New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-30
BACK WITH 70 RATT[ERS
Schaghticoke Club Makes Its
Annual Hike for Snakes.
ONE MEMBER is BITTEN
Mighty Bridgeport Hunters IN
wade the Kent Hills and
Romp with Reptiles.
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Icy Telegraph to Inc Tribune.
Bridgeport. Conn, May EARNED with
forked sticks, a party Of forty rattlesnake
hunters invaded the Kent Hills, in North
ern Connecticut, to-day, and before sun
set had captured a bag of twenty squirn-
ing ratt1esnakes. One of the hunters was
bitten. but escaped serious consequences
by prompt and heroic treatment.
To-day's hunt was the annual snake
drive Of the Schaghticoke Rattesnake
Club, of Bridgeport, and took place on the
Scha ghticoke Indian Reservation, at South
Kent, Conn. From the number of reptiles
captured it was one OF the most successful
affairs in the history of the club, largely
owning to the fact that weather conditions
for rattlesnake hunting were ideal
The club members left Bridgeport on q
special car at $50 o'clock this morning. and
at South Kent We're conveyed by stage to
the Indian reservation, the scene of the
hunt
A few months ago Chief Jim Pan Harris,
the last full blooded Schaghticoke Indian
on the reservation, passed away, and the
club members to-day on their arrival at
the reservation marched III body to the
Indian burying ground and paid solemn
tribute to the memory of the departed
hunter. A wreath bearing the WORD
Chief was laid at the head of his grave,
and one of the club members read an
eulogy of the dead brave, who was liter
ally the last of the Mohicans, the Schaghti-
cokes being a branch of lle Mohican tribe
While handling one of the biggest snakes
A. V. Barber, of Bridgeport, a newspaper
artist who was acting as curator, became
momentarily careless, and the snake made
a lightninglike thrust and buried its fanss
in the heshy part of BARRIERS right hand.
The artist coolly whipped out his knife, cut
open the wound and sucked cut the venom.
DR.. Herman Schulz, of Bridgeport, the club
physician, injected an antidote into The
hand and Barber experienced only a tenn
porary swelling.
After that the club members sat down to
an excellent sheep roast and then returned
to Bridgeport with the squirming game.
which indicated its anger at these untow-
ard proceedings by a steady buzz of rattles-
The clubs official notice to its members
rallying them for the big hunt read as fol-
lows:
The call of the wild permeates our anat-
omy; the tree toads and pollyWogS are MT
ting upper CO in their nightly chirps. ana
our seventh annual hike to the habitat or
the aborigines is on the tapis for Sunday,
May %, 1910.
A reptiIian message from Chief Tickle
the Wasp informs US that rattlesnakes are
now ripe and fit for plucking.
Our vestibuled train makes its escape
from this port at $50 a. m. on Sunday,
May %, 1910 We dawn on the bucolics OF
South Kent ION the Berkshire division OF
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
RaiIroad) at 1907 a. m. where we will be
met by sufficient number of hearses'
stone boats and hay rigs to watt us to the
picnic spot four miles away, near the New
| York State boundary, through most
charming, historic and picturesque country.
We leave South Kent at 5:02 p. M, arriving
| In Bridgeport at 6:43 p. m.
| Snake hunters under the competent guild
ance of cicerones are requested TO wear
| boots or leggings, as the liability 10 JoiI!
| 'the majority is ever present. We VIII
be introduced TO Mr.. Grub at O'Clock
sharp
The snakes Will be put on exhibition at
Bridgeport for a while, and then some OF
the best specimens will be sent to Bropx
Park, New York.