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City Cavalry and became its Captain, thus continuing to command many 

 of the Club members who had joined its ranks. When Peace was finally 

 made, he was among those who received the thanks of General Washing- 

 ton for gallant services rendered at Trenton and Monmouth, and later 

 became Governor of the " State in Schuylkill," one of the oldest social clubs 

 in the world. 



The history of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, which will be found 

 in another place, belongs rightly to the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club, 

 which is directly descended from it, although this is true of almost all of the 

 Pennsylvania Hunts. 



Among the various Hunts which developed about Philadelphia were the 

 Chester Valley, Lima, Radnor, and many others ; but as we are writing of 

 the Brandywine Hounds, of which Mr. Charles E. Mather has always been 

 sole Master and owner, it is only necessary to touch upon that portion of 

 the Radnor history wath which Mr. Mather has to do. The Radnor Hunt 

 was organized in 1884 and developed slowly until 1887, when Mr. 

 Mather was elected to the Mastership, and a more happy selection it would 

 have been difficult to make, coming, as he did, from a fox-hunting family ; 

 his grandfather having maintained a pack of foxhounds at Coatesville, 

 Pennsylvania, seventy-five years earlier. 



Mr. Mather is one of the strongest supporters of the English foxhound in 

 the United States today, and has bred hounds more systematically and for 

 a longer time than anyone else ; consequently his opinions are of great value 

 to the fox-hunting world and his remarks on hunting in Pennsylvama are 

 given in full, as follows : 



" When I became Master of the Radnor Hounds, in 1 887, the Radnor 

 Hunt, which succeeded to the name and country — the latter consisting of 

 Radnor township and a goodly portion of the land surrounding it — had 

 been hunted by a farmers pack for many years. 



" This pack we purchased and kept and hunted in the manner customary 

 to farmers in those days. They were of the good old-fashioned type of 

 hound, slow but with good noses and voices, and made a good nucleus for 

 our pack, which was augmented from time to time by the purchase of other 



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