Nor. 29, 1883.) 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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shot several deer and bagged a large quantity of smaller 

 game, including B number of-fl ilfl tui 



'I'ln. '.'oiirill pasty, who went to the jungles oi" Arkansas 

 November 10 in search of deer, have not yet, been heard from. 

 They will probably -Hup a dead deerto each of their friends 

 before the close off he week, and probably a bear or 1 wo also. 

 They went to a bear country and not" to a "bare" game 

 country. 



Henry Nagel and Mr. Susiusky engaged in a -.hooting 



match, November Vt, at Caronaelet, for a state of $60! 

 Each Shot at fifty wild pigeons, and Nigel won by killing a 

 majority of thirteen. 



ember 31 the Pair Association received a donation from 

 \Y. IV. K. Wilson, of Calhoun, Mo., in the shape of a -white 

 opossum. The animal is a splendid specimen, and was 

 captured hy George Bank and W. Roach. 



Oamf-Bbu.. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



r !' , HE cold weather of last week brought to our ducting 



-L shores a fresh supply of fowl, The warm and murky 



speB which, hai followed am dn I Eotal absence of wind 



and presence of morning fog has made shooting bad. Brant 



are plentiful at Unrncgat and Tuekerton bays. Large flocks 

 could be seen durintr the calm davs mentioned, quietly feed- 

 ing on the, drifting grass in the channel in the bay Vhioh 

 runs parallel to Long Beach. These birds invariably de- 

 coyed any traveling fowl that made their appearance, while 

 the shooter in bis sedge-covered boat at some island near by 

 rarely nailed for his motionless decoys to attract the atten- 

 tion of a gang of new coming birds. 



Mr. C. Howard Clark, Jr.. of Our city, lias lately returned 

 from Wyoming Territory where he has been enjoying great 

 sport among the large and small game of that region. I 

 shall be able to give you some points of interest from this 

 section of the country in a short time. 



Illcgalhouuding for deer ia being openlv indulged in in 

 the counties north of Williamsporl, Pa. The Pine Creek, 

 Jersey Shore & Buffalo Railroad has opened up andmade 

 easy of access what was formerly .an isolated section, and a 

 wholesale-violation of the law with cog.-, is going on there 

 this season and many deer are being killed. Pine grouse 

 shooting cau be- now' had on the line of this railroad, but the 

 country is oi the roughest description and comfortable sleep- 

 ing quarters scarce. 



Parties who have returned from Maryland and Delaware, 

 report having run across a flight, of woodcock which have 

 eotiie in from the north. These birds have doubtless started 

 in advance of the late colli weather. 



Dining some winters in which there has been some sharp 

 weather, 1 have known the Woodcock to ['.-main in numbers 

 through the entire season, or at least until .February, in the 

 sprim;;, swamps on the lineofthe railroad running to Berlin. 

 Mil., where a ysuug market-shooter having found them, 

 kept his secret, 'and slopped during the month of December, 

 over a hundred birds to Philadelphia, from the section 

 named. 



The once famous duck shooting point, owned. 1 believe, 

 by Mr, Stokes, on the Siuuepuxeul Sound, quite near Ocean 

 City, is entirely ruined since the bridge was built thai spans 

 the. sound. The chili house and point was within a stone's 

 throw of where the bridge now is, and consequently all the 

 fowl that are not entirely '-shied off" by the draw, passover 

 at such great heights as to be entirely out of gunshot. 



The buildings on the beach at Ocean City, also add their 

 effect in frightening the fowl, and last, but not least, the gill- 

 riot fishermen set their nets all over the sound when ice does 

 not prevent, and these generally occupy the very feeding 

 grounds the ducks would select. As a shooting ground, ex- 

 cepting for shore birds in summer, the Sitmepuxent Sotiud 

 may be said lo be a tiling of the past. Homo. 



MORNING Sun, Towa. Nov. 19. — I see you in your issue 

 of Mov. Hi make me jump about 500 miles' east, to Morning 

 Sun, Ohio. The rapid transit did not hurt me much, as 1 

 am still here safe and sound enough to walk seventeen 

 miles, as I did one day last week on our return from our 

 annual shooting trip to Ihe Missouri bottom. 1 don't believe 

 there is a pinnated grouse within loo miles of Morning Sun. 

