Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-08-19
FLASHLIGIlT FOR TIGERS.
ELECTRICITY APPLIED TO A NO.
BILE SPORT IN INDIAN JUNGLES.
When the Light is Turned On the
Startled Animal Allows the
Sportsman to Take Deadly Aim.

Startled Animal Allows the
Sportsman to Take Deadly Aim.
II LECTRICITY has now been
II, applied to tiger rhunting, and
the sportsman in the Indian
Jungle. before he pulls the
trigger of his gun, touches button,
which throws flood of light upon
his prey. This may rob tiger hunting
of much of its romance, but it is ef.
fective, and thus far several large,
well-developed tigers have been gath
cred in Us a result of the clever ar
rangement.
1t has been found almost impossi-
BILE to draw tigers into the open dur.
ing the day near thickly settled parts
of India. But at night this is easily
accomplished by placing a dead car
cass in some convenient place, where
the hunter may lie hidden in ambush.
But after the tiger has scented the
blood of the dead animal and has
begun to tear the carcass, it is diff
cult for the hunter to take aim with
out seeing him.
This has now been obviated by
hanging all electric light directly over
the carcass. At the instant that the
light is turned on the tiger is SO
startled by its appearance that he does
not move. Tigers are not in the habit
of looking up, and it takes several Sec
onds before the animal realizes where
the new, strange light comes from.
This pause, which he makes before en-.
deayoring to escape, is quite sufficient
to enable the sportsman to take aim
and place large, substantial bullet in
a vital part of the tigers body.
sat present" says the inventor of
this system in letter to tho Scientific
American, "I use battery of six
large cells, filled with sal ammoniac.
1t is very heavy and cumbersome, nnd
the light only five-candl, power
lamp. Its recommendation are that
the battery is good for the next ten
years and only wants an occasional
filling up of the cells with water and
sometimes little fresh sal ammoninc.
AS can only go shooting during six
months of the year, this is great adj
vantage. The method of using is us
follows: From the box containing tho
cells | have line of wire double OF
course) say thirty to forty feet long,
slipped onto each end of the box by
butterfly nuts, the lamp, which is tied
to branch of tree immediately
over, say twenty feet high, the bait
being at the other end.
cat about two yards from tho bat
terry there is connection, l think,
called n male switch. A short line OF
wire, about three or four feet long,
makes the connection to the fore enl of
my rife lat one end OF this short length
is female switch to fit onto the above
male one, and at the other end two
small rings are made of the wires
These rings are fastened by two big
headed screws to the head of the con-
nection. On nearing the tiger at the
kill, L aim as nearly in the direction
as [ can, then slight pressure of the
thumb makes the electric connection
and the light opens right over the
tiger"
This scientific sportsman also en-
ployed accumulatOrs, but they dill not
seem to be adapted to such rough
work. He is now fitting himself with
n battery which may be carried in the
belt like cartridges.
Thirty such batteries carried in this
way would, it is estimated, be suni.
ciens to provide sixteen-candle
power light. This system OF night
hunting, it has been suggested, might