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FOREST AND STREAM. 



LOOT. 20, 1892, 



THE NEW ENGLAND GAME SEASON. 



Satukdat, Oct. 15, was the opening day of the season 

 on quail in the Old Bay State. Boston gunners were out 

 in good numbers, for the day was especially fine. The 

 sun was almost bright all day, though not quite — one of 

 those perfect Indian summer days, with no wind worth 

 mentioning, and the air sufficiently warm for comfort. 

 A number of men who could not get out all day, were 

 hurrying off a.t the early closing Saturday afternoon, and 

 many of the suburban trains carried guns and gunners. 

 In some cases the flocks of qaail were located, and had 

 been for days, the sportsmen waiting honestly for the 

 beginning of the open season. Quail have seemed to be 

 plenty all along — thanks to the efforts of the Fish and 

 Game Protective Association at restockiilg — but how the 

 game bags will be filled, now that the open season has 

 come, is a question that it will take a couple of weeks to 

 answer. 



Mr. J. F. Dwinell, of Dwinell, Hay ward & Co., is 

 absent at Upton, Me,, for his annual partridge bunt. 

 Doubtless Loomin Sargent will guide him, as ever. Mr. 

 Dwinell visits this section every fall for grouse hunting, 

 and in years gone by he has made some remarkably good 

 bags. During a stay of three or four weeks his score has 

 run up to over 100 birds. He says that be has never shot 

 a deer or seen one, for that matter, on these hunting 

 trips, though his hunting is in a section where deer are 

 generally plenty. 



Mr, D. J. Flanders, general ticket and passenger agent 

 of the Boston & Maine Railroad, is just out from a hunt, 

 in the vicinity of Tim and Bartlett Lake, in Maine. He 

 was accompanied by a brother and two friends, and they 

 had good success. Mr. Flanders shot a deer, and one of 

 the other gentleman a fine buck deer. It is also claimed 

 that the other gentlemen of the party shot two bears. 



There are reports of another moose killed in the vicinity 

 of Salem, Me., last week. A gentleman from Lgwiston, 

 Me., says that the meat was sold in that city. He gives 

 the following account of the hunt, A woodsman , look- 

 ing for timber, came upon the moose in a bog, between 

 Salem and Phillips, and fired a charge of buckshot into 

 him, when he was broadside on. The shot did not stop 

 the big fellow, however, and he took up the stream that 

 leads into the bog at a sharp trot. The woodsman did 

 not attempt to follow the moose that night, but returned 

 the next day with three of his neighbors. They soon 

 came up with the animal, which was too badly hurt to 

 run very fast, and one of the men fired sis shots from a 

 Winchester repeating rifle into him. But all of this 

 shooting did not stop the big moose, and the men fol- 

 lowed all day. The next morning they were at it again, 

 and early one of the men got a good shot and brought the 

 moose down. From all accounts, there are more moose 

 in Maine this year than for a number of seasons. If news- 

 paper accounts are true, there have also been killed and 

 seen a number of caribou. I came across some Boston 

 sportsmen the other day, lately returned from an extended 

 tour through the region of Maine north and east of 

 Moosehead Lake. They say that they saw a number of 

 moose, and a great abundance of moose signs. They 

 were there before the open season begun, and though not 

 admitting that they killed moose in close time, they 

 allow that they did not go without moose steak. One of 

 thern remarked that "the fine is too high for a fellow to 

 admit all he does in the woods," I cannot give the 

 names of these hunters; for the story comes to me in con- 

 fidence, but they must not blame me if I declare it to be 

 an outrage to shoot down a noble moose in the woods at 

 any time and leave it to spoil. Such hunters are aware, 

 before they shoot, that the animal cannot be of any use 

 to them, beyond a couple of tough steaks, to be cooked 

 in temporary camp. The fine is such that they dare not 

 attempt to bring the animal out, even if situated so that 

 such a thing would be possible. 



But not all of the deer hunts of the season have 

 proved to be for deer. It is a little undignified to admit, 

 but some of the boys have been after sheep. At the 

 npper end of Richardson Lake, one of Androscoggin 

 Chain , some very small deer (?) tracks have been seen all 

 the fail. Guides and sportsmen have tried to find them, 

 but without success. But finally one morning, late in 

 September, the mystery was solved. There appeared 

 near Birch Lodge three actual sheep with wool on. They 

 had yokes on too instead of antlers probably — the ordin- 

 ary farmer's sheep-yoke, made from a crotched branch 

 with a crass piece, the sort used to prevent unruly sheep 

 from getting out of pasture. But where did these sheej) 

 come rrom? There are no farms or settlements within 

 15 or 30 miles. The nearest settlement to where the 

 sheep appeared would be the upper Magalloway, at least 

 15 miles of woods and mountains. The only explanation 

 is that the sheep must have strayed from that settlement. 

