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a A Ml-: RESORTS.— We i 

 ti,:,i;,.» s,.ch notes of desir< 

 to the readersof Fobbst a: 

 S3 tentsfator «« "• '"> *<« 



To insure prompt attentit 

 dressed to thr forest and i 

 individuals, in whose abse 

 poYtance ore liable !•> delay 



oayn glad to receive forpub- 

 ,,„■■ resorts as not ij be of help 

 ream. Will not our corre- 



mmMntcatfons should be ad- 

 i Publishing Qo., and not to 



■<„,< the office matters of im- 



OPEN SEASONS. 

 ThedigeBtof open seasons, printed in Our issue of Aug. 16, has 



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

 address, poslpald,on receipt of 10 cents. 



NEW YORK GAME PROTECTORS. 



\\7E have many inquiries for the addresses of the Stale 



VV Game Protectors, and repeat the publication here: 



Kings, Queens, Suffolk, and Richmond Counties— Geo, A. Wliilta- 

 ker, Southampton. 



New York County— Joseph H. Goodwin. Jr., King's Bridge, New- 

 York otty. 



Westchester, Putnam. Dutchess, Columbia, Ulster. Greene, Rock- 

 land .-in.l Orange— Matthew Kennedy, Hudson. 



Sullivan, Delaware. Schoharie and Otsego—Francisco Wood, Scho- 

 harie 



Albany. Schenectady. Saratoga, Rensselaer, Washington and War- 

 ren— Seymour C. Armstrong, Weaver! own, Warren county. 



Esse?:. Clinton and Franklin— John Liberty, Eliznbethlown, Essex 

 county. 



St, Lawreuce and Jefferson— Albert JL Griffin, Fine. St. L;i 

 county. 



Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery and Herk mer— Thomas Bradley, 

 Roekwood, Fultcn county. 



Oneida, Lewis and Oswego— Nathan C, MielpB, Berusen, Oneida 

 county, 



Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Tioga and Onondaga- 

 William H. I.indsley, Canastota. Madison county. 



Cayuga, Wayne. Ontario. Yates, Schuyler. Tompkins. Chemung 

 and Seneca— Aiimn M. Paiisb, Reading, Schuyler county, 



Monroe, Orleans. Livingston. Genesee. Steuben. Wyoming and Al- 

 leghany— Geo. M. Schwartz, Rochester. 



Chautauqua. Cattaraugus, Erie and Niagara— Stephen A. Roberts, 

 Buffalo. 



A TRIP ON A HUNTING CAR. 



ON Saturday morning, Sept. 29, at 4 o'clock, a party of 

 fifteen of us, including your correspondent, who is 

 proud to be known as a Jerseyman, left Harrisburg, Pa., on 

 the Pullman hunting ear Davy Crockett for the wilds of 

 Minnesota and Dakota Territory on a two weeks' hunt for 

 chickens, geese, ducks, etc. Our car was a model of its 

 kind, being" furnished with electric bells, sleeping apart- 

 ments, dining aud observation rooms, kitchen, refrigerators, 

 and in fact everything necessary to make our stay on it a 

 pleasant one. A half dozen kennels for our dogs were also 

 n part of the fixtures, The car was in charge of Robert 

 W infield, who with two assistants (iueluding cook), all fur- 

 nished by the Pullman Co., "were of the finest." The 

 larder was sumptuously furnished with lots of good things 

 to tickle the inner man. 



