New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-01

Mr.. Huntington is appreciatively renem oereo
as the author Of a hook on Our Feathered
Came" published some time ago. The compah-
ion volume which he has now written on INC
American game animals belonging to the oeer'
OK. bear and cat families is equally well storeu
with useful information for the hunter, and IS
even more interesting to the layman. The book
opens with good news for those who have some
solicitude for the preservation Of that wild lire
unon which the prosaic conditions OF modern
economic and social development have been en-
croachfng SO relentlessly for many years.
Times have changed since Mr.. Huntingtons
best hunting days. THE bison is practically
extinct as a wild animal 6here being only a
small herd in the Yellowstone National ParA)'
and the elk and deer have everywhere deserteu
the plains to live in secluded forests and noun
tain Businesses The antelope no longer to
be seen in many places where they were Tor
merly abundant, and the naturalists preolct
that they soon will be externinated Ihls
rather discouraging account of the matter Is
followed however by assurances that great
deal is being done to arrest the destruction OF
our game animals. and that the sportsman need
not for moment lose heart
We are learning to preserve our game. "A
few years ago." says Mr.. Huntington, there
no such thing sporting estate game
park or club in America. To-day many parks
and game refugees have been established both by
the States and the nation. and there are many
clubs where big game animals are kept in parks
There are, too. many large sporting estates
owned by individuals" Thousands Of square
miles are to-day the roaming grounds Of anil
mails that are so excellently protected by gov
eminent or private authorities that, in spite or
the hunter, they are in some places increasing
in number. Mr.. Huntington pays special tribute
-
the Boone and Crockett Club. and the League OF
American sportsmen. He is himself. of course
in full sympathy with the principle they up
hold, that the only true hunters are those who
secure their quarry 'in fair chase" Thus he
has no patience with the sportsman" who waits
on a lake in a canoe for a deer to be driven
into the water so that he may dispatch it with
certainty and ease. Mr.. Huntington does not
mince matters IN characteriZing this form or
"sport"-he calls it murder. He does not con-
slider 1t good craftsmanship. either. to practise
moose calling" but he is less severely critical
of that indulgence and gives a good deal OF
space in one Of his longest chapters to stories
illustrating the subject
Hunters differ as to whether or not the bull
moose, beguiled by the sounds emitted from q
birchbark horn. draws near TO the manipulation
of the latter in the belief that he is approach
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is entirely unreasonable. and that the bull is
not half so stupid as to be really deceived. He
is simply attracted by the unusual sound. and.
being extremely curious endeavors to locate the
meaning OF this strange thing in his home"
On the other hand. Sir. Caspar Whitney asserts
that there is convincing evidence that the
bull is deceived into believing the horn to be the
call Of the cow" and Mr.. Huntington inclines to
agree with him. Speaking Of the moose. the
author admits that the beast is huge. ungainly.
and in most Of his movements awkward. with
a head more hideous than that OF mule" ne
adds "a neck short that it cannot reach the
ground legs Of immense length. and huge horns,
shaped like coal shovels, It is as far as possible
from being graceful or attractive" But to see
the moose with 1.-The hunters eye" when II Is
crashing through the forest is to acknowledge
that "if not graceful, 1t is at least grand ami
NAL" and the exciting sport it can give the
hunter. for all it's ungainliness in movement. is
illustrated by story told to Mr.. Charles ia
cobus by a guide who had beer charged by a.
wounded moose:
The guide referred to was returning one day
rapidly over little rise Of ground he suddenly
the forest. A shot from his gun which was load
ed with heavy buckshot brought the moose
f his Rant aeo kHf the guide spFa9g
cut the animals throat, when, prestol like dash
entity T i9'I revived the moose. who erted back his
head and in a moment II that immense cor
porosity had been filed with powerful springs Of
steel reganed his feet. Pete Jumped suddenly
bToaeht BY this UNIQUE Introduction face to face
snort followed as blast sVi9e 0et9k eda
for nc the hs sng weqe s
guide had, more quickly than ever before, gained
a perpendicular position. Reader, did you ever
Se war r horses Of the Orient the excited
VI fable cannot surpass his really terrible look
ing up in frightened way along that immense
n5otS horns above those eyebalis Of mc ST spitefu
fury and making mighty lunges straight for you!
How would you conport yourself as the French
'P;ete himself had never taken. moose in this
Pete sprang to one side as the moose charged
him and cut the strars holding his bundle OF furs
he for tree. with the moose close behind
him.
Here the moose charged the guido again ard
again. but, as the story runs OF course. the slde
the moose was compelled to turn around to renew
toward evening the guide made run for an
other tree. where he secured stout shoot To the
bs 81 spea after Several thrusts he reached the
neck of the moose and killed It,
Mr. Huntington never hesitates to introduce
yarn of this sort in order to lend vivacity and
picturesqueness TO his pages. He is careful in
recording the fruits Of observation, and through
out keeps close to facts but he believes in max
ing his book not only instructive but readable.
and he has his reward Our Big Game will be
read by sportsmen. and by those who have never
seen Wild animal prancing on its native heath
and have never held rife. 1t is illustrated, by
the way with good halftones from photographs
pictures supplying concrete testimony TO the
fact that there is camp to-day without its
camera
F. Hugh oDonnell. himself an 1sish poet. is
I'M ~, and out In hnnklet against the