!.m n 'j.i. 1882, 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



14B 



The cause is apathy— prejudice against every man with a 

 gun in his hand— a pretended claim of havina: the inalienable 

 right io do with and on one's property as tie pleases, and sel- 



To illustrate: Not long since I m. i ; I.I gentleman. 



whom I had known many yeare. He knew I vna torn] di 

 tbo guu, and frequently I have been his guest at his moun- 

 tain home He aaid to me: "My neighbors and 1 haveagreed 

 among ourselves not (o allow a member of any sportsman s 

 club to hunt or shool upon our land'." 1 said, "Uncle Dan, 

 that i^ .i vers strange del rmingtion on yourparl. \\'h..i 

 led you to it?" \\ ell," he said, the Is* against trapping 

 quail was instigated by these clubs, and we arc therefore 

 down on Hi. in.'' 



The ulil liimi. ii seewa, had 6oeu in the habit of trapping 

 quail and getting a little extra pocket money by setting them 

 in the market. This was selfishness— the benefit of Die law 

 generally he admitted) 



On another occasion, with two companions, by invitation, 

 I visited Sycamore Valiej lohavoa quail shoot. Eavly in 

 tin' morning we Started ojjt, down a -mill cMek running 

 through our friend's laud. In a little -while we Unshed n 

 very large bevj of qna.il. Theyfittw down the creek We 

 followed in pursuit . CJnconsci'oush wc soon exceeded the 

 limits ■ t our friend's land, and, all of a sudden, we found 

 ourselves confronted by the maddest red faced man you 

 ever saw. Swearing with every breath, he demanded to 

 know why we were trespassing on his property He esp.-.-i- 

 ally made me the object ot attack. We graeefviuj apolo, 



gized. and denied the unjust appellattpn 5f brfng r, d d 



city hoodlums," which be called as. Alter a time, he in 

 turn apologized to us. He said that ho ha,d. been annoyed 

 nearly to death by hoodlums and bot-huhtera, who shot 

 quail around his house, oftimes his chickens and a number 

 oC times he had found bis animals injured. 



The apathetic man is one who does not care who shoots 

 on his place, oi when thesliooting is done. 



The other class of whioh 1 have spoken, one meets quite 

 frequently. Hi ■tells yon that hi: owns all tjle game on his 

 place, and the law has no righi to dictate to him when he 

 may and may not shoot. 



All these different classes are difficult io contend against, 

 and the only plan that I can see Which will accomplisi any- 

 thing, is the one we are following, viz.: Meeting in eonven 

 lion as a dignified body of men, publiRhjiig our deliberations 

 to the people, and ova concert OI a. 'lion show our deteiini- 

 nation to have the laws Observed. Treat all men who vio- 

 late the game laws as crimihals, and see that they arc pun- 

 ished as criminals. Conduct ourselves in bucIi a manner as 

 to gam the respect of all classes— educate the people as to 

 the meaning oi the word '•sportsman." When it is found 

 out that a sportsman i- the highest type of a gentleman, and 

 that the object we seek to accomplish is a good and Honor- 

 able one, then may we expect to get outside help and sup 

 port and our object gained. Until this bright future is 

 reached, lot us continue the uood work with unabated rigor 



and determination. In all of which I ibsmv win mv ei 



hearty co-operation. 



In conclusion, i t as apropos of the subject, I would like 



tocall the attention of the Association to a few suggestions 

 In regard to the existing . me laws, some of which are my 

 own and other? I Inw i been requested to make : 



l-i. All shoolinu in the in'-jhr ;ime should be pioiiibiud. 



3d. No killing should be allowed except with a gun. 



3d. The use of swivel guns and OUntgUna BhouTd be ab- 

 solutely prohlbiledln hunting wildfowl. 



•lib. A penalty should be imposed upon all transportation 

 companies transporting game in close season. 



."illi. Some provision should be made for the issuance of 

 search warrants, as in eases' of .stolen property, 



6th. The close season for quail and clucks should be 

 lengthened, that is to saj : Commencing with ihe 1st day of 

 jMareh and ending on the 1st day of (Violin 



lib. Section 820 oi the Penal Code should includeall vari- 

 eties of ducks. 



