Feb. 1, 1896.J 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
99 
"That reminds me." 
"That reminds me" of a day my friend W. E. M. and 
myself went out to see if we could locate the feeding 
grounds of geese which were in the habit of flying to and 
from the lake here and some cornfields west of town 
every morning and evening. We drove out around the 
lake, taking my .38 Winchester along in case we might 
get a chance shot. We drove out about three miles and 
tied the horse to the fence while we strolled down along 
a line fence between two large fields where we had an 
idea the geeae would be apt to pass over on their way to 
the feeding grounds. 
While we were sitting there a young lad from a neigh- 
boring f armhouse came over to see us, and while we were 
talking to him, giving him a little "joshing" about how 
far the little rifle would shoot, we heard the musical honk 
of a flock coming up from the lake. Lying down behind 
the fence we watched the geese approaching in a long V- 
shaped line, quite high up, but apparently coming directly 
over us. They soon got sight of our rig, standing 20 or 
30 rods away, and veered off so they would pass us about 
60 rods to the right. As they got nearly even with us 
W. E. said, with a wink in the direction of the kid, 
"Well, Dean, guess you better take that big one and hit 
him in the eye so you won't tear him up too much." 
"All right," said I, raising up and taking aim at the 
long narrow line of birds and I let it go, with about as 
much hope of getting one as I had of joining them in 
their flight. 
As the little gun cracked, the fourth goose in the line 
stopped suddenly and came down "heels overhead," 
striking the soft stubble with such force as nearly to bury 
itself,in the ground. "That's the stuff," said W. E. as he 
started in a run after the goose, while I kept on "turning 
it loose" at the flock. I fired six or seven timeB at the 
flock, but failed to get another feather. 
W. E. soon came up with the goose and as he laid it 
down remarked, "You didn't come within Sin. of his eye. 
If you can't shoot better than that, I'll do the shooting 
myself after this." Sure enough, I had caught the goose 
just back of the head, cutting the top of his neck bones 
off and killing him instantly. 
The eyes of that kid were a sight to behold. They 
stuck out like saucers and W. E.'s "joshing" about the 
poor shot seemed wonderfully out of place to him. He 
probably thought I was the greatest shot that ever took 
up a gun and W. E.'s talk probably helped the matter 
along. We started home well satisfied with our hour's 
hunt, and the kid went off to tell the folks about the 
wonderful shot he had seen. D. J. Hotchkiss. 
Fox Lake, Wis. 
THE CASTA LI A CLUB HOUSE. 
Mr. J. W. Oswold sends us this illustration of the 
Castalia Club House, the latest addition to the Castalia 
possessions. This club enjoys possession of one of the 
most wonderful fishing waters on the continent; it is re- 
markable for volume, purity and natural supply of food 
for the fish, and not least of all for the beauty of streams 
and their setting. 
We are often asked for fishing club rules. Here are 
those by which the Castalians have agreed to-be governed: 
Rules and Regulations. 
Rule 1. The fishing season in the waters of Cold Creek 
owned or controlled by the club, shall commence on the 
15th day of March and end with the 15th day of Sep- 
tember. 
Rule 2. Not more than lOlbs. of trout shall be taken 
from said waters by any one person in any one day. 
Rule 3. No trout less than 8in. long 
shall be caught and taken away from 
said stream, except such as it may be im- 
possible to remove from the hook without 
fatal injury, and all members or guests 
fishing in said waters shall take all pos- 
sible care not to injure such undersized 
fish, that when accidentally caught they 
may be returned to the water alive. 
Rule 4. No fishing shall be done in the 
waters of the club except with rod and 
line, and all angling shall be with arti- 
ficial bait, no natural bait of any kind or 
description being allowed. The board of 
directors, however, may authorize the 
taking of fish with nets or otherwise in or 
out of season for the purpose of propaga- 
tion, for the benefit of the club, but shall 
in such cases return to the stream as 
many of the fish so taken as possible. 
