Nov. 3, 1892.] 



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summer of some sucli locality but it has skipped my 

 memory. I can't recall where I saw the article. What 

 can you recommend? P. S. Will Dr. Thomas ever pay 

 his deer fint? Conscience ia a great thing." 



A stranger in iSForth Carolina would be ilkely to meet 

 with trouble from the l^'armers' Alliance, under whose 

 workings much of the land there is ported. If Mr. Eddy 

 could be present at the Eastern field trials at High Point 

 in November, or the Central trials at Lexington in De- 

 cember, he could get much better information than is 

 possible from this point. Tbe gentlemen there would di- 

 rect him and help him, I think. If Mr. Eddy would 

 write to Mr. Geo. Leach, High Point, N. C, his letter 

 would dou!)tle8s receive courteous attention. As to the 

 article on North Carolina I cannot say, unless it was one 

 of those written by Mr. Chas, Hallock. Toe latter gen- 

 tleman knows much of that country, and a letter in care 

 of FoHEST AND Stbeam would And him. 



From New Mexico. 

 Mr. W. F. White, general traffic manager of the Atchi- 

 son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, in company with a 

 .oOcal. Winchester express and a few friend?, started 

 some time ago on a hunting and fishing trip in New Mex- 

 ico. Their car is expected back within a week and should 

 bring a pleasant story with it from that old land of 

 dreams and deer and pleasant days. E. Hough. 



175 MoNHOE Stbeex, Chicago. 



GAME IN PORTLAND, OREGON. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



We of "the wild and woolly West" find a grim sort of 

 pleasure in teasing our Eastern friends a little now and 

 then. 



While they can boast population, wealth, refinement 

 and superior advantages in many respects, we can "sass" 

 them back about ducks, deer, elk, trout and Mongolian 

 l^heasants. 



But you must understand that Portland is no cross- 

 roads. It is a city of nearly a hundred thousand inhab- 

 itants, including Mongolians, but nevertheless it is some- 

 what wild if not woolly. 



Last year three deer were killed within the corporate 

 limits. 



A week ago to-day Al Guist and a friend bagged four 

 dozen jacksnipe within the corporate limits, which, con- 

 sidering the fact that our city is compactly built and 

 without those "wildcat" additions that make so many 

 Western cities geographically extensive, must be re- 

 garded as rather good work with the shotgun and re- 

 triever. 



To-day Al, M. F. Sloan and myself started out about 

 A\ o'clock to give our dogs a little exercise and a swim 

 in the Willamette. Al and Sloan took their guns along 

 simply to encourage the dogs, while I carried my cane 

 for tiie same purpose. We were gone less than two 

 hours. Al bagged three Mongolians and a rufied grouse 

 with his little No. 16. while Mr. Sloan knocked down a 

 brace of handsome Chinamen, all within SOOyds. of the 

 North Portland public school house where a dozen or 

 more instructors daily teach "the young idea how to 

 shoot," and as Brother Sloan remarked, "where we had 

 to turn the corners of the blocks to avoid running over 

 the houses." 



Then the boys took a turn along the edge of Guild's 

 Lake and secured a half dozen snipe. 



The ordinance prohibiting the discharge of firearms 

 within the city limits was badly shaken if not actually 

 broken, for the manufacturing portion of the city was 

 still beyond us. 



Besides giving the dogs necessary exercise we gave 

 ourselves a nice game dinner you see; but as the dogs 

 worked well and the boys lost no birds, readers of the 

 ■Forest and Stream need not go to the shool house yard 

 for any big bags until its forests are restocked. 



S. H. Greene. 



Oct. 33,1S98. 



LONG ISLAND QUAIL. 



Oakdale, L. I., Oct. 29.— For the two dreary months 

 to come we can while away many pleasant hours on the 

 golden stubbles throwing shot after these little streaks 

 of brown. The outlook for quail shooting this fall is 

 very encouraging. Never before have the birds been 

 protected as now. Twenty thousand acres of land in 

 this vicinity have been leased by clubs and private j)ar- 

 ties and stocked at great expense. Poaching, trespass- 

 ing, snaring and trapping, shooting in the close season 

 and shooting on the Sabbath are things of tbe past. 

