New-York tribune., 1913-11-02
HIGHLAND SPORT COSTLY
Scottish Moor Season May Run
to $4,000 for Six Weeks.
RENT ALONE ABOUT $4,000
Hire of Dogs $50 Apiece, While
Gillies and Beaters Will
Mean Another $1,000.
tFrom The Tribune Correspondent. ]


London, Oct. @-One Of the most ex-
pensive varieties Of sport nowadays is
shooting at a Highland lodge. II is long
since the grouse and deer season In the
Highlands meant a period OF camping
out and trampng over the moors and
through the forests. In fact, sport now
adays has become about as luxurious an
affair as a ball In town at which royalty
Is among the guests, and II would not
be much more expensive to arrange a six
months big-game hunting expedition in
East Africa than TO plan for two
months hunting season In the Highlands
Considerably less than $1,000 ought to
cover all the costs Of an African big
game expedition. but considerably more
than that sum can easily be spent In
six weeks in Scotland.
TO begin with, there is the rent of the
place. which, for a moderate-sized pre-
serve, including, say, 50o-brace moor ana
forest with a limit of forty stays, VIII
be about 5000. This scale OF rent. how
ever, Is for the more remote districts
The price is good deal higher II the
property is near the main railroad line
or within easy reach OF such centre as
Perth. Inverness or Aberdeen. In that
event 500 or $1,000 must be added for ac-
cessibilIty, particularly II the land lies
between Stirling and Blair Atholl. which
is known as the Park Lane OF the
North. and often the rent has to be paid
In advance.
fermentation Is Expensive.
One must consider. too. the item OF
which for family OF tour
vtth seven servants will amount 10 an
other 500 each way. II, I'm addition 10
railroad and wagon transports, there
should be necessary a voyage oy BOAT
down a loch, with twenty miles or so by
motor 10 finish up with, add another |5Co.
and NJ course. the steamer and motor
TRANSPORTATION will add also 10 the cost
of household supplies.
For these supplies must be brought from
| london. Your true sportsman nowadays
would not think OF living on the produce
of the country, though the kitchen garden
is always one OF the perquisites OF the
tenant. II you are having house party
I'm the Highlands you Will find that your
guests expect to sit down to meals such
as they have in London. with butcher
meat. all kinds of fish and every variety
of seasonable dainties. from sweetoreads
10 stuffed quails. The hostess OF the
Highland shooting must be In constant
with the big London
stores, and the host is constantly dispens-
ing large sums for railway and postage
charges in addition TO the initial cost OF
the Iu.uries themselves.
And after this comes the shooting. Dogs
must be supplied for tho grouse shooting
at the rate OF so head, and as the dogs
must be fresh for every days shooting
and this means time to rest and new ones
10 take the place OF those who have be-
come exhausted by ranging over the
heather, from eight to dozen pointers
and settlers will be required. Cartridges
will amount to another SIS and there VIII
be $50 more for the beater, who must De
conveyed To and fro almost dally oy
motor. so much has the spirit OF luxury
become inculcated In Rob Roy's wild
clansmen.