The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-10-03
DR. KELLY KILLS A MOOSE

DR.. Howard A. Kelly, who makes hi
summer home in Bel Air. has just return
ed from a vacation of several months
and during which he had the good luc
to kill moose with fine horns. He wa
accompanied by Or. J. Walter Park,
prominent physician of Harrisburg, Pa
| The moose was obtained al a lucalit,
near the Tobique river, in New Bruins
wick.
DIR. Kelly, in giving an account of hi
| saws:
DIR Park and left home on Thursday
September IL, to get on the grounds by
Monday. September 10, the first open
day. We went bv way of Nc.v York and
Boston to Perth, n B., and then took Il
small road round to Plaster Rock, where
The next day we went about % miles
into a wilderness into the ncighhcrhood
of some little lakes i'll the moose region.
For the moose shooting we had the new
Winchester rifles, 80 calibcr, just out.
They shoot $50 grains of lead, with an
amount of smokeless powder, which is a
secret to the company. Our camp was
pitched on an elevated plateau i'll the
heart OF New Brunswick, near tributar
OF the Tobique River, surrounded with
spruce, fir, white birch trees and numerous
tarnerics. We were half a mile from Il
lake and a mile and half from a long
channel of water.
'The method of hunting the moose is
interesting. and is done by calling them
in their running season with a brich-bark
horn that makes peculiarly plaintivc
cry that can be heard for several miles i'll
the still cold air. and is replied to by the
bull moose with granting sound. When
the mists are on the lakes the guide, by
padding his birch-bark canoe AS silently
as possibly, dipping the paddle i'll the
water only when the moose has his head
down or under the water, could get within
25 feet of the unsuspecting animal. |
killed my moose ON the morning of Sep
TENDER %. A magnificent bull came to
within about 100 yards of the canoe.
He was on the opposite side of two trees,
and was uncertain as to whether my
first shot struck him, and at the second
shot he disappeared i'll an alder swamp.
The guide was very anxious for me to get
Il moose, for his reputation was ut stake,
more SO than |, because felt ashamed to
kill a large animal for the head when we
had sufficient meat at camp.
"Wllcn we arrived at the swamp, how
ever, we found the moose lying within 30
feet of the place where | had first seen
him. Both balls had struck him i'll the
neck, and either would have been fatal. |
There was a bloodclot i'll the windpipe
about 22 inches i'll length. The horns
measured 40 inches from point to point,
aud while not large were broad, symme-
trical and of fine color. We took the |
horn, hood, hoots and hide, and | am
having them prepared and mounted. DR.. |
Park got a moose with fair horns about |
three days after we reached the moose re-
zion. He shoti from distance of about
200 yards, and five ont of seven bullets
entered the body.
I'VE were allowed by law to kill only
one moose apiece, and the license, costing
$50. entitled us to one moose, one caribou |
and one deer.
THE first part of my vacation l spent
in Canada, ION Amaze Lake and |
The Magnctawan River, east of George
Bay. We did not shoot any rapids, as
they were too steep, and found nothing
to equal the danger of shooting those on
The Susquehanna. l am having a boat
built Is feet in length, with great air
tanks on each side, with which | will
shoot The rapids on the Susquehanna. |
would like to go now, when the water is
nigh, but cannot get away.