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until his successor is installed; the secretary in addition of 

 other duties to give notice of meetings to members in this 

 city and Fairhaven by advertisement in the papers, and to 

 those in other places by letter; to be permanent secretary 

 of the executive committee when in session and to be ex- 

 officio a mi ruber of that committee; the executive com- 

 mittee to have general supervision of the affairs of the 

 league, have referred to them all applications for mem- 

 bership and report them at the next regular meeting, and 

 to have full power to employ counsel, and approve all 

 bills against the league and issue their warrant to the 

 treasurer for the payment of all moneys appropriated ; 

 the constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of 

 all the members present at any meeting called for that 

 purpose upon a notice of:' one week having been given. 



The officers chosen for the first year were: President, 

 Arthur Ricketson; Vice-Presidents, L. LeBaron Holmes, 

 Robert Bennett; Secretary, George H. Palmer: Treasurer, 

 John B. Hussey ; Executive Committee, the President and 

 .Secretary, ex-officio, and Eobert Bennett, James H. Tall- 

 man, Gideon D. Gifford, Francis Hathaway, Joseph L. 

 Sisson. 



Mr. Palmer read letters from gentlemen in New York 

 and Washington, cordially approving the objects of the 

 league, sending their names as members, and one of them 

 donating $25 to assist in the work. A temporary organ- 

 ization having similar objects to the league had left 

 §67.25 in a bank in this city under control of a committee, 

 and the members having 'joined the league this money 

 will be covered into its treasury. Nearly fifty persons 

 have already joined the league and its success is assured. 



Adjourned to the second Monday in November at 11.30 

 A. M., at Mr. Palmer's office in this city. 



ARKANSAS RESORTS. 



TO enlighten shooters and fishermen as to the attrac- 

 tions of Arkansas resorts, reached by the St. Louis, 

 Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, the General Pas- 

 senger Agent, H. C. Townsend, of St. Louis, has issued a 

 circular which says: 



To enable either the disciple of Niinrod or Sir Izaak 

 Walton to make a choice of such place where he may 

 consider that he can regale himself with pleasure and joy 

 to his heart's delight, this leaflet has been compiled with 

 accurate information as to the different resorts in that 

 State on the line of the Iron Mountain route and 

 branches , where good hotel and camping accommodations 

 can be found, with the character of the game and fish in- 

 cident to. such locality, and the means of reaching the 

 same. 



Corning is the first noted hunting and fishing point in 

 the State, and is known as the ''Sportsmen's Retreat." 

 ' 'Deer Range," near the town, abounds in deer, as its name 

 implies, turkey, ducks, squirrel, and all the smaller game. 

 Corning Lake and the famous Black River are well 

 stocked with croppie, perch, bass and pickerel. Boats 

 can be obtained and huts have been erected along the 

 ri ver which are rented at small cost to hunting parties. 



Knobel has good hotel accommodations, game, deer, 

 turkey, ducks, squirrels, etc. Black bass, jack salmon, 

 croppie, perch, etc.. are caught in Mill Lake, Maiden 

 Lake, Allen Lake, Black and Cache Rivers. 



Walnut Ridge is the uext good point below Knobel. 

 Hotel accommodations, all kinds of game from deer 

 down, in the Black and Cache Rivers bottoms, and on the 

 borders of the numerous lakes, in which are found in 

 large quantities, bass, perch, croppie, trout, buffalo and 

 catfish. Finest sporting grounds in the State. All the 

 varieties of fish of Northern Arkansas are found in the 

 Cache River and numerous lakes in the vicinity. 



St. Francis River. — This river flowing through Eastern 

 Arkansas and emptying into the Mississippi above Helena, 

 is the most famous duck hunting resort in the United 

 States. Flocks of duck, brant, geese, swan and smaller 

 water fowl swarm this river and its backwaters from 

 Big Lake to its mouth throughout the winter season. 

 This river is accessible from "Wynne, Earle and other 

 points on the Memphis extension, and from Forrest City 

 and Marianna on the Helena branch. 



Swifton, further south, has a large tract of thinly set- 

 tled country, both to the east and west, that abounds in 

 bear, deer, wolves, wild cats, and all small game. Cat 

 and buffalo fish, trout, bass, croppie, white and sun 

 perch, are found in large quantities in Black, White, 

 Cache and Strawberry Rivers; Hollingshead and Clear 

 Lakes. 



Newport is a large town with good hotels— excellent 

 hunting in the vicinity— all kinds of game, such as 

 bear, deer, quail, teal, woodduck and mallards are very 

 plentiful in season. Fish, such as black bass, croppie, 

 jack salmon, channel cat, etc., are found in great quan- 

 tities. 



