Mabch 30, 1898.1 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



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THE ADIRONDACK LEAGUE CLUB. 



The new club liouse of the Adirondack League Club, on 

 Little Moose Lake, Herkimer county, N. Y., has been fin- 

 ished a,t a cost of over $25,000. It is probably the most 

 complete and best appointed club home in the Adiron- 

 dack region, little Moose Lake, where it is situated, is 

 on the northern border of the club preserve, near First 

 Lake of the Fulton Chain, and is less than five miles from 

 the Fulton Chain station of the new Adirondack & St. 

 Lawrence Railroad. The club house will accommodate 

 over 100 people, and is tastefully as well as substantially 

 constructed. The pride of the architect is the great hall 

 in the center of the building, 50 X 35ft., at one end of 

 which is a huge fireplace, capable of burning logs 6ft. in 

 length. 



At the other or southern extremity of the j)reserve, 



The club has secured the introduction into the Legis- 

 lature of a bill removing the boujity on bears and placing 

 a bounty on foxes in the counties into Avhich its preserve 

 extends, it having become evident that the fox is the 

 deadly enemy of the rabbit and the partridge. 



Among the lakes lying wholly or partially on the pre- 

 serve of the Adirondack League Club are Honnedaga or 

 Jock's, North, Little Moose, Clear, Panther, Pico, South, 

 Little WoodhuU , Canachagala, Jones, Deer, Otter, Engin- 

 eer, Goose, Horn, Hardscrabble, Brook Trout, Spi-uce, 

 Cedar, Twin, Eock, Little Rock, Sampson, Whitney, Gull, 

 Jessups, Fawn, Fall, the West Canada Group^ Little 

 Salmon, Baby, Caswell, East, Deer and Lily, and in- 

 numerable smaller sheets. Waterways, navigable by 

 small craft, thread the forest in every direction. The 

 Lower Stillwater of West Canada Creek is navigable 

 within the preserve for six miles without a carry. 



THE "LOWER STILLWATER" (CELEBRATED TROUT STREAM). 



twenty-five miles away from "Mountain Lodge," as the 

 Moose Lake Club house is caUed, is "Forest Lodge," the 

 club's other house on Honnedaga Lake. This club house 

 has been in use by the members for the last two years and 

 accommodates about seventy-five people. It is also a 

 comfortable and well appointed house, and it is well liked 

 by the members, being centrally situated for the best fish- 

 ing waters of the whole Adirondack region. A. D. Bar- 

 ber is the steward and manager of the Forest Lodge, and 

 Capt. H. G. Otis of Mountain Lodge. Both club houses 

 wiU open to the members, their families and guests, on 

 May 1 next. 



Honnedaga, or "Jock's" Lake is six miles long and in 

 beauty compares favorably with any of the Adirondack 

 lakes, and in altitude exceeds them all, being 3,230ft. 

 above the level of the sea. Honnedaga is the Indian name 

 of the lake, signifying "clear water," so-caUed from the 

 remarkable clearness and pmity of the water. On many 

 old maps it is similarly designated as "Transparent Lake." 

 The club house on Honnedaga Lake is reached by a drive 

 of twenty-eight miles from Prospect station on both the 

 R., W. & 0. road and the new Webb road, or from the 

 station Honnedaga, on the Webb road. 



The _ preserve of the Adirondack League Club is a vast 

 tract in Hamilton and Herkimer counties, containing 

 about 175,000 acres, an area eight times as large as Man- 

 hattan Island, and much larger than Staten Island. From 

 its most westerly to its most easterly point is a distance of 

 forty miles, and from north to south over twenty-five 

 miles. It is practically a vhgin forest, magnificently 

 wooded, the merchantable timber being worth alone, on 

 the stump, according to the estimate of Prof essor Fernow, 

 of the United States. Forestry Bm-eau, over $1,000,000. 

 The club derives a revenue of $30,000 a year from the 

 removal of the spriice above twelve inches in diameter, 

 thus dispensing with all dues or assessments from the 

 members. In fact, but for the application of the surplus 

 revenue to internal improvements such as roads, or club 

 houses, a dividend might be declared on each member's 

 certificate. 



The finest hunting and fishing in the North Woods are 

 found inside the club's boundaries, the game being care- 

 fully protected and the fish each year propagated from 

 the club hatchery on Honnedaga Lake. There are at 

 least twenty-five good-sized lakes upon the preserve 

 besides the celebrated trout streams, the West Canada 

 Creek, Indian River, and the North and South Branches 

 of the ]\Ioose River. 



