The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-03-04
LIONS FATT|NG FOR
AIM Of ROOSEVELT
Where President Will Hunt,
These Beasts Have Not Been
Molested for 10 Months
ESTATE WITH YANKEE HOUSE
Mr.. Mcmillan, In Whose JungIes Mr..
Roosevelt VIII Shoot Big Game,
Has Everything In Readiness for
His Distinguished Guest.

London.-W Williar Northrup McMil-
Ian, nephew of the late Senator Nc
MILAN, OF Michigan, and his wife
have sailed from Marseilles for India
to visit the Maharajah of Cooch Be-
har at his earnest invitation. Messrs.
Bullpet and Shaw and six other Amer
icanns, all frienus of the McMillans,
are in the party. Their fellow-pas-
sengers were the Princess Royal and
the Duke of Fife and their two daugh-
ters; Sir Henry anu Lady Tichborne,
and Lady Lansdowne and her brother,
Lord Frederick Hamilton. The Itch
bornes are great travellers and init
mate friends Of the McMillans.
After the visit Mr.. Mcmillan will
hasten to South Africa. He has in
vited President Roosevelt to hunt big
game on his vast estate near Nairobi,
and as host he wants to be certain
that everything Is ready to receive
Mr.. Roosevelt and his son. Mr.. Nc
MILAN, himself mighty hunter, will
nor shoot with his guests, will not
join them or even receive them.
Certainly the Roosevets will suffer
no handicap while they remain on
the estate, which is to be given over
to them. 1t is called the Juja Farm
because it lies between the Ju River
and the ia River. The chief bungalow
is the most comfortable residence
imaginable, with two stories and
veranda. 1t was made in America at
the order of Mr.. Mcmillan, who for
merly lived IN st. Louis, transported
in sections and set up under his eye.
1t is well furnished with American
furniture.
And Mr.. Mcmillan has taken pains
to provide fine sport for his guests.
In effect the game has been pre-
served; the shooting has not been dis
turbed for ten Months.
There are six lions sdens on the Nc
MILAN tract. The lions have not been
fattened by feeding them, but they
have been left to live TRANQUILITY, SO
that they may be there in good condi-
tion for the Roosevelts to shoot.
The McMillans are very wealthy.
Their Devonshire seat, Tout Saint, at
Buckland, Kingsbridge. is superb. The
place was originally a convent, and
is walled estate, with quaint gar
dens, orchards, meadows and pasture
lands. The interior of the house is
palatial. 1t was furnished by French
artists, the walls and ceilings being
panelled and moulded by the best
workers Paris could supply.
Their London residence, No. II
Hill street, is even finer. A museum
occupies the centre of the house and
the trophies of the chase it contains
would delight Mr. Roosevelt.
A ballroom was demolished to make
room for the museum. The first thing
that confronts one in the entrance
hall is stuffed lion, the first one
killed in British East Africa after Mr..
Mcmillan took over the estates there.
This beast fell to the gun OF Mrs. Nc
MILAN. vase array of heads and
antlers cover the walls-a collection
much finer than that of the Duke of
Orleans at Evesham-although Mr..
Mcmillan has no polar bears, while
there are ten ct Evesham. The Nc.
MILAN mansion contains giraffes, rhi-
nos, hippos, buffaloes. oryx. hartbeest,
wapiti. gazelles. warthogs and two
wild elephants. Hundreds of tusks
line the walls and cases. Oval mir
rors, some nine feet high. are framed
with tusks, representing fortune in
African ivory.
Mrs. Mcmillan was the first wom-
an to cross Abyssinia at the head of
her own caravan. She was guest of
the Negus. An autaoress and devoted
to sport. she cares nothing for society.