Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1901-11-15
GAME IN CITY LIMITS
Sport for Hunters Il to Be Had
Within Chicago's Boundaries.
Miles Of Outlying Territory That A.
forA Feeding Grounds for Docks
AaA RAbbits-DoAGia1 the
policemen.

O"O0-Sas
II can never be claimed that Chicago
offers any great variety OF game
There are elephants, tigers and leop'
ards here to be sure, but the animal
keeper at Lincoln park where these
wild beasts are to be found would
have the person who tried to hunt
them locked up as dangerous lunatic.
But nevertheless sportsmen who
haven't time or money to go out &c
western hunting territory or the game
preserves in Indiana or Michigan
often sally forth in Chicago and man
age to have good sport and not infre'
quently get good bag Of game, says
the Tribune.
Ducks are to be had in the spring
and fall down along the lake shor.
and out in the region OF Lake Calumet
below Pullman. and on the wide ex'
panse of prairie on the southern and
western extensions of the city there
are wild pigeons. partridgex, quail in
season and occasionally a prairie
chicken. Clark's station out in the
vicinity Of One Hundred and Four
teenth street used TO be a famous place
for prairie chicken. bu, they have beer
hunted so much that only occasionally
can one be found there now. The
ducks have also been so mercilcssly
pursued whenever they come near
Chicago that of late years duck hunt
ing has waned as Chicago sport, al
though there are still amy number OF
Chicago hunters who go forth at the
proper season morning after morn
ing and wage war on all the ducks who
are thoughtless enough TO stop over
en- route south or north in Chicago.
The ducks are often lured TO the city
at night by the glare OF the electric
ii, hts, and settle down in the reedy
shores of the Calumet or in the bushes
on the aandy dunes along the lake
When morning comes the patient
hunters who have been waiting half
the night begin their fuxillade, and
happy be the duck that is able to es-
cape. because the hunters OF Chicago
are a. the leaves of the tree, and the
duck who escapes the popping ar'il'
lery at One Hundred and Fourteenth
street and the fuxiiiate Of small arms
at One Hundred and Fifteenth street
and the double company OF uncla~si'
hed troops a, One Hundred and Six.
teenth street will probably fall before
<ke belching rifles at One Hundred and
Seventeenth. And even il he few in
safety 90 One Hundred and Eighteenth
street there are any numbr of more
blocks over which be must fly before
he finally escapes from . city where
the entire population seams banded
together with an oath TO siay him.
It's hard proposition for . bird TO
se3 iato a country where once in many
miles there il a party Of hunters look
,ug for the game. but TO get in hunt
inR' ground whore there are more
than e,oooo.oO Of people to keep full
the ranx..x Of the hunters makes the
unwnry bird that hies into this trap
appear in the light Of suicide.
There are ordinances against hunt
ing within the city limits, but out in
the scattered parts Of the city, where
. policeman has bea< OF four or six
miles TO walk. the hunters are abun-
dainty able to wait until the blue
coated minion Of the law ts well out OF
sight and reasonably certain not to
return again for two or three hours
before beginning their operations.
The certainty Of arrest II caught hunt
ing within the city limits only gives IN
added xest to the sport and makes u
doubly exciting for the hunters. who
are also the hunted and must keep
only one eye open for game while the
other il On the lookout for policemen.
There is always the possibility in
the gray, foggy dawn OF filling some
unwasy mechanic on bis way to the
shop With full charge Of No. bird
shot, but that u . chance. Of course,
that the city pot hunter has to take
along with the other manifest draw
backs to hunting in region exceeding
ly we'll settled and populated.
Rabbits are not lacking in Chicago
and during the winter months they are
hunted relentlessly across the open
prairies down towards Hegewisch and
on the snow-swept truck farms to the
northwest Of the city. Policemen
walking lonely beats on the outskirts
of the city seldom hesitate to pop over
= rabbit with their revolvers II the OPP
postupity is good and there 10 nobody
within eAyxhot.
The Chicago hunter h not much OF
. respecter Of game laws. A man who
disregards the city ordinance in re-
gard to shooting within the city limits
IL not apt to pay much attention to
the state restrictions as to the proper
time for killing game. Besides, he 70
not much afraid of the game wardens
anyhow. Game wardens rely on po-
Ncemen and city statutes to prevent
the indiscriminsts killing of wild
birds that stray into the oity and tuER
their attention to farm land and tor
ests, where hunting Is properly sup
posed to take place. But the Chicago
ROt hunter WHcu nc - Jul WIN B 49,
will shoot at any sort, specie or kind
of wild thing that crosses his path. All
- wsnts is for policeman to be out
OF TIE road. Then he will shoot any
thing from 2 quail to q rhinoceros, II
pue should happen to come his way.
1t is needless to say that the Chicago
municipal huntsman is scorned by the
true sportsman. but just the same he
goes hunting when he can and there 10
NO doubt that he himself II fond OF
his happy hunting ground inside OF
gyeat city, even If policemen are more
'SnaeTops than quail and ruined
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