New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04
Miami Anglers Club
Planning to Build
$1,OOO,OO0 Home
Many Private Yachts Have
Arrived for Season and
villas Are Being Opened
As Winter Colony Grows


MANI. Fla, Jan. 3.-Miami bids
Is, Il no far distant period to become
-. v;rter sport and amusement center
.hs South. One indication to this
"a ' i the remarkable growth Of the
W.mi Anglers Club from forty mem
snss ~ the signing of the armistice
- s;cht hundred on New Years Day.
usy;nr outgrown its earlier quarters.
10 club is now established at the
Hotel Urmey, in the center OF Miami.
For anglers desiring distant rem
Ssrvous. an imposinging clubhouse is
bs;no erected at Bimini, Bahama Is
lands ,l forty miles from Miami. which
w;ll eysntually cost over s1,000,000.
nthar facilities include dock and
twelve graceful and speedy fishing
cruisers. also 150-foot steel passenger
Yacht and five and ten passenger
seaplane. .,,,
Thers are perhaps more miilionaires
among the Miami Anglers Club MEM
s s than in any other similar or
csnizatiou in the South, but despite
fk;s fact mans money bears no re-
istion to his acceptance by the MEM
h.rship committee. Among the clubs
prominent members are Edward Bar
nett NJ. NJ. Belding, A. Garner Cooper,
" D. Crawford, William Farnum, John
Il Hanan, Messmore Kendall, W. L..
Roster. Joseph A. Macdonald, ]. Edward
Newburger, W. Harold Powers, John j..
Slater. Carl L. Wolfe and S. M. Sey-
mour, of New York; G. Fl. Seymour,
Of Montclair, and William Lunham, Of
Bronxville.
Record Lease Is Made
What is believed to be record price
for the rental Of a Miami home for
the season was established this week
when William H. Luden, Of Reading,
Pa, leased the residence Of Locke T..
Highlsyman, fronting Biscayne Bay,
for $l2,600 for three months. Mr.. and
Mrs. Luden will charter q special train
for their trip South, and will bring
twenty servants.
According to William Jennings
Bryan, who arrived in Miami Monday
to spend the winter, an open season
before constitutional prohibition be-
comes effective is myth. Mr.. Bryan
foresees real fight within the Re-
publican party over its Presidential
candidate. He sees a dividing OF the
military strength between Generals
pershing and Wood, while half dozen
others ere fighting for recognition
Replying to query as to the Demo-
cratic standard bearer, the Commoner
said: at pains me when Democrats
fall out, even about so unin portant a
thing as an Office" Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryan, their daughter, Mrs. Reginald
Owen, and her children will live to-
gether at the Bryan estate, Villa
Serena
Yaehtsmen are anchoring in Bis
cayne Bay in increasing numbers.
Edward Seifert, of Nyack, arrived here
Tuesday as the guest of ]. NJ. Hender-
son, Of Cleveland, aboard the yacht
Yuma. James Brady, of New York, has
had his cruising yacht Adventures
precede him to Miami. Harold f.
Talbot's Frou-Frou reached Miami
early in the week from Clayton, N. Y.
Winter Cruise Planned
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Binney, of
Greenwich, Conn.,, are now at their
Indian River estate, and their yacht
Florindia is being overhauled in Miami.
They cruised South in roundabout
manner, going through the Erie Canal
10 the Great Lakes, down the Illinois