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FOREST AND STREAM. 



LNov. 18, 1898. 



BOSTON RIFLES JIN MAINE WOODS. 



Boston, Mass., Nov. 7.— Still the exaggeration con- 

 tinues. The papers are full of it. There never was any- 

 thing like it, the noise the daily and Sunday papers are 

 making about hunting this fall. As a rule real hunters 

 and successful hunters are not pleased with the fact that 

 the papers are so greatly overdoing the matter. I have 

 talked with several of the beat sportsmen I know and 

 they tmite in condemning this feature in the pa.pers. It 

 is believed by them all that the Forest ais^d Stream will 

 keep out of such stuff, and continue to stick to the truth. 

 One of them asked me Saturday if I bad seen the state- 

 ment in the last issue by J. G. Rich, that 100 deer a day 

 were being killed in Maine? I had read it with a good 

 deal of surprise, and had been thinking how utterly 

 absurd such a statement is. The next man I met was a 

 gentleman from Maine, and from one of the best game 

 sections in that Sta,te. He had not succeeded in getting 

 a deer, however. But he had just seen Mr. Crosby or his 

 representative, the Bangor taxidermist. That house had 

 received up to last week, 10 moose heads, 5 caribou heads 

 and 36 deer heads. Now, does this look as though 100 deer 

 a day were being killed in Maine? If a sportsman kills a 

 big-game animal the first thing he does is to leave it with 

 a taxidermist — at least the head— to be mounted. One 

 hundred deer a day for twenty days in October would 

 mean 2,000 deer, and only 36 heads left with the leading 

 taxidermists to be mounted! Although admitting that 

 deer are remarkably plenty in Maine, and being certainly 

 very glad of it, yet I hope that Mr. Rich will pardon me 

 if I think that his statement is too utterly absurd to be 

 worth disputing. 



Mr. Geo. H. Lamphier, mentioned last week as having 

 killed a cow moose at King and Bartlet recently, desires 

 me to say that it was not a cow moose at all that he suc- 

 ceeded in getting, but a young bull. A gentleman who 

 saw the animals on the buckboard coming out gave me 

 the report, honestly thinking that the dead moose was a 

 cow. Mr. Lamphier tells me that he has no use for a 

 cow moose and he wishes that no sportsman would shoot 

 them. He also got a fine deer on his trip. 



Mr. Mark Hollingsworth , a well-known Boston artist 

 and lover of the rod and gun, has been spending a vaca- 

 tion at Billy Soule's camps at Cupsuptic Lake. He has a 

 friend with him and they ought to get their fuU quota of 

 deer. Mr. C. E, Goodrich and wife, of Boston, have been 

 on a liunting trip to the vicinity of the Katahdin Iron 

 Works. They are reported to have taken three deer. 

 Marketman H. W. Pickham, of Boston Highlands, has 

 made another successful deer hunt in Maine this year. 

 He is the gentleman who, it will be remembered, brought 

 out the live deer from Maine last year, a young buck, 

 described in the Forest and Stream ' at the time. The 

 wonder was how the deer was caught, but when a cele- 

 brated case of selling a deer alive to parties outside of 

 Maine came to be tried in court there it was at once sug- 

 gested that this was the Pinkham deer. This time Mr. 

 Pinkham was accompanied by M. O'Haren, the Brooklyn 

 contractor, and David H. Power, of Tremont street. At 

 Eastport they were joined by some other hunters and 

 they made a journey of some 75 miles into the woods 

 beyond Calais. Mr. Pinkham got three deer, Mr, O'Haren 

 got two and Mr. Power one, a score of six. Mr, Pink- 

 ham's market will doubtless have venison again hanging 

 at the door. 



