Jan. 10, 1889,] FOREST AND STREAM 49 7 



CLUB HOUSE AND GROUNDS OF THE MINE OLA CLUB, FOX LAKE, ILL. 



it is the wide and spacious, altogether glorious gallery or 

 veranda that runs around it, clear back to the hill on 

 each side. This veranda, runs from 18 to 24ft. in width, 

 and covers more than 10,000sq. ft. of surface. It has 

 large round hays provided at the corners. From its sec- 

 ond story a lovely vision of lake and wood is to be seen , 

 and on its lower floor there is room enough for a ball, 

 with any amount of corners for secret converse. I don't 

 know, but I shouldn't wonder if in the "somer seeson, 

 whenne softe is ye sonne," the stern business of the hunter 

 and fisher will sometimes be forgotten, and if stalwart 

 blazer and delicate tennis suit replace the costumes of 

 the field and street, and if these two talk of something 

 but stories of the imminent deadly breach, and if, in the 

 twilight of a pleasant day, the outlines of blazer and ten- 

 nis suit grow faint and indistinguishable from each other. 

 For, mind you, this big Mineola house is a summer resort 

 to all intents and piirposes; the only difference is, not 

 quite everybody can resort. It is a hotel without hotel 

 bills, without unpleasant guests, without work or worry, 

 and without reproach. 



The main floor of the club house is arranged as follows: 

 Opening from the veranda is a large entrance lobby, and 

 upon either side of this is a large and finely furnished 

 reception room; upon the extreme left are the rich and 

 extensive parlors set apart for the ladies who may be 

 visitors at the club, and upon the extreme right are the 

 equally large but soberer parlors for the gentlemen. All 

 this series of rooms can be thrown open into each other 

 by means of sliding doors. In each of the parlors there 

 is built a fireplace of heroic model, capable of consuming 

 a vast log of wood, and by the crackling blaze of these 

 cheerful reminders of the ruder camp, there will. I doubt 

 not, be many and many a "flickering" of reminiscences 

 of experiences in this and other countries, Back of this 

 first series of rooms a wide hall runs entirely across from 

 end to end of the building. At the extreme right, just 

 across the hall from the men's parlors, is probably what 

 will be the gun room, 14x28ft. in size, and commodiousiy 

 arranged with lockers for the shooters' outfits. Upon 

 either side of the dining hall stairs, which rise from the 

 wide central hall, are sleeping apartments 12 x 14ft. in 

 size. 



Upon the second floor the same general plan is followed 

 out. The corridor, on this floor slightly narrower, runs 

 entirely across the building. There is a large front lobby, 

 arranged with sliding doors, which opens directly out 

 upon the great gallery, which is finished hero, as below, 

 with rafters and ceiling of dressed and oiled Georgia pine, 

 giving a rich and pleasant effect. There are fifty sleep- 

 ing rooms upon the second and third floors, each 12 X 14ft. 

 in size. The rooms are furnished with large French win- 

 dows, or sash doors, which open clear down to the floor, 

 and out upon the veranda. From any of the front rooms 

 a magnificent view can be had of the lake, and the early 

 riser can see six miles of as pretty a morning scene as he 

 will care to look upon. 



The third floor has seventeen rooms, some of which are 

 12x16 ft. Now comes in a cunning device of the builder. 

 By a peculiar ai'rangement of the large dormer windows 

 upon the hip roof these rooms, so close up under the roof 

 as not to be thought desirable, are as well provided with 

 light as any in the house, aud each one has its big front 

 of glass which can be thrown oj)en to the breeze from the 

 lake. These are really about thepleasantest rooms in the 

 house. The corridor runs quite across this floor also. 



The building is exceptionally well lighted, and, in short, 

 is throughout architecturally adapted to its own purposes 

 to a degree which hardly could be surpassed. There are 

 eighty-four of the large sash doors, which open out upon 

 the wide galleries. The open arrangement is calculated 

 to insure perfect ventilation and coolness in the heated 

 term. 



There are six private boat houses belonging to members 

 of the club. Most of the gentlemen own their own boats. 

 As among the names of the members there may be recog- 

 nized those of some of the best known shots of the city, 

 it may well be supposed that in the matter of outfits 

 nothing would be left wanting. The most popular boat in 

 t his club appears to be the clinker, decked and combed. 