Batesville is west of Newport on the White River 

 branch. It is a large town in a new and mountainous 

 country, abounding in all kinds of game and fish. 

 White' River, Polk Bayou, Spring and Miller's Creeks 

 and Spring Creek Lake team with catfish, goggle-eyed 

 perch, trout, pike, striped bass, black bass, croppie, sal- 

 mon, white perch, sturgeon, buffalo and drumfish. 

 Hunting unsurpassed, good hotels. 



Traskwood is south of Little Rock. Small game is 

 abundant. Large quantities of redhorse, catfish, perch, 

 pike, buffalo and shad are caught in the Saline River. 



Danaldson is the first station south of Malvern, Game 

 consists of deer, bear, turkeys, squirrels, rabbits, quail, 

 etc. The waters of Stillwater Lake, Ouachita River and 

 Pine Flat Creek are pure and clear as crystal, on account 

 of which gigs are used for fishing, and all varieties of 

 fish found in the southern part of the State are caught in 

 this manner. 



Atkins is northwest of Little Rock on the L. R & Ft. 

 S. Railway. Boston Mountains abound in deer, bear, 

 turkey, sqii rrel, rabbits and all small game. Trout, bass, 

 perch, drum, cat and buffalo fish are found in large num- 

 bers in the Arkansas River, Gallo Creek, Point Betnore 

 Creek and Fish Lake. 



Piney is northwest of Atkins. Deer and bear hunting 

 in the mountains, and all varieties of smaller game in the 

 bottoms of the Arkansas River, Big and Piney Creeks, 

 the waters of which are clear, and are well stocked with 

 trout, bags, salmon, cat, drum and perch of all kinds. 



Fort Smith has the finest of hunting ground all around 

 it, both in the State of Arkansas and the Indian Territory. 

 Bear, panther, cougar, wolves and wild cats are freqent- 

 ly encountered; while deer, foxes, turkeys, ducks, quail 



and chickens are abundant. The country is well watered, 

 and the streams abound in all kinds of fish. 



Special rates have been made via the Iron Mountain 

 Route to hunting parties of three or more. Tickets are 

 good for thirty days with stop-overs at pleasure and 15()lbs. 

 of baggage, with guns and dogs, will be carried free of 

 charge. Hunting cars having sleeping accommodations 

 for about thirty with cook, cooking utensils, dishes and 

 full equipment may be chattered by parties, and which 

 will be side-tracked at any point desired. 



Game Laws of Arkansas.— Section 1. That it shall be un- 

 lawful to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with intent to 

 catch, kill or injure, or pursue or chase with dogs with- 

 out such intent, any wild buck, deer, doe or fawn, in this 

 State, between the 'first day of February and the first day 

 of September in any year: and it shall also be unlawful 

 to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with intent to catch, 

 kill or injure, any wild turkey, between the first day of 

 May and the first day of September in any year, and it 

 shall also be unlawful to catch, kill or injure, or pursue 

 with intent to catch, kill or injure, any pinnated grouse, 

 commonly called prairie chicken, between the first day of 

 February" and the first day of September in any year, or 

 any quail (sometimes called Virginia partridge), between 

 the first day of March and the first day of October in any 

 year. 



ABOUT SQUIRREL SHOOTING. 



(""1 H ARLESTOWN, New Hampshire.— I am glad my 

 J last letter drew out "Iron Ramrod" on the subject of 

 gray squirrels, and I can fully agree with him that it 

 takes two gunners to hunt them successful ly. 



This is one of the points of the -'woodcraft" I spoke of, 

 and the looking for the "sign" is another. I well remem- 

 ber, many years ago, with a boy of my own age as a 

 companion, getting four out of one outlying oak in the 

 edge of a. cornfield, in which they had probably taken 

 refuge on our approach, while engaged in plundering the 

 cornfield. 



When I first began to shoot squirrels I usually carried 

 a small-bore rifle, but it was one of the old Kentucky sort, 

 and took some time to load it, besides getting pretty 

 heavy at the end of a day in the woods, and we boys of 

 that day usually resolved ourselves into pans, one with 

 the rifle, and the other with an old-fashioned, long- 

 handled "shotgun," as we who considered ourselves 

 rather crack shots, somewhat contemptuously called it. 

 Still, it was far better for firing into a nest than a rifle, 

 and especially useful in finishing a wounded squirrel 

 struggling to get into a hole. 



However, my days for rifle shooting are long past, 

 although I believe I 'might make a fair target by the help 

 of the Lyman sights, and my work of late years on 

 squirrels has been done with the old muzzleloading 

 double-barrel I have mentioned. 



