The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-12-16
K1LLED 4 MONROE COUNTY Elk.
H. Was In n Game Preserve-oId-Time Elk
Hunting There.

rs Was In n Game Preserve-Old-Time ELI
Hunting There.
PORT JERvIs. Dec. 10.-The re sent killing OF
a big elk, weighing $50 pounds. In the Tilenius
preserve. Pocono Mountains. Monroe county,
Pa. by a party OF Pennsylvania and New York
hunters. recalls the time when this rare animal
afforded good sport to the hunters of this
region. The party Of hunters above referred to
consisted of Park Commissioner George Claus
sen and Prof. Tilenius of New York city. Peter
Ziegler. Victor Koch. l.. B.. Huntington and
Emil Schimpn OF Scranton. Pa, and Ex-Sherif
Robinson OF Lackawanna county. The elk was
brought down by Mr.. Robinson.
One hundred years ago the forests OF Pike.
Wayne and Monroe counties in Pennsylvania
and Sullivan county in New York State fairly
swarmed with bear. deer and wild turkey. and
ok and even moose were quite numerous. For
the past seventy years the killing OF an elk in
this region has been exceedingly rare. The
Stantons were great hunters in those days and
shot a number OF elk. The late Nathan Stan.
ton. whose father was one Of the first settlers
OF Liberty. Sullivan county remembered very
distinctly an elk hunt in 1799. when he was
a hoy seven years old. when his father and
Robert Mofatt and Capt. Ichabod Benton
ran down with dogs a large elk near
Broihead's Pond. 1t ran with the feetness
OF the. wind, plunged in the pond. the hunters
HuISulIiS IL III u uuIOuI, anu tnpy succeeded in
capturing i before it reached the opposite
shore. Asa Stanton OF Waymatt. Wayne county.
Pa, said his father had seen twenty or more
elk at one, time standing in Elk Pond, in that
county. IT. was the pride and glory of the
hunter to kill them. and because Of the swift
ness of movement by the animals and their
lighting qualities when confronted at close
quarters the sport was very exciting.
Samuel. Stanton. who settled in the Wayne
county wilderness al Mount Pleasant In 1852,
and, bought and contracted for 900 acres OF
land. with his family passed one winter alone
in that desolate region. and was saved from
starvation by the visit of a man named Church.
who, passing through that region, killed an
elk. which he gave to the stanton family. who
were shut in by tho great depth OF snow in the
and later wrote some lines to his friend. Judge
Preston OF Scranton. descriptive OF his manner
OF living, under the caption. "The Golden Age
Of Mount Pleasant" which refers to the game
OF that regiOn.
Do We want wild meat ? then we kill
Elk, deer or bear and eat our I'LL.
Sometimes e'vo fowl and sometimes hah.
Bat rarely meet an empty dish.
The elk OF. the Blue Mountains was n noble
animal. considerably larger than the common
doe. which. IL very much resembled. and at
tanned the height of five feet ut the age OF twelve
and SPREADING. Charles Stanton killed an Elk
in Cahaan. Wayne county, the antiers Of which
weighed twenty-five pounds and their length
when spread out was each four feet. These
horns are still owned by tho, Stanton family.
John Hall; a noted moose hunter, OF the town
OF Neversink, sullivan county. once saw twenty
OF these animals together at Round Pond. The
only moose or elk now In Sullivan county is in
Chapin's Park. In the town of cumberland.
One of Chapin's bull mooses recently tossed
with it's ,%antlers a hunter. who had wandered in
the park. over a fence twenty feet high. He
escaped with a broken rib.