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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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'Alive.'*— Bomeoao has been stuffing a World reporter, 



ie the reporter has been evolvh^ a screed from hisim- 



.!" ni'ii Ion .'H mi much per column. We ipiote some of these 



glowing reports in lag! Friday's WbrH: "On Long Island 



ii'i'n ' ■'. l,v ii lowland fronting the sea that does not 



abound "With (luck, geese uitl brant. Prom Rockaway to 

 Montauk Point the bays and creeks are filled with game. 

 Hempstead Bay and Broad Channel about Par Roeka way arc 

 alive with game after the cold weather commences. South 

 New Jersey is alive with rabbits until the farmers are com- 

 plaining of them as a pesl. The Orange -Mountains are re- 

 ported to be full of quail and partridge, with an occasional 

 fox, raccoon and 'possum. The brush -wood and low foliage 

 on Long Island abounds in small game, for a good vegetable 

 year is a harvest time for rabbit and quail, ft reports can 

 be relied upon, the opening season will surpass all previous 

 years for game, for the stringent laws regarding its destruc- 

 tion have douc niucli to preserve the same life in this and 



neijhboringStafcs, 'It will be i h i ..-. , n's shooting we 



have had for vears.' said Deputy Warden Dick Letts, of the 

 Snake Hill Penitentiary. 'Why, the bill is alive with rabbit, 

 quail and wild pigeon The river marshes on the meadows 

 are full of rocri birds, rail, snipe, teal and black duck. The 

 duek arc fat and tame and almost, Ov into the boat to let vou 

 pick them up. The . rabbit arc so thick on the bill that 'the 

 men knock them ovci with stones while walking around the 

 quarries. 1 have flushed E good many quail already and 

 when the shooting begins we expect to have good "sport. 

 Wild pigeons are abundant in the woods and will be good 

 game a. little later on.' In South Jersey the regular hunters 

 seldom use decoys. They have practiced 'duck-calling' for 

 years, and can imitate the fowl to perfection. Brush shoot- 

 ing this fall promises to be eery successful, and owing to the 

 favorable spring and Summer, the woodlands are reported 

 full of rabbits, quail squirrel, partridge, wild pigeon, 'possum 

 and coon." 



TNSTAisTWEors PriOToouATtts of Gajie.— Instantaneous 

 photography is reproducing the animal world of the Bava 

 rian Highlands to the very life, thanks to the ingenious sys- 

 tem of a native ua turn list' near Oberammergau. The photo- 

 grapher puts up his camera at some place in the higher 

 regions much frequented by same, and connects it: with an 

 electric battery hidden some distance away. He then post.-. 

 Himself by the battery with a telescope, and directly he 

 espies -a suitable subject, touches a button which communi- 

 cates wilh the camera, and so drops the slide, obtaining an 

 instantaneous impression. The slight noise of the slidel'all- 

 ing causes the animals to lookup, thus giving a more ani- 

 roatt llilasDess.— London Graphic. An enterprising Parisian 

 Bholograpner, M. A Petit, Visited Planet's menagerie a day 

 or two ago with the object of taking photographs of the wild 

 beasts in their sages. The existing photographs of these 

 animals, taken as they axe from the space outside the cage. 



net arih the bars, which spoil the effect. M.Pianet, 



the proprietor of the menagerie, accompanied the artist, in 

 his adventurous round; and the animals, as a rule, behaved 

 very well. A splendid group, consisting of a lion, a lioness 

 and two cubs, was particularly successful, the "fitters" not 

 moving a muscle during the operation. The leopard, too, 

 proved an excellent subject. The tigress, however, exhib- 

 ited a specimen of her temper in two vigorous dashes on the 

 photographic apparatus, m one of which M. Petit received a 

 savage blow of her paw on the leg. This, a French paper 



. .-, is the first time that wild "beasts have been photo- 

 graphed in their dens, and it is believed that the results of 

 ST. Pelit's dangerous experiment will be of considerable ser- 

 vice to animal-painters and sculptors.— bt. James's Gazette. 



