The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
HUNTERS
OPEN THE SEASON
WITH LARGE BAGS
Birds Are More Plentiful Than
at Any Time in Last Fif=
teen Years.
RABBITS ARE REPORTED
RUNNING In BIG DROVES
Poor Condition of Game Starts
Move to Prohibit 0ctO-
Der Shooting.

"Birds are more plentiful than in the
last fifteen years and rabbits travelling
in droves'' are the reports from the
local nimrods who took advantage of
the opening of the game season in the
northern counties yesterday.
At least 500 n left this city for
the first day in the field and few came
back empty-handed. Quail were shot
even on the outskirts of the city and
plenty of English snipe, w%oodcock and
rabbit fell before the guns in l~rvington,
Union and nearby towns.
John Roche and Charles Borroughs,
of this city, We're up Netcong way n
returned with fourteen quail, eleven
rabbits and TWO wood ducks. They say
that there were a dozen Newark hunt
ers in the vicinity and all had game.
city Attorney Francis Child, jr., and
George Carpenter, of the city law de-
partment, went out through Whippany,
and, guided by Philip Feary, who now
runs a hicken farm there, bagged
seventeen quail, eleven rabbits, live
English snipe and two woodcock, n
nearby in the Long Meadow preserve
City Comptroller j. Harry Bachelor
and City Treasurer Albert t. Guenther
were banging away at several large
hocks of black and teal duck. AT sun
rise the air was filled with ducks and
all of the party got their share. In the
Dogs of the meadow there are plenty of
reed birds and they make amey shoot
ing.
Arthur Cain shot through the Verona
valley yesterday and returned with
seven woodcocK from the low lands.
With a little more frost this valley will
be an IDEAL spot for the birds, n Will
ne shot over considerably.
Some of the best news comes from
I'D Swinefeld way and around upper
Livingston there have been many
partridge shot.
For the last ten years the grouse has
been as scare as the prehistoric dodo,
but preserve stocking by private own
ers. as well as a close watch on coun-
try bows, who trapped this king of the
game birds. have given them a chance
to spread. and now there are hundreds
of them on the South Mountain reser-
walton, where fortunately they are safe
from gunners.
John Adams, Walter Brooks and
| william Clover, Of I%rvington, hunted
through that country and came back
with fifteen partridge, three quail SIX
teen rabbits and a wood duck, ana
thew say most Of the farmers are post
ing their land and keeping gunners
off.
Albert KLEIN, of this city, is at Rud-
vile. and shot over the hills yesterday
morning. He got two quail and ten
rabbits in a four-hour' tramp.
At Factory dam on the Passaic
river at Chatham, where there is an
ideal duck ground, several HOOKS OF teal
duck have spent the summer, n yes
terday their numbers were thinned out
by George Zellers and Wilbur Gray, OF
this city, who were invited up there by
George Van SAINT, who has turned
farmer out that way.
At Pine Brook, on the Passaic river
and on the Great Piece and Little Piece
meadows a number of local gunners
took THE EVENING STAR tip and
came home with plenty of game.
Henry Gottschalk, the Pine Brook
boniface, took out a party of Newarkers,
including William Reilly, Frederick
Harrison, John +. Johnston, George
MCGEE and Andy Lester, and nineteen
duck, a few rabbits, ten woodcock and
a solitary quail was the result.
Rabbits Not Fit to XIII.
Practically every hunter who shot
rabbit yesterday declared that they
would not raise a gun on them for an
other month. ALI of the rabbits were
soft and if not eaned Immediately
after being shot the flesh turns green.
There are thousands of young abb
still in the nests and others running
about no bigger than rats, n these
the logs kill or they starve to death
when the parents are shot or driven
away.
In fact the hunters of the northern
counties are seriously thinking of again
banding together to have the season
changed back to November 10, for the
quail are still in the lowlands and can
be slaughtered.
Still, from the result of the first day
the season promises to be the best from
the hunters standpoint in fifteen or
twenty years.
Except on several preserves, there Is
no record of the shooting of English
pheasants.
The following Newarkers will spend
the remainder of the week with dog
and gun:
Henry Koegel, at Peapack; John
Roche, at %Succunna; Joseph Wildeman,
at High Point; George Cleming, at Turf
Meadow, where he has already gotten
a goodly share of duck and woodcock;
! Fred Manners, of West Orange, in Sus-
, sex county; Fred Felger. jr., at Dover;
F. =. Herpers, at Newton; A. S. Knapp,
at New ~Foundland, and Max Blosberg,
in Sussex county.
The EVENING STARS tip for today
is for gunners having several days to
go to Stockholm, in the P~equannock
valley region, and along the niSuntains
outside of the Newark watershed. They
will get partridge and rabbits.
For those having a day, go to Union,
Headleytown and Salem and along the
Hammock. They will get some snipes
and rabbits, and If they fellow the
Hammock creeks, some woodduck. Or
go to the Newark and Elizabeth
meadows and lie on some slanks In the
grass and at twilight they will get some
duck on the wing. p