New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-07

DRIVING by DOGS SHOULD DE- STOPPED IL THE
ADIEoNDAcKs.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Cir. IT Won care to give space to the subject
7 would like to add my testimony to that Of Fair
Play" in your issue of october To- as 10 the houno
ing of deer -,
cannot see how any man can say that the driv-
ing of deer BY dogs as practised Is the manifest
way of hunting The deer is o gentle harmless
| beautiful animal very different In these respects
fran bcar wildcat wolf or even fox. In Septem-
her when the bounding begins. the fawns are not
full-grown and dependent upon their mothers
know from actual experience ana observation, TINS
to be n fact a few years ago. wniie sittins WIN
friend and a guide Saranac Lake, we heard the
! h,virg of dogs A fawn ran into the water near
| us which the guide proposed to catch He did so
without much trouble. After little struggle the
fawn became perfectly quiet, MS tremphhg ceaseu
| and his beautiful eyes seemed almost human III
their appeal to us to protect nm from 'he hou''o
which was larger than he. knowing that We could
M, ,you take him I'm our skif tied our cards
| on his neck partly for fun and partly so that
any hunter who killed him would be ashamed 70
boast of it, We started away in our boat ana the
little fellow followed us into the water IKE puppy
The guide finally, fearing he would be chiiied had
to drive him away from US to the shore ny s''i"'"s
him lightly with the paddle
| The claim made that the deer are increasing ~
| absurd TO one who tramps the deep woods see
every season on the mountains and In the thickets
hard of access, old deer trails worn SIX 10 eight
| inches deep In the duff" which are now aDs o,
utely abandoned like the buffalo trails on he grea
| mains of the West The statement sometimes MADE
in good faith. by the hunters that they ger more
deer I'm a week than they dld zen ye ,,y asy
Is easily explained by a comparison OF the diierent
ways Of houndng Formerly parry s Oh oe eas, G
accessible place They would take IL cas- IN ens
one Of them , or int into sI the WOODS while the
rest would watch the lake something me me,
Mo ow Is sft It now Sse Let any lover Of bounding tel
me II overdraw the picture in many ,oo g,,des
who burrow to the deer'a last hiding places Ever
lake and river and runway Is nahle9 u. "u' ho
rm f w' hoa,s close around one beatlng doe and
men called it sport TO see the su1t ~, o nari,es
in onc eea ay have kd than one party
killed by the old methods; Du, M der II Is only
question of few years IN the Ad,ron yrea
counties where bounding Is ali9wrd wn r oy ,sitors
! to the woods will BE- gons ., 90 p. n ou;e,
one word more ThGh S Is so mea Who 10 IKE to hunt
with dogs are gentlemen Of kindly dsposuon,
sgor"mcn and 0 hoy .s Of f fne Mso Hut DO not
eye any one will question the statement ,'at smc
laws allowing houndng are maze II II this State could
he noed not one in ten would favor pol,cy una.
rapI; sn wb D nnaer reasonab protection
wouII rapidly Increase TO the great body 81 SUI, ~,
m, haunts would he a bit OF poetry riarESing
the red letter day Of The season IS IL hI far v
mr. ten wears such sight would be coin,on , ons
Those who practise bounding car "a rnreiy a
probably are lovers Of dogs. Th-Te ~ ''' sr,a
hunt when one or hounds are not Os, co, ,J
times these turn up in few days h h S am in
,oo, acre Often they DO not turn up put ns u, y
H Woods az many deer dies Of sShaus sat and
have shared my lunch frequently with q os' a,,r
n'TIshaJ hound The dogs. which are kept hea.
ne wilderness have be chained up during n,o s
Of the year. Is no. the practice cruel 10 Inv Jugs
Your correspondent from Keene valley ~ TEL nots
saving that the outlook Is not enconragis, =, tvrn
| IA though the deer must GO NO on Ill cause
M at Albany In the winter 70 psu nrsd;c, WI be
Hithin ten yeat in the Adrondacks perhaps perhaps aw
~ S,o,. park I'm the catskills. this srcto' ,,,a!
Wv tn storked In course OF time new se',r,
alton OF sportsmen may come TO pro oyc, Of breed
w. sich, of deer which Is the proauct oi III,
,nr IT, man will never have quite the lisci''". M,
~ genuine wild one in his natural "or rsssrvs,,
! more than the catching OF trout III d nm,tins
,"nd has the excitement and charm OF pu. s
yomr wit against his in his native hidihs p'
Cascade House. Essex County \. y o'' IT, '''''