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CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



C CHICAGO, Feb, 7.— Mr. John Soderberg ia just back 

 ' from a trip to Florida. He visited BernardiQa, 

 Jacksonville, St, Augustine and other poijits on the east 

 side, and also St. Petersburg on Tampa Bay. Mr. Soder- 

 berg appears to have made this chieny an orange-eating 

 expedition, and did not fire a shot or cast a line. In view 

 of this fact it is a comfort to add that although he was in 

 love with the Florida oranges on sight, he got into this 

 city just in time to meet the only cold snap we have had, 

 the thermometer being 8'- below. 



Mr. C. S, Burton tells of a pickerel weighing 36^1bs. 

 lately caught through the ice on Lake Mukwanago by 

 Wm, Tuoby. This fish had a smaller pickerel weighing 

 lib. 6oz. in its maw when opened. The Mukwanago fish- 

 ermen use a great many small pickerel for bait in their 

 ice fishing. There is a very deep small lake not far from 

 Mukwanago where the large fish are sometimes taken. 

 Lately one was hooked too large to be taken out through 

 the hole in the ice. AVhile the men were enlarging the 

 hole the fish broke the stick to which the line was 

 attached and escaped, 



Mr. Aaron Longstreet, of this city, leaves Monday for 

 an extended fishing trip in the best country of the Pacific 

 Coast. 



AH Chicago shooters M'iil be much pleased to know that 

 Mr. Andy E. Thomas, of Kansas City, has come to Chi- 

 cago to live. Mr. Thomas will be a decided acquisition to 

 Chicago shootingdom, as he is one of the best of the Kan- 

 sas City shots. He has already been elected a member of 

 the Fort Dearborn Club, of Chicago, whose membership 

 is now fuU. Mr. Thomas will shoot as a member of the 

 Illinois team on the Southern trip which starts to-day, 



Mr. W, L, Wells, of the Shober & Carqueville Litho- 

 graph Company, an artist of ability and fame as handler 

 of wildfowl topics, has just finished a very good thing in 

 his "Mallards Going Out." The central figure is a piece 

 of very strong and well-conceived drawing. 



The Indiana Legislature has introduced a bill to permit 

 shooting of wildfowl in that State only on Tuesdays, 

 Thursdays and Saturdays of each week. This was at first 

 reported as allowing shooting on Wednesdays, Thursdays 

 and Fridays only. The bill is not yet passed, and it "is 

 much a question whether it would be much observed if it 

 were a law, I wonder if everybody knows that it is 

 against the law of Indiana to shoot on Sunday, This law 

 is dreadfully broken. 



Mr. John J. Shortall. leader of the Humane Society, is 

 gaining fame by his efllorts to abolish pigeon shooting in 

 Illinois. Mr. Shortall in his bill (introduced, as mentioned 

 last week, by Mr, Bass) excepts wild fowl and game birds, 

 and kindly allows the sportsmen to hunt a little, though 

 it is his tenet that no shooting should be allowed for food 

 or for sale as food. In other words, this humane gentle- 

 man would think it cruel for sportsmen to shoot for sport, 

 but all right and perfectly proper for market shooters to 

 shoot for the market. Like many other great men, Mr. 

 Shortall is occasionally tangled in his logic. He may not 

 have been quite himself when he got up this bill to sup- 

 press pigeon shooting. He may not know that every 

 pigeon killed at the trap in Illinois is sold and eaten. 

 Really, when you come to get down to the brass tacks in 

 this biU, you can't help seeing that the measure is too 

 manifestly spiteful, boyish and absurdly unreasonable to 

 entitle it to very much serious concern. Some Chicago 

 man has suggested to the hysterical Mr. Shortall that he 

 introduced a bill to compel us all to chloroform our 

 oysters before eating them from the half shell. Humane- 

 ness is all right, when it is not spurious, or biased, or 

 spiteful, or pseudo humaneness, such as this of Mr. 

 Shor tail's. True humaneness, bonajide, real and actual 

 humaneness, is as near the heart of every genuine sports- 

 man as it is to that of Mr, Shortall, and probably much 

 nearer. 



