American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . he manager of the Lake Hotel toMajor Pitcher illustrates with sufficient clearnessthe mutual relations of the bears, the tourists, andthe guardians of the public weal in the Park. Theoriginal was sent me by Major Pitcher. It runs: Lake. 7-27-o3. Major Pitcher, Yellow-stone : As many as seventeen bears in an eveningappear on my garbage dump. To-night eight orten. Campers and people not of my hotel throwthings at them to make them run away. I cannot,unless there personally, control this. Do you thinkyou could detail a tro
American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . he manager of the Lake Hotel toMajor Pitcher illustrates with sufficient clearnessthe mutual relations of the bears, the tourists, andthe guardians of the public weal in the Park. Theoriginal was sent me by Major Pitcher. It runs: Lake. 7-27-o3. Major Pitcher, Yellow-stone : As many as seventeen bears in an eveningappear on my garbage dump. To-night eight orten. Campers and people not of my hotel throwthings at them to make them run away. I cannot,unless there personally, control this. Do you thinkyou could detail a trooper to be there every even-ing from say six oclock until dark and makepeople remain behind danger line laid out by War-den Jones? Otherwise I fear some accident. Thearrest of one or two of these campers might own guests do pretty well as they are Barton Key. 9 A. M. Major Pitcher issued the order as requested. At times the bears get so bold that they take tomaking inroads on the kitchen. One completelyterrorized a Chinese cook. It would drive him off. CHAMBERMAID AND BEAR. Wilderness Reserves and then feast upon whatever was left a bear begins to act in this way or to showsurliness it is sometimes necessary to shoot bears are tamed until they will feed out ofthe hand, and will come at once if called. Notonly have some of the soldiers and scouts tamedbears In this fashion, but occasionally a chamber-maid or waiter girl at one of the hotels has thusdeveloped a bear as a pet. The accompanying photographs not only showbears very close up, with men standing by withina few yards of them, but they also show one bearbeing fed from the piazza by a cook, and anotherstanding beside a particular friend, a chambermaidin one of the hotels. In these photographs it willbe seen that some are grizzlies and some blackbears. This whole episode of bear life in the Yellowstone is so extraordinary that it will be well worthwhile for any man who has the right p
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