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April IS, 1888.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



226 



J. 13. McLaughlin. 

 A. B. Dickey. 

 Geo. Stroelile, Jr. 

 F. S. Dickey. 

 E. JR. McKee. 



Ohio. 



L. Fogo. 

 Jas. M. Moore. 

 J. G. Moore. 

 E. C. Moore. 

 Chas. Kelly. 



Wm. F. Sappington. Harry Driggs. 

 Theo. Spetnagle, Jr. Herbert Starrett. 



J. C. Quinn. 

 Thos. Esker. 

 Geo. Triescheller. 

 Jaa. A. Lomax. 

 N. L. Gartner. 

 Isaac Lord. 

 S. P. Hanawalt. 

 R-. H. Lansing. 

 W. E. Evans. 

 Allen W. llamill. 

 M. G. KirSch. 

 Philip R. Long. 

 James B. Koouey. 

 Henry Wagamann. 

 Daniel Canny. 

 Ed. W. Dickerman. 

 Jas. K. Enunitt. 

 Morris Renick. 

 Edward F. Hunter. 

 Clias. Frey. 

 Theo. Spetnagol. 

 Wm. Y. Lawrence. 

 Nelson Purdum. 

 John D. Madison. 

 John P. Sehaeffer. 

 Newton Offut. 



F. W. Blackford. 

 Ira Mosher. 

 •Ohas. P. Mosher. 

 ,J. W. Goldberry- 

 Wylev Debord. 

 Benj. F. .Stone. 

 .John J. Vanmeter. 

 R. B. Smart. 



.0. M. Roherts. 

 John D. Carr. 

 B. J. TunstaU. 

 Howard Johnson. 



E. D. Scott. 

 .John Henry. 



.J. H. S. Furguson. 

 Willis Cunningham. 



G. W. Thompson. 



F. T. Gilmore. 

 John Bennett. 

 Rufus Putnam. 

 •■Chas. P. Smith. 



G. C. Herwig. 

 F. Fuvniss. 

 .John Cams. 



B. Pearce. 



C. H. Miller. 

 F. B. Case. 

 .James G. Gihbs. 

 C. H. Gallup. 

 Henrv S. Mitchell. 

 Fred'Colson. 

 W. S. Wade. 



F. C. Wickham. 

 .J. D. Cook. 

 Malcolm Patrick. 



H. S. Kennan. 

 0. R. Butler. 

 Wm. R. Little. 

 Geo. W. Wkitoeck. 



C. J. Baldwin. 

 ;S. S. Levy. 



D. H. Fox. 

 L. Burton. 

 A. C. Green. 

 John Gardiner, Jr. 

 Edmond Dickey. 

 A. B. Griff. 

 J. E. Cline. 



E. P. Gardiner. 

 John Gardiner. 

 .J. G. Burnham. 

 Geo. F. Titus. 

 C. L. Kenman. 

 Thos. Dumwes. 

 J\ Wickham. 

 ■C. H. Stewart. 

 W. W. Graham. 

 IE. G. Boughton. 

 N. H. Peehles. 

 Wm. Suhr. 

 E. S. Bloxham. 



E. E. Little. 

 L. G. Saunders. 



G. Jacobson. 

 :S. E. Edwards. 

 Ft. C. Breckenridge. 

 John Caspar. 

 W. H. Peters. 



F. R. Loomis. 

 Ed. L. Young. 

 P. C. Breckenridge. 

 Frank F. Roth. 

 F. L. Skin. 

 W. D. McVitty. 

 E. Peters. 

 Henry W. Jones. 

 Pitt Curtiss. 

 W. H. Cleveland. 

 A*. P. Finnegan. 

 A. C. Ulrich. 

 W. D. Harriot. 

 L. L. Dond. 

 R. K. Root. 

 Mark Aaron. 

 E. L. Husted. 



I. A. Moore. 

 Alfred McFall. 

 M. Litchenberger. 

 Harry Kelly. 



E. C. Taylor. 

 E. J. Stewart. 

 Ed. K. Taylor. 

