Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-20
CALLING THE MOOSE.
Excellent Outlook for Fall Hunting, in
Maine.
Women Hunters This Year Game Supply
lnexhausilble.

Is now crowded with SpOrtSmen, writes
Marguerite Arlina Hamm from Ban
gor TO the New York Post. They are
motley set, and are worthy of the
nencil and brush of the caricaturist.
A few approach the ridiculous in their
desire to be recognized as masters Of
the rod and gun. 1t is fair to say that
men of this class are absolute green
horns and have never put foot in the
great woods of the North. The next
time they come they will be wiser
and MIL attire themselves accordingly.
Two young men got out of Pullman
recently and paraded the station plat
form until the next train left for OH
Town. where the Bangor and ArooH-
took road has its southern terminus.
This precious pair had khaki hunting
coats with innumerable pockets. cor
duroy trousers. and jackboo like
those worn by the cavaliers in the
! days Of Prince Rupert. Each had
couple of gun-cases. fishing case.
creelS. saddles, and two Saratoga
trunks. Imagine the feelings of the
Indian boatmen or the guides when
called upon to put this mountain of
luggage into birch bark canoe, liable
at any moment TO capsZe and spill its
animate and inanimate contents. or
course there were the old-tine hunt
ers and fishers who come up year aft
err year. and are regarded as adopted
citizens by the natives. They dress
quietly in heavy WOODEN suits ana
carry very little outside Of their rifles
and their valises. They will enjoy
themselves thoroughly as long as they
tcta in, no hIt no
other type will be kept on the tenter-
hooks of misery during their trip.
Their projecting pockets will catch
the branches and be torn. their boots
will get water logged and as dry and
hard as sheet iron. their corduroy
trousers will be stained, frayed and
moulded in a few days, their trunks
will be battered and broken. and their
| impedimenta scattered along a hun
| dred trails.
The moose season opens October -
| and closes December I. while the deer
season begins two weeks earlier and
| lasts until New Years eve. giving d
| reasonable period of sport 10 all de-
| sirous of utilizing the opportunity.
| The hunting this year will be better
F., than ever. The forest fires have not
| been extensive in the past year and the
rains have been copious. Both deer and
| moose are as plump as cartridges. and
| so unwieldy that even an amateur
| hunter Will have but little trouble in
securing one or more good shots. Last
year the preponderance Of visitors
went to the Moosehead region. This
| year Square lake and the far north
seems to rival the other districts in
! popularity. So far as game is con-
| ce-ned the two places are on par
| MooSehead has the advantage of easy
| access You step into the train at
| Bangor and you get off at Greenville
| at the foot of that beautiful body Of
water. But Square Lake is far away.
| You run half day by rail far up into
the north to Caribou or Jemptland.
| and thence go by blackboard to the
| lake. which IS the largest Of the series
| known as the Eagle Lakes. AT Moose
| head you run across many camps and
! meet many hunters. At Square Lake
| there are almost no camps except the
| great Cummings settlement, and the
! wilderness IS still unbroken. At Moose
| head you can ship your venison by
| rail almost at the point where you kill
| il 10 your home in any part of the
| country, but at Square Lake you have
the task OF bringing it through the
| wilds to the camps and thence over the
| rough landscape in a blackboard TO the
distant railway station. Moosehead is
for the health-seeker and the man
with but brief vacation. Square Lake
for the athlete and venturous.
| This year witnesses larger number
Of women than ever before. The ris-
| ing generation is a great Improvement
| physically upon its predecessors. There
is nothing SO pleasant as the sight of
the broad shouldered. deep chested.
light stepping young women, who
spring from the cars with the grace
and power of the very deer whom
they are bound to destroy. Many II
| them are capital shots, and can kill a
| partridge with a rifle at a hundred
| yards-no mean feat for an expert
hunter They have already devised an
| artistic hunting garb. which consists
| of heavy wooden OF flannel suit with
| short skirt that can be looped up If
necessary to the knee. High. wide
soled walking boots with leather or
| waterproof cloth spatter-daShes TO
protect the lower extrenlities and A
sensible cloth cap or small hat. give a
jaunty finish to the ensemble.
The supply stores here are doing a
| rushing trade with the faraWay
camps and stations Hunters from the
city bring with them their city habits
| and also the cash necessary to crafty
| them. You can find truffies at Moose
head Lake and olives farcies at Carl
| bou. At Square Lake you can have
| brook trout fresh from the lake or
| stream. and, If necessary. sardines
from France and anchovies from Italy.
| The law of eternal fitness seems TO be
violated by finding French range in
! a log cabin and a hammered brass bed
| stead in a log lean-to. But the city
visitor has TO have them, and in re-
| Spouse to the demand they appear. At
/ the present moment the railroad Off
| Gals say that there are ten thousand
! Of these visitors in the game country.
| and as many more are expected in the
| next fortnight New York sends. il is
| said, the largest contingent; Boston
| and Philadelphia come next, while
| nearly every place Of Importance east
of the Mississippi has a representative.
| OF late years Chicago has come to the
front. many of its professional men