 Ohio, and a pack of them would bring out every gun in 

 that secliou of country. Game is not at all plenty here, but 

 we have vast quantities of it compared to Southern Ohio, 

 and I love lo give some of my friends there a "day out" 

 when they visit me here. Ducks and geese have almost 

 "given US the go by," as they are not as plenty as in former 

 years, and old duck hunters "sigh for the years gone by," 

 and many were the, yarns we heard, in our last camp, of the 

 days when the hunters, not the ducks, were happy. With 

 us ducks were so scare that four of us only bagged fifteen in 

 our three days' hunt. One morning the mercury went down 

 to 8- and again to i", but if ducks had been flying thick I 

 guess we could have stood the cold. The last prairie chick- 

 ens we killed were large fine oues, tlu'ee of them weighed 

 two and one-quarter pounds each, and the ether two pounds 

 scant. Ah ! What nice ones they were. Quail are fairly 

 plenty, enough to make good sport, I think, Jmt I hope to 

 speak more intelligently about them in the near future.— 

 Mark. _J 



W Ait hen ion. Vs.; Nov. <Jl, 1888.— A nipping frost, the 

 tirst of the season, has improved the hunting here. Mr. 

 J as. K. Maddux killed nineteen (19) quail yesterday in nine- 

 teen successive shots with my gun, a Coli, choke-bore. He 

 missed his twentieth bird in a dense cedar grove. His shoot- 

 ing was all done in a thick Scrubby cover. He is off to-day 

 to kill some birds for your own editorial table, and I hop'e 

 he will have his usual success, lie is the best wing-shot I 

 ever hunted beside. In the field he will discount Carver or 

 Uogardus. Quail, ruffed grouse and turkey are plentiful 

 now, and scarcely any pot-hunters around.— E, Z. C, J. 



Dixks foi; Cbb u;o Suootehs.— Chicago. Nov. 19.— 

 At Cedar Luke, Ind.. thirty-eight miles from Chicago, on the 

 L. M. A, & C. R. It., there is excellent cluck hunting about 

 this time. Two friends of mine were out there last .Friday 

 and Saturday, and Shot twenty -eight .lucks. Twelve fell 

 into the lake, and it was s i, rough that they could not go 

 after them, The Ashing is also good. I was out there and 

 spent summer before last, and [had all the Ashing l cared 

 about for a while. 1 went out one morning and caught 

 about fifty fish between 4:30 and 0:30 o'clock.— E. K. 



Hartford, Conn,, Nov. 19.— Coming down on that early 

 train this morning, as we crossed Warehouse Point bridge I 

 saw a large flock of wild geese going north. They were 

 flying very high. Rathej late, lent it?— J. P. .1. 



Ax Alabama Side-Hcnt.— Nov. 31.— The third annual 

 hunt of the Gnlf City Gun Club commenced on the 18th and 

 terminated on the evening of the 19th instant. Fifty-three 

 of Ihe members participated in the sport. The total score 

 of Captain H. P. Vass's team was 3,123, and tl 



ajority 3.92-9, Ha< 



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G. \T. Tnnstalfe's 3,194 



been that the weather 

 game, notably ducks 

 Kim rod would have It 

 skill on the coming w: 

 terday evening, the va 

 with the game, had b 

 varieties counted and i 

 game killed: Deer 3. 

 11, sparrow hawks 22 

 157, Wilson snipe 18. 

 102, poules d'eaux 23, 

 3, common mallards 21 

 heads (!, teal 5, and ot 

 815. There were no 



other than those which usually happen on similar occassions. 

 Although the game was not plentiful, all had a jolly good 

 time. With no accidents of any description to mar 'the' pleas- 

 urable enjoyment of the sport. Mr. E. Carre, of Captain 

 runstall's team, won the medal for best score made; and Mr. 

 Geo. Boltz, of Captain Vass's team, wears the club medal for 

 the ensuing year. Captain Vass's team won the medal for 

 best team scores. It will be remembered that Captain Vass's 

 team won the contest last year and the year before, the score 

 last year being 3, 114 in his favor against 2,439 for Mr. Tun- 

 stall's team. The gunning feats of the members of the two 

 learns were duly celebrated last evening in the rooms of the 

 Gun Club. A long and varied bill of fare was presented, 

 which was enjoyed to the utmost bv those present. After 

 the feast Judge' Semmes, President" of the Club, made the 

 address of greeting, and offered a toast to the winning team. 

 This was ably responded to by Captain Vass. The health of 

 the defeated was also kindly remembered. Remarks were 

 made by a great many members, and the occasion was a 

 most cordial one in all respects. The proceedings were con- 

 tinued until a late hour, and will long be remembered in the 

 annals of Mobile sportsmen. 



Beloit, Wis.. Nov. 17.— The chicken season closed some 

 time ago, and although we have had fine sport, the bags of 

 our sportsmen were much smaller than during most seasons. 

