Jan. 31, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



LAKESIDE HOTEL, 



LIPPINCOTT'S. 



he takes a notion to. He wanted $3 for the big call I 

 wanted. I told him there was sickness in my family 

 and I thought he ought to sell it to me for less 'n that; 

 hut he couldn't see it that way. He said there was liable 

 to be sickness in his family, 



The Wood brothers, old market hunters of the Illinois 

 River, are well-known characters in that locality. Tim 

 Wood has reformed and is now steward of the big Swan 

 Lake club house. He. was showing me one of these duck 

 calls, such as just described, which he always uses, and 

 which is so natural that it has green feathers on its 

 neck. Then we got to talking, and he told me that his 

 brother, Frank Wood, invented the first duck call ever 

 seen in that locality, when he was a lx>y only eighteen 

 years old. That was in 1870 or thereabout. Tins primi- 

 tive call was made of a piece of cane fishing 

 pole and the reed was cut out of an. old "tin 

 type" picture. 



Deo. 21. — At different times before now 

 I have had occasion to comment upon the 

 wisdom of Indiana legislation, and the 

 kindliness of Indiana citizens toward Chi- 

 cago duck clubs. There isn't anything too 

 much for an Indiana man to do for a Chi- 

 cago man, provided the same be toward in- 

 ducing the aforesaid Chicago man to keep 

 on his own side of the State line. The fol- 

 lowing is the latest Indiana effort, and if 

 it were not just a little ridiculous, it might 

 be noticeable as matter of detriment to Chi- 

 cago clubs owning Indiana marshes. The 

 quotation is from the Chicago Tribune of 

 Jam 19: 



"One hundred gentlemen interested in the 

 drainage of the overflowed and wet lands 

 situated in the Kankakee Valley met in the 

 club room of the Palmer House. Clem 

 Studebaker, of South Bend, Ind., was elected 

 chairman, and J. W. Wounche, of Crown 

 Point, Ind., secretary. The following reso- 

 lution was offered and adopted: 



"'■'Resolved, That it ia the sense of this meeting 

 that the first and most important step to enanie 

 the land owners t.o drain and reclaim the 1,700 

 quare miles of swamp and overflow lands of the 

 Kankakee Valley, in the State of Indiana, is the 

 cutting of a channel of sufficient width and depth 

 through the ledge of rocks which extends across 

 tMe Kankakee lliver at Momence, 111., so as to afford an outlet 

 for the marshes: and to accomplish this we request an appro- 

 priation be made by the State of Indiana from the State treasury 

 of such a sum as will bring about, these Improved conditions. 



"This whole matter was presented to the Legislature 

 two years ago, but nothing was done. It is claimed that 

 a large ledge of rock in the Kankakee River at Momence, 

 111., is the cause of the overflow which submerges 1,000,000 

 acres of fertile soil in the Kankakee Valley. When this 

 oLstruction is removed the gentlemen interested in the 

 movement claim the land will be drained and can be put 

 under cultivation." 



I am not posted on that big ledge of rocks, and should 

 like to hear more of it. I am inclined to think, how- 

 ever, that it must be a daisy if its removal will drain the 

 main swamps of the Kankakee, and I do not think that 

 the duck shooters need worry much about it. 



Chicago, Jan. 25— Abe Klein man says that day before 

 yesterday quite a heavy flight of redheads struck 

 Calumet Lake, coming from the south. They circled 

 over the lake, dropped in, stayed for a short time, and at 

 length made back south 

 again. They are the first 

 birds up for'this year. If 

 this remarkably mild and 

 open weather continues, 

 the next three weeks will 

 see a good flight up. If 

 the spring opens gradu- 

 ally, and not with any 

 sudden breaking up of the 

 waters, the flight is, how- 

 ever, more apt to be scat- 

 tering, and the shooting, 

 therefore, poorer than 

 when the ice all goes out 

 at once, and the flight all 

 comes with a rush. 



The show windows of 

 one of the big restaurants 

 of this city to-day pre- 

 sented a novel and wond- 

 erful sight. In each win- 

 dow was constructed a 

 huge wire screen, in 

 which, in full view, and 

 indeed «ight against the 

 glass of the show win- 

 dows, there clustered, 



ran or meditated a whole flock of genuine live quail, fat, 

 sleek and saucy as ever burst from cover. There were two 

 bunches of them— thirty-three in the first and tb irty-two in 

 the second. There was another quail in the second bunch, 

 too, but it was one of these nervous, restless fellows, and 

 ran around behind the other quail, so I couldn't count it. 

 The sight was a strange one, thrust as it was right against 

 the humming life of one of the busiest streets of America. 

 It was so unual that a crowd blocked the Walk by the 

 window nearly all day long. The quail were bought on 

 South Water street. I do not know how they came to be 

 shipped in alive. Neither do I know how they could be 

 taken alive unless trapped. And if trapped, I do not 

 know by what law they were trapped and shipped in 

 here at" this season of the year. The sight of the poor 



little beauties was at first a pleasing and cheering one, 

 and it made one's eyes sparkle to see his old friends; but 

 when you stop to think about it, it's a good deal more 

 pitiful than it is anything else. 



The Mack-saw-bas have postponed their shoot from to- 

 morrow to a week from to-morrow, as several of the most 

 prominent members could not attend this week. 



