Deo. 1, 1892.] 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



469 



The people are just beginning to recognize that if fish 

 and game are to be perpetuated in this State the season 

 of fishing and shooting must be limited to a short season 

 so that the fish and birds may breed and increase in num- 

 bers. 



As to the use of nets in the Seneca River, in Seneca, 

 Wayne and Cayuga counties. No nets undtrany pre- 

 tente whatever ought to be allowed in the fresh-water 

 fcti earns, lalres or rivers in this State. 



Black Fiiver Fish and Came Protective Assoc'n. 



W. E. Walcott, of Utica — It is sorae: twenty years 

 since I first visited the Adirondscks, but since then T 

 have been there two, three and even four times a year, 

 I am a member of the i31ack River Club, so I fe( I some- 

 what qualified to speak on this subject. A great deal 

 has been said about the wildernesses of thp Adirondacks 

 as a fishing and hunting resort. It is actually becoming 

 a more popular resort every year. The lumber companies, 

 pulp mills and saw mills are devastating the wilderness, 

 and to a degree which is appalling to the lover of the 

 woods. A century will be needed to replace the timber 

 when it has once been removed, i fllr. Walcott read from 

 an advance proof his report on Adirondack deer written 

 for FoEEST AND STREAM, and printed to-day,J 



Caledonia Rod and Cun Club. 



James Anntn, Jr. — I am sent here by our club to speak 

 . more especially on the rabbit question. The rabbits in 

 otir section are unprotected. We have some birds left 

 and some rabbits, but the law has no closed season on 

 rabbits. The majority of our birds are killed by the pot- 

 hunter and mostly by fellows who are out shooting 

 rabbits tiuring the winter, when they come i cross the 

 partridges. For my part, I should like to see the rabbit 

 I beason open and close with the partridge. The old law 

 uatd to allow it to run on another month after the par- 

 tridge season was closed. There is more shooting in the 

 month of January than before. We see a gang of fellows 

 out shooting all through the month of January. 



I Special Legislation. 



\ Secretary Doyle, of the Fish Commission — ^Regarding 

 i fhis amendment permitting the setting of nets in Seneca 

 River, it was placed in the bill through the personal 

 solicitation of Senator Hunter, of that district, and the 

 only way in which we can hope to remedy the matter is 

 through'Senator Hunter, as he will again be in the Legis- 

 lature the ccBring season. In relation to the law which 

 permits the using of batteries in Sodus Bay, I would say 

 that this amendment was obtained through the personal 

 solicitation of Senator Richardson, The only way to 

 remedy these matters is through the personal work of the 

 members with the gentlemen who have secured the 

 amendments of the bill. 



TENNESSEE IS WAKING UP. 



Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 19. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: Tennessee sportsmen are waking up to the 

 importance of protecting fish and gani". 



The Chattanooga Fish and Game Protective Associa- 

 tion has been formed, and at the first meeting fifty-two 

 prominent citizens were enrolled as members. 



This is the outcome of a series of articles in the Chat- 

 tanooga Times, supplemented by strong editorials, call- 

 ing attention to the prevalence of the nefarious and per- 

 nicious habit of netting quail and the general non-ob- 

 seivance of the close seasons. 



Live birds have been shipped by thousands from this 

 section, and the consequence is that they have now 

 become scarce. Certain unscrupulous dealers when 

 caught with live birds in their possession evade the law 

 by proving, at least to their own satisfaction, that the 

 birds were caught in Ceorgia. 



It is a well-known fact that many of these birds are 

 used in the field trials at various points, and Tennessee 

 f-portsmen are utterly disgusted, to put it mildly, at those 

 so-called sportsmen who advertise for live birds, as they 

 must know the result of netting in any section. 



The new bill will strike directly at the root of the evil, 

 and it will in future be an expensive matter for any 

 person, express company or railway, to have live birds in 

 iheir possession at any time. 



The new organization proposes to form a combination 

 of ten or twelve counties, to revise the law of trespass, 

 and put forward a dog tax law, to make dogs "property" 

 in the eyes of the law, to secure much needed legislation 

 regarding the close seasons, killing and selling of fish and 

 game, and for other purposes. 



At an election of oflicers F. I. Stone was made Presi- 

 dent, Robert Pritchard Vice-President, and F. H. Wood- 

 worth Secretary and Treasurer. 



The great interest manifested in the movement is made 

 apparent by the number of members enrolled at the first 

 meeting. At the next meeting the membership will be 

 greatly increased and surrounding towns and cities will 

 be represented. Tennessee sportsmen intend to preserve 

 the fish and game and are going the right away to work 

 to do it. D. G. Charles. 



Tennessee Fish and Game Interests. 



