The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16
Mr.. OCLE JUST BOUGHT FARM
HIS coo ACRES SMELLS TO 10000
AND A GAME PRESERVE.
Castle and DonJon Keep. Moat. Draw.
bridge, Demilunes and Demiyoltes and
Other Truck Gradually Adding Them.
selves to Real Estate Item.

There is at least one English resident OF
the State Of Massachusetts, whose apprecia-
tica OF the American Imagination In one
form Of it's newspaper development is not
measured in terms Of praise. He Is Mr.
Ponsonby Ogle now and for a few years
past of New Marlboro. a town in the hill
country Of the Bay State. some miles from
the madding whirl Of the Runway. When
he is in New York city Mr.. Ugle puts up At
the Savoy, on the line Of the Fifty-ninth
street crosstown railway, which is a part Of
what used to be the staid Belt line. tram.
way fitted even for the bucolc tenor Of the
Berkshire environs.
There is a reason for Mr.. Olges mild and
modulated perturbation. In the first place
his name isn't Jones. Had 1t been, nobody
would have remarked In the newspapers an
announcement that he had purchased $500
acres of land in the town OF Monterey, in
Massachusetts,, or remarking II. would have
remembered it. In the next place the types
had not been content wen with the dis
tinguished name OF Ponsonby, secretary TO
| royalty. but had made him Mr.. ID. Pomsbley
Ogle, cognomen once seen never to be
overlooked or forgotten.
The printed story said that Mr.. Ogle had
bought his thousands Of acres in Monterey as
part Of a plan to build castle there and In the
vast preserve surrounding it to herd deer
and breed elk, moose, buffalo and other
game animals whose value Is increasing with
| their scarcity.
The story said that Mr. OSle was also the
| second largest landowner In Massac husetts,
| ranking next to Mr.. William c. Whitney,
| TO whose October Mountain estate he was
| to be neghbor with his 5,500-acre preserve
in Monterey and about New Marlboro.
Mr.. Ogle said at the Savoy yesterday
| that the story was preposterous invention.
| Friends had seen II and ash ed him about Il
and were ready to enjoy prospective shoot
| ing in the magnificent preserve but while
| the preserve was in their eye, Mr.. Oge
| SAID, it was not in his.
-The publication is not true; II is made
| out of whole CLOTH II Is an invention he
said. 1T is resurrection OF a fake that
once had a fakes life. l believe that
| know the author Of il, a mountain editor
| whose imagination is taller than the heights
| he daily looks upon. In the mirage that
breaks unbidden upon his receptive vision
| he beholds lakes and fields and forests Of
his childhood's environment linked and
bound together in an English preserve
whore game fourishes for an owners
| friends
He has had the vision before. When
| first settled In New Marlboro. three or four
| rejuvenated game community, In his mind 9
eye, and he sent visionary account of It
10 the New York papers. Under the en-
hancement Of an active lines inatien his
vision grew like appetite with what IL fed
upon. From 200 acres the great preserve
grew in a second despatch TO 1000 acres,
and just as | was sailing for Europe one
New York paper to whose interests he had
consecrated his services. was handed me,
and saw that my modest purchase OF a
| home had swelled to 10000 acres.
| Il hadn't the heart to deny that dream,
and before my return TO this country the
poor creature of susceptible sgination
had died and | heard no more about IT,
But now the vision is renewed.
-Now, Twill just tell you this Beyond the
fact that the whole yarn is a fake as before,
l bought originally just q farm, for my
home in this country. Lately bought a
small bit Of zine land because did not want
! the pine trees cut down, That's all.
don't even know how much exactly have
bought. but it's a small matter and in no
way such plot a. the story indicates and
in no sense am making or going TO make
! a game preserve"