The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
The FUR CLUB HUNT,
Two Days Sport Will
begin Wednesday
Morning.
HUNTERS AND HOUNDS EAGER.
Annual Banquet at the Bay
State House Wednes-
day Night,
HUNTERS AND HOUNDS EAGER.

The most important event of the fall
season in local sports is the hunt of
the Worcester Fur company, which oc-
ours Wednesday and Thursday Of
this week. The Fur company was or
ganized in 1870, and it has numbered
among it's numbers the best shots and
most ardent sportsmen of Worcester.
North grounds, Bond hill district, has
been selected as the ground for the
first days hunting. Foxes have been
reported in plenty in that locality, and
the club believes that it will be one of
the most successful meets ever held.
The start will be made from the Bay
State House at O'clock a. M, and
breakfast will be served at the hotel
at o'clock for those who desire to eat
there. There seems a little doubt as to
the manner of transportation. Accord
ing to the program, barges will take
the hunters and guests to the grounds,
while A. B. F. Kinney says that they
have been talking of ehartering a spe-
cial car, and taking the crowd over to.
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beyond the Cough place, where the
pack will be put in.
There will be probably about rs guns
and so dogs. The hunt will be off at
o'clock. The members of the club wish
1t distinctly understood that after the
dogs are cast off the rules of the club
will be enforced and no shooting will
be allowed except at foxes, and no one
will be permitted to use a rife The
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out OF the hunt, and the careful mother
of a family of boys living within five
miles of the grounds would do well to
lock up her Would-be sportsmen. The
master Of hounds will see that all the
rules are carefully enforced.
With an appetite sharpened by day
in the fields in the bracing October air,
the club will sit down to a banquet
served at the Bay State House at 730
o'clock Wednesday evening 1t Is safe
to say that a keen appetite and merry
Jests will enliyen. the hour, and old sto-
ries of individual prowess in the world
of sport will be brought forth by the
noted shots of the club.
A song has been composed dedicated
TO the Worcester Fur Company; the
words were written by Charles E. H.
higgins, and the music composed by
c. f. Hanson.
During the evening it will be decided
where the next days hunt will be held.
The local sportsmen are laying in big
stock of ammunition and Tuesday
many will spend in cleaning up their
favorite guns
The officers of The fur club are;
President, Hon. John r. Thayer; vice
presidents, Nathan S. Harrington. r
f Fuller; secretary treasurer, c. Ar
thur Hanson; executive committee. A.
B. F. Kinney, E. S. Knowles, w. S. MO
rine; supper committee, C. w. Walls
O. M. Ball. L. F. Herrick; master Of
| hounds, Arthur G. Dodge; transporta-
ton committee, w. r. Dean; invitation
committee, DIR. Charles Il. H. Higgins
G. Arthur Hanson, d. M. Earle: recep-
tion committee, Hon ]. Fl. Walker, 4.
y. F. Kinney, G. w. Roraback, r. S.
Knowles, o. F. Joslyn, Hon Ledyard
Bill, James f. Fuller Allie Perry. Otis
e. Putnam, w. H. Sawyer, DR.. r. r.
Warren, John M. White, M. l.. Taft,
Bradley Nichols c. A, Peterson, r. H.
Blair Hon. S. D. Charles, c. Albert
! Gray, DR.. M. q. Scannell.