The membership fee of the Mineola Club is $300, and 



the annual dues are $25. Assessments can not be levied 

 for running expenses. 



Chicago readers of Forest and Stream will know 

 many among the names of Mineola members as ones 

 prominent in large financial transactions. Some twenty 

 odd of them are members of the Board of Trade here, 

 and among these there is at least one name whose associ- 

 ation with the big wheat deal of last September has 

 made it famous around the world — B. P. Hutchinson, 

 better known as "old Hutch," who did so everlastingly 

 squeeze the boys who didn't have any wheat. However 

 rampageous the old gentleman gets on the Board, as a 

 member of the Mineola Club he is altogether tractable 

 and amiable, and shows no disposition to go long on the 

 fish product of Fox Lake or to eat up the club house 

 and scenery. C. L. Hutchinson, son of the latter named 

 gentleman, is the president of the Board of Trade, and 

 well known himself, it may be sure; so also are such 

 men as C. J. Singer, N. B. Keam, Robt. Lindbloom, 

 "Jack" Cudahy, Cyrus Dupee, J. J. Silberhorn, "Billy" 

 Linn, Nat Jones, Ed Driver, A. H. Bliss, Charley Fenton, 

 John Cantner, George Champlin, Charley Wright and 

 many others of the list. Mr. A. M. Gilbert is an indefa- 

 tigable and very successful member of the shooting craft 

 and is often called "the lucky man." He won the "open- 

 ing day" medal this year for the biggest bag of ducks on 

 Aug. 15. Walter Hough is another persistent wooer of 

 the fickle canvasback, whose name is often heard about 

 the lakes and marshes of this section, as are Messrs. 

 Felton, Saxton and others whom space fails to mention. 



The present officers of the club are John G. Beazley, 

 president; John Cudahy, vice-president; Chas. L. Hutch- 

 inson, treasurer, and J. C. McCord, secretary. The last- 

 named gentleman has had the onerous task of supervis- 

 ing the construction of the club house, and that he has 

 done his duty well is, I think, plainly apparent by a look 

 at the results. The following is a complete list of the 

 present membership of the Mineola Club: A. W. Wright, 



C. J. Singer, Geo. W. Champlin, N. B. Beam, W. B. An- 

 drews, T. M. Baxter. Robt, Lindbloom, A. H. Bliss, J. C. 

 Cantner, H. S. Heth, Jas. E. Boyd, N. S. Jones, W. S. 

 Booth, H. I. Saxton, J. T. McCord, A, Browne, J. G. 

 Beazley, J. G. Dwen, J. C. McCord, C. E. Felton, G. W. 

 Haskell, R. M. Fair, Geo. O. Garnsey, F. B. Lawrence, J. 

 B. Reeme. John Cudahy, Frank Clifton, F. L. Stevens, 

 Geo. Smith, T. C. Edwards, J. O. Pierson, C. S. Wilcox, 

 Henry Hosmer, W. C. Hough, T. E. Sullivan, Robt. G. 

 Dwen, A. M. Gilbert, W. L. Pierce, B. P. Hutchinson, F. 

 J. Magin, F. J. Kennett, F. D. Brown, F, A. Forbes. C. L. 

 Hutchinson, Henry Botsford, W. T. Johnson, H. H. Carr, 

 Thos. Bennett, E. Ryder, W. R. Linn, Geo L. Dunlap, 

 Geo. Mason, H, P. Barton, Harvey T. Weeks, T. Wells, G. 



D. Brown, E. L. Hunter, S. J. Nash, S. Wolff, G. R. T. 

 Ward, W, C. Scott, Z. T. Cole, R. M. Huffman. Cyrus 

 Dupee, John J. Silberhorn, Geo. P. Braun, A. S. White, 

 A. V. Booth, E. A. Driver. 



Mr. John Gillespie, for fourteen years identified with 

 the gun trade in Chicago, and indeed the oldest and best 

 known gun man of the city, severed his long business 

 connection with the Spal dings on Jan 1. Spaldings are 

 going to gradually reduce their gun department, other- 

 wise they certainly would never have let Mr. Gillespie 

 go. He controls the largest local trade of any man in 

 Chicago, and if the gun dealers here let him go long 

 without a good place they are simply standing in their 

 own light, that's all there is about that. Mr. Gillespie 

 built up his trade, as all trade now must be built up, by 

 actual experience among shooters. They all know him. 