On one point I differ from "Iron Ramrod," I always 

 use No. 6 shot. I once used No. 4, but I find No. 6 

 effectual with plenty of good powder behind it. say Mis. 

 in a 12-gauge, and there are fifty per cent, more shot in 

 an ounce, but I usually find some of them lodge under 

 the skin on the opposite side. 



However, these are merely reminiscences. I have not 

 shot a squirrel these three years, nor had any good sport 

 with them since the autumn of '83, when they were very 

 plenty, and I got a number. They have been practically 

 extinct in this part of the State for three years, whether 

 from the great destruction of the old oak and chestnut 

 woods, which once covered the hills, or from the re- 

 markable severity of the last two winters, I will not un- 

 dertake to say. They are singular animals, and given 

 to migrations en masse, and I have known the region 

 deserted, or nearly so, several times before. 



They were very ifienty here in 1840, 1851 and 1867, and 

 again'in 1883, and may have been in other years when I 

 did not happen to be here in the season for them; but I 

 have known of other years not noted when there were 

 few or none to be found. If these rambling notes serve 

 to draw out some one else on the subject of "squirrel mi- 

 gration," no one will enjoy reading their notes more 

 than Von W. 



Virginia Field Sports Association.— The officers 

 for the year are: President, John J. Wise; Vice-Presi- 

 dents: Lower Tidewater, Harry Williams, of Norfolk; 

 Northern Neck, E. S. Ruggles, of King George; South 

 Side, Dr. Armistead S. Taylor, Amelia; Piedmont, Wm. 

 J. Hubbard, Bedford; Upper Valley, C. Bar gamin, Staun- 

 ton: Lower Valley, H. H. Downing, Clarke: Southwest, 

 Windham G. Roi ertson, Roanoke City; Secretary, Bar- 

 ton H. Grundy; Treasurer, John W. Pierce; Executive 

 Board: W. Miles Cary, Richmond: John L. Grubbs, 

 Chesterfield; W. S. Archer, Richmond; Richard C. Sel- 

 den, Goochland: and Polk Miller, Richmond. 



"That reminds mo." 

 242. 



WHILE passing down the street I was very much 

 amused at the wit displayed by a newsboy, a 

 ragged little fellow, standing on the corner trying to sell 

 his papers. There happened to drive past two reverend 

 gentlemen by the names of Woodcock and Partridge. 

 The former clergyman, stationed a few miles out of the 

 citv, was driving the latter out to dine with him. As 

 soon as they tinned the corner and came opposite to 

 where the little newsboy was standing, he cried out at 

 the top of his voice, to the great amusement of those in 

 the vicinity knowing the names of the reverend gentle- 

 men, "Shoot the parsons!" Although the gentlemen 

 were hit they did not seem to mind it much. L. 

 Kingston, New Brunswick, 



Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 15, 1888.— United State* Cartridae Co., 

 Lowell, Mo**.: Hunt lemon— The two hundred Climax shells sent 

 me have oeen Iriori with Beliult^e and Black powder. I am very 

 much pleased wiih same. Could not get good results with 

 Schullze in any other shell. Will use no other shell so long as 

 you keep this at its present standard. You are at liberty to use 

 this or any other recommendation I can give you. Most respect- 

 fully, (Signed) W. C. Cboss.- Adv. 



im mid Miver 



Angling Talks. By George Dawson. Price 50 cents. Fly- 

 Hods and Fly-Tackle. By H. P. Wells. Price $2. 50. Fly- 

 Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout. By J. IT. Keene. 

 Price $1.50. American Angler's Book. By Thad. Norn's. 

 Price $5.50. 



SALMON IN PUGET SOUND, 



LA CONNER, Washington Territory, Oct, 2.— Editor 

 Forest and Stream: The salmon season is now at its 

 height on Puget Sound. Boats can be seen in all direc- 

 tions trolling for this, the king fish of American waters. 

 At all hours of the day- the splash of fish can be heard in 

 the sloughs and bays/ The run began about two weeks 

 ago at the upper (southern) end of the sound, and has 

 gradually worked northward. Last Saturday the run be- 

 gan in the vicinity of Fidalgo Island and the mouth of 

 Skagit River. Before this an occasional salmon would oc- 

 casionally show his silvery sides and disappear again 

 with a splash; but last Saturday morning they could be 

 seen and heard everywhere. Swinomish slough, a chan- 

 nel some fiOOyds. wide, separating Fidalgo Island from 

 the mainland, on which your correspondent was located, 

 seemed literally alive with them. Boats were soon 

 manned , and spoon hooks spinning through the waters. 