 But how did they escape bears and other dangers, is the 

 question. When found they were as wild as deer, and 

 immediately made for the woods. After this they were 

 frequently seen by hunters and others, but always very 

 wild. Finally some of the guides decided that it would 

 be best to shoot them, the same as deer, since, by no 

 possible chance, could they survive the deep snows "of a 

 winter in that region, even if 'they long escaped bears, 

 which are known to be abundant in that section. But it 

 has proved to be no easy job to hunt and kill them, 

 though I learn that one or two of them have been secured] 

 The guides say that they were almost as difficult to ap- 

 proach as deer, apparantly hearing and scenting the 

 presence of the hunter as quickly as deer, while lacking 

 the curiosity that prompts the deer, not hunted excess- 

 ively, to turn and look when the hunter is first espied. 

 They would stamp their fore feet, blow and make off at 

 tremendous speed, very much as deer do. How would 

 it do to stock the Adirondacks with sheep of this sort? 

 With a little feeding they would survive the winters of 

 that part of the country, and the fellows who are satis- 

 fied to go up there and drive deer into the water with 

 hounds to be killed, ought to be satisfied with respectable 

 sheep hunting. Special. 



From Lake Erie. 



DUNKIRK, N. Y., Oct. 9,— A few days ago Frank 

 Meehan, while fishing about a mile off Point Gratiot, 

 in Lake Erie, caught a silver eel nearly 3ft. long. Squir- 

 rel hunting in the woods southeast of this place is un- 

 usually good this year, and large numbers of the frisky 

 tree Jumpers are being taken daily. A party of six 

 buffalo hunters got thirty-seven blacks and eight grays 

 in an afternoon's hunt recently. Dunkirk, although not 



a sportsman's paradise, can afl:ord very good sport in the 

 way of hunting and fishing. There is excellent black 

 bass fishing here and good hunting for squirrels, part- 

 ridges, rabbits, ducks and snipe. Large numbers of can- 

 vasbacks are shot here every fall. The fishing tugs very 

 often bring in hundreds of ducks which have been cap- 

 tured in the nets. They dive for the fish and get their 

 feet entangled in the meshes. Some of the tug owners 

 made a good thing of it last winter, as the ducks com- 

 manded a good price in the markets. P. S. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[From a Staff Correspondent.! 



OHiOAao, 111,, Oct. 11.— Attention has often been called 

 to the South as a game country. Under date of Oct. 9, 

 Mr. Jos. W. Irwin writes me from Little Rock, Ark., as 

 follows: 



I saw your notice about Mr, W. W. Carney, who is an intimate 

 f rieuri and sohoolmaie of miue, and has visited me bere since he 

 left Great Bend, Kas. He is a great fellow. I notice you have 

 frequent inquiries from gentlemen wanting shootiiig and fishing 

 in Arka-nsas. I can give a party of shooters for pleasure only fine 

 quail shooting right bere. and can send them from herein every 

 direction, where they can get deer, turkey and bear shooting, 

 within twelve to fifty miles from Little Rock. Fishing for bass, 

 p^ke and jack salmon is very fine and easily reached from here by 

 rail. 



I recently kll'ed a fine deer twelve miles out, and last reason I 

 bagged nearly 1,000 birds. Mallard shooting is also very fine here 

 in November, A friend and myself killed 80 in one and one-half 

 days last year, and 40 quail on the same day. 



Only gentlemen who want pleasure and sport need come, for 

 nur laws will not allow exporting game. I am well known in 

 Cnicago, by Ool. Felton, Ed Bingham, Charlie WilUrd. A. J. 

 Atwater, and others. . J. W. Irwin. 



'The Hell-Diver" 



Mr. Ben King, otherwise known as the Michigan Bard, 

 who has figured as a public attraction, I believe, in com- 

 bination with Mr. Nye and Mr. Burbank, has published a 

 poem under the title of "The Hell Diver," which reads 

 as follows; 



The lingering loon flies over the maisb, 



The night birds nestle in dew. 

 The river is cold and the wind is harsh; 



But what is that goes euh-choo? 

 Oh I what is that goes cub-choo, cuh-choo? 



Oh! what is that goes cuh-choo? 



The snipe shoots up from his lushy bed, 

 And wings toward the realms of blue. 