We left Harrisburg amid the cheers and best wishes of a 

 host of friends, arriving in Chicago on Sunday morning; 

 leaving that city in the evening and arriving at St. Paul the 

 following day. ' A hasty look of a few hours over that busy 

 city and away we go again, bouud for Ashly, Minn., which 

 we reach at ? o'clock the next morning. Here was to be 

 our first stop for hunting. Upon our arrival teams are 

 quickly secured, our guns put on board, and the dogs re- 

 leased' from their kennels. Over the almost boundless 

 prairies, covered with grain fields further than the eye can 

 reach, away we go a happy party of four. After a drive of 

 ten miles "along the shores of Pelican Lake our clogs are 

 Started and the hunting begins. For hours we hunt, but not 

 a chicken. Our party were beginning to think that chickens 

 were a myth, when about thirty yards from us up jumps a 

 buster. (When 1 say "buster" f meau a great bitr overgrown 

 chicken.) Never shall 1 forget rnv fceliuss, never thcaston- 

 is.hmcnt 1 felt at sight of him. To me he looked the size of 

 a goose as he sailed away from us. Bang, bang, went out- 

 guns, but he never slopped. We had the fever badly. Fol- 

 lowing him for nearly a mile we again flush him when the 

 object of our hopes again alights, and as we once more see 

 him rise 1, with an unerring aim, pull trigger and down 

 comes his majesty. Cheer after cheer aud yell upon yell do 

 1 indulge in. The proudest man in America is hugging that 

 bird to hia cheek, is caressing his first chicken, and that man 

 a Jersey man. Talk about fun! Talk about happiness! No 

 man kuows what real, true, unalloyed fun and happiness 

 ate until he kills his first chicken. The boys gather aioiind 

 me. lam the lion of the party. Proudly" do I hand them 

 the bird for their inspection. 



In a short time we find a bunch of seven birds, and then 

 the fun begins again, liana', bang, sro our suns., but we have. 

 got our bands In this tine . and webag sixof the seven, off 

 we go again and succeed in adding three more to our score. 

 Arriving at our cur. we tind we are low boat, as far as 

 the count is concerned — one team bringing in twenty-nine 

 aud the other twenty-four birds. The next day is almost a 

 repetition of the first, excepting that our team leads the score 

 with forty-one ehickens.tweaty-eight ducks, and several geese. 



On Friday morning we bid" Ashlv good-bye. and we are 

 off for Valley City, Dakota Territory. Just before reaching 

 Moorhead City. Minn., we were visited by a party of cow- 

 boys, who, alter helping themselves to our' cigars lemonade, 

 etc., left us to the silence of our feelings. Poppy R. (Crock- 

 ets) Was highly indignant at their want of courtesy, while 

 the well-known voice of Pat as he roared, "Mark Elcho, 

 I'll lick you." was the only sound that broke the silence until 

 we reached Fargo. 



Saturday morning we reached Valley City, Dakota, and 

 found there two warm-hearted, genial sportsmen in Mr. David- 

 son, of the Built; Record, and Mr. Scott, a lawyer of that 

 place. With them we passed the time, shooting chickens, 

 ducks and geese to our hearts' content Loads of game were 

 captured each day, aud when the time came to say farewell, 

 we did so feeling that 1 1 uer friends or better sportsmen we 

 had never met. May their cartridges never stick iu their 

 guns, nor their aim be untrue. 



On Tuesday morning we started for Fargo, on our return 

 home, slopping over a day. where we were kindly attended 

 to by Col, Fred Cobham. Hep. U. S. Marshal for Dakota. 



The thanks of our party arc due Col. C, for his untiring 

 efforts in our behalf, 



Away again on Wednesday, stopping at Minneapolis, Mil- 

 waukee and Chicago each ii day, we arrive in Harrisburg 

 on Sunday morning well pleased' with our trip and with the 

 friends we made. 'Surely Horace- Greeley's head was very 

 level when he gave the advice, "Go West, young man, ?o 

 West.'' Jersey. 



LAKE KOSHKONONG. 



Lake Koshkokoso., Wis., Sept. 29. 



WK. I he undersitrned property owner.-, and residents upon 

 Lake Kosbkonong, earnestly desire that the law re- 

 lating to wild fowl shall be strictly enforced upon said land, 

 and particularly that section of the law relating to the pur- 

 suit of wildfowl in sneak-boats and similar devices. 



