The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-06

Fifteen Of the Nations Chief Ex.
ooutives Were Partial to
the Sport.
oEvHLlm LIKED DUCKS
Colonel Roosevelt q Shooter Of olo
Game On Three contlnents
con Takes 70 ouall-llneolnso
One Experience.

con Takes % ouall-llneolnSo
One Experience.
New York.-president Wilson In
tends to do a little hunting this fall
and has taken out hunting license in
Virginia. In hunting In Virginia he
is following in the footsteps Of num-
Der Of his predecessors, writes Alex
ander Stoddart in the New York Sun.
The hunting presidents of the United
States number Is, one more than those
who INDUCED in fishing.
The hunting presidents Of the United
States include the first and present
presidents, also Thomas Jefferson, An
drew Jackson, Thomas Tyler. Zachary
Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Blu
chanan, Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford
Burchard Hayes, James Abram Gar
field, Chester Allan Arthur, Grover
Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and
last but not least, Theodore Roose-
| welt.
It might not be amiss to point out
that of the Is hunting presidents, the
following INDUCED in fishing also:
Washington. Tyler, Pierce, Lincoln,
Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland and ROose-
welt.
Two of them wrote books devoted to
hunting: Cleveland, who left a book
devoted to fishing and hunting, which
he called by the modest title ''Fishing
and Shooting Sketches" and Roose-
welt, who has written any number of
books, for one of which he received
a dollar word for every word in
1t. Incidentally it might be re-
marked that it was not q losing VEN
ture for the publisher.
| Washington was fond of hunting
foxes, deer, turkeys and ducks; Jeffer-
son. foxes, deer, turkey, 'possums and
| 'cO0ns; Jackson, deer and turkey; Ty-
Ter, Taylor and Arthur, deer; Pierce,
'cOOns: Buchanan, quail; Lincoln.
turkey (on one occasion only: Hayes,
turkey; Garfield. ducks and quail !;
Cleveland, quail, duck. rabbits and
shore birds; Harrison, quail and
Wilson, quail.
Roosevelt Greatest Hunter.
The greatest Of all hunting presi-
dents Is Colonel Roosevelt, who has
hunted on three continents and has
killed almost every species Of big
game. He has one rifle, now a retired
veteran, which he regards as not
heavy enough for steady use on heavy
game, but it is SO handy and accu.
roto boc Such ponotrotiop op6 koops
in such good order" that it has been
his chief hunting rifle for the last
dozen years.
Washington, who was the largest
tallest and strongest of the presidents
Lincoln not excepted, was an enthusi
astic fOx-hunter. He rode with the
hounds everywhere, was always in al
the death. was fond of shooting wild
turkey and ducks and on his last hunt
in 1885 he killed buck weighing las
pounds.
jefferson liked the fox chase an6
without leaving his fathers land II
could shoot turkey, deer, foxes. pos
sum, 'coons. quail, squirrel and rab
bit.
Jackson's shooting at one period o.
his life came from necessity, the house
hold needing meat for the table. Deer
wild turkeys and smaller game were
numerous in those days.
AS a young man Tyler did mucl
hunting. and Taylor delighted in roam
ing through forests and over prairie
for days and nights seeking game.
Pierce liked to take long trampS ant
never went without hts rifle. In add
ton to having wonderful powers o
! endurance. Buchanan was an exper
shot and made it point to kill al
small game through the head.
Lincoln as = Hunter.
Lincoln's hunting was confined t
one days sport. More accurately,
few minutes fun. In fact, he did nc
"" move far away from where he lived t
get his first and last wild turkey. III
shot it from his cabin home.
Following is the curious autobiogrs
ply written entirely in the third pei
son which Lincoln prepared for hi
friend:
"A few days before the completio
Of his eighth year, in the absence {
his father, n flock Of wild turkeys al
preached the new log cabin. and Abr:
ham with rifle gun, standing inside
shot through crack and killed on
Of them. He has never since pulle
the trigger on any larger game
Hayes, like Buchanan. was also q
excellent shot with the rifle. CARTEL
liked to fish and invariably carried
gun with him for ducks. He was ais
fond Of quail shooting.
Arthur, who was one Of the be!
fishermen Of the presidents. was so d
voted to hunting that Emperor WI
liam presented him with teautif'
gun. While president he hunted in II
: Yellowstone country.
~ Like Cleveland, Harrison liked to {
duck shooting in Chesapeake bay.
Cleveland was devoted to du<
shooting. From the moment that duel
were reported flying south Clevelar