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FOREST AND STREAM 
A W i^iiivLaY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Fubld and Aquatic Spouts, Pfactjcau Natter at. IUbtoky, 
El"” °NT7riniE, the Protection op Gams,Preservation ok Forests* 
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in Out-boob Recreation and Study : 
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COACHING. 
A LTHOUGH we think it a generation too soon, we 
wisii the gentlemen who have undertaken the re¬ 
vival of coaching in this part of our country every success 
in their efforts. We use the word “revival" advisa¬ 
bly, and in preference to “introduced," wliieli is the term 
applied by some of our contemporaries, who forget that 
we have not always had railroads, and that coaching, if 
never followed purely as a pastime l>y auy of our gentle¬ 
men of wealth, as it is, and was in England, was yet in 
olden limes Lite only means of travel. And, in fact, this 
country is still the home of the stage coach, and affords 
more of that pleasurable excitement to be found “on the 
road” than is, or ever was, to lie had elsewhere. In many 
parts of the West and Southwest, notably in California, 
Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, the stage 
coach is the only means of communication between distant 
points, and our English vieitor can not only be carried 
over the Sierras, by the rocky shores of the Pacific, and 
across great sandy deserts, but we can give him a taste of 
that variety in coaching which he has not known since the 
days of Dick Turpin and Claude Duval. The heroes of 
Hounslow Heath seem now almost like mythical characters, 
hut our “road agents" still flourish iu Nevada and Cali¬ 
fornia, while the playful Apache nwails the traveler in 
Arizona to relieve him alike of puree and scalp. 
As for distance, a continuous trip cau he made on the 
Pacific coast of a thousand or more miles, and lasting 
night and day for a week. Or the traveler can remain 
ov..r at his will at any of the stations. Probably no coach¬ 
ing trip can he named to exceed in interest that which is 
made by starting at Gilroy, or Hollister, or the furthest 
point from San Francisco reached by the Southern Pacific 
Railroad, and driving through the Salinas Valley and over 
t.ie coast range to Santa Barbara; passing through scores 
of those beauiiful natural parks of live oaks, aud attain¬ 
ing an aliitude of five thousand feet or more. Thence 
following the coast with the wheels sometimes washed by 
the waves of the Pacific, through San Beneventuro to Los 
Angelos, and through the lovely Sin Gabriel Valley to San 
Bernardino. 
It is generally supposed that the horses used on these 
Western slage lines ure miserable little mustang's, hut this 
is a mistake. The “cattle” generally consists of fine 
American horses (so-called to distinguish them from the 
na ive stock). We remember once driving into Gilroy, 
where the cars were wailing to take us to San Francisco, 
behind us as handsome a team of six reap horses as could 
be turned out anywhere; aud gotteu up as to grooming 
and harness in a style that would not have disgraced "the 
avenue.” Everybody has heard of Hank Monk, the Ne¬ 
vada coachman who took Mr. Greeley at such a pace over 
the Sierra Nevadas, and pretending to misunderstand Ids 
petitions for caution, exclaimed ''Sit still, Mr. Greeley, I’ll 
get you there in lime." And every one who gees to San 
Francisco and visits the Geysers must have been struck 
with that remarkable hit of coachmanship, where six 
horses are taken down and around a mountain over a road 
barely wide enough for the wheels, willi a steep precipice 
on one side. 