 J. L. Burnett. 



C. R. McDonald. 

 Wm. G. Stevenson. 

 Geo. C. ShuU. 



W. Foga, Jr. 

 Jas. A. Stafford. 



II. Ateri. 

 Jas. Fassett. 



W. W. McChesnev. 

 Thos. S. McGee. 

 J. E. Wilkison. 

 J. W. Figgius. 



D. W. Smith. 



H. M. Lang worthy. 

 W. H. Menough. 

 A. G. Stevens. 

 John B. Given. 

 M. C. Murchlund. 

 M. Cahill. 



C. H. Doebler. 

 J. P. Orihlield. 



D. G. Paisley. 

 J. W. Dovore. 

 Thos. W. Ault. 

 J. A. Bartlett. 



ft W Vim Rlfti 



Chas. Leech. 

 Samuel W. Funk. 

 A. J. Davis. 



F. M. Leech. 

 J. H. Klein. 

 S. N. Cook. 



G. W. Engle. 

 E. E. Welker. 

 Jas. Porter. 

 J. H. Jones. 

 R. Stono. 



C. V. Osborn. 

 Carl C. Tut tie. 

 M. M. Bcuschoter. 



D. B. Goodsell. 

 A. D. Eunis. 

 C. H. Becker. 

 T. M. Gelson. 



E. A. Page. 



E. P. Hill. 



Samuol Weathevlow. 



H. S. Cohb. 

 Louis Elson. 

 Wm. Lippus. 

 H. H. Crane. 

 N. J. Yarick. 

 W. W. Sweet. 

 G. M. Austin. 

 A. H. Pearl. 

 Chas. A. Morton. 

 C. L. Hill. 



G. Chase. 

 G. W. Chapin. 

 G. A. Chandler. 

 T. C. Chapman. 

 Mania Bailey. 



F. P. Chapman. 

 Geo. W. Myers. 

 F. A. Eldri'clge. 



Frank Rockwell, Esq., by to-day's mail. Could have 

 secured many more names but for extremely rainy 

 weather. To show the general feeling about this matter 

 I would say that all persons who saw the petition signed 

 it without an exception.— T. S, Heaitl 



Glens Falls, N. Y., April (1 Editor Forest and 



Stream: I could have obtained the signature of every 

 man in town, but thought a short petition would stand 

 a better show of being read than a long one.— A. N, 

 Cheney. 



G. A V. Van Rensselaer J. D. Thompson. 



H. C. Parkam. 

 W. J. Ritchie. 

 A. W. Gilbert. 

 Thos. L. DalzaJJ. 

 E. D. Wallace. 

 Wm. Ackerman. 

 Wm. S. East. 



E. J. Little. 

 Wilbur Fisk. 

 D, J, Shuier. 

 J. E. Porter. 



P. D. Galarneau. 



F. S. Lang. 

 C. H. East. 

 L. Hetrick. 

 A. F. Crow. 

 C. H. Honey. 



J. B. Sunderland. 



F. B. Fisher. 

 A. J. Ransom. 

 Horace Ittner. 

 Cbas. Davis. 

 W. E. Lansdale. 

 M. M. Fish. 

 Newton Andress. 

 C. C. Thompson. 

 F. E. Conner, Jr. 

 M. D. Close. 

 S. S. Vincent. 

 J. C. Hitsnaah. 

 Z. P. Lowrv. 

 J. V. Davey. 

 John Metcalf. 

 R. L. Bailey. 

 J. M. Stahl. 

 E. H. Chandler. 



John A. Williamson. W. S. Furay. 



Wm. H. Hilton. 

 Wm. N. Child. 

 J. H. Parshley. 

 Geo. O. Keene. 

 C. E. Metcalf. 



T. H. Kellogg. 

 S. F. Newman. 

 H. L. Stewart. 

 S. M. Fuller. 

 T. D. Shephard. 



B. C. Taber. 



M. Oppenheimer. 



D. A. Baker, Jr. 

 A. M. Beattie. 

 F. B. Foster. 



J. B. Foraker. 

 F. S. Brooks. 

 H. A. Axline. 

 Edwin Eberly. 

