The Midlothian Hunt Club 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR Green velvet 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, green facmgs 



MASTER - - - J. L. Stack, Esq. 



SECRETARY - S. C. Stewart. Esq., Chicago, 111. 



HUNTSMAN James Walker 



WHIPPERS-IN \ ''*' ^^" McDurmat 



( 2nd, Percy Hamilton 



HOUNDS 11 1-2 couples, American 



KENNELS ., Midlothian, 111. 



POST-OFFICE - - Blue Island, 111. 



DAYS OF MEETING - Monday, Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON \ Spring season, five weeks. Summer, once a 



week at daybreak. Autumn, three months 



DURING the summer of 1 903, a number of gentlemen belonging 

 to the Midlothian Country Club, situated about twenty miles out 

 of Chicago on the Rock Island Railway, decided to follow the 

 example of the Onwentsia of Lake Forest, near Chicago, and to form a club 

 within a club, as it were, by starting a pack of hounds. Among these gentle- 

 men were the Messrs. H. L. Swift, Keith Spalding, James D. Small, Robert 

 J. Thome, Thomas E. Donnelly, Wallace de Wolfe, Robert P. Lament, J. 

 L. Stack and Dyke Williams. 



Few of them knew anything about hunting, but, all being interested in 

 horses, these pioneers felt that it could be made a success at Midlothian as 

 it had at Onwentsia. Mr. James L. Stack was elected Master and has con- 

 tinued to fill that position up to the present time. 



Of course, it is always a great advantage to a Hunt to have the same 

 Master continuously. He gets in touch with the landowners and it makes a 



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