Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 77

Inthe Happy Hunting Ground of Virginia November Days With the Pledmont Fox Hounds—Starting the Run From Upperville. Some Famous Dogs and Horses of the Section—Leaders Among the Huntsmen—An Inter- national Competition. BY JAMES MARSHALL PLASKITT. RER FOX, strange to Wy, thrives In those sections of the country where he is most- 1y hunted. To the lover of the horse and the follower of the chase there are no more desirable localities on this con- tinent tham the Virginia counties of Fauquier and Loudoun. It is at Up- perville that America’s oldest recog- nized hunt club flourishes. The Pled- mont Fox Hounds enjoys and main- tains the reputation it obtained in the antebellum days to such an extent that it is as well known in Eurepean hunting circles as in the domestic do- main of Maitre Renard. Witness the result of the intermational competi- tion held several years ago, when these Pledmont hounds were pitted against the best that England could send to America. The former won in a walk. That stretch of country, reaching from the spurs of the Blue Ridge to the Bull Run mountains, embodles & territory replete with the haunts of the red and the gray fox. Its topo- graphical features make it an ideal fleld for the horseman. Snake and stone fences, hills and dales, open fields and meadows, mountains and lowlands, dirt roads (that nightmare of the motorist) and plenty of cover— these have helped to maintain the Old Dominion supreme in this, the most fascinating of outdoor sports. * x % ¥ P!cmmE that stretch of richly estated and fertile lands reach. ing from Ashbys Gap all the way castward to the Bull Run range. Five- thirty and King Sol slowly rising clear of that small expanse of moun- tains to throw his rays across the everlastingly charming flelds on a clear, frosty, fall morning. That's the dawn of a November day in the blue grass country. At the Pledmont kennels all hands are up and going, amid the lust throated bedlam of expectant hound, “See dat old Browny—he sho' am a houn’ dawg!" ejaculates Uncle Sam @s he vlews his canine pride and jo “Great day, man, you aln’ nevuh seen no houn’! Look at Mistuh Jeems dawg they ain’ no hawse in dis heah county avsh gwine t' folluh an’ they ain’ no mebbe 3o 'bout dat!” counters Dback one of the many railbirds of the kennel fence. Comment runs riot until the hounds are in readiness to start for lhc’ and double bridle reins, mot to men- tion saddle accessories—Is evidently the last word In “What the huntsman shall wear.” Nevertheless there {s an un- certainty in his attitude, a slight timidity jn his ‘hand” and an apparent effort at studled composure. As the hazards of the Hunt appear something tells him that there is to be a different experience from the previous drag hunts that he has been accustomed to on Long Island. And so it goes, some of them out for a fashion show, but mady out with the fixed determination to be there with hounds under way at any odds. Approach is made to & thickly wooded | The field s greatly reduced {n num- |consumed. knoll. They branch off from the road | pers. Many have ridden “straight,” | considered “that such and take the stone fence easlly. All pact and he suffers no injuries except the shock of the fall. His mount has recovered her footing and gallops madly back across the field. LR R FROM then the chase becomes a terrific tear across the roughest kind of terrain and wily ojd Marvel, veteran of many & similar event, leads them toward the Blue Ridge He loses his scent in the creek, dou- bles back, and then heads for the mountain again, knowing full well that once here it Is merely a matte of how long he chooses to ¢ntice the panting, foot-worn, yelping hounds. others have chosen the legs b lr““’ celves a clean gash in the throat, but it is merely an instant before the rest of the pack are upon him. Then it is the curtain and slow musio for him whep he becomes a vietim to his own loye of the ad- venturesome chase, Atter the brush or tail has been presented to the first lady to arrive, the party hle themselves on the rosd baek to Welbourne, where the hunt breakfast is to be held. With ravenous appetites as & rer sult of the chase it would begmar description to tell of the neatness and dispatch with which Especially when things & home-cured Virginia. served as THEY HAVE CHARGE OF THE PIEDMONT FOX HOUNDS. LEFT TO RIGHT: MR. FURR, WHIP; WAUGH GLASCOCK, MASTER OF FOX HOUNDS, ON ROCHESTER, AND