The waters of Lake Kosbkonong are especially adapted 

 by nature for the resort and nourishment of all kinds of wild- 

 fowl, particularly canvas-back duck, and hitherto the lake 

 has abounded with them, in every variety, during Their mi- 

 gratory season, and large numbers of some species have al- 

 ways remained to propagate. 



But the constant use of sneak-boats, and the many other 

 illegitimate practices used for their pursuit and destruction 

 by lawless parties, is rapidly causing the fowl to abandon 

 the lake entirely in order to avoid extermination. 



ft is self-evident thai if these practices are not stopped, 

 the ducks thus pursued will entirely cease their flight here, 

 and the lake will lose one of its greatest attractions, and 

 cease to be a source of pleasure or profit. 



For these reasons, and many others, we unite in asking 

 the enforcement of the law aforesaid. 



Geo. W. Esteiu.y, 

 President Black Hawk Club. 

 G. E. Gordon. 

 Managing Owner Kosbkonong Place. 

 Fued. W. Peck, S. S. Piekce, 



Clarence I. Peck, Duane Stahin, 



EL H. Suufeldt, Loren Edwards, 



J. A Partridge, Ira Bingham, 



O. P. Posey, L. A. Winchester, 



Frank W. Tratt, Dan. Stocking, 



0. S. Jackman, Danl. Bullock. 



0. E. Jenkins, Edd. Blsoiiam. 



G. E. Gordon. Geo. W. Estkrlv, 



And many others. 



NOTICE. 



Lake Kosiikonong, Wis., Sept. 29. 1B83, 

 The undersigned, acting in behalf of all parties in interest, 

 herelw tall attention to the law of Wisconsin relating to the 

 protection of wildfowl. 



It is our intention to cause the law to be rigidly enforced 

 hereafter. All offenders will be prosecuted to the full extent 

 of the law, and we have made ample arrangement for the 

 detection of all such persons. We have taken the best legal 

 opinion as to the validity of the law, and if there aie any 

 persons who honestly desire to be informed upon any points 

 relating thereto, wc will cheerfully inform them, but those 

 who willfully defy the law will be dealt with vigorously. 

 We invite all' good" and law-abiding citizens to send us pri- 

 vately any information they may have as to such offenses 

 committed or about to be committed. 



We pledge ourselves to hold all such as confidential com- 

 munications, not disclosing the name or identity of the in- 

 formant, and, in addition, to pay all reasonable expenses 

 attending the disclosure. Geo. W. Esterly. 



President Black Hawk Club. 

 G. E. Gordon, 

 Managing Owner Kosbkonong Place. 

 Geo. W. Esterly, Ferd. W. Peck, 



G. E. Gordon, H. H. Shxfeldt, 



L. A. Harris. J. A. Partridge, 



Tiros. A. Logan, O. P. Posey, 



L. A. Winchester, Frank W. Tratt, 



Daniel Bullock, C. S. Jackman, 



Clarence J. Peck, C. E. Jenkins, 



And many others. 



TWO DAYS. 



I HAD been looking forward for nearly two weeks to the 

 time when my cousin George from a neighboring town 

 would come down aud take a hunt with me. And 1 expected 

 to have some good sport, and kill plenty of game. But we 

 were badly disappointed as to the amount of game killed, 

 although we had a splendid tramp. We went for sport more 

 than amount of game. It was Saturday morning. Not 

 until 10 o'clock did he put in an appearance, and we started 

 for the woods a mile distant. These woods are noted for 

 squirrels, but they had had their breakfast, and gone back to 

 their holes. As I was walking along, I saw one, but he was 

 too quick and popped in his hole. As George was taking aim 

 on one, he disappeared also; one second more would have 

 sealed his fate. After working these woods through with- 

 out success, we concluded thai it was too late in the day for 

 squirrels, and that we would go for partridges. 



