Oct. 28, 1893.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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on the eand, and we all went aboard the launch and 

 turned toward the Warren Eiver. Here we had good 

 sport, Dan retrieving his old time "style" by a double on 

 a black duck and a big white fellow that no one could tell 

 the name of. 



It began to grow late and the water was giving out, so 

 turning' toward the Point we obtained a supply and 

 steamed home. 



Lots of fun. a fair bag and — good day, brothers. 



TODE. 



OCTOBER IN NEW ENGLAND. 



The most beautiful October weather has fallen to tbe 

 lot of the hunter who is so fortunate as to have been ia the 

 woods. Not a drop of rain has fallen in New England 

 since the 6th, and then only a mild diuzzle. The trees 

 have shed their coat of leaves unusually early, and in the 

 mild mid-Indian summer air the himteris abroad. If we 

 read the Sunday papers, we shall be led to believe that the 

 woods are literaUy running over with game, all eager to 

 be killed. There is no such thing as disappointment, 

 according to these papers. Not a spot or place is men- 

 tioned where there is not an abundance of game, and if 

 the himter does not get it, it is because he is no hunter. 

 Such twaddle! No one at all famiUar with the woods and 

 accustomed to the uncertainties and the disappointments 

 that beset the pathway of the man who goes forth after 

 game, would write it. 



In spite of these articles, I am aware that there are a 

 number of sadly disappointed Boston gunners, who have 

 been to a good deal of expense for hunting trips already 

 this fall. Were it not that they do not care to have their 

 misfortunes mentioned, some racy reading might be 

 made. Some of them have met drunken guides and even 

 dnmken camp owners, and have had the only few days' 

 outing they get for the year spoiled by this drunkenness. 

 Mr. Charles H. Cook, with the dry goods house of Bliss, 

 Fabyan & Co. , can teU a doleful story of this drunken- 

 ness, and there is nothing but Sir. Cook's kindness of 

 heart that prevents the name of the camp where he 

 went being published in full. He does not desire to hurt 

 the reputation of a weU-known Maine hunting and fish- 

 ing resort, though he f oimd a bad state of affairs there. 

 The wife of the proprietor is working hke a slave, and 

 has been since early in the spring, and her husband is 

 drinking shamefully. On the way to the camp the stage 

 driver told Mr. Cook and his friend that if they 

 were out of rum up there, the hunters would have 

 a good time, but if the proprietor and others were 

 on a drunk, they would have a hard time and 

 get no game. Alas! They found the worst to be 

 the fact. The j)roprietor was the worse for Uquor. 

 Their guide was drtmk, and kept so for several days. 

 When asked to go out and hunt, he would say that he 

 would do so, but on attempting to start he would suddenly 

 declare that he would not go, and again fall back to his 

 cups. At last the htmters were discouraged and dis- 

 gusted. They applied to the wife of the camp proprietor, 

 apparently about the only sober person about tlie premises. 

 She tried to get a man to go out with the hunters and 

 show them to a pond some distance away, where they 

 hoped to get a deer. She found a wood chopper who 

 would go. He showed them the pond. Got into the 

 boat in order to paddle them across. He proved to be so 

 much the worse for Uquor that he upset the boat, to the 

 extent that he fell into the water, and the hunters had to 

 pull him out and do all they could for him in order that 

 he might not get chilled to death. They had to lay in the 

 woods that night, the wood chopper being unfit to show 

 them the way back to camp. Tueu' trip ended in misfor- 

 tune, as it had begun. They got no game, though the 

 only man responsible for their troubles did apologize to 

 them on their way out, after charging them full rates at 

 his camps. 



Mr. W. H. Fisher, another favorite in the Boston dry 

 goods trade, and who shot the great moose in Maine last 

 year, an account of which was in the Forest and Strea-M, 

 has returned from his trip to the Katahdin Iron Works 

 region. But he got no big game tliis year. The falling 

 leaves were too thick. Mr. W, B. Hastings has retm-ned 

 from the Megantic Club preserve with his three deer. 

 Report says that he could have shot as many more. SIi-. 

 John Bartleman, of Boston, who has spent several sum- 

 mers with his mother at the Mountain View House at 

 Rangeley Lake, has shot a deer this season at Kennebago. 

 A letter from Mr. PhilUps, superintendent of the Megantic 

 Club preserve, mentions ten deer already killed there this 

 season. Peter Jones, of Boston, is back from his hunting 

 trip to Tim Ponds, in Maine. He brings home a deer. 

 One moose was seen. He reports seeing the head of a 

 moose that weighed over 501bs. being brought out from 

 that section by a guide. The name of the sportsman who 

 killed the animal he did not leai-n. Dr.' W. G. Kendall 

 has returned from the Megantic Club preserve with his 

 full complement of three deer. He is a member of that 

 club and also of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protec- 

 tive Association. 