New Jersey Society. — The annual meeting of the i\ew 

 Jeis.v Game and Pish Protective-8ociety>washeldat Miller's 

 Hoti i. Ptainfield. Wednesday afternoon, September 19, The 

 following-named were elected directors of the Society for 

 the ensuing year: .lames S. Vosselicr. K. P. Thorn. W. L. 

 Puree. \\ m. B. Jones, 1. I). Ten Eyck. Martin W. Schenck, 

 j. W. King. Isaac Brokaw, Wm.B. Dunn. Also the fol- 

 lowing viee-presidentsi R, M.Stelle, Percy C. Ohl, Joseph 

 li. Miller. Honorary vice-presidents: tried. Voiekman. 



New York city. M. ,T." Thompson. Gloucester City, N. J.; 

 James It. English. Elizabeth, K. J.; Geo. P. Suvd'am, Gen. 

 Wm. U. Sterling, John I, Holly and Charles Smith, of 

 Plaiutield, K.J. The report of Hie secretary showed that 

 forty-two new members have joined the Society since its last 

 annual meeting. Favorable reports were received from the 

 localities where quail were let loose by the Society for 

 breeding purposes and from ponds and streams stocked 

 with blaeic bass and carp the past year. The treasurer's 

 report shows a handsome sum in his bauds at the command 

 of the Society. The officers of last year were re-elected, as 

 follows. President, James S. Vosseler (who is the County 

 Clerk of Union county), Secretary, W. L. Force (editor of 

 the PlemlieM Consiituiicnalhh. 'Treasurer, W. E. .Tones, 

 North Plaiutield. 



Seuvtno is Scare Crow. — Cincinnati, Sept. 17, tSSS. — 

 My father emigrated in 1836*. to the wilds of Illinois, where 

 my youth was spent, principally with gun and rod, and 

 often during the fall of the year, when the fall wheat was 

 young and tender, and Ihe corn was just ripe, as the young- 

 esi member of the household, it became my duty to' act as 

 "sc:,e crow" to (irive off the wild geese and liucks from the 

 young Wheat, and the prairie chickens from the corn patch. 



uncommon thing to count sometimes as many as a dozen 

 deer quietly feeding, no further from Our cabin door than 

 Within the range of the modern rifle. Some day 1 may buru- 

 i-.li up my memory, and give to your readers sonic early 

 reimui-eemcs of life in Illinois, on the plains, and iu Cali- 

 fornia, Where 1 went soon after the discovery of gold in that 

 lovely laud. — Ui,D HrxTiCR. 



Tsji vs. — Indian., la. Sept. lit.— We have had copious rains 

 in the past, few days filling up the ponds, and blue-winged 

 teal and oilier .link- have been arriving iu considerable 

 numbers, ri very warm, and the rain has 



produced so man s mosquitoes it in almost impossible to hunt 

 them. Papabottea have been -very plenty, and fat and fine 

 bags have been made. I saw the first, jack-snipe of the 

 seasou on the 17th iust., which Is unusually early tor this 

 Section. 1 noticed iu yourrevi io. of the Game Laws for 

 ite thai on put the open season for prairie chickens 

 on July 1. This is a mistake: ii OpeDH on August 1, the 

 . I. r ', ivii s to n revia ■!!-.-■ Tl prospects for 

 e i atioJ an kinds are verj good, and fisfi aw very plentiful 

 at preseni, ei h being shipped from this place 



to Galveston per stoamef twice, a week.— G. A. 



A Flohida Game Country. — Seeing an article in. your 

 DapeT of September 20, in which two sportsmen, "B. aud 

 II.," wish to know where hunting and flshiug is "tirst 

 class," I call their attention to the southeastern part of 

 Florida, namely, the vicinity of Indian, Banana, St. Se- 

 bastian and St. Lucie rivers' where I know from personal 

 experience they will find game and fish of all varieties in 

 great abundance. Aery reliable boatmen, good navigators 

 ns well as (-rack shots, can be engaged at Titusville or Rock 

 Ledge: and as the whole trip is a "camping out," I think 

 that they will be satisfied in every particular. I should he 

 pleased to either communicate by letter or personal call 

 with them, more so as I intend again to visit these localities 

 next winter, where 1 before found such a continuous variety 

 of pleasure.— SrouTSMAN (Newark, K. ,L). 



|i»# mid Stiver 



Enforcement ok THE Mathb Law. — Monson, Me., Sept. 

