New-York tribune., 1905-12-17
WOMEN As GUIDES,
Three Successful Daughters of the
Maine Woods.

with the advent of the woman Of leisure into the
AnInting field new profession has been opeIeu up
70 the woman who has to earn her own living
HEo-nen hunters want women guides even when
xhere are men IN the party. and there is no" q
great demand for such services IN the WOODS ol
Nsine although up TO the present time only three
women have registered for the work. They are N
constant demand and get good pay. with the add
non Of occasional handsome presents from their
wealthy patrons.
Nh. guides business is to put his or patrons
nn the track of game FISH. and to see that the
game laws are observed. She finds the hunting
grounds or fishing waters. prepares the camp.
makes the fires. does the cooking ana relieves the
hunters OF all drudgery- She must also see .hat
she campfres do not ignite the surrounding tnloeF'
and must make an annual report TO the Game Com
missioner
There are hundreds of women. it IS said in the
bacllroods Of Maine who are quahhed for such
work and as the annual influx Of women hunters
increases many of them sure 10 find their way
into This field These women reared IN the woods.
know every lake and stream and every forest PAIN
and WOODLAND treil and. and have grown up WIN ii'ie
The first woman to register as guide IN MaIns ;It
Miss Cornea T. Crosby OF Phlhps rIaIlhlaE sn
as q hunter and guide. and was known TO sports PTS
men all the country She had Tor years @ coh De
eeyhibition In Boston and New-York. as well as in
the cities Of Maine her log cabin and her ex1en- n
give hshing and shooting outht were ls@nl@4
From her earliest years Miss Crosby has been ma
f1.tpf angler In oAldhoOo she WLlppSo IAo
trout pools of Franklin County with SUCCESS
that excited the envy OF city anglers with cosby
tackle and later she won at the RangeIeys t aLo
elsewhere such success with the square tailed
end the big IaIldlocked salmon as TO arouse tne
aduiration of men who thought they knew the
whole book of fishing ,-.uad
a caribou in Maine, and the deer she has killed
may be numbered by the hundreos- i+o-+,,ra
few years ago Miss Crosby had the Ilislo! '1iie ~
10 sustain a serious injury to her knee ana nas
since been Obliged abandon the life OF the Wooos
T3ut she stii writes ner fa1orite sub9ect ano
her home under the shadow OF Mount Blue, hiteo
sri+h the spoils of the cnase. IS rendezvous Tor
the hundreds of spoTtsmen whom she mas guloed
through the Maine woods or inet at sporlsheI
Ms 7 s Freese of Riverton Argyle. hunts and
guides the love Of 1t, for her husband s lI
<omfortabe circumstances and she Is not oohgeq
70 earn her own living. Last winter she TRACKED
r hear TO his lair in a hollow tree. and, having
shot him she tanned his skin and had 1t made into
n handsome set of furs, which she now wears Win
great pride .., -
dfixg that moves the earth beneath or tne
feeyens above or the waters under the earln. ana
she can paddle a canoe like an Indian. she mas q
most Interesting hunting lodge furnlshed with
bandmade furniture and ornamented with deer
antisrs moose horns. birds wings. rabbits paws
and all the odd things that can be Ionnd IN the
Miss Ethel Harlow. of Dead River, is another
woman who has taken to the woods Tor the love
of II Miss Harlow adept in woodcra1t
before she was out short skirts ana was IN lne
Ssahit OF spending much of her time in the WOODS
roortunties for doing Il matter OF business.
As soon as the registered guide system was IhtI
dreed she applied for license, and mas since h@o
si she could do during the hunting season