 A. C. Caine. 

 T. J. Duncan. 

 A. E. Mayer. 

 Geo. R. Carr. 

 Chas. G. Lord. 

 Henrv C. Nohle. 

 A. H. Smvthe. 

 A. H. Fritchey 

 A. Keeler. 

 A. Brenbolts. 

 J. E. Robinson. 

 Frank M. Higgs. 

 W. E. Guerin. 

 S. J. Hall. 

 A. D. Shaw. 

 Jas. W. Atcherson 

 Geo. W. Dun. 



F. T. Cole. 

 John Seibert. 

 J. S. Batterson. 

 Chas. E. Burr. 

 J. C. Hull. 

 Chas. N. Adams. 

 Frank Schaemng. 

 Will C. Turner. 

 W. S. Ide. 



Geo. B. Wright. 

 James H. Neil. 

 Geo. S. Richard. 



C. E. McKee. 



D. E. Putnam. 

 Howard L. Booth. 

 A. B. Broes. 

 John Beattv. 



G. C. Hoover. 

 Horace Park. 

 W. D. Guilbert. 



E. L. Taylor. 

 W. S. Walker. 

 M. D. Phillips. 

 Phillip H. Bruck. 



E. G. Savage. 

 W. O. Tolford. 

 L. Lesquereux. 

 Ivor Hughes. 



Maine. 

 E. E. Philbrook. 

 W. A. Erskine. 



H. W. Metcalf. 

 W W. Dodge. 

 Wm. A. Flint. 



Chas. E. Rowley. 

 H. C. McClelland. 



D. E. PhiUipa. 

 W. S. Huff. 

 O. E. D. Barron. 

 Carl N. Bancroft. 

 Elmer Tompkins. 



E. J. Fahrback. 

 Fred C. Gladden. 

 J. K Livingston. 

 D. N. Kinsman. 

 H. A. Guituer. 

 Jas. Finlev Brown. 

 C. E. Fowler. 

 Wm. S. Sheppard. 

 W. B. Perley. 

 John B. jtomans. 

 W. A. Waggoner. 

 Ed. J. Dowdall. 

 L. C. Herrick. 



C. E. Bell. 

 J. M. Higgins. 

 R. G.ISihley. 

 L. N. Bonham. 

 L. R. Doty. 

 John C. Brown. 

 Chas. C. Walcutt. 

 P. C. Roniuson. 

 Dr. B. W. Freeman. 

 James D. Poston. 

 John A. Rea. 

 James O. Soiners. 

 W. S. Courtright. 

 Geo. H. Twiss. 

 Wm. J. Elliott. 

 J. W. Meek. 

 E. A. Cole. 

 J. B. Hall. 

 Ohas. H. Amann. 

 H. C. Crippen. 



H. C. St an wood. 

 W. P. Shaw. 

 John J. Pugh. 

 Geo. Wm. Lincoln. 

 W. H. Lott. 

 W. R. Ogier. 

 Fred W. Flowers. 

 John A. Right. 

 James C. Dunn. 

 Wm. A. Graffort. 

 John Searls. 

 Geo. J. Haffner. 

 W. H. H. Nash. 

 W. O. Henderson. 

 S. M. Cullison. 

 M. B. Earnhart. 

 Dan. Kruram. 

 Gideon M. Miles. 



D. J. Grumman. 



O. C. Fuller. 



I. C. Stetson. 

 J. L. Clifford. 



E. W. Stetson. 

 Wm. Flye. 



Princeton, N. J., April 6.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 The petition you sent me some four days ago was duly 

 received. I concluded that it was my duty to do all in 

 my power to aid the cause. I have, been quite surprised 

 to find the ready response there has been made on all 

 sides. Every one wants the Park saved and if an expres- 

 sion of public opinion can do any good, Senate bill 383 

 will be passed. If I can be of use in any other way in 

 i-egard to this work let me know and I shall be happy to 

 do all in my power.— Jo. B. Gesner. 



