Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-06
GEN. HARRISON'S DAY OFF
He Makes War on Small Game
 with a $500 Gun.
IN FINE FETTLE AND SPIRITS.

2hs Party Gets Away Quietly and Scare
 Thrsats-Gen. Harrison's Little Joke
 About Dana-sone Cabinet Gossip.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 6.-Gen. Harrison had to get up at o'clock in order to be on time for the special hunting train, which left his home at 7:10 Gen. Harrison had new gun, which came all the way from Syracuse, marked Protection to American Industries" and was worth, at the least calculation, $500
 The train sped out of the station. Nobody except Mr. Pierce knew when it was coming It is seventy five miles to Dana, the Yer million county town, where the Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield railroad escapes into Illinois, but the distance was accomplished in two hours, though the road is so rough that two trains a day are all they dare to run over it. At 9:15 the special train pulled up at the little station here and was side tracked. Most of the 500 people of the town were about their business. The train people loafed all day and wondered what luck the sports men were having. Nobody dared to follow them.
 Private Secretary Halford had announced that any over inquisitive person who went along was in certain danger of being shot by the preSident-elect himself Another bulletin that the general would surely turn back if any detectives seemed determined to follow him. All day the tramp kept up. The party returned to the train at nightfall and supper was had. Quail, rabbits and pheasants had been the most sought. There was a lack of the latter game when the returns were all in, but of the quail there were fifteen and of rabbits five, enough, of course to make pro fessional hunters envious. The Hoosier and the Sucker country are too cold for ducks.
 The early evening was spent in the parlor of the car, talking over old times and telling stories of the frontier. Gen. Harrison's were as hearty as the most. But all grew tired early. They had all started out early, and early and late had chased the pointer. Be fore 10 o'clock the car was dark, the people about the station had dispersed, and the lone railroad operator in his little room plugged away to let the people in Indianap- olis know that every one of the party was well, and that the return trip would be had the next day.
 A close comparison of notes for the day showed that the party had tramped fifteen miles in all, and that Gen. Harrison had been fatigued as little as any of the party It was conceded, too, that the president-elect had brought down the very first quail that had dared to pop up anywhere. The hunters had dinner at the house of Capt. Bates, leading cltlzen, ana, according 10 al accounts, the jests went around pretty merrily. Gen. Harrison happened to inquire why it was that the town had been called Dana
 Why" responded Attorney Pierce, lit was named by Col. Moore, who used to be a superintendent of the l. D. and w., after Charles A. Dana, of The New York Sun. guess if he could take it back now and name it over again he'd name it something else" 'Why sop Gen. Harrison asked
 Because Moore is a redhot Republican"
 ''Oh," was the generals laughing remark, ''he needn't let that worry him. It was amusing to read The Sun during the cam paign. You could see in every issue of it that it was knifing Cleveland under the fifth rib. I know personally that Dana wanted to beat Cleveland