The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12
to Be Issue in Country
Club Controversy.
Dissatisfaction Results in Some
Withdrawals.
NEARLY HALFPAID UP.
Directors Believe Over 100 VIII
Pay Soon.
r Representatives of Both Sides
Discuss Situation.

Even though the Country club has
decided to lease and go to the Dudley
tract on Quinton Heights. quite a
number of the original signers to the
subscription papers are protesting be-
cause Gage park will not be pur-
chased, and many Of them are with
drawing their names.
Eighty-eight of the $50 members
have paid in their first installment of
$1,000 each called for by the board
and made payable May 10th. A num-
Der of others, the board states, have
promised TO pay in day or SO, swell
ing the number who have paid to
more than hundred. There is some
talk Of a new club.
Both sides naturally have an argu-
ment in favor of the location of their
choice. Those who want to go to
Cages park say that the land there
can be bought for $4,000, a low figure,
and that to lease the Dudley tract and
improve il would be sheer folly and
nonsense from business point of
New on the other hand, the ad-
herents of the Dudley tract say that
Cages park is inaccessible except to
those who have carriages and automo-
biles, and that to locate there would
mean that not enough support would
be obtained to make it q success. They
say that the car line to Quinton
Heights viii give everyone a chance
to get to the country club easily and
cheaply.
The directors of the Country club
met last night at c. 3. MerFiam's Of
fee in the Columbian building. Simply
formal discussions concerning the
plans of the future took place.
Almost 100 members have paid half
of their subscriptions, $50 each.
amounting in all to practically $4,000
which is now in the hands of the treas
urer, William Macferran. Ground for
4T, T-ls--
/ just as quickly as the plans and speci-
hcatons are completed, say the di-
/ rectOrs.
Relative to the dissatisfaction over
/ locating on the Dudley tract, the fol-
/ lowing interviews are printed
Mr.. Fassler for Dudley Tract.
/ Arnin Fassler. 7 am in favor of the
1 Dudley tract on account of its aecessi-
( bility, being only four blocks from end
/ of car line, which will enable people
without carriages to go there without
4 having to take a carrette at the one end
! the car line This will also make the
/ expense one half less than going TO the
/ Gage tract In going to the latter
I place It would be necessary to pay car
/ fare twice because the car line does
4 not extend out that far, while the
! Quinton Heights line runs almost to the
! Dudley tract. Another reason is, that
/ since we can get the Dudley site. were
we now to go to the Gage tract we
would lose at least IS members who are
not owners of vehicles. I do not think
/ that there is much of an investment
for the club members in the Gage site.
/ From a great many Investigations 7
1 have made I find that country clubs
4 away from car lines are not the pro-
/ nOunced successes like the ones on the
car lines and were we to locate on the
/ Gage tract I am afraid that people
/ would tire of the caTrette system to
/ such an extent that in a few years they
4 would drop out of the club and our
4 membership be reduced to such an eX-
/ tent that the club would eventually run
/ into debt and in the end our original
J investment would be lost On the other
( hand believe If we locate on the Dud-
ley site that the club would be such a
( success that the membership would
/ always be sought after and perhaps
4 worth more than the original cost. The
/ matter of car fare alone would be quite
an item to our members. n A man and
/ his wife going to the club at the Dud-
! lev site only once a week would save
/ in car fare as against the Gage site, 20
/ cents a week
/ This amounts to 5000 a year, and
/ in Is years, the life Of our lease, it
would amount to $3.50, which is more
than two and one-half times the
/ original investment. With 200 club
members this would save them $52,
I OOO in 25 years, and this on only one
trip a week to the club, which in my
opinion is greater than any specula-