Holland, Mich., April 4.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I am heartily in favor of protecting the beauties which 

 nature has so abundantly lavished upon the Yellowstone 

 region. If I can in any way aid your purpose please 

 let me know. — M. G-. Masting. 



Manorville, N. Y., April 6.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: Your petitions received for the protection of 

 the National Park, with thanks for the same. I inclose 

 names, which could be multiplied indefinitely. Every 

 one around here is in favor of protection for the Park — 

 Thos. Coles. 



Hyde Park, N. Y. , April 6. — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Your Yellowstone papers meet my views first, last and 

 all the time.— Capt. Clayton. 



Interested persons are very properly circulating a 

 petition in our city in support of the pending Congress- 

 ional bill for the enlargement of the Yellowstone National 

 Park and the protection of the forests, game and natural 

 wonders within its limits. It has passed the Senate and 

 now goes to the House.— Loclcpori Daily Journal. 



Petitions are being circulated in the different States 

 for signatures praying Congress to pass some measure for 

 the protection of the Yellowstone National Park. If that 

 Park of natural wonders is worth being a national park 

 it is certainly worth protecting, that the great treasures 

 which nature has stored up there as evidences of the 

 majesty and greatness of the Creator may be enjoyed by 

 those who may be able to look on them. — Beaver (Pa.) 

 Daily Argus. 



Stockeridge, Mass., April 5.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: This is duplicate list of names forwarded to 



Lowell, Mich., Aprils.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Inclosed find list of names for the Park protection. I 

 send it direct to you and you can forward the same to 

 Washington to Congressman Ford after copying these 

 names. Everybody signed it here that saw the petition, 

 and we all praise your noble efforts in this move.— C. D. P. 



Chicago. April b.— Editor Forest and Stream: Please 

 send me four or five blanks for circulation in another 

 club. It seems an anomaly that so much pressure is 

 necessary to procure the passage of a simple bill which, 

 practically, no one is opposed to, and which every one 

 knowing the facts favors. Our State Sportsman's Con- 

 vention assembles here June 11, and they will act if not 

 too late.— E. N. H. 



Novel Shooting on the Meadows.— Augusta, Ga., 

 April 4.— Editor Forest and Stream: Last Sa'turdav was 

 the last day of the open season on game in this county. 

 The river was up to the freshet mark, and when it is at 

 this stage the large farms below the citv are partly cov- 

 ered by water. I put on my wading boots in the after- 

 noon and left for these fields to try my luck on perchance 

 a duck or one of the long-legged plover which usually 

 play around the fields at this stage of the water. I had a 

 peculiar experience. In following up some plover routed 

 by my dog, I saw something in. the water to my left 

 which I thought was a duck. The water in the field was 

 about Sin. deep, and the object I saw rolled over into the 

 deep water of a ditch and was for a while lost to sight. 

 After waiting awhile, it came swimming up the ditch 

 where I was standing, and as it came near enough I shot 

 it, and had the pleasure of bringing to bag a German 

 carp weighing 7flbs. I then pursued the birds, and had 

 gone but a short way before I saw another in the field, 

 the water being about Sin. deep. I also killed this one, 

 which weighed 7ilbs. I thus had 151bs. of fish, and 

 started for home. On the way I killed a few snipe. This 

 was, to me, a strange hunt, and I doubt whether any one 

 else ever had a similar experience. The carp had, per- 

 haps, come from some private pond which had been 

 broken or overflowed. — J. M. W. 



A Shameful Piece of Business.— Two or three weeks 

 ago a tame doe escaped from the grounds of Mr. Colt, in 

 Hartford, Conn., and for some days was to be seen feed- 

 ing on the meadows near the little station of Rock Hill. 

