Aug. 19, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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THE ADIRONDACK LEAGUE'S HUNT. 



The first annual deer hunt of the Adirondack League 

 Club will be held duriag the last week in September, 

 beginning on Monday, Sept. 25, and ending Saturday, 

 Sept. 30. Mr. A. D. Barber, manager of the Forest Lodge 

 club house, wiU be the master of the hunt, assisted by the 

 managers of the other two club lodges. The occasion 

 will be one of the greatest interest, even to non-partici- 

 pants in the hunt, and special arrangements Avill be made 

 at all the club lodges for the accommodation of members. 



The preserve of the club, embracing as it does over 

 200,000 acres of primeval forest, and protected, as it has 

 been for three years, by the enforcement of the game 

 laws and the stricter club regulations, has become prob- 

 ably the finest deer park in the country, as well as the 

 largest. Probably at no time in twenty years have the 

 deer been so numerous as now on the League's preserve. 

 A clerical member of the club reports having seen five in 

 an hour's trout fishing on Lime Kiln Creek, near Little 

 Moose Lake, one noble buck refusing to leave the water 

 until literally soared away by shouts and cries. 



The League has enforced on its preserve regulations 

 much more strict than the provisions of the game law. 

 For instance, it prohibits entirely jacking or floating, and 

 earnestly endeavored last winter to secure the enactment 

 of a law prohibiting it throughout the Adirondacks. It 

 also forbids the killing of does, and in the club hunt it is 

 probable that a rule will be made that bucks shall not be 

 killed when swimming in the water, thus giving the 

 animal a reasonable chance of escape. 



In this connection is given a photograph of a buck 

 swimming for his hfe in Little Moose Lake. Seldom, if 

 ever, has a photographer secured such a shot as this. 

 Mr. George H. Johnson, of Bridgeport, Conn., a member 

 of the Adirondack League Club, drove over twenty bucks 

 to water before he secured an ex- 

 posure to his satisfaction, and this is 

 the result of his perseverance. 



It is the intention to start the 

 hounds in the mountains to the east- 

 erly side of the preserve, the partici- 

 pants in the hunt being stationed at 

 the various runways and watch 

 points where the deer would be most 

 likely to come within the huntsman's 

 range. AppUcations for assignment, 

 or for the entry of private hounds, 

 should be made to Mr. Barber, at 

 the Forest Lodge (Honnedaga, Herk- 

 imer comity, N. Y.) at least a Aveek 

 before the beginning of the hunt. 



The Adirondack League Club is the 

 largest and most prosperous of the 

 Adirondack proprietary clubs. It 

 has over 200 members, each one of 

 whom has a proprietary interest of 

 one-five-hundredth of all the club 

 property for each membership share 

 he holds; the property being esti- 

 mated at $1,200,000. The club owns 

 104,000 acres in Herkimer and Ham- 

 ilton counties, from which it derives 

 an income of $30,000 a year, thvis ob- 

 viating any annual dues or assess- 

 ments on the members. The mem- 

 bership shares are now sold at $1,200 

 each. 



There are three handsome and 

 well-equipped club houses, the most 

 recent. Mountain Lodge, having 

 recently been completed at a cost 

 of $80,000. Bisby Lodge, on First 

 Bisby Lake, was acquired by the 

 League on the consolidation with 

 it last May of the old established 

 Bisby Club. Forest Lodge, on Honnedaga Lake, is the 

 oldest and best known of tlie club lodges. Besides this 

 chain of club houses, which extend for twenty-five miles 

 through the preserve, there are numerous club camps 

 scattered through the preserve at the most popular fish- 

 ing and hunting resorts. 



socks, then moccasins, then overshoes, then lace leggings, 

 then a light duck hunting coat. When daylight came I 

 started for a mountain to the north with the intention of 

 being back by noon. 



