The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-12-24
HAD NO STATE LICENSE
WEALTHY HUNTERS SPORT IN
GEORGETOWN COUNTRY.
State Game Warden Gets In Behind
Them, but They Take Special Train
Out Of the State.

Isaac e. Emerson, the "Bromo
Seltzer King, who owns a hunting
preserve in Georgetown county, took
his party OF wealthy northerners out
Of the State on a special train Sun
dap afternoon when Chief Game War
den A. A. Richardson got in behind
them for hunting without licenses,
according to information given out
Tuesday by Mr.. Richardson, who had
just returned to Columbia from
Georgetown, where he said one Of the
party, George W. Ewing, Of Balti-
more, Nd, was dismissed on a tech
nicality at hearing before magis-
trate for hunting in the State with
out a license.
. According to a statement from
Chief Game Warden Richardson, he
sent his assistant, Mr.. Funderburk, to
Georgetown county to look over the
situation when he felt that there
were not as many nonresident hunt
ing licenses being reported from that
county as he was certain there should
be. Deputy Funderburk reached
Georgetown on Thursday and found
he states, that Millionaire Emerson
was entertaining party Of wealthy
tourists, none Of whom had licenses
as far as he could ascertain.
Deputy Funderburk went out to
Arcadia, the magnificent country
estate Of Millionaire Emerson, which
is located on Waccamaw Neck five
miles from Georgetown. When he
reached there he found Mr.. Emerson
and his guests just returning from
hunt and he ascertained that the fol-
lowing made up. the party:
George W. Ewing, NJ. Henry, Mrs.
Bette W. Ewing, Mrs. Annie Ener-
son and Mrs. Margaret Vanderbilt,
all of Baltimore, Md, and Mrs. Ethel
Mccormick, OF New York, all wealthy
and we'll known tourists, and Isaac E.
Emerson, the owner Of the place.
Deputy Funderburk says he ascer-
tanned from the clerk Of the court
that only Mr.. Emerson had a license
when he demanded to see their IL
censes. He then telephoned Chief
Game Warden A. A. Richardson, at
Columbia, who instructed him to take
out warrants for the men - the party
and to tell the ladies the law required
them to have licenses.
Deputy Funderburk had talked
with Mr.. George W. Ewing when he
met the party at Arcadia, as they
we're returning from the hunt and be-
ing certain only of his name, sWore
out a warrant charging him with
hunting without license in South
Carolina. In company with the sher-
III of Georgetown they went to the
country estate Of Mr.. Emerson on
Saturday and arrested Mr. Ewing on
Saturday morning. Mr.. Emerson ae-
companying them back to George
town.
The sheriff and Deputy Funder-
burk had made the trip to the coun-
try estate OF Mr.. Emerson in the fish
commissioners boat, the Nancy,
and when they were starting back
Mr.. Emerson asked how fast the
"Nancy" could travel On being told
ten miles per hour, he ordered his
men to bring out his racing boat, the
Arcadia, capable Of running nine
teen miles an hour, and the party
were soon In Georgetown, where Mr..
Ewing was put under sufficient bond
to await the arrival Of Chief Game
Warden Richardson.
Owing to the train schedules, MI.
Richardson did not reach Georgetown
unit! Nor day morning and when he
arrived he found only Mr.. George w.
Ewing, and said that he discovered
that Mr.. Emerson had ordered a spe-
cial train on Sunday evening and had
returned north with his other guests
that night.