The Portland daily press., 1897-10-26
ONE MOOSE APIECE.
New York Party's Great Luck-PortIand
Men Who Brought Out Deer Yesterday.

Bangor, October 25-The game ship
1nent on Monday while not so large as
that of several days last week, was big
one, and the wardens were busy for a
long time attending to the sportsmen,
who wanted to identify their deer, The
noon train from over the B. & A. brought
46 deer and six moose.
A New York party composed OF Henry
Roster, A. j. Volk, H. LOTHIAN and
Fred Richardt, had four moose and seven
deer. Each man got moose and the
prizes were all large ones. They went
into the Maine woods 16 days ago, leav-
ing the Bangor & Aroostook railroad at
Masardis. They had Clarence Peavey
of Ok Bow as guide. and their last trip
was one of the most successful made by
any party that has been in Maine this
wear. Mr. Richards took his moose
home. 1t weighed about 600 pounds.
W. II. Burns of Danvers, Mass, came
down with deer from Caribou, and A.
L, Norris of Southampton, Long Island.
N. Y, had deer and box of meat
from Ashland. Lispenard Stewart of
New York, had deer from Ashland. and
G. W. Bosworth Of Plymouth, Mass.
had q deer and several boxes of meat
from st. Croix. 8. A. D. Forrestall of
Cliftondale, Mass, brought down a
deer from Stacyville, and 7. R. Shannon
of Hartford, Conn.,, had deer and set
of moose antlers from the same station.
d. 9. G. Bailey of Hartford had two
deer, and l. Strong, Jr., Of Springfield,
Mass, had two deer. F. s. Gallagher of
Fsbyans, N. H., brought down a deer
from Oldtown, and there were two for Il.
J. Giddings of Boston, from Norcross.
Two deer heads and a moose head were
shipped to S. L. Crosby & Co., from Nor
| Gross. l.. A. BERGMAN of Brooklyn,
N. T., II. G. Smith of Portland, H. f.
Morse of Boston, W. Il. Mason Of Worces-
ter, and o. A. Atkins of Boston, each
had deer and there were two each for
J. II. Carleton, n. NJ Wilson, DR.. Il. A.
Kelley of Portland, W. N. Avery of Wor-
cester and Fl. F. Roper of Sterling, Mass.
On the train from Vanceboro there
were II deer and two moose heads, the
latter being shipped from the provinces
to S. L. Crosby Il Co., of this city. One
of the moose heads was the queerest
specimen ever seen in this city. 1t was
shot by London, = Eng, man who called
his own game. The antlers were double
| blsded and spread over 60 inches. If the
blades had been in the usual form they
would have been two feet or more wide,
and the spread would have been nearly 20
| inches.
| E. G. Newcomb of Bangor, brought a
| deer down from Mattawamkeag, j. e.
Blaney of Everett, Mass. had one from
Calais, S R. Frye and F. A. Page of
Bath, each had two from Kingman, and
A. e. Colcord, Fl. S. Burr and A. s.
| Haskell of Pittsfield, brought down three
from Enfield. There were also shipped
from that station two deer for II. + :.
Butler and M. S. Sanborn of Boston.
The train from Mattawamkeag Monday
morning brought four deer for E. E..
Waterville, and E. Parnelle of Boston.
| The wardens made several seizures on
| Monday. Last Friday a trunk which
looked like those carried by the drum
fners, arrived at the Maine Central
station. Sunday it began to smell badly
1 and it was thought that there was game
OF some kind in it. Monday noon the
three deer and a hunting kit, consisting
of rifles, ammunition, camp clothing,
etc. The deer were all spoiled.
On the noon train from over the Ban
gor and Aroostook Monday noon was a
box of meat marked to L. Morris, Point
Richmond, Long Island, N Y. 1t was
not identified by the owner and the
wardens believe that he was not on the
train. They think that they would have
seized the box if he had been there be-
cause he is thought to be the man who
went through the city several days ago
| with all the game that the law allows one
sportsman to kill in Maine.