I walked pretty Uvely until I got to the base of the first 

 hills, where there is good hunting grotmd, and soon I 

 struck a very fresh track, which I followed for a short 

 distance and determined it was the trail of a buck. I 

 passed on, for I have no use for a buck this time of the 

 year. I had not gone far when I struck another fresh 

 track, which I also knew from its size was that a buck. 

 This I left. Then I crossed through a fir flat, the wind 

 coming from my right and the snow falling fast. 



I had crossed the flat, and was nearing the base of the 

 last mountain, when my dog Frank struck a scent; and 

 from his actions I knew that it was either a hot track 

 near by or a deer not very far off. I followed him very 

 carefully and thoroughly looked the ground over. We 

 had gone about 200yds. when I saw a deer's head. The 

 deer was lying down, and had not yet seen me. I care- 

 fully measured the distance with my eyes, pronounced it 

 135yds. or so close to it that if I raised my peep sight to 

 three notches and did not dodge or wiggle just before I 

 shot, I could kill that deer dead in its bed. I raised my 

 rifle and could see the deer's head through the aperture 

 disc very plainly; after holding on for a second or two 

 I fired. The deer stretched out in its bed. I expected to 

 see another one or two get up but it was alone; it was 

 very fat. I hung it up out of the reach of the coyotes. 

 As I hang a deer up differently from any one I have ever 

 been out with, it might interest some of your numerous 

 readers to know how. For a small deer, anything under 

 801bs., I take a stick 9 or 10ft. long, place one end near a 

 tree, and the other end in the neck, where I cut the wind 

 pipe off from the tongue, then I up-end it. The deer will 

 hang straight; the birds can't peck out the hams; its hair 



SHOT IN LITTLE MOOSE LAKE ^WITH A KODAK. 



By Geo. H. JohDson, A, L. C. 



turns off the storm and rain; and it looks nice when you 

 drag it in on the snow. 



We started back with the storm, intending to follow 

 down the gulch that puts into Mill Creek about one mile 

 below the miU. 



A COLD WEATHER STORY FOR AUGUST 

 READING. 



Ix was in December. I had been sitting by the table 

 reading Forest and Stream, and after reading "Cumber- 

 land's" experience about our down grade from forty, I 

 laid down the paper, took my glasses off, and as I laid 

 them on the table noticed another pair I had discarded 

 only a few days before. They had grown too young for 

 my eyes, at least, I had to hold the paper too far from me, 

 and then I had to get a pair two numbers stronger. I 

 took a look in the glass. Sure enough, instead of being 

 gray, my hah is almost white. Yet I could not expect it 

 to be otherwise, for I have passed fifty-three of old Father 

 Time's milestones, and am rapidly approaching the fifty- 

 fourth. While I know I have crossed the summit and am 

 a long way down on the opposite side, yet my love for 

 sport has not even passed the summit, and i^robably never 

 will, 



I opened the door and looked out. It was snowing. 

 The ground was white, and from the general outlook 

 there was going to be a snowstorm. After getting a 

 breath of the storm I again seated myself, picked up the 

 paper and read until I was aroused by the clock striking 

 9. I laid away my paper and went to bed, but before 

 going to sleep I made up my mind that to-morrow I would 

 go and try an experiment — I would see if I could find a 

 deer and kill one if found. With this determination I 

 fell asleep and was lost to all cares until I heard the clock 

 strike one stroke. As the clock sti'ikes the half-hom-s I 

 could not teU which one it was, but one thing I was sure 

 of, I was not going to lie in bed and risk staying awake 

 until the clock should strike again. I jumped up, lit a 

 match and saw that it was half-past 4, a very good time 

 to get up. After making a rousing fii-e in both stoves, I 

 took a peep out to see liow things looked. The snow was 

 about -lin., weather mild, stfll snowing. 



"Well," I thought, "if I do not kill a deer to-day I 

 might as well dispose of my little .44 and confine the rest 

 of my hunting to the scatter-gim." 



