THE CHEVY CHASE 



a Parisian, was Honorary Huntsman, and hunted the hounds in the north 

 country about Tenallytown and through Montgomery and Prince George 

 Counties. 



The following autumn, 1892, saw the organization of the Chevy Chase 

 Club. Founded in the office of Harvey L. Page, the architect, it was a 

 success from the first. An old white barn on the grounds of the Bannock- 

 burn Golf Club was the first headquarters, and here the horses and hounds 

 were quartered, until the Chevy Chase Club was started, and the Hunt 

 became a part of the Club. 



In 1 893, Mr. Henry M. Earle was Master, and George Ryder hunts- 

 man. In 1 894 Mr. P. F. Collier brought the Monmouth County Hounds 

 down to Washington, kenneled them at Chevy Chase, and hunted on alter- 

 nate days with the other pack. The sport continued to be carried on in a 

 similar way for the next three seasons, until 1 898, when Mr. S. S. Howland 

 again took up the Mastership, and with George Holloway as huntsman, 

 restored to the Chevy Chase Hunt its former prestige. 



In 1 897 Mr. George Dunn was elected Master, and continued to hunt 

 the hounds until the hunting stopped and Mr. Dunn went away to the 

 Spanish War, where he was a Major in the " Rough Riders." 



There was no hunting in 1 897 and 1 898, but in 1 899 Mr. Clarence 

 Moore was elected Master. The new Master had done a good deal of 

 hunting in England and Ireland and was a strong believer in the English 

 hound. He straightway set to work to make the pack the equal of any in 

 the country, and with this object in view imported a large draft from Eng- 

 land, the majority of them from the Holderness. For the next five seasons 

 the sport at Chevy Chase was perhaps better than at any other period. 

 The Hunt staff was well horsed, the hounds were keen as well as good-look- 

 ing, and the Fields were large and enthusiastic. 



To-day, the Chevy Chase Club is almost more of a golf club than a 

 Hunt club, but at that time the hunting was the first consideration. 

 Arrangements were made to stable at the Club not only the hunters of 

 members but those of visiting sportsmen, while everything was done to 

 attract those whose hunting seasons had closed in the North, and during 



23 