Rule 5. Each member of the club shall 
be entitled to twenty- six days' fishing 
duriDg each fishing season. 
Rule 6. Each member of the club shall 
be entitled, during each fishing season, to 
extend the privileges of the club to five 
friends, not members of the club, pro- 
viding such member shall accompany 
such friends in person, remaining with 
them during their stay, and shall charge 
his time with the number of days of fish- 
ing indulged in by said friends. 
Rule 7. A register being furnished by the club, it shall 
ibe the duty of each and every member, upon visiting the 
stream, to register therein, and carefully fill out in detail 
the different columns of said register. 
Rule 8. No member shall invite a friend to the club at 
the annual or semi-annual meeting. 
Rule 9. No fishing is permitted on Sunday. 
Adirondack Lakes Set Apart. 
Albany, Jan. 38.— Attorney-General Hancock has writ- 
ten an opinion in which he holds that the State Fish, 
Game and Forest Commission has no right to set apart 
two lakes in the Adirondacks for the propagation of trout. 
He says that the Commission has not the power to desig- 
nate any lake in the State without special legislative 
enactment, M, 
THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION. 
Boston, Jan. 24.— Editor Forest and Stream: The 
annual dinner of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association at Young's Hotel last evening was a 
great success in every way. The walls of the dining hall 
were adorned with several specimens of Walter Brackett's 
high art in the way of salmon painting, a new creation, 
"A Leaping Grilse," being especially noticeable. His son 
Arthur also exhibited several of his game pictures, whiie 
scattered about the tables were fine exhibits of the taxi- 
dermist's art. The invited guests were: Gov. Frederick 
T. Greenhalge and Lieut.-Gov. Roger Wolcott; Hon. 
Winslow Warren, Collector of the Port; Judge Dunbar, 
of the Superior Court; Rev, E. A. Horton; A. W. Robin- 
son, president of the Megantic Fish and Game Club; E. 
A. Brackett and E. D. Buffinton, Fish Commissioners of 
Massachusetts; Judge Shurtleff, Fish Commissioner of 
New Hampshire; H. O. Stanley, Fish Commissioner of 
Maine; J. W. Titcomb, president of the Vermont Fish 
and Game Association; H. W. Bailey, Fish Commissioner 
of Vermont. Other members of the Association, with 
their guests, were: A. S. Adams, Benjamin F. Stevens, 
Loring Crocker, George A. Sears, L. D. Chapman, M. K. 
Churchill, C. A. W. Bartlett, Robert Read, Col. H. T. 
Rockwell, E. E. Small, C. J. H. Woodbury, T. B. Doo- 
little, of Branford, Conn. ; Hon. George W. Wiggin, Dr. 
J. T. Stetson, John N. Roberts, Ivers W. Adams, Edward 
Brooks, W. H. Childs, Robert S. Gray, Geo. H. Sprague, 
Heber Bishop, John M. Graham, Sidney Chase, C. G. Gib- 
son, T. H. Cooney, S. W. Rich, J. Russell Reed, W. G. 
Hanson, Charles Stewart, Charles Messenger, Rollin 
Jones, A. D. Thayer, Charles J. McKenzie, Dr. M. G. 
Kendall, F. M. Childs, C. F. Monroe, J. P. Bradley, War- 
ren Hapgood, W. B. Kehoe, J. S. Duncklee, C. M. Blake, 
W. B. Hastings, M. G. Benedict, W. A. McLeod, S. F. 
Johnson, H. W. Sanborn, Myron W. Whitney, J. C. 
Ryder, E. C. Norton, Charles Vose, L. C. Marshall, H. F. 
Collins, A. H. Wright. H. P. Plimpton, Joseph Noon, N. 
Arnold, E. F. Lewis, J. G. Wildman, Alexander Pope, S. 
A. Gould, E. P. Wilbur, E. H. Clark, Secretary Kimball, 
A. B. Holmes. 
PRESIDENT CLARK'S ADDRESS. 