MR. NORMAN, HUNTSMAN. hands stay in the rear of M. F. H, as before mentioned. The huntsman and the two whips have proceeded ahead, where they are casting the hounds. The horses know what is to follow full well a8 the humans, and the prancings and chafings at tightened bits are antios very similar to those at the race-track barrier. uOLE BROWNY,” that pride of the previously mentioned member of the darktown contingent, glves vent to a lusty-throated baying which sets the whole pack in the direction * %k * meeting place; the old and long de-{of the newly discovered trail. serted Pot House in back of Ayrshire, Buchanan’s home. say that the hounds are carefully accompanied by their previously wmentioned admirers. The prm'es:ionf Road schoolhouse | Gen. J. A. it is necdiess to increases as distance is covered. be- fiF. #E s, “Tallyho!" eries a member of the party who is the first to see the red fox break cover. Away go the hounds. Away &0 the riders and the hunt is on in earnest. The fox breaks for the stone fence, clears it, and doubles routes “around.” while some have lost thelr mounts entirely as the re- the first eropper. the country additional In the ride across riders are tions. Aged farmers, with their coat- talls fiying above the sturdy haunches of heavy draughts, . year hands mounted on abandoned plow teai youngsters riding coits and pon negroes on mules and what not—all going for dear life in an endeavor to keep in contact with the hunt. Temptation to lead the hounds & merry chase causes Br'er "Fox to come, out of his mountain security and break again for the open coun- | try, but in this particular case he has reckorted without a proper estimate |of the staying qualities of Spot, | who happens to locate his scent !soon ,after the continuatiof of the EARLY MORNING, AND READY FOR THE START OF THE HUNT WITH THE PIEDMONT FOX HOUNDS. _—nm———,ee—,—_—_—_—_—_—,—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—,—————— cause it is the one event of never- lagging interest to the entire coun- | tryside. All over the neighborhood, and itisa | big one, thoroughbreds and blooded hunters are being saddled and bridled for the day’s sport. Welbourne, Num- ber Six and Oakley, the homes of the Dulany family; Ayrshire, spacious es- tate of the Buchanans; Nordley, gray stone residence of the Lees; Old Wel- bourne, for many years the Randolph home; Crednal, the Carter place; Corotoman, the colonial - pillared domicile of the Richardsons; Edge- wood and Saint Brides Farm of the Oxnards and Langhornes, respective- ly; these and many others are In a state of activity and preparation for the meet. * % x % MO”INO twilight breaks into day at the old schoolhouse as the various pink-coated members and la- diss In becoming habits, followed by attendants through the various lanes, all mounted on the elite of Kentucky and Virginla horseflesh, assemble, From the crowd it does not take an experierced eye to tell just who who. But Included are many nam at the top of the soclal, financial and ‘horse-loving worlds. Whatever their stattons in life may be, however, the old saying hélds true that “all men are equal on the turf and under it."” ‘Every one being ready, Waugh Glas- cock, M. ¥. H,, and & horseman of no emall repute, directs the huntsmen and the two whips to go ahead with the pack and the rest follow them in the lead of the master, as traditional courtesy requires. It is a sight to be- Uttle attention and gracefully lounges in the enddie. To say that he will be at “Kkiil” is & mild statement when one has =een him in action: the son of Dulany F. de Butts, who in his day was prob- ably as acoomplished a horseman as Richard Dulany or as the renowned James Maddux. There is & man from the north astride ‘mare groomed to-& niosty. caAD, back and then heads straight for the cleared field. It has all happened so suddenly that Reynard and his houn’ dog followers are now well ahead of the hunting field, due to the lghtning-like start. The master takes the stome fence and is followed closely by the rest. They now reach the open stubble field and it is here that the fleetness of the various mounts begins to tell. | Guests begin to open while & lot of |the riders got neck-and-neck across this cleared territory. Lost time at the start is being made up and be- fore the other side of the field is reached there is much less distance between the hounds and the horses. In the path of pursued and pur- suers there lles & four-and-a-half- foot snake fence bounded on the op- posite side by a "branch” or creek. All clear this first hazard, except next to the last; the middle-aged gentle- man does not give his willing mount free rein enough and as & result the roan mare fouls the top of the fence and her rider comes & cropper in t middle of the stream. 