After breakfast came the question of foot-gear. The 

 snow was too shallow and moist for moccasins, and boots 

 would be too heavy and alick; so I put on two pairs of 



I had not gone far when I saw where a 

 deer had been running; it had got scent of me and cared 

 nothing about sight. I follow on down the gulch, which 

 at some seasons is a great place for deer to feed and lie, 

 but I did not see a track until I had got within a hundred 

 yards of the mill creek canon ; here I saw where two had 

 come up out of the canon and had kept up towai-d the 

 mill. I followed them a short distance when I thought 

 I saw a deer lying under a fir tree not more than 60yds. 

 away . I stepped back a few steps to see if I could get 

 a better sight of it, when up jumped two and bounded off 

 d©wn into the canon. That disturbed me but very little, 

 for the canon here was very steep and from 400 to 500 

 yards across. I stood still and began to turn up my 

 peep-sight for 400yds. , as that was the point at which "l 

 thought they would first come in sight. After waiting a 

 little while one stepped out and stood broadside, and I 

 raised my rifle and fired. At the crack of the rifle the 

 deer gave a big jump and went into a small tlucket and 

 stopped; I did not see the other, it kept down along the 

 creek in the brush. After waiting a little while I moved 

 down the brmk of the canon and soon could see the one 

 I had shot at standing in the brush humped up. I knew 

 then I had shot it too far back. I shot again, when out 

 it went and started up the hiU. I shot a number of 

 times but could not get the right elevation. Pretty soon 

 I saw the other come out of the brush lower down and 

 go quartering up toward the woimded one, which was 

 near the top of the liill. 



I went up to the house, got my dinner and waited 

 until 3 o'clock, then I went down on the opposite side of 

 the caiion to where the deer came up the hfll. Here I 

 found some blood. I followed on and looked the groxmd 

 over well; and soon saw the wounded deer lying in a 

 small canon about 400yds. away. I slipped back and went 

 down a small gulch, and soon saw I could get no nearer, 

 so I raised my rifle and shot at her head and struck her 

 in the ear. She straightened out. I then looked for the 

 other one to get up, but it did not. I went back up the 

 gulch a short distance and went around to where I could 

 have a better view of the httle caiaon in which the deer 

 was lying, and soon I spotted the little fellow lying in the 

 brush. I shot at its neck, as there was some brush between 

 me and its head, and broke its neck. I went down, 

 dragged the httle one near the old doe and hung them up 

 high, thinking it might be four or five days before I should 

 drag them in. 



I had shot the old doe through the middle. The bullet 

 had torn her Uver very badly, yet she had traveled nearly 

 one mile; and had I kept on after her she could have 

 traveled for five miles. When I wound a deer, unless it 

 is getting very late in the day, I do not follow them for a 

 few hours, but give them time to get weak and to quit 

 watching on their back track; it always pays. 



Lew WiiiMOT. 



Loosiis, Wash. 



SPORTSMEN AND FARMERS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



As you well know, anything pertaining to the preser- 

 vation or protection of our game birds or fishes is of 

 more than passing interest to me, I cannot refrain from 

 penning a few lines thanking you for your views as ex- 

 pressed from time to time in your editorials. It has been 

 my constant aim and desu-e to bring about a mutual good 

 feeling between the sportsman and the farmer, believing, 

 as I do, without a proper understanding between them 

 the protection of our game and enforcement of laws be- 

 comes a difiScult task. We in America are fortunate in 

 having as a class sportsmen who are generally enhght- 

 ened and reasonable men, who, while they go to forests, 

 field, and streams in quest of game, always find pleasure 

 in such surroimdtngs as nature gives. These very sm-- 

 roundings tend to keep their heart in the right place and 

 perpetuate a fellow feeling always conducive to good. 

 As a rule they respect their neighbors' rights and property, 

 whether it be in city or country. Should they be the so- 

 called city sportsmen, they are as loth to injure the farm- 

 er's crops, fences, or other j)ossessions as the farmer 

 would be to commit a depredation were he in the city. 

