The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06

Va VI tHt khut khdJ LIo IulptToT luu Alll60
w to May 81. 1896. 1t is AS follows:
2aurochs. or Euro Gss rabbit.
- elk 81 capercallz,o oockn
1 g red red S stri. 1881 pISSs sSSs"
81 q i "a low GSss. 'o5 R petsfldss.'
8 reindeer: 90 wild ducks.
1,52I large wild boars. 3 bears.
III small wild UoarA IL foxes.
$s9 sSeGusks. COS herons and eormo-
1856 Sa9rso"' rAn"'
In addition he killed $50 head of various
kinds. so that in all 90. 1910 head Of game have
fallen 10 the Emperor's guns and rifles.
The Car of Russia controls the aurochs sup
ply, and were 1t not for him and his predcces-
sors the animals would have long since been
exterminated. In fact the old collectors
OF the aurochs horns used to buy them
for their weight in silver. The German En-
peror, by the grace of the Car, was enabled to
kill two Of these rare beasts. The 73s red stage
do not mako upa great bag compared with the
records OF olden times. The Elector Of Bran.
denburs in 1888 killed ,295 red deer. and tho
Count OF Henneberg shot 1908 red deer in
1881. Duke William w. of Bavaria in l545
got l.o32 red deer. and the Dukes son killed
4.7s3 red deer in twenty-five years. The late
Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha killed $500 red
deer and 1000 channels; but the Dukes bag 10
regarded as the largest made in this century By
any man. The Dukes ancestor. Elector John
A.. buOS Ss.~'o Z Z
The greatest bags OF fallow deer, so far as 10
known. were those of Elector John George I. In
lGll-56. and Of his son John George II. The
former got ,o45 fallow deer. and the son be-
tween 1886 and 1880 got 2.o62. With these the
German Emperor stands we'll with his 1000
falIow deer. but otherwise he is far behind.
These two noble hunters IN their siXty-nln0
years of shooting killed this game:
10000 red deer. 5000 wolves.
5000 fniiow deer. 20 OUJ hareR.
2SuOu roe deer. lei 900 f0Xes.
os,0u0 Wild UuarA 4II w.ldcats.
i11 bears. i0S lynx
Meantime the elder Elector WAS helping along
the Thirty Years War. 1t was these old-time
hunters that reduced the game supply 90 that Q
sportsman must number his deer by hundreds
instead of thousands. even though Of royal rank.
The Emperor Williams way of hunting Is not
to be compared with that or such sturdy. hunt
erS as Emperor Macmillan and Charles ", who
faced S0O-pound boars with short-handled
spears afoot, or killed a channels with a cross
bow while one foot was slipping toward q thou-
sand-foot, ,precipIce six Inches away. sitting
comfortably an n mountain runway while the
chaniois Is driven down from above, as Emperor
William does, and following the channels
tremor or a broken bit OF iron meant certain
death. as Macmillan did. are very different.
N~aximilian could throw a spear through adeer,
and could dodge falling rocks with the best OF
mountain hunters. With half n dozen men be-
side him to load his guns Wilhelm shoots rab-
pits as they come running at him. rabbits that
wild bnars. loading his own crossbow because
his underlings had not the muscle 10 bend the
steel. When, the old-time hunter had a little
driven TO him, but took "a light spOrtsmAn'a
crossbow and hunted through the woods, after
the still hunters manner, and shot the animals,
OF surface, but with a half-inch pellet, which
was often recovered aud fired gain and again.