Evening journal., 1916-10-17
WOMEN RESPOND TO
Lure Of HUNTING
Army Finding Sport With
Shotgun and Dog In
creaSing
IANY KILL FOXES
FOR FUR SETS

In America Tor women 10 80 hunting.
The English custom of women in the
hunting field was only beginning 10
penetrate, and it was only occasional
ly that a woman could be found seek
ing game.
Nowadays no one thinks anything
of meeting a woman afield pursuing
big game, upland game or migratory
wild fowl and shore birds. Thousands
Of women living in Maine hunt every
season. The Pine Tree State also at
tracts women from other States, as
can be seen by the number Of non
resident licenses sold. Each year the
number has increased. Last year
thirty-two nonresident women pur-
chased big game licenses and forty
five bird licenses. Later ten of the
latter exchanged their bird licenses for
big game licenses.
The woman in the hunting field now
attracts no comment and criticism,
and she can look just as stunning in
the hunting field as she does wher-
ever she places her dainty feet.
incidentally women are careful in
handling firearms, and there are no
records of women killing men by mis-
take for deer Also they do not shoot
themselves
Lady Mackenzie Holds Record.
Probably English women are better
known for their hunting abilities than
American women for the reason that
il has been the custom OF the country
longer.
Lady Grace Mackenzie holds the
record for variety of game. It is said
that she has gone further into the
heart of Africa in search of big game
than any man, Col. Roosevelt not ex-
Guided. Recently she spent twelve
months in big game shooting, being
the leading and only woman Of an ex-
petition that cost more than 100000.
Lady Mackenzie has taken lions,
tigers, leopards, African wildcats,
elephants. rhinoceroses, hippopOtami
and other big game.
On the other hand America has
big game hunter in the person of Mrs.
Carl p. Akeley, who in the African
Jungle some years ago took the rec
ord pair Of elephants tusks for the
Mount Kenya region-112 and 115
pounds. respectively. The tusks were
nineteen and one-haif inches in cir
conference and eight feet ten inches
long. Mrs. Akeley's elephant was
eleven feet two inches high at the
shoulders.
Miss Anne Morgan, who has taken
big game fish on the Pacific coast in
the California waters, has hunted in
the Rocky Mountains. lions, bears,
deer and bobcats.
Mrs. J. II. Ingram, a California
girl, now a resident Of Valdez, Alaska,
whose husband is superintendent of
the Alaska Road Commission, fire.
quently makes trips alone after Alas
kan bears and is the owner of several
magnificent skins.
Woman Took Record Buck.
Mrs. Beatrice Kraft Wilder, of
Athol. Mass. some years ago shot the
record buck Of Worcester county,
Massachusetts. Her first shot struck
the deer in the right hind leg, but a
second shot penetrated the heart.
This big buck never showed itself
in daylight and she found by staying
up one night where he came to eat
after dark. The next night she waited
until he came to eat as usual and she
added the head to her already extern
sive collection of hunting trophies.
Incidentally when on a hunting trip
Mrs. Wilder wears a unique costume
red visored cap with earlaps, heavy
brown REFER, corduroy boomers,
leather leggins and shoes.
Il consider if an ideal costume,
she said recently. when l am out on
the trail l want to be comfortable,
and that is the best attire / have
found. I spend the greater portion
Of the year in the woods.
Il have lived out of doors practical
" all my life, and have never been
really sick a day. / love to live in
the open. or course there is always
the danger of being shot, but l wear
a red hunting cap, and that saves me
except from stray bullets
A Maine woman who is well known
for her hunting abilities, Is Mrs. An
uie Bond Cole, wife of Frank Cole. oil
Biddeford. Me. She is regarded as
one of the best shots in the State. and
Is also an angler Of note.
Got Her Own Set of Fox Furs.
Quincy, Mass. boasts of having q
successful woman fox hunter. Helen
B. Hlcock wanted a set Of fox furs
She took her rifle and got more than
enough for a set of furs for herself
Incidentally she keeps up the practice
and in 1914 she killed two dozen leo
foxes and one black fox.
Miss Elcock got he set of fox furs
because OF a jocular remark by heI
father. He suggested the simplest
way TO get them would be to 80 out and
secure them with a gun. On her first
aunt with her father she killed two
foxes. Frequently she goes out alone
20 the Blue Hills, near Quincy, taking
with her her pack Of thoroughbred
fox hounds.
Because conditions are not so siren
uous the South attracts thousands OF
women every year who seek game
birds under ideal conditions. Mrs
Herman Duryea and Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney frequently hunt with
their hui nds on their preserve
known as hickory Valley, in eastern
Tennessee.
Mrs. George J. Could is an annual
visitor TO her North Carolina preserve
and is regarded as a fine shot
Mrs. Lamar Perkins is another good
shot. and during the winter spends
much time in her husbands game
preserve near Perkins. Ga.
Another ardent sportswoman is Mrs
z. R. Wilbur. Of New York. who moi
only has killed partridge. as the quai
Is called in the South hut also deer