The sun., 1898-11-15
0UNNERS OUT IN FORCE
Fully One Hundred Sportsmen
Leave for the Game Preserves
Down the State.
COTTON TAILS ARE PLENTIFUL
Game of All Kinds Said to Abound
in Kent and Sussex Counties.
The Advance Guard of
Gunners Left Here
Late Yesterday.
COTTON TAILS ARE PLENTIFUL

tne IaCt tnat Tie tlm6 Wnen tne laws OF
our State permit the gunner to kill the
game has arrived, is apparent by the
number of local sportsmen who left this
city yesterday for the game preserves
in the two lower counties OF our State.
II the number of gunners is any indi.
cation, game should be slaughtered in
abundance. -
Over the Delaware division of the F.,
W. & B. Railroad there were fully 100
lovers ofthis sport who left this city yes
terday afternoon for the rural districts
where the cotton-tail and members Of
the feathered tribe abounds. On the
4.27 O'Clock train so gunners and SO
dogs took passage and on the midnight
train there was party Of 20 more.
This great outpouring of sportsmen
from our city Is accounted for by the
many reports that there is plenty of
game in Kent and Sussex counties.
I It ID said that the number OF birds and
rabbits that are around this season is far
beyond that of any seasun in recent
years.
The Wilmington lovers of the pastine
have been preparing for several weeks
for the coming cunning season and many
Of them will be away from the city until
the close Of the season which will be on
December 81.
Dogs Of all descriptions are being used
and many fancy prices have been paid
by amateur spOrtsmen for dogs that are
practically no earthly use whatever ex-
cept as guard dogs.
One poor ignorant fellow purchased a
sky TERROR thinking he was buying a
rabbit dog.
Cunning exploits will be the order of
the day on the gunner's return. and
many Of the birds brought to this city
willbe shot with silver bullets, or, in
other words, bought from men who are
capable of and who make blsi-
ness Of killing game to sell to city gun
ners. '-' -
Notwithstanding the many birds and
rabbits that have been slaughtered be-
fore the law was out there is still plenty
to be found.
While Kent county has many birds
and an abundance Of rabbits, squirrels,
ETC., it is considered far inferior as a
cunning place to Sussex county and
numbers of Wilmington sportsmen will
do their cunning in the land OF pork and
johnny cakes, where birds and rabbits
are to be found almost at the farmhouse
doors.
Several well-known railroad men have
joined the mighty army Of butcners and
shoulder their guns with the greatest
confidence that they will come back
laden with spoils of the hunt.
W. j. Daniels, extra conductor on the
B. & 0. Railroad, has gone to Townsend,
his former home, and with him he took
his dog and gun with plentiful supply
of ammunition. Unless he has exceed
ingly good luck many friends to whom
he has promised rabbits, etc., will be
sorely disappointed.
George B. Chambers, a popular engi-
neer on the Delaware road, has gone to
Queen Anne county to gun for five days.
MIR. Chambers has a reputation which
his friends feel sure he will not fail to
maintain.
The down.state gunners will also turn
out in force to-day and the crack of the
many guns in the war with Spain will
pale into insignifcance when compared
to the booming of the weapons and
whistling OF the deadly missiles of the
many ramrods in the lower counties OF
this State,