As already mentioned, the record of big game kiUed in 

 Maine this season is something for that State to be proud 

 of. More than a dozen deer have already been brought 

 over the Sandy River Railroad, with two or three moose. 

 At Bangor the record is a most remarkable one, and ex- 

 ceeds anything ever dreamed of. Venison is very cheap 

 in all the Maine markets. It is a little singular that it 

 has not yet reached the Boston market. Doubtless it wiU 

 soon begiu to be smuggled through. Partridges are com- 

 ing through to some extent. A deer has recently been 

 shot by local hunters at Webster, Me. , a town a few miles 

 below Lewiston, There were three in the herd and the 

 buck was shot. A deer has not been killed in that town 

 probably for fifty years previous. A handsome doe is also 

 reported to have been shot in China, Me., a to%vn not far 

 from Augusta, the State capital. The hunters of Maine 

 are actually wild after the big game. Every man and 

 boy has his gun, and he proposes to use it. The presence 

 of deer in the settled farming towns, and near the cities 

 has excited tliem. The trade in guns and rifles should be 

 excellent. 



Even Massachusetts hunters are fond of inviting their 

 friends to share the sport in some cover they have kept in 

 mind ail summer, but have not dared to mention, ilr. 

 John A. Falconer of Lowell, of the firm of S.W. Falconer 

 ■& Sons, and always one of the Harry Moore party to the 

 trout lakes in the spring, last week invited his friends to 

 help him hunt a section in Lowell where he believed that 

 ihere must be a good nuiny birds. Harry Moore was there, 



as ready for a joke as ever, and also Sir. Ethan Allen 

 Smith, another member of the spring fishing parties. Mr. 

 Geo. C. Moore, Harry's cousin, who is always on hand, 

 was also with the party. Mr. Falconer had a fine, new 

 setter, and all expected rare sport. They hunted a swamp 

 some four miles from the home of Mr. Falconer, but in 

 that very swamp Mr. Falconer, leaving the rest of the 

 party for a moment, got turned around and finally wan- 

 dered back to his first starting point, after he began to be 

 aware that he did not know where was, anyway. Arormd 

 he went, always coming back to the same point. At last 

 he sat down to coUect his senses. Then he heard a railway 

 train and made a beeltne for it. This was taking him di- 

 rectly from home, but it gave him his bearings and he 

 trudged two or three miles home, where he met the rest 

 of the hunting party a good deal anxious about him. It 

 was 6 o'clock in the evening and they had begun prepara- 

 tions to raise a posse of men and search the woods. 



Cases are numerous in the newspapers concerning the 

 number of hunters that have been lost in the woods this 

 fall. One man wandered miles and miles, in the vicinity 

 of the Katahdin Iron Works, and it was a couple of days 

 before he was found by his companions. He was ex- 

 hausted, too lame to walk and had to be carried out of 

 the woods. Money would not tempt him to go through 

 another experience of the kind. One little rule is of great 

 advantage for the hunter to stick in his hat. First, never 

 suffer yourself to stray away alone. Secondly, if you 

 have been so foolish as to stray away from the rest of the 

 party and are lost, always remember that water runs 

 down hiU, Then the first running water you come to 

 follow it down stream. Continue this and you are sure 

 to come to your bearings or a large body of water, the 

 lake or river of that part of the country, and once there 

 you will find it easy to reach camp, or find other people 

 who can take you there. When the sun is shining the 

 direction can always be known by calculating the time of 

 day. Always carry a compass, and in trying it take it 

 away from the infiuence of your gun barrels. Special. 



MICHIGAN GAME AND FISH. 



LANSINa, Oct. 20, — Shooting and fishing on Grand River 

 and Pine Lake is excellent. Pension Examiner Maxwell 

 takes his tackle and boat about 4 o'clock most every after- 

 noon, and after being out a couple of hours shows up with 

 half a dozen fine bass of from 2 to 61bs. each. Maxwell is 

 a great fisherman and he knows all there is to the busi- 

 ness. He makes his own rods and tackle, and he has as 

 fine an outfit as can be found in Michigan, and with aU 

 due respect to our good friend Herb, of the Bailey House, 

 Ionia, we just think that Maxwell takes the cake. I don't 

 want to whisijer too loud about the matter, for if I do, A. 

 H. Whitehead, the champion of Pine Lake, jiLst walks 

 me up to his friend Charlie Davis, and points with pride 

 and keen deUght to an Sjlbs. bass that hangs suspended 

 over the mantel in Mr. Davis's dining room. I do not 

 want to take it aU back, so I just say, well, there is a pair 

 of them, anyway. 



At the Whitehead cottage, on Old Comfort Island, Mr, 

 Farrand and Mr. Whitehead took thirty dozen frogs one 

 day last week, and on Saturday last, in one of the most 

 severe storms that has visited Michigan in years, Mr. 