As much as we wish for it, wc fear that Messrs. Bennett, 
Douglas, aud Kane will experience some diliicully iu mak¬ 
ing their coaching club Hie success in point of numbers of 
teams that it deserves to be. We have as yet too limited a, 
number of young men of wealth and leisure, who have at 
the same time the inclination and the ability to “tool" a 
coach, to ride a steeple chase, or follow hounds. Having 
no laws of primogeniture, even our large fortunes are, as a 
rule, ent up and divided between so many that even an 
eldest son rarely finds himself in a position lo follow where 
his inclinations lead. Then again, the position of this 
city deprives the club of all roads but one, without the al¬ 
ternative of crossing the ferry. To be sure that one is 
very delightful, and lias Jerome Park and the club house 
for a turning point, hut variety is as essential In coaching 
as in anything else. The following pleasant paragraph, 
which we take from the London Field, shows that the 
originators of the scheme have the sympathies of their 
friends on the other side:— 
“Onr cousins, we are pleased to see by an article in the 
Few York Herald, intend going in strongly for coaching 
Ibis year. They have already established u coaching club 
of our own patiern, with a President, Vice-President, and 
other officers, aud while last year at Jerome Park the club 
turned out with five coaches, this summer more than double 
that number it is cxpecled will put in an appearance. Of 
course, Rome was not built in a day, but it says much for 
the growing Iaste that already so much interest has been 
excited about the club. American gentlemen can drive, as 
we know. Two seasons ago Mr. Tiffany was on the 
Brighton road, and those who sat behind Mr. Kane last 
summer during that pleasant drive to Virginia Water know 
how well his coach was horsed and how lo a minute it kept 
its time. YVe hope to meet him and others of his country¬ 
men over here again this summer; but meantime we eoii- 
gialulate the New York people on their new institution, 
and sincerely hope it will take root aud flourish. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
Game Laws of New York. 
W E presume that Mr. Royal Phelps was reported in¬ 
correctly as having said, at the last meeting of the 
New Yoik Society for the Protection of Game, that he de¬ 
sired no change in the game laws as at present existing in 
this Stale. In fact, Hie amendments to the law, which we 
published a few weeks since, were prepared under the di 
reclion of the society of which he is President, and must 
have had his sanction. This amendment, if passed, makes 
Die close season for quail until October 20th. YVe 
trust that the Assembly Committee will see fit lo extend 
the close lime to November 1st. The law regulating 
the sale of game should also hive the attention of 
the committee. As it now exists, grouse and quail can 
he sold in our markels until March 1st, a most absurd regu¬ 
lation, and ODe to which, next to snaring and trapping, is 
owing to the rapid diminution in the number of game 
birds in this and adjoining States. YVe should also like to 
see summer woodcock shooliug abolished, and llie close 
season extended lo September 1st; not only on account of 
protecting the birds, but so that the merciless slaughter of 
chicken partridges by woodcork market shooters might be 
stopped. 
YVe find in an exchange the following memorandum re. 
garding Mr. Sherman's committee io the present Legisla¬ 
ture,— 
“The Committee on Game Laws of the Assembly has 
been subdivided into three divisions, with reference to the 
proper division of its labor. The first division cousists of 
Messrs. Lyne, YVebb, and Halliday, and has charge of “Tide- 
tvaier fish, and game restoring to the shores of tide water;" 
and second division, on “Game aud fish of the northern 
wilderness, and on the borders of the Great Lakes mid 
the River St. Lawrence,” consists of Messrs. Bowen, 
Taber, and Sherman; and the third division, on "Game 
and fish in the interior of the State, except in the northern 
wilderness, and outlie borders of and in the Great Lakes 
and iu the St. Lawrence River,” consists of Messrs. Bowen, 
Green, and Sin rraan. The committee intend to make a 
revision aud codification of the game laws, so that they 
may be more readily understood, and more ifficicnUy ad¬ 
ministered than they ure at present. The committee ask 
for suggestions from sportsmen who desire to assist them 
in them work. At present the laws are inconsistent, and 
are construed diversly by magistrates in different parts of 
the Stale." 
Maine State Association for Protection of Fish.— 
The annual meeting of this association was held at Augusta 
last week, when it was voted to memorialize the Legisla¬ 
ture for a continuance of the work which is being carried 
on by the Fish Commissioners, and to reecommenda revi¬ 
sion of the Fishery laws of the Stale. It was voted to re¬ 
commend, as far as practicable, general instead of special 
legislation for the proteclion and propagation of fish. The 
following officers for the ensuing year were elected: Presi¬ 
dent, John H. Kimball, Bath; Vice-President, YV. S. 