 IS, 1S88— At the last term of the Supreme Judicial Court 

 in Piscataquis county, which convened at Dover, September 

 11, the grand jury found nineteen indictments against vio- 

 lations of the game laws. They were all for killing deer, 

 moose and carribou iu close time. The crimes were com- 

 mitted in the Moosehead and Chesuncook Lake regions. The 

 parties reside in different localities from the State* of Massa- 

 chusetts to the most northern confines of Maine, and among 

 them are said to be some prominent men. These cases were 

 ferreted out by the able and vigilant detective. Mr. Worm- 

 well, of Bethel, Me., who is employed by the State Commis- 

 sioners.— J. F. S. 



A Good Game OODNTKr. — A correspondent, who espe- 

 cially requests us not to give the locality from which he 

 writes, says in n note dated September ' t> : Elk are very 

 abundant about the ranch. Last Friday night, the mooii 

 was nearly full, aud a band of about one hundred and fifty 

 came down from the hills about, 8 o'clock and spent the re- 

 mainder of the night playing iu the creek only a quarter of a 

 mile from the cabin. Their whistling and splashing made 

 such a noise that it was hard to sleep, and the boys and my- 

 self Were frequently awakened by the din. At the same 

 time we could hear other elk whistling on the surrounding 

 hills. Of a truth "the woods were full of them." 



Wkst Jersey Society.— A meeting of the West Jersey 

 Game Protective Association was held in Camden, Sept. 2(j. 

 The receipts for the last fiscal year were $1,855, and there is 

 a balance of "S94L28 now in the treasury. At the meeting 

 the following named officers w r cre elected for the ensuing 

 year after a spirited contest: President, Thomas Walker; 

 Treasurer, George. E. Taylor; Secretary, Chas. H. Barnard; 

 Directors, John II. MoMurray, of Camden county; Thomas 

 Wallers, Cumberland; Thomas Blown, Salem"; William 

 Brown, Cape May: Samuel Reeve, Gloucester; John R. 

 Tiebe. Atlantic, and C. B. ICugler. of Philadelphia. 



Geesk m California.— Mr. K. E. White, of the Sacra- 

 mento (Cal.) Bee, notes Sept. 11: Yesterday morning we 

 saw a large number of wild geese passing low over the city. 

 They were crossing eastward from the direction of the tules, 

 and' evidently searching for some inviting stubble field. 

 Although these were the first that Ave have seen or heard 

 this season, it is evident they came from the north some 

 days ago. Last year the date when geese were first seen 

 here was Sept. 7: iu 1881. Sept. 3; in 1880, Sept. 8; in 1879, 

 Aug. 30; in 1878, Sept. 6; in 1877, Aug. 31. 



Massachusetts.— New Bedford, Sept. 21.— It looks 

 promising around this part of the country for sportsmen. 

 Quail have doue well this year; partridges are Very wild; 

 there are a great many foxes in the vicinity of High Hill, 

 Freetown; rabbits are plenty, but we have a few first-class 

 shots down this way who keep the game down. Our law is 

 obeyed well, and wo expect "a heap of fun" later. Four 

 foxes have been killed within a month. — C. T. B. 



Maryland.— Fair Hill, Cecil County.— We. have not 



much game. There are a few ruffed grouse, called pheasants, 

 a few quail, rabbits, squirrels, and an occasional woodcock. 

 The rail bird shooting has been good at times on the Elk 

 River, seven miles below here. About 'J, 300 were killed by 

 Elkton sportsmen on the 13th of this month. The beat sore 

 I heard of was 163, and that by a one-armed man with a 

 single breech-loader.— E. S. G. 



Qcau. in Kentucky. — The quail crop is almost 

 cedentedly abundant in central and southern Kentucl 

 season. Bass fishing was poor in spring and sn 

 Shall try them in a few days with hope of better si 

 — Kentuckjan, 



Gkocse hi THE HpUSE.— NeW Miilord, Conn., Sept. 21. 

 — A partridge flew T into Alonzo Pixley's kitchen on Monday. 