On Feb. 12 the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association 

 meets to discuss thi'? pigeon law. Yesterday afternoon, 

 at 8 o'clock, the game dealers of South Water street met 

 at Produce Exchange Hall and held a caucus of their own 

 about game law matters. The game laws as now 

 arranged suit the dealers pretty well. The chicken law 

 date will almost certainly be altered to read Sept. 1, in- 

 stead of Sept. 15, as was originally intended. This is a 

 rnisfortune, but almost a necessity, for the Southern por- 

 tion of the State never will agree on a date later than 

 Sept. 1. Our chickens must go, the great big glorious 

 birds, we don't half way appreciate them. 



A funny thing appeared in the telegraphic reports of 

 yesterday morning's dailies about Clinton shoot. The re- 

 porter in his special said: "Mr. George Leffingwell made 

 the highest score and would have won all the first prizes 

 if two of his birds had not lied out of the line." We can 

 imasine Mr. George Leffingwell explaining that to the 

 reporter ! 



Last week I said John Gillespie would go South for a 

 trip for the benefit of his health. He starts to-day. His 

 wife goes with him. They have round trip tickets. They 

 will remain perhaps six weeks with friends near Jack- 

 sonville. John has a brand new sole leather pocketbook, 

 which cost $2, 75 at wholesale. In this pocketbook is $340 

 of cash. All this is just a little idea of the "boys," who 

 thought they would compliment John in this way as a 

 leasure to themselves. John is getting gray now, and 

 e has been sick a long time. He must get better while 

 he is South, for the "boys" need him around here in their 

 business. John Gillespie is one of the oldest and best 

 known figures in the gun trade of Chicago, and where he 

 goes he takes his own clientage with him. No man was 

 ever more popular, or more reliable, or more loved. The 

 "boys" have enjoyed their little scheme about him. Billy 

 Mussey had a paper, and on the head of it was one line, 

 "They all love John." Below there was place for names 

 and amounts, and the whole business took but a very 

 brief time, up at Billy's. Below is a copy of this little 

 paper, which ought to be printed , read and preserved, as 

 a proof of what sportsmen are and what they will do. 

 There is a curious little incident related about one of the 

 names on this paper. They laid the list before Mr, A, G. 

 Spalding, the "Magnate," as the papers call him, and 

 Mr. Spalding said "$25." Years ago, before John Gilles- 

 pie worked for A, G. Spalding & Bros., A, G. Spalding 

 used to work for John Gillespie, and it is said that John 

 paid "Al," the first dollar he ever earned in base ball. 



There is something half pretty about this whole busi- 

 ness, and it is only marred in one way. I would point 

 out that the name of Mr. John J. Shortall, the pigeon law 

 rmshv, does not appear upon this list. The nsmes on this. 



list are all those of cruel, wicked, barbarous sportsmen. 

 It reads: 



THEY AUi liOSffil JOHN. 



W, P. Muasey, G. B. Dicke, O. D. Gammon, George T. 

 Farmer, C, R. Babeuf, H. W. Loveday, H. D. Nicholls, 

 R. S, Cox, Abner Price. W. A, Barton P. Ca,rd. A, J, 

 Featherstone, W. W, Difliey. Henry Smith, Forest and 

 Stream, Geo. Hofman, F. A. Place, C. S. Wilcox, R. B. 

 Organ, L. A. Williams, Thos. Newman, Robbins & Pal- 

 mer Co., R, A, Turtle, O, F. Malcolm. J. W. Murdough, 



F, W. Ludlow, H. W. Jenney, W. W. McFarland, A. S. 

 Kleinman, C. S. Burton, B. J. Swenie, J. S. Orvis, J. A. 

 Sharp, J, C. Durgin, Alfred Hammer, E. S. Hartwell, M. 

 W, Shay, Joel A, Kinney, F, B, Bowes. L. R. Brown. C, 

 H, Mears, J. W. Sheahan, Percy F. Stone, T. H. McNeill, 

 W. H. Mortimer, N. F. Pfeffer, A. C. Anson, J. M. Hutch- 

 inson, H. A, Foss, W. T. Clark, T. W, Wilmarth, C. E. 

