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FOEEST AND STREAM. 



GAME PROTECTION. 





A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



D ^ t ™> to Field AND Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 



X ISH O CJLTITRE, THE PROTECTION OF GAME, PRESERVATION OF FORESTS, 



aitd the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 

 eh Out-door Becseation and Study : 



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MEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1876. 



To Correspondents. 



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 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 

 ING WEEK. 



' Thursday, Augw?t lTtli.— Racing: Saratoga. Trotting: Utica, N. 

 Y-; Lewiston, Me; Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia; Mendota, 111.; 

 Lowell, Mass. Base Ball: St. Louis vs. Chicago, at St. Louis; Athletic 

 vs. Mutuals, at Philadephia; Louisville vs. Cincinnati, at Louisville; 

 Madison vs. Jefferson, at Brooklyn; Alpha vs. Hudson, at Stapleton 

 Flats; Our Boys vs. Enterprise, at Jersey City; Allen vs. Astor, at Jersey 

 City; Alaska vs. Witoka of Brooklyn, at Jersey Cit>> Chatham vs. 

 Orange at Orange; Enterprise vs. Keystone, at Jersey City; Contest vs. 

 Our Boys, Conev Island Road. 



Friday, August 18th.— Trotting as above. Base Ball; Alpha vs. 

 Union, at Stapleton Flats; Nassau vs. Hudson, at Brooklyn; Alaska vs. 

 Olympic of Paterson, at Jersey City; Monticello vs. Athletic of New 

 York, at Jersey City; Monticello vs. Flyaway of New York, at Jersey 

 City; Resolute of New Yoik vs. Osceola, at Jersey City; Mutual vs. 

 Witoka, at Breoklyn. 



Saturday, August 19th.— Racing: Saratoga. Regatta, Beverly Yacht 

 Club, Beverly, Mass. Rifle: Matches at Creedmoor and Glen Drake. 

 Base Ball: St. Louis vs. Chicago, at St. Louis; Louisville vs. Cincinnati, 

 at Louisville; Athletic vs. Mutual, at Philadelphia; Witoka vs. Contest, 

 at Brooklyn; Putnam vs. Crescent, at Brooklyn; Ours Boys vs. -Good- 

 will, at Brooklyn; Nameless vs. Staten Island, at Staten Island; Osceo- 

 la vs. Winona, at Brooklyn; Our Boys vs. Resolute, at Elizabeth; Contest 

 vs. Alert of Greenport, at Brooklyn. 



Monday, August 31st.-- -Regatta, National Amateur Association, 

 Schuylkill River, Philadelphia. Base Ball: Chelsea of Brooklyn vs. 

 Cricket, at Bmghamton, 



Tuesday, August 22d .—Trotting: Pitfsfield, Mass.; Gardiner, Me.; 

 Eariville, 111.; Lawrence, Mass.; Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Regatta, Schuyl- 

 kill River, Philadelphia; reiratta Flushing Bay Rifle: American Team 

 practice at Creedmoor. Base Ball: Cincinnati vs. Louisville, at Cincin- 

 nati; Chicago vs. St. Louis, at Chicago; Athletic vs. Boston, at Phila- 

 delphia. 



Wednesday. August 23.— Trotting as above. Regatta, Schuylkill 

 River, Philadelphia. Rifla: American Team practice at Creedmoor. 



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Inasmuch as in the general shrinkage of values, the cost 

 of printing and of printing paper approximates to what it 

 was before the war, while our subscription price is rela- 

 tively higher than the rates then charged for similar publi- 

 cations, we have determined to reduce our annual subscrip- 

 tion price to Four Dollars per year. We shall, therefore, 

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Publishers Forest and Stream. 



—In New Zealand the Auckland Acclimatization Society 

 is doing good work by the introduction of salmon, trout, 

 &nd various birds into that country, 



The National Convention. — The third convention of 

 the National Sportsmen's Association will be held in 

 Chicago, on the 29th of this month. A large attendance is 

 expected, and a most interesting session. The business 

 matters which may come before the convention, or which 

 are open to their consideration, are of the most important 

 description, not the least being the subject of National leg- 

 islation regarding the propagation and protection of game. 

 The officers of the National Association are: President, J. 

 V. Le Moyne, Chicago; First Vice President, A. B. Lamb- 

 erton, Rochester, N. Y. ; Second Vice-President, Hon. E. 

 H. Lathrop, Springfield, Mass. ; Treasurer, R. R.Clark, 

 Chicago; Recording Secretary, John B. Sage, Buffalo; 

 Corresponding Secretary, W. F. Parker, West Meriden, 

 Conn. The delegates from the New York State Associa- 

 tion are: C. C. Morse, of Rochester; John J. Flannagan, 

 of Utica; James Manning, of Syracuse; J. M. Wilmer, of 

 Niagara Falls, and Col. Alfred Waestaff, Jr., of New 

 York. 



New York, Greenwood Lake. — Pursuant to a call, an 

 enthusiastic meeting was held at the Brandon House, 

 Greenwood Lake, on Saturday last, and a Club organized 

 under the name of the "Greenwood Lake Sportsman's 

 Club." The following officers and trustees were elected: 

 Hon. Smith Ely, Jr., President; Hon. Charles H. Winfield, 

 Vice-President; Alexander Brandon, Treasurer; Win. O. 

