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Show PROPOSED MOVE OF COUNTRY. CLUB. It was kind in the Herald to take the trouble to move the Country Club to new quarters the other morning, without consulting the majority of the members, but from a newspaper standpoint the article vould have read better if both sides had been given, and before the Country Club moves the matter should be carefully considered by every member of the organization. In the first place, the writer of the article evidently labors under the impression that the Country Club is strictly a golf club, and not a social organization. As a matter of fact not 20 per cent of the members play golf or tennis, and the other 200 would much prefer a pleasant location loca-tion near to town, and there isn't another place so desirable as the old Gilmer estate. If this place cannot be purchased at a reasonable reason-able rate, or leased for a long term of years, then move. It is reasonable to suppose, from past experience ex-perience with the owner that it would be difficult to make a transaction, but if possible it should be done. The present site of the club is worth twice as much as it is worth, for a country club, but no more than that, and if a purchase could be arranged on that basis it would be much better to buy the grounds, and have the club well supported sup-ported by a good membership than to move further into the country, and have the membership member-ship drop off so that the club could not keep up the payments on the purchase, no matter what I the original bargain might have been. From a business standpoint the purchase of the Young farm would be an excellent one, but the Country Club is not a business organization, and if it is possible to come to an immediate agreement concerning the Gilmer property so that the members could be assured that the club would not be put out of business on a moment's notice, well and good. Otherwise purchase the I other place, and stop paying the enormous rent I now demanded for the present grounds. The proposed home of the club for the future I might develop more athletes, but from a social standpoint it would never be so popular, and the I change should not be made without careful con- I sideration. I |