'l'fio shallow Wwater breaks the effect of the im- Mg or THE cross-country passage of the pur- sued. “There he goes” Miss Gatewood cries, as she sights the fox running along the snake fence of the open briar fleld at the foot of the moun- tain. And off goes the entire party, remaining intact with the hounds. It has evidently been a cunning plan of the veteran to play hli ross the open flel Ayrshire and then make a get. to the Blue Ridge again. But when he does reach these flelds it enables the hounds and riders to gain such an advantage that they close in on him rapidly. The dogs are spread out so that he cannot turn aside and has to head for a fleld of blue grass, and upon topping the fence he finds himself ensnared in the confines of a vegetable garden. It takes just such a situation to be fatal to him. Retreat and escape are impossible. * % %" W!'!"K his bick to the high wire fence Maitre Reynard gives an exhibition of the gamest fighting spirit’ that any one is privileged to. The first hound to reach him re- tastier than the tastiest Smithfleld; corp bread, such as no other section light as can be; real butter, hot co old EE8 cooked in every acquired of all natures and descrip- | desirable style, rich cream and milk, fried and roast partridge, rabbit and many other delicacles of the game season. Small wonder that, in a country ‘where people think horse, live horse, and are born and bread to the sport of kings, the interest in the fox hunt has been never lagging. The Electrograph. 'rml is the name of an instrument invented in Spain to facilitate | struction in writing in schools. The apparatus is designed to educate the hand to move in accordapce with the will, First of all, metallic sheets are cut in such manner as to afford graphic | designs most difficuit for the un- trained muscles — angles, loops, raight line vertical and horizontal lines, etc. The sheets, when used by the child, must be so arranged that they may easily be brought together or separated de- sired; and this {s necessary also in order to make the lesson dificult or easy, as desired by the instructor. sheets, consequently, are fas- down with screws so peculiarly | made that a certain pressure may cause them to give a bit to one side or the other. Under the desk is an electric bell connected with the sheets above by & copper wire. Below these, and en- tirely isolated, is another system of sheets. e child is brought before the in- strument and told to place his paper between the free spaces of the sheets, mark his outline and then punch a key. This contact will open the elec- trle current and make the bell ring. If the pressure he exerts does not make the metallic outline precisely cover the one on his penciled paper, the bell below rings, giving immedi- ate notice of his error. The child en- joys the “game,” and is stimulated to. make his loop or eurve exactly match that of the metallic sheet. Saws for Marble. 'I‘!IE quarries of a Vermont com- pany produce every yesr more than 1,000,000 cubic feet of stone. In the early days the quarrying prop- er was done largely by manual and snimal labor. At present, four hy- dro-electric power stations, supple- mented by two -dri gener- ating stations, when necessary, sup- ply the power to run all the machin- pecially interqsting applica- lectric power is se: in the “gang saw that saw the gilant blocks of marble into slabs of vary- ing thickness. The saws are made of soft iron one-eighth of an inch thick and. four inches wide and are toothless. Small pumps deliver a mixture of nd and water to the saw and-the sand does the cutting. There are at the quarries more than 300 of these electrically run gaugs,” which work in groups of from twelve to forty-three gang: 'NEW PLOT To Editor The Star: | HAREST SIR: For my benefat ‘would you sweetly donate to me the name of gome en- - larged Emotion Picture Mgr. who I should like to meet rapid- 1y? Objeck, wealth. 