8th. The statute whioh prohibited the killing of doves for 

 four years, and which has now expired. Should be made ab- 

 solute and without any limitation 



localities where they wire plentiful iu and after nesting 

 season. ! would hazard no why as to cunsc in the instance- 

 recently mentioned, but give an instance winch is fresh in 



memory from the fael thai a friend mid mysdl u hi 



THE BIRDS IN KENTUCKY. 



Ql AII.S are scarce. Protracted rain- through and after 

 the licsling season Supposed cause. IliniiiL' : i nicni 

 Visit to central Kentucky fanners and fiportsmen informed 

 mi- that there is an unusual scarcity there this fall. 



Partridges have multiplied greatly, but persist in dcclariust 

 their prdximity to the ear instead w the eye, and the anal 

 pgy between walking and shooting by faith is rather too 

 shadowy for didactic development, hence, the value of a 

 yellow dog. when, in season, one would refresh the assimi- 

 lation machinery with thai most savory dish. 



My pointer stands them staunchly, but has Up to now 

 failed to locate one where whirr and disappearance were not 

 too nearly simultaneous far a satisfai to.ry waste of ammuni- 

 tion, save one single instance, when y charge of No. 10's at 

 forty yfttds Served simply to stimulate a irraceful accelera- 

 tion of hia return to the chacparal, through which his Bashes 

 led me till desperation induces a discharge of No. V- at 

 sound, iicsult -a glimpse of a brown streak in direction 

 of a mountain to)) u mile away. An intervening eortiticld, 

 familiarity with the rugged mountain side, a lame lee- which 

 derive- no solace from even a high private's pension, and a 



few "-aw hriri'N" which had numerously perverted ihe 

 natural course of the cutaneous circulation, pcreuadwd me 

 that the cooking of that particular bird would require a 

 little- more butter than the madarac would Oh'eerfuTJy supply, 



anfl I sal down and picked out the brier.- before n noun.: 

 my tramp home, on which a satisfactory bag of quails had 



started in c I in a con\ert to "NcsmiiiiiV humane treat- 

 meiii of pari ridges. They can deride me with impunity o 

 long' as they continue- to keep out of sight, but 1 owe the 

 t'amik a grudge, which 1 am determined to avenge bysboot- 

 iii": every member I can catch at the advantage they've 

 always taken of inc. 



Uncle Joe slipped oil from me last fall, though he had 

 pledged himself tu come by and take me on his annual deer 

 hunt His excuse was thai he went earlier than usual ami 



knew that 1 couidli'l get away then (which was a fact, but 

 aggravated his Slipping off), and I'm -lad to report thai bacon 



constituted his meat diet thai trip. He informed ma that 



they are the CO tbi fall, and thai 1 -hall ccrtainlv be one of 



the p.-niy. b lent . Turkeys liavedone well, AU rati* 



ties Of mast an better than for many years, and game-will 

 thrive. Squirr.1- have not appeared ili numbers yet, Every 

 fall since I have been here tin this tin ir depredations upon 

 coriiih Ida have been serious. 



Apropos, as to reasonR of quails' disappearance from 



nl\ pointers within an area of live :nil< — i pi;i 

 cil.y fine bevies, and wire counting 0U the 

 f our experience from their numbers and loc 

 ,e returned from our first day's hunt wc.lidn 



11 have known old "Hi: 



foradivid 



to grass fifteen quails with 

 over the dog we followed that day 

 In our neighborhood the dry we: 

 parched the grass and cui short tl 

 open season rheathbbie fields had I 

 (horoiigl ' 



. from oui 

 Kaet-.i 



I Augus 

 that b 



We 



r ha 



elude 



locality thirty 

 sonable rains, i 

 bunt over gn 

 of more than 

 teen full bevi 



y brother-in-law informed ms that in a day's 

 und on which he thought there wa-n't a hiiiieh 

 half a .lo/cu left in anv lield. he put up nine 

 I'.-, and that in crossing a cornlield near til" 

 bouse in which had been left but live birds of the two bevies 

 reared there, lie found four full Hocks, in fact, after the 

 stock of native birds had been killed. w<\ thebov.- wcui oul 

 hopinerto find a bevy that had escaped, they found that im- 

 niL'iai. on bad about doubled the original Supply. As Hig 

 an'd'I had no apprehension of infringement we waited for 

 November frosts to opiu our campaign, when we .found our 

 game -one to replenish the districts which had been depleted 



in October— when: old Tim. who didn'i post, said every 

 other lellou had a double barreled cannon and a darned 

 bob-tailed .-potted dog. 