 McDowell, Secretary. Trustees, Daniel E. Star, Reming- 

 ton Vernam, P. R. George, Willard Richards, D. B. 

 Grant, H. C. Cook, Thomas Kinsella, Mr. Williams, L. 

 II. Ward, Mr. Skiddy, E. J. Lewis Dr. O. Olcott, Wm. 

 Treadwell, Daniel Jackson, George Gifford, A. H. Vernam, 

 S. B. Stewart, E. P. Terhune, D D., E. T. Waterstown, 

 L. Y. Jenness, John Gilsey, Wm. O. McDowell. 



Arrangements have been made to supply a man by the 

 year to act as Game Constable and Deputy Fish Warden, 

 and to place at the outlet a dam or wire screen to prevent 

 the fish leaving the lake. The Club inteud to commence 

 building immediately a fine club-house. The membership 

 of the Club is made up almost entirely of gentlemen of 

 means in and around New York, who have long known of 

 the splendid fishing in Greenwood Lake, and the hunting 

 in the mountain wilds surrounding it. 



Pennsylvania. — The Forest and Stream Sportsman's 

 Club of Scranton, Pa., was recently the successful plaintiff 

 in a case of violation of the game laws in that vicinity. It 

 seems that on the 5th day of July, while John Griffin, near 

 Munmore, was sowing buckwheat, he heard shooting in 

 the woods hard by. and upon going to see what it was all 

 about, saw a little spaniel bringing a bird in its mouth, 

 which proved to be a pheasant (ruffed grouse). Then he 

 encountered three men, when considerable talk ensued upon 

 taking game out of season, etc., tne parties claiming that 

 one of them, Miller, had shot the bird by accident, Taffy, 

 (John Matters), agreed to take it and bury it at once. Be- 

 fore the Alderman, Taffy made out a very good case for 

 himself and his friends — proved that he was as deeply in- 

 teiested in enforcing the game laws as anybody — was a 

 sportsman himself and condemned anything that looked 

 like poaching — that he was rather glad to have been ar- 

 rested in this case, martyed, as it were, in order to prove 

 the zeal of those who -would punish offenders of every 

 class. He felt sorry for his friend Miller, who was so un- 

 fortunate as to have such bad looking evidence brought 

 against him, for it was all a mere accident. " The court re- 

 volved the matter over and then fined Miller $10 and put 

 the. costs, $4, upon Taffy, while Roe, whom they call 

 "Dickey" was discharged, being regarded as only a looker 

 on. This case, as well as those previously conducted, 

 proves that the Forest and Stream folks are awake to 

 their duty and that it will be difficult for any violation of 

 the game laws, however secluded it may be, to escape the 

 watchful eye^of the members, agents or friends of the 

 club. 



Virginia.— A society to be known as the Game Associ- 

 ation of the County, of Brunswick has recently been 

 formed, with Capt. D. T. Payner as President, and Mr. 

 Warner Lewis as Secretary. The objects of the associa- 

 tion, viz: the better preservation of game and the enforce- 

 ment of the game laws, will be strictly carried out. 



—A strict enforcement of the game laws and the exaction 

 of the penalties attached thereto is a very good thing, but 

 there are instances where "justice should be tempered with 

 mercy," as in the case of a raftsman near Pembroke, Ont., 

 who was attacked last week by two lynxes, but after a des- 

 perate struggle killed them. On exhibiting their pelts at 

 the town he was promptly fined $40 for killing the animals 

 out of season. 



— An enthusiastic meeting of sportsmen was held in 

 Capt. Townsend's rooms, New Brighton, on Wednesday 

 evening last, and an association formed to be known as the 

 Forester Sportsman's Association, of Beaver County, Pa., 

 with the following officers: President, Dr. W. H. Grim; 

 Vice-Presidents, Prof. Van Baker, Wm. Elverson and Geo. 

 Woodruff; Secretary, J. P. Edgar; Treasurer, J. J. 

 Snellenburgh; Directors; Prof. Baker, Wm. P. Sherwood 

 and L. Oatman. The purpose of the association is to pro- 

 tect game and fish, and enforce the game laws in that part 

 of the State. 



Game Protection in Nova Scotia.— The report for 

 this year of the Game and Inland Fishery 

 Protection Society of Nova Scotia contains the 

 constitution and by-laws, the amended game laws now in 

 force in Nova Scotia, and the annual report of the Council 

 of the society. 



The Council express themselves as satisfied with the 

 operations of the past year, and the general working of 

 the restrictive law. Moose, for instance, are again becom- 

 ing plentiful in their ancient haunts, and are tame. It is 

 important to consider the best measures to be adopted after 



the expiration of the present prohibitory law in September 

 1877, which, while they will allow legitimate and reason- 

 able license in the killing of these animals, will at the same 

 time avoid those excesses which have necessitated the 

 passage of the present law. The commrttee of the Coun- 

 cil appointed to prepare certain amendments to the law, 

 which experience have proved to be necessary, have per- 

 formed their duty, and in the last session of the Legislature 

 these amendments became law. They are principally as fol- 

 lows: — 



1. Restricting the number of caribou to be killed by 

 any person or hunting parly, in any one season, to five. 



