The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-19
ROOSEVELT DIDN'T GET A BEAR
PRESIDENT BREAkS CAMP WITH
OFT 4 HUNTING TROPHY.
Leads the Outnt a Chase Back 10 His Train
and Says lie Had n Fine OutinG-Is
Going Down 10 Smedcs Again TO Go
Hunting Alone With Ills Negro Guide.

GOing Down TO Smedcs Again TO Ga
Hunting Alone win Ills Negro Guide.
SMEDEs. Miss. Nov Is-Camp Roosevelt
on the Little Sunaower is an unsightly
litter of waste paper. smoking beds Of ashes
and Uttered hay and camp debris. IL was
abandoned with the footing Of horns AMI
the bayng of the bear hound pack az 3
O'Clock this afternoon.
In one way. and in one way only, the ex-
cur-ion has been a disappp ntmaat. Tha
President did not kill bear The other
members Of the pirty Did not kill any
either. ex ,cpi Ar. da1gum's assistant, Mr..
MioDo gal. who slew one. W hich ia now
In the i'abox of ia" Presidents car to be
taken back to Washington. The dogs had
all the honors of the bear killing.
In every other respect the camp has been
a source Of g. a. pleasure to MIR. Roosevelt
and his hosts. He came away from the
camp running over with warm appreciation
Of the Kindness and simplicity of his enter
tainment here. He feels that he has seldom
spent five DAYS more prottably than these
which he has passed on the edge of the
wilderness near the Little Sunhower.
Not MY has Ia" President been greatly
benefited physically by the hard riding
and the open-lir living Of the camp but he
feels that he has come nearer 10 an under
standing of the Southern point of view Of
many delicate subjects than he could have
gotten 10y thousand talks in the White
House. He has been quite charmed with
the personality Of the Southern planters
and business men who have been his mess
mates John VI. Parker Of New Orleans and
Major Helm and Leroy Percy Of Green
ville and Hugh l.. Foote Of Lake WASH
ington
There has been an entire absence of any
political trend The men with him are
all dycd-in I he-wool Democrats. whose
political traditions and tendencies are
Numerically opposed TO the President :
This has been a sociahle camp, and Demo-
cratic camp, III the sense that those present
have regarded tho President of the United
States Ar a sportsman and a person above
and beyond politics A. a bear hunt, the
expedition would have been far more sue
ceesful had there not been So much anxiety
to have the principal CUES, kill a bear
Instead of three bears there would un-
doubtedly have been ten killed had each
bear Chased met his death the first time
anv member of the party had "A fair Shot
at him. But the hunters were constantly
shouting to one another:
Don't shoot. The President may get
a chance at him"
The President knows this. and he had a
conference with Holt Collier the negro
guide, this afternoon in which he said that
soinr day in the future he meait to come
down into the lazoo Delta and hunt bears
with Holt with a full allowance Of time
so that he could let luck even itself up"
when that hunt CONES. Mr.. Roosevelt
says that he means TO go out with Holt
and stick To him. without help and with
out companions. until he gets a bear the
way any hunter would.
The ride in from camp tonight was ex-
hllarating. Tn" President set the pace
and a. the whole party had been pretty we'll
hardened during the past week they tried
TO keep up with him. The Pr, sidcnt led
the caValcade into Smedes through cotton
fields with dash ana spirit hat set the great
gajhcri g of negroes who had come in To
got a glimpse OF him yelling IA though they
were al campmc"ting. The whole gro
tesquc crowd came up TO the end of his car
and waited there, with their mules, good
shake down vehicles tethered in a great
ring in the fields around about. until the
President had changed his clothes. Then
the, President cam" out and said good
night and Good-hy To them and they went
away cheering themselves hoarse
The aged and decrepit hound Remus
i was decreed, when the camp was estab-
banks of the Little Sunilowor. All was so
arranged, but Mr.. Parker met the negro.
who. with a silver dollar in one hand and
leading rope in IN" other. was taking Remus
to tn" place of execution and the old dog
looked up out of his sad eyes and wagged
his soraEgy tail. Mr. Parker'S heart was
touched and h" ordered the dog turned
loose Tonight a, the pack came trooping
back to town behind Hol, Collier and the
Dorsey boys, the old hound lmped slowly
behind.
Besides the bear, the Presidential ice
box contains a deer killed This afternoon
by Mr.. foote. All the members of the
camping parry are the guests tonight OF
Pre-, id"nt Stuyv, SAINT Fish Of the Illinois
Central Railroad on his car Some Of the
President hosts, including MIR Fish and
Judge j. VI. Dickinson of tho Illinois Gem
trial, vi go as far as Memphis with him
when the train moves out tonight MIR
NcIlhcnny and some Of the others will go
South.
New ORLEANS. La, Nov is-Thc bears
in Sharkey county. Mississippi are re-
ported more abundant this wear than
over before. Reports from the farmers
In the upper portion If jackson county
are 70 IN" effect that the bears there re-
- numerous ana aggressive as To cause a
great deal Of da image, killing hogs and
Young cattle Al Jackson Crock sixteen
miles north Of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, they are slaughtcrinC tn. sheep
A. tn" bears make their raids at night
and return 10 tn" Swamps in the day