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COL. PHILLIPS BUYS
GREAT GAME PRESERVE

We'll Known Business Man OF This
CITY Purchases Billie's Island And
RIOOdsWOrth's Island, Containing
400 Acres. Greatest Natural
Game Preserve In Maryland.
Bloodsworth and Billys Islands, in
the Chesapeake Bay, not far from
the mouths of the Potomac and Pat
uxent rivers. have been purchased as
y game preserve by Col. Albanus
Phillips, of this city.
The two islands, which are sepa-
rated by a stream so narrow that
they are practically the same lsIand,
contain about 4, 500 acres OF land, or
nearly eight square miles. They are
uninhabited and have been so for
many wears, although family OF
RIoodsworths once lived on the is
land which bears their name, and
John BloodSworth, one OF those
whose property Colonel Philips
bought, was born there. The ISLANDS
constitute the largest summarized
tract in Chesapeake Bay. On their
northern border is HOopers Straits.
on the east Tangier Sound, on the
south Tangier Sound and Holland
Straits on the west Chesapeake Bay
Steamship lines trading to Nor
folk. Washington and Baltimore are
some six miles distant. The Patu-
KENT river is Is miles away and the
Potomac II. Cambridge is Z6 miles
avav. About an hours run IN an
automobile and a 10-minute trip IN
q power boat across Hoopers Straits
will one
from this place to the hunting
grounds.
Island Picturesque
The site of the islands could not
he more picturesque. They have
water front of IS miles, indented by
numerous bays and cOves and many
narrow but deep creeks penetrate
the interior Many small ponds DOT
the islands and in these large HOOKS
of waterfowl make their home. Boats
drawing 20 feet of water can hnd
ANCHORAGE not more than half mile
away in Hoopers Straits.
BIoodsworth Island has long been
known as the greatest hunting
ground in Maryland. Wlld geese
and wild ducks are more plentllul
there than anywhere else on the
coast. Large fiocks of black ducks
and mallards make their home on
the island and raise their young III
its marshes. Wild geese, canvas
back ducks, redheads, blackheads,
and other feathered denizens OF
Maryland waters abound there from
the early fall until the end OF winter.
Resides the wild fowl on and
around these islands, mink, otter
and muskrats are plentiful IN the
marshes. while oysters, hsh ana
crabs around in the waters nearby.
The oysters of Tangier Sound are
Justly famous. Nowhere probably on
the entire coast could better natur-
al game preserve be found than thls.
To Erect Bungalow
Colonel Phillips expects TO ar
range at once for the erection OF
large bungalow as headquarters for
caretakers and with room sufficient
tn accommodate large hunting ana
fishing parties.
Among the former owners from
whom the properties were purchase"
are ], Z. Todd, John BloodsWorth'
A. c, Parks, j. I. Robinson, inner
Dean, Wilbur Dashiell and M. y.
Lewis, of Baltimore.
Dorchester county is fast becom-
ing a favorite place for the purchase
of lands for game preserves. L.
Coleman du Pont owns the Moors IN
Neck district and large tract IN
Hurley's Neck, Drawbridge district.
Alfred l. du Pont has Cherry Island
off Morris Neck, Little Choptank
river. Charles H. Ford, of 81.
Louis. recently bought Ragged POM
as a sporting place and game. pre-
serve. Clement S. Henry purchased
James Island for the same purpose
and w. A. Gidds has a sou acre
muskrat marsh and sporting place III
Church Creek district. Col. PM
lips purchase is the largest game
preserve in Maryland.