Barring quail, our prospects for fall and winter sport arc 

 excellent. The heavy beechnut crop corroborates the infal- 

 lible Veiinor's prediction that mercury stauds a poor chaupe 

 to successfully wrestle with Ihe cold of coming wi iter, and 

 believers haven't a doubt that ducks and geese will imagine 

 they've found the North Pole when they reach our latitude, 

 ami will contentedly locate. &EKTUCKTAK 



Itu.i. StelNrtS, K\ .. S.-ptenibei . IBS8 



BRUIN ON THE RAMPAGE. 



1 HAVE just been reading Mr. "(.'. 11. H.V letter in vour 

 paper of the Tib of September about "Adirondack Game 

 Resorts." "C. II. R." probably had a tine time, but has 

 made one ini.-lake 1 want to correct He says that Beaver 

 Lake was the place when 'Mr. Oolvin, the snrveyor, camped 

 at, and while he was out fishing a bear came Into camp and 

 knocked down everything. * No".-. Shcppard. Benhatu 

 Dart. Johnsonand I are Mr Calvin's guides, and wen with 

 him in the whole expedition to whioh °'C. 11. P." refers and 

 we want to correal hia mistake without finding any fault 

 wiih him: hi- was probably misinformed. The fact is the 

 camp which the bears destroyed wagon the Black Spruce 

 Mountain two inih -fr.-m Fourth Lake on the Kulton Chain, 

 and as for the fishing I never knew Mr. Colvin to go a fish- 

 ing except once, when he caught eight brook trout at the 

 mouth of the Caaachagala in half an hour, the fish averag- 

 ing a pound in weight each; but t hat. was long since. And as 

 for the fiSh iu Beaver Lake. I 1 Vied to catch -a. me for Ihe 

 parly, and never --aw such poor fishing in my lit, h ■.-..;- 

 next door to starvation. 



Now in regard to the bears, the facts are as follow-.: 

 While Superintendent Colvin was engaged '"'' exploring the 

 headwaters of the fsoutb Branch of M....-e Riven and the 

 West Canada Region, he left hi-, tents and camp on the top 

 of Black Bpruco .Mountain in Charge of Mr. Blake, one of 

 ihe assistant surveyors in his employ, who was engaged 

 will) a party of guides and surveyors in retracing old town- 

 ship lines anil moiuiiiieniiiig corners. Mr. Blake's duties 



calling )■■ 131 to the fooi of the mountain, he was compelled 



to leave I lie .amp -..met in.. - lor a day or two. During one 

 of Mr. Blake'- al.:-eii. -es SOrAC bears came along, and discov- 

 ering the tent- and pro\ i-ieii-. -toicd in them, ton- them open 

 and took some of the provisions. They did not do so much 

 damage this time, and Mr. Blake comimr up the same day 

 with one of his guides discovered what the bears bad been 

 about, and look my pack basket and some knap-acks and 

 packages and fastened them up to the ridge pole of the big 



lent, where he thomthl the bears could noi reach 1 in in. I Hake 

 and hi- nienthen wont down ihe mountain to their Work, and 



have renewed the attack upon the tents immediately for 

 next morning when Blake came up n-aiu ibcv had demol- 

 ished things generally. They tore seven great polos in the 

 big tent, some of the holes being large enough tor a party Of 

 men to walk through, One great square holi was i<igjyl 

 through the roof of the tent, and it looked as If one of i in 



the lent OB that side, and, laiidiu : on the tent roof, lore hi- 

 way right through, My pack basket bad provisions m it, 

 and hung so high up to the ridge pole of tin- lent that they 

 had great difficulty in tearing it down but bj jumping and 

 striking at it with their claws they managed to tear th 

 basket' to pieces, and finally gol ii down with many othe 

 things. Of all the wrecks lever sot this tent and' cam 



was in. worst. Tbcv tore open valises, tried He i: leeth ,. 