Badger, Augusta; Secretary and Treasurer, J. YV. Clapp, 
Augusta; Directors, J. H Kimball, YV. S. Badger, VVm. 
G. Davis, of Portland, E. M. Stillwell, of Bangor, S. D, 
Leavitt, of Eastport, Charles G. Atkins, of Bueksport, 
Prof. Joikam B. Bewail, of Brunswick, YVm. B. Hazletiue, 
of Belfast, Mannasseli Smith, of Portland, Henry O. Stan¬ 
ley, of Dixfieid, YVarren Johnson, of Augusta, Samuel E. 
Smith, of YViscasact, S. C. Strout, of Portland, Seth D. 
Wakefield, of Lewiston, and G. D. Biahee, of Buckfield; 
Executive Commiuee, J. H. Kimball, YV. S. Badger, W 
G. Davis, Warren Johnson, and E. M. Stillwell. 
The sissociation has addressed a memorial lo the Legisla¬ 
ture in relation to fish culture, and calling particular atten¬ 
tion to Hie unusual natural facilities- existing in Maine for 
its prosecution. On the 12th inst,, a bill for a general close- 
time for land-locked salmon, trout, and bass was presented 1 
to the Legislature. It provides for an annual close time for 
certain fish in the State as follows. Landlocked salmon, 
from September loih to March Isl; trout, October 1st to- 
March 1st; black bass, and Oswego bass, April 1st. to July 
1st. Suitable penalties are provided for violations of the 
law, aud the fish particularized can only he caught by 
sportsmen who use single baited hooks, or artificial flies. 
Dominion of Canada. —The Game and Fisli Protec¬ 
tion Society of Halifax met recently, and elected the fol¬ 
lowing officers: President, Sir. Robert Morrow (re-elected); 
Vice Presidents, Lieut. Col. Clerke, and Mr. E. G. Stayner 
(re-elected); Treasurer, Mr.M. B. Almon; Secretary, Fiiz 
Cochran (both re-elected); Council, Captain Todd, Eighty- 
seventh, Dr. Jennings, Btnj. Smith (Kentville), F. H. D. 
Vieth, A. Downs, Charles Stayner, L. P. Fairbanks, M. B. 
Daily, L. G. Power, J. YV. Jackson (New Glasgow), all re¬ 
elected; and Captain Barne, Sixtieth Rifles, and Mr. 
Charles Beamish as additional members. 
“Among other interesting topics discussed,” says our 
Halifax exchange, “was the subject of rabbit canning. It 
appears that siuee last autumn there has been an establish¬ 
ment in operation in Sliubenacadie, where large quantities 
of these animals are put up in cans for exportaiIon to the 
old country. To sueh an extent is this carried on, that 
from nix to eir/M hundred pairs liave been purchased in a 
single week; aud these are brought, not. only from the sur¬ 
rounding country, but from long distances. It is a question 
whether it would not be wise to extend the close season, 
which is at present from 1st March to 1st September, so 
that they can now be lawfully killed for six months in the 
year. This seems too long a time. YVe ate glad that the 
society is moving in the matter.” 
—A bill has been introduced into the Maryland Legisla¬ 
ture prohibiting the taking of terrapins or their eggs from 
May 1st to August 1st. 
—The following decision of the St. Louis Court of Ap¬ 
peals, in a case of infraction of the game laws, settles the 
question as fur as Missouri is concerned, and will be of 
interest to cur readers:— 
IS THE ST. T.OITIS 00UBT OF ArFBAl/S. 
The State o/ Missouri, Respondent, vs. I/avid S. Randolph, Appellant,, 
Appeal fiomSt. Louis Court or Criminal torrection, 
OPINION OF TUH COURT. 
