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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Spouts, Practical Natural 
History. Fish Culture, the Protection or Game, Preserva¬ 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 35, 1879. 
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The Cheedmoor Meeting. —The very full report given 
in our columns tins week is so completeas to preclude the 
necessity for any editorial notice. The story of tho 
meeting is well told in the scores jfgiven with careful 
elaboration, while the lessons of the contests have in 
part been hinted at. The report makes a heavy drain on 
our space. Yet we consider it well given, for from one 
end of the country to the other, and over Europe as 
well ; in fact, wherever tho Forest and Stream circu¬ 
lates, there are readers anxious to know the story of 
Creedmoor and its fall meeting. These annual gather¬ 
ings have come to Btand as guages of the rifle work of 
the year in the field of practice, and in the workshop of 
manufacture. The improvement pointed out is marked ; 
and to everyone, whether a participant in the pleasure 
of the keen rivalry before the butts, or one of other in¬ 
clinations, the progress at Creedmoor means safety and 
prosperity. We bang away at a passive iron slab; yet 
indirectly every shot makes one atom in the breastwork 
we aTe raising against foreign invasion or domestic, in¬ 
surrection. The score ticket-figures mean congratula¬ 
tion to the winners at present, and a fund of safety for 
us all from this time on. Thus far tho militia have led 
the army in range endeavor. Yet another year we think 
will change the time, and the civilian soldier will then 
be glad to take his cue from those who should rightly 
offer it, __ 
Yale and Harvard. — The Yale oarsmen are wisely 
profiting by their defeat at New London in the last race, 
and have gone to work with a will to prepare for a dif¬ 
ferent record next year. At a mass meeting of the stu¬ 
dents last Friday, Captain Rogers reported that twenty 
men would go into immediate training and work steadily 
through the winter. The College voted to challenge 
Harvard to row a four-miles race on the Thames next 
June. 
It is certainly to be hoped that Yale will do better next 
year than she lias for the last three years. One-sided 
boat races are not very interesting affairs. Yale and 
Harvard were the first oollegas to meet in competitive 
strength upon the water. Their races are events of na¬ 
tional interest. Restricted within proper normal bounds, 
college boating and other athletic sport is to be encour- 
arged. Our alumni need more chest measure. The 
vast change in college health and strength which has 
come about within the last ten years, is largely due 
to the general participation in rational pastimes. Some 
of our colleges, notably Amherst, have methodical courses 
of gymnastic exercise. But in most of these institutions 
the studentB must rely upon their own spontaneous par¬ 
ticipation in athletic sports. The intercollegiate rivalry, 
such as that between Harvard and Yale, is an important 
factor in fostering this athleticism. The great intercolle¬ 
giate regattas have not only proved unwieldy, but, as the 
public has long ago learned, they are conducted largely 
in the interests of betting men, hotel keepers, and, as the 
Saratoga visitors of former years learned to their cost, 
hack drivers. The collegians themselves are doubtless 
innocent of any mercenary motives, but that they have 
been made tools of by scheming speculators, the very 
dullest looker on must well understand. 
Harvard and Yale have withdrawn from this hippo- 
droming. They have been censured for the course. 
They rather deserve commendation. 
We hope to see a close bow-and-bow race next June. 
Florida.—W e begin the publication this week of a se¬ 
ries of descriptive sketches of Florida from the able pen 
of Dr. J. A. Henshall. As the season for the annual 
Main e — Portland, Sept. 0th .—Our local sportsmen have 
at last organized a club for securing legislation for the 
protection of fish and game, etc. It will be known under 
tho name of 1 ‘ The Mulnomah Rod and Gun Club,” with the 
following officers: President, J. W. Whalley ; Secretary, 
Will L. Chapman, Treasurer, M. F. Spencer. Among 
its members are some of our most influential business 
men and leading professionals, and all bespeak a brilliant 
future for the club. William Lang. 
The Vermont Woodcock Law .—Ferrisburg, Vt., Sept. 
6th—Editor Forest and St ream .-—Desirable as a common 
close time is, the close time as now established here for 
woodcock amounts to almost total prohibition, for in nine 
years out of ten these birds have all left us by the 1st of 
September. What shall we do in such a case? Be self- 
sacrificing for the good of others ? A few may be willing 
to do so, but it is next to impossible for these few to en¬ 
force the law as it now stands. It is hard enough to en¬ 
force such protective laws as are indisputably just. 
