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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 
,’Fish Culture, the Protection of Game.Preservation of Forests, 
and the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 
in Out door Recreation and Study : 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 14,1874. 
To Correspondents. 
All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 
correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub¬ 
lishing Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 
All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 
real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 
objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 
Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 
We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 
notes of their movements and tr,r>sections, as it is the aim of this paper 
to become a medium of useful aim reliable information between gentle¬ 
men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 
find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 
patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re-, 
fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 
tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise¬ 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department o the paper that 
may not he read with propriety in the home circle. 
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money remitted to us is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES HALLOCK, Managing Editor. 
WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE CUR¬ 
RENT WEEK. 
Friday, May 15th.—Billiard match, Dion vs. Daly, Tammany Hall— 
Kentucky Association, Lexington, Ky.—Atlantic vs Boston B. B. C. at 
Brooklyn—Mystic Park, Boston, Mass.—San Jose California Associa¬ 
tion—Prospect Park trot. 
Saturday, May 16th.—Mutual vs. Boston B. B. C. at Brooklyn—Ath¬ 
letic vs. Chicago B. B. at Chicago—Lexington Association, Lexington, 
Ky.—Boat Clubs practice day at Harlem—Opening day of Staten Island 
Cricket Club at Camp Washington—Opening day of Prospect Park Crick¬ 
et Club at the Park. 
Monday, May 18th.—Boston vs. PhiladelphiaB. B. C. at Philadelphia. 
Tuesday, May 16th.—Beacon Park, Boston, Mass.—Ambler Park So¬ 
ciety, White Marsh, Penn.—Boston vs. Baltimore B. B. C. at Baltimore. 
Wednesday, May 20th.—Cricket match, St. George’s Club vs. Marion, 
at Hoboken—Beacon Park, Boston, Mass.—Ambler Park Society, White 
Marsh, Penn.—Boston vs. Athletic B. B. C. at Philadelphia—Hartford 
vs. Atlantic B. B. Club at Brooklyn—Mutual vs. Chicago B. B. C. at 
Chicago. 
Thursday, May 21st.—Beacon Park, Boston, Mass.—Hartford vs. 
Philadelphia B. B. C. at Philadelphia. 
A WHINE. 
T HERE is scarcely a weekly paper in the country tha 
is copied more than the Forest and Stream, and 
scarcely one that is credited less. With comparatively few 
honorable exceptions, the press filch from us without 
scruple, copying not mere paragraphs, hut whole columns 
without credit. Now the Forest and Stream employs the 
highest order of talent, which is not available to the news¬ 
paper press, because the brains of most of our contributors 
are not in the market. They do not belong to the regular 
corps of paid writers. Our research, naturalistic, scientific, 
and geographical, has already covered our whole continent, 
and we are constantly producing material from Army 
officers of frontier posts, tourists, explorers, and commis¬ 
sioned naturalists, which is entirely new and hitherto un¬ 
published; and since much of this material is collected with 
considerable expense to us and through peculiar influences, 
we claim to be an original paper, and therefore especially 
deserving of credit. We wish it distinctly understood that 
we seldom publish selected matter, and when we do, we 
scrupulously give credit. Even our foreign translations in 
French, German, and Spanish, are prepared in this office. 
So, gentlemen of the press universal, if you have any con¬ 
science that does not belong to any one else, we shall be 
pleased to give you credit for it, if you will only give ns 
credit for what we know and what we do, to say nothing 
of what we try to do. 
OUTDOOR PASTIMES. 
T HE fine weather for the last week has been unusually 
propitious for athletic exercises and outdoor pas¬ 
times. We are happy to see a favorable departure from 
old time rules as regards our best and most influential citi¬ 
zens, who are taking a lively interest in the many healthful 
exhibitions which produce the best, hardiest, and kindest 
of men. In fact, all outdoor pastimes are receiving a fresh 
impetus throughout the Union. Mr. Bennett’s walking 
race on Tuesday, May 5th, opened the hall favorably, and 
tended to set an excellent example to our amateur pedes¬ 
trians. This performance was equal to any scratch race 
that has taken place in this country or in England, taking 
into consideration that both gentlemen lead a comparatively 
sedentary life, and that their occupations exercise the brain 
and not the muscles, also the general bad condition of the 
road, and the want or lack of previous training. 
