EDITOR’S 
BATAVIA BRUTES HAVE SIDE HUNT. 
Here are the names of a lot of Batavia, 
N. Y., swine, who, in October last, partici- 
pated in a side hunt, together with the 
serial number of each man as recorded in 
the game hog book: Fred C. Kelsey, C. 
M. Vrooman, William S. Waldo, Homer 
Sweet, George E. Redshaw, Bert Coolidge, 
Edward Allen, H. M. Johnson, Jay L. Rob- 
son, Everest A. Judd, M. A. Nichols, L. 
A. Parmele, Fred Kelsey and M. E. Vroo- 
man. The local paper states that skunks, 
foxes, and wild geese were each to count 
100 points, but that none of these were 
brought in. Rabbits, owls, ruffed grouse, 
black and grey squirrels, woodcock, blue 
herons, crows, coons, ducks, hawks, hell- 
divers, loons and mink were all to count 
50 each, and it appears that only half a 
dozen of these were killed. Mudhens, mar- 
tens, plovers, pigeons, red squirrels, weas- 
els, snipe, killdeer and kingfishers were 
rated at 25 points each; chipmunks, 20 
each; blackbirds 15 each and sparrows 10 
each. It is stated that nearly all the game 
killed consisted of chipmunks, kingfishers 
and killdeer. The winning side had a sup- 
per at the expense of the losing side. 
Think of a squad of 14 men scouring the 
country for miles around Batavia and 
bringing in at night enough chipmunks, 
kingfishers and killdeer, rating at 20 to 25 
points each to aggregate 3,330 points. How 
proud these scavengers must have felt to 
see the hundreds of these little birds and 
rodents stacked up in the banquet room! 
It is a pity the entire herd of raiders did 
not string up their game and have it and 
themselves photographed in order that the 
world might know what they look like. 
Their names are: F. C. Kelsey 981, 
C. M. Vrooman 982, Waldo 983, Sweet 
984, Redshaw, 985, Coolidge 986, Allen 
987, Johnson 988, Robson 989, Judd ggo, 
Nichols 991, Parmele 992, Fred Kelsey 
993, M. E. Vrooman 994. 

THE BROWNLOW BILL. 
A bill has been introduced in Congress 
by the Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, of 
Tennessee, and the Hon. Jacob H. Gallin- 
ger, a member of the Senate from New 
Hampshire, appropriating $24,000,000 for 
the purpose of building wagon roads. This 
money is to be apportioned to the States 
according to population, except that no 
State shall receive less than $250,000. 
Each State receiving National aid from 
the Government must add a like amount to 
the sum received. This will result in 
the spending of $48,000,000 for roads, 
will build 6,000 to 7,000 miles of excellent 
road, and will place in each State 100 to 500 
miles of hard road, which will not be af- 
fected by frost or spring rains, and on which 
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the farmer can haul big loads the year 
round. It will be a great advantage to 
those living near it, but it will be a far 
greater advantage to the whole country be- 
cause it will be a wonderful object lesson 
and will prove to everyone that a good, 
hard road which can be used all the year, 
no matter what the rains are, is a desir- 
able thing. It will make everyone who sees 
this road and who uses it want more roads 
like it, and-it will cause more roads like it 
to be built. 
While under the Brownlow bill the build- 
ing of 6,000 to 7,000 miles of good road 
iS a great project, yet it seems to many that 
the greatest advantage of this bill is the 
wonderful object lesson which 100 to 500 
miles of good road will produce, when 
built in every State of the Union. 
Write your Congressmen and Senators 
and urge them to support this bill. 

_ The would-be spring shooters are hust- 
ling for the privilege of again indulging 
in their favorite style of slaughter. Sev- 
eral bills have been introduced in the New 
York Legislature aiming at an extension of 
the open season so that wild fowl may be 
killed while on the way to their breeding 
grounds, but it is not likely that the de- 
cent sportsmen of this State will allow any 
of these bills to pass. New York has taken a 
long step forward, and should not now take 
even a short step backward. We are the 
11th State to prohibit spring shooting. The 
others will come into line rapidly, and New 
York should not allow herself to get any 
farther back than she is now. 

A winter resort hotel in Virginia adver- 
tises that a fair shot can bag 5 to 20 dozen 
sora on a single tide. I asked the manager 
for the names of some of the men who 
had done such shooting, and he referred 
me to Fred F. Palen, of Newport News, 
and to his own game keeper, whose name 
is A. Croonenberghs. Mr. Palen writes 
that he and 4 other men killed 526 sora on 
one tide, and Croonenberghs admits that 
he killed 157 on one tide. The latter’s title 
should be changed to game destroyer in- 
stead of game keeper. His number in the 
game hog book is 995. Palen’s number is 
996.—Ebiror. — 
Mr. James B. Dill, 27 Pine street, New 
York, has been for years a subscriber to 
RECREATION. January roth he sent me a 
check for $8, to renew his own subscrip- 
tion and to pay the subscriptions of 7 
friends, to each of whom he had made a 
present of a year’s subscription to this mag- 
azine. 
Mr. Dill is one of the most successful 
corporation lawyers in this country, and is 
probably the only one who has ever received 

