The Patapsco Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE UNIFORM -- Black coat. Hunt buttons 



EVENING DRESS - - - - Scarlet coat, robin's egg-blue facings 



MASTER — - - - Dorsey M. Williams. Esq. 



SECRETARY - Rowland C. West, Esq., Baltimore Club, Baltimore, Md. 



HUNTSMAN - - - -~ Joseph Harmon 



HON. WHIPPERS-IN -- - \ \'\ ^;,^?^f': ^f '^'' ?'"• 



( 2nd, W. J. H. Watters, Esq. 



HOUNDS - - — - 20 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Washington Road, Elkridge, Md. 



DAYS OF MEETING - j Wednesday and Saturday. Bye- 



( days Monday and I hursday 



LENGTH OF SEASON September 1st to April 1st 



DURING the month of September, 1 898, the Overbrook Fami, 

 situated in Howard County, Maryland, was purchased by a 

 little band of sportsmen, prominent among whom were the 

 Messrs. Murray and Grosvenor Hanson, Edward and Morris Murray, 

 Henry J. Bowdoin, Gustav T. Dalcour, Dorsey M. Williams and William 

 R. Eareckson, who had joined forces in order to put fox-hunting in Howard 

 County on a more permanent footing. 



Some of these gentlemen had maintained small packs of foxhounds of 

 their own; one of them, Mr. Murray Hanson, having been one of the 

 early Masters of the Elkridge Hunt, and all were keen, enthusiastic sports- 

 men. Nearly all of them owned hounds which they contributed to the pack 

 of the new organization, and the latter presently absorbed the Catonsville 

 Hunt, annexing their hounds and thus enabling the Patapsco to take the field 

 with a goodly pack for its initial season. 



Organized fox-hunting became very popular, and the Hunt throve and 



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