An excellent guide in the Rangeley region, and a man 

 inclined to tell the truth, writes that the deer are plenty, 

 but that it is a very poor time to hunt them now. There 

 is a vast body of fallen leaves, dry and crisp, on the 

 ground, and it is impossible to move without a noise that 

 will scare the deer so that they are off, even before the 

 hunter gets a gUmpse at them. The forests are now more 

 open, it is true, but it is impossible to move without a 

 great noise. The weather has been dry in the deer coun- 

 try, and every stick cracks that is stepped upon. The 

 great bed of leaves covers every dry twig, so that it is 

 not possible to avoid stepping upon them. He advises 

 "his customers," he terms them, to put off their deer 

 'flunt till the ground is covered with snow. It will then 

 be "good tracking," and the noise of the leaves and dry 

 twigs will be avoided. Mr. Geo. H. Cutting, of Andover, 

 another good guide, also advises the same thing. He 

 has known of several deer being started in the lake 

 region, and though running only short distances, not be- 

 ing wild at all, yet it proved to be utterly impossible to 

 approach within gunshot. 



Messrs. F. A. and B. Fuller, with Mr. F. A. Merriam 

 and Mr. West of Boston, have been on a deer hunt to 

 Sherman, Me. They are reported to have secured six 

 deer in the vicinity of Hunt Mountain, west of the east 

 branch of the Penobscot. They had Edward Whitehouse 

 and D. H. Perry for guides. Dr. William Appleton and 

 his brother-in-law, Mr. Geo. De Forest, have recently i-e- 

 turned from their annual hunting trip to the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



A gentleman informs me that J. B. Garland shot, at 

 North Grafton, Mass., the other day, a prairie chicken 

 weighing 86oz, He supposed at first that he had killed a 

 big partridge, but was later informed by a man more 

 skilled in natural history that it was positively a prairie 

 chicken. Later the newspapers spoke of "several prairie 

 chickens" being killed in the vicinity of Grafton; all 

 doubtless coming from this one bird. The Massachusetts 

 Fish and Game Protective Association wiU doubtless be 

 pleased to learn of this bird, since they liberated several 

 prairie chickens in that section, or in the western part of 

 the State, a couple of years ago. Doubtless the bird kiUed 

 was one of the liberated birds or their progeny. That sec- 

 tion of the State has thus far been rather barren of results 

 ill the attempted restocking with prairie chickens. 



Mr. W. B. Phinney, well-known in the Boston coffee 

 trade, has just returned from his annual gunning trip to 

 the Cape, This time he was accompanied by some 

 friends. They gunned pretty thoroughly over the 

 vicinity of Marshfield and towns thereabouts. They 

 found very few quail, though having good dogs along. 

 Partridge they found to be more plenty than they had 

 anticipated, from reports. They secured a good number. 

 Mr. C. Z. Bassett, of Appleton & Bassett, and his friend, 

 Mr, Thairlwall, have retm-ned from their annual gunning 

 trip to New Hampshire. They were accompanied, for a 

 few days, by Dr. Langmaid — aE the time that gentleman 

 could secure from a very active profession. They hunted 

 the vicinity above Concord, and obtained a fair showing 

 of woodcock, bagging eighty on the trip, covering some 

 over t\vo weeks. The greatest number for any day was 

 only nine, however. They were there through what 



might be termed the first flight, and staid till the second 

 flight should have begun, a couple of weeks ago. But 

 that second flight has been a mystery to gunners this fall. 

 Mr. Bassett believes that it has gone long ago, though 

 other gunners are still looking for the birds. Several 

 sportsmen of Worcester county, in this State, will give 

 the woods another trial this week, not believing that the 

 second flight has yet gone south. The weather has been 

 unusually warm this fall, though there have been one or 

 two cold snaps, Mr. Bassett and his friends found it to 

 be uncomfortably warm during a good part of their stay. 

 This unusually warm weather leads the sportsmen to 

 think that the second flight of woodcock may not have 

 gone. Mr. Thairlwall wiU go down to his commodious 

 camps at Plymouth Ponds this week, in order to be there 

 for the duck shooting. Mr. Bassett will doubtless find 

 time to join him, for a few days at least. Probably there 

 are not two men in the cotmtry that enjoy camping, fish- 

 ing and hunting more; genial bachelors that they are. 