1 shall tell you how this happen, so you will ses how umportant it can be, In fack, I have just collided with & new note In Pleture Screening. And what needs &' mew note more than Pioture Screening? Nothing, except Jess Banding perhapaly. Last night me Nogi go to the Jam Ploturs Palace to see very recent Plim Star, Miss Winda de Vitus, in ten (10) reeling acts of title “Pulled Through a Keyhol It were 8 very oxcited droma of reel life, It con- tained so manny thrils that Cousin Nog! g6 slsep to save his heart from breaking. ' There were two (2) other ersons in the oddlence, but they had ocame there to get engaged, so I do not think they was injerred by that tel motion of Misg Winda de Vitus. As soonly as News Review got finished with portrait of ofl wells burning Governor's backyard, Okla- homa, then Hon. Droma begin shoot- ing on wall. This were what wa. In midst of Impufre plumming on Terra Hut's famus slumm reside quite a number of honest hearts, by Willlam de Milion, fotograttea by Lorenzo Pretzel, scenario by the edi- tor of Smutty Storles with scenery by Andrew Volstead passed by the Bored of Censors, Sirrounded by such de- pravity, what chance have honest girl axept to fall etc? And yet she shall not do anything sinful for fear all those noble hearts would arise up and kick her out of that Slumm. How aweet she appear with hair arranged in pinwheels around the softness of her head? Do she love Father? In- deedly yes! And how bout Mother? Lots of love for her, by golly. Also cansiderable affexion for her dock- hound dog, name of O-Fido, which she adore while being fotograft. k¢ indeedly! Everything pretty joytul for the O'Hooligan Family be- cause they are pure & poor. Who could hellup being honest in such a surrounding? Then arrive date when Hon. Father go on strike in Pin Fac- tory because Wicked Capittalist will not puchase his invention for making pointless pins. Everybody get sorry. Then what could Parma Violet (for such are she named) do but obtain job in Button Works in midst of all its vices? Nothing. / * ok x ¥ ORATIO VAN SMELT, president of Universal Suspender Button Truat, }ive immorally in an enlarged stone room full of starecases. While not at work he stay home foiling peo- ple. He will not marry Russian Prin- s8 because she attemp to stabb him very evening when he go to Relsen- webber's Cab Array for hexic relax & rich joy. What shall he do to be more sinful? One date he arrive at Button Fac- tory for new paer] button to sew on his evening vest with which he lure ¥€. girls to ruing. Who he see there but Hon. Parma Violet? “Oh, Hon. Swoetheart, will you sew on button with your pretty face?” He ask to know. “You seek to smash me with your gold™ she require peevly while sewing. “If you will marry me by 1 pm I shall donate 3000000000004 in advan: he allure. “I shall tell Hobert Vincent of your dassly plott!" she snarrel. oncome Hon. Hobart Vincent, foreman of Button Works. Fight: He knockdown Hon van Smelt so trequently that Hon. Firpo should took lessons from him. And so this droms go reeling on- ward, Mr. Editor, until final scenery FOR A “AT SIGHT OF THAT MAN BOTH NOBI where Hon. van Smelt attemp to sleigh Hobert Vincent by thrushing him Into 300 hosspower sewing m chine. But Parma Violet are too d ceptive for him. Becretively she place soap on his disgustly shoes. He slip and fall Inte Stamping Dept. and when he come out he have been turned Into 11 doz paerl buttons, size C, style K. Then come twilight with all its combinations for heart-throb of happy love. At this junetion Nogl surrender a huj snore-sound and awoke up from dream he was In. “I dream I were in s cage feeding lions with olives on & toothpick,” nar- rate Nogl “I wish I was with you,” I denote. “For then I should have seéen some- thing natural.’ “Do you not find Nature pretty fre- quent in Emotion Picture Shows?” he require while we go outward. “Nature is there,”” I belabor, ‘but Hon. Director always make him look like somethi el “And yet do not the Sl prove some ns that are holesome & etish?" he ask it “Pussibly, Pussibly,” I dib. “Yet sometimes my s & elbows gets fatigged from tching poverty triump over wealth. Are not time rrived for rich man to be & hero sccasionally insted of villin? I am acquainted with cansiderable poor men who are gifficlently mean to steal the hair off dead ant's musstash. And sometime wealthy persons Is kind to annimmles, garbaj collectors & other etc. Why must we always be so reugh to rich? If we keep on treating them so hash maybe they will grow sad & take their $33% fo .