 Game constables, well paid, are scattered all over this 

 portion of Suffolk county and all the railroad depots are 

 being watched night and day. 



All law-abiding sportsmen are under deep obligations 

 to Mr, H. B. HoUins and members of the South^Side 

 Sportsmen's Club for their untiring energy and [Perse- 

 verance for this great change in the right direction. And 

 they are all waiting patiently for Tuesday, Nov. 1, to 

 reap the reward of their labors. 



It will be interesting to know who will have top bag on 

 that day and how many shells it will take to bring the 

 birds to bag. Alfred A. Fraser. 



A NEW HAMPSHIRE BEAR POCKET. 



Lanca-STjbr, N. H,, Oct. 23.— If any of your readers 

 think they have lost a bear it might be well for them to 

 pxamine the country hereabouts, for there seems to be a 

 large and varied stock to select from. During the past 

 ten days four have been killed here within five or six 

 miles of our village. The largest one, brought in to-day 

 by Victor Leavitt, weighed 3151bs. and yesterday the 

 same party brought in a smaller one, the weight of which 

 [ have not at hand. I reckon Mr. Levitt has a bear 

 ''pocket" located. Personally, I would not object to 

 being in one of Mr. Hough's "pockets" alohg with the 

 quail and chickens he tells of, but when it comes to 

 bemg in such a confined space with a 315-pound bear I 

 think I would rather not be "in it." 



I think the reason of their unusual boldness ia due to 

 the scarcity of nuts in the woods, and they come more 

 into the open in quest of food ; gathering apples from a 

 farmer's orchard without first obtaining permission was 

 ihi« cau>'e of the downfall of t^o of the above mentioned. 



P'iars are not uncomniou in this section: hardly a 

 eeason passes that several are not taken in .lefferson and 



Whitefield, adjoining towns, and o£ late they seem to be 

 on the increase. 



I heard a farmer from the eastern part of our town 

 remark to-day that he had given up sheep raising in dis- 

 gust, as the bears killed enough each year to knock out 

 all the profit. 



Meanwhile, we shall endeavor to hold this invasion of 

 "b'ar" in check, but if matters become serious I shall 

 call on the readers of Forest and Stream for assistance. 



EoB. 



INDIANA SMALL GAME. 



Fremont, Ind., Oct. Yi— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I notice your Chicago correspondent in his article of Oct. 

 8 speaks of thousands of quail in Indiana. I am very 

 sorry to say that in Steuben county or this part of it, 

 quail are not as plenty as they were last season.' Wet 

 weather, I think, killed most of the early birds. There 

 are a good many late hatched that are just able to fly. 

 Woodcock have been more plenty this year than they 

 have been for five years. While hunting woodcock this 

 fall I have seen but few partridges; they were all old 

 birds Squirrels plenty, mostly fox squirrels. Chickens 

 and ducks are almost a thing of the past with us. Mae. 



Vallonia, Jackson county, Ind., Oct. 21. — The copy of 

 the Game La/irs In Brief has come to hand. Both my 

 brother and myself think it a valuable little pamphlet. 

 It gives all particulars as compact as in a nutshell, and 

 we think the illustrations are excellent, so life-like. We 

 need a good rain here before tjuail bunting can be very 

 good. We were out once, but it being so hot and dry we 

 did but little shooting, in fact, got disgusted with the 

 liunt, and the guns and dogs will rest until the weather 

 is more favorable. J . T. 



THE CINCINNATI QUAIL CASE. 