We went over to the next woods and let out Dick, a cocker 

 spaniel, good on anything from a mouse to an elephant. I 

 was to walk up the creek, George on the ridge, aud Dickon 

 the opposite side in the little pines. Hardly had we entered 

 the ravine, when an old cock partridge flew out, followed 

 by Dick, but he did not fly fur. and was soon lying in the 

 bottom of my game pocket. He was a beauty. We con- 

 tinued on through, but nothing in the game line crossed our 

 path, so we concluded to try another woods, but alter walk- 

 ing until noon without any better luck, and a ruin having 

 set iu. we thought best to start for homo. George killed a 

 red squirrel to show me how close his gun would shoot, as 

 only the nose of the squirrel was. sticking over the limb. This 

 ended the first day. 



But the seeond'day was different. Monday, at 5:30 A. M. 

 found me on a keen" trot for the woods. It Was rather a 

 chilly morning, with a north wind blowing, and I had de- 

 cided to take the dog-, as he would tree 'squirrels when I 

 might pass on by them, and on a day like this it would be 

 better with him than without. Hardly had I reached the 

 woods when 1 heard Dick harking, and going up found n 

 squirrel treed, shot him, and going on about ten rods further 

 I found Dick barking up a tree, f could not see any squir- 

 rels, but the tree had a squirrels' nest iu it, so I fired at the 

 nest and out tumbled a gray squirrel. After walking through 

 these woods I started out and called Dick, but he ran up on 

 the ridge and barked again. I went up and added another 

 squirrel to my pocket, and started for the omiosite woods. 

 Dick treed another as soon as 1 reached there, fnJ af terwast- 



ing several shells I finally dropped him from the top of an 

 old oak. 



I then sat down to cat my lunch on an old fallen-down 

 tree,. While sitting there my eye caught sight of a gray squir- 

 rel down in the woods. T -at still and he crawled up toward 

 me, and after getting within gunshot he started to climb a 

 tree. 1 stood up to get a shot at him, aud he heard me and 

 jumped on the opposite side of the tree. Knowing he would 

 ruu around, I waited, aud sure enough up about twenty feet 

 high he stuck his head around to see what was the matter. 

 It was like shootimral a silverdollar, and from where I stood 

 made it a difficult shot. But I dropped him, and was more 

 pleased with this shot than all the. others. As it was nearly 

 noon, aud I had only two shells of fine shot left, 1 started 

 for home. Going up town at 3 o'ch >ck I found Davis wanted 



a i after quail', as the law was off that day. We hunted 

 over acres of buckwheat stubble, through hedges and weeds, 

 but we could not start any. But coming to a pond sur- 

 rounded by a cornfield we separated. Davis going on one 

 side, I on the other, and the dog in the reeds along the edge. 

 When nearly at the end, Davis shouted over, 'There is a 

 tip up just ahead of vou." I wondered what a tip-up could 

 he doing there, but just then out flew the "tip-up" and started 

 over the corn; 1 made a splendid shot, dropping him to the 



It proved to be. an Liiulish snipe, and I now have 



it stuffed, and it will help to fill up my case of birds. 



Wn.i. II, 



SIDE HUNTS. 

 Y\7 'ORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 20.— So much has been said 

 il of late concerning the "trout hog" and the slaughter 

 of game, that I almost hesitate to send'to the Forest and 

 Stream a report of our annual festival, lest it should pro- 

 voke adverse criticism. However wc- ma}- be looked upon 

 by the outside world, I am glad to be able to say that here at 

 home we are regarded as a pretty clean set of fellows, and in 

 the after-dinner talk on last Thursday evening, our invited 

 guests— which included his Honor the Mayor aud several of 

 our most prominent citizens — paid us some very flattering 

 compliments. Several years ago the report of our hunt and 

 dinner, which appeared iu this paper, was followed by an 

 article from a correspondent who took us to task most 

 severelyforholdingthe.se annual festivals. We have, how- 

 ever, continued to hold them, and shall in all probability do 

 so in years to come, and shall always protest against being 

 branded as guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct for so doing, 

 f of we believe we have, as a club, done as much to elevate 

 the standard, and also as much in the way of game protec- 

 tion as any club in the country. 



