J. F. CORBET.
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In future they will turn their attention to bringing a four-oared crew to the front that shall win fresh laurels for the Delaware.
There are only sixteen members, but they intend to become known by works rather than numbers.
“We have no wall-flowers,” said handsome, athletic John Korf, “but men that are willing to try to win races.”
The club has a fleet of thirteen boats, and a good-sized boat-house, the second story of which is used for a gymnasium, and is well stocked with apparatus for the development of the muscles.
PULLMAN CLUB.
The history of the Pullman Club is so interwoven with that of the Athletic Club of the place, that it requires almost a separate paper.
There is a beautiful island of about three acres in extent lying in Lake Calumet. This has been most handsomely laid out for athletic sports by command of Mr. Pullman. Here is located a substantial club-house, and here are erected two grand-stands with a seating capacity of four thousand.
Under these grand-stands are accommodations for thirty rowing clubs, at the least calculation, and from them one obtains a fine view of the regattas.