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will be 40 by 145 feet and on the main deck 
will be the dining room, the refrigerating plant, 
the light plant and club rooms. From here a 
wide stairway will lead to the main cabin, from 
which to the right and left are the staterooms. 
Each stateroom will be 8 by 9 feet with a door 
leading into the main cabin and a door and 
window, the door leading to a gallery passing 
on each side of the boat. These staterooms 
will all be screened. 
From the main cabin another stairway will 
lead to the Texas, or hurricane deck, where 
four large roomy staterooms will be located and 
for airiness these cannot be surpassed anywhere. 
To make the scheme more realistic there will 
be two funnels which will be used for ventila¬ 
tion. A pilot house will be placed in the usual 
place and a large searchlight will be installed to 
sweep the river. 
A concrete dock 50 feet long will be construct¬ 
ed on the south side of the island allowing 
plenty of landing room for all boats. The work 
on the new structure is being done by the mana¬ 
ger of the club, Capt; Ballard, and a force of 
assistants. Concrete enters to a large extent 
into the construction of this new club house. 
The inside will be lined with ornamental sheet 
steel, and on cool evenings during the fall and 
winter will be heated by steam. 
A large number of the members belonging are 
Chicago club men and sportsmen with a goodly 
sprinkling of members from this vicinity. One 
of the features that will strongly appeal to the 
majority of the sportsmen will be trap shooting. 
This was indulged in at the old place, in a lim¬ 
ited way, but at the new location this part of 
the club’s sport will be given more attention. 
The club will also be a rendezvous for the hunt¬ 
ers that come down annually to get their bag 
of ducks, as it is during the summer when they 
spend their outing there. 
The island home of this club will be reached 
as of old, in the club launch from the north 
shore and from there all the canyons, as well as 
Starved Rock, can be reached in the same way 
as before. The island is wooded with some 
fine old forest giants and will be greatly beauti¬ 
ful in many ways. As there are some very in¬ 
fluential men back of this scheme it is safe to 
say that this pleasure resort will be one of the 
finest on the river. The membership is increas¬ 
ing rapidly and especially since the new club 
house has been decided on. 
The club privileges will be extended to the 
friends of the members introduced by them and 
no doubt after an introduction to the club’s hos¬ 
pitality many will avail themselves of the oppor¬ 
tunity of becoming members- While the club 
is not severely exclusive, still it draws the line 
at undesirable persons. 
Trapshooting will receive a new impetus here 
after the traps are again set and manned by a 
competent crew. The traps will be ideally lo¬ 
cated with a fine back ground of trees. The 
shooting will be over the water. Quite a bit 
of clearing will have to be done before every¬ 
thing will be in readiness and when finished 
this island will be one of the sights that will 
be worth visiting. Work is being pushed rapidly 
so as to have the principal part enclosed before 
winter sets in. Ottawa, Illinois, 8 miles east of 
this island, can be reached by club’s boats from 
there. The real sportsman is always welcome 
here at any time. O. J. OHRISTMANN. 
Hunting Accidents Less 
Albany, N. Y. Nov. 15, 1914. 
During the deer season which closed to-night 
there were only five deer hunting accidents 
with three fatalities, according to the reports 
made to the Conservation Commission by the 
game protectors. There is no evidence to show 
that a single one of the five victims was shot at 
in mistake for a deer. 
Out of the 22 hunting accidents reported to 
the Conservation Commission to-night, 17 oc¬ 
curred in the pursuit of small game, attended 
by five deaths. Although most of the casualties in¬ 
dicate gross carelessness on the part of the 
hunters, the sportsmen of the state are undoubt¬ 
edly exercising more care than ever before in 
the handling of weapons. When it is remem¬ 
bered that there are over 200,000 licensed hunt¬ 
ers in the state, besides thousands who can le¬ 
gally hunt on their own farms without licenses, 
the list of only a score of accidents is reducing 
casualties in pursuit of a hazardous sport to the 
minimum. 
The death of Donald Curran, a lumberjack 
of Old Forge, whose body was found Oct. 23 
in the woods about one mile from the outlet of 
Kiln Lake by Herbert Hillard, is included in 
the list of five deer hunting fatalities. The man 
had been dead about ten days. He had a gun 
and pack basket. The first reports on the case 
were to the effect that Curran had probably 
been struck by a stray bullet, but the coroner 
is investigating to ascertain if it might have been 
murder. 
Ellis Shimmel, aged 20, of Mohawk, while 
hunting deer on Nov. 8, in the town of Colton, 
slipped and fell as he was crossing a rustic 
bridge, resulting in the accidental discharge of 
his own rifle. The bullet entered his body, caus¬ 
ing death. 
