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Sale at an Historic Spot
Furnishings of The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club's quarters will be disposed of at auction
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, owners of the Conemaugh Reservoir at the time of the Great Flood in 1889, will pass out of history as an organization with the sale of its personal effects in the club house at the reservoir site. Auctioneer George M. Harshberger has announced that the sale will take place on Thursday, the 25th inst. [sic], at the clubhouse, when the entire furnishings of the house will be disposed of at the auction.
In the list to be disposed of are fifty bedroom suites, many yards of carpet, silverware and tableware with the club monogram engraved thereon, many odd pieces of furniture and bric-a-brac. At the time of the Great Flood, the clubhouse was handsomely furnished and fully equipped to care for at least 200 guests. During the summer of 1889, the clubhouse remained open, but has been since occupied only by a caretaker, and now the real estate and clubhouse, together with a number of the cottages, have been sold to a syndicate of Cambria County persons, the club's trustee, E.B. Alsop, of Pittsburg [sic], has ordered all the personal effects disposed of. The present owners have not determined what disposition will be made of the surface and buildings, the coal rights have been disposed of some time since to the Stineman coal interests.
Person who attend the sale will be served with hot lunch and coffee, and the South Fork Branch trains will stop at the clubhouse. Doubtless many persons will be attracted to the sale by the possibility of securing mementos of the famous reservoir and the organization, which, while building for the purposes of pleasure, wrought the destruction of Johnstown.
The Weekly Tribune, February 19, 1904 |