The age-herald., 1898-03-20
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND,S BIRTHDAY GIFT

Running through New Jersey there are numerous streams which make the ground Very valuable for hunting purposes Tor the game can rgp wild Yith9Vt lack of food or water. It is a Well-k1qwn fact that any piece of land can be stocked for d game preserve so long as there is run ming water. But drain the land and turn the streams aside and you cannot keep the animals in prison. They will follow the line of water wherever 1t goes.
 This fact was speedily ascertained by George Gould when working upon his game preserve. There were too many streams to suit him, and he drained several or turn ed them aside. He soon found that the land which he had drained was worthless for hunting purposes, and that unless he restored the natural course of the water he would be limited to very small hunt ing ground.
 The plan of the Cleveland Syndicate is to fence in the thousand acres with wire fence which shall mark the boundary Of the preserve There will be lodges built at frequent stations to prevent trespasses.
 The preserve will be stocked with quail, pheasants and rabbits. And they will em- ploy gamekeepers to prevent poaching. In the centre there will be clubhouse for members.
 It Is proposed to conduct the preserve on the cooperative plan The grounds and buildings, which will cost about s20,090, will be maintained by subscriptions. Only the members of the club and their friends will be allowed in, and they can live for months at a time at the clubhouse by paying specified dues, just as in town club.
 There are several of these great game preserves in this country although Mir. Cleveland Is the first statesman to Indulge in a personal one. In England His Royal Highness, who Is excellent shot, pro- vides shooting for his friends at his San- dringham house. Over 10000 pheasants are reared there, partly by incubators and partly by hens. The game-room is the largest in the world, holding 5000 or 1000 head. These are released in the woods, and there is excellent shooting for His Royal Highness.
 In Aiken, S. C., William c. Whitney has a very big game preserve, and In Lenox, Mass, he has a magnificent woods stocked with animals big and little where ne ln- dulges in autumn shooting.
 Neither of these, however, approaches the New Jersey farm which MT. Cleveland gave himself for a birthday gift Nothing even George Gould's Furlough Lodge equals it in accessibility to civilization.
 MT. Gould's Catskill preserve Is proba. b,v tbe finest in the world in point of game Like MT. Cleveland, he is fond or small sport rather than of stalking deer and such big game. During the season Ioo young pheasants are let out al uusk on .he George Gould preserve, anu at ediiy u"" u MT. Gould and his friends start out TOT the forest. The birds by this time nave commenced to feed upon the buds or the trees. Others are on the ground. TOT three hours there is excellent wlng shoo.- ing. o,,
 This Catskill tract contains JUL acres and is inclosed with barb-wire renee twelve feet high, or eighteen wires deep. The superintendent, with supply or men, is employed to watch and take care or the game. ..,.,o,s . One of the most interesting inventions at MT. Cleveland's preserve will be the rap bit warren. This will be very similar to George Gould's rabbit warren. Three iohs narrow tents will protect the rabbits rom the weather Each hutch is 1O0 rect long bv 4 feet square. The back and sioes are nrotected by strong wood and eacn rapnlt has his room and sleeping place. AS soon as the rabbits are grown they are releaseo to become wild.
 It is proposed to keep the Jersey pre- serve owned by the Cleveland syndicate as large as possible and as wild. NO game will be shot unless by the huntsmen Wno own it. The keeper will not be aliaWeo to send game to market.
 Spring and fall the syndicate Will shoot there and at other times the preserve Will lie still, hidden in the very heart Of tho thickly populated wood, unused, waiting for its distinguished head owner to visit II.