Wild lilies soak where the bullfrogs croak: 

 But what is that goes cuh-choo? 



Ohl what is that goes cuh-choo? 

 Oh I what is that goes cuh-choo? 



O'er the whispering reeds the rice hen speeds. 



And the meadowlark's singing anew. 

 And I know in the swale the song of the rail, 



But what is that goes cuh-choo? 

 Oh! what is that goes cuh-choo, cuh-choo? 



Oh! what is that goes cuh-choo? 



A lot of this realistic ruralistic "poetry" which nowa- 

 days is run in on a helpless public makes me plenty tired. 

 I don't mostly find loons lingering over marshes as much 

 as over open water, nor "night birds" nestling in the dew 

 so much as out of it, when they are not hustling rather 

 than nestling. There are only some days when the snipe 

 "wings toward the realms of blue," and on those days you 

 don't find snipe in a "lushy bed" so much as you do 

 toward the edge of the marsh, and certainly they don't 

 seek the realms of blue at the time the bullfrogs are 

 croaking. It is not my fortune to find rice hens and 

 meadowlarks very much together, and I don't remember 

 ever to have heard the "song" of the rail in the swale so 

 mvtch as in the plain marsh. Of course my experiences 

 may have been differentfrom those of the Michigan Bard, 

 Still, if he is so blame anxious to know what is that goes 

 mill choo, euh choo," I don't mind telling him that it isn't 

 a hell-diver. It's a man with a bad cold. If Mr. King 

 isn't afraid of taking a bad cold himself, it might be a 

 good thing for him to go out of doors a while before he 

 writes his next realistic, marshly, wetsome pome. 



Horicon Way. 



There is some talk that Mr. P. F. Stone will be invited 

 to take charge of the financial matters of the Horicon 

 Club, and handle its unsold memberships. Mr. Stone 

 made the Diana Club the financial success it is, and 

 should , the "upper club" intrust itself to his policy, he 

 would quickly build up an organization equally strong. 

 It is thought that many shares could readily be placed in 

 Chicago. 



Mr. C. B. Dicks left Tuesday for a week on Horicon 

 Marsh, Mr. Stone and probably eight or ten others go up 

 Friday. Granted a change from the present warm 

 weather, they may meet heavy shooting. 



The snipe are on this parallel. Our esteemed fellow 

 townsman, Italian Joe, bagged 47 one day this week near 

 Lemont, on the Des Plaines River, Charlie Antoine went 

 down with him to-day to Lemont for a try at the snipe. 

 .Joe has been killing a fair lot of golden plover in the past 

 few days. 



The season has been an unusually good one for wild- 

 fowl all over the West, though the main flight is proba- 

 bly not yet down. Snipe have almost certainly, and 

 ducks have very probably, worked back north a little this 

 week, as the weather has been very bright and warm. 

 The flight of the fowl is rarely straight on through from 

 north to south. 



-ftMr. Chas. Holden, with friends, has gone for a deer 

 hunt in Wisconsin. Is Dr. Thomas in the house? 



"Dr. Thomas, this is Mr. Fernandez, the Wisconsin 

 game warden; Mr. Fernandez, Dr. Thomas." 



Dr. Thomas— "Awl" 



Mr. Fernandez — "Aw!" 



Dr. Thomas— "Er—" 



Mr. Fernandez — "Er— " 



175 MONHOE St., Chicago. E. HoUGH, 



Game in the Hudson Valley. 



Hudson, N, Y., Oct. 10.— The season here for the 

 breeding of game birds has been good and more quail 

 have been hatched in this county this season than ever 

 before. No flight woodcock have reached us as yet and 

 but very few ducks have put in appearance on the river. 



H. 



An American Sportsman in the Alps. 



Few sporting gentlemen traveling in beautiful Tyrol 

 would think of lightening the monotony of the bad 

 weather experienced last week by making up a party for' 

 chamois shooting. The entire range of mountains sur- 

 rounding Innsbruck was covered with snow, and com-^ 

 petent hunters prophesied a certain amount of success. 

