Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-05-04
LOCAL AUTO CLUB
WILL BUILD BIG
CLUB HOUSE SOON
Autoists Purchase Five-Acre
Tract Just North of Belle
vue College on Missouri
River Bank.

The Omaha Automobile club is to
have country club house. A deal
was closed Thursday for the pur-
chase of about FIVE acres Of ground
on the high bluff just north OF Belle
vue college.
The beautiful scenery down the
Missouri river valley from this COM
handing site hasn't peer in the
state of Nebraska.
The supreme court of Nebraska
has ordered viaduct built over the
interurban railway tracks south OF
Judge Fowler's home on the Belle
vue boulevard, which will give Auto
club members direct drive from
Bellevue boulevard over the tracks
and right into the club house
grounds.
Particular attention will be paid
to the buildingsof extra wide, long
Epporches for the accommodation OF
the hundreds of club members who
will drive to the club house on hot
summer evenings, there to loll in
perfect comfort in roomy porch
chairs, breathe the pure country at
mosphere and enjoy the most Won
derful panorama of river scenery in
the entire middle west.
College and Chicken Dinners.
Arrangements will be made for
short-order lunches. this year. Be-
sides is the Bellevue college dining
hall with its excellent chicken din
ners just few steps to the south.
Also, the college plunge is there and
tennis courts will figure in the &C
commodations.
The grounds can also be reached
by the interurban The Sixteenth
street station Of this line is directly
at the foot of the club lawn, which
will be handicapped. An effort will
be made to have the most artistic
surroundings of any club in the
city.
| A big membership drive is to be
launched in few days in anticipa-
ton of the building of the country
club house.
The cost to join now until June
10 is only S.. The membership fee
of S. has been dropped, and the S.
you pay gives you all benefits.
1t is likely that the membership
will be limited, so motorists antic-
ipating joining should get inlearly
as the club is figuring on flood
of new members at this low drive
rate.
Arthur c. Pancoast was elected a
director of the Omaha Automobile
club at the meeting of the board
held Thursday. Pancoast fills the
+, unexpired term of c. L. Gould, man
ager of the Ford Motor company.
who recently resigned because he is
out in the state most of the time.
Pancoast, WHO has always teen one
of the big boosters of this club, will
serve the organization as director
and legal adviser.
The club has issued new map of
Nebraska. giving mileage, and high
way marks on all the main high
ways. This map is distributed free
\ to all members.
New tour cards are being printed.
showing the highway marks of the
different routes out of Omaha, in
colors. They will be the most artis-
tic route cards ever issued by any
automobile club in the country, and
will contain mileage, hotels, points
Of interest, camp sites, and route
connections. They are issued free
to members.
The insurance department Of the
Auto club is now handing back their
return savings. Some of the checks
amount to $50 on the premium. The
club guarantees 20 per cent return
savings.
H. o. Friedricks, who has for the
past year or so donated his services