 We all know full well when on pleasure bent there goes" a 

 certain amount of license, still the sportsman rarely ever 

 takes the benefit of it. The nature of his pleasure or 

 sport requiring coolness and con- 

 sideration, he is careful to do no 

 wrong. 



This fact I find is becoming bet- 

 ter understood by the farmer, who 

 himself begins to take an interest in 

 preserving the game hi close season. 

 Where I am now summering, not 

 fifty miles from a large city, several 

 of the farmers, to oblige me_, had 

 their field hands plant stakes in the 

 growing grain near partridge (quail) 

 nests as a warning to drivers of reap- 

 ing machines not to disturb the nests. 

 This I think they wfll do again, as 

 some of them, though men well ad- 

 vanced in years and rusty with the 

 gun, take quite an interest in the 

 occasional target matches I give them , 

 which tends to make them proficient 

 wing shots, and engenders a spirit 

 of friendly rivalrj'-. With such in- 

 terest once aroused, I am satisfied 

 will come their attention to the pro- 

 tection of game. 



We want more farmer sportsmen, 

 and should do all in our power to 

 secure their help and cooperation. 

 By placing FOREST AND Stream and 

 similar papers in their hands much 

 good can be accomphshed. I send 

 my papers to a certain Grange in this 

 State, and am told they show almost 

 as much thumb marking as the agri- 

 cultural sheets. 



I appeal to the sportsmen generally 

 to pay Tnore attention to the farmer, 

 use yom- persuasive powers and get 

 him interested in this matter so dear 

 to us. Once have him espouse the 

 cause, our Legislature will not only grant om- request 

 for good game laws, but what is better stiU, the far- 

 mer will help us see that they are enforced. This 

 once accomplished, greater still will be the pleasures of a 

 day's outing with rod or gun. The suggestion I make, if 

 worth working upon, would entaO neither great expense 

 nor labor, and should soon show results. Of course we 

 must expect occasionally to come across a flinty feUow, 

 headstrong and obstinate, who sees no good in game laws, 

 beheves in trapping and snaring game, and takes pleasure 

 in ordering you off his few poor acres. Brother, pass 

 him by with sorrowing contempt, he's unworthy of your 

 notice, and fortunately such are few and far between; he 

 has not the respect of the community in which he Uvea, 

 and is no more to be likened to the average farmer than 

 the market-gunner or pot-hunter is to yourself. I have 

 enjoyed many pleasant trips afield in the Eastern, Middle 

 and Southern States, rarely ever receiving other than 

 courteous treatment at the hands of the farmers of whom 

 as a class I think more than well. Moifnt Eoyall, 



Criticised the Alligator. 



An amusing incident occurred on Main street one day 

 last week in front of the aquarium in the window of E. 

 P. Wonson's lunch room and cigar store. Three yoimg 

 ladies, one from New York, the other from Kansas and 

 the third from Florida, were interested spectators of the 

 yoimg alligator, which, as immovable as the sphinx, lay 

 on the window ledge basking in the sun. 



After watching the saurian for some minutes the young 

 lady from the South spoke up, saying: ' 'The man who 

 stuffed that alligator did not know his business. Why, I 

 have seen thousands of alligators, and none of them in 

 hfe ever carry their tail or curve their leg in that ridicu- 

 lous fashion." 



Just "then the aUigator gave a quiver, opened his capa- 

 cious jaws, snapped at a fly, and as he slid into his tank 

 the young lady from Kansas is quite positive he winked 

 an eye. The young lady from Florida subsided. — Glouces- 

 ter (Mass.) Daily Times. 



Lake Grove Club. 



The Lake Grove Gun Club, of Suffolk coimty, L. I., 

 has been incorporated. The ti-ustees for the fi^rst year are 

 William Imhauser and John E. Rayner, of Ronkonkoma, 

 and Daniel B. Hawkins and Henry L. Gould, of Lake 

 Grove, L. I. The club intends to maintain a hrmting and 

 fisliing preserve and also to enforce the game and fish 

 laws, 