 Willard, C. E. Felton, M, J, Eioh, W. W. Fosb, H. B. Foss, 

 C. S. Petrie, C. K. Herrick, John Watson, W. L. Wells, 

 A. W. Knox, N. Rowe. Frank Willard. F. P. Taylor, G. 

 M. Davis, E. P. Hilliard, W. H. Haskell, J. O. Blake, F, 

 H, ^Vndrews, P. W. Gerould, Wm. T. Brown, E. C. J. 

 Cleaver, Fred C. Donald, Chas, Kern, Wolfred N. Low, 

 A. W. Cobb, A. M, Fuller, D. P, Wilkinson, Edward 

 Eagle, R. C. Cnx. -lohn R, Adams, J. C. Edwards, Frank 

 Floyd, Chas, E, Deane, Jas, A, Sexton, A, G, Spalding, 



G. L. Deiter, Geo. Barnard, W, L. Shepard. H. J. Milli- 

 gan, R. W. Stafford, Jos. J. Gore, Wm, Kent, Henry 

 Ehlers. 



The Southern shooting trip referred to earlier in these 

 columns was pulled off to-day at 3:20 P, M., a very nice 

 company indeed being on hand to start, including some 

 of the prominent shooters of the coimtry. The party 

 goes on the Illinois Central through train, made 

 up for the Mardi Gras excursion trade and a 

 hummer, two special Pullmans being devoted to 

 their use. They shoot at New Orleans Monday, Mobile 

 Wednesday and Thursday, Pensacola Friday, Satur- 

 day and perhaps Monday following, and the Southern 

 gentlemen, with chaxacteristic hospitality, have arranged 

 so pleasant a programme for them that they cannot fail 

 to have a delightful time. At Pensacola there will ba 

 championship races at live birds between the Northern 

 and Southern teams and between the Illinois and Florida 

 teams, the entertainment at that city being in the liands 

 of the well known Dixie Gun Club, At this writing the 

 personnel of the Northern team is not decided, but Capt. 

 McMurchy will probably just shoot those who are out of 

 bed at the time. Col. Chas. E. Felton will captain the 

 Illinois team, which will probably be made up of the fol- 

 lowing besides himself: Messrs. C. E, Willard, C, D, 

 Gammon, Rolla Ileikes, Ben Dicks, F. A. Place, 

 A. E. Thomas, Thomas Marshall, G. W. Andrews, 

 and another not yet certain. Colonel Felton has 

 issued a printed manifesto to his troops, in which he 

 urges each man to do hia duty, to take along plenty of 

 oil, plenty of good cartridges, and guns which have been 

 carefully dissected and examined for misfires. The Col- 

 onel feelingly remarks that inattention to such details 

 may result in the team's having to walk home. At the 

 start of the train to-day there were noticed among others 

 the following: Mr, Harvey McMurchy and a new white 

 box coat, two rows of buttons; Mr, Rolla Heikes, with hia 

 smile and his banjo; Mr, John Gillespie and his Avife, Mi', 

 C, E, Willard and a, new pair of stunning patent leather 

 shoes, Mr, Fred Quimby, of New York, with a fine pair 

 of |6 plaid trousers, almost new and a bargain; Capt. L. 

 C, Cranmer, also of New York, on his first trip to Chicago, 

 who is saihng into a lot of friendships out here already; 

 Mr. Milt Lindsley, of New York, who has a lot of those 

 already; Mr, Frank Parmalee, of Omaha, and hia lisp, and 

 his popularity, and his two friends, Messrs. John Field 

 and J, Gwinn, also of Omaha; Mr. Tom Marshall, of 

 Keithsburg, and hia wife; Mr. C. F, Stokes and his bicy- 

 cle. Mr. C. D. Gammon and his wife, Col, jFeltou and his 

 Scotts, Mr. G. Harry Squires, of New York, and his 

 Greeners: Mr. .J. Robbins and his new cap, Messrs. F. A. 

 Place, C. B. Dicks, A. E. Thomas, E. Goodrich, J. W. C. 

 Haskell, A. D. Cancross, L. "Davenport," Harry Smith 

 and others. The party boasts a mascot, Clarence Duval, 

 the colored boy who traveled around the world with the 

 Spalding base ball aggregation, ' 'Tee Kay," of New York, 

 is not on, but conspicuous by his absence, we don't know 

 why. 