2. Altering the clause relating to the appropriation of 

 the fines— so as to make one-half payable to the informer 

 and the other half to the Commissioner or Warden, if pro- 



j secuiing; but if any other person prosecutes, then that half 

 shall go to the society. This was found necessary to pre- 

 | vent collusion between informers and offenders. 



13. Providing that forfeited moose meat, instead of 

 being destroyed, should be given to the poor under certain 

 restrictions. 

 /. 4. Providing an additional fine for hunting with dogs. 



5. Extending the penalties of cap. 73, Rev. Stat., to 

 the snaring and taking alive of song birds, and the destruc- 

 tion of their nests. 



6. Appointment of a Chief Game Commissioner. 

 Two matters engaged the attention of the Council during 



the past year which have an important bearing upon the 

 successful working of the new law, viz. : the obtaining an 

 additional number of Wardens, and a grant of a sum of 

 money to defray expenses of prosecutions, where the of- 

 fenders were too poor to pay, or where the prosecutions 

 failed from no fault of the Commissioners or Wardens. 

 Being met in a liberal spirit by the Government, nine ad- 

 ditional Wardens were appointed, and assigned where 

 most needed. The Government also agreed to pay the 

 actual expenses of prosecutions in the cases referred to, 

 upon the certificate of the Justices who tried the case, and 

 upon the recommendation of the Chief Game Commis- 

 sioner and the President of the society. This will remove 

 one great cause of complaint on the part of Commissioners 

 and Wardens, some of whom the Council know have spent 

 a part of their meagre pittance in unsuccessful attempts to 

 obtain convictions. 



The old Commissioners and Wardens are all reported as 

 zealous in the discharge of their duties, but many difficul- 

 ties meet them in their efforts to punish offenders to the 

 game laws. One of these is the reluctance of persons to 

 give evidence in the courts from fear of personal violence 

 from the accused. There appears to be no remedy for this 

 evil, except a determination on the part of the officers of 

 justice to punish any attempt at retaliation from those who 

 have been convicted. The imprisonment of convicted 

 offenders, even for a limited period, the Council are of 

 opinion, has had a salutary effect in enforcing the observ- 

 ance of the law. 



The protection of Inland River Fisheries (never within the 

 control of the society since 1868) has been more than ever 

 withdrawn from its supervision by the appointment of an 

 Inspector of River Fisheries for this province by the Do- 

 minion Government — an office which has been secured 

 for Nova Scotia mainly through the exertions of the society. 

 The fact of the formation of an International Association 

 for Protecting Game and Fish in this city, is alluded to, 

 and the election of the President and Secretary of the 

 Nova Scotia Society to the Advisory Committee of the In- 

 ternational Association is announced. The Council say: — 

 Co operation with kindred societies in the United States 

 and the other Provinces of the Dominion will, no doubt, 

 have a beneficial effect in mutual encouragement and in 

 stimulating renewed exertions in the common interest we 

 have in view. 



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Japanese Liberality. — The wide difference, everyday 

 growing wider, between the national spirit of the Japanese 

 a half century or less ago, and to-day, is illustrated in a 

 thousand ways at the Centennial Exhibition. Among oth- 

 er signs of a breaking down of the old pride and exclu- 

 siveness, may be mentioned the fact that they have re- 

 quested Prof. Henry Wurtz of Hoboken, one of the judges 

 in pottery, to make chemical analysis of the earths which 

 they use in the manufacture of their porcelain: and have 

 been at great pains to furnish him with adequate examples 

 of all the materials, and full information as to their geo- 

 logical position, and the processes of manufacture. Prof. 

 Wurtz hopes for important results from this investigation, 

 which is of high economic interest. 



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Prof. Huxley.— Prof. Thomas Huxley, the eminent 

 English biologist, arrived in this city last week, and was 

 for several days the guest of Prof. Youmans, editor of the 

 Popular Science Monthly and Mr. Appleton, his American 

 publisher. He then went to New Haven, where he is the 

 guest of Prof. O. C. Marsh, and will visit Boston. He in- 

 tends to return to this city m September, and, contrary to 

 his plan, will lecture here on September 18th, 20th and 

 22d on "The Direct Evidences of Evolution"— a subject 

 with which he is fully conversant, and upon which every- 

 body will be anxious to hear him speak. 

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—Two lively young seals were received on Thursday 

 last at the New York Aquarium from Newfoundland. Mr 

 Coup informs us that it will be two months yet before the 

 aquarium will be open to the public; the amount of labor 

 necessary in the preparation of the tanks and getting 

 everything ship-shape is enormous, but the work is pro- 

 gressing rapidly and successfully. 



—We commend to our readers' attention some philoso- 

 phy contained in the closing paragraphs of our leading 

 article this week— "Moosehead twenty-five years ago." 



—Prof. C. G. Ehrenberg, of Berlin, the distinguished 

 microscopist, died recently, at the age of eighty-one years. 



