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The William K Vanderbilt .. e
•i' estate on Fishes Island, MI-+ � �fe�� „
1 ;ami Beach, has been put- ! • g - yi^�
!chased by Edward S. Moore, •
noted e sportsman and former• 1
II owner of the famous Circle M. EDWARD S DfOORE WIL IAM.,K. Shoa Showplace
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Ranch. The price Moore Is re- He Bought An Estate He Sullt A Sho >lece
Ported to have paid is$500,000,.
This estate, one of Florida's T i 1`-
,I showplaces, was built in the'�� ty •, _•.
late 1920s by Vanderbilt, who I
• There is, a nine-hole—golf I'
'er, course and tennis courts on
sou`iRt{o combine the beauty'
••'of Ike South Sea islands with the Place Other features in-1
the!advantages offered by I
elude a swimming pool, dravy,
..j'nearneas to larger centers of firearywading pool, la'pump��
r'Dopulation. fire-engine house and a'pump !
�'faheis Island.was at one! house. There is a power house
time part of the Island now' which supplies the estate with,
occupied by Miami beach. It. electricity. Ft has duplicate
became a separate island when ggets t plants, so that if one,'
the government cut a chan-; othere out of pplyihe n thees--
I! ret, now known as Govern-, carrl t supply the nc that
•Bent Cut, through the area.' eihry current. It is said could
Vanderbilt bought about see-. either theof these plants could
`:'.en acres on the south end of Beachly
needs of nfiaai;
O'•the island in 1925, part of it' emerg for electricity in an
,ocean frontage, and imme emergency.
• ' dletely Degan the development Racing Figure
3 of. his estate on which he Moore became interested In
�u spent approximately 51.500,000.' this area as a place of real-,
Be erected one of the most dente primarily because he is
palatial homes in America and interested in racing. He ise a! '
Burned tropical
into ai stockholder in the Hialeah
of edGathe D setting__ `r race course and has
the manyg ror' tinction of the dis•I
buildings which hebeing the only and'
'constructed. In addition to tsar Whose horses ran first and
,main _residence, Vanderbilt, second in the t50,000 Widener
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built-.bath and guest houses, at Hialeah. This µ'a
a main His stable is namedn after
lodge, a studio build- the Circle M. Raneh.
clog. servants' quarters, care- the Circle lit and bought oia
buildings.
s.quarters and other breeding farm in K
Palatial Roma which was owned Kentucky,
He constructed a hangarY Toni
for Bragg, well-known financier
his seaplane and built a and Miami winter visitor,
ton.crane to lift the ten- Moore's father,
the water ot plane from Judge Moore, who the late
Into the hangar.His organized
seagoing yacht, the Alva, was the U. nSSteelstcorp,was and Other
provided with elaborate dock- large industries, also a
tog facilities. The Alvanoted sportsman and turfman. '
taken over b• was Hs is credited with having
during w y the government the finest stable of show horses
C the war for transocean: in the entire country.
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In addition to the Alva,Van- Edward S. Moore recent:'
derbilt had a number of small- purchased the houseboat �f
er boats, and to athe late DeWitt Page. which
these, he accommodate he has renamed the Big Peb-
construeted two boat ble. He had another houseboat
Flips and made provision for. of the same name which was
docking small yachts owned by, acquired by the government
Visiting friends,
Re was his • for war purposes and used as
end shortly before
avigator I headquarters by the coman-
he told his death der of the Fourth Atlantic
a friend here that he flees•
had carried his yachts throughI Mr. and Mrs. Moore have a
all the seven seas a total (Ifs...! home at 4921 Pinctree drive,
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of 85,OW miles.
The`entire estate is en-j It Is understood that they will
I move to their new home in the
closed by a nine-foot wait
near future.