 The hired girl thought it was ihe parrot loose, and, closing 

 the floOr, secured it. Mr. Pixley now has it in a cage. 



a.o.uci, uupre- 



Kentucky this 



spuug and summer. 



lope of better success. 



Ctratous Recovery of as Old Mcsket.— A very curious 

 incident occurred a few days since, in connection with a dozen 

 old muskets, which A. D. Adams Post, G, A. B,., of Lyons, 

 purchased of the United States Government. It seems that 

 at the beginning of the civil war among the volunteers from 

 Lyons was a young man named Charles Dunn. He went into 

 the army and served well. He was seriously wounded at 

 Bull Run, and later died in the hospital at Alexandria, Va. 

 From the time of this injury on the battle field nothing was 

 seen of him or his personal effects by his friends, and only the 



Eublished record told them of his death among strangers, 

 ast week the muskets purchased by the Adams Post arrived. 

 They were, being looked over one afternoon during the 

 soldiers' encampment at Sodus Point by Homer J. Dunn, a 

 brother of the dead soldier, when one of the party noticed two 

 ii ge i 3TB, O. D. carved upon the butt of the gun. Attracted 

 by the letters a closer examination of them showed the full 

 name, "Chas, Dunn," carved less plainly upon the wood 

 Other carvings about the gua stock, which are well remem- 

 bered by his intimate companions in the war, convince all that 



barfed l ry his ultimate companions m the. war, convince a) 

 knew Dunn that the musket was Ms. His brother has 

 pared the carving about the gun with other carvings about the 

 old home, and finds them very simil a r. Considering the hun- 

 dreds of thousands of muskets scattered over hundreds of 

 battle fields, and the immense number stolen aud sold during 

 the war, it is strange indeed that this gun should have 

 found its way back to the home of its dead owner, and to the 

 very Grand Army of the Republic Post of which the only 

 brother of the deceased is a member. The Adams Post has 

 formally presented Homer Dunn with the musket, of which 

 a number of photographs have been taien and distributed 

 about Lyons. — Oswego Paliadiun, 



■tAG'/./.VC' IWSVHTS.— We shall be glad to have for pnhli- 

 ition notes of good fishing localities. Will not bur corre- 

 jondents favor us with notes of desirable points for angling 



'o insure prompt attention, communications should be ad- 

 dressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and not. to 



■ividuals, in whose absence from the office matters of im- 

 portance are liable to delay. 



OPEN SEASONS. 



The digest of open seasons, printed in our issue of Aug. Hi, has 

 been published in convenient pamphlet form, aud will be sent to any 

 address, postpaid, on receipt of 10 cents. 



OUR SUMMER'S OUTING. 



IN TWO PARTS — PART I. 



WE must have an outing, that is settled, but where to go 

 was auother thing, and a thing not easily decided 

 upon. The Flats, well hardly, we can go there any time, it 

 is too near home, we must go somewhere so the distance w T ill 

 "lend enchantment." 



The northern part of the State? Well, 1 don't know, my 

 experience there last season was not such as to make me very 

 anxious to repeat it. Still, mayhap I was too hasty in my 

 judgment, at least, some of the readers of Fokkst ant) 

 Stream seemed to think so, and it may be that another Vint 

 to the "land of promise" will be more pleasant in the present. 

 and leave more pleasant memories for its past. So we ar- 

 gued this summer, and as the season grew apace, determined 

 to once more try our luck up North. There was one deter- 

 mination firm in our minds, and that was to find out if pos- 

 sible, of some good spot before leaving home, where every- 

 thing would he lovely, and fish waiting our arrival with 

 open mouths if not arms. So we dispatched letters to friends 

 at Cheboygan and Marquette. The return mail brought us 

 joyful tidings from Cheboygan. "Come up here," it said, 

 and "we will put you on to places where the fish will jump 

 out of the water after your hook, so eager are they for the 

 honor of being caught."* Too good to he true, but it was en- 

 couraging to say the least. The reports from Marquette 

 were also good," hut our friend there had his advices more 

 from hearsay, not being much of a sportsman, and he could 

 onfy sa y he had heard so and so. We concluded therefore 

 to make Cheboygan our objective point, and then if time 

 and circumstances permitted, we would go up to Mackinaw, 

 and along the line of the D. M. and M."B. K. It was also 

 decided to go up by water from Detroit, so if we did not 

 have anything else* pleasant to look back to, we could con- 

 sole ourselves with the thought of a pleasant sail. 



