The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-13
NOW HUNTING BEARS
PRESIDENT AT HIS FAVORITE
SPORT IN MISSISSIPPI.
TROUBLE BREWS FOR BRUlN.
TWO CARLOADS OF HUNTING AP-
PARATUS AND AMMUNITION.

hunting farty ana BcnrS are Shid
10 BE Plentiful In the vicinity.
One of the Best Packs of Hounds
in the state Waiting TO Take Up
the TraiI-President Takes Exer-
else on the Train When stopping
at StntiOns-Greets Citizens Cor
daily.
Pittsburg. Nov. 12.-President Roose-
welt passed through Pittsburg at 10:S0
this morning en- route to a point in
Mississippi where he has arranged to
spend several days hunting black
bear as the guest of President Fish of
the Illinois Central Railroad. He is
travelling on a special train of three
cars and is accompanied by Secretary
Cortelyou and his physician DR.. G.. A.
Lung of the navy. He will go direct
to Memphis without stopping. From
Cincinnati to Louisville the train will
run over the Louisville and Nashville,
and at Louisville it will be shifted to
the tracks of the Illinois Central. The
train will reach Memphis tomorrow
and the President will be Joined by
Mississippi will be made over the
Yazoo and Mississippi Railroad. The
next destination has been kept secret.
Hunting with gallery is not to the
taste of President Roosevelt and IL
was for that reason that he vetoed
the hunt to which Gov. Longino in
vited him. A camp has already been
in,
few miles from the line of the rail-
road and it is understood one of the
best packs of hounds in the South is
waiting to be slipped on the trail of
Old Bruin upon the Presidents ar
rival. Bears are reported to be plenti-
full and there are also said to be some
panthers in the vicinity.
The train will be side-tracked at the
nearest point to the camp and remain
there until the return to Memphis next
Wednesday.
The President was engaged on his
correspondence almost all day to-day.
During the short stop here to change
engines, he got out of his car and
paced UP and down the platform. A
large crowd had gathered. After
greeting them with a pleasant Good
| morning" he stepped off the platform
and took a brisk walk down the
|. ITdChSs SLOpplHS occasionally TO speak
to switchman or an engineer in his
cab on siding. The crowd was
amazed at this display of unconven-
tionality. The secret service men with
the train started to follow him, but he
waved them back The police. however,
took good care to keep the crowd back
of the end of the train. and the Pres
ident had clear field for his walk.
The train left at 1874 for the West,
nd !
heartily.
Vicksburg, Miss, Nov. 1.-Two cars
of hunting apparatus, guns. ammuni-
ton, etc, are now side-tracked at
Smede's Station, awaiting the arrival
of President Roosevelt tomorrow
morning. He will hunt for several days
in the Issaquena swamps.
Bruin, beware!
Cincinnati. Nov 12.-President
Roosevelt is speeding down through
Kentucky tonight on his way to
Smeeds, Miss, about twenty-five miles
north of Vicksburg, for four days
bear hunt The place selected for the
hunt is some miles from the railroad
and is I'm the region which was former
ly the favorite hunting ground of Gen.
Wade Hampton, the famous leader of
the Confederate Black Horse Caval-
ry. Gen. Hampton at one time owned
plantation in this vicinity and hunt
ed black bear in the cane brakes with
horse and hounds. Before the war he
is said to have killed more than fifty
bears in a single season, some of them
with knife. Years ago the President
and Gen. Hampton planned a hunt in
this region, but it was never mase
and when President Stuyvesant Fish
of the Illinois Central proposed the
present trip 1T was gladly assented to.
The President, however, does not an
ticipate the pleasure of killing bear
so much as the pleasure of few days
complete recreation in the woods. He
has had hard and trying summer
and fall and feels that he has earned
a holiday, and that privilege is what
he Is after, whether he can get a bear
or not. To one who has hunted griz-
lilies in the Rockies, black bear are not
very big game. But hunting bear with
horse and hounds will be a new ex-
perience for him. If a bear shall not
be secured, 1t will not be the fault OF
Mr.. Fish He has arranged to have
one of the best packs of hounds I'm the
Mississippi Delta at the camp. On the
arrival of the Presidents train at Mem
phis tomorrow morning he will be
Joined by Mr.. Fish and John NIGEL
benny of Louisiana, who was lieuten-
ant in the Rough Riders" during the
Spanish war. The train will then pro-
coed to Smeeds over the Yazoo and
Mississippi Railroad. It will be held
upon a siding until next Wednesday,
when the President will return 10
Memphis. The trip across Ohio to-
day was pleasant, but uneventful. De-
spite the fact that the itinerary had
not been published in advance, crowds
were waiting at all the stations and
there was plenty Of cheering as the
train swept by. At Trimby, a sman
place west of Denison, the school chill
dren lined up on either side Of a large
American flag and waved their hand
kerchiefs. The President waved
his hat in response to the
demonstration. At other places
he showed himself and at Denison he
made a few remarks to the crowd
The only stop between Denison and
Cincinnati was at Columbus, where a
stop of fifteen minutes was made to
change locomotives. The gallery at
the station overlooking the tracks was
crowded with people. DR.. Washington
GLADDEN. and Gen. Axline greeted the
President as he stepped out OF his
car. After a brief chat with them the
President went forward and shook
hands with the engineer and fireman
who were leaving at the end Of their
run and thanked them for the safe
journey 70 Columbus. After he had
greeted ths crowd that was held out
side the gates he returned 20 the other
end Of the depot, escorted by crowd
and again eaiufed the engineer ana