 The party consisted of Mr. Eiward H. Litchfield and son,, 

 of Brooklyn, Mr. C. Felix Zotti and eight beaters, and 

 started from the Hotel Tyrol, Innsbruck, on their difficult 

 enterprise, accompanied by the genial owner of the ex- 

 tensive shooting ground, Mr. Louis Hepperger, who, bye- 

 the-bye, has a cosy shooting box at the top of the Hallthol,: 

 replenished with the necessaries of life and very comfort- 

 able sleeping quarters. After six days absence the party 

 returned highly delighted with their successful trip, hav- 

 ing shot several head of chamois and some roebuck in the 

 forest below. Discomforts were naturally experienced, 

 especially in scaling the higher peaks, by the snow, 

 which fell continually for the first four days; but that 

 was well repaid by the extensive and glorious panorama 

 which was witnessed the last two days, and was seen at 

 its best. One could distinguish with ease twenty-six 

 villages in the Inn Valley. Mr. Edward H. Litchfield 

 and family, after having spent a thoroughly enjoyable 

 time in the Tyrol, start for Venice and the Italian Lakes," 

 pccompanied by their courier, Mr. C. Felix ZDtti. — 

 Galignani Messenger, Paris, Sept. 25. 



Some Boston Reports. 



Boston, Oct. 15.— Reports of good bags of quail, made 

 since the opening of the season, begin to come in. It is! 

 estimated that more than fifty quail were taken in the 

 vicinity of Reading on Saturday. Mr. E. M. Gillam, of 

 the Boston Advertiser, with his friend Mr. Reaser, witbi 

 the Walworth Manufacturing Co.. was out in Reading on 

 the second day after the open season. They took three 

 quail apiece, then a disagreeable rain set in, and they 

 gave up the sport, Mr. C. Z. Basset, of G, B, Appleton 

 & Co., with his friends, Mr. ThairlwalandDr. Langmaid,; 

 are having good sport with woodcock at their ranch in 

 New Hampshire, the name of which they keep to them- 

 selves. For several days Mr. Basset has taken eight and 

 ten woodcock a day, but very few partridges. Only now 

 and then a partridge is secured — not one to half a dozen 

 last year, and not more than one to a dozen woodcock. 



Special, 



Comparative Powder Tests. 



Red Bank, N. J,, Oct. 11.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I herewith hand you abstract from the powder test ini 

 Europe, as found by the commission appointed, takiogi 

 the best brand of black powder for a base: 

 Average 



gas pressure in Greatest Eveness at 

 atmospheres, variations, pressure, i 



F4?rp. blBck powder 473 24 (1 



42grs. Sehuhze 9il 3«5 3 



42gre. E. ( ? S60 323 1 



29grs. Walsrode ... 661 87 4 



The trials still continue, the powder being subjected to( 

 heat, dampness and low temperature, etc, etc. 



O. Hesse. 



An Ohio Close Season Suit. 



The suit in which Ed Roth, of the St. Nicholas Hotel,) 

 is being prosecuted for selling quail out of season, was 

 before Judge Svans yesterday on appeal from the judg-j 

 ment of 'Squire Tyrrell. The issue raised was as to the 

 constitutionality of the law under which the action waa 

 brought. Ju:dge Evans, as is customary in the lower, 

 courts, announced a pi'o/orma decision, holding that the 

 law is constitutional. Tbe case will now be taken to the 

 Circuit, and probably thence to the Supreme Court, in) 

 order that an authoritative decision upon the question 

 may be obtained.— Oinci7mati Commercial, Oct. 15. 



A Handsome Fish Piece. 



Messrs. Wm. W. Habt & Co., of 11 Jacob street, this 

 city, are mounting a muscalonge 4ft, 2in. long, and 

 weighing over SOlbs, It is a fine specimen, and as they 

 are exceptionally fine in fish mounting, it will be weill 

 worth a visit to" their place to see it when cohipleted^ 

 which will be in three weeks. 



Maine Moose. 



Will "Pair Play" send us his address? The article sent 

 cannot be printed unless its author is known to us. 



Mass. Fish and Game Protective Association. 



A BEGDLAE meeting of the Association will be held at 

 Young's Hotel, Boston, this evening. 



Hunting Boots. 



The hunting boots advertised by "Oammeyer" in our coluninB 

 are beauties and reasonable in price conside'ing the quality oti 

 mauufaoture. One is always sure to get a first-class article in 

 footwear when ordering from this house, and reader.s of FOEESi' 

 AND Stbbam should send for their catalogue, Avhich is mailed oh 

 request.— Acfij. 



Quail SHOOirisrG can be had anywhere within 10 miles of "Win- 

 ston, N. O. Heart of Piedmont section. In view of the Blue 

 Ridge. Four railroBds in four directions- Good country roads. 

 Twelve hours from Washington, double dailies. Tbe completest 

 110 roomed hotel in the South. Elevaiors, steam heat, electric 

 lights, cars. Ra^es moderate. Correspondence solicited. The 

 ZrNZENDORP, L, W. Sroville, Manager.— 4f7u. 



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