420 THE CORBIN GAME PARK. 
car was sent to a siding formerly used by a lumber mill, and there car- 
peted with hay, straw, and a good supply of browse. The ends were 
then partitioned off from the space between the doors by means of 
poles, and within the spaces thus formed the deer were placed, being 
simply lifted in. They had been kept in the meantime in the old mill 
unbound. 
With Dan Ball to look after and especially to water the deer the car 
was hauled to Newport, Vt., the location of the United States customs 
office. 
The deer were passed duty free, and were sent on to Newport, N. H., 
by the way of Concord, nearly 100 miles farther than necessary. The 
extra ride proved disastrous, for one deer died en route, and two after 
arrival. The nine are now as well and frisky as when in their native 
forests. 
The buffalo in the park came originally from Montana, but were 
purchased of a Minnesota man. The moose, elk, and caribou came 
from Minnesota also, and were captured along the Canadian border. 
Among the interesting experiences in the transportation of the 
animals for this park may be mentioned these: Moose have been ear- 
ried 2,000 miles in four days without apparent injury. The last con- 
signment included sixteen moose, three deer, and one caribou. All 
arrived in good condition, but eight moose died afterwards, because, it 
is thought, of the change in their diet or water, or both. On one 
occasion when thirty deer were en route, a collision with another train 
killed twenty-two of them outright, and four more died afterwards. 
It is noticed that the largest deer most easily succumb to railroad 
travel. None of the animals ever eat or sleep while the car is in 
motion. On a side track they will eat a little. There seems to be 
more danger of their suffering from heat in a box car than from cold, 
but the worst trouble is in the jerking to and fro of the car when the 
train is stopping or starting. They are fed barley, corn, bran, and 
hay. In the woods they are expected to live as they would naturally, 
but places will be established where feed will be left for them, so that 
none shall lack. 
Beginning with a few pet deer in a paddock, the Corbins now have 
a private zodlogical garden where, if at any such place in the world, 
the animals on hand can be seen and studied under natural conditions. 
What it will be in the future Mr. Corbin can not say, but that he will, 
as fast as convenient to do so, add all the animais of the world that 
can live there harmoniously need not be doubted. His outlay up to 
the completing of the park is not far from $400,000. Some of his 
friends say he is likely to spend half as much more on it and make of 
it a place to fairly delight the naturalist. They say that the work of 
Judge Caton will be supplemented and added to, by that to be done at 
the Corbin park, to the great benefit of all investigators into the habits 
of wild animals, 