 The quail prospects are quite bright. We have a gun and 

 shooting club in town, Which is in constant practice, and 

 when their brigade enters the quail regions, "death and dis- 

 aster" will naturally follow. Duck shooting has fallen into 

 ill repute since the Hying adventure which one of our gro- 

 cers and a certain druggist had lately. Haying informed all 

 their friends and enemies that they were going out duck 

 shooting, and proposed to show what science and skill could 

 accomplish. About 10 o'clock in the evening liiey returned 

 in a somewhat exhilarated condition, and walked ttiromxh 

 the main street of the town, carrying over their shoulderssix 

 mud-hens and three tame chickens. Since then no Beloiter 

 has tried duck shooting. Lauderdale Lake, a small body of 

 water about fifteen miles from Beloit. is securing some noto- 

 riety as a good field for sportsmen. A neat club house has 

 been erected. The lake is lined by marshes and rice lands, 

 and furnishes a first-class duck reso'rt. It is rumored that the 

 Club House at, Kosukonomr Lake has changed hands, and 

 that it will be much improved during the present season. 

 The Beloit Hunting Club expect to celebrate Thanksgiving 

 with a grand rabbit hunt, Sides will be chosen, and the side 

 having the largest bag at a certain time, will have the privi- 

 lege of eating an elegant spread at the other's expense in the 

 evening. Much fun is anticipated, and tame rabbits are in 

 the greatest demand. — * *. 



New- Orleans, La., Nov. 17.— A party of four left last 

 Wednesday for a hunt at Chef Menteur. The next day they 

 started out after the game which they hoped to bring back 

 to the city. The weather was extremely cold, and although 

 the party was in the best of spirits, the cold made them ap- 

 pear very blue. A heavy blow and occasional rain did not 

 add to their comfort or improve the prospects for full bags 

 to take back home. The prairie was full of water, caused 

 by the strong east wind, therefore snipe hunting had to be 

 abandoned. The scores made were: Provisano 8 ducks, 

 Patorno 9, Cook and Burkhardt 11. The party returned 

 home- Thursday night, well pleased with their hunt, Hun-, 

 ters point to it as a noticeable fact that there have been more 

 mallards killed this year than ever before. In fact, very 

 few ducks of any other species have been seen at all, thus 

 far. Yesterday evening Louis Cook. Rapho, Rich, Frost- 

 cher and C, Colein left for Chef Menteur on a deer hunt. 



DEL AW ABE SuooriNO. — Brooklyn, N. V., Nov. 24 — The 

 Delaware law provides that a non-resident of the State, or 

 '•foreigner," as be is called by the natives, must first take 

 the precaution to provide himself with a certificate of the 

 Association. The best shooting is found in the southern 

 part of the State; wildfowl shooting at Rehoboth and down 

 the coast line is unsurpassed, while quail and rabbits will 

 be found in abundance about Georgetown or vicinity. Mr. 

 Root, A. Rosenbaum, at Rehoboth, is vice-president of the 

 Delaware Game Protective Association, and is ready to aid 

 in finding good sport. — Homespun. 



Ute Deer Killers. — The Sweetwater (.Wvo. '■■■ 

 reports: "The Utes are still at work destroying Jeer ami elk- 

 fort heir hides, and occasionally picking u'p a few head of 

 horses. It is a burning shame." With all the show of mili- 

 tary forts scattered throughout the country, our settlers are 

 without protection." 



Sax FRANCISCO, CaL, Nov. 12,— A party of hunters from 

 the Austin and Butte Mountains went up to the sink of 

 Humboldt last week and killed over a thousand ducks, 

 geese and pelicans. They report Pyramid Lake as alive 

 with water fowl. 



TO AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS. 



TVTE have taken, with amateur outfit, two views from the windows 

 ' » of the Forest a.vd Stream office, and we shall be glad to ex- 

 change one or Villi of them lor amateurs' jjliritopraplis of camp 

 scenes and other pictures made by the sportsman touri-t. The views 

 are 5X8 in- No. tin an instantaneous picture. It shews the north 

 side of tin- Post-office, Mail street, a strip of the City Hall Park, and 

 -i ,,,r.iis', sign, over "oil Broadway. There is also a pie v. u 

 ing pies to the stand on the Post-office corner, with a fat pedestrian 

 in close proximity. No. a shows the front of the old City Hall, with 

 the roof of the new County Court House, other public jbuildiugs, the 

 top Of Stewart's old wholesale store, and a slice of the American 

 News C'o.'s bonding in Chambers street. 



|u* und §iter jgishing. 