 Such a beautiful creature at large there naturally created 

 no little interest, but no one was found to kill her until 

 Thursday, when a well-known Glastonbury man, president 

 of the rod and gun club of that place, crossed the river 

 in a boat and shot her and took her to Hudson Alger's 

 hotel in South Glastonbury for exhibition. The doe 

 would soon have given birth to twin fawns. Her meat 

 is unfit for venison, and the sight of the pretty creature, 

 shot for sport, has led to much criticism of the act. It 

 was probably a hasty performance and is no doubt re- 

 gretted now by the man who shot the pretty doe, but re- 

 gret will not restore life, to the dead deer, and that is 

 what people must remember who are so quick to use fire- 

 arms for the pleasure of killing something. The wanton 

 cruelty of this performance deserves stronger condemna- 

 tion than we like to print in these columns, and each 

 reader must be left to characterize it for himself. It is 

 evident that missionaries are needed in Glastonbury. 



Massachusetts Woodcock Law.— The Committee on 

 Fisheries and Game, of the Massachusetts House of Rep- 

 resentatives, recommend the adoption of the proposed 

 change in the woodcock law by which the season shall 

 open Sept. 1, or at the same time as the ruffed grouse 

 season. The bill which they have drafted if adopted 

 would make section one of chapter 276 of the laws of 1886 

 read as follows: Sec. 1. Whoever takes or kills a pin- 

 nated grouse, at any time, or a woodcock. 'between the 

 first day of December and the first day of September, or 

 a ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, between the 

 first day of December and the first dav of September, or 

 a quail, between the firstday of January and the fifteenth 

 day of October, or a wood or summer 'duck, black duck, 

 or teal, or any of the so-called duck species, between the 

 fifteenth day of April and the first day of September, 

 shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars for every 

 bird so taken or killed. 



The Augusta (Ga.) Gun Club.— Augusta, Ga., April 4. 

 — Editor Forest and Stream: It affords me pleasure to 

 inform the sporting world through your paper that the 

 Augusta Gun Club is determined to protect the game of 

 this county, and for their benefit I inclose you a copy of 

 the petition for incorporation: "Georgia, Richmond 

 County— To the Superior Court of said county.— Your 

 petitioners, James J. Dicks, William H. Harrison, Jr., 

 Robert J. Potter and Diedrich Sancken, pray an order 

 incorporating them, their associates and successors, under 

 the name of the Augusta Gun Club, for twenty years, 

 with a capital stock, to be actually paid in, of five hund- 

 red dollars, increasable up to five' thousand dollars, with 

 no personal liability on stockholders fully paid up. The 

 objects of said club are the promotion of skill with the 

 shotgun and the protection of game in said county, 

 wherein it proposes to conduct its operations. Petitioners 

 pray the grant of all corporate powers necessary to effectu- 

 ate the purposes of said organization, and in particular, 

 power in said club to act as prosecutor on prosecutions 

 for violations of laws now or hereafter passed for the 

 protection of game in said county, and power to acquire, 

 hold and use real estate for a practice or shooting ground. 

 —Salem Dutcher, Attorney for Petitioners."— J. M. W. 



Hornell Gun and Game Protective Association — 

 Hornellsville, N. Y., March 31. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: At the annual meeting of the Hornell Gun and 

 Game Protective Association, held March 28, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected for the ensuing vear : S. H. Crane, 

 President: John Griffin, Vice-President;' Wm. Rewalt, Jr., 

 Treasurer; S. H. Brown, Secretary. Ovu- association has 

 thirty members in good standing, and about fifteen hon- 

 orary members. A committee has been appointed to 

 select from among the farmers all those who will aid us 

 in game and fish protection. In this way we hope to 

 increase the list of honorary members into the hundreds, 

 and then the cunning game and fish violators will be at 

 the mercy of the association unless they choose to respect 

 the law. Our association was organized and incorporated 

 in 1886. During this time we have met a great deal of 

 opposition, but we feel encouraged with the prospects as 

 they loom up this spring. The people generally indorse 

 our principles, and many have expressed a desire to join 

 and aid us. both in active and honorary membership.— 

 S. H. Brown, Secretary. 



Spring in New Hampshire.— Laconia, N. H,, April .2. 

 —Editor Forest and Stream: We have had a long hard 

 winter; the snow came early and still covers the ground. 

