The Jersey City news., 1902-11-07
GOLF Will
CONTINUE
Clubhouse to Be Moved, But
Links Can Still Be
Used.
members ARE DELIGHTED
Over a Hundred Responses
to Circulars and Applica.
tions for New Mem
bers.
MEMBERS ARE DELIGHTED

The Golf Club problem has at last
been settled and Jersey City golfers are
breathing more freely this morning. The
special committee appointed to devise
ways and means met last night with the
Board of Governors in the clubhouse and
submitted a plan greatly to the clubs
advantage, wherein golf may be con
tinued. squash, tennis and other games,
as well as monthly receptions added, and
the objection of the baseball crowd done
away with
The plan is to buy a plot of ground
about 200 feet square, on the northerly
side of Bentley avenue, 400 feet west
of West Side avenue, to which site the
clubhouse will be moved, and five tennis
courts will be laid out, together with the
construction of two squash courts and
the necessary grading, sodding and gen.
eral improvement of the grounds sur
rounding the house and the approach to
the same, and if practicable the tennis
courts will be flooded for an ice rink
during the winter. Golf is also to be
continued on the old links. The plan
now only awaits the approval of the club
at a meeting called especially for the
purpose for Thursday night, Novem-
ber 49,
CIRCULARS SENT OUT.
When this plan was first devised, the
committee went to work quietly. 1t sent
out circulars to all the club members ask
ing them if they cared to continue MEM
bers at an annual cost of fifteen dollars,
enclosing script slips for subscriptions at
$40 per share. payable before December
L. The amount to be raised was for inn
mediate costs was $1,000, some of which
has been raised through a mortgage loan
of $500 at five per cent. Only a hun
dred members were needed. According
to reports last night over hundred have
already responded, and there are twenty
applications on file for new members.
The work of moving the club house to
its new site will begin as soon as the club
sanctions the plans of its committees. 1t
will not be moved through the street, as
originally intended, but back west of the
Boulevard, then southwest to a point on
v
Side. Three trees will have to come
down in the process. Permission for this
has already been given.
CLUB HOUSE TO BE MOVED.
The golf club house is to be placed fac
ing Bentley avenue, with the five tennis
courts running west therefrom, and the
two squash courts Is by 80 feet in the
rear Platforms are to be built all round
the courts for spectators.
From the rear of the tennis courts
will be gate leading to the golf links,
which will lie northwest of the club
house in their present position, only the
first tee and the ninth hole being moved
little southwest. This will do away with
having to come in contact with the base
ball crowd. feature so Objectionable to
the ladies last summer.
The removal of the clubhouse will be
an improvement to property west of
West Side avenue, as it means the inn
provement of Bentley avenue with Gin
der path and trees down to the new club
site and several other things of advan-
tage.
The committee who devised these plans
consists cf George r. Beach, chairman:
Henry E. Niese, Robert E. JENNINGS. J.
Howard Bumsted. Jr., Elgin L. McBur-
ney, Hugh Hartshorne, r. L. Flem-
ming, William c. Post, Clarence G.
Harmstad.