The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-13
EVERY INCH a SPORT.
A Dog That Travels Alone to the
Forests after Game.
From. the San Francisco Eramfner

fOFeeIS AIEeT Gduo'
From the San Francisco E.ramfrer.
The dog best and most widely known to
San Francisco sportsmen is a portly, cum
ming old hound belonging to e. D. Ladd on
Kearny street. He is a strange mixture of
the blood and the fox hound equally divided,
and be seems to have inherited the keen nose
and energetic characteristic of the one com
bined most advautagsously 0or dog OF his
inoli Hations) with the nervous eXcitability
and relish for sport Of the other. Long ago
his master called him ANDY" but with the
experience of years the hound grew in
selfishness and intelligence, SO he now enjoys
the appellstion Of ANDY the Bum"
Often his is simply Bum" but still he
remains the same extraordinary animal,
partly street arab, partly sport and mostly
tramp, with nomadio and predatory in.
stincts.
His most famous feats are long trips into
the country alone In quest of game, aud the
establishment Of a free lunch route, which
has given him means OF livelihood.
Last evening Bum lay stretched out upon
a sheet of paper in the rear of his masters
office, dreaming of his last free meal, or his
lonely trip to the Sonoma redwood forests
after deer.
He is the most notionest dog ever heard
of" remarked an attendant, whom Bum re-
CARDS as one Of his particular friends.
NV hen Bum once takes notion into his
head nothing can change him.
He goes where he likes aud does as he
pleases, but always makes this place his
headquarters Take that dog and you'll not
find any like him. Few dogs know whore TO
go for their grub, but he never worries
about his mealS
THAT il all settled in his mind. He has
his route OF free lunches and saloons.
StSnToa0iuoau h. TRAD Of tina eik
and takes to the country. He Just trots
down to the ferry, sails over to Saucelito,
and then takes a seat in baggage car to
the redwoods.
eve have .heerd from him In Sonoma,
Cazadery and Glen Ellen frequently, whore
he goes by himself to the deer grounds
familiar to him. There he hunts deer and
small game for a week at a time and then
returns home.
"How does he travels Well all the con-
ductors, engineers and brakemen on the
Northern Pacific railway know him well ,
| and he is very friendly with them. They
let him lie in the baggage car and be drops
| off wherever it suits him.
"PhilY Jacoby, the Scheutzen king, killed
several deer with him, and says he has the
best nose for deer OF any dog he ever shot
over. But Bum loses heart now that the
deer law stops hunting, and he strolls away
to trail deer alone. When l go hunting
small game have to play tricks at the
railroad depot to leave him behind. will
wait till the train Is moving and then jump
on. He follows me a few blocks, but soon
| gives up the run in disgust"
Are you not afraid Of losing himq'
mot bit of it. He knows the city bet
ter than myself and gets around every.
where Look at him now-he is satisfied
with paper bed. At night he would get
up on the cases and take rug or cloth to
! lie upon. He wants 20 have things com
Portable AMI to enjoy himself either out
hunting in the country by himself, getting
"a bone or sleeping. That's Bum"