The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-17
IN THE MAINE FORESTS
EXPERIENCES OF CON-
SOLIDATED ROAD ENGINEERS.

Home From the Forests With Big Laureis'
Bear Meat and Deer Meat-The Tale the
Bold Hunters Tell-San Closes Close
Contact with a Big Bear--A Deer That
Two Good Shots Claim.
"Chuck" Lewis, Bob Osmund, Tom
Hinckley, Same Close and Lew Thomas
are we'll known engineers on the Con-
solidated road. From "Chuck" to Lew
they are as fine crowd of fellows as
ever grasped the throttle bar, with re-
putations for truth and Veraclty that
have made them examples OF virtue tor
school children the country round
When one Of these men tells you a pear
or fish story you can bet Is to that
he is telling the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, and you
don't have to wonder over his story Tor
seven days before believing 1t. All you
have to do is to listen and believe. It's
gospel truth every word Of 1t.
So much by way of reputation for
these choice spirits Of the railroad.
Now for modern illustrations of their
veracity.
Recently with some of their COM
panion engineers they departed for
weeks hunting trip In the Maine woods
and they have just returned to the Elm
City. Had they been any other five men
of these parts we should have expected
them to have returned with stories so
rivalllng those of the late lamented
Baron Munchausen that even New
Haven gullability would have had to
stretch or split. Not so they; they tell
stories of those ten days in the Maine
| woods as frank and candid as those of
Sunday school scholars on Sunday
morning. Here are a couple of sam
pies:
Sam Close is the hero Of the follow
| ing incident, which Is vouched for by
| all his companions:
| Sam since he wore knickerbockers
| and went to school has always had a
desire to kill a bear. AS he increased
in wiwsdom and avoirdupois, even after
| he had shed his knickerbockers and
| graduated from school that bear-killing
| desire kept pace with Sans desire to
| become one of the best engineers on the
| road, which he is.
| When the party set out on their trip
| Sans propensity saw by the look in
| Sans eyes and the expression about
Sans mouth that something dreadful
| would happen to a bear If once Sans
| headlight got focused on him.
The opportunity which Sam had long
ed for from knickerbocker days came
| and with it the bear. Sam and the ILL
| fated bear met in the deep shades of
| the Maine forests Sam fired two shots
+. at the bear, but the bear in most
unbearable manner refused to lay down
and die. On the contrary, Bruin start
| ed towards Sam as though to scrape
up close acquaintance. Sam also
| started, not toward the bear but up a
small sapling the nearest he could find.
| The sapling cracked, swayed and bent
| beneath Sans avoirdupois Sans hat
came off with the upward movement of
! his hair and his teeth chartered as he
| chung for dear life to a small limb of
| the sapling. The bear growled and
| scratched at the root of the saping
! just below Sam, who was SO far up
| that Bruin could not taste him. 1t was
a moment Of suspense for the tree, Sam
and the bear. Sans suspense, the
| bears suspense and the trees suspense
| terminated all at once. The limb to
which which Sam had linked his for
tunes broke, Sam obeyed the law of
gravitation, fell plump on the bear.
In few moments Sam moved. The
| bear didn't. The bear was dead. Sans
avoirdupois had been too much for the
| bear; every bone in the animals body
was broken by Sans fall.
Sans boyhood dreams had been real
| lied, and that in a way he had never
dreamed of. He brought back from the
Maine woods fragments of bear, which
| he is distributing to his friends for
souvenirs.
Another incident Of the trip was the
killing of a Maine deer by Charlie
Lewis and Tom Hinckley
Charlie and Tom both have had some
reputation for dear killing before they
went to Maine They saw one of the
Maine deer and fired simultaneously.
Charlie hit the deer in the head, while
Toms shot took effect in the animals
launches Both claim the deer. The
coroner, medical examiner and a cor
| oner's jury of twelve will decide to-day
who did the killing.