« AYBE you could write Scenario with Poor Slumm Child villin & Wealthy Clubman hero,” snuggest Nogi sarcastly. “I could try, by Hack!" I narrate enthusl: ‘“While my brain whirls, you listen to what comes out.” |te MOVIE SCENARIO Wallace Irwin's Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy. “Blazz away,” say Nogi in unheated tone. “Following is it: ‘“Scenery No. 1—Marble Hall, re- mbling Grand Central Station. By soldy table set Hiram de Jaundice, milllonaire corn syrup king, signing checks for Poor & Neddy. Under dia- mond lamp set Hon. Mrs. de Jaundice, embroddering sofa-cushions for tired plummers. Lulu de Jaundice, with goldy curls all over her back, are set- ting at mechanical pipe organ while playing ‘Abide with Us." “Subtittle—'O Popps, Why should we Have Ottomobiles when the Poor have only Fords? “Scenery No. 2—Enter Hon. Janitor, carrying cansiderable Coal on his wrists & eyebrows. He smile with un- friendly teeth. “Subtittle—"Hiram de Jaundice, you cannot keep a Janitor waiting too long. “At sight of that man both Ladles faint down. Hon. De Jaundice arise up with nobile expression of his white halrs. “Subtittle—Wintergreen Podd, I will send you down 27000000008 check if you will stay in celler & lett my life be.’ “Sneers by Janitor. Then he say peeviy, “‘I care nothing for wealth. insured.’ “81 & grone by poor millionaire when he ask it. ““What then do you require? “‘Your daughter—her hand.’ “Reply to this, ‘Daughter my foot!" ‘Hs. Ha. (repeat this noise twice), say Hon. Janitor. ‘Begging your im- mediate reply, I wish inform you that the Furnace will be out in 12 minutes unless sweet Lulu de Jaundice comes my arm!" " “How much more of that you got?* Nogl ask to know, looking quite undi- gested, “‘Ob, indefinitely,” I snagger. “I got very large emotion following when Hamlet W. Egg, wealthy yg. clubman, are dishcovered teaching poker to poor I am chauffeurs in Y. M. C. A. Free Kinder- ' LADIES FAINT DOWN. HON. DE JAUNDICE ARISE UP WITH ILE EXPRESSION OF HIS WHITE HAIRS. j garten. ‘Hamlet, Rings by talefone! He listen. O Hamlet! shreech Lulu volee. ‘Arrive at oncely & turn en heat. Already Mother are commene- ing to sneeze.' " “Ratz & Kats!” howell Nogi. “Are you there, attempting to sell me such a Beenario “I were," I renig. “For see what happen in Scene Last! There are Hon. Hiram de Jaundice locked away in the Liquor Closet while Mother are froze to the nearest Redlator. Sweet Lulu enrush maddishly around In seek for something to burn. What nextly? Income Hon. Janitor, grabb her by the top of her hair & drugs her to his celler. Making Ha Ha twies he tie her to electric washing {machine with following report: * % % % €6 6L JOW you like those, my Beauty? In 4 minutes electric machine will start doing so, and you will be washed to subbs! Do you love me? “But see what is! Down outside street come Hamlet W. Egg, driving 27 tons refined Nutt Coal in wagonm. ‘With high-power elbows he open coal- hole. With rushy & rory down come all that Anthussite into celler. It struck wickid Janitor in the seat of his stummick while Lulu & her Ham- let clutch into each other arms.” “O ug!" Nog! say that, get house warm by that?” “What are more warmer than 2 hearts that beat as 17" I ask to know. “Pussibly,” say Nogl “But even then you could not sell such a Sce- nario. All those million § Actrusses in Jollywood prefer to act part of 10§ working girl.” “We could hire a poor Actruss, couldn’'t?" I require peevly. “I know quite & several awfully poor Actrus- ses, very willing to act rich if neces- sary.” | But Nogt merely grum to this. 1 think his mind are unable to walk backwards. Hoping you are the same Yours truly Hashimura Togo. (Copyright, 1923.) “How ‘you “TRICKS THAT HAVE WIN GAMES” O the editor: In these dsys T when quick thinking spells victory in sports as well as other walks of life and ath- letes of all kinds is trying to figure out ways of defeating their op- ponents by strategy, this little article on “Tricks That Have Win Games"” ought to be read with a furor of lethargy. Even the youngest followers of foot ball has no doubt heard of the vari- ous tricks sprang by the old Carlisle Indians under the wily regime of Coach Glenn Warner. The most no- torious of these plays was the one in which the Indian t! catched the kick-off tucked the ball under the back of his sweater and run for & touchdown wile the opposing tacklers looked in vain for the man with the ball. On another occasion the In- all showed up on the fleld with life-size foot balls painted on the front of thelr sweater and the oth side had a-tough P.M. trying to gu who they was entitled to tackle. But the cutest