New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-31
GOoDLUCK MOOSE HUNTING
FKI;N WOMEN AND BOYS GET BIG GAME
LARGE ANTLERs SECURED.

Bangor. Ne oct IS OSpeciaD.-The moose hunt
ing season in Maine has been a great success mus
far more Of that game having be a killed In the
first two weeks 81 the open TIM, beginning Octo-
far H. than is generally brought down in a month
and tn. sport has developed May interesting
features Including the killing 81 big bulls 10y
women and small boys. Master l. G. A Becker
ir 81 Worcester Mass. is said 20 % the youngest
moose killer on record in Maine, AMI his trophy
4, a good one Master Becker spent last week with
his father DR. r. e. A Becker and Charles NJ.
miller OF New-York, at Louis Ketcham's camps
.u Nahmakarta Lake. and Will there Killed an
s.0-uound moose. with antlers spreading iorF-
seven and one-haIf inches. The boy, who is only
nine wears old and not large for his age also killed
two deer being held in the arms Of the guide
George Ferris. 50 that he could see 10 shoot one
~ them.
An interesting story Of the pluck and skin Of two
women moose hunters comes from Eustis, IN the
Dead River region. from which a patty has just
returned laden down with game The party con-
sisted u Forest r. Thompson, 81 Rondout n y
sumner l.. Patten. Of Lakewood. \. j.; Henry T.
Steele, Of Belmont; Mr.. and Mrs ;. A Clement
- Brownvic: Mr.. and Mrs Charles r. sherman
md Mr. and Ms EDWIN ID. Locke, Of Union, Ne.
On Saturday morning the men OF the party went
out in one direction TO look for moose. while Mrs
sherman and Mrs. Locke started up the dry bed
of a stream iu quest Of game. When the men re-
turned. at o'clock in the afternoon, the women
had NOT reached camp. and at 3 O'Clock. with only
one hour OF daylight remaining. the guide became
nervous and started out in search Of them fol-
lowed by their husbands. Just dark. after miles
81 trampng I'm the woods and the firing OF numer-
Gus signal volleys, the guide came upon the two
women sitting log, while their feet lay the
'arcsss of "a 9o)-pound moose. bearing a magnificent
set Of antlers The women were not lost, having
1pllowed closely the bed OF the stream. hut they
,sould not carry the moose, and determined to
eaVe their prize 10 any stray sportsman who might
some along and claim il, 10 bears. and so they
nv hg1D he
nen rigged carrier, and before bedtime the party
and the big moose carcass were hack in camp.
10Th women had taken q hand I'm the killing Of
che moose, each firing I'VE shots. Of which seven
sook effect. Had explosive bullets been used the
Fuld' said any one OF the seven shots that struck
-ne moose would have dropped him.
Great sport Is reported by the Americans who
have hunted I'm New Brunswick this season. On
-e Tobique River fifteen sportsmen got thirteen
.n,,s, ma Two caribou IN a week. and the guides
'-t mat nttN moose have been killed the To-
This year one Of the heads carrying antlers meas
H'i- S-AJy,-l~o inches another hfty-eight inches
49, ~ IA oAsI Htty inches. lDr FlagE and Nj
,In gTq q d Boston E have Just returned from The
Jfank d. Bennes Of Boston. got moose. a caribou
and bear in The same country.
'"n \ b.. say that they cannot remember sea-
IN when So large a number OF moose heads have
2te4 hioAslt 90 that place az have been brought
N thus Ter this year 10y visiting sportsmen. nor
- tttiE heags brought INTO Fredericton in the
ilrst toui weeks Of this season, eighteen carried
guides say that there are twice as many moose in
Northern New-BrunswiCk there were ten wears
\. T. DcPauN. OF New-AIbany. Ind recently
nfuusht out moose head from the Southwest
MlTainchi that measures siXty-one and One-half
Inches. and has sent il 10 NeN-York 70 be mounted
anQ placed on exhibition. f. ". Tolles OF Manga
TUCK, Conn, killed last week on Rocky Brook
-bruns~lck moose whose antlers spread
SIXTY ana throe-fourths inches with twenty points
on NE rlRht side and fourteen the left the
iafkest 9laag having a width &C seventeen and one
n.t inches m the web. q. d Butler, Of Pittsheld
Mas who accompanied Mr.. Toes, shot a moose
with nttN-seVen-inch antlers H. II Mast Of Nil
toh ONO while hunting the Miramichi last
~ n sH'l ana killed moose at the distance OF
"a Nalqs-one shot from a S5-calibre Winchester