The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-23
WHERE BRYAN is HUNTING.
Game Preserve of the st. Louis
Hunting Club a Sportman's Para
disc.
From the New York Sun.


From the New York Sun.
Joplin. Mo, Nov. 19--Taney county, Mis-
souri,, where William Jennings Bryan is
now enjoying hunt with party of con
genial spirits contains the widest and
most picturesque portion of the Ozark up
lift Here are found the highest of the
bald knobs, the deepest of the gulches, the
lovelest of the valleys and the widest ex-
panses of rolling plain, while the White
river and it's continent, the James, pre-
sent in this charmed region their most ro-
mantle and majestic features. fancy
county can boast no railroad, and tc
reach its county seat a stage ride of TWEEN
ty-ive miles is necessary. This road
passes over the widest and dreariest por-
ton of the county, but in the autumn
when the woods are brilliant with all the
colors of the rainbow and the breeZes are
balmy the ride is anything but uninterest-
ing. From Chadwick, the terminus of a
branch of the Frisco road. to Forsyth,
the county seat, the settlements are sparse
and far between, but the towns, though
small, are not wanting In the comforts of
life.
About eight miles south of Forsyth lies
the game preserve and clubhouse of the
St Louis Hunting Club. The preserve is
5000 acres in extent and enclosed by a
barbed wire fence seventeen strands high.
1t IS located on the flgH DdHk VI the
White river and the club house is situated
directly on the river in order to furnish
an anchorage for the steam launch and the
several fishing and pleasure boats which
the owners keep always ready for service.
A keepers lodge is near the club house
and the preserve is constantly patrolied
to keep out poachers. The preserve is
owned by Coll Moses p. Wetmore the mil
lionaire tobacco manufacturer of st. Louis,
and Col. George H. Mccain, tobacco
iobber of Springfield, Mo. The club house
is an attractive place 1t sits high on the
bank of the river to which a stairway cut
in the rocks leads.
The building is a roomy structure win
broad shady verandas 1t cost $4,000 and
contains an The conveniences that may
be had so far from the haunts of men and
the advantages of a city The house con-
tains several sleeping apartments, dn-
ing room kitchen, sitting room, parlor
storeroom bath rooms, etc. Ii is comfort
ably furnished throughout. In the sitting
room, parlor and dining room there are
great fireplaces, and grand piano and
billiard table add TO the pleasure IF the
guests. The owners maintain their own
cold storage plant al the club house and
the wine cellar is always stocked with
bottled goods of the Oldest vintage and
best brew.
The game preserve is one of the best
stocked in the country. There are several
hundred deer of various kinds, three herds
of elk. bear, thousands of wild turkey.
and countless quail, wocdcock reed birds.
pheasant and many "possum," while the
streams are stocked with trout and the
river Is alive with the sportive basS 1t
IS in this sportsman's paradise that Mr..
Bryan and his friends are just now enjoy
ing themselves. Mr.. Bryan is first-rate
shot. and the first day out he baSEed
n tt1rl
there are several ladies' in the party, and
some of them are also good shots They
do not attempt to bag the large game.
A 'possum hunt at night is enc of The ex-
citing and fascinating features OF the an
nual hunt at the preserve. and 70 those
who have never INDUCED in such sport II
is a rare lark Following the dogs through
tangled underbrush, over fallen trees, up
hill and down dale, is an experience that
is not soon forgotten either by those who
do the hunting, the dogs, or the fat pos
sum that furnishes the excitement.