Show 4 1 1 raw v i TWI if THE TAB GAME PRESERVES WEALTY WEALTHY ADOPTING A EUROPEAN IDEA Willia llam nill 0 whitney I 1 HI BIG ark shir hire ot t a abb 0 bb b br 00 r park Sout boothia berst and ad acra art j I 1 jatoft id special letter HE game pie cervo la Is now new to america but it la in coming every roe recurring arring hunting bunting sea e a son a 0 n gives evidence of that fact as it does of the fact that this country to la evolving a hunting set lar to that which occupies so 0 o much attention among our english cousins and furnishes so much material to the british artist in fact it may be said of the american game preserve that it has arrived for beginnings have been made in several quarters on pretentious estates that promise in time to rival the great game reservations of europe game preserving Is a pastime that seems likely to supplant horse racing and palace building in the affections of the american millionaire and it to Is probable that within the next twenty live five years the united states will have lave the most magnificent and best beet stocked game preserves in the world during the past summer mr william C whitney has baa started a big private game preserve of the european model and he la Is rapidly stocking it with american game large and small mr whitney is renowned forgoing for doing things on a large scale and when he decided to establish a game preserve he began by buying a mount mountain aln october mountain it Is called tour four miles from fash tons loue famous summer place at lenox the mountain with the surrounding bol holdings dIngs in mr air Whit whitneys hands includes acres part of this la Is made up of woodland part of it consisted of abandoned farms and part of it was occupied by tilled fields down to the time it came into the possession of the standard oil and street railway magnates nates at present mr whitney plans to gh ghe e up about one half of his berkshire estate to the game he to Is bringing from different parts of the country his fits first acquisition was a herd of thirteen buffaloes from the northern the chief of the herd has haa been named me kinley lie he weighs nearly 3 pounds and has a disposition that is not at all cheerful the first thing that mckin mckan ley did when he was turned nto into his acre run along with his bis twelve companions was to rush against the steel wire fence that had been built to restrict them As AR the fence had previously been tested by running a ismall small engine against it mckinley made but slight impression on it and ha be settled down to glaze contentedly I 1 on his bis big range another rough and rocky thousand acre inclosure is given over to a small eherd of antelope they are exceeding ly shy and have been seen only once 6 fir twice even by the gamekeepers game keepers since they were turned into their new playground but it Is supposed that they are well and happy mr whitney has also a herd of twenty five elk on his estate and another season will add some deer and possibly moose to his big zoological logical aggregation within a few byears he will probably have the finest collection of big game to be found on any private range in the auntry cau cu halt half a dozen gamekeepers game keepers are employed on hla his big game farm to took look after the animals and keep the fences in repair mr r whitney to Is interested in preserving game but not in shooting it and it Is r not ot likely that his bis game farm will be hunted unless it becomes necessary to khoot a too obstreperous bison ot or in ease case he wishes to treat his bis friends to khe the delight of antelope steak on the hunting estate of thel th elate late austin corbin the arrangements for preservation of animals were very SCENE AT ROOSEVELT PRESERVE complete in addition to the ordinary In closures the hunting lodges and gamekeepers game keepers hut were extensive affairs A complete system of intercommunication muni cation existed by means of telephones extending from hut to hut but so eo that the whole range was wall so BO to speak within range of the beai hea keeper is a eye hunting on such ground would become a matter of ease as the game could be traced by the most modern of methods there are many small deer parks in the united states but of the large preserves in which deer are the principal game animals the most important is undoubtedly located in the adiron dacks and was mentioned in III a recent article in the rree free press de bribing deer hunting in the adirondack forests it comprises some 20 acres of woodland in ili the heart of the mountains and belongs to dr seward sevard webb and H walter webb the establish ment of this preserve was a simple wa jy the aid bud been oba L it ont sted implying Imply in riffi 4 ft barbed wj demala M and ad adorning it w gig a not fact that the th inelo gUre was ru private property ithe ardor of all fatt adirondack sportsman la hurault 0 of deer will hardly balk at a barbed wi briw re fence and tl it is likely that mor 6 ulan than one tat fat buck hu has been slain lain to la the th private grounds the kwuen bay not attempted to stock block their afaf estates as a t was already supplied with deer rabbits partridges and an occasional bear the land has been simply left to lie in its ita original state elate so 80 long as there to lt plenty ot of good ar sport ort to be had bad in other parti part of the it Is not likely t that hat the thel banters will deliberately intrude on the webb estate when the deer have been exterminated in the open grounds the owners ol of this princely shooting preserve may find and it necessary to employ gamekeepers game keepers but as aa yet the men employed on the estate have little to do except to warn off camping parties and keep the thirty or forty miles ot of wire fencing in repair at present the webb lands are very little hunted dr seward webb has ha a fine CAMP there and usually spends a short time each autumn there with a party of friends but tor for the most part tile the game feeds and thrives and increases undisturbed it to la doubtful it the webbs have or ori ever will set toot on more than a amli traction fraction of their adirondack hol holdinger dingel they are not enthusiastic thusia hunters huntera and are interested in preserving the natural wild game rather than in shooting it it the state ot of now new york adopts the plan proposed by gov black and creates a great state park in the adaron dacks along the same line as the yellowstone yellow low stone the empire state wll wall have along its northern bordea border one of the A A SCENE ON THE WHITNEY PRESERVE guest finest game preserves jre preserves serves in the world partly state property and partly belong ing to wealthy private citizens like the webbs of course there are very few places where preserves can be es ea by simply fencing in a portion of the aboriginal forest but in some ot of the mare settled parts of the country scarcely lose lesa pretentious game reservations are being built up the mag ent estate which george vander blit Is laying out at biltmore will contain a game park there is an extensive and well stocked game farm in florida belonging to some ot of the men interested in the plant system and in many other parts of the country there are less elaborate preserves cibere native wild game is to be found some of the sport loving easter easterners nero who own ranches in the west have made them partial game preserves onar on mr ahoo dorp dore Roosevel ts cattle ranch forin for instance every enery precaution is taken to prevent preveat antelope from being scared feared away and when the assistant secretary of the navy visits this western domain he can have the satisfaction of occasionally sio nally bringing down one of these ani animals nials on his own land the preserving of smaller game Is a largely in the handa hand of various hunt clubs cluba the method is I 1 illustrated by the genesee valley hunt club perhaps the most fi famous filous tox fox hanting tion in he coo country the section of country covered by the huntsmen huntsmon hunts men ot of this club Is about twenty miles long by six or seven miles wide and lies alca along the genesee river in western now york it Is a country of rich farms but so thoroughly is the fox hunting spir iten grafted on the region that the farmers seldom make objection to having their fields field trampled over and their fences kno knocked cited down in fact many of the tillers of the soll soil like to join in the hunt themselves accordingly reynard is ia careful carefully lr protected until october comes and then he Is mercilessly pursued up hill and down dale by the members of the hunt club who reside in buffalo rochester and other new york cities in several of the states the quail acknowledged premier of american birds from the sportsmans sports mans point ot of view are still numerous to hold their own with the protection of the game laws in new york new jersey and connecticut however there are clubs devoted to the preservation and encouragement of dob bob white tor for ten months and a halt half out ot of the year and to hid big extermination during the remaining six alx weeks one of the best known of these Is the robbins island club which owns robbins island off the long iong island coast and hunts bunts it under the club regulations for a brief season each year quail and other wild fowl are encouraged to come coma to these preserves but is no place in till this country where birds are rallied raised to tor r shooting as pheasants are abroad |