Edward McIntosh, 30, of Carthage, hunting 
deer with his father, Henry McIntosh, and his 
brother Easter McIntosh, near Harrisville, Oct. 
9, was hit in the breast by a buck shot and se¬ 
riously wounded. The father claims he shot at 
a running buck with a shot gun and did not 
know his son was in range. 
Mark Carey, a guide of Sodom, was shot in 
the thigh while hunting in a party of seven in 
the vicinity of the Chatiemac Club. A deer was 
surrounded by the hunters. Carey and another 
hunter fired at the animal about the same time, 
his friend’s bullet striking him instead of the 
game. Carey is recovering. 
John Lawless of Gabriels, hunting deer on 
Osgood river, near Paul Smith’s, sat in front 
with muzzle of gun pointing toward him. In 
reaching for the gun, it slipped and hit rib of 
boat and contents of barrel was discharged into 
his abdomen killing him. 
The accidents which occurred to small game 
hunters were as follows: 
Judson Warner, of the town of Chenango, 
Broome county, while hunting woodchucks in 
company with J. Bruce Allen in the town of 
Barker August 27, was mistaken for a wood¬ 
chuck by his friend, fired at and fatally wounded. 
Warner died in the Binghampton hospital Aug. 
29- 
Mark Hill of Berrington, duck hunting on 
Than in Previous Years 
South Lake, near Lyndhurst, was accidentally 
shot by his companion named Van Coot, the 
wound resulting fatally. The men had stepped 
from their boat and were unloading their guns 
on shore when Van Coot’s weapon was acci¬ 
dentally discharged. 
Guy Meyers of Model City, Niagara county, 
was accidentally shot and killed by his compan¬ 
ion on a bird hunting trip in October. A charge 
of bird shot entered his hip at close range- 
Benjamin J. Hill, the 15-year old son of Ben¬ 
jamin Hill of Cohoes, was accidentally shot and 
killed by another lad named McGraw, with 
whom he was hunting along the Mohawk, op¬ 
posite Cohoes. 
Fern Duns'hee, the eight-year old daughter of 
Clarence Dunshee of Sidney Center, Delaware 
county, while out berrying was mistaken for a 
woodchuck by a hunter, shot and fatally wound¬ 
ed. The child expired in the hospital at 
Oneonta. 
John McMullen, of Painted Post, hunting in 
the woods in the vicinity of that village Oct. 1, 
was accidentally shot in the leg, back and wrist 
by his companion, Leo Craig, with a shot gun. 
Halsey Le Grange of Prattsburg, was serious¬ 
ly injured hunting with two companions, by the 
accidental discharge of his own shot gun which 
occurred while he was climbing over a log. 
Bertram Casler, of Little Falls, was accident¬ 
ally shot by his brother John Casler, when they 
were hunting partridge near St. Johnsville. The 
shot entered the knee and body. Not fatal. 
John Sloans of Red Mills, hunting ducks 
around Big Island, St. Lawrence River, was 
shot in the left foot by the accidental discharge 
of his own gun. The gun slipped on the boat 
seat. 
Walter Weaver and Merritt Babcock of Peters¬ 
burg, were accidentally shot near that place Oct. 
1. Weaver stumbled, dropping his shot gun, 
which was discharged, wounding Weaver in the 
shoulder and his companion in the knee. 
Mrs. Cady of Ballston was accidentally shot 
near Harrisburg by a man who was attempting 
to unload a gun. The shot struck the woman in 
both legs and also shot off the end of her 
fingers on the right hand. 
James Quigley of Norfolk, hunting for par¬ 
tridge in the vicinity of Madrid, was accidentally 
shot in the face by his companion, Mark Good- 
now, when the latter fired at a partridge. 
A. L. Burger of Hornell, while hunting near 
Hartsville, climbed over a fence accidentally 
discharging his shot gun; lost a finger. 
Wilford Kleisler, son of Julian Kleisler of 
Southampton, was accidentally shot by George 
Whitby. Young Kleisler was in a boat on Tay¬ 
lor’s creek with several other lads. They had 
a flobert rifle which was accidentally discharged, 
the bullet entering the spine and thence through 
the stomach. The lad died after an operation in 
the Southampton hospital. 
John Thompson of New York, was accidental¬ 
ly shot in both feet by Walter Young of Chester- 
town, while on a hunting trip on Panther Moun¬ 
tain. They were hunting partridge and had 
rested to clean their guns. Young’s repeating 
shot gun was accidentally discharged. 
