Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-11

pTetcuuOuS game reservations heiOg
built up. The magnificent estate which MIR.
George Vanderbilt is laying out at Biltmore
Will contain game park. There is ex-
tensive and well-stocked game farm in
country there are less elaborate preserves
where native wild game is to he found.
Some OF the sport-loving fasteners who
own ranches I'm the west have made them
partial game preserves. On Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt's cattle ranch. for instance every
precaution Is taken to prevent the antelope
from being scared away, and when the as
sistant secretary Of the navy visits this
western domain he can have the satisfac-
ton of occasionally bringing down one of
these fieet-footed animals on his own land.
the preserving Of smaller game is large
ly in the hands OF the various hunt clubs.
The method is illustrated by the Genessee
Valley Hunt Club. perhaps the most famous
fox-hunting organization in the country.
The section OF CO lntry covered by the
huntsmen of this club is about twenty
miles long by six or seven miles wide. and
lies along the Genessee river in western
New York. II is a country of rich farms.
but SO thoroughly is the fox hunting spirit
engrafted on the region that the farmers
seldom make objection to having their
fields trampled over and their fences
knocked down. In fact, many of the tillers
Of the soil like to join in the hunt them
selves. Accordingly Reynard is carefully
protected until October comes. and then he
is mercilessly pursued up hill and down
dale by the members of the hunt club who
reside i'm Buffalo, Rochester and other New
York cities.
Small Game.
In several of the states the quail. the ac-
knowledged premier of American birds
from the sportsman's point of view, are
still sufficiently numerous to hold their
own with the protection of the game laws.
In New York, New Jersey and Connecticut,
however, there are clubs devoted to the
White for ten months and a half out of
the year. and to his determination during
the remaining six weeks. One of the best
known of these is the Robbins Island Club,
which owns Robbins Island. of the Long
Island coast, and hunts II under the club
regulations for a brief season each year
Quail ana other wild fowl are encouraged
10 come to these preserves but there is no
place in this country where birds are raised
for shooting as pheasants are abroad
Though there are now no American pre-
serves so carefully stocked and maintained
as those of Europe. ii is likely that with
time and the growth of a hunting set. the
came pains In providing game for the guns
will be used. Already the American pre-
serves dwarf most of those In Europe I'm
extent and excel them in variety of game
The largest private game preserve in the
world is that established by the late Baron
Hirsch in Hungary. But here rabbits and
pheasants are the only game taken. There
are plenty of these, however. On one &C.
caslon party OF ten, of whom the Prince
OF Wales was one. shot 1900 pheasants i'm
che day and on another date killed laO0
rabbits. The bag on this great shooting
preserve was frequently so great as to tax
the capacity of the barons great larder
which held 1900 head of game and was the
largest ever built. In his great preserve
near the famous Hartz mountains, EN-
peror William Is sometimes able to bring
Gown bear, but Mr.. Whitney and Mr.
Roosevelt and DIR. Webb can shoot ante
lope and red deer and bear, too, IL they
wish. AS for quail. which are much SUI
perior to pheasants. they can always be
relied on, and rabbits are too numerous to
mention. So there is little doubt that
America will have in time the finest private
hunting grounds i'm the world.