 They have a host of friends among sportsmen. 



Nov, 10. — A party of prominent business men left Bos- 

 ton on Friday evening, by Pullman train, on a hunting 

 trip, and one that they are very hkely to enjoy. They go 

 into the woods some 15 miles beyond the Katahdin Iron 

 Works, in Maine, into a celebrated moose and deer coim- 

 try. The party is made up of Mpssrs. Calvin Austin, man- 

 ager of the Bangor and Boston Steamship Co. ; Geo. C. 

 Moore, manufacturer. No. Chelmford, Mass ; John A. 

 Faulkner, Lowell; E. A. Smith, Lowell; Leroy S, Brown, 

 of Blaney Brown & Co., Boston; and Hany B. Moore, of 

 J. E. Soper & Co., Boston. Mr. Moore's name is men- 

 tioned last, but he is not likely to be least if there is any 

 fun in the party, as the readers of the Forest and Stream 

 may be able to remember. Mr. Brown is much interested 

 in the Inglewood Club, in New Brunswick, of which he 

 has for some time been chairman of the house commit- 

 tee. Mr. Moore and some other members of the above 

 party have also become members of the Inglewood this 

 year. The party will be quartered at Gerrish's Camp on 

 the present trip. Mr. Moore and Mr. Brown left a day in 

 advance of the others, in order to make all camp and 

 other necessary arrangements. They go for moose and 

 deer, but they have hunting sense enough to be aware 

 that they may have to be satisfied with partridges and 

 squirrels. StUl they are expert hunters enough to find the 

 big game, if such a thing is possible. 



Mr. E, M. Gillan. commercial editor of the Boston Ad- 

 vertiser, spent a few hours in the Reading woods one day 

 last week. He found that the partridges are scarce and 

 very wild. He got one snap shot at a flying bird, just at 

 the edge of the opening, and was sure that he saw the 

 game fall to the ground. But he himted high and low, 

 and no bird could he find. There was a stone wall just at 

 the edge of the opening, and his setter bitch seemed de- 

 termined to go over this wall. He called her back once 

 or twice, with a sharp reprimand, and ordered her to 

 look after the fallen bird. She would begin to nose, but 

 would be off for the wall in a moment. At last he let her 

 go in disgust, and continued the search for the bird alone. 

 But his time was soon up, and he had to give up the 

 search in disgust. He whistled his dog in, but she failed 

 to come till he was some rods away toward home. He is 

 now satisfied of what he did not then stop to think; the 

 bird fell with a broken wing, and had quickly ran to the 

 wall and doubtless over or under it, and the dog had 

 trailed it away from the spot where it had dropped. 



The opening of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, 

 which goes far up into Aroostook county, is opening a big 

 hunting section to sportsmen, or at least making it easy 

 for sportpmen to get to the game. Mr. Geo. C. Cutler of 

 Boston and Dr. W. H. Simmons of Bangor left the latter 

 city Thm-sday for a hunting trip into the upper Aroostook 

 country. The region is good for large game, and has not 

 heretofore been much visited by hunters. Prominent 

 Bangor sportsmen seem to think that caribou are getting 

 to be more plenty in Maine. They were more plenty a 

 year ago than on previous seasons, and the season of 1893 

 is beating even that record. It is certain that more moose 

 are being killed in that State this year than last. Mr. E. 

 N. Dickinson of New York came through from Bangor 

 last week with a big moose. He got him in the upper 

 Aroostook country. 



Partridges begin to come into the Boston markets by 

 underground raflway from Maine. Several boxes and 

 other packages were noted last week, that must have 

 come from that State, though they were shipped from a 

 station just over into New Hampshire. Then the chances 

 for getting the birds to Boston illegally by water are many. 

