The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21

Greenwood Lake Hunters Going to sweep tho
Sterling Mountains.

Sterling Mountains.
Good huntinRl" That's the cry at Green
wood Lake just now, and they are all waiting
for a tracking snow to open the greatest hunt
since the time that bears and panthers prowled
on the Sterling Mountains and deer came down
to the placid lake to drink or nibble at the lily
pads. 1t will DO good bunting too, II all the
plans of the guides and gunners turn out well.
for there is game on the mountains of which
the mere thought makes the mouth water.
Eighty wild pigs are sud to be roaming
between Greenwood Lake and the Sterling
mine. Four years ago an old sow and q boar
broke from q ricketty pen at Hewitt and went
camping out on the mountains. There they
increased and multiplied until now those who
have met them say that they number seventy
five or eighty. They have twenty square miles
Of hill and dale to roam in and have become as
wild as their environment, which is much as 1t
was a century ago. Mountains and ridges OF
ragged granite afford them many hiding places
and shelving lodges give them shelter from the
cover than the groves Of beeches, chestnuts
and hemlocks. which grow thickly on the noun.
These are known as Billy Patterson's pigs by
tho natives for miles around, because it was
MIR; Patterson speaks Of them as his pigs, too,
and for q long time he has talked about going
out and getting them, just as placidly as II It
day in the pasture. He don't go, however, and
recently he has given n number of persons per-
them in their travels. There are three sepa.
rate droyes in tho region. One ofrshoot. con.
tanning from eighteen to twenty-five. according
to different estimates. was seen several times
during the summer on tho Lummis tract, just
from Sterling Forest landing on the east shore
Of the Lake. The old patriarch with his fol-
iEHweIs; t shsa re 70 na east Of tth tho fSIar e0 o5 d 5Pr ~
sterIington. They are ali said to be in fair
fInnltInI in anita nf tlat ,rill o Tk-,-
food has consisted of what they could root out
of the ground In summer with nuts and beech
the hard winters is a puzzle. On Occasions In
summer they have made raids upon the little
few In, number, and have played havoc with
the cabbages and root crops.
They got into Jim Morgan's garden at ster.
ling one day and did so much damage that il
spurred him to go hunting them with dogs. He
got three of them and penned them up. but 1t
feeding time they showed Il stronger DISPOSE.
ton to attack Mrs. Morgan than to dip into the
big hunt. Patrick Kane. who lives on the
mountain between Tuxedo and Greenwood
LPnkisb h has ; two ,rs others b from the upper brood
enough to Kill and will supply him with meat
sun readers will remember how the old
tusker of the original brood nearly got one.
eyed Tom Garrison n year ago when he was
two charges Of fine shot at tho boar, when it
e fhai Ss R him and an Then he ran. but he doubts
tIat no Woulu nave escaped II lie hadn't lost his
1oOllng and fallen down a steep ridge. from
which he slid to the road. Tom Is away from
the lake Just at present, but he is in constant
communication with his cousins and will join in
which he will carry will be a six.shot revolver
rifle cartridges. lie knows how to shoot with
this weapon, and thinks that at close quarters
MED BY, a bulldog and Tim Downey Of Nep@u.
ark. The hunt will start from Sterling Forest,
Where the hunters will assemble at Augermil.
ler'A and get THAR nnkitinna Tharn min -
three divisions. led by captains. who are yet to
Arne Of the Willow Point House, who viii
haze haze e number Of his Orange friends with him;
Ten ,EyGk Of tho Valley House. In the line
Vii be Tom and Gid Storms. Charley and Nate
PPfH ansn;, E &lias MsjG %SSp.. TX v 2H6PiskiSS, n6 G,eGFgs,
the lake district; John Smith, Gustave Van
Week tiner shawGross and probably Judge
viii probably be q number Of people from West
Milford. Warwick and Hewitt in the party, to.
patrons Of the hotel keepers and guides, who
Will receive warning by telegraph.
10 I niHTfy tho people around the lake a can
non VIII be hred three times during tho even
g. e.o z;s fn in the morning: i { Proposed to start
out from fifty TO seventy.hve hunters in line,
with the understandings that they must keep in
- - oh0 uHOlneT una not more tnan tWen-
ty.tiye yards apart as long as the condition of
horn ias 'ttsse eS w1T E Tlawp PERMIT 'Tat II. A. i,,t the 70 s Sound Of 3
halt to reform 1t, They propose to go over tho
mountain toward Sterling and expect to meet
? least two OF the droyes. There will DO all
kinds Of dogs with the hunters, and the bull
dogs. upon which the greatest dependence Is
placed, VIII be kept as far apart as possible.
Just when the hunt will be held IL not settled,
p9t IL Is understood that It will start next
Mednesday morning. even # there Is no snow.
coming impatient.