Defendant was convicted on 33d of Jnty, 1874.in the St. Louis Conrt 
of Criminal Correction, of a violation of Section 8 of the act of tiro 
General As-em riv, entitled “An Act for lire Preservation of Game," ap¬ 
proved 7th February. 1871, by lmvi«g in Its povses.-ion three prairie 
chickens in Jnly. 1874. The language of tire act is as folio .vs 
6 i. -It shall be unlawful in any place iu this State to catch, kill, injure, 
or pursue with such intent, any pinnated grouse, commonly culled prai¬ 
rie chicken, between the 1st day of February aud the 15lh day or Au- 
l‘t shall be unlawful for any pcison to purchase have in possession, 
or expose for sale any of the birds or game mentioned in thepieeeding 
section, 1 of this act, during the season when the catclnng or Injuring 
tne same i s prohi lilted.” 
The conviction was upon the first count of the complaint, of having in 
his possession three pinnated grouse, on or aboot 8th of Jnly, and de¬ 
fendant was fined nine dollars, being three dollaTa for ea h brrd. The 
evidence is that three prairie chickens were cooken and dressed by the 
servant of defendant at a restaurant, iu St. Louts, for which defendant 
acted a» proprietor, by the direction of d.fendent daring the month of 
July, 1871; that on July 7th, 1874, there were sold and delivered to de¬ 
fendant in the city of St. Louis, six prairie chickens imported from the 
State of Kansas; aud that on tbeSlh Jnly, 1874, two prairie chickens 
were served to customers in the same restaurant. 
Wc thiDk Ihero was evidence enough to support a conviction. Ids nrged 
by defendant that, inasmuch as it appears that these prairie chickens 
were imported from Kansas, there con be no conviction. Rut the act 
in question makes It a penal oflense to have ptairie chickens in one's 
possession from 1st February to 15th August, in Missouri, no matter 
whore they were caught. It is insisted thst ir thrn be the mcamng of 
the act, it is in violation of the Constitution of the Uuited Slates, Con¬ 
gress alone having power to regul .to commeice among the several States. 
We see nothing tmcoustltntional in the act. The game 
laws would he migratory if, daring the prohibitory season, 
game could be imported from the neighboring States. 
U would be impossible to show in most in.-tui ces where the 
game was caught. The State of Missouri has as mach right to preserve 
its pome as it has to preserve the health of i s citizens, and may pro¬ 
hibit the exhibiting for sale within ihe Stute of provisions oat of season 
without any violation or the Constitution of the Uuited States. So far 
as we know this right has never to on disputed, and its exercise by the 
absolute prohibition of the having in possession or sole of game within 
the Suite limitB, doting oeruiiu periods of the year, is no more an illegal 
attempt to regulate commerce between the States than woold be a City 
ordinance against selliog oysters in Jnly. 
The lodgment of the Court below vrlil be affirmed. The other judges 
concur. »• -*• Batewbil, Judge. 
Game Laws of Japan. —Tlie .Japanese have a general 
game law applicable 10 lire whole Empire, which for 
brevity anil conciseness is worLliy of imitation. The doing 
away will) close seasons, und having a “shooting season" 
istead is not a bad idea:— 
Armens 1. Tbehnntingof birds and beasts wiih fire arms as almsi- 
ssa i» called rtroku nyo (professional hunting); os a pastime, yti riyo 
>lea*aieburning). .. . . .... 
Art. 8. Shod inn wilhoot a license is forbidden. 
Aht. 3. Hunters, professional or amateur, must obtafn a license and 
irry it with them when out shooting. 
art. 4. The license is not transferable; it is only for one season, and 
innol be sold or lent. 
Art. 5. Profc-Sional bnnters must pay 
amors en yen i$10) for license. 
Art. 6. Nu license shall i-sue to any pern 
ears of age; unacquainted with the use or 
eeu convicted of a violation of the-e regulations. 
ART 7 Shootingi# furoidden, ewn fora person having license; In 
7 »ns: ill crowd,; within 100 yards of a hon.-e; within sacred • nclos- 
res; in fields beariog crops at the rime; or on pos’i-d lands, tie pre- 
:riued notice being two fmvti«g pi. ces crossin; each other and over 
rein the lour Japanese characters, denoting "shooiiDg forbidden here. 
Art. 8. No military rifles shall be used in hunting. 
9 yen ($1), and amateur 
non compos: under sixteen 
■ hug piece; or who has 