 Once the steamer has sailed and the game wardens are 

 powerless. Game Warden Frisbie made a seizure of game 

 being illegally shipped at the steamboat wharf at Belfast 

 the other day. The package was apparently a barrel of 

 apples. Apples were at the outside of the barrel, but in- 

 side, and nicely surrounded with apples, were 17 ruffed 

 grouse and a gray squirrel or two. The barrel was ad- 

 dressed to Adams & Chapman, Boston. The penalty is 

 $5 for each bird that is attempted to be shipped out of the 

 State, but at last accounts the shipper of the game was 

 hard to find. 



It is really wonderful how the deer have worked down 

 into the inhabited towns in Maine, One was killed in 

 Benton, a farming town some five miles from the city of 

 Waterville, the other day, A boy is reported to have 

 killed him with a Stevens single-shot rifle. The readers 

 of Forest and Stream will excuse me if I have referred 

 to this feature of the habit of Maine deer several times, 

 since it is a feature so remarkable. Thirty years ago a 

 live, wfld deer in the town of Benton would have been as 

 remaa-kable as a full dressed native Esquimau ^in the 

 streets of New York. Game protection, and especially 

 non-hoimding and non-crusting, are working wonders in 

 Maine. Special. 



Qua,il in Florida. 



Altoona, Pa., Nov. 6.— Some time ago you published 

 some accounts of Florida camp hunts which had been 

 written to me by my brother, who has been located down 

 there about six years. He now writes me that quail are 

 very numerous and that there is plenty of other game, too. 

 He says that he can guarantee an excellent time to any- 

 body who is willing to go down there for a good time 

 among the deer, quail, turkeys, foxes, and later on snipe. 

 If anybody who wants sport and does not want to pay too 

 highly for it, will write to me on the above subject, I wiU 

 cheerfully answer their questions. My brother has all the 

 dogs necessary for either fur or feathers. 



Edwabd Banbb, 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



IFrom a Staff Correspondent.^ 



Chicago, IU., Nov. 4. — ^Mr. J. W. Redington, editor of 

 the Puyallup Commerce, Puyallup, Wash., has been 

 spending a few days in the city. Mr. Redington was one 

 of the Government scouts in the Nez Perce campaign, 

 starting with Gen. Howard's troops from Portland, cross- 

 ing the range, and staying with the troops till the end of 

 the campaign. He did correspondence for the Salt Lake 

 Tribune and other papers on this trip, and was able, 

 naturally, to send in some exciting stories. He says, as 

 do all who were in that campaign, that Chief Joseph was 

 a general of no mean sort, Mr, Redington insists that the 

 best place left to find bear is in the Salmon River Moun- 

 tains, basing this assertion on the abundance of bear 

 found in that region when they crossed that country, in 

 the Nez Perce pursuit, and on the fact that fur hunters 

 have gone in there since. 



Mr. J. W. Schvdtz, of Piegan, Mont., a well known 

 Rocky Mountain guide, passed through Chicago this week 

 on his way to New York, leaving regrets that he could 

 not meet the Western end of Forest and Stream, in 

 which regrets said end unites. 



Mr. H. M. Joralmon, of Denver, Col., leaves his card, 

 and it would have been a pleasure to meet one who was 

 once a Ught in sporting journalism, 



A Parting View. 



This week saw almct the last of the Fair, it being sim- 

 ply wonderful how rapidly the exhibits were packed 

 away for shipment. One of the most interesting of these 

 vanishing attractions was the magnificent display of furs 

 made in the Russian Department, Manufactures Building. 

 Seldom has so beautiful a collection of furs been seen, 

 and the handhng in the arrangement was such as to 

 interest the sportsman as well as the possible purchaser. 

 The skins of the bear, the wolf, the fox, the sable, the 

 otter and many other animals were mounted and grouped 

 in a most fetching style. This section of the great build- 

 ing was safe to show a crowd of admirers at any hour of 

 the day. 



Another valuable display of similar sort was that of 

 C. G. Gunther, the New York furrier, in the same build- 

 ing. This exhibit showed almost all the American fur- 

 bearing and game animals, and the mounting, without 

 exception, was axtistic in the extreme, A striking 

 feature was the gray wolves, which sat at the corners of 

 the exhibit, as grim and gaunt as any that ever lapped a 

 chop in life. 



