The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-21
THE MECCA OF HUNTERS.
sPORTsMHN DRIFTING TO THE
SOUTHERN GAME PRESERVES.

| SOUTHERN GAME PRESERVBS.
Vanderbilt Hunting Parties at Ashe-
| ville-The Tuxedo Preserves-An Elk
elusive Set at Bloomingdals Park,
Pa.-Lehigh County and the Blue
| Mountain Will be Filled With Quail
This Year-A Great Field for Hunters
in Northw estern MarylAnd-rhe Lat
est Changes IN the Laws-Grouss
Hunting In Maine.
| (CoDwfohf)
NEW YORK, Aug. 20-When you have
named Cameron, Dser river, Tuxedo park
and Ellenburgh, you have called Off all the
really available hunting grounds In New
York state. Hunters are drifting south
ward and Maryland, Virginia and North
Carolina have In the past two years become
the rendezvous Of the best OF New Yorks
sportsmen. Upat Tuxedo park the pre-
serves are as exclusive as ''the set." and
strict guard is kept to avoid interference by
the too inquisltive and enthusiastic hunters
from the near neighborhood.
Bloomingdale park. In Pennsylvania, is
perhaps just as exclusive as Tuxedo. and
Nathaniel s. Smith and his New York
friends regulate not only the preserves, but
| the season for shooting as well. IL Ia, in
fact, Liberty park for the exclusives.
| Some of the most interesting hunting
parties of the coming season will be those
| organized by the Vanderbilts at their Ashe-
vile home, and to these must be added
deer stalking which is now being arranged
| by some of the famous New FORK hunters
who make annual pilgrimages to Florida.
! In fact, the recent changes in the game laws
OF that state make it possible to kill deer in
August, at least in Lake Orange, Sumter
| and Suwannee counties. In the other coun-
| ties the commissioners have fixed October
and November as the limit.
/ was chatting with A. s. Paxton, an en-
thusiast on grouse hunting, and he deplores
/ the pitiful spectacle of Central New Y forks
| game supply. THE wasteful defamation"
said he, "of the forests in the central coun-
ties has brought about the extinction of
game. The swift-pinioned grouse wants
thick wood for cover and breeding. There
are few sections where l had some really
| good ruffed grouse shooting last year IL
| was on waste land heavily clothed with sec-
ond growth timber. But the best quail
shooting have enjoyed in years was up in
the northwestern part Of Maryland. With
two splendid dogs we managed to bag forty
five in one day"
J. w. BrayleS, another enthusiastic hun
ter, is called 1.-THE philosopher by his
friends. Ia fact when it comes TO quail
shooting he is looked upon as the best Au-
thority In the country. MANY anovice,"
said he to me. doesn't know when he has
hit bird, unless the game falls fat down.
| good quail hunter ought to know before
! the bird has fallen two feet whether or not
to administer another charge. To shoot
humanely one should instantly put all
wounded birds out of their misery. When
a bird 10 killed, tina instant the shot strikes
it, it falls In shapeless mass to the ground,
But IL there is only q second OF life left the
head is thrown back in hopeless manner
and the bird is likely to fall Eai' first, wings
slightly extended. II one wing is extended
or Topped in the air and the other is not
used. the bird oircling In its descent,
you can count it only as wing-tipped. /
have few times seen q bird, when flying
In a horizontal line with the ground,
instantly change It's course at the crack of
the gun aud fly straight skyward, and after
moving distance of 100 yards descend
gradually to the ground. l retrieved one
OF these birds myself aud found 1t sitting up
on the ground In a perfectly natural posi-
tion. A small drop Of blood on the head
convinced me that it had been shot In the
brain aud had lost all consciousness even
before it took its towering flight. The worst
shot of all is the bird that goes of with the
legs hanging down. Give it the other barrel
quick as a flash, and then you will probably
| have killed the quail"
IF you want some real good quail hunt
ing" said Henry Welles, the gentlemanly
secretary OF the Spalding club, Ego down
into Pike or Lehigh county, Pennsylvania.
The season there is late. 1t doesn't begin
for quail until Nov. and ends Dec. IS, but
during that time you will get your fill Of
the brown beauties. The last winter was
good one and Lshigh county and the Blue
mountain region will be as full this year as
| dur{prr 1901 xub ha hfoh
in day. Why, one day at place called
Maoung1e flushed four pheasauts. each OF
which weighed 3S pounds. The quail were
In some cases SO thick that they almost
burst"
Edward Lacy Of the Forest and Stream
told me he was going to Maine for bis hunt
ing this year. "1n fact l am going up into
Washington county after deer, said he. ~
understand that some one has seen jet
black animal of that genus up there, and
| that's the creature am going after"
MIR. Lacy also told me Of Q very fashiona.
Bile fox hunting club which had been formed
by a number OF rich New Workers. whose
winters are spent near Asheville. n. G. II
| Is to be called the "Swannoa hunt, and the
best fox hounds in the country have been
secured. The hunts are to take place twice
a week during the winter.
But 1t is the law the hunter wants to
know something about. aud l have taken
| the trouble to get the statutes OF the Vari-
GUS states corrected to Aug l. Up IN On
tario the deer, elk, moose, reindeer and
cariban season does no open until Novem-
Der, and the game bird season Is not open
until Oct Is, so early -shooting New Yorkers
will probably give it iwide berth. North
Carol. ma is as strict In It's laws, and in some
of the counties quail cannot be killed until
Deo /. In the best districts, however, the
shooting begins Nov. /. In Connecticut the
open season for game birds begins Oct. /.
This date includes woodcock, quail, ruffed
grouse. partridge and gray squirrel Reed
bird and rail shooting are allowed in Della
ware, beginning Sept. and closing April
15 On other game birds the season opens
| Nov. ID.
Plover shooting in Maine began Aug. l,
and prairie chickens will begin to fall into
the hunters hands on Sept l. The partridge
and grouse season does not begin until Oct.
l, and many New Yorker will don his
buckskin and prepare for the finest sport In
the land in what is really the most magnih-
cent game bird territory In the country.
Pheasant shooting IN Maryland is allowed
Aug. Is. Partridges will fill game bags
after Nov. In that state
In Nav Xork state woOdcOck and OrOuRa