 Whitehead, Mr. Shank and Mr. Robinson shot eighty-one 

 ducks, mostly lesser bluebills, with a few helldivers and 

 three or four velvet scoters that chanced to be caught 

 away from home. 



Pap Fillmore is authority for the statement that while 

 fishing at Oar Lake one day last week, one of the boys left 

 his hue for a few moments, and when he returned and 

 hauled in the line he found a pike that weighed S^lbs. , 

 and a blue gill that weighed 1+lbs. , had taken the bait: 

 but the funny thing of it was that the blue gill had taken 

 the bait first, and then the pike had swallowed the blue 

 giU, which made a veiy interesting combination. 



Mr, E, Jemison, one of the best shots in Michigan, shot an 

 albino robin on the college grounds a few days ago, and 

 the robin is now in the hands of Mr. C. J. Davis, for 

 mounting. By the way. Mi'. Davis has one of the finest 

 collections of birds and animals in the State, and some 

 day when opportunity presents I will tell you something 

 of it. 



Mr, S. T, Smith, of Detroit, is taking in the big Fair, 

 but he has telegraphed that he leaves to-night for Aber- 

 deen, Dakota, for a chicken hunt. If there is a man on 

 earth who is entitled to a good thing, it is Mr, Smith, and 

 we hope he will get it. 



"Diamond Walt," of Exeter, Neb., in Forest and 

 Stream, of Oct. 7, gives us lots of light on the shooting 

 ability of the .22 short rifle, but he is a dandy, and his 

 rifle is a good one. I can take it all in but the penetra- 

 tion, and it does go a little hard to get that part of it 

 down nicely. Yesterday I shot a yellowhammer with 

 my .22-45, and thei-e was not enough of the bird left to 

 pick up, so I am prepared to believe that if my 45 had 

 bored its way through an antelope as it did the bird , the 

 antelope would have dropped on the spot. I can't quarrel 

 with Walt about the .22cal. rifle, for I do think it is a 

 very excellent gun, and I am going to test the gun thor- 

 oughly when I hare time. 



Grouse and quail are nearly ripe, and Nov. 1 will see 

 the dance open in Michigan. Birds are scarce comjiared 

 with what we had two or three years ago, and it will be 

 hard work to get even a fair bag. 



Senator Pascoe, of Republic Mine, Lake Superior, was 

 in town last week. The Senator is one of the early 

 pioneers of the great mining country. He is now retired 

 from active service, \)ut as a reward for faithful services 

 his pay is to continue during his Ufe time. He lives at 

 the Mine, but his principal business is trout fishing and 

 entertaining his many friends. He has enjoyed the past 

 season greatly and reports that the fishing gets better 

 eveiy year. He has taken over oOO trout this season. 



Senator Chamberhn, of Iron Mountain, also reports that 

 trout fishing is excellent. The hard times in the mining 

 country has driven lots of imemployed men to the trout 

 streams and.a great many trout have been taken. I told 

 the Senator of the great yarn told by J. B. C, of Ashland, 

 in Forest and Stream, of Sep. 9, and his experience at 

 Thousand Island Lake, and his reply was that the atmos- 

 phere of that northern country was so rare that fishermen 

 had no difficulty in getting aU the big fish that they 

 wanted— inj their minds. I thought that explained the 

 situation exactly. 



The people of" Grand Rapids are having quite an excite- 

 ment over the pearl fishing in Grand River. A lai-ge 

 number of pearls have been taken from the fresh water 



bivalve, which is so common in the river. Hundreds of 

 people are constantly wading the stream, and raking the 

 bottom, searching for the hidden treasures. Several fine 

 pearls have been found, but they are of little value gener- 

 ally. 



Sir. C. J. Davis, of Lansing, has succeeded in getting a 

 copy of the elephant edition of Audubon's great work. 

 It is a work of great value, and very few are fortunate 

 enough to own the work. 



Mr. J. W. Teevin, of the City Marshal's oflSce, Grand 

 Rapids, was in town a few days last week. Mr. Teevin is 

 a member of the Jolly Eleven Boat Club. They have a 

 nice boat house at North Park, and one of the finest Uttle 

 steamers on the river. The club has been in camp this 

 summer at Bailey Park, about four miles up the river, and 

 they have had a great time. Fishing, boating and camp- 

 ing out is the object of the club and they follow out the 

 constitution to the letter. 



Mr. Perry, the Pontiac beagle man, also spent a day 

 with us, and we enjoyed his visit hugely. We are going 

 to visit ]VIr. Perry at bis home and spend a day with him 

 in hunting bunny, and in looking over his fine kennel. 