Mr. J. J. Roddy, one of the best known characters and 

 oldest duck shooters of Fox Lake, lately died of con- 

 sumption, which had afflicted him for years. E. Hotjgh. 



Henrietta, Texas, Jan, 21.— We are having delightful 

 weather here now. This climate seems about perfect, 

 what we would in New York call our best October 

 weather. Nights a little frosty now and then, and days 

 warm with bright sunshine. Just such weather as 1 like 

 for shooting, and as the quail are fairly plentiful I am 

 keeping the table well supplied. We get also some chick- 

 ens here, but all larger game is further away from civ- 

 ilization.— Bob White. 



THE MEGANTIC CLUB DINNER. 



THE gathering of the Megantic Fish and Game Club 

 at the annual dinner at Young's Hotel, in Boston 

 last week, was in size and enthusiasm significant of the 

 rapid growth and substantial character of this organiza- 

 tion. The club's preserves are in the Spider and Megan- 

 tic lakes region of Maine and New Brunswick, and the 

 membership is likewise international in scope, compris- 

 ing representatives from the Canadian Provinces and 

 from a number of States. The annual meetings are 

 highly appreciated as reunions of old friends and occas- 

 ions for the members of the club to become acquainted 

 with one another. President Wemyss of Boston presided, 

 and members and guests prssent were: W. H. H. Murray, 

 Rev. A. F. Lee, J. C. Woodruff, Heber 

 Bishop, Col. S. Harrington, Walter M. 

 Brackett, E. P. Brown, E. N. Fenno, E. 

 S. Sparrow, Seth Perkins, A. C. Gould, S. 

 F. Johnson, E. A. Knight, Galen Woodruff, 

 J. F. Hutchinson, H. J. Thaver, A. T. Sisson, 

 George F. Hall, Bradlee Whidden, A. J. 

 Morris, Waldron B. Hastings, D. W. Clapp, 

 J. C. Donnell, U. K. Pettengill, E. P Ward. 

 F. H. Ruggles, William V. Alexander, B. V. 

 Howe, A. P. Holbrook, George B. Appleton, J. 

 N. Taylor, F. A. Foster, James Brown, Geo. 

 / ,,' B. Harriman, Webster E. Pierce, Homer 

 Albers, Wilham R. Scott, Geo. F. Ellsworth, 

 : . Ithamar Howe, H. W. Robinson, G. A. Ma- 



comber, H. W. Sanborn, Benjamin F. Hall, 

 N. J. Hall, M. A. Morris, G. W. Nichols, W. 

 P. Clark, W. L. Hall, James Bean, Oliver 

 White, J. H. Rockwell, W, Maniard, E. E. 

 Partridge, A, P. Preston, C. A. Kilham, E. A. 

 Shaw, J. R. Reed, William Howe Mills, L. 

 K. Billings, Eliot B. Mayo, A. N. Cheney, 

 L. W. Sweet, J. W. Ball, S. G. Stevens. C. 

 A. Powell, A, H. Ellis, W. B. Everets, W. 

 H. Edmands, Henry F. Guild, A. L. Plimp- 

 ton, A. H. Breed, Charles J. Bassett, Arthur 

 Lowell, Charles W. Shepard, William Lumb, 

 Arthur F. Means, W, F. Stevens, Edward 

 Sharp, James E. Woodruff, Theodore P. 

 Brown, Edward P. Barry, W. A. Richard- 

 son, A. W. Robinson. 



In his address of welcome and congratula- 

 tion the president announced that the club's 

 possessions of 80,000 acres of territory were to be increased 

 By an addition of 30,000 more. He highly commended 

 the plan of annual excursions, begun last season, when a 

 large number of the members and their friends visited 

 the club grounds together. Prof. Putnam of Harvard 

 College reported that the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, of which he is president, had made arrangements 

 with the park commissioners ior a large lot of land in 

 Franklin Park, also a part of Jamaica Pond. The former 

 they would use for a game preserve, and they hoped also 

 to get a part of Castle'lsland for the same purpose, and a 

 great salt water basin between the island and City Point, 

 of which they intended to make a great aquarium. The 

 preserve at Franklin Park, he said, would be a great 

 zoological garden, and it would be stocked with deer, 

 moose, bears, and other animals of the forest now being 

 killed off rapidly. He called attention to the fact that 

 one year hence the angler could cast his fly for salmon 

 on the Merrimac, for the reason that the river had been 

 well stocked. Addresses were made by Messrs. W. H. H. 



Murray, A. N. Cheney, 

 Kennedy Smith, Walter 

 Brackett, Rev. A. F. Lee, 

 Vice President Woodruff, 

 and others. The dinner 

 was a most happy affair 

 throughout, and reflects 

 great credit on Dr. Heber 

 Bishop, the originator of 

 the club and its control- 

 ling spirit. 



RAIL SHOOTING AT CRAB APPLE ISLAND. 



I believe I am fonder of 

 your Forest and Stream 

 in winter even than iu sum- 

 mer. Then I can rioniy own 

 fishing ; ' now I live it all 

 over again in the clear 

 type of your pages.— J. M. 

 Scovel. 



Dr. C. D. 8., Portland, 

 Maine, — It has become in- 

 dispensable to those of us 

 who have to find in it com- 

 fort for the days and weeks 

 when we can't get away, 

 and have to derive a little 

 enjoyment from "the other 

 fellow's" good time. 