We have in our club quite a number of gentlemen of 

 wealth, culture and position who never shoot a gun, but are 

 glad to be counted as members, and cheerfully pay us their 

 money to help us in our work; aud the more active" members 

 are very happy to meet them oner' a year at the dinner, and 

 after the cloth' is removed listen to their pleasant words of 

 encouragement. We believe, too, that it is perfectly legiti- 

 mate and proper for the members of the club to appoint a 

 day in the open season and go out and lull fresh game for 

 pur dinner instead of buying that which is stale from the 

 markets. 



At a meeting of the club Mr. G. J. Rugg and Mr. E. T. 

 Smith were chosen captains, and they with Secretary Hart- 

 well constituted the Committee of Arrangements for the 

 hunt and dinner. After the sides were chosen it was gener- 

 ally believed to be pretty evenly balanced, and the result 

 showed that the prediction was correct, as there was not as 

 great a difference in the scores of the two teams as there has 

 been in years past, The hunt was held Tuesday, Oct. 16, 

 and the day was all that could be desired. The men assem- 

 bled at the" Bay State House iu the evening, and the game 

 was counted, those members who were too far away sending 

 in their scores by telegraph. There were a large number of 

 interested spectators, who came in to see the game and learn 

 which was the winning side. At 9 o'clock^ the hour for 

 closing the count, the long table presented a beautiful sight. 

 The variety included partridges, quail, woodcock, ducks, 

 gray squirrels, rabbits, and one fox. This list included 

 everything that could be counted except snipe, of which 

 there were none. After footing up the columus Secretary 

 Hartwell announced that. Mr. Smith's side were the winners 

 of the hunt. Both sides were happy, and the tired hunters 

 went to their homes to anticipate" the dinner, which was 

 served Thursday evening, Oct. 18, at the Bay Stale House. 



The members and invited guests assembled early in the 

 spacious parlors, aud enjoyed an hour together iu a social 

 way before marching to the dining hall. At 9 o'clock about 

 ninety jolly men sat down to a most excellent dinner, of 

 which the following is the 



MENU. 

 Little Neck Clams. 



Puree ot Same, aux Quenelles. 



Galantine of Partridge, with GeFee. 



Celery Salad, a la Mayonaise. 



ROAST. 



Larded, a la Demi Glace. 



Squirrel, Stuffed— Sauce Poiviade. 



Vi ,„„|,-,,el; i!i. I l,eiad, . ja "'■ Hilled. 

 ENTRKKS. 



Rabbit Pie ii l'Ecosse. 



Civet of Squirrel, an Chasseur. 



Salmis of Partridge. 



UKSSEUT. 



English Plum Pudding— Brandy Sauce. 

 Charlotte "usse. lees. Fruit. Assorted Cake. Tea and Coffee. 



At about 10:30 the tables were cleared and Hon, Chas. B. 

 Pratt introduced the speakers of the evening. 



His Honor Mayor Hildreth was first introduced, as one 

 who would join in a hunt in December, if any one is brave 

 enough to start a team on the other side, ne spoke pleasant ly 

 of his acquaintance with the club, and of its success in the 

 field, ami commended the idea of an annual supper twice a 

 year. 



Col. .John D. Washburn was introduced to respond for 

 the United Slates, he bearing so striking a resemblance to 

 President Arthur. He indulged in some historical allusions 



ISoah, Nimrod and Columbus, as necessary predecessors 



to this supper. Nimrod 

 the start, a rdte in wh' 



of success. His succ 

 business in Babylon, were i 

 to the great delight of the ( 

 John R. Thayer, Esq., « 

 complimentary terms of th 



feeling, and added some fa 



He was quite earnest in ad 



presented as a""poor boy" at 

 iber men have made more or less 

 dth a bow gun, and iu the boot 

 detailed with no little humor, and 



was next introduced aud spoke in 



lb, of its friendships and good 



BUS reminiscences of the field. 



pursuit ofs 



most healthful of those confined to the busy life of the city. 

 Gen. A. B. R. Sprague responded for the county. He 