trick ever pulled by s Indian team took place in 1301 in the annual battle between the Hoola the Harvard faculty headlights and whenever a Harvard boy would come at one of the Indians in an attempt to charge or tackle or block, the Indian would turn on his beadights and the other man would half to turn away baflled. This trick was specially effective vs. the faculty team as most members of a faculty genally always has trouble with their 8. ”(.)n- of the smartest bits of strategy ever employed in the game of golf was used by Wilson' Wallam the champion of Peru in -his famous match in 1887 with Eggs Fo Yung the Chinese title holder. Eggs was one of the longest drivers in golf at that time hardly ever hitting a tee shot lest than & quarter of & mile. * ¥k *x ‘NP‘W was 8 man who never got oft the line but 60 yds was good IN:STREET, AT UPPERVILLE, VA, 4, i distance for him and he realized that the Chinaman's superior driving would prove his-undoing unless he re- sorted to knavery of some kind, ‘Wallam and 'Yung was both on the first gréen in par fives and Yung win the hole. by sinking his 4th. putt for & birdle. Wallam also holed his ball though he was beaten. He then reached into the cup and picked the balls and handed one to Yung, saying here lg your ball. From that time on, Yung mever win another hmvlll.orumlltl;.bt:.k‘; 99 méay olubs that when Chinaman By Ring Lardner “THE MOST NOTORIOUS OF THESE PLAYS WAS THE ONE WHICH IND! 'CHED THE KICK-OFF TUCKED THE THE IAN THAT CAT! BALL UNDER THE BACK OF TOUCHDOWN.” had to give up as he ‘had noting left to shoot with. ‘Wallam afterwards told his secret to some of his friends. It seems that when he handed that ball to Yung on the first green and sald here is your ball, why instead of giving him & golf ball he hag give him a stand- ard sise ivory billiard ball. When the Chinaman found this out years later he said that if he had known it at the time he would not of broke all those golf clubs but would of used his queue. International polo match of 1 between Denmark.and Greece was won by another case of mistaken {dentity, The Greeks was far and away the better players but the Den- mark ponies was 8o much faster and better trained that the Greeks seen HIS SWEATER AND RUN FOR A was putting up and under cover of darkness he removed all the horses and filled their stalls with old mules. All through the game the Danes knew they was something wrong but could not find out what {t was. They could not get no speed out of their animals and on severa] occasions the mule: stopped entirely and refused to budge, allowing the Greek riders to score basket after ‘basket with no opposi- tion. The Danes never dla find out what was the matter but have never took part in a International polo match since tfat day. * X ¥ sum.ag:nhn- was used by the old aha Blues in the de- clding game of & world serious with the Duluth Tigers. The Tigers was noted as sluggers and It was noth- ing for them to roll up 30 and 40 runs _invaded the Duluth clubs house, stole all the bats and sub- stituted mock bats which was made of cloth stuffed with cotton. In the game proper the Duluth “sluggers” could not hit a ball out of the infleld and most of the time their best efforts was puny fouls. They are still won- dering how they happened to loosc their batting eye so suddenly and the most of them thinks it was due to the great pitching of the Omaha star, Lefty Gargle. The prise trick of the century how- ever was recently pulled in a game of bridge played on a barge in the Chi- cago river. The two couples was playing for $25.00 a point and Mr. and Mrs. Glue wanted to win as they owed a large fish bill. So before the game they took all the diamonds out of the deck. When their opponents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester, would pick up their hands and see no diamonds, why they would think their partner must have & lot of them, so either Mr. Ches- ter or his wife would bid three or four diamonds antl the Glues would double them and set them. You can imagine Mr. and Mrs. Ches- “IN THE GAME PROPER THE DULUTH SLUGGERS COULD NOT HIT A BALL OUT OF THE INFIELD.” ter's surprise when they seen hand after hand played and never catched a glimpse of any card of the suit they was bidding on. It is said that the Glues win over $4,000 in this game but never got paid., RING W. LARDNER. —_— A whale skull, so large that it had to be’sawed into eight pleces for Bandling and crating, has been found on the Alaskan coast.