Mr. Weston, the celebrated pedestrian, is now endeavor¬ 
ing to complete his arduous task of walking 500 miles in 
six days of twenty-four hours to a day, or at the rate of 
three miles and a half in an hour for 144 hours. When he 
eats, drinks, or sleeps is perfectly immaterial to the outside 
public, so long as he accomplishes this test of the wonder¬ 
ful endurance and lasting powers of man. It is whispered 
that Weston’s walks hitherto have not been conducted, quite 
as they should be, but we trust that this match against 
time having been sanctioned and managed by some of our 
ablest medical men and well known citizens, that all mat¬ 
ters appertaining to time occupied in eating, drinking, 
sleeping, and walking will be accurately recorded. It may 
not be out of place here to state that Captain Barclay-Allar- 
dise, of England, laid a wager of one thousand guineas that 
he would walk one thousand miles in one thousand hours; 
one exact mile to be walked in each hour. The bet was taken 
by Mr. Fletcher 'Read, and the match took place in Oc¬ 
tober, 1808, over a measured mile on Newmarket Heath, 
the Captain winning. This is the only match of the kind 
where any dependence can be placed on time, and is on 
record as such in the office of Bells Life , in London. 
The New York Athletic club, a most influential body of 
gentlemen, most of whose members have been in actual 
service during the winter, commence their outdoor spring 
meeting the latter part of this month. Now that walking 
for amusement and recreation is becoming more and more 
every day a habit amongst us, we should wish to see this 
club engage rooms, with a covered track for winter work, 
and a gymnasium of their own. Then, again, the New 
Jersey Athletic club, a comparatively new organization, in¬ 
augurate the coming spring meeting on Decoration day on 
their grounds at Ridgewood, N. J., when we hope to see 
the entries full, and the grounds patronized by hundreds 
of amateur athletes. 
CO-OPERATIVE GAME LAWS. 
T HE New York Society for the Protection of Game 
held its last monthly meeting of the season at the 
residence of Clinton Gilbert, Esq., on Monday evening, 
11th instant, Royal Phelps, Esq., in the chair. Among 
other business a committee of three was appointed to con¬ 
fer with the “West Jersey Game Protective Society,” with 
a view to aid in restocking suitable lands in New Jersey 
with pinnated grouse, the same to report at the next meet¬ 
ing of the association. 
Colonel Wagstaff, member of Assembly from the Seventh 
District, reported that the amendments to the game laws, 
asked for by the association, had been passed. The laws, 
as amended, extend the time for killing deer twenty days, 
and prohibit the killing of the animal in Suffolk county 
except during the first fifteen days in November of each 
year. The laws also prohibited the killing of woodducks 
in the spring. 
Messrs. Charles E. Whitehead and Thomas N. Cuthbert, 
counsel of the association, reported that they had been suc¬ 
cessful in the case of Phelps against Racey, in which suit 
for $2,500 for the possession of 100 quail out of season was 
brought by the association. The higher court had af¬ 
firmed the decision of the court below, and awarded the 
association the entire amount claimed. They had also re¬ 
covered $100 on a second suit from the same party. The 
announcement of these important victories of the associa¬ 
tion was received with applause. 
The committee to which had been referred the resolutions 
offered by Mr. Charles Hallock in reference to a uniformity 
of the game laws, submitted the following report:— 
That on the examination of this subject they note the 
varying laws that govern the protection of game, and that 
the variations in the legal times of killing game does not 
depend upon the periods when the animals have ceased 
breeding, or upon the different climates which advance or 
retard incubation, as much as they do upon the accidental 
selection by the legislatures of the law of some other State 
or Territory as a model. In some instances the breeding 
season of some fish has been made the open season. In 
other circumstances open seasons have been created for 
song birds, which should never be allowed to he killed, as 
for instance the brown thrush, in section 10 of the law of 
our own State. But particularly we note the objection that 
adjoining States in the same latitude, and affected by the 
same climate, and stocked by the same kinds of game, have 
different seasons in which they may be taken. The injury 
done by this is manifest. It not only imperils the exist¬ 
ence of the bird in the State where it is adequately pro¬ 
tected, hut it renders nugatory, to a large degree, the proper 
law in the adjacent State, because most of these laws are 
enforced by prosecuting the venders of the game, and if 
game killed according to law in one State is sold in another 
State where it is illegal, the vender can plead that the game 
was killed in an adjoining State where the killing was law¬ 
ful, and thus not, only escape himself, hut render co '■ 
tions under the law so uncertain that few will underrv’ 
the risks of prosecuting. It oftentimes ocecim that ti 
breeding place of some game may be in one State wl'i 
the game in the autumn moves to other grounds as’inti! 6 
case of woodcock, and a great temptation is thrown in a 
way of those who live near the breeding place, and kn 
that in a few days the birds will move off where thev vn 
be killed, and they not allowed to participate in the clvi 
^The reasons seem even stronger when applied to fish ‘ 
rivers which run through several States, as, for instan 1& 
the Connecticut, which is liable to be fished by the citizen 6 ’ 
of four different States, any one of which could prevent 
by their action the enjoyment of the fisheries by anv of th 
others. J ne 
lliere are certain zones of climate where the birth and 
maturity of game are so nearly simultaneous that the same 
law could govern in all. Take, for instance, the quail in 
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland 
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan l 0W a 
Wisconsin, and Minnesota. These birds are a staple gam ’ 
bird of great market value and field pleasure. " s e 
Their incubating season may vary between Central New 
York and Maryland about two weeks, and in either plae 
will be advanced or retarded that much of time by the 
character of the season. In none of these places, how¬ 
ever, do any laws propose to open tfie season at the precise 
day when the birds are grown. A reasonable margin of 
time is made, extending from October 1st to February 1st 
In our own State the open season is from October 20th to 
January 1st. These States, on this subject, had their laws 
been uniform as to times, would he perpetually aiding each 
other; now they are the cause of stumbling and uncer¬ 
tainty. Another matter which is essential to a complete 
system of game laws is to have as many kinds of game as 
possible condensed into the same close season. Each State 
has not only varying times to commence shooting the same 
game, but also varying times to commence shooting the 
different varieties of game. Thus in our own State the 
shooting season for woodcock begins July 3d; for quail 
the 20th of October; for partridge, the 1st of September- 
for starlings, the 1st of August. Country people do not 
carry these dates in their minds, and are led into error- 
and those seeking to enforce cannot tell whether a sports¬ 
man in the earlier months is pursuing legal or illegal game, 
and there is a total absence of a fixed, definite time in the 
public mind when field sports begin. 