The Adhondack League Club has taken an advanced 

 •step in the Avay of protecting the fish and game within its 

 preserve, with a result that both are more numerous each 

 year. It prohibits entirely on its tract the inliutnan 

 practice of floating or jacking for deer and is also vigor- 

 ously pushing a bill introduced by it in the present Legis- 

 lature to prohibit such practices by State law. It has 

 also shortened the hounding season and is now taking 

 the vote of the members whether or not hounding shall 

 also be forbidden. Another of the club rules prohibits 

 the killing of does at any time. 



No fishing is allowed upon the club lands until May 1, 

 which postpones for fifteen days the legal season for 

 salmon trout and for thhty days the legal season for 

 speckled trout. The catch of each member is also re- 

 stricted to ten salmon trout and lolbs. of speckled trout 

 in any one day. 



Besides the deer the woods are full of other kinds of 

 game, including partridge, snipe, ducks and geese, squir- 

 rels, rabbits, mmk, otter and occaeionally a black bear. 



A topographical survey of the 104,000 acres of forest 

 owned by the club was made last year under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. B. E. Femow, chief of the Forestry Bureau, 

 by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sm-vey, and a map is 

 soon to be published giving valuable information as to the 

 topography of the preserve. 



Thei'e are 500 membership shares in the Adirondack 

 League, of which all but sixty are taken. Many of the 

 members hold more than one share each, so that there are 

 only 200 members. Each membershij) share entitles the 

 holder to one five-hundredth interest in all the club's real 



Dr. C. N. Hoagland, James Otis Hoyt, WiUiam Z. 

 Larned, Walter S. Logan, General G. H. McKib- 

 bin, Norton P. Otis, William D. Baldwin, Edward S. 

 Renwick, George H. Ripley, Jolm A. Rutherford, Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith, Arthur W. Soper, J. Walter Spalding, 

 Dr. Lucien C. Warner, R. F. Westcott, John N. A. Gris- 

 wold, George S. Graves, WiUiam P. HaU, Peter A. Hege- 

 man, Theodore M. Barnes, Thomas J. Davis, David Wolfe 

 Bishop, Wilham H. Boardman, Edmund Coffin, Jr., Wil- 

 liam G. De Witt, E. D. Griswold, Henry S. Harper, Mark 

 M, Pomeroy, Henry C. Squires, George A. Strong, 

 Nathaniel C. Fisher, John Greenough, Leonard F. Beck- 

 with and WiUiam H. Hinchman, of New York; Prof. B. 

 E. Fernow, Gardiner G. Hubbard and J. Walter Pilling, 

 of Washington; B. W. Arnold and Henry Patton, of Al- 

 bany; J. J, Albright, John Satterfield, Mills W. Parse, O. 

 L. Snyder, George V. Forman, Daniel H. McMillan and 

 Edmimd Hayes, of Bufl'alo; Charles Fleischman and Wil- 

 liam L. Hunt, of Cincinnati; Alexander R. Harper, of 

 Philadelphia; Hon. Henry Hitchcock, Judge George A. 

 MadiU, S. M. Dodd and Edward MalUnckrodt, of St. Louis; 

 Frank S. Weigley, of Chicago; John Ickler, of St. Paid, 

 and President James M. Taylor of Vassar College. 



The officers of the club are: President, M. W. Barse; 

 Vice-President, ex- Judge Henry E. Howland; Treasurer, 

 Ole L. Snyder; Secretary, Robert C. Alexander. The 

 other members of the Board of Trustees are A'. G. Mills, 

 Judge Warren Higley, Hon. AVarner Miller, Henry C. 

 Squires, Stanford White, Frederick G. Burnham, Dr. B, 

 E. Fernow and Alexander R. Harper, The office of the 

 club is at No. 203 Broadway. 



Wyoming County Association. 



It is well-known that within the borders of Wyoming 

 county are some of the best trout streams in New York 

 State, which are visited by sportsmen from different 

 localities, who are not in the least particular as to the 

 means used in catching fish. The streams are in conse- 

 quence becommg rapidly depleted, notwithstanding the 

 fact that great x^ains have been taken dm-ing the past ten 

 years to stock them. 



