The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-25
ROEBUCK SPRINGS
SITE FOR GOLF CLUB
Automobile Driveway to Be a
Feature of Plan
BEYOND EAST LAKE LINE
No Expense VIII BE Spared in Com
structfon of Suitable Club House
and Observation-Disclosures Dis
cusses the Plans
BEYOND EAST LAKE LINE

Birmingham is to have a new country
club within easy reach of the city, near
| East Lake. A club house is to be erected
and an expenditure of $4,000 put into
| Improvements. The club will be known
as the Roebuck Springs Automobile-Golf
club.
| The promoters announce that subscrip-
| tons have already placed the success of
the project beyond any question what
ever. They state that the grounds, golf
| links and improvements make this
quarter of a million dollar proposition.
The site secured is a beautiful tract
short distance from the terminal of the
Birmingham Railway Light and Power
Company's lines at East Lake. Golf ex-
perts who have seen the property are
agreed that it is the ideal place for links.
Here an eighteen hole course will be laid
off by an expert of national reputation.
A stream from Roebuck Springs, which
flows through the property will be utiliz-
ed in keeping the turf of the course in
perennially live and fit condition. This
stream will also supply a bathing pool.
| bodyng features of arrangement select
ed from the best types of such buildings
in America and no expense will be spared
| in its construction. 1t will be encircled
| by mile and half track for automo-
biles.
| In discussing the project, Mr.. A. L.
Fullenwider said: 1--WE have unquestion-
~, 90,
try club which Birmingham demands
and should have. At an elevation of
four hundred feet above the city, the rise
is easy and gradual as to be imper-
ceptible. This is prime consideration
with owners of automobiles who know
from experience that heavy 'hill-climb-
ing is not only destructive to the life
| of cars, but always implies delay and
danger The grounds are just the right
distance for a 'spin-out'' and give car
owners an objective which has been lack
| ing hereto-"somewhere to go"-over
the best road in the county, the East
Lake to- Birmingham boulevard, which
will be completed by the time the club
house is constructed. The site is also
outside of the area of industrial develop
ment, which means an immunity from
smoke and noise and other annoyances,
which localities subject to mineral right
| reservations cannot offer. In word it
| is far enough way to guarantee all the
privacy which should surround a social
rendezvous, and yet within a very short
distance from the city as distances are
measured in these days of swift locomo
ton.
"All the county roads in the vicinity of
the club house and links will doubtless
be put in first-class shape as the board
of revenue is composed of men who rea-
lie that property of this kind enhances
the value of all adjacent property and
thereby adds to the income of the county.
THAT this new and permanent country
club will mark a new era in the social
history of Birmingham is, think, indis-
putable."
The list of subscribers includes these
well-known people:
A. l.. Fulenwider, Ross c. Smith. Hen
ry L. Badham, Robert Jemison, Jr., Webb
w. Crawford Robert A. Brown. Hampton
S. Smith, Edward W. Barrett VIM. H.
Kettig, Bradley j. Saunders, Henry B.
Gray, Culpepper Exum, John J.. Parker,
Erslxine Ramsay Frank II. Crockard, Ma
than l.. Miller Hugh Morrow, Walter
Moore, Guy p. Johnson, w. S. Brown,
~. Cary Thompson, Fred M. Jackson,
Chappell Cory, Charles o. Locke