 The turn of the tide, however, soon put a stop to the 

 trolling, as the waters became somewhat muddy, and 

 they returned with only a light catch. Early Sunday 

 morning all who could overcome their religious scruples 

 were astir, and numerous small craft were soon drawing 

 their white trails over the placid waters of the slough and 

 the bays outside. The abseuce of wind necessitated the 

 rise of the oars. Occasionally a huge dog salmon (worth- 

 less as food) would display his yellow sides for an instant, 

 springing a foot or more in the air; but more frequently 

 could be seen the glittering white sides of the silver sal- 

 mon, which is perhaps the finest of the many varieties of 

 salmon to be found in these waters. Numerous good 

 hatds were made Sunday, as well as yesterday and to- 

 day. Standing on the wharf at La Conner, where the 

 whole scene can be taken in at a glance, a person can see 

 a fish hauled into one of the boats almost every moment 

 early in the morning. 



The hook that gives the best satisfaction in salmon 

 trolling is a large brass spoon (silver is not so effective as 

 brass), 3ixUin.. entirely' devoid of feathers, with only 

 one hook" The triple hook, so commonly used for pickerel 

 trolling in Eastern waters, is found to give the fish a pur- 

 chase which enables him, if he is a large one. to break 

 it by the direct pressure of his powerful jaw. The hook 

 is trailed behind the boat some fifty or one hundred feet, 

 and the balance of the line coiled up on a reel or in a 

 box. When a salmon strikes the hook the line is rapidly 

 hauled. The use of either a gaff or landing net is always 

 necessary. The gaff is preferred, as a verv large fish is 

 hard to land with a net, but when once the cruel gaff 

 sinks into the sides of a salmon something must come. 

 Some fishermen run to beach and land their fish on a 

 sand bar if he is a large one. A short time ago a Tyce 

 salmon was captured here that weighed 43Ubs., and 

 shortly afterward another weighing 281bs. As the In- 

 dians are all away in the hop fields there is not much 

 seining being done except by regular employes of the sal- 

 mon canneries. 



There has been less trout fishing in this vicinity than 

 usual this year, and I have heard of no remarkable 

 catches thus far. Last year a party of nine persons 

 caught with hook and line over 300 brook trout in the 

 Samish River in a few hours, using salmon eggs for bait. 

 A good catch of trout was made in Lake Whatoom,- 

 about 30 miles north of here this stammer, but I have lost 

 the figures. June. 



SPORT AT BLOOMING GROVE PARK. 



npHE annual tournament of the Blooming Grove Park 

 I. Association took place at their club grounds, in Pike 

 Co., Pa., on Saturday and Monday, Oct. 27 and 29. The 

 fly-casting was called on the first day, and by chance the 

 hours selected were about the only ones during the meet- 

 ing when a damp east wind, which brought either fog or 

 drizzle, did not prevail. The wind during the casting 

 was light, when there was any, and came from nearly 

 behind the casters. This club, composed largely of New 

 York gentlemen, some of whom are also members of the 

 National Rod and Reel Association and have cast in the 

 tournaments in Central Park, has improved on all meth- 

 ods of measuring the casts, and has abolished the use of 

 the measuring line, which was liable to stretch or shrink, 

 and also to turn the floats over so that the numbers could 

 not be seen. The new device consists of strips of board 

 about four inches wide, which are bolted together at their 

 ends until they make a length of one hundred feet, and 

 as these float upon the water the numbers can be plainly 

 seen on the upright blocks which are let in on one side. 

 The numbers are placed at every foot, and the blocks at 

 each fifth and tenth foot are" higher. Class A, for rods 

 made especially for distance casting, was omitted because 

 of the absence of Mr. Robert B. Lawrence, who, with the 

 exception of Dr. Nash, is the only member who owns 

 such a rod. There were gold and silver badges as first 

 and second prizes in each class. 



Class B.— Open to all, hut especially those who have a record of 

 70ft. or over. Rules of the N. R, & R. A. to govern. Distance 

 only to eruint. Judge. Fred Mather. Referee, Daniel D. You- 

 mahs. Time keeper, Charles R. Herirlen: 



Dr. Spencer M. Nash 71ft. Nathaniel S. Smith 66ft. 



Class C— Open to those who have never cast 70ft. Rules and 

 judges the same as in the other class. As there were hut two 

 prizes the ties were not cast off: 



Ft. Ft. 



Dr. G. M. Eddv 69 E. H. Clark 51 



Beni. T. Fairchild 65 E. M. Youmans 51 



E. H. Booth 63 W. H. McCord 50 



A. J. Post 61^ B. E. J. Eils 50 



C. C. Worthington 58 



Sea Bass.— New York, Oct, 23, 1888.— Mr. J. M. Otter, 

 manager of the Park Avenue Hotel, is just in receipt of a 

 fine bass weighing 531bs. The bass was caught in West- 

 port Harbor, Mass., by one of his guests, Gen, Gilbert H. 

 McKibben, with rod and reel. 