R. E. R. 
winter migration to the South is approaching rapidly, tho 
value of these letters will he sufficiently appreciated. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
The New Brunswick Game Laws. —A correspondent 
of the Boston Journal of Commerce recently made some 
harsh strictures upon the non-resident license fees ex¬ 
acted by the game laws of New Brunswick. To these 
Chief Game Commissioner James T, Fellows replies in an 
eminently sensible letter, a portion of which we copy 
below. We have repeatedly held up the course of our 
neighbors as a precedent to bo followed by ourselves. 
Just what the causes were which compelled New Bruns¬ 
wick to adopt her present game regulations, and how 
this enforcement has resulted, is well told by Mr. 
Fellows: — 
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have long been noted 
for the excellence of their fishing and hunting; it is de¬ 
sirable that they remain bo. The markets of Boston and 
New York are witnesses of the immense quantity of 
game supplied them from this section, chiefly by pot¬ 
hunters. 
These vandals infest our marshes, lakes, rivers and 
forests, destroying without stint, careless of the season, 
mating or pregnancy periods, of sex or of the means 
of capture, so long as the market demanded and 
the “coast was clear” for their peculiar line of trade. 
Instances are known where thousands of wild fowl have 
been baited, netted and shipped away in schooners to 
foreign markets by foreigners ; where largo companies of 
hunters, French and Indian, from Quebec, have invaded 
the moose country in February and March (when deep snow 
and heavy crust aided them in easily securing their prey), 
destroying hundreds of these noble animals, killing them 
for their peltry alone, their carcasses left for camiverous 
birds and beasts, and where carribo and moose have been 
killed while big with young. 
To so great an extent had this wholesale slaughtering 
been carried on that game was fast becoming scarce and 
in danger of extinction. Nova Scotia sportsmen awoke 
first to the necessities of the situation, and secured a law 
forbidding the capture of moose or carribo for three years, 
making provision for preserving game, and exacting a 
license fee of $30 from all except Nova Scotian sportsmen. 
The effect produced by this last proviso was to turn for¬ 
eign sportsmen and pot-hunters into our province. For a 
time the destruction of game was startling; but a num¬ 
ber of our sportsmen met, formed a society and established 
a fund to defray the expenses of scouts and prosecutions 
against offenders, and otherwise to assist in carrying out 
the game laws. Certain amendments were enacted by 
our legislature — one of which was the charging a license 
fee, like Nova Scotia, of $30, We have a Chief Commis¬ 
sioner. one County Warden for each comity, one Parish 
Warden for each parish, and in some counties have 20 
deputies beside. With this machinery we hope to so pro¬ 
tect the game that no person can very well object to pay 
the fee : no sportsman will. 
Mark this: The law operates equally against all, 
whether American. English or Canadian. By the foster¬ 
ing and protection thus afforded, the game must increase 
and the pleasures of the sportsman be multiplied, while 
his fatigues and disappointments lessen; and since we ex¬ 
pend our funds in game protection, we simply ask others 
who wish to enjoy its capture to contribute theirs. 
It may be urged that no fee is exacted by any State in 
the Union,* and that it is therefore unfair to exact such 
of Americans; but the reasoning is absurd. Both game 
birds and animals are nearly extinct in many States, 
while others, which boasted "of plenty a few years ago, 
are rapidly beco min g tenantless. Now that the game is 
nearly exhausted, every State in the Union has its game 
law, which may be made effective through the assistance 
of game protection societies, whose funds are expended, 
like ours, in prosecuting offenders ; but these must soon 
tire of contributing to such a purpose while outside sports¬ 
men reap the benefits thus conferred, gratis. The time 
is therefore not far distant when resident sportsmen in 
each State must submit to losing then- game entirely or 
obtain an efficient license law. In proportion as the 
haunts of game become broken up, so will sportsmen 
multiply in the remainder; consequently, Americans or 
others who may be too prodigal of their game at home 
should submit to the more provident laws and customs of 
other lands when they choose to visit them, 
To conclude, Mr. Editor, no law-abiding person is de¬ 
barred from hunting in New Brunswick. Our game 
license law is not likely to keep American sportsmen 
away; we hope it may terrify American pot-hunters. 
The law is not intended to shut’ out Americans from par¬ 
ticipation in legitimate wood, marsh or sea shooting. 