The Wolf & Periolot Fur Company, of Chicago, was 

 another firm making a highly creditable display of furs 

 and fur-bearing animals. It seems that the furrier's art 

 to-day must include practical taxidermy. E. Hough. 



909 Sbodbitt Building, Chicago. 



LUCK IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Manchester, N, H., Nov: 3,— September and October 

 furnished an unusual number of quiet and bright days, 

 no breeze to move the faded and falling foliage; such 

 being the ideal weather to gladden the heart of the still- 

 hunter, and the slack business, with a large number o'f 

 mills and workshops running short hours or three or four 

 days 'a week, gave many who love sport an opportunity 

 to indulge their taste, and they have seldom come home 

 empty handed. While birds have remained scarce, gray 

 squirrels have proved tmusually plenty in every direction 

 from the city and have been taken in strings ranging 

 from six to above twenty. Stephen Reed, of Amoskeag, 

 shot a beautiful one on the river bank, near the falls, 

 Saturday, the 28th, that weighed 21bs. and 2oz. Frank H. 

 Lamper and Arthur P. Spiller are among the most suc- 

 cessful squirrel hunters in the still Une, and their 

 aggregate of birds for the season is getting quite large, 

 considering the general scarcity. 



Dr. Frederick Perkins and family and Mr. Frank Heald, 

 have returned from a five weeks' camping tour in the 

 vicinity of Moosehead Lake, Maine. They brought two 

 deer as trophies of their skill. They spent a portion of 

 their, time fishing for camp supplies, and it ia refreshening 

 to hear the Doctor in his enthusiastic manner tell of his 

 exploits with the trout and land-locked salmon he 

 encountered. He was particularly pleased with the 

 latter, this being his first experience with them, and his 

 account of his capture of a 6|-pounder on a fly-rod, with 

 75ft. of line, is extremely interesting. He declares that 

 60ft, of his line was taken before he could wink, and he 

 showed a scar on his finger caused by a cut the line made 

 by catching in a slight scratch previously there, and 

 wearing it in deep before he could remove the finger from 

 the coils. He thought he was an hour landing the fish, 

 but his guide set it at twenty-five minutes. He says he 

 was nearly as tired as the fish and greatly excited. 

 Before going there was much discussion as to whether the 

 party should attend the Columbian Ex^oosition or make 

 the Maine trip. They are now aU well satisfied with their 

 choice, and the Doctor says he not only enjoyed himself 

 better in Maine, at about one-fourth the expense possible 

 in Chicago, but gained 201bs. in weight. Deer and bears 

 were very plenty, but hard to fiind on account of the dry, 

 faUen foliage, 



Melvin Hall, of Auburn, and a small| party, captured a 

 coon Saturday night, Oct, 28, that tipped the scales at 

 221bs. Chief T, - W. Lane's dog Jack was out for the 

 occasion. The old dog, sick and lame all summer, has 

 recovered sufficiently to add a few more to his already 

 long list of conquests, his record standing at 344 coons in 

 five years, and I think is unequalled in New Hampshire. 



Payson. 



Between Press Day and To-day. 



Interesting events of the week were the meeting of 

 the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association in Philadel- 

 phia Tuesday night, the annual convention of the Ver- 

 mont Fish and Game League at Burlington Friday night, 

 and the htmt of the Western Massachusetts Fox Club at 

 Westfield, Wednesday and Thm-sday — all these between 

 our press day and t o-day. 



Ferrets and Ferreting. 



Flint, Mich. — If there is any one nuisance ia the 

 country it is hunting rabbits with ferrets. I would not 

 take advantage of a rabbit in that way; one might as well 

 shoot a bird sitting still. A man who cannot get his 

 rabbit on the run or his bird on the wing does not deserve 

 any game. Give me a Remington and a hound, 



W. H. W. 



