New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-24
BILTMORE FOR A CLUB.
TO HUNT and FISH THERE.
Organization Being Formed to Use
Preserves Of GEORGE W. TdnderbiH.

1t was learned yesterday from an unimpeacha-
bic source that arrangements have been made
for the taking by club of sportsmen now
i'm process of formation of George w. Wander
bits fine estate of Biitmore. near Ashevlile
y. c. The club is being formed by f. y. Moore
the owner of the Kenilworth Inn, and though
name has not yet been chosen for it, it is I'M
derstood that the title Of the new organization
will contain both the name Of the estate and OF
that famous hosiery.
Mr.. Moore came to II is city yesterday after
noon to complete the arrangements for the cluO-
He has spent the last few days in Boston, New
port and Nara gansctt where he has been inter
viewing many men on his project. and when ne
reached town he able to lay n defni'e
proposition before Mr. Vanderbilt. He expects 10
remain here only a short time. and TO go on 10
Baltimore. Philadelphia and Washington, where
he will find the last few men needed to complete
the membership of the new organization 1he
club, which is to be composed exclusively OF
sportsmen devotees Of the rod or gun. is to be OF
the most exclusive nature and the membership
will he limited to seventy-five one hundred
One of the features of the life of the new
club. as now planned will he the building of
lodges in the various sections of the large
tract acquired. where the sportsmen can live in
the hunting and fishing seasons. These will be
in addition to the large hunting lodge which
has been built and which will be retained by
Mr.. Vanderbilt.
The land which will come under the control of
the club is in all about one hundred and thirty
thousand This does not include the ten
thousand tract on which Mr.. Vanderbilts
cottage has been built, and which he Will re
tain for himself In regard to the rumors which
have got about lately. that Biltmore was to he
closed. Mr.. Vanderbilt said that these were in
correct, as the whole estate. except the private
house and its grounds. had been closed ever
since ne owned the estate. and these were now
open to the public three days q week instead OF
two. as had been the custom.
The BtmOre estate at present consists OF
about one hundred and forty thousand acres,
which have been purchased by Mr.. Vanderbilt in
the last eight or ten years. About ten thousand
of these the part of the estate which he viii
reserve for himself. have been most carefully laid
out under the direction of expert landscape gar
deners and are central around Btmore house.
The estate lies on both banks of the French
Broad and Swananoa rivers. mountains
which vary in height from 1900 to 600 feet
The highest mountain on the estate Is Mount
Pisgah. the lower spurs of which the hunting
lodge stands.
Those parts Of the estate which have not been
under as careful supervision the immediate
grounds OF the house have been in charge OF a
corps Of foresters belonging to the Bitmore
School of Forestry, who have been applying
there the scientific methods of the fOresters or
the German Government. over one hundred
miles OF roads have been built. both to aid in
access to different parts of the forest and TO
prevent fires About twenty miles of the new
roads are macadamized and can be used in the
worst weather.
rem when ii bought by Mr.. Vanderbilt,
the efforts of the foresters have already re-
habated it to a large extent, and almost the
whole tract is more or less thoroughly
covered with trees Since the land came into
the estate hunting has been allowed on it.
and there in the forests a number of
deer and black bear. well quail. pleas
ants wild turkeys and the smaller forms of
four-fOoted game. over two hundred thou
sand trout have been put into the streams by
Mr.. Nanderbilts orders and the fishing there
is now good and constantly improving.