[ Here are some good words by the editor of the Dayton, 



Tenn., Leader: 

 \ "It has probably not cc^curred to many of our readers 

 ' that our game and fish are rapidly becoming a thing of 

 the past. If there is not something done, nnd that quick- 

 ly, in the way of lawmaking protecting both our game 

 and fish, they will be exterminated. In the way of a fish 

 law, all netting regardless of mesh or kinds of fish caught, 

 and all gigging and seining, except for bait, must be abol- 

 ished. The law against uaing explosives in fishing must 

 he enforced. In fact fishing must be limited to hook and 

 line only. When this kmd of a law is passed and rigidly 

 enforced — say with, a fine of |100 for each offence, one- 

 half to go to the prosecutor — our fish will naturally re- 

 plenish, and a good daj's fishing witli hook and line will 

 a.gain be within our reach. 



•'Game must be still more protected. Our deer are al- 

 ! most extinct now and they ought to be given a five years' 

 I r£St — with a Aery large fine for killing or having in pos- 

 session, either dead or alive, within this period. Wild 

 turkeys would get along very well with spring and sum- 

 mer protection. Dacks shou'd not be shot between the 

 months of January and November. Ruifed grouse 

 (pheasants) should be protected ten tnontba in the yea!\ 



The quail is our main stay. Its flesh fairly rivals the 

 woodcock and its pursuit with gun and dog is the finest 

 sport we have; but it too, with all of its cunning and 

 thrifty habits, is becoming scarce. Protect the quail, 

 gentlemen of the legislature, whatever you do. G.ve it 

 protection from the net, and the small boy's trap, the 

 whole year around and only allow it to be fairly shot dur- 

 ing the months of November and December of each year. 

 ]^,ke it $100 fine to break the law, and one-half to the in- 

 former, and we will have a game law that is of some 

 value." 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[Bu a Staff Correspondent.'] 



ChioAGO, Nov. 31.— Of course everybody has a notion 

 that he knows where cj[uail are thicker than they are any- 

 where else. Several of us were speaking in this wise last 

 night. Mr. Leo HamUne thought there were more quail 

 at Beeville, Texas, than any place else on earth. "You 

 can shoot a week on one hillfcide there," said he, "and 

 when you quit there'll be more quail there than when you 

 started." Mr. Hamline was abked to explain this, but 

 was lost in the general dit cussion. A bystander remarked 

 that he knew a place where there were a good many 

 quail. "Of course," said he, "I don't know whether they 

 are as thick as they are at Bee\^ille or not, but there were 

 a good many, I went out on a farm to shoot a little 

 while, and unhitched my horioe to put it up in the barn, 

 but the horse stepped on and killed seven quail while I 

 was leading him over. That was before I got to shooting 

 at all. Say, 1 had " 



I don't see why it is that some folks love to pervert the 

 truth. 



The Quail's Retained Scent. 

 My friend, Mr. Donald, relates to me a singular inci- 

 dent about the apparent faculty possessed by the quail of 

 retaining the scent. "1 was sitting on a log," said he, 

 "and my good dog was lying beside me, when my friends 

 put up a bunch of birds -some distance further on in the 

 wood. They flew straight toward me, and one lit on a 

 heap of dry leaves not lOft. from me, and hardly that 

 far from the dog. I and the dog were not moving at the 

 time, and the dog did not see the bird alight. Tne quail 

 lay there flat on the leaves, with his wings stretched 

 wide out. It had not been shot at at all, but it lay there 

 with its wings wide open. Its little bead-like eye was 

 fixed straight on mine, and it saw me well enough, but 

 never moved a feather. I just concluded I would watch 

 and see what would happen. I think we all sat there for 

 five or maybe ten minutes, and the dog never paid the 

 least attention to the quail, which lay within 10ft. of him. 

 It was a still day, no wind erne way or the other. I pre- 

 sume such a situation would not occur again in a thou- 

 sand years. Certainly the dog never got the scent of 

 that (xuail, I could hardly find the bird again after I 

 turned my head for a moment, it lay so still, spread out 

 on the leaves. At length I put it up and missed it, which 

 also might not happen again in a thousand years, of 

 course. You never saw such a surprised dog as that one, 

 when the tiuail got up under his nose. This explained to 

 me much of the mysterious disappearance of scattered 

 quail. You can't see them; no dog can scent them until 

 after they begin to move again. My dog had a good 

 nose, and I had killed plenty of quail over his points that 

 same day." 



Bird dogs are in demand now, and about now almost 

 every Cnicago shooter resolves that he would keep a dog, 

 if it wasn't so much bother and expense, ' I've got three 

 dogs," said one gentleman the other evening, discussing 

 this question; "one is down in Indiana, and two are at 

 Corpus Chrisli, Texas. It's cheaper to go down to Corpus 

 Cnristi to your dog than it is to keep a dog in Chicago.'' 