The same irregularity in our laws exists in those of the 
other States. No greater step in advance in these matters 
could be made than by having a fixed, permanent day when 
all shooting might begin. 
We cannot pass in silence one general omission existing 
in the laws of all the States. No provision exists protect¬ 
ing the migratory birds that visit us in the spring of the 
year. English snipe, plover, dcwitches, and the many 
varieties of birds that enliven our beaches, are wholly un¬ 
protected by law, and are killed and sold in the markets in 
April and May in large quantities. When the spring is 
late, and the birds are delayed in their passage, they are 
found full of eggs, and sometimes are forced to nest within 
the State. 
These birds should be protected in every State, no mat¬ 
ter where they are flying to, for they are the children of 
our common country, and are gladdening every part of it 
in their migrations. No rule is so good as the rule that no 
gun is to be fired at birds or animals in spring or summer. 
Every reason of health to the eater, of abundance of sup¬ 
ply of the article eaten, of justice to the animal when 
breeding or preparing to breed, plead for the fullest and 
most comprehensive and uniform laws in these matters, 
and therefore we submit the following plan and resolu¬ 
tions:— . . 
Whereas, The general sentiment of the country is in 
favor of the creation and immediate adoption of some sys¬ 
tem which will secure in the different States and in Canada 
greater uniformity, and consequently greater efficiency in 
The laws for the protection and preservation of game, and 
inasmuch as a pian for securing these objects through co¬ 
operative legislation of all the States was submitted to the 
American Fish Culturists’ Association, and unanimously 
endorsed by it last February, and since then by other simi¬ 
lar bodies in various parts of the country. 
Resolved , That it is expedient and necessary to _ call a na¬ 
tional convention at the earliest date consistent with a care¬ 
ful and gereral scrutinv of the scheme; and inasmuch as 
this body, the New York Society for the Protection ot 
Game, has already discussed it in session and submitted it 
to legal gentlemen of experience for examination and se¬ 
cured its approval, we do hereby recommend and advise 
that, a circular letter be addressed to each and all the sports¬ 
men’s clubs, acclimating societies, natural history societies, 
and fish culturists’ associations throughout the country, 
wherever available, inviting an endorsement o* tlie ® a “ » 
and requesting that a written notification of such enao' 4 
ment, signed by their respective Presidents and beereta , 
be sent to the Secretary of this society, to be filed, and 
the said letters shall express the choice of location an 
of year at which the national convention shall be nei , 
if it shall be found upon examination at the ® na 
months that the favorable responses are sufficiently 
ous and widespread to be regarded as representing t 
of the country, then a call shall emanate from t_ , 
York Society for the Protection of Game, designating 
time and place for the meeting of the Convention 
appear to be the wish of the majority of the soc 
sponding. All of which is respectfully submitted. 
WILLIAM G. BARRETT, 
CHAS. E. WHITEHEAD, \ Committee. 
CHAS. HALLOCK, ) 
May tlth, 1874. 
The report was adopted, and ordered to he P rin £ e(1 * 
Two new members were admitted, and His Exe en y 
Governor Dix, of New York, was made an honorary mem 
ber. 
It was resolved that the President be authorized to give 
credentials to not more than five members of the 
tion who may desire to attend the State Sportsmen s o 
vention at Oswego next month. Resolutions limiting ^ 
number of members of the association to 100, an cm 
ling the initiation fee, were also adopted, and themee n 
adjourned. The next meeting of the association wi 
held in November next. At the adjournment of t ie m 
ing the members partook of an elegant supper, whic 
been prepared by Ml. Gilbert, 
