 The club officially opened its doors when the executive committee arrived for the 1888 season on January 21.Several nationally important events took place on Jekyll Island during the Club era, including the first transcontinental telephone call made by Theodore N. Vail, president of AT&T, to Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. Watson and President Woodrow Wilson in 1915; and the development of the Aldrich Vreeland Act for the National Monetary Commission in 1908.The Jekyll Island Club was a unique resort, more family-oriented than the Union Club or the Chicago Club.