About the middle of July, one Saturday evening, tw 

 chaps might have been seen wending their way with rods and 

 other traps to Hutching & Co.'s wharf, to board the staunch 

 propeller Atlantic, of Grummond's Mackinac Line. The 

 hour for departure was 9, and we did not have much time to 

 spare, or would not had the boat left on lime, but when 9 

 o'clock came there was no move to throw off lines and haul 

 iu the gang-plank. Having secured a stateroom we started 

 to investigate the cause of delay. Cargo was all on, gang- 

 ways in. and seemingly all ready to "let go," but upon ques- 

 tioning the clerk, we found the trouble was no deckhands. 

 "All struck," be said. As it is impossible to go without 

 deckhands we concluded we were in for it, and resigned our- 

 selves to our unhappy fate, if not contentedly, with the best 

 grace possible. 



The deckhand business is one. of the curses, so to speak, of 

 the lake traffic. The deckhands as a class on lake steamers 

 are as worthless a gang as exists. They come as near being 

 animals, without absolutely getting there, as is possible. 

 They are without ambition, and all they ask is for something 

 to eat and a place to sleep, with their regular drunk, which 

 occurs as often as the trip is ended and they are paid off, or 

 as much more frequently as they can get money to buy the 

 vile stuff sold in the den's along the docks. They work like 

 animals, without displaying even as much intelligence as 

 some animals. Twenty, fifty, sixty, and even eighty hours 

 at a stretch, they are sometimes required to carry and truck 

 freight; then they may he idle l'or three or four "days, doing 

 nothing but standing a four-hour watch, passing coal, (it- 

 washing down the decks in the morning. They are not 

 sailors, and it is the exception when one rises 10 become a 

 "watchman," or "wheelman," or even "lookout." They 

 don't appreciate fair and decent treatment, but seem to ex- 

 pect to be sworn at and driven around. They will ship in 

 one port, get two or three square meals, and then jump the 

 vessel when she reaches the next port. A propeller will 

 leave Buffalo with a full complement of hands and not 

 have any left soon after making her lines fast in Cleveland. 

 Here she will ship another crew and lose them at Detroit . It 

 sometimes happens iu the fall of the year that deckhands'ean- 

 not be obtained, and then the steamers are put to much trou- 

 ble to get their cargoes on and off. One trip from Buffalo 

 to Duluth the writer well remembers, as he was at that time 

 engaged on one of the large passenger propellers plying be- 

 tween these ports. We had only two deckhands during the 

 largest portion of the trip — our complement was thirteen — 

 and the mates, steward, waiters, and all, had to bear a hand 

 and handle the lines when wc made a lauding. 



To return to the Atlantic, however, we were not com- 

 pelled to put up with any such inconvenience and delay this 

 trip, for about eleven o'clock the mate appeared with "some 

 hands who though pretty drunk managed to let go the lines, 

 haul up the fenders, and do the other few r things necessary 

 to start us on our way. It being late wc turned in and did 

 not awaken until we were just landing at a wharf iu the SI. 

 Clair River, below Port Huron. The sail from Detroit to 

 Port Huron is a beautiful one, and should by all means 

 be made in the day if possible. The scenery after cross- 

 ing Lake, St. Clair, at the head of the Detroit Biver, is 

 charming, and constant glimpses are caught of beautiful 

 farms, thrifty villages, more pretentious towns, and last, 

 but not least" numerous club houses and summer resorts. 

 The most prominent of these is tne club house of the Lake 

 St. Clair Pishing and Shooting Club, which is passed soon 

 after leaving the St. Clair ship canal, a government work of 

 some pretension aud of great value to the shipping interest 

 of our great lakes. Then comes the Star Island House, 

 Bedor's and the Canadian Club house. A great many De- 

 troit gentlemen own houses, where they pass considerable 

 time during the season, all along the flats, After leaving 

 the flats we come to St. Clair and the Oakland, a very large 



