The Harkaway Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - Black 



MASTER Frank M. Lowry. Esq. 



SECRETARY F. H. Richard, Esq., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



HUNTSMAN -- - JackCaffrey 



WHIPPER-IN Arthur Cregan 



HOUNDS 1 6 couples, English and American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE McDonald, Pa. 



DAYS OF MEETING Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON September 1st to January ist 



WHILE the Hunt Clubs of Pennsylvania are among the oldest 

 in the United States ; in fact, it may almost be called the 

 Mother State of organized fox-hunting, yet it was not until 

 1 898 that the Pittsburgh Hunt Club was formed. In the days of early 

 settlement, the English officers who were stationed at Fort Duquesne must 

 have hunted foxes, but they hardly rode to hounds in the same manner as 

 the present residents of that locality. Fox-hunting in those days must have 

 been fraught with far greater dangers than those ordinarily experienced by 

 the cross-country rider. However, as we are not writing Colonial history, we 

 will come back to the present. 



The Pittsburgh Hunt Club was organized in 1 898, and the sportsmen 

 who formed it elected Mr. Frank M. Lowry to the office of Master. At 

 first, the kennels were at Sewickley, but in 1900 they were moved to the 

 Pittsburgh Country Club, in the suburbs of the city. Drag-hunting was carried 

 on there until the beginning of 1 903, with varying popularity, but as time went 

 on and the Field became educated, the need for the better sport of fox-hunt- 

 ing was felt, and in the autumn of 1 903 the Pittsburgh Hunt Club was vir- 

 tually disbanded, and the hounds and establishment moved to McDonald, 

 Pennsylvania, where the present kennels are located. 



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