Show WHITNEYS LENOX LI OX HOME HO E Acre Estate tate Contains Buffalo and Elk New N York Tribune William C Whitney ia is so much inter interested Interested ested in his place plc on OR October mountain that he has hae been up frequently during the autumn and while his home hom is js Jo ed he has so many people living on his Ids large estate that he can caR have it open on very notice From the railroad station it is a II drive of five mUtt mUss up a mountain road through q a primeval forest and when hen Mr Whitney reaches his Is house on n the hilltop over oyer 2600 feet above aboe sea a level he be can eR a look over ovea a vast va territory which h now belongs to him He has baa has including purchases made during the present year nearly Dearly acres It is a rough rou h wild coun country country country try with many hilltops that com coin command mand ext VS rescuing reaching te to the Catskills He has laid out bridle paths and private roadways of several miles already and will make more next year year The big game including the buffalo elk and game birds have done lone fairly well w n this jear 3 ear The buffalo however are tOt not ot increasing as rapidly as was expected when they were brought on from the Rocky Bocky R mountains Mr Whit has h nine cows and four bulls and ami two to calves were ere born this year I The largest la t bull said to be the largest larg st I buffalo in America which cost Mr I Whitney something like is an I ugly old fellow at al d no strangers can an I I II approach him with safety Frank Frankl I Chattel Chapel ChaI eI the gamekeeper is so familiar with the buffalo that he can do almost anything with them Sheds have been built for them where they stay AY a large part of the time in lit the winter win tel There have hae been twentythree elk ik born on the estate during the present year making the number of or these ani animals animals mals main The nu herd is increasing eo CO rapidly that the devoted J to them them will have to be enlarged They I seem to thrive as well in this climate ae u 5 in the Rocky mountains from which they were brought The deer which were ere brought on from the Rocky mountains at the same time as the buffalo and elk t lk have haye died tiled or dis die disappeared disAppeared appeared in some way as sit a some of or them have bave never been accounted account for Mr Whitney and his son Harry Harr Payne Whitney conceived the idea ide of also stocking this great yeat estate with game birds They brought on a large num man number her ber r of pheasants and quail which have multiplied remarkably fast last but since cold weather came on they have gone gene down further into the valleys The na native native tive partridges have wonderfully In upon the place since Mr air Whit Whitney i ney nOy purchased p H It it as no outsiders are allowed t tr hunt within the limits Of the be estate e tate and anji an Mr Whitneys men are areso areso o so watchful that it be rather ratler for hunters to evade them The tM result re in e that when Mr Whitney or his son SOIl comes conies up ip p with a party df of f friends for a shooting hooting expedition they have he fine line sport SIK rt and in the future it will be still better as this is one of the thebe best be t regions RS tot for the native partridge e and aid woodcock ia In Berkshire Mr Whitney has had built bunt very nry COrd com comfortable houses bouses about bout his bis place for his bis employees They y live here the year round and iid look after the gauss game and care are for the place generally pener II On the th whole whole Mr Me Whitneys establishment Is an au unique one as there is nothing like it itin itIn itin in this part of the country The land Jand was 86 purchased at a small price and j I Mr Whitney continues to add to it It He pays pay about half the taxes of the town of Washington where the bulk of ol his hili estate is located l i |