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Stewart, of Chester city, each having from fifteen 

 to twenty hounds. 



These ckibs and hunts all use American 

 hounds. 



Charles E. Mather, M. F. H., of the Radnor 

 Club, maintains a pack of English hounds at his 

 farm near the Brandywine, in Chester County. 



POPULARITY OF THE ROSE TREE FOX 

 HUNTING CLUB. 



Many of its members do not ride with the 

 hounds, but get their pleasures from the club's 

 annual races and its monthly meetings and 

 suppers. 



The long-continued, popular, and successful 

 existence of this club is largely due to the good 

 fellowship in it, and to the social disposition of the 

 members, and their kindly treatment of each other, 

 as well as to the liberality and pleasure exhibited in 

 entertaining, and in the cordial manner in which 

 the club receives strangers and guests, freeing 

 them of restraint by the hearty welcome given. 

 And to these may be added the indisposition of 

 members to depart from old traditions or to per- 

 mit any innovations or new rules for the govern- 

 ment of the club to creep in that would mar the 

 harmony existing among its members. Absence 