Fish a^<d Game Coivniissioisr.— Cincinnati, Oct. 39. — 

 Editor Forest and Stream: In answer to yours just re- 

 ceived making inquiries in reference to the recent quail 

 case in our city, bpg to say that Mr. Roth, proprietor of 

 the St. Nicholas Hotel, had been looked upan here as one 

 of the most persistent violators of the game law. He 

 seems to have taken the position that it was a great hard- 

 ship that he could not serve game in and out of season as 

 he saw fit. The case was tried by one of our magistrates 

 who found Mr. Both guilty and assessed a fine, and as 

 our magistrates in cases of the violation of the game law 

 have final jurisdiction the case could only be taken up on 

 error, The case will now go to the General Term, and if 

 that court sustains the courts below we presume Mr, 

 Eoth will want to try the Supreme Court of the State of 

 Ohio, and we sincerely trust the Supreme Court will sus- 

 tain our law, which will not only require Mr, Roth to 

 pay fine and costs, but he will have a very heavy attor- 

 ney bill to pay, as he has one of our best legal firms in 

 the city to defend him. The final disposition of the case 

 will be looked forward to with a great deal of interest, 

 .John H Law, Fish and Game Com. 



What He Was Going To Do. 



Capon Iron Works, W. Ya., Oct. 9, — Here I am away 

 out in the wilds of West Virginia, roaming the mountains 

 and enjoying the magnificent scenery, fine air and new 

 experiences. I shoot a sc^uirrel now and then, or catch a 

 bass in Capon River, and have had one snap shot at a 

 turkey in the brush, but failed to score, though feathers 

 flew. Am going to slaughter both deer and turkey this 

 week, or — make a desperate attempt. — O. O. S, 



What He Did Do. 



Newtown, Pa,, Oct. 17.™I am now at liome once 

 more, safe arrival from "cohn pone," fried chicken and 

 biscuit. As far as big gauie is concerned, the hunt was 

 a fizzle. We were not in it. 1 knew it was too early to 

 do good work, but ray friend could not go later, so we 

 made the best of a bad matter. But in other respects we 

 enjoyed the trip very much. The scenery just now 

 among the AUeghenies is just simply indescribably goi'- 

 geous. Nowhere else can such a gorgeous picture be 

 witnessed. That whole billowy Appalachian upheaval is 

 one mass of color on a scale so grand and beautiful that 

 it takes a man's breath away and leaves him speechless. 

 — O. O. S. 



Deer Plenty in Vermont. 



The train hands of the through freight from St. Albans, 

 arriving at Rutland about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, 

 met with a peculiar experience at Pittsford, about eight 

 miles north of Rutland. It was in finding a young deer 

 entangled in a wire fence by the side of the railroad 

 tracks. They stopped the train to extricate the animal 

 and found it to be a young buck about two years old, fat 

 and sleek. The animal was unharmed, and was taken 

 into the "caboose" and carried to Rutland, where it at- 

 tracted a great deal of attention. Gen. Ripley, who is 

 interested in the game laws of the State, ordered the 

 animal returned to where it was found and allowed to go 

 its way. It has become a common thing to find deer 

 roaming about the hills in the vicinity of Rutland, and 

 as the State laws are quite severe in the matter they are 

 seldom molested. A few years ago several animals were 

 turned out on those hills for the purpose of propagation , 

 and there are daily evidences that the experiment will 

 prove successful. — Springfield. Republican. 



Oregon Duck Shooting. 



PortIjAND, Ore., Oct. 2o — L'lst Sunday, the 23d inst., 

 W. A. Story, H. H. Beal, Fred Beal and Wm. Greenwald 

 at Cline Lake, thirteen miles b:-low Portland, in five 

 hours killed 316 ducks. Of these 156 were mallards and 

 the balance mostly widgeon. The shoot was made with 

 600 shells, as the boys did not anticipate any such a 

 chance. Is not this a remarkable shoot 'i 



S. H. Greene. 



A Maine Moose Case. 



If the writer, who signs his communication "Fairplay," 

 will send us his name or afford us means to verify the 

 statements contained in his letter of Oct, 17 relative to a 

 Brooklyn millionaire's unlawful moose killing in Maine, 

 we will be obliged, 



Pennsylvania Game. 



