The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-26
Mr.. BROOKFIELUS RATTLES.
Trophies Of q Memorable Trip Win Senator
Platt and Col. Jones.

William Brookfield, the more or less indie
pendent Republican leader In this city.
has among his personal belongings a fine
set Of ra,tles that once adorned the tail OF
q big yellow rattlesnake OF the variety
indigenous TO the Pine Creek region Of
northern Pennsylvania. The rattles were
presented TO him. This circumstances
attending the presentation make the oc-
casion a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS n TO
him, and IL il likewise OF vivid memory
to Senator Thomas G. Platt.
The donor of the rattles was Col. j Z.
Jones, now director Of the New York
Aquarium. The three men were on a trip
through tho Pine Creek country in con-
nection with a railroad in which they were
Interested.
That part Of the region abuts on the
southern border Of Steuben county, of which
Col. Jones IL a native. and he, being familiar
with all its traditions. products and
CHARACTERISTICS. was enlightening his COM
panions on everything they ought to know
about II az they drove along.
He told them how Ole Bull, the violinist,
had come down into the wilderness many
years before and essayed to make II blossom
as the rose through the efforts OF a colony
of his countrymen. and how he was over
whclmed with ruin when his scheme failed.
He told them Of the great pine and hom-
lock forests hat stretched away In almost
unbroken line clear beyond the Allegheny
waters; and Of the bears that lurked therein.
and came down on the settlements now
and then and stole pigs; Of the bounding
deers that roemed the dimlit forest aisles
and dist ributed buckfever among hunts
men: Of the multitudinous trout, be~spangled
and lusty. that lay In wait beneath the
ripples and foam-hecks OF the svift-rushing
and crystal mountain streams for the
WEIGHING worm or delusive fly Of the angler.
Re old them lots OF things. and then.
when they were on the road between the
numbering n tanning village OF Gaines
ami Galcton he bethought him Of Huckle-
berry Hill, almost in the shadow Of which
lies Galcton. lie told them how Huckle-
berry Hill. an elevated barren with a Nat
summit miles In extent, grew nothing upon
IL but huckleberries. how IL WA the only
only spot for forty miles arotnd where
huckleberries grew, how people went
there from all over. during the buckle
berry season. and camped there, hundreds
al a time. Ia pick the berries. and how
the berryp!ckeis had to keep an ever
watchful eye out for ra,tlesnakes, which
lived on Huckleberry Hill in uncommon
and aggressive numbers. and stood ever
ready 10 pick N the beTrypickerr.
"Ah!- exclaimed Col Jones, stopping the
horee Here L. one now bound Tor Huck-
leberry Hill. no doubt. and resting 10y the
way And he IL a beauty
Nv the roadside, it, mottle1 gold and
brown skin glistening IN the sun, lay
az fine a sIs-cimen II he Pine Creek cuun-
try rather az ever p~ddled poiron. II wa the
time ~ year when Tattle-nGke- are muet
deadly and pugnacious The fellows eye@
blaz~i like live Goals. and % showed that
IL wa ready a. resent any Intrusion upon
ts ss-ta
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get him for you
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