Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-05-15
swARm,Ne WITH MILLIoNAlREs.
The Curious Destiny OF JeI<yi island
OFF the Georgia Coast

house to shoot deeri An apartments
usually is associated with city life. but
on Jekyl Island, the happy hunting
ground of millionaires," off the Geor-
gia coast, near Brunswick, is an
apartment house from the windows OF
which you can shoot game. 1t Is
luxury within range of the wilderness.
The apartment house is called the
Sans Souce, and it belongs to Messrs.
]. P. Morgan, William Rockefeller,
James A. Scrymser. Joseph Stickney,
Robert C. Pruyn, Cf Albany, and Mrs
William P. Anderson, OF Cincinnati
The Henry B. Hyde estate also owns
an interest.
Sans Souci has been such success
that to the large Jekyl Island club
house there has just been built an ad-
dition under an arrangement which
practically makes it another apart
ment house for Messrs. Charles Lanier.
Cornelius N. Bliss, Morris X. Jesup.
Samuel Spencer and John S. Kennedy.
of New York; Edmund Hayes and j.
]. Albright, of Buffalo, and Francis
VI DOSlOu. HlOlu ITO Wlhoo"Ss
too. deer can be brought down.
Deer are so plentiful and so friendly
on Jekyl Island they almost come up
and ask to be shot. Some say they are
g.! tired of being shot at and missed.
Among the mighty hunters of JekyI
| is Dean Eugene A. Hoffman, OF New
/ York, and the reverend sportsman Is
chairman of the game committee, the
other members being Messrs. John
Clafiin and Edwin Gould. 1t may be
said, in general way, that many OF
the members who are best known in
the world of finance do little with the
gun on Jekyl. They go there rather
for rest and to ride and drive about the
| island. But members have a limited
privilege of putting up friends at the
! club, and those who own cottages
often have large house parties.
Jekyl Island is eleven miles long
and two miles broad, making about
twenty-five square miles. 1t is beauti-
fully wooded with pine and live oak
and the forests are full of game.
This idea Of being able to pass at a
step from civilization into wilderness
is completely carried out. The forest
comes right down to the space reserved
| for the cottages and club house
Beautiful roads have been built
through the woods, and one of the
glories of Jekyl Island is long beach,
as hard as asphalt and as elastic as
| rubber, where one can drive beside the
/ sea. From the roads, from the beach
| and from the bicycle paths you can
plunge at once into thicket and in a
few moments hear the exciting quail.
The club house, with the newly ad-
ded apartments, is as large as hotel.
Over the large fireplace in the main
hall is boar's head, for hunting bears
by torchlight is one of the sports of
Jekyl. The superintendent of the en-
tire island is E. G. Rob, of the Grind
stone Inn, Maine.
The handsomest cottages ON the
island are those of Edwin Gould, of
New York, and Charles Stewart
Maurice, of Athens, Pa. There are
palmettos on Jekyl. as we'll as pine and
live oak. 1t is green there all winter
long and sunny most of the time.
Fairbank, Frederic Baker, Mckay.
Porter, Struthers and Pulitzer-no
matter how many members and their
friends there may be on the island. the
club house never seems crowded. For
life on Jekyl is outdoors, and during
the day those on it are scattered all
over. riding, wheeling, driving, golfing
and hunting. On the sea beach many
people go for sun bath on a bright
day. 1t is not unusual in February
and March to see men pull off their
coats, stretch themselves full length
| on the beach and let the sun shine on
them, and on the warmer days there
are many bathers.
Besides deer. quail, duck. snipe and
woodcock, there are English pleas
ants on the island. These are Matched
from pheasant eggs by chickens and
remain under the mother hens care
until the astonished fowl sees her
young lying over the five-foot fence
into the woods. The pheasants are SO
carefully preserved that only two a
| season can be shot by one person. and
he is obliged to pay IS each for the
privilege. Members have been restric-
ted to two invitations for the club and
1t is said that this year the privilege
will be curtailed to one.
On the Island is an old "tabbv,'
house. "Tabby'' is a natural building
material, formed of shells and lime
The house was built by Governor
Oglethorpe, the first Governor of the
colony, and occupied as military sta
ton by Major Horton. who was in
command of the government forces.
The island came into the possession of
the Du Bignon family in 1871, and at
one time the sea island cotton grown
there ranked with that of Edisto Lsl
and. s. c., as the finest.
In 1885 Colonel Du Bignon had John
Clafiin, of New York. as his guest. and
MI. Clafiin was so charmed with the
beauty of the island and enjoyed the
splendid hunting so much that he sug.
gested the formation of a club to the
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