Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-04

SPORTSMEN'S PARADISE.
Petit Manan on Maine Coast to Be
Thus Transformed.
Golf Will Be Barred, Hunters and
Fishermen Welcomed.


clubhouse for sportsmen on the PENN
sula of Petit Manan that will duplicate
Jekyll Island. Golf links will be ta
booed; men and women who love fish
ing and shooting will be welcome as
members but no "Society-ructions" are
desired. A letter from Bar Harbor
says:
AN architect from Boston has been
here all the week directing surveys to
map out the peninsula of Petit Manan
for a sportsmens paradise 1t is the
intention of The Maine Coast Club to
build a clubhouse there for sportsmen
which shall rival the Triton, of Quebec,
or the Parma chini, of the Rangeley
Lakes. They will build cottages where
women who love sport may live and go
to the clubhouse for dinner. Mrs. F.. F..
DennisOn. of Philadelphia, is the one
woman, so far, who is member of the
Maine Coast Club. She will own one of
the cottages. So far as Jekyll Island
can be duplicated on the coast of Maine,
Petit Manan will be a duplication
AN impression has got around that
the new clubhouse on the peninsula is
to be club of mlliOnaires. Nothing of
the kind. 1t would be more correct to
term it a club of brokers, DOCTORS law
yers and others who handle every day
more millions than they own, and who
want to get away from the social crowd
that dominates at Bar HarbOr during
Tic season. The Kebo Valley Club was
started by New Workers and Philadel-
phians who desired a little solitude of
this description. The social element
took possession Of it. eventually, and
r7adc it a golf club. Today the Kebo
Vail = CLUB is n monument to the fact
that all sportsmen do not play golf.
Last year the members of the Maine
Coast Club were content to rough if on
the peninsula. They had discovered the
feeding ground of the wild duck. the
spot where they reared their young.
Nothing is secret with sportsmen, and
Others found it out, too. Among them
were several Philadelphians who pass
the summer at GrindstOne Neck, the
name given to another peninsula along
the coast where society folk spend their
summers. BOnsall Taylor, Charles S.
Whelan. a. Tillinghast Ffeeley, John
Paul Wetherill, Mrs. John G. Moore,
William II. Bliss. Mrs. Spencer Irwin,
Nathan Troller and J. f. Ridgway were
among the number.
Nobody can tell at this stage of the
e me. whether the Maine Coast Club
will share the fate of the Kebo Club
or not. 1t will not if the men who have
tie sportsmen's interests at heart can
help it. J. w. Paul of Philadelphia. a
member of the Art Club there, and pres
ldcnt Of the Board of Directors of the |
Maine Coast Club. who was here a few
days ago giving directions for the new
clubhouse and cottages, said that Petit |
Manan was to be home for sportsmen
and nothing else. Charles b. Fritz, of |
Philadelphia, is associated with the |
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1T has been settled for once and all |
that golf players are to have no place |
on the 5000 acres of woodland water |
front that the Maine Coast Club has ac- |
quired control of. Men or women who |
enjoy fishing or shooting will be well |
come. Petit Manan is only twenty |
miles from Bar Harbor. and within an |
hours drive from Grindstone Neck |
The social element of both places. as |
represented by the wives and daughters |
of sportsmen, will present claims for |
1t will be for the men |
to say how far they can be ignored.
1T Is a question how long the men |
who have determined to make Petit |
Manan sportsmen's paradise will be !
able to hold their own. The country |
around the peninsula is becoming set
tied quite rapidly. Manufacturers are |
looking about for water power from the |
rivers Whereabouts for their mills Fish |
ermen are seeking for salmon and trout |
breeding places. They have an idea |
that trout and salmon could be as well |
taken along this part Of the Maine |
coast as in the famous Canadian fish
cries, only few miles distant. In
course of time 1t may be triple con-
test between the sportsmen, the State
and the fishermen"