The Chevy Chase Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR Black velvet 



EVENING DREISS Scarlet coat, scarlet facings, black velvet collar 



MASTER V Clarence Moore, Esq. 



SECRETARY Gist Blair, Esq. Washington, D. C. 



HUNTSMAN ~ - Robert Curran 



HON. WHIPPERS-IN > i^i, i . n. mchbom. Esq 



( 1st, P. H. Hich 

 I 2nd, J. A. C. P 



Palmer, Esq. 



HOUNDS 30 couples, English 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Chevy Chase, Md. 



DAYS OF MEETING - - Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON November 1 5th to April 15th 



FOX-HUNTING about Washington was probably begun before 

 the Revolution. At any rate, it is a well-known fact that GenereJ 

 Washington kept hounds at Mount Vernon, and there were also 

 hounds at Bladensburg and in Montgomery County at the same time ; but 

 there are no records of any organized fox-hunting until the early seventies. 

 At that time, a Mr. Haskins, who lived in a corner grocery store, on what 

 is now Fourteenth street, kept a pack of hounds in his back yard. He was 

 a true sportsman, and his horse was equally efficient in delivering groceries 

 to his customers and in carrying his master in some of the great runs which 

 were had over the adjoining farms. 



There was many a man thereabouts in those times who loved the cry 

 of a pack of hounds, and on off days, when business was dull, the sport- 

 loving gentry used to go to " old man Haskins " and persuade him to take 

 out his hounds. There were no pink coats in these early days, but there 

 were some pretty stout hearts, and some pretty well-worn corduroy. 



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