The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-14
MONEY KINGS NEW FAD.
Belmont's and vanderbilt's Animals
Start Wild Beast Craze.
From the New York Press.

Inc recent Importation of a collection
of queer beasts by Oliver Hazard Perry
Belmont and William x. Vanderbilt
seems to have started new fan among
the Four Hundred.
MIR. George w Vanderbilt has lust DIR
chased quite a large menagerie of rare
animals. Mr.. Vanderbilt will forward
his menegerie to his famous southern
home, where a stable that will cost a
fortune is being fitted up to. receive it.
The cable told few days ago how
George Gould had invested in a sacred
bull and would buy other animals from
India on the expected arrival of con-
Segment in London from Calcutta.
COSTLY GRAY CRAG PARK.
Messrs. Belmont and w X. Vanderbilt
were the first to make the attempt to i'm
port and propagate tropical animals for
private parks About eighteen months
ago, just previous to Mr.. Vanderbilt's
trip to eastern waters in his new yacht
the trip that has started so much scandal
he purchased, along with Mr. Bel
mont, about l75 acres of land at Newport,
Which was named Gray Crag park. These
gentlemen planned to make GRAY Crag
park one Of the most unique gentlemeu's
| resorts in the world. If queer birds and
beasts will accomplish this they have
| succeeded.
The collection will have quarters that
are more lTXuriously fitted up than half
| the residences of New York. Gray Crag
park is considered the most romantic spot
on the New England coast, including, as
it does, the bold cliffs facing the Atlantic,
and known as Paradise and Purgatory
All of 81 900 900 will be spent in prepar-
ing unique forms Of entertainment for the
select few there. There will be all the
| necessary paraphernalia for sports, golf
! and tennis courts, a large apartment for
dancing, and the imported animals will
| also be on view.
THEIR HOME PALACE.
The home of the menagerie when cool
weather sets in will be in Oliver II. p
BelmoEt's Sl80,000 stable, which has
recently been completed and is the cost
| lest structure of the kind in America
| Every one who has visited Newport this
season has had peep at the Belmont
! stable. In the front courtyard of the
| building are some 800 electric lights. A
magnificent suite of bachelor apartments
is on the second floor. There are pool
and billiard rooms, riding ring as large
as any in the New York schools, bath
and retiring rooms. The menagerie
apartment, where the sacred cows and
bulls and the other animals and birds
will be CHARTERED in winter. are fitted up
in hard woods, and will be kept as neat
as parlor in private residence.
In this palatial stable d suite of large
rooms can be thrown into one big apart
ment, making a grand ballroom. 1t is
here that MIR. Belmont will give several
unique entertainments during the winter
TO the select few in the Belmont and Van
derbilt circle. 1t is the barn dance"
idea of Ward McAllister modernized by a
man who has unlimited means at his com
mand, that MIR. Belmont will carry out
with the menagerie attachment as an ex-
ceedingly interesting side show. No doubt
that the sacred bulls and cows, the Chi
neSe ducks, the. rare deer, cranes and
storks and others of the feathered tribe
will be surprised at the dance of the Four
Hundred, and may take it as a compli-
ment, so much attention has been shown
them already in this land of fads and
fancies.
OTHER WILD BEAST DEvoTEEs.
There are a score or more of rich Amer
cans who are greatly interested in the
| Vanderbilts, Belmont and Gould pur-
chases of eastern animals, for they, too,
own private parks and want to be in the
swim. DR.. w. Seaward Webb it is re-
ported has also given an order for sew
eral sacred COWS and bulls for his park in
the AdiroEdacks. He already possesses
| about 100 elk, thirty black tail deer and
fifteen moose In few years ne will be
obligeu to do little thinning out of his
animals, for which occasion his friends
will be invited TO the hunt He owns one
of the largest private parks in America.
for it extends over twenty-four miles
| along the line of the Adirondack and ST
Lawrence railway in the widest portion
of the Adirondacks. Dr. Webb is an ar
| dent sportsman and is constantly adding
TO his game preserve.
MAMMOTH GAME PRESERVE.
l. L
like a twenty-five foot lot in the heart of
New York in comparison 10 Blue Noun
tain Forest park, owned by Austin Cor
bin, near his summer home at Newport,
! n. H. There are 10000 acres in this
| famous game preserve. and it is inclosed
by barbed wire fence twelve feet high.
! There are now close to ZOO deer, $50 villa
bears, 600 elk, 100 moose and a great va
riety of small animals. such as German
hares, all the species Of American hares.
foxes, squirrels, mink, offers, beavers
and mountain sheep. This year herd of
twenty European red deer, which will be
bred with the elk, making a remarkably
fine animal, were added to the collection.
George Vanderbilt expects to be able TO
propagate animals from tropical climes
without much trouble at his South Caro-
lima preserve.
George Gould's preserve is a beautiful
! retreat in the Catskills. Mr.. Gould is
now DESTROYS Of propagating European
game, and will also, it is expected, send
over some Russian wild boar for hunting
purposes
MIR. +. Brandeth first set the fashion of
propagating animals in a private park in
the eastern states. He owns Brandeth
park, in Hamilton county, this state, and
it contains more than $4,000 acres. IL
now contains nearly 900 deer alone. Mr..
Brandeth limits his yearly killing of deer
To twenty-five.
Edward H. Litchield, another million
aire, owns 10000 acre private park, all
superb forest land, in Franklin county.
He is now engaged IN stocking his pre-
serve with several kinds Of deer, moose,
otter bear, wild boar and the smaller
animals.
The reputation Of the Count Of Paris never
recovered from the il-advised alliance with
the Boulangist party in 1889. He then took
the risk OF having France fall into the power