 the hig instrument boxes, ate all the provision.-, lore up ih 



pa.k I,.,--. in. I baskets, bil ..pen the -ah sacksand liourmck 

 and covered the ground wiii. scattered flour. It wa 



h.: 



attt 



hot. Thev did n..t OBI all 

 the potatoes, bul scattered them around and -, altered all 

 the tit,- and dishes, frying pans and kettle-, upsei and 

 Smashed a neat bark table I. had made, made off wilh pari 

 of a ham. and Stole Siipl.Ci.lviu> buck-kin moccasin.-. Bin 



th,- w,..r.-t damage the V did was to the hooks and papers; 

 thev tore some of them into bits and carried off one large 

 l.atiier case, containing valuable maps, twenty or thirty 

 rods int.. ihe woods. This we recovered, also a number of 

 book.- vi Mh the leaves and covers more or less lorn. Thev 

 Hire ih, British Nautical Almanac to pieces, so we think 

 thej n.li-l have been New York bear-, and "down on the 

 British. 1 ' The only thine- thai escaped their teeth wen two 

 tin cans of pressed beet. The cans were scaled tight and 

 bad no smell of meat, so the bears did not touch them. 

 They carried ihe blankets out through the holes in th. tent 

 thirty or forty rods imo the woods, and had paths from each 

 hole in the tent (except the one in the roof) leading out into 

 the timber, where ihcv left what they could not eat". 



I- v,,- a mosl extraordinary affair, and we guides are of 

 the opinion that the bears would not have dared to do il bul 

 tor their extreme hunger, for there were no berries in the 

 woods up to thai time, and with the exception of the suck- 



er in the brooks in the spring, the bears have had little; to 

 e.it since last fall, so the poor things must have been very 

 hungry. In fact they proved this, for very shortly after- 

 wards they came down to Mr. Blake's camp and took his 

 butter pail away and emptied it. and kept lurking around 

 his camp, being seen every dav. Thev finally became so 

 bold .ihe party havinir ,„., villes.'onlv siiiall revolvers with 

 them, that one or another of the bears would come into 

 Blake's camp every morning about sunrise, looking very 

 hungry and ugly, and nosing; around for something to eat. 

 They did not mind nvolvcr -hot- verv much. One of the 

 signal men, Bill Brown, met one in the path as he was go- 

 ing up to the signal on Black Spruce Mountain one da\ . and 

 shot at him six times wild a revolver carrying a loug 33-100 

 calil'ci cartridge, and only succeeded in making the hear 

 walk leisurely away. He probably did not hit him to hurt 

 him much, for revolvers are poor things to kill a bear with. 

 Mr. Baker shot at one of the bears one morning before break- 

 fast with one of the old national revolvers, The bear was 

 about fifteen feet off . coming by a large yellow spruce tree, 

 Baker's bul Li bit t lie tree near'fhe bear's nose, and threw off 

 a chip so sharply thai the bear "ended over'' and ran away. 



All this inade'it rather uncomfortable for Blake's party, 

 and they were very glad when we arrived from the South 

 Branch and Beaver Lake country, where exploration hud 

 kept ii- engaged for two week-, 'l brought in Mr. Colvin's 

 ritle. a tine Winchester sixteen shooter, and Blake's men felt 

 more comfortable. The very night wc arrived at Blake's 

 camp the bears came again and trampled around all night, 

 i.S i' Was too dark to see them wc went to sleep. Before 

 daybreak two Of ihe bears came to where sruides Bcnham 

 and Hcluicr were sleeping, and .-iiulfcd at iheir heads. ThM 

 awaked Beiiham. and he arou.-cd Sujit. Colvin, who immedi- 

 ately shot one of the bears. The bear bled dreadfully, 

 covering the ground and bushes with blood, bul managed 

 to crawl away. coughing and dripping blood, until he got 

 Into a windshock of fallen trees and a regular den of rocks, 

 into which he crawled iodic, sow,- losl hi- meat. Th. 

 olnei l.ear- -ta\e,l .iwa\ a tier i his for -oiue days, but finally 

 returned, bul did not do any damage, as we kept close 

 watch for thorn; and firing the rifle from lime to time prob- 

 ably helped to keep them away. 