"I think," said Billy, meditatively, "that the best sort 

 of a dog for city use would be a cold-storage dog, one 

 that you could freeze up when you got through using 

 him, and take out again when you next needed him. 

 You wouldn't have to feed that kind of a dog, and I 

 don't know as you'd have to tip a baggage car man any- 

 thing for carrying him. I don't know of any trafi^lc regu- 

 ulation on a froze dog, do you, and say, they couldn't col- 

 lect city license on an apparent corpse in a freezer, could 

 they ? Y'ou can keep bait that way , and I don't see why 

 it wouldn't be a good idea with a dog. Say, once I 

 had — " 



Saved by His Decoys. 



The first cold wave caught the late mallard shooters 

 who were winding up the season on Horicon marsh, and 

 came near leaving a fatality to mark the annals of that 

 club. Maj. Hanley, one of the membere, had up with 

 him a friend, Mr. R. M. Rogers, of this citj, who went 

 out on the marsh without a pusher. In the evening Mr, 

 Rogers found himself in that part of the marsh known 

 as the "Second channel," only a half mile or so from the 

 club house, and in full sight of it. The storm came from 

 the north, and the wind was so strong that, work as he 

 might, Mr. Rogers could not push his boat up against it. 

 He could have drifted ahead of the wind down to the dam, 

 or indeed, clear into Horicon town, but this for some 

 reason he did not wish or was unable to undertake. 

 Night came on and found him on the marsh, and there 

 he stayed till morning, ice forming in the mean time an 

 inch thick. This was an experience just short of Mr. 

 R. B. Organ's terrible experience one night last year on 

 a Minnesota lake. Mr. Rogers had with him two live 

 duck decoys, and to these attributes his delivery. He 

 buttoned both ducks up tight under his coat, and their 

 warmth helped him out amazingly. This is the most 

 novel foot- warmer and pocket stove yet on record, and 

 the facts should raise live decoys in the estimation of 

 those hunters who go on wild grounds in wintry weather. 

 Mr. Rogers is of a romantic turn of mind, and they do 

 say it is a good thing to hear him tell the story of his 

 night on the marsh. 



"So long as the moon was up," said he, "I got along, for 

 the moon sort of looked like a fire, though not a v ery 

 warm one; but when the moon sank, and I bade farewell 

 to her silvern disk passing behind the distant ridge of 

 hills, my heart sank also in my bosom. I hugged my 

 ducks convulsively to my bosom tUl they so^uawked in 

 sympathy, and a tear stood in my eye. It stood thero 

 till morning, because it was froze on. Meantime I could 

 see the gleaming light from the club house window, and 

 could picture forth the ecene of revelry within. Every 

 time I thought of that I hugged the ducks again. 1 would 

 have been veiy lonesome without the ducks, but my ex- 



perience teaches me that four would have been better 

 than two." 



It is a remarkably easy thing to get lost on a marsh 

 after dark, especially when the channels are involved 

 and obscure as they are on this one. How interminably 

 long the hours must seem to a man unsheltered, in an 

 open boat, and with the chill of the blood which follows 

 evening and the cooling down after a day with gun or 

 paddle, is something, I presume, on which no one can 

 speak who has not gone through the unwelcome ex- 

 perience. Mr. Rogers is to be congratulated upon his 



resence of mind, and also upon the presence of his live 



ucks. 



Singularly enough, as 1 write the above there lies before 

 me the newspaper account of an incident similar in some 

 respects and more serious. In the blizzard which raged 

 in Idaho last Monday, Utile Nellie Logan, of Hillside, 

 only six years old, was lost while on the way to school. 

 Search parties were out for three days. They found 

 Nellie's dog, a terrier, frozen stifl:. Yesterday they found 

 the child in a sheep sheoi, nestled down among the sheep, 

 whose warmth had saved her life through all the cold of 

 the long days and nights. 



By the way, speaking of Mr. Holden reminds one that 

 that gentleman is a persecuted man, and the scape goat 

 for the sins of others. Some time ago the compiler of a 

 sportsman's guide wrote in to find out the name of the 

 secretary of the Chicago Shooting Club, and some one, 

 probably the real secretary, replied, giving Mr, Holden's 

 name and address. Since then Mr. Holden has been re- 

 ceiving all sorts of literature through the mails, running 

 from a request for the names and addresses of all the 

 club members to a proposition to acquire an ownership in 

 a setter pup. "This thing has got to stop," said he the 

 other morning, excitedly, "or I'm liable to have to move. 

 The house is beginning to think I don't do, and never did 

 anything but shoot, or monkey around in this shooting 

 business. Now, I'm noteecretaiy of this blank club at all, 

 and T onlv wish I could catch the fellow who said I was." 