TiTUSViLLE, Pa., Oct. 16,— Birds are very scarce this 

 fall in this vicinity, owing to the havoc created in the 

 nesting season by the cold weather and prolonged rains 

 of this spring, culminating in^he terrible flood that de- 

 stroyed 63 lives and a million dollars in j)roperty in this 

 unfortunate city early in June. Among the birds the 

 woodcock have naturally been the chief sufferers. 



Three of us in a hard day's gunning over a large stretch 

 of territory, with three accomplished setters, were so 

 fortunate as to bag 6 grouse and a woodcock on the open- 

 ing'day, Oct. 1. Only 3 grouse beside these were found. 

 On another day later, Owe and Greely B,, two of the 

 smoothest shots in this part of the State, and myself 

 killed 3 woodcock only after another day's exertions. 



Many grouse were last winter picked up frozen stiff, 

 "being previously weakened by hunger. It almost seems 

 like murder to cut down the survivors this fall, they have 

 had so much to contend with. C. F. E. 



MiraoY, Pa., Oct. 31. — There was some duck shooting 

 on Muncy Dam yesterday. Several black ducks were 

 seen, but the sport was interrupted by rising wind. At 

 this season after a storm thei-e is fair sport. 



Bass fishing is fairly at an end, though only a week ago 

 twenty were caught by two gentlemen who knew where 

 to find them. Few large fish have been caught. The 

 average weight is less than a pound for the season. They 

 were fairly plenty. 



A few days ago fourteen quail were seen running about 

 the streets of Muncy, 



In the mountains ruffed grouse are reported plenty, 

 but very shy. Squirrel shooting has not been up to the 

 average. 



There are yet in our streams some things that ought to 

 be inspected by our fish warden. Several suspicious con- 

 structions were seen not long ago in Loyalsock Creek. 



Deer are reported plentier than formerly near English 

 Centre, Pa. M. E. -J. 



News from the Sag;inaw Crowd. 



Dawson, N. D., Oct. 17.— Had good sport in the Bad 

 Lands— 7 deer, 1 antelope. Here we have not done 

 much, as it has been warm and the geese have not come 

 down yet, though we have killed about 100. The duck 

 shooting is good. W. B. M. 



VIEWS OF THE ROBIN. 



Mamy robins have been killed in New Yoric State this year, 

 altboixgli the law forbids it. There has been a great slaughter of 

 the birds ou Long Island and on Staten Island. Rev. Thomas 

 Dixon, -Jr., of this city, was flned by a Staten Island nistice last; 

 week for killing robins. When interviewed by the reporters Mr, 

 Dixon gave on t, this statement for tbe press: 



I have just returned from a PeuTisylvauia hunting trip and on 

 the train read the reports of mv alleged killing of song birds on 

 Staten Island. These reports, particularly those fathered by tbe. 

 United Press are mostly melodramatic tlction and my alleged 

 utterances a pure invention. 



The facts are as follows: 1 have not felt well of late, and have 

 been compelled to take as much outdoor exercise as possible. 

 Tuesday noon I went over to Staten Island to my eld home, to 

 practice wing shooting before taking a hunt for ru ff ed grouse and 

 woodcock in Pennsylvania, which I had planned, .and from which 

 I have ,iust returned \vith a good scoi-e. I practiced on sparrows 

 and rooiii^, supposing them both pests, f killed thirty-one of 

 these birds in three hours' practice. Mr. Liak arrested me for 

 killing "song birds." This arrest was made with moat feverish 

 haste and brutality. He was trembling from head to foot with 

 the excited instincts of a vulture, thinking of his possible share of 

 the spoil?, and when I askfd him for his authority, he drew his 

 club from beneath his cloak and rusning at me tried to push me 

 down withont the slightest provocation. I called a carriage and 

 drove to .lustice Acker's house. The birds were counted and the 

 fine paid, Mr. Lisk solemnly swcar'ng for the sake of $10 that four 

 common sparrows were thrushes! I did not remain in the .Jus- 

 tice's private olH.ce more than five minutes, and not one syllable 

 of the alleged conversation took i^laee. 



