In- BAGS 63 OSTRICHES W. H. Hile Arrives in New York With Remarkably Fine Lot of Birds. FEATHER FARM IN NORTH Declares Bipeds Fare Better in a Cold Climate. York, Sipt. 25. After a thr months' trip from Calcutta. W. H. Hile has arrived in port with the largest consignment of oat riches ever received in this country, and probably the lajt ostriches that will ever he allowed to leave Africa. The bird were taken ashore from the Kansas, of the Buoknall line. Sixty-three of the valuable birds Started un the trip, and, to the amaxementtof thone familiar lth the difficulties of Importing odtrichcl, fifty-three of thorn still livt. Home of the birds are to be uifd to start an otrlch farnu within thv limits of New York, and it Is expected that by next year it will be puaaible for admirers of ostrich plumes to go to this arm and select featltcrri still on the bird. This will be the first time an ostrich farm hiit ever been undertaken in sue It a climate, with the exception of a small farm started laM year by Mr. HI In. Hllo, who Im tamed an a big game hunter in South America and Africa, broiiHht three pairs of young ostriches to this country Inut year and established i farm At Itloonistmrg. I'a To his surprise, the birds got along as well an uiil those that have been ivlng on California ostrich farniH, and seven months ago he decided to make a big importation. BirdN Show Ii'K" I "roll 'because of" the large profits Hist can be obtained from those, bird, hp ahl jesterday, "I conctuded that If I would succeed in my undertaking It would be the beginurug of a great industry In this country. "Abyssinia is the home of the only ft nod ostriches, the Wua bird, and right from the start I via beset lth difficulties, because (iermmiy. Portugal, Jialy and KiiKUnd have Ihu against taking ostriches from Abs-sluia, the only nation "Hot having such laws at the time oiurled being ranee. "German Africa ruled me out by royal edict tho wir before becuuse of my capture there. I had to get Into the Interior to get the birds and then et them out through Krench territory, started my actual hunt from Jibuti, on the east gulf of the coast of Som.illlaud. bolng the oblv white hum in the party. In all, I took Pfty-fmir natives, and I was tho only armed person In tho party. iKor four months we stayed In the interior getting our birds. ComU Built of llru-h. "Our nii ho.i nan nrnt to bnlhl larA f-nvrnt, known aa sThs, of tvri mui Imiah, irmlA alrotia- thnt not en Hon rouli! hiauk lulu It. Tin PlHhlia)io. hst (M. pot, with winita I tint i-tl bnMw Into a trap. MAlwajs I hait two thltms In mnA. Kirnt, I was to (utittira thr birti, and then I hub to k'p thorn llt fur nrottMKMi Ion. mi tu ili'tr Iih hits is lit Mini day, ai I nan (limn win piffvintif yitii, "The actual huiitina of thrt Iilrrlu imn- paratlvfiy tatne. We wnitc-U until wp aoitiD and then rhaaM theni Into ftm tm. Thpy rr then lirowti nuil hci powerful IfRS tl1 until got thmii Iniu nns Imikuli hruH nr ht ki at tiiftl. In tltlN way -a would rarrv i ti n. to I he ti k'Jfp (hoin hers until hp frp thrnugh with our html. "tinn lu'ky Ha to land with mi eh a la rap numbar of hinla i-mi bp ifrn frwri itih fptijlta of othpr fxikmIMIoii ThPin hmn hfpn only tin aurcfMsftil linpor at iyrm itl hird a Miufl the flmt oiifg anlMit-il tntnty VPBts aiio, Then Kd CHMilon f.f I'Hlirmfiln tartrd fvmn A frU l-h L'VO birilg iiul landed irn with one pair. "Thp sipai alu- of tha birds inn dpmonilratpd by Ida I rial ia ir. Thpi a rr now or oieir erinpi'tiiK lit lh' count i (Kiwy, Ona Oalrlch llrld at In Cur Town throi ono natrbh vn'iifd at 000. This htrd hna already mad vinttt or Ua uwntr. iu Afrlrit owiipra of (rood natrh-ha will aell tliriri only at nor moon prl -a. would titc nut. of thfap brniiaht In loOay for any prlra. "At ths of nmntha ilia hinlj art-full town and ate ptodicina fpTMm at Bood at 1 Iipv Ml PVfp srow. TIip ttlnl Mill srp nlrtPiy fpathra tt a rroo. Do fpathPis hlns worth about ll f.tj rarh. Tlira a a iipw crop paih piahi montha. "Thti ahowa lha Individual sanilng -apa' iiy iif a bit A from Its own but by nr nifwna tie ut-odut tins valua of tha oatrhh Ht art in a ivtt nn pair of Tai hf a farmer knowing his buairn-xa run )mt Mi tMy oatrb hoa In tn yrara. Tbera mi front fifty to ou Irh pass mttavu front bird rh of kfepinr a hird is emmmiH- tlvnly illKht, Itt a year bHi pnouah for 1 fofwl f.pf rruulrf i'lii oJ room and good ratp. arm II male 'ot reaaary. "1 rlalm to ba thn flrai man who svpi t-arnd how to hmiill an ot rh fri cM d'lmaip. Htthilo it haa 'umtu-l th arm Ijllroi ruii rmil hum iipfranary In thta eountty. Tha Mm toi.li in J'Pitnaylv woia lat ypr doinn- rt kpII, and thwrp will ioon ynutignhn, I ha va found hat the hit '1 rr hardy I and thptn out In thi vr storms Sod that this pnolui Hip vciv f'ftfhf-ra. Jt IS a (ntptk to UhwIw sirh'hPS Hk hot huusa flowwrav "I pKpati that niy cimiMiu' will tnk vPrv larap trints out of thr n9Ur. and my hpp la to build up a I(iofitibijr wnpfp t-prtain s-ti He i'-s I tioid tan bp tried out. Thy ni all dpppndfnt on th iiU'c'di of Una farm "K'ankiv, th- rw Vork farm be atartpd larsplv for purposfa of ad i -ft ili a thp Innv viinii rrrn, but tn ao'iion to PnhtblMn th blrda hrp will tiifrd