Mr. John B. Ostell, who has conducted the fishing 

 tackle department at Spalding's also left them Jan 1. Mr. 

 Ostell is here from New York, and although not an old 

 resident here, has built up a good trade. There isn't so 

 much doing in tackle at this time of the year. I hope 

 both these gentlemen will soon be doing business, if not 

 at the old stand, at some other stand. 



Mr. Fred Taylor, long a sporting goods dealer here, and 

 late with the Western Arms & Cartridge Co., is still ab- 

 sent on the Indian Territory hunt. He has cattle in- 

 terests in that country, and I am told will not return to 

 his place with the latter named firm. 



In sketch of Fox Lake Club, for statement that Dr. 

 Baxter killed 14 ducks before he ran out of shells read 

 that he killed 140. Where I wrote that "the only way to 

 appeal to a Chicago man is through the medium of ideas 

 and enterprise; if you have not these, stay away from 

 Chicago." I was made by the types to give the kindly 

 advice, "If you have not been there, stay away from 

 Chicago." E. Hough. 



DIMINUTION OF THE WILDFOWL. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Upon the Indians we must lay the most serious charges 

 for slaughter of wildfowl. From Manitoba came lately 

 confirmed reports that during the last fall wild duck and 

 goose eggs were brought in from the lakes and other 

 breeding grounds actually by whole canoe loads at a 

 time. This is the last thing remaining to be done in the 

 horridly complete extermination of our wildfowl. These 

 eggs are shipped into United States markets from Winni- 

 peg. Many go to New York. E. HOUGH. 



Chicago. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have long been wanting to speak my mind on the 

 game law question, and when I read in your last issue a 

 letter from "Ernest" headed "Ducks by the Barrelful," I 

 could not hold back any longer. He says why in the 

 name of heaven can't we have some laws to stop the sale 

 of game, and I say why not. Why cannot the game 

 clubs of this State circulate petitions to prevent the sale 

 of grouse in particular ? They are fast playing out in 

 this part of the State. A few years ago every little brush 

 had a brood of grouse, and now a party have to tramp 

 hard all day to flush a dozen birds. And now I think if 

 the sale of them could be stopped it would do away with 

 all snaring and illegal modes of capture. Sportsm-en 

 think of it, and somebody take hold and start the ball a 

 rolling. Country Boy. 



Ellisbukg, N. Y. 



Fun and Speculation.— Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 26.— 

 Messrs. Johnson, Sheppard, Bean, Connor and Dr. 

 MacCord, a committee of the Keystone Guu Club, of 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., visited Del Rio, Val Verde county, 

 Texas, recently, and purchased a tract of land for $9,000, 

 and are negotiating for more, which they intend to use 

 as a hunting park. Del Rio is situated west of San 

 Antonio on the Rio Grande River, and is noted for its 

 grand scenery, delightful climate and excellent hunting. 

 The Grand Canon of the Rio Grande and the famous San 

 Felipe Springs are within a few miles of the town. The 

 gun club, besides buying the land for pleasure, believe it 

 to be a good investment, as the country in the vicinity 

 has been growing rapidly, and it is believed that the 

 Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railroad will pass close by. 



The Bear Appreciated. — New York, Jan. 3. — Permit 

 me to congratulate you upon the excellence of your 

 supplement, Forest and Siream's grizzly. It so far 

 ahead of the usual blur that most newspapers impose on 

 their readers when they attempt illustration, that I can- 

 not refrain from offering a word to show my apprecia- 

 tion of the way you have so well succeeded in giving 

 your subscribers a really good thing. It seems rather a 

 pity, though, that the little black "cuss" should have 

 been allowed to appeal- in the foreground.— Big Reel. 



Now and Then a Buffalo.— As in this report con- 

 tained in the Livingstone (Mont.) Enterprise of Dec. 22: 

 "A buffalo bull and cow were killed a few days since by 

 a couple of halfbreeds about twelve miles north of the 

 Moccasin Mountains, in Fergus county. Their hides and 

 quarters were brought into Lewistown and excited much 

 attention, together with a general expression of regret 

 that the ruthless hunters had not spared these remnants 

 of the almost extinct monarch of the prairies. The same 

 hunters also bagged a great number of blacktail deer, 

 wildcats and wolves, also two or three mountain lions." 