Mr. Geo, I. Maillet, of Crown Point, Ind., is in to\vp 

 to- day, looking around among his friends. Call again 

 George. In the words of the great country editor, our 

 latch string is always hanging out. 



Mr. J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas City, was in the town 

 earlier in the week, looking up arrangements for his pro- 

 posed live bird park here. Mr. Elliott thinks it wiser to 

 wait until the action of the Legislature on the pigeon 

 law bill is known. Mr. Elliott went to Clinton shoot, 

 divided a tie with Mr. Gpo. Kleinman and to-day, so the 

 wires say, beat Charlie Budd in a 100-bird race by the re- 

 markable score of 98 to 96. Details later. 



In a morning paper to-day Dr. Chas. Moorum, of Port- 

 land, Oregon, gives estimates made after careful study of 

 the speed of flight of various species of ducks. He places 

 the canvasback as the swiftest, two miles a minute, hour 

 after hour; the mallard slowest, about a mile a minute 

 under pressure; the gad wall 80 miles an hour; the broad- 

 bill nearly as fast but not so enduring as the canvasback: 

 wild geese, 80 to 100 miles an hour. E. Hough. 



Spruce Cabin Run Game and Fish Association.— 

 This association was organized last Friday. Feb. 6, at the 

 Astor House, New York. The officers elected were: Col. 

 E. L. Price, President; Charles G. Bennett, Secretary; 

 John E, Blake, Treasurer, The association has purchaeed 

 100 acres of land in Canadensis, Monroe county. Pa,, 

 which includes the stream known as Spruce Cabin Run, 

 This stream begins on the top of one of the highest peaks 

 of the Pocono Mountains, and flowing down into the 

 Canadensis Valley, mingles with the waters of the turbu- 

 lent Brodhead Creek, which emptieain to the Delaware. 

 The preserve will make an extensive and valuable trout 

 preserve. The association is negotiating for the purchase 

 of a large tract of land for the purpose of making an ex- 

 tensive game preserve. 



A Book About lNDiANS.~The Fobbbt and Stream will mail 

 free on application a descriptive circular of Mr, Grinnell's book, 

 "Pa*!?ii96 Hero Stories and Folk-Tales," giving; a table of coDteute 

 ftM specSrasa Jll-astratlons froc! the voJuraa.— 



ONTARIO GAME LAWS. 



HAMILTON, Ont., Feb. Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Will you allow me space in your valuable columns 

 to state that the commission specially appointed by the 

 Ontaiio Government ia now making inquiries on the sub- 

 ject of game and fish in this Province, with a view of 

 recommending such changes in the game laws as will 

 protect the game and fish, and thereby benefit the coun- 

 try and help to promote the pleasure of honest and legiti- 

 mate sportsmen? 



As many of your American readers are aware, the in- 

 discriminate slaughter of deer in Ontario is rapidly thin- 

 ning out that animal, while the wdiolesale netting and 

 poaching of fish and the indiscriminate shooting and 

 trapping of game birds out of season is also dei^leting the 

 country. 



A number of questions relating to these matters have 

 been carefully prepared and printed by the Commission- 

 ers for distribution to the sportsmen of Ontario, and 

 should these lines of mine meet the eyes of any of your 

 American readers who make it a habit to shoot or fish in 

 Canada, I would be glad, upon aijplication, to send them 

 copies of the questions, which, when filled up, would no 

 doubt be helpful in aiding the Commissioners to arrive at 

 a solution of the w'ork by them undertaken. 



I am sending you copies by this mail of all the different 

 questions prepared for issue by the Commission, so that 

 you may see for yourself what we are doing. In addition 

 to this method of reaching those interested, sessions are 

 being held throughout the Province, at which witnesses 

 are being examined viva voQe; so that, by the time the in- 

 quiries of the Commissioners are ended, we hope to have 

 have had a very general and thorough consensus of opin- 

 ion on the matters under consideration. 



If this note will induce your sportsmen to express their 

 opinions on these matters in your columns it will be a 

 matter of interest, and I think that much good will 

 accrue. A. D. Stew.^vjit, Sec'y. 



