GAME AND FISH I^E SORTS, J I 



from New York to Wheeling, W. Va., so if ticket be bought to the latter place 

 It can be disposed of at Deer Park or Oakland for a couple of dollars. 



All trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway stop here in the summer. Most 

 of the sportsmen who have been over this route to the Blackwater have started 

 from Oakland, but the " Glades Hotel," (famous for i!s table and general excel- 

 lency), has been destroyed by fire. The distance from Deer Park to Oakland ia 

 but six miles, and those who prefer to go on the old road can go from here. 



There is a large hotel here owned and operated by the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railroad. It is a first-class house ; the charges are from $3 to $3.50 per day. 



The sportsman need not burden himself with much luggage ; let him take his 

 'od and gun, and if the latter be a breech loader, his cartridges also, for he can- 

 ■lot get them here. Other kinds of ammunition, Ditmar's wood powder and 

 others, all kinds of shot, wads, etc., he can procure ; also good lines and flies. A 

 blanket will not be amiss. Coffee pots, frying-pan, etc., can also be had. It 

 will not be necessary to take much food for camping expeditions, and a couple of 

 hams, some bacon, coffee, sugar, etc, will be supplied at very reasonable rates. 

 Good guides can be had for $1.50 to $1.75 per day ; they will do the cooking, etc. 

 Horses will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.50. Trout are found in 

 Deep Creek, 



There is a tract of land calied the " Dobbin Estate," where parties generally 

 stay. It has upon it a good frame house, which is partially furnished and a lot of 

 about twelve acres of pasture land for the horses. Nothing is charged for the use 

 of house or lot and as it is but three miles from the North Fork, and on the banks 

 of the South, and four miles from the famous " Falls of the Blackwater," it is the 

 best plan to make this headquarters. The distance to this house from Deer Park 

 is thirty-six miles, from Oakland thirty. See West Virginia. 



JECarford County — 



Havre de Grace. Good duck shooting, including canvas-backs, broad-bills. 

 Dlack ducks. Reached via the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, 

 eighty-two miles from Philadelphia, twenty-six miles from Baltimore. Duckers, 

 boats, decoys, etc., can be obtained for about $25 per day. Write to James 

 Nixon. 



The shooting at Havre de Grace is monopolized by fifteen or twenty parties, 

 who shoot altogether for market. 



The "■ Narrows," which begin about six miles south of Havre de Grace, some- 

 limes afford good shooting from the shore, either side ; but not until after a severe 

 storm, do the ducks leave the fiats and resort to these contracted waters, to afford 

 sport enough to pay to leave New York, and then the stranger would find 

 trouble in shooting, unless accompanied by some one known to the land ow^ners. 



Magnolia CouTity — 



There is excellent duck gunning at the railroad bridge crossing Gunpowder 

 River. 



Perrymans'uille is in the midst of many excellent wild-fowl shooting localities. 

 Bush River, with Abbey Island at its mouth. Gunpowder River with Carroll's 

 Island at its mouth. Maxwell's Point, three miles Irora the Gunpowder Bridge, 

 the level shores near Harewood and Stemmer's Run, and many other well-known 

 localities, are annually visited by sportsmen. 



The shooting on Bush River is from point only. The shore owned by Mr. S. 

 Sutton, P. O. address, Perrymansville, is a good one ; the shooting is red-head 

 principally. This shore is opposite the celebrated Leggoes' Point, the extension 

 of Gunpowder Neck, and is one of the finest jough weather points on the Gun- 

 Dowder. Carroll's Island, and in fact all che points on the Gunpowder, are rented 

 for fabulous prices. 



JCent County— 



The White Perch Fishing at Betterton. Betterton is on the extreme upper 

 end of Chesapeake Bay, within sight of the mouths of the Susquehanna, Elk, 

 Northeast and Sassafras Rivers. It is about eighty miles by water from Phila- 

 delphia, and forty from Baltimore. It is reached by the Ericsson steamers which 

 leave botii cities at 4 p. m., requiring for the trip about eleven hours from the for- 

 mer, and four hours from the latter city. The fare from Philadelphia is $1.50, 

 which includes berth. Meals are fifty cents extra. Philadelphiansmay leave the 

 Wharf on the upper side of Chestnut Street any day by the boats, which, though 

 oot large, furnish excellent accommodations, arrive at Betterton by sunrise, spend 



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