The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-06-10
CLUB
WILL CELEBRATE
Its Organization June 25
With Banquet.
men OF ALL PARTIES MEMBERS
Splendid Property Will Cost
Millions and be Miles
In Extent.


Walden's Ridge, near Chattanooga,
Tenn, will, if certain large plans
now afoot go through, become with
in year or two the home of the
CREATES. country club in America, II
not in the world.
The organization, which will be
known as the Interstate Club, is
already formed and is founded on the
idea that there is room in the I'm
tied States for great non-poli1ical,
non-secCional association, to which
citizens, big and little, of every Safe
in the Union may repair for recrea-
ton and friendly intercourse.
The club will have a distinguish
ed membership. Senator J. G. S.Blacl1-
burn, of Kentucky, is President, and
President Roosevelt, Vice-President
Fairbanks, former President Grover
Cleveland and William Jennings Bry-
an are members, Some of the vice.
presidents are Secretaries Root and
Taft, Speaker Cannon, Leslie NJ Shaw,
Truman II. Aldrich, Joseph Sibley,
Nicholas Longworth, Charles S.Towne,
Robert ]. Lowe and Senator McLau-
rim.
The club Is chartered under the
laws of Tennessee, and has acquired
large tracts OF land on Walden sRldge,
contiguous to the Tennessee riveryand
in the vicinity Of famous Signal
Point.
The site OF the club house is on a
high plateau overlooking thirty miles
Of beautiful country. The extensive
plans contemplate the erection of an
amphitheater and the maintenance OF
fisheries, game preserves. golf links,
polo grounds and trotting track and
the building OF an electrict railway
from the level OF the Tennessee river
to the club house doors.
Engineers are now at work laying
out, within the club grounds, an au-
tomobile boulevard that will be
thirty-two miles long and eighty feet
wide. BY reason of the vast tract
owned by the club and the table-land
formation, the curves of the boule-
ward will be so few and so gradual
as to be hardly curves at ALL
Another plan is to make the club
members profit by certain locks and
dams now being built across the Ten
nessee river. The club house site has
been fixed at a point that will over
look what will be three-mile lake
when the locks and dams are COM
plete By means of the lake, 1t will
be possible for members to go from
New York and other places clear to
the club in yachts.
The initial outlay for improvements
will run into the millions. The club
house alone will cost one million, and
the automobile course half a million.
The club will be inaugurated on
June 90 at a banquet on the club
property. Some of the men who will
be present are United States Sena-
tors Rodent L. Taylor, Joseph +. John
ston, Moses L. Clapp, Boise Penrose,
Admiral Schley, Capt. Richmond p.
Hobson and Chief Justice Brewer
There is nothing exclusive about
the Interstate Club. Founded with the
idea that it should be non-partisan
and non-sectional, 1t will seek TO
attract men from the country over.
With membership of from 250,000
to 100000, it is expected the club
will have TO, difficulty in the way of
financing itself. All money received
as initiation and dues will goto defray
club expenses and to Introduction of
such debt as the organization may
assume at It's beginning.
Although the club is non-pan.isan
and non-political.i its projectors believe
1t will WELD large influence in ma
tional and industrial affairs through
its opportunities of informal discus
sion. Men of prominence and influ-
ence can meet there, talk there and
obtain the opinions of Others there
without fear of committing themselves
TO anything and without FEAR of whai.
they may say being considered Off
cial.
Work ON the club house will prob
ably be commenced this summer.
When finished it will, on account OF
its southerly position, be convenien.
all-year-round resort for It's members.