THE OLD CAMP ON THE CASS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I was greatly interested in the pen and ink sketch of 

 the "Old Camp on Cass River," by the late Dr. Sterling, 

 of Cleveland, Ohio. It is natural for me to be interested 

 from the fact that I have lived for over twenty-eight 

 years within eight miles from w^here the old camp used to 

 stand, and I live a short distance from it at the present 

 time. Although I was not old enough to enjoy the hos- 

 pitable shelter of this ancient landmark, I am' able to find 

 many of the present citizens of our town(Caro) who have. 



That cabin was situated at w^hat was called the Lime- 

 stone Rock, or near it, from what I can learn from those 

 who have seen it, and was about three miles above the 

 present town of Vasaar and about twelve miles from Caro. 

 It is also true that it was one of the greatest "deer cross- 

 ings" on the river. 



I understand the picture represents the way it looked 

 about forty years ago. That was a little before my time, 

 but 1 can distinctly remember how this country looked 

 twenty-eight years ago; at that time there was abundance 

 of game of all kinds, and even at the present time con- 

 siderable game is foiuid. A short time ago several deer 

 were seen not over seven miles from our city, a.nd one 

 very large bear was shot. Frequently bear and deer are 

 seen here, but the old, old days as represented in your 

 pen sketch have jiassed; they only live in our memories 

 and history. 



Mr. M. A. Jones of this place has hunted on the grounds 

 and has passed many a night in that camp in the wilder- 

 ness; at one time in particular he tells me he started a 

 deer near the crossing, and before it ci'ossed the river it 

 was accompanied by twelve others. That was a chance 

 for an amateur sportsman . That was the time when it 

 was no imoommon thing to see from twelve to twenty deer 

 in a drove. When the village of Vassar became an incor- 

 porated town the old cabin was yet standing, and could it 

 have talked it would undoubtedly have told some great 

 bunting stories. But the cabin is gone: the deer are gone; 

 and with them the best hunting days ever recorded in the 

 history of Michigan. 



For the past ten years parties in this section of the State 

 have gone up to the northern part of the Southern Pen- 

 insula for game, and I can verify the statement that we 

 have great sport. In the vicinity of Grayling, St, Hel- 

 ens, West Branch, Gayloixl and many other places on the 

 M, C. R, R. , game is numerous, I have been one of a 

 party of five that has taken this trip once a year for the 

 past six years, and perhaps in the future I wUl, for the 

 benefit of the readers of Forest and Steeam, relate some 

 of our adventures, A. C. Moreland. 



Cako, Micli. 



ROCHESTER AND VICINITY. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The county game law was passed by the supervisors 

 Jan. 29 with the following amendments: Open season for 

 quail, Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, instead of the month of Novem- 

 ber. For woodcock, Sept. I to Nov. 1, instead of Sept, 1 

 to Nov. BO, The word "penitentiary" inserted instead 

 of "jail" wherever that word occurs. 



Of com'se it is now known that these open seasons con- 

 flict with the new State game bill, and evidently the 

 county board were not aware that they could not'open 

 the season for quail Oct* 15, and if both the laws— the 

 county and the proposed State— should stand, we would 

 have rather a short season on quail in this county. 



The other dates in county law, while conflicting with 

 the text, do not with the spirit of the proposed State law. 



The Monroe Sportsman's Association have received a 

 large number of applications for birds, and a new scheme 

 is being worked in regard to putting them out, that is, of 

 getting parties who own lands adjoining each other to 

 the number of one thousand acres to club together in the 

 care and protection of the birds, thus securing a large 

 range of protected territory for each lot of birds sent out. 



The birds did not do as well in the small lots in coops 

 as was expected, so they were turned out in the lai-ge 

 building where the coops were, and are now doing much 

 better. Several loads of straw and evergreens were dis- 

 tributed around for them which they seem to appreciate. 



Bunches of them get on a spot where the sun shines in 

 and pile up like a swarm of bees, in the shape of a pyra- 

 mid, four or five layers high, the outside ones all standing 

 %vith tails toward the center of the swarm, making an al- 

 together novipj. appearance. OSCEPLA, 



Rochester, Feb. % 



