The Essex Hounds 



(MR. PFIZER'S) 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - - aange velvet 



EVENING DREISS - Scarlet coat, orange facings 



MASTER - - Charles Pfizer, Esq. 



SECRETARY - J. C. Wilmerding, Esq. 



HUNTSMAN - WilKam Howard 



WHIPPERS-IN - - - - - - \ '''• ^^ ^*"'°* 



( 2nd, Ljiriy Dickinson 



HOUNDS - - - - - - 35 couples. English 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE - Gladstone, N. J. 



DAYS OF MEETING Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON - \ ^''^°^^' ''' '° J^""^"^ '«' 



I March 1st to April 1 5 th 



J^ BOUT the time that Messrs. Skinner and Donahue were hunt- 

 / ^ ing their hounds at Hackensack, N. J. — in the late seventies * — 

 ^ .^. another group of sportsmen formed what eventually developed 

 into the Essex County Hunt at Montclair, New Jersey. 



The hunting began with beagles, and a little later a pack of harriers was 

 procured and hunted up to the end of 1 879 under the Mastership of Mr. F. M. 

 Wheeler. This proved so satisfactory that in 1 880 a permanent organization 

 was effected; kennels were built at West Orange, N. J., and a draft of English 

 foxhounds was procured from the Montreal Hunt. The supporters of the 

 Hunt being men of limited time, drag-hunting was the form of sport chosen, 

 and in fact the country is hardly suitable for the best results in fox-hunting, 

 as much of it is absolutely unrideable; and then, too, the coverts are very large 

 and the supply of foxes is limited. 



* See Chapter on The Meadow Brook. 



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