The law is aimed against pot-hunters of any nationality 
and foreigners who object to pay the lawful fee towards 
protection, and was instituted strictly to preserve and 
foster the game of the country. 
It may be interesting to know that Nova Scotia has 
found it necessary to increase her license fee to $50, 
♦Delaware and New Jorsoy each have a non-rcsldentlicense 
law.—E d. F. & S. 
The Massachusetts Game Law. —It is to be regretted 
that the case mentioned below could not have been 
thoroughly tested in the courts. The defendants’ failure 
to appear, however, was a virtual defeat. We commend 
the Massachusetts Association for its earnest and effi¬ 
cient action :— 
Boston, Sept. 19th. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
The case of this Commonwealth vs. Hal) & Whipple, 
proprietors of Young’s Hotel, came up in the Superior 
Court this week. As many of your readers are interested 
in the case, I would inform them that the defendants 
failed to appear and prosecute their appeal, thus being 
defaulted. We regret that the case was not carried to 
the Supreme Court, but the offenders well knew that de¬ 
feat awaited them, and wisely avoided further contest. 
There is no question as to the strength of the law, even 
though certain parties would attempt to set up claims 
that it is a weak and unjust law. Eat Deus immiti 
corunta curta hove. John Fottler, Jr. 
The Non-Resident Law of Delaware. — Poughkeep¬ 
sie, Sept. 20tli —I could not help noticing the contrast 
between the magnanimity of Mr. W, H, Merrill, of Dela¬ 
ware, in the last issue of your paper, and the Delaware 
game laws. Lest some of your readers might, to their 
sorrow, be misle 1 by that invitation, would it not he well 
for you to call a-tent ion to that section of their game 
law which wil 1 not permit any one being a non-resident 
of the State to even shoot upon tho land of a brother or 
friend under severe penalty ; also the adroitness shown 
in the wording of the statute, so that there can be no pos¬ 
sible avoidance of it. 
Their law as to non-residents is in keeping with their 
other relic of barbarism—the whipping-post: and the 
two are unmistakable proof of the half-civilized tone of 
their Legislature. 
1 have often wondered that severe comments have not 
been made by the sporting papers upon that feature of 
their game laws. A. 
Remarks. —The inference of our correspondent is the 
same which seems to obtain generally as to the attitudes 
of the States of New Jersey and Delaware toward non¬ 
resident sportsmen—namely, that residents may shoot ad 
libitum, while non-residents are charged a fee. Tho truth 
is that any person who shoots in Delaware is obliged to 
take out a license, whether resident or non-resident, Tho 
first year a license costs residents $3 and non-residents 
$5. After the first year there is no discrimination. The 
effect of the law is to make all who participate in the 
sport bear a portion of the expenses. Those who value 
shooting privileges sufficiently to pay a small sum per 
annum will be likely to interest themselves in protecting 
the game and enforcing the sensible laws for its protec¬ 
tion. What we possess and enjoy is generally enhanced 
in value by what it costs ns, 
A TRIP TO NORTH PARK. 
(FOURTH PAPER.) 
[FROM OUR -STAFF CORRESPONDENT.! 
O UR party which left Laramie about three o’clock on 
a bright, pleasant Wednesday afternoon, consisted of 
five individuals. Twoof thenumber, A. and W., had never 
before been west of the Missouri river, and so every thing 
would be new to them. Fuller, our teamster, and William, 
the cook, with the writer, made up the company. A stout 
team drew the StUdebaker wagon, which carried our pro¬ 
visions, bedding and ammunition, and three excellent 
saddle horses were provided for the accomodation of those 
who preferred riding to a seat in the wagon. Our start 
was not marked by any incident of special interest except 
to one of the party. I had mounted and was about to 
ride on to overtake the wagon, which had already moved 
off, when A., who hastily, approached his horse, carrying 
his rubber coat in his left hand, attempted to spring into 
the saddle. A gust of wind spread out the coat, the horse 
gave a sidewise bound just as the rider left the ground, 
and the consequence was that A. sprang clear over his 
steed and alighted on his head in the road on the other 
side of the beast. Happily the fall resulted in no injury, 
and in a moment more A. had mounted, this time without 
the accompaniment of a rubber coat, and we were trotting 
along on our way to the Bark. 
The first day’s march took ns to Leroy’s on the Laramie 
river, a distance of only seventeen miles, The road is a 
good one, hard and level, and over it the greater part of 
the freight which goes to the mines passes, The country 