All this happened over on the Fulton ( tliain, far away 

 from Beaver Lake, and 1 take the pains to give you an ac- 

 count of il because it was the most remarkable show of Holi- 

 ness and destruction that we guides ever knew bears lo do, 

 I shall take ov, r -ome of mv big bear traps this fall as soon 

 as 1 gel through working for the survey, and it will go hard 

 with some di those hear- if they want to keep up their 

 maiui'iivres around there. U'n i .i.v.m P. Bat.i.abd, 



Raqubtti i.AKi-:. Sept, (3, I8M. 



thai t 



THE FACTS OF THE JERSEY CASE. 



T.\ Forest and Siiikam of 1 lib iusL, 1 observe an item 

 from vour Philadelphia correspondent, "Homo,'' stating 

 i Jersey Game Protective Association had ar- 

 Welch a |1( t lined him §50 for shooting in New 

 J,rs:v without a licecso. This statement e: errOCOOUS, aud 

 a- lam in full possession of all tin. facts of the .:,-.- I dc 

 -ire to stale them for publication. 



Th. West Jersey Game Society was organized a number 

 of years ago under a special charter passed by the New 

 Jersey Legislature, which provided in its requirements that 

 no non resident of the Stale should shool in ihe counties of 



forth in the by-laws ol said socit ty, which exacted a fee of 

 tiv. dollars for each certificate oj membership granted. The 

 society at that time wa- organized with the honest intention 

 of enforcing the game laws and stocking the counties with 

 game out of Ih.- proceeds derived from membership fees, 

 and was efficiently officered, such men as Hen. Wm. Sewell 

 being president of the society. Of late vears, however. It 

 ha- become a sort of miituai admiration society, or "close 

 corporation," one or two men "running the machine," re- 

 ceiving all tines and dues, and as far as many of its mem- 

 bers assert, making no returns, either by a financial exhibit 

 or stocking with game. 



During the session of the. New Jersey Legislature of 1S7S, 

 a number of gentlemen Interested in the subject of game, 

 protection succeeded in securing ihe passage of a general 

 law similar in wording lo that of the charter of the, W est 

 .Jersey Sociclv. as far as relatiug to non-residenl>, which 

 provided that no noii-resident should shoot or fish in the 

 State i of New Jersey "without complying with the by-laws 

 of the game protective societies organized or to be organized 

 under the laws of the. Stale." which, of course, was intended 

 to, and does allow all non-resident members of a game pro- 



-oeiation was imm. dial. I. formed under the name and title 



of- "The New Jersey Same and Fish Protective Society," 

 whose membership immediately began to rapidly increase. 

 Many Philadelphia!!- joined it, the annual dues being but 



As the West Jersey Society daily saw n.in-rc-i.ients join- 

 ing this new society and their members leaving (hem, the 

 one or two panic.- who run it began to threaten to arrest 



A.s both societies were organized 

 tor ih. genera] cood of the game 

 t. no matter which or what so- 

 ■adem joined, he wa, entitled to 

 aie. This did not suit the gen- 

 ii- president, secretary, treasurer, 



l.cel lo Ihe WSSI .lei.-e.. Soci.ty. 



o his henchman, a man named 

 ve, (v) to unest some one. This 

 i a young man named Robert A. 

 ho, when approached by Officer 

 n the marshes in Camden county, 



•use (as they call ft), showed his 



io the ''West Jersey (Jame and 

 Which was instantly' taken from 

 Oteste, be whs commanded to go 

 second man Friday. Justice (V} 

 y. Arriving there, that learned 

 ion. |5Q. Welch refused to pay, 

 should appeal from his decision, 

 incite. 

 ion between the secretary, eouu 



claimed that nop 



jrson bean 



Jersey" Society « 



ould be i 



in anv pail of th, 



Stale. ,\ 



(or at least aUppO 



-ed to be) 1 



laws and ir . 





eielV of the Slat, 



a nou-rcs 



shoot in any part 



Of tie Si; 



tleinau who a.--ui 



ics to act 



board of director 



s and con 



and so it was gt 



ecu oul t 



I'i'.-ier. who act- 



as dctccti 



man accordingly 



licked out 



Welch, a I'hilad. 



Iphiall. w 



(?) IVvstcr, while 





and asked io sho 



w hia lie, 



certificate of membership 



Fish Protective Society." \ 



him, and, in -pi',' 



of his pr 



with the officer ( 



?) to the 



Cassidy. of ( am 



len count 



dignitary proceed 



60* to tine 



and notified Oassi 





and demanded ha 





After a lengthy 



o :■• 