 When we do, we will give you lots of pointei-s in the 

 beagle business, for a man cannot talk with Mr. Perry for 

 five minutes without wanting to buy about all of the 

 beagles that he can get hold of. Mi-. L. S. Hudson, of 

 Lansing, is a great friend of Mr, Perry and a lover of 

 beagles, and when the pair get interested on the beagle 

 question they can make it red hot for outsiders. 



Julian. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE'S ARMY. 



Manchester, N, H., Oct. 16.— "A nice day." How that 

 phrase so commonly expressed strikes home to the heart 

 of the unfortunate lover of field sports, who is obliged to 

 toil at desk or bench fifty-one weeks out of every calendar 

 year, for his own support and of those dependent upon 

 him. How a pleasant October morning will bring to his 

 mind the things that might happen, if otherwise situated 

 in his business relations, and yet, when an exception in 

 his routine of life does occur, and the birds or other game 

 are not to be found as plenty as he had pictured to him- 

 self, how constantly, on the following morning, our same 

 friend will resume the everlasting grind of existence, 

 thankful that he is not obliged to shoot game in New 

 Hampshire for a hving, even though his salary may be 

 small. 



The hunting season thus far has been a disappointment. 

 Birds were never so scarce here as now. Squirrels are 

 more plentiful, though not as numerous as one year ago. 

 Said a prominent wing shot the other day. "Where six 

 years ago I could bag sixteen birds in a day, I think I am 

 doing well this year, if by hard work, I secure four in a 

 day's hunting, and although various reasons are advanced 

 for the decrease in number, there really is but one— too 

 many gunners. There must be something done toward 

 restocking our game lands, as weU as om- waters with fish, 

 or wing-shooting wiU soon be an unknown quantity in this 

 locality." 



Such is the whole story. When five thorough sports- 

 men and three trained dogs put in a full day in our best 

 bird covers, around Winnipiseogee Lake, as they did last 

 month, and get but two birds, the reason is obvious, and 

 the end is near at hand. Laws for game protection are 

 excellent, but what we need now, and the matter should 

 be brought before our next Legislature, is restocking, that 

 the laws may have something to protect in the game line. 

 A complete prohibition of shooting, although a bitter 

 medicine, would do good in a three years' dose, and I am 

 not sure but what it will prove the only effective remedy. 

 Expert handlers of the shotgun and bird dogs are so com- 

 mon that the chances of our feathered game to escape the 

 bag and pot are reduced to infinitesimal proportions. 



I am writing the feeUng as frequently expressed in this 

 immediate vicinity, and hope it does not apply to all other 

 parts of the State, though I know it does to many locali- 

 ties, particularly where the work of legitimate sportsmen 

 is supplemented by that of the summer boarders, who 

 hunt in season and out, shooting everything that moves, 

 from deer down to mosquitoes, paying no attention to law 

 or regard for the property of others. A farmer Hving 

 near where those of the latter class make their summer 

 homes told me last week that during the past summer 

 such vandals had on several occasions been within ten 

 rods of his house and had shot his chickens, and once 

 came so near hitting him as to put several shot through 

 his hat. Who can blame landowners for posting notices 

 excluding gunners? Such conduct, together with the 

 black and inexcusable lies hunters and fishermen of the 

 same class are guilty of concocting in reporting their do- 

 ings, should be a complete bar to recognition by law-abid- 

 ing and self-respecting sportsmen. 



Coon and fox hunters are getting in their work quite 

 successfully. Lovers of those sports wiU never see their 

 wily game exterminated. 



Assistant Marshal John F. Cassidy and Mr. Fred. James, 

 of tills city, have returned from a trip to the Adiron- 

 dacks, reporting two deer killed by the former and one 

 by the latter, and an excellent two weeks' vacation so 

 well enjoyed that they say they are already making 

 preparations to repeat the trip next season. One thing 

 they speak of as particularly pleasing is that while there 

 they were not being continually "jewed," charges being 

 reasonable, and the hosts and their employees not being 

 greatly offended if their guests succeed in having a dollar 

 left in their pockets when coming away, as at most such 

 resorts. 



Considerable interest is being taken in the hunting 

 match of the Franklin Fish and Game League, which 

 takes place Oct. 25 and 26. Messrs. M. D. Woodward and 

 G. O. Thompson choose for one side and Messrs. P. C. 

 Hancock and G, G. Fellows the other. The losers pay for 

 a supper. A mistake of their announcement is the count- 

 ing of yeUowhammers and woodpeckers, such birds being 

 protected by the laws of the State. At the same time 

 they ofl'er a reward of $10 for the conviction of any per- 

 son who shoots a bird contrary to our laws. Evidently all 

 the members of that league are not as familiar with the 

 bird and game laws of their State as they should be. 



Payson. 



Dingman's Ferry Game. 



DiNaiiAN's Ferry, Pa., Oct. 16. — ^Partridge, quail, squir- 

 rel and rabbit are very abundant. Deer very scarce. 



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