Our local sportsmen decided to put a stop to iUegal fish- 

 ing if possible, and caUed upon Mr. Frank Amsden of 

 Rochester, of the State Game and Fish Protective Associ- 

 ation, to assist in organizing a society in this couniy. A 

 meeting for this purpose was held Saturday, of which J. 

 A. McFarline was chairman and Henry R. Bristol secre- 

 tary. Mr. Amsden was present and explained the object 

 of the county associations and the benefits which resulted 

 from them. He said that the sti-eams were being depleted 

 and woods overshot, a.nd that citizens were powerless to 

 prevent this unless oi'ganized and united. He thought the 

 present law regarding fish and game was the best the 

 State ever had and that most of the violations were 

 the result of ignorance regarding its provisions. Mr. 

 Amsden said that the Fish Commission had refused 

 longer to plant fish in counties where there was no 

 organization, and the game laws were not enforced; 

 but that where societies were formed all possible assistance 

 would be furnished, and a special game protector ap- 

 pointed if it were deshed; that any violations of the law 

 were to be reported to Chief Game Protector Pond, at 

 Albany, who would at once take i^roper steps for the pro- 

 secution of ofi'enders. 



By a unanimous vote of the meeting it was then de- 

 cided to organize a Wyoming County Fish and Game 

 Protective Association. 



The following officers were elected: President, James 

 Raflerty, of Java; Vice-Presidents, A. C. McCaU, of Ar- 

 cade; Augustus Smith, of Attica; Grove Bamum, of 



DOWN FROM HEAD OF HONNEDAGA LAKE. 



estate and property, the right to hunt and fish upon the I Bennington; Henry Fuller, of Castile; Charles Crom-. 

 enthe preserve, the use of the club houses and facilities, well, of Covington; Frank H. Wilson, of Eagle; Dr. J. O. 

 and in addition a grant in fee of a five-acre plot, with j Randall, of GainesvUle; Gilbert Bishop, of Genesee Falls; 

 200ft. of water front, for a private camj) or cottage. ' Thomas H. Crahan, of Java; E. A. Durfee, of Mddle- 

 Many of these cottages have already been biult on Honne- ' bury; WiUiam Bauer, of OrangeviUe; MUo H. OUn, of 

 daga or Moose lakes, where the private holdings have so Perry; G. S. Van Gorder, of Pike; Heniy Leroux, of 

 far mostly been taken. The shares, originaUy|l, 000 each, i Shpldnn? .Tsjvps Tf Smith r,f Wsai-acw Tiia^rir,.-Q tti-.-k_ 

 are now sold for $1,200 each. 



Among the members are the Rev, Drs. Geo. Alexander. 

 John R, Paxton, John C. Bhss, Wm. Irvin, PhUip Schaff 

 and Chas. A. Stoddard, of New York; A. V. V. Raymond, 

 of Albany; Timothy G. Darling, of Auburn, and Samuel 

 J. Niccolls, of St. Louis; Warner MiUer, Wm. Brookfield, 

 John H. Starin, Henry E. Howland. Warren Higley, A. 

 G. JliUs, Wayland Trask, Stanford White, John M. 

 Toucey, G^n. Samuel Thomas, Spencer Aldrich, Clarence 

 Andrews, Justus L. Bulkley, Dr. Martin Burke, Prescott 

 HaU Butler, Geo. G. DeWitt, John T. Lockman, Geo. W. 

 Dillingham, Devereux Emmet, Chas. A. Flammer, Ulys- 

 ses S. Grant, Jr., W. F. Havemeyer, A. Foster Higgins, 



Sheldon; Javes R. Smith, of Warsaw; Theodore Hub- 

 bard, of Wethersfield; Secretary and Treasurer, Henry 

 R. IJristol, of Warsaw; Executive Committee, Mr, 

 Rafterty, Dr. G. R. Traver, of Perry; M, N. Cole, of 

 CastUe; N. S. Wells, of Warsaw; C. D. Wing, of Attica; 

 Norman R. Howes, of Eagle; OrtavUle Howes, of Middle- 

 bury. — Warsaw {N. Y.) Times. 



It Teaches Them All. 



"Ip the Senator will turn his attention to the Forest and Stream, a 

 paper which I have talieu for many years and read with great pleas- 

 ure, he will find that there is complaint made all the time that this 

 will destroy the game."— Senafor Teller's speech in the U. S. Senate 

 March U, Congressional Record, p. S590, 