 Nevertheless this did not prevent his receiving the follow- 

 ing letter, which I hope will be given literatim : 



Hahlan, Iowa. Oct. 22. — Mr. Geo. Holden: Dear Str— Last 

 spring I got in New Orleans, two black, white face, riustail 

 rannkeys, and aft-f>r 1 got throufrh advertising with rhem, IsoJd 

 ttiem to Kev. J. H. HumniPrt, ot Earling, la. Now be wants to sell 

 them, ihf y are coal blHCk except under the chin, and white faces. 

 Write him and teJl him wbatjou will give him for ih«m. They 

 are a fine pair, or were when I let them go. Please write him at 

 OBce. \ ours truly, W. W. Wheeler. 



"Now, what do you think of thai ?" said Mr. Holden, 

 brandishing this epistle. Wants me to buy two ring- 

 tailed monkeys, whether I want 'em or not! I ain't lost 

 no monkeys, never heard of these monkeys, don't want no 

 monkeys, never said a word to anybody about buying no 

 monkeys, and what's more, I'm not going to buy any 

 either. I think it's pretty near the last straw, that's what 

 I think, when a fellow that ain't secretary gets held up to 

 buy two ring-tailed monkeys with white faces, just be- 

 cause he is secretary, when he isn't. T want it stopped, 

 that's al. !" 



Death in the Field. 



On Nov. 11 Richard Perkins, while hunting west of 

 Chelsea, Wis. , ran into a set-gun and was shot by it. 

 When the help party got to him he was dead and frozen 

 stiff. A hunter living in a shanty near by set out the 

 gun. He decamped, and was pursued hotly at last ac- 

 counts. 



The despatches of this morning contain the following 

 brief chronicle of still another sad incident in the hunt- 

 ing field : "Wert Sut^ERiOR,Wis,, Nov. 18.— Henry Hauga, 

 a Superior jeweler, was shot and instantly killed last 

 night by Frederick Rasmesseu while hunting near Ded- 

 ham. The coroner's jury this afternoon rendered a ver- 

 dict of accidental death. Just a year ago Boyd Stiffler 

 was kilUfl within a few rods of the place under similar 

 circumstances." 



Some Animals. 



Some time ago "Jim Corbett," one of the sea lions of 

 Lincoln Park, this city, escaped and made his way to 

 Lake Michigan. Later he made his appearance at Jones's 

 Island, near Milwaukee, about eighty miles from Chi- 

 cago. A party of Milwaukee newspaper men tried in 

 vain this week to capture Jim with a lariat. 



An African lion broke out of its cage in the winter 

 quarters of the W. B. Reynolds circus at Rockford, 111., 

 on Nov, 16, and killed a Shetland pony before it could be 

 secured and caged again, 



R. A, Turtle has in his shop for mounting two bald 

 eagles, both killed within a couple of weeks and within a 

 short distance of Chicago. One was shot by Sam Booth 

 in the sand hills near Grand Calumet Cliib, below the 

 city. The other was killed by an employe of the water 

 works at Evanston, on the lake shore north of town. This 

 bird was seen crossing the lake, working its way against 

 the wind at the time of the heavy storm, was two hours 

 going apparently a couple of miles. It was much ex- 

 hausted and was easily killed after it had lit in a tree 

 near the water. On examination of this bird a singular 

 state of afliairs was disclosed. Its feet, thighs, neck and 

 throat were found stuck full of porcupine quills. The 

 roof of the mouth and the throat were ulcerated from the 

 long preserce of the quills, and the bird was in anything 

 but an enviable condition. This is the only instance of 

 the kind of which I ever heard, 



E. Houcm. 



173 MoNeoE S'XREET, Chicago. 



The Sodus Bay Batteries. 



It has come to the knowledge of a local sportsman that 

 just at the close of the last session of the Legislature last 

 spring an amendment was slyly put into the game laws 

 of the vState pprmitting the killing of duck by battery in 

 Sodus Bay. The only pleasant phase of this abominable 

 provision is that it applies only to the waters of Sodus 

 Bay, for the reason that nowhere else in the State could 

 people be found who were willing to ask for or consent to 

 such a privilege. People living in that vicinity, as well 

 as real sportsmen all over the State, are very greatly in- 

 censed, and call loudly for the repeal of this obnoxious 

 provision. What adds to the anger of the people in Sodus 

 and vicinity is the statement made with the apparent 

 force of truth, that an oflicial of the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road is responsible for this unsportsmanlike and disgrace- 

 ful provision being upon our statute books merely to 

 gratify the one official who chances to have a cottage on 

 the bay. — Ruchester Union ^ Nov, go. 