In my opinion it would be most unseemly foi' a preacher or any- 

 body else to kill a song bird. But this is tbe iirst intimation I 

 have ever received that a robin is a song bird. It was, of course, 

 a valuable pie-^e of information. At least, 1 paid 1165 for it. In 

 my native South the robin, so far from being considered a song 

 bird, ia regarded as a disreputable, gluttonrus pest. On Staten 

 Island, however, he has been deified, in my soul I am sorry for 

 the people whose stock of song is so low as to prize as divine the 

 cry of the robin. I repent in ashes. I would not knowingly ruffle 

 the feelings of a savage by taking the brass ornaments from his 

 nose, for he doubtless thinks tbem beautiful. 



Still, I cannot help marveling at the keenness of ear of the 

 law-maker who first discovered music in a robin. That man, in 

 my opinion, should have a medal, f hope the G-ame Commis- 

 sioners will take a part of my tine to start the itind. The man 

 who can discover mtisic in the cry of a robin could donbthss find 

 a symx)hony of Beethoven in the movements of a sand fiddler if 

 given encouragement; and I doubt not that such a man would 

 i^uccepd at last in locating the "lost chord" in the bray of an 

 ass. Genius should be encouraged. 



For the next few days I shall devote myself strictly to tiger 

 hunting, and if as successful as with robins I'll not complain at 

 the expenses. Thomas Dixon. ,Tb, 



New York. Oct. 28. 



The following note on the "Ciobin North ani South was 

 printed in the Anduhoyi Mcmazim and ia reprinted as timely and 

 illuminative: 



A New York correspondent who has been traveling in Virginia, 

 exnresses surprise at finding the robin there esteemed ovlv as an 

 article of food. Strange as this mav have appeared to him, it 

 must be remembered that the robin is looked upon very differ- 

 ently in the North and in the South, and this is because the biid 

 itself and its associations are ''hanged. The robin of the South is 

 by no means the robin of the North; there is almost as conipU-te 

 a transformation as that of the bobolink of Northern meadows 

 into the rice bird of Southern fields. 



In the North the robin is a domestic bird; it nests contidingly 

 in the lilacs by tbe porch, is busy all day long in the yard and 

 fields about the house, and at sunset sounds its cheery call from 

 the topmost bough of the pear tree. From its first comiug as one 

 of the heralds of the glad springtime, and through the summer, it 

 is a familiar and cherished part of the outdoor surroundings of 

 every coitntry home; of all birds it holds first place in the affec- 

 tions of old and young; and when the country boy goes to the city 

 and grows up amid brick-walled streets, he always sees the home 

 pair of robins in the picture of the little white farmhouse, which 

 memory so often recalls. 



But summer ended, over the robin comes a change; be tor^eta 

 his song, leaves his haunts in the dooryards, grows wild and shy, 

 shuns mankind, and takes to the woods and swamp". Then going 

 South, the birds gather in flocks, and lose the individuality which 

 ha« sn much to do with making them recognized and welcome in 

 the North. They are no longer domes'ic in their ways, and there 

 are no tender associations to protect them and stay the hand of 

 the gunner. The mockingbird, not the robin, is tbe home bird of 

 the Sonth. Perhaps if the mockingbird, leaving his music and 

 his manners at home, should betake himself to the North, with 

 companions in flock, all plump and delicious for a potpie, I c 

 might fare no better than the robin at the South: and then the 

 traveler from Virginia or Georgia or Florida, encountering mock- 

 ingbirds on New York hotel tsblep, would have good ground to 

 suggest, as our correspondent does, that the residents of one sec- 

 tion of the countrv should spare the birds dear to the people of 

 another section. When the Audubon Society shall have accom- 

 plished its mission, all useful and beautiful birds will be pro- 

 tected everywhere, and like all citizens of a common country 

 eti joy secuvity and immtir;ity when they take a notion to travt 1 



