GAME CLUBS, PARKS AND PRESERVES 29 



Where there are large shooting-estates which open 

 into each other and extend over vast forests and moun- 

 tains, the chase is very similar to what it was in the 

 good old days when preserves were not needed. 



I referred in the volume devoted to the birds, to the 

 hostility of market gunners and natives generall}^ to 

 game preserves. At the Tolleston Club, near Chicago, 

 there were several fights resulting in a loss of life. 

 The fences of big game parks have been cut, and ani- 

 mals allowed to escape. It is, of course, necessary to 

 have game-keepers and police the grounds. In many 

 places the local shooters have thus been given employ- 

 ment or are engaged as guides, and these men, taken 

 from the neighborhood, are the best game-keepers for 

 evident reasons. They and their people, of course, be- 

 come the friends of the preserve. At least one death 

 in an Eastern State has been charged to hostility against 

 the game preserve. The National, State and private 

 parks, which are unfenced, do a lot of good for the sur- 

 rounding country, where the game wanders out and 

 may be shot during a short open season. The season 

 has been said to be exceptionally short on Long Island 

 since the deer scamper back into the preserves at the 

 first fire from the army of outsiders on the opening 

 day. 



As to the care of the animals on the game-preserve — 

 their feeding, etc., if the preserve is for shooting, the 

 best care is none at all outside, of course, the protec- 

 tion of the animals from poachers and their natural 

 enemies, the wolves. The preserve should be large 

 enough for the animals to roam absolutely at wiU. 

 There should be an abundance of natural food. Where 



