THE ELKRIDGE 



keen, hard-working lot, which show the members of the Hunt sport second 

 to none. Mr. Jackson writes that he finds that the cross-bred hound, with 

 perhaps a predominance of English blood in his veins, seems to be most ad- 

 mirably suited to his country, an opinion which is borne out by another Bal- 

 timore Master, Mr. Redmond C. Stewart, whose pack, bred along somewhat 

 the same lines, hunt a very similar country. 



There are many Masters in the South today who think that the " pure- 

 blooded American hound," as they term it, shows the best sport, and there 

 are some who find that the English hound, bred along orthodox lines, works 

 equally well; but it is perhaps worthy of note that three of the great packs 

 in the South, if we may class the Radnor at Philadelphia with them, have 

 come to find that a judicious admixture of blood, producing a hound with 

 the size, bone, and muscle of the English, and the beautiful voice and nose 

 of his American progemtors, is best suited to the existing conditions. 



The authors, both of them English hound men, are of the humble opin- 

 ion that this admission on the part of men accustomed to hunt with Ameri- 

 can hounds is but the first step in the change which they feel sure will 

 eventually come to all those packs which are regularly kept for the purpose 

 of showing sport across country to fair-sized Fields, and not to a few in- 

 dividuals who are satisfied to hear their hounds work and to see them at 

 intervals, caring nothing for their collective work as a pack. 



In 1888, the Club purchased property at Woodbrook in Baltimore 

 County, some six miles north of Baltimore, erecting there in the same year a 

 clubhouse, stables, and kennels. The clubhouse has been improved and 

 added to from time to time, until it is now one of the best, if not the best. 

 Hunt clubhouse in the United States. The landowners are all very fa- 

 vorably inclined, and hunting about Baltimore, with two such clubs as the 

 Green Spring Valley and the Elkridge, is as good as may be found any- 

 where. 



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