 Very little hunting has been done on account of the great 

 depth of snow. Our lakes are still covered with very 

 thick ice, and trout fishing has been better than for years. 

 Several fishermen that I know have caught over fifty 

 each, several of which weighed from 51bs. to Slbs., but 

 the majority average about Slbs. or 31bs. ; they are mostly 

 caught by bobbing, while a few are taken on set lines 

 with live bait. — R. S. F. 



Returning Waterfowl.— Laconia, N. H., April 2.— 

 A flock of thirty-eight geese alighted in the mouth of the 

 river Saturday morning, March 31, but a small army of 

 gunners soon put them to flight. — R. S. F. 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Piib. Co. 



Every person who is sufficiently interested in the National 

 Park to do his share toward securing •protection for it, is in- 

 vited to send for one of the Forest and Stbeam's petition 

 blanks. They are sent free. 



TROUT DAY. 



Geese on Long Island.— Greenport, L. I., April 3.— 

 The wild geese are now flying in numerous flocks over 

 these bays, and a party of gunners have gone down 

 Peconic Bay to Gardiner's Islaud in search of them and 

 will probably have good success. There must be good 

 shooting for them now at Montauk.— Isaac McLellan. 



THE weather on Monday morning, April 2, was better 

 than the average first of April weather on Long 

 Island, still the wind from the snowbanks, which were 

 left in many places, was chilly. The most of the fishing- 

 was done on the waters of the different clubs, and very 

 little on those few streams still left open to the public. 

 On the North Shore some good fish were taken from 

 Shoe-Swamp Brook, near Locust Valley, and also in the 

 Nissequogue. at Smithtown. On the South Side quite a 

 number of anglers visited the once famous Massapequa 

 Lake, by permission of the Brooklyn Water Works Com- 

 pany, which now controls it, but the fishing has been 

 overdone, and is now very poor. A few rods were scat- 

 tered along the different streams as far down as Patch- 

 ogue, and the success was varying. At the South Side 

 Club the fishing is always good, and is confined to mem- 

 bers for the first two weeks, after which invited guests 

 are permitted. The splendid ponds of the Oxford Club, 

 near Patchogue, afford no fishing yet, having only been 

 stocked last year. 



At Fulton Market the display of trout was fair but not 

 so extensive in regard to specimens from different locali- 

 ties, as in former years. Commissioner Blackford did 

 not attempt to make a big display, yet it was very good 

 and attracted many notable anglers and fishculturists. 

 The features of the show were the large brown trout of 

 5$ and 6Jlbs,, from W. L. Gilbert's ponds at Plymouth, 

 Mass., they were large, but not as handsome as some 

 2-pounders of the same species, from the New York 

 hatchery at Caledonia. 



The South Side Club sent live rainbow trout, one of 

 which weighed 61bs., and loomed up big in the glass 

 tank. From the hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor came 

 eggs of rainbow trout and landlocked salmon, fry of lake 

 trout andwhitefish, and baby brook trout with two heads. 

 James Annin, Jr., of Caledonia, N. Y., sent brook trout, 

 as did Mr. Gilbert. A carp of 271bs., from the Govern- 

 ment ponds at Washington, occupied a prominent place. 

 Wild Canada trout were selling at fifty cents per pound, 

 Long Island trout at twice that figure, while the live 

 trout sold for $1.50. We regretted to see many trout not 

 more than 4 or Sin. in length, all over the market. 



The fishing during the latter part of last week was 

 better, and some large fish were taken. The largest one 

 of which we have heard was captured by Mr. William 

 Floyd-Jones, in his private stream below Lake Massa- 

 pequa. It weighed 31bs. 4joz., an extraordinary size for 

 Long Island. This stream is very short and the tide rises 

 the fall length of it, to the dam of the lake, so that at high 

 tide the water is brackish. We see but few rods on the 

 cars this season, as compared with former years, and the 

 railway conductors say that they have noticed the same 

 thing. This week the. weather is better and there have 

 been several fine days. 



