THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 37 



in 1905), log-pens, bear pits, dead falls, dogs, dug out 

 from the Winter quarters, and poisoning. 



A list of the great bear hunters of Pennsylvania 

 would sound like a German casualty list, pages and 

 pages long. Among t hose whose names will live in song 

 and story are: Bill Long, of Clearfield County; Jim 

 Jacobs, "The Seneca Bea'r Hunter"; Edwin Grimes, 

 (frontispiece, with the last two of his double cen- 

 tury of bears, as described by Mr. French) : Samuel 

 Askey, Center County; "Old Man" Bennett, Lycom- 

 ing County; Jake Drumheller, Northumberland 

 County; C. W. Dickinson, McKean County; Seth I. 

 Nelson, and Seth Nelson, Jr., Clinton County* 

 David A. Zimmerman arid "Jake" Zimmerman, Union 

 County; Aaron Embigh, Clinton County; "Jake" 

 Ka'rstetter, Clinton County; Frank Dapp, Lycoming 

 County; "Abe" Simcox, Clinton County, and among 

 the younger generation, Chauncey E. Logue, now 

 State Game Inspector, of Cameron County, who in 

 this prosaic day and generation, has nearly fifty bears 

 to his credit, and he is less than fifty years old. How- 

 ever the purpose of these pages a're not to dwell on 

 the slayers of bears, except those who hunted accord- 

 ing to sporting ethics, but to give the case of the 

 bears, and to try and save them from going the way 

 of the moose, the elk and the bison in Pennsylvania. 

 No animal should be condemned except on the same 

 carefully weighed evidence which has been accorded 

 certain so-called noxious birds, by a series of stomach 

 examinations. 