Brethren of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association: I feel great pleasure and satisfaction 
in having the privilege of congratulating you on this 
brilliant gathering on the occasion of our twenty-second 
annual feast, and of extending to all our guests,* in your 
name and on your behalf, our most cordial greeting and 
our warmest welcome. 
It is indeed good for us once a year to gather from 
forest and stream, from 
"the plashy brink 
Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, 
Or where the rocking billows rise and sink 
On the chafed ocean side," 
from all the haunts of fish and game endeared to us by a 
thousand recollections, to renew old friendships and form 
new ones, to revive old memories and to commemorate 
with thankful hearts, in speech and song, what to us 
stand for some of the most agreeable and profitable ex- 
periences of our lives. How many of those whose days 
we can all recall when whether life was worth living was 
not a debatable question, and how bright the halo which 
encircles them. 
, I have so recently reviewed the work of the Associa- 
tion for the past year that it is superfluous to dwell upon 
it on this occasion. It may be said briefly tha.t informa- 
tion relating to fish and game has been disseminated broad- 
cast throughout the State by our efficient secretary. No 
party has come to us with complaints of violations of law 
without receiving assurance that on the presentation of 
the proper evidence counsel would be furnished without 
expense to the party complaining. 
Realizing that ignorance of the law excuses no man, 
large numbers of posters containing an abstract of the 
game laws, on cloth, have been sent out, several hundred 
of them in Italian as well as in English, and hundreds 
containing the Sunday laws. We attended the hearings 
at the State House before the Legislative Committee 
on fisheries and game, and presented the views of 
the Association on the various matters which engaged 
their attention. Several new associations have been 
formed, and we have been glad to furnish information as 
to methods and work. The formation of such associa- 
tions is a most encouraging feature of the times. 
Reference should be made to two cases in the courts of 
great interest to every sportsman throughout the coun- 
try. Commonweatlth of Massachusetts verms Follett was 
a complaint charging the defendant, who was at the 
time a fish and game commissioner, with having taken 
from Lee Brook, in Sheffield, sixty trout with a net; he 
admitted the fact, but sought to justify himself under the 
claim that he was engaged in the artificial propagation of 
trout, that he owned the trout so taken, that they were 
taken from waters under his control; and further that 
after taking them he kept them until they were ready to 
be delivered of their spawn, that he then stripped* the 
spawn from them and turned them back into the brook 
alive. He also claimed that all the trout so taken were 
turned by him from his own pond into Lee Brook, and he 
contended that, as the owner of these trout, he had a 
right to take them in the way he did for the use to 
which they were put. There were other trout in the 
brook, other than those which came from the defendant's 
hatching, to which the defendant made no claim. He 
was convicted at the Great Barrington District Court and 
fined $150, from which he appealed to the Superior Court, 
where he was also convicted and the fine raised to $300. 
He then appealed to the Supreme Court, which overruled 
his exceptions, thereby confirming the previous decisions, 
such fish not being of the class of animals which, with- 
out confining them in private waters, can become the 
absolute property of anybody. 
The other case is that of the Commonwealth of Con- 
necticut versus Geer. Geer was convicted in New Lon- 
don of having bought in the open markets there certain 
woodcock, grouse and quail, with unlawful intent to 
procure their transportation beyond the limits of that 
State, the birds being in course of shipment to New 
York under contract of sale. The exact question present- 
ed was, can a State, after permitting the killing of 
game birds, and after allowing them to be bought and 
sold in the markets of the State, impose the restriction 
that they shall not be transported beyond its limits? The 
Supreme Court of Errors, in Connecticut, was of the 
opinion that the State could do it. The case was taken to 
the U. S. Supreme Court and argued November 22, and 
its decision, not yet rendered, is awaited with interest. 
If I read aright the remarks of Chief Justice Fipld at a 
late public dinner, he stated that there had not been 
much advance in the law for the last hundred years, but 
the application of its principles to new questions con- 
stantly arising is certainly most interesting and instruct- 
ive even to the minds of laymen. 
