THE OLD ADIRONDACKS 



if they make $3 and $4 a day, or double the wages 

 of a decade ago. The younger guides, who knew not 

 the early days, and did not fish and hunt with W. C. 

 Prime, Kit Clark, and their fellows, find the present 

 conditions advantageous, and welcome the increasing 

 bands of tourists. But they spend less and less time in 

 hunting and fishing with their patrons and more in 

 rowing the latter tamely around the lakes, perhaps ac- 

 companying them on a day or two's journey through 

 the lakes and over the " carries." In the more remote 

 districts there is still fishing to be had, and the deer 

 are still fairly abundant. I was told, however, of 

 many instances of flagrant violations of the game 

 laws, and it is evident that the woods are not ade- 

 quately supplied with or patrolled by guardians. 

 Hounding and "jacking" for deer, while forbidden, 

 are still practised, and the remark of a guide on Long 

 Lake, when questioned as to some infraction of the 

 game laws, that " there never was any law on Long 

 Lake," emphasizes the situation. 



But while the Adirondacks are changed and are 

 changing, they will remain for many years to come 

 the great natural mountain and lake resort for the 

 larger cities of the eastern seaboard. They are to our 

 generation what the Catskills were to our grandfathers 

 and even to our fathers in youth, and if your true 

 sportsman must now seek the far Canadian woods for 

 big fish and big game, he cannot take with him or 

 away the life-giving air and the exquisite scenery of 



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