenny will
make short work of such a distance and
passage back and forth will be easy. The
lands on Ossabaw, as well as those on the
main, are prolific in game, yielding great
quantities TO the huntsmen. and they, as
we'll as those on the old Kilkenny tract
are made especially attractive for deer,
turkey, quail and other game by the
planting Of buckwheat, benne, beggarweed
ragweed and other things upon which
game particularly delights to feed. J.
Archie Smith is overseer for the Kilkenny
plantation and the game keeper is Nick
Clark. The one is entrusted with the
management of the vast tract and devotes
his attention to keeping it in such order
as the owners like to find it upon the
occasion of their visits, while the other
sees to it that no one peaches upon his en-
plovers' preserves and that every care
is bestowed upon the game that forms
the principal attraction of the organiza.
ton.
Farming is no part of the plan Of the
owners Of the great tract. Money-makine
is pursuit that they indulge at the
North, and pleasure alone is sought bv
them in their visits to Kilkenny. Though
700 acres of the land on the main is clear
ed and very productive when planted. II
is only for raising food for the game and
the horses and cows that are owned bv
the club that it is sown. plantation" as
the name of the club IS therefore a biz
misleading, but the Philadelphians liked
the sound-"Kilkenny Plantation" and
agreed upon II.
WANTS TO BE A PAINTER,
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