As usual, we have not escaped criticism, which we 
should have welcomed had it been of a more consis- 
tent character. On the one hand, the Association has 
been charged with representing wealth amounting to 
$16,000,000 and as giving magnificent banquets and em- 
ploying roundabout methods for accomplishing its ends 
against the desires and interests of the people; and on 
the other, with a lack of interest in, and neglect of, its 
proper duties as enjoined by its charter. These criticisms 
ought to be made at greater intervals, and then their 
inconsistency would at least be less glaring. They are 
about as fair as it would be to condemn popular educa- 
tion and Harvard University because a train robber, 
caught recently in the West, was proficient in several 
languages. 
I want to say a word in relation to those gentlemen 
who have recently resigned their membership with us to 
form another organization having for its object solely 
the enforcing of the game laws, and leaving out the 
social element. Of their action we can make no com- 
plaint, and our only regret is that we lose several mem- 
bers whom we esteem and who have been with us for 
many years. Let us be thankful and proud that such 
good men have graduated from this old Association, and 
let us also remember that some of the best enterprises 
and movements which have blessed the world have 
been started by conscientious men, who, dissatisfied with 
the existing state of affairs, have gone out to do good 
work in new organizations more congenial to them. If 
we are unable to recall any case in which our Associa- 
tion has refused to consider or adopt any proposed 
scheme having for its object the better carrying out of 
the purposes of our organization, or if we think that there 
is no better way to enforce the laws than by the ma- 
chinery we have already in operation, still let us in 
charity rejoice to proceed in harmony and sympathy 
with all kindred associations, and if, embarking on a 
common sea, we seek divergent points, let us at least part 
with the friendly hail and the manly cheer. If the new 
club is as successful on the lines marked out for it as its 
originators believe, and as we hope, it will be, then we 
will rejoice, and if not, let us not by word, thought or 
deed prevent the return of our friends to their old home, 
but stand by ready to cordially welcome them back and 
give them the warmest seat by the old fireside. 
Let us then resolve, on this our twenty-second Anniver- 
sary, to take up and do more faithfully than ever the 
work which is waiting to be done. We claim no perfec- 
tion for what we have accomplished in the past. No 
individual or institution can do that, and when they do 
reach that state of complacency, they are dying at the 
top. I think we ought to feel as the man did who came 
to the end of a long life, and in reviewing it said that he 
was sure he had not been what he expected to be when 
he set out on his career; he was equally certain that he 
had not been what he might or ought to have been; but 
at the same time he thanked God that he was what he 
was. There will be need of this Association until the 
time comes when all men obey all laws as to fish and 
game, and until our legislators have absorbed all wisdom. 
When seventy-eight years from to-night, in 1974, some of 
the grandsons of men within the reach of my voice shall 
attend the 100th Anniversary of this Association, may 
they reap the benefit of what we have tried to do, and 
may our work last so long as a feather cuts the air or a 
fin cleaves the wave. 
Lieut.-Gov. Wolcott responded for the commonwealth 
in a stirring speech, dwelling upon the delights to be 
found in true sport with the rod and gun. Hon. Winslow 
Warren, collector of the port, congratulated the Associa- 
tion upon the good work in which it was engaged. Judge 
Dunbar urged that there was no true sportsmanship until 
a man has reached the point where the rules of fair sport 
were strictly enforced; he is law-abiding himself, and is 
determined that others shall be. Rev. Dr. Horton spoke 
forcibly upon the pleasures of outdoor life, enforcing the 
idea that the man who is a good sportsman is a better 
citizen. Gov. Greenhalge, who arrived during Judge 
Dunbar's speech, was warmly greeted when introduced. 
He referred to the banquet from which he had just come 
the Fruit and Produce Exchange) as a gathering where the 
means of making a living were paramount interests, and 
said that a fish and game organization was for the purpose 
of making life better worth living; that restrictions were 
necessary in the matter of the taking of fish and game no 
one would deny, and it was the duty of all well-meaning 