ANGLING RESORTS.- We shall be glad to ha 

 ition . notes nf qood fishing localities. Will n< 

 indents favor us with notes of desirable points 



for 



r pumi- 



afigttW 



To insure prompt attention, communications should bead- 

 dresser! lo the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and not to 

 individuals, in whose absence from the office matters of im- 

 portance are liable to delay. 



OPEN SEASONS. 



The digest of open seasons,' printed in our 

 ■u published in convenient pamphlet form, at 

 tpaid, on receipt of 10 cents. 



add 



e of Aug. hi, has 

 rill be sent to any 



DIRGE OF THE DEEP SEA TRAWL. 



/ \f network, coarse and brown, 

 ^' Made up in Gloucester town 



A purse-like bag am I, 

 Bound tight to iron frame, 

 Deep sea trawl is my name. 



And the botto n of the sea I am to hai 



'I'M 



nigb, 



ilhaplump. 



-i distended wide, 



■r the side, 



With eyes d 



They gaze fiom u ci uuc siue, 



In eager and hushed expectancy, 

 As slowly from their view. 

 Through depths of ether blue, 



I sink-softly lo the bottom of the si 



For the frame to 



Is jerked along t 



Far down at in 



0' 



noi-i.,1 



ef the 3 



ick of varied hue, 

 Through mud of liquid glue, 



I'm twisted with remorseless enei 

 Through groves of coral fair. 

 And shoals of fishes rare. 



I groan along the bottom of the s 



With such unwholesome food, 



( Which is i 



I feel iuj 



And when 



With Btror 



My v 

 Like s< 



ubtless for my good) 



ides plethorically distend; 



ly stomach's full, 



and steady pull, 



t journey toilfully I wend. 



iste! 



u disguis 



I soar upward toward the s 



Through depths of pure cerulean blue 

 And the same expectant eyes, 

 Wait to greet me as I rise, 



To their wondering and deeply anxioi 



When high enough they think, 

 I'm dropped into a sink, 



And my waist encircling girdle is nnh 

 And sages, young and old. 

 My stomach to unfold. 



In scientific solicitude stand around. 



Then 1'n 

 My trea; 



And n 

 And the 

 Discern 



That r 



ishedoff with a hose. 



idei 



e things most r. 



To plough and turn the soil. 

 In unrequited toil, 



A slavish drudge Cm thus compelled to be: 

 But my spirits will not lag, 

 For some projecting snag 



Will kindly leave me- at the bottom of the sea. 

 Sept 4, 1SJ3. J. c. M. 



PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



in your issue of Nov. 15, page 3(H), an article signed 

 "Homo" says that the Anglers' Association of Eastern Penn- 

 sylvania met on Nov. 10, and that "the most prominent ques- 

 tion before the meeting was the discussion as to the giving of 

 a fish dinner by the society." "Homo" was not at the meet- 

 ing, or possibly he would have come neater the facts than he 

 did to the dates, and it is not the first time that he has had to 

 be set straight in reference to the Association's work. 



The Anglers' Association was organized about one year 

 ago, with the primary object set forth in th« constitution : 

 Article 1. The preservation, protection and increase of edi- 

 ble fish in the waters of Pennsylvania; the enforcement of 

 the laws concerning the same, aiid to increase the interest in 

 angling. 



The "Forest add Stream, outside of its business venture, 

 of course, has had somewhat similar objects, and its aid and 

 encouragement, as well as that of all other honest newspa- 

 pers, our Association usks and expects; but the inuendo is 

 unfair and uncalled for, and we feel sure that the correspon- 

 dent, and not the paper, is at fault. 



The Association began with a few, a very few earnest 

 workers, and lias increased until the roll now numbers more 

 than 200 members, and in that uumber I am proud to be one, 

 for many of them are among the solidest business men of the 

 city. The Association's objects have been kept steadily in 

 view, although they cannot be fully accomplished at once. 

 The reports of the officers, which were read (not in "Homo's" 

 presence), but which will be sent to you before being pub- 

 lished, are, to say the least, encouraging. 



Not to recite them all, the Delaware" has been cleared of 

 fish dams from the northeast rorner of the State to Easton, 

 and over 100 destroyed on the Susquehanna, Large num- 

 bers of nets have been confiscated, several streams have been 

 restocked, and illegal fishing in a uumber of places has been 

 stopped. 



The dinner of which "Homo" speaks